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( Books of Note: Love & Capes #10, Atomic Robo/Drone/We Kill Monsters )

   Dave Van Domelen, "Ah! Deception! Mammal DECEPTION!" "I'm a ROBOT." "Mammal robot!" "I don't know how to respond to that." - Doctor Dinosaur and Atomic Robo

dvandom.dreamwidth.org exists and is in the process of importing entries. It obligingly imported my friends list, but since I can't actually see anything by them until they set me to "allowed" it's not that much of a time-saver. So, this joins my Wordpress and Blogspot accounts as "grabbing the ID just in case, but not actually using it" list for now.

( Nothing of note, lots of older stuff; Other Media: Ms. Marvel action figures )

   Dave Van Domelen, "Kree = YUMMY!" - Galacta, Marvel Assistant-Sized Spectacular #2 (of 2)

Way back in high school, in 1987 or 1988, I was introduced to the equation for angular magnification (as by a magnifying glass), that being m_θ = 25cm/f (where 25cm is the standard "near point" and f is the focal length of the lens). The explanation was kinda handwaved, and I didn't really get it, but I didn't need to get it in order to use the equation.

Yesterday, I finally ran into a homework question that required understanding the derivation, and I had to figure it out during class (the textbook being almost no help at all) so I could explain it to my students, oops. Turns out there's two very important assumptions that tend to get hidden or glossed over: you don't leave the object in the same place (i.e. you look at it as close as you can without the lens, then put the lens in place and MOVE THE OBJECT until you get a clear image), and the lens has to be right up in your eye so that the angular size of the object and the image are the same. Even our multiple-teaching-award-winning distinguished professor who's helping teach this class got tripped up on the second assumption.

2.3M PDF of my PhD Thesis. Antithesis not available at this time. Thanks to scavgraphics for the widget that let me splice the chapters together more smoothly.

Well, I've unpacked my new refurb EEE PC 900 XP (ETA: Dunno why I initially thought it was 801) and done some basic setup. Not sure it's gonna displace my 700, even with the bigger memory and larger screen. Oh, and I named it MOGUERA, since the Heisei version was a refurbed set of MechaGodzilla remains last I heard.
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Discussion time. :) For each of the major (i.e. more than a couple of stories) ASH Authors, which single issue or short arc would you recommend to new readers as a way to get acquainted with our work? Preferably something that wouldn't require a lot of background to understand (i.e. not "continuity porn").

Obviously, I'm not the best person to judge this, since I'm way too close to the issue. This isn't an awards sort of thing, more of a call for comments.

The authors in question are: Dave Van Domelen, Tony Pi, Marc Singer, Matt Rossi III and Andrew Burton. Please suggest one issue or short arc for each writer.

ASH #99 - Rising Sun Part 3: Cherry Blossoms - The Battle off Samar! Bakajin! A second Sun! Storming Mount Suribachi! The penultimate chapter of Rising Sun brings death, destruction and fear...and there's more to come!