The doctor is IN - the JohnT advice thread.

[Asher]

You want modern, go Xenon.

Xenon > Halogen > Incandescent

[JohnT]

Harry... is your name a take off on the fictional M*A*S*H character?

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by Asher
You want modern, go Xenon.

What's the difference there?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Japher


Pixar is in San Francisco.

Close enough for a Finnish boy.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by JohnT


Move to LA. Join Pixar.

Or better yet get a degree in computer animation then move to LA...

[Pekka]

Asher, tell me about it.. I'm not a big fan of that stuff either. But there's always good demand for them and I figure they make good money. But tellign you the truth, I've never really had a real job with databases and I'm already pretty much fed up with them. But I can be motivated

[Asher]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle
What's the difference there?

Xenons are much brighter and use even less energy than Halogens. They're the kind of bulbs used for headlights in high-end cars now, they usually have almost a blueish tone because they're so incredibly white.

They also barely diffuse at all. That is, it's a very, very acurate light -- very good for headlights. If you look at halogen headlights versus xenon, the xenon have a very clear line where light is being projected and where it's not, halogens have a "blending" zone, and incandescents just kinda shine everywhere.

Xenon lights, in short, are brighter & whiter, use less energy, and diffuse less.

[JohnT]

Are you planning on staying in Finland?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle


What's the difference there?

The concept is exactly the same but the bulb is filled with a more exotic (read: expensive) gas. It provides a slightly blue light.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by JohnT
Harry... is your name a take off on the fictional M*A*S*H character?

It's actually the rogue heat technician from Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

(Unless Brazil took it in turn from MASH, not unlikely.)

[Pekka]

telling you the truth though, I'm visually challenged, I mean, computer animation is not the thing for me. I'm just handicapped in things like that. I draw as good as I was able when I was 8 years old. And I was horrible back then too. Even my notes are so horrible looking, that no one can understand them but me. And yes, I believe if you are doing something with animation, graphics etc, you need to be artistically gifted, which I'm not. I just crunch numbers ..

Anyway, maybe I should just follow my heart and become a pornstar.

[JohnT]

Naw, the guy in M*A*S*H was named Jonathan Tuttle. (season 1, episode 15).

[Pekka]

JohT, No, I'm not going to stay in Finland. When I have my degree on my hand, I'm gone sooner than you can say cat.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Pekka
telling you the truth though, I'm visually challenged, I mean, computer animation is not the thing for me. I'm just handicapped in things like that. I draw as good as I was able when I was 8 years old. And I was horrible back then too. Even my notes are so horrible looking, that no one can understand them but me. And yes, I believe if you are doing something with animation, graphics etc, you need to be artistically gifted, which I'm not. I just crunch numbers ..

Anyway, maybe I should just follow my heart and become a pornstar.

Get into financing. Become CIO of Citibank. Create chaos.

[JohnT]

Wait!

Jonathan Tuttle's father's name was... Harry!

http://helmi.home.pages.at/mash/english/cast/tuttle.html