Re: Visualizing

On Sun, 08 Sep 2024 07:14:02 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Sat, 07 Sep 2024 08:26:09 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Sat, 07 Sep 2024 06:58:54 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:53:46 -0700) it happened john larkin
<jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in <6u4mdjt3d32biaavd02a2cfebsgtd5kapa@4ax.com>:
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I was driving and listening to the local mostly-annoying NPR radio
station, but they had an interesting interview with a book author. It
was about his novel or some poetry or something.
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What was interesting was his recalling a conversation that he'd had
with his wife. She was takling about a plant or something and asked
him to visualize it. He was astounded that she, or anyone, could close
their eyes and *see* something they were thinking about.
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I was shocked to learn that there are people who can't form a mental
visual image.
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Close your eyes and consider a nice white ceramic dinner plate with a
beautiful deep red apple sitting in the center. Can you see it? From
the side and from the top? Do you see the stem? The colors? Imagine it
slowly rotating? See the fruit fly?

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Sure on problem, on my table there also is a small glass jar with some apple juice and a foil top with small holes
and many insects caught in it:
https://www.countryliving.com/home-maintenance/cleaning/a45085435/fruit-fly-traps-indoors-diy/

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We like to leave the door open at our new office. We get fresh air and
neighbors and kids and dogs and fruit flies.
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These really work:
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MRHXM0I/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

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Expensive,
using a glass bottle with holes in the lid works best this site says, costs nothing, re-usable

These come with enough liquid stuff for one refill. Actually, if they
dry out some one can add water too. Until they are solid plugged with
dead flies.

https://www.thekitchn.com/diy-fruit-fly-traps-22942130
that is what I use (no lid but foil, should try a lid too some day, plenty of empty honey bottles here).
You can see how effective it is by what is in it :-)

That looks labor intensive. We'd rather be designing electronics. I
figure that a year of engineering should result in one or better yet
two million dollars in ultimate sales, which works out to around $1000
per hour. And Amazon delivers.

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I did buy a box with holes and some poison against ants, few month ago we had a big invasion,
hundreds of dead ants I had to hoover up after that.

Our state+fed corporate tax rate is about 50%, so we get half off
everything!