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Ruminations on lasers and Die Zaubeflote
Jul. 12th, 2004 05:28 pmThank goodness that the data collection is finally over. The burned-out Ar laser hopefully will no longer be my problem. Incidentally, do any of you Doublestar folk out there happen to shoot 488 nm, 2-3 watt green laser beams from your nipples? (hee hee, just a joke there. Anything optical that we'd use would have to be clamped down securely to an optical bench, which would get very uncomfortable very fast.)
(Edit: Since this is public, I should say that the last remark was a joke on this year's t-shirt for Doublestar, Bryn Mawr's sci-fi/fantasy club. One of the designs had something involving a woman shooting laser beams from her nipples.)
Oh, and one of the tiny little lipstick-sized red diode lasers we use is made by a company called Lasiris. I was covering up this laser, along with the rest of the optics, and every time I do this, Magic Flute stuff invariably comes into my mind. Pretty much everything the chorus sang had to do with Isis and Osiris, or "Come! Join the temple's holy band!", or "All hail to Sarastro!". So I just keep getting this stuck in my head:
"Oh Isis, and Lasiris, praise and glory!" (priests' chorus, don't remember which act it was). I should really work on filking this better.
It doesn't help that I did look at some SWIL filk yesterday. Now I've also got "We all study organic chemistry" (to the tune of "Yellow Submarine") stuck in my head too.
(Edit: Since this is public, I should say that the last remark was a joke on this year's t-shirt for Doublestar, Bryn Mawr's sci-fi/fantasy club. One of the designs had something involving a woman shooting laser beams from her nipples.)
Oh, and one of the tiny little lipstick-sized red diode lasers we use is made by a company called Lasiris. I was covering up this laser, along with the rest of the optics, and every time I do this, Magic Flute stuff invariably comes into my mind. Pretty much everything the chorus sang had to do with Isis and Osiris, or "Come! Join the temple's holy band!", or "All hail to Sarastro!". So I just keep getting this stuck in my head:
"Oh Isis, and Lasiris, praise and glory!" (priests' chorus, don't remember which act it was). I should really work on filking this better.
It doesn't help that I did look at some SWIL filk yesterday. Now I've also got "We all study organic chemistry" (to the tune of "Yellow Submarine") stuck in my head too.
