Thursday, March 27, 2014

Scary Selfie

Last night, I took a most unusual self portrait:




Yeah, that's me alright... anybody got any idea what the hell's going on?

***SPOILER FOLLOWS***

We have a couple of powerful flashlights on the job (one is a 1.5 million candlepower rechargeable spotlight that became a particular favorite of one of my co-workers after I demonstrated it to him... he'd so much as see a car in the parking lot after dark and he'd shine that monster on the occupants and they'd leave PRONTO- yeah, I created a monster). Our newest flashlight, powered by two C-cells, was dropped by one of the guys in the department, so the button for the switch popped off. To turn the thing on or off, one has to use a pen or a key, or what-have-you to hit the switch. Last night, I kept the light on (we're using rechargeable batteries at this time, so it's not that much of a waste), but slipped the thing up my sleeve when I wanted a little darkness. The light is powerful enough that it was able to render my hand translucent... making me look like some kind of creepy horror out of "Warcraft".

11 comments:

mikey said...

Yes. I have the ultimate kel light.

6 D cells, 9 pounds, 240,000 candlepower.

Here's the deal:

http://ubuntuone.com/3RvgNAg0EIT00Yd3E7Zfoo

And here's the same thing with the living room machete and my baseball bat for scale:

http://ubuntuone.com/7iRMlJC5KGH5yrzZrgmoZX

Assuming I got those filenames in the right order n shit...

mikey said...

Why does my living room look lavendar?

I think I've totally fucked up the white balance on this camera for all time...

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

That's not a light, that's a kanabo. How many D cells in that baby?

One of the guys in the department has a light like that- he keeps it in the car much of the time.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Oh, 6 D cells... ignore the man behind the cretin!

M. Bouffant said...

A. Friend had one of those zillion candlepower "aircraft landing lights," which he kept in his car. Much fun was had.

Paul Avery said...

Actually, it's not all that creepy looking. You could have said it's a picture of a cherry swirl and I would have believed you.

Smut Clyde said...

Present for BBBB!
http://boingboing.net/2014/03/27/stage-adaptation-of-tim-powers.html

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

A. Friend had one of those zillion candlepower "aircraft landing lights," which he kept in his car. Much fun was had.

I'd love to have one for tailgaters.

Actually, it's not all that creepy looking. You could have said it's a picture of a cherry swirl and I would have believed you.

Not even a cherry swirl of doom?

Present for BBBB!

You are bound and determined to make a Boing-Boinger out of me, aren't you, old chum?

Smut Clyde said...

making me look like some kind of creepy horror out of "Warcraft".
So how is this different from normal?

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

It's....THE CRAW!
~

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

So how is this different from normal?

Touche!

It's....THE CRAW!

I could go for some crawfish...