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2004-01-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-01-13 16:04|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hey, you make it sound like I intentionally seek out the weird and perverse!

Is it just me, or is it at all odd that two Chinese guys are using lasers to slice cheese in Wisconsin?

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-1-13 4:08:50 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-1-13 4:08:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder how much grant $$$ we poured down this rathole. Something's smelly in Madison.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-1-13 4:18:46 PM|| 2004-1-13 4:18:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 No rathole. This kind of thing leads to big money sometimes. Like laser eye surgery for instance.

If someone makes a cheaper or better industrial cheese-slicer there should be a market niche for it, and maybe open up some other industrial uses.

Posted by buwaya 2004-1-13 4:23:10 PM|| 2004-1-13 4:23:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "So Goldfinger, do expect me to talk"

"No Mr. Bond, I expect you to be Fondue."

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-1-13 4:31:42 PM|| 2004-1-13 4:31:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 There's a lesson in this for al Qaeda: Do you really want pick a fight with a country that can afford to spend millions of research dollars perfecting the cheese-slicing laser?

Posted by Tibor 2004-1-13 5:09:17 PM|| 2004-1-13 5:09:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Fred, good one, "Who cut the cheese?" I think I just woke the guy in the next cube.

Posted by BH 2004-1-13 5:11:22 PM|| 2004-1-13 5:11:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 two Chinese guys are using lasers to slice cheese in Wisconsin

Nope. No John Beloushi jokes. Stop. Don't think about it.

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-13 5:15:41 PM|| 2004-1-13 5:15:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hmm... A few more megawatts, a shiny mirror, and we could slice a cheese from space!

Posted by Dar 2004-1-13 5:58:51 PM|| 2004-1-13 5:58:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 No blood for queso!

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-1-13 5:59:30 PM|| 2004-1-13 5:59:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Wait until Kucinich demands a ban on space-borne cheese slicers.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-1-13 6:56:50 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-1-13 6:56:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh grate I can just see the headline:
Deep-Blue Opponent sliced in half, after Cyber Genius stumbles into Fools Mate.

Oh space borne Cheese Slicers... Never Mind.

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-13 8:10:04 PM|| 2004-1-13 8:10:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 If someone makes a cheaper or better industrial cheese-slicer there should be a market niche for it, and maybe open up some other industrial uses.

Never underestimate the needs of the food-processors. I once worked on a robotics project that used high-pressure water to filet fish.

Posted by Pappy 2004-1-13 10:10:44 PM|| 2004-1-13 10:10:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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