milkyspit
Flashlight Enthusiast
As I was working in my home office, there was a particularly annoying fly that wouldn't seem to go away. He was also evading my efforts to swat him with my hand. Just for fun, I wondered if a short-range blast of my HotRetina MR-X (12,000 lux!) would bother him. He landed on my right hand, and slowly... ever so slowly... I moved the MR-X into position with the left... then... BAM! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif Direct hit with the hotspot of the beam.
Funny thing is the fly didn't move. In fact, as I moved my right hand around (remember, the fly was sitting on this hand), keeping the light focused on the fly all the while, he never once moved. It was as if all that light caused sensory overload, and the fly was dumbfounded! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif I could easily have squished the fly any number of ways, so long as I kept the beam shining on him.
I'm not sure if I encountered a strange fly, or if he simply had never seen a MR-X before. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Either way, it sure was a fun way to spend a couple minutes of the workday! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Funny thing is the fly didn't move. In fact, as I moved my right hand around (remember, the fly was sitting on this hand), keeping the light focused on the fly all the while, he never once moved. It was as if all that light caused sensory overload, and the fly was dumbfounded! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif I could easily have squished the fly any number of ways, so long as I kept the beam shining on him.
I'm not sure if I encountered a strange fly, or if he simply had never seen a MR-X before. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Either way, it sure was a fun way to spend a couple minutes of the workday! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif