This is a humor post, if we ever have another humorous moment again

Why didn't I invent this?

Lifehackershows us this Great food tip!!

in answer to FOOLISH Girl's post (here"

Digital cameras- What the hell is it doing in there? 35mm cameras are not a mystery. What the hell is it burning the image on. I can't rap my head around it.

OK: Tech Geek/Nerd to the rescue.

1. Digital Camera:
A 35mm camera takes you image and "saves/burns/exposes" the image to your FILM, which then goes to the store to be DEVELOPED/PROCESSED into Negatives.

Negatives then are exposed onto paper which turns them into photos (positives), and the photos are then printed.

The 35mm camera "saves" the image to film, the same way a DIGITAL camera saves the image to MEMORY or some sort of "flash-card", you insert.

The 35mm camera saves an ANALOG (opposite of digital, and wont discuss here) image (representation) on the film, and is then processed.

The Digital camera takes the SAME image (thru the lens), and instead of focusing the image onto the film that is exposed, uses a CCD (charge coupled device) (same as a Modern day TV camera, or OPPOSITE of a TV)
to take THREE different images of the scene.

...backtrack....Digression
In a TV camera(today=CCD, in the past was vacuum tubes) there are three different sensors that take a picture of a scene, with
either a blue/red or green filter.

If you are old enough, you'll remember the 1st generation color TV's you could put your head against the screen, and actually see the small red/green/blue "holes/thingies that could turn on.
(nowadays, they would be LED's or LCD's, or plasma "thingies", they were then parts of a PICTURE tube).

a) the lens focuses on a "mini" tv-like screen. (actually the CCD!)
b) tiny microscopic thingies inside take three separate B&W photos (think red/green/blue) filters )
c) since this is a DIGITAL camera, the CCD's convert the image from a piece of data into a number, and then translates that number into binary (zero's and ones).

Say our CCD cell (pixel) has captured a image of a period. That cell converts the image into a series of ones and zeros that best represents what that "pixel" would look like.

Now that the pixel/CCD unit has our image converted into a "digital" piece of data, it (along with the other XYZ MB's in the CCD store that image to memory (just like a computer would).
It stores that in you camera in a format that current computers would recognize as a removable (floppy) hard drive.

So our picture of (say, a period) will then be stored in a file on your camera.
a) if you have added external memory to your camera, it will store there, otherwise it stores in the memory BUILT into your camera!

You then go into as an example Google's Picassa, and with your camera connected (or your memory card in a reader on your PC), it will take the photos and transfer them to your PC, and catalog them for you

Bio-Diesel FAQ for the terminally lazy/bored/short attention span.


Some random factoids for you:

(I am hoping to start a bio-diesel co-op up here in NJ-- Email me if you're up here and interested. my email ISNt a secret!)

1. Regular Diesel engines can run up to a 3 part ratio with "PURE veggie oil" to diesel without gunking up the engine.
   
1. You cannot use "recycled" vegatable oil like this unless you process it to remove the gunk, and do some (not much) chemical processing (can be done in a parking lot if you are going cross-country)
2. MAX ratio of 3 parts oil to 10 parts diesel, because at higher percentages, it will gunk up engine because it wont burn smoothly (MORE LATER)
   
3. If you have a diesel engine with a 10 gallon tank (to make it easier)this means:
1. You can take 2 gallons of Veggie Oil from the supermarket and add it to your diesel tank, and mix with the 8 gallons of diesel fuel.

2) If it were me I wouldn't run an unmodified diesel engine for anything more then 10% for at least a month, and would go up 10% every OTHER month.(3rd month=20%). I would be quite cautious-- esspecially if a new car!

3) The reason you need to modify a diesel engine to run SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) is that OIL is heavier and larger particles then diesel. In order to rectify this, modifications are made that will pre-heat the veggie oil to the right temperature, so it is thinner, and burnable as easily as diesel-fuel. In addition, one of the things the conversion also does is make it possible (when you get to your destination) to burn all the Veggie oil out of your engine (so it doesn't solidify when your car turns off) This usually takes about 20-80 seconds and can either be automatic or manual.

1. USED veggie Oil (like from McDonalds/Wendys,etc)
   
1. For one person, (for example: going cross-country) could easily just walk in, sweet talk manager, and take the used oil out in the 5 gallon can, and process it in parking lot.
2. Processing essentially is
1. Filter/filter/filter (several times)
2. run it thru a few chemicals to get rid of residue so that it is purer.

That's essentially it

For a large group, the used oil will need to be collected, processed someplace, and then dispensed

Hope this helps you!