ROFL, jimbaerg, especially at the moiré one! Before starting to do whatever the hell it is I do now, I was in the printing business, going back to the days before computers when we had to use actual film and crap. To print in four-color, you had to angle the film for each color at a certain angle so that you wouldn’t get a moiré pattern when the dots in the screens for each color were printed on top of each other. After one particularly long day of stripping a four-color job and making sure there were no moiré patterns, I was driving home down the Garden State Parkway, and started seeing moirés in the fences on every overpass, which appeared every time the chain link fences on either side of the overpasses were at an angle relative to the position of my car that caused a moiré. From that day on, I couldn’t drive home without looking for moirés. It used to drive me crazy.
Chris Rodda is the author of Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History and Debunking David Barton's Jefferson Lies: #2 - Jefferson Founded a Secular University. Since the release of Liars For Jesus in 2006, Chris has been blogging at Talk2Action.org, Huffington Post, and elsewhere about the use of historical revisionism in everything from education to legislation. Chris's blog on Freethoughtblogs.com will eventually accompany a weekly podcast, "This Week in Christian Nationalism," if Chris can ever find the time to launch it. In the meantime, the name of her blog will continue to make no sense.
Chris is also the Senior Research Director for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), but the opinions expressed by her on this blog are her personal opinions, and not necessarily those of MRFF.
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'Tis Himself
June 24, 2012 at 5:20 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I love the “Play Dead” cartoon.
dukeofomnium
June 24, 2012 at 10:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“That’s a moray” is the sort of pun you’d be hanged for in 13 states. I love it!
jimbaerg
June 24, 2012 at 10:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
A New Zealander man with a permanent tan
That’s a Maori
When two patterns combine in a way serpentine
That’s a Moiré
Chris Rodda
June 24, 2012 at 12:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
ROFL, jimbaerg, especially at the moiré one! Before starting to do whatever the hell it is I do now, I was in the printing business, going back to the days before computers when we had to use actual film and crap. To print in four-color, you had to angle the film for each color at a certain angle so that you wouldn’t get a moiré pattern when the dots in the screens for each color were printed on top of each other. After one particularly long day of stripping a four-color job and making sure there were no moiré patterns, I was driving home down the Garden State Parkway, and started seeing moirés in the fences on every overpass, which appeared every time the chain link fences on either side of the overpasses were at an angle relative to the position of my car that caused a moiré. From that day on, I couldn’t drive home without looking for moirés. It used to drive me crazy.
eamick
June 24, 2012 at 1:34 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Need I say more than this?