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This "Flexible Sheet Camera" Can Wrap Around Curved Surfaces

04/19/2016 8:32 PM

A solution to automotive "blind spots":

http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78730/flexible-sheet-camera-can-wrap-around-curved-surfaces
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04/19/2016 9:36 PM
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04/20/2016 8:14 AM

All roads lead to route 360?

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04/20/2016 2:47 AM

Aside from the monotonic narration, I am impressed.

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04/20/2016 8:15 AM

It did sound a bit like Stephen Hawking's voice simulator.

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04/21/2016 6:45 AM

Properly adjusted side mirrors leave no blind spot. Mirrors shut not be aimed at the side and rear of the car, but instead aimed at the "blind spots". Once set up properly, should be no blind spots on your vehicle.
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04/21/2016 9:08 AM

except under. I like the idea of a wrap-around camera so that I can see what it looks like when I run over a road kill....actually that is not so funny.

Just never back over a beaver in Maine after you have run over it, especially while legally intoxicated. Parking lot or not, the game wardens there are deadly serious about this, and will nail your hide to the barn door.

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04/21/2016 11:14 AM

"especially while legally intoxicated."

That term always stick out as being a bit bizarre; every time I read it, I can just see George Carlin on stage, "I'sh okay, ossifer, I'm fine to drive. I'm legally intoxicated."

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04/21/2016 11:56 AM

Legally- def. -"Meeting the conditions of a defined legal term." If one is illegally intoxicated, does that mean they do not meet the definition and are free to go?

LOL semantics. OK OK. If the dude is sloshed, hosed, wasted, boozed, snockered, slobbering, snoggered, drunk as a skunk, or otherwise drowning in -OH groups, he is to be awarded with paperwork, and a stay in the crossbar hotel, and gets to meet his new friend, Buba.

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04/21/2016 1:00 PM

George Carlin - Made a career out of 'odd sounding' parts of the English language:

  • Fine and Dandy "Some Days I'm fine but not dandy, other days I'm dandy but not fine. One day I actually was fine AND dandy at the same time ... AND NOBODY ASKED!
  • It's always in the last place you look - Of course, doofus, because once you find it, YOU STOP LOOKING! "Hey Mark, did you find your glasses?" "Yeah, I found them last week, BUT I'M STILL LOOKING."
  • More than happy - "How can you be 'more than happy'? that sounds like a euphamism for crazy; we had to put Carl in a home, he was 'more than happy.'"
  • Need I bring up his Seven Dirty Words routine? "We've got more words to describe the dirty words than dirty words themselves."
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04/21/2016 1:07 PM

A lovely reminder of one of my all time favorite comedians. A good person too. Fine AND Dandy!

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