What's New
"SPIE Field Guide to Optical Fabrication"
My new book can be ordered through SPIE at
http://spie.org/x648.html?product_id=892101 It is one of
a VERY few books written in the last twenty years on the subjects of optical
fabrication and testing. It is inexpensive, concise, practical, and
contains information not published elsewhere. It is currently an SPIE
best-seller and has been getting highly positive reviews.
"More than most people
know about the Nikon autocollimator"
I presented this talk at the APOMA Workshop in Tucson, November 2010. I'll be
glad to do it again at your location.
OptiFab, Rochester NY, May 9-12
My talk titled "More that meets the eye" was the first of the
conference. It's a collection of handy tips and tricks to extract more
information from naked-eye observations, plus ways to use handy objects for
measurements. "Handy shop formulas" is a poster paper, a collection
of useful math for the practicing opticker - some of it not to be found in print
elsewhere. It's an extended version of what I've posted on this website.
SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, August 21-25, 2011
Our Optical Manufacturing and Testing conference is coming up again during
the SPIE annual meeting. My co-chairs are Dr. James Burge and Dr. Oliver
Fähnle.
SPIE San Diego 2009
Our Optical Manufacturing and Testing conference during
the SPIE annual meeting included many worthwhile presentations. The
proceedings are now available at
http://scitation.aip.org/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?smode=strresults&SMODE=strsearch&possible1zone=article&pjournals=PSISDG&KEY=PSISDG&sort=rel&maxdisp=25&threshold=0&deliveryType=spiedl&possible1=7426&submit=Search
Optician Training program available
A group of VLOC leads and supervisors completed my training program in June
'06. OptiMax has collaborated on video and animations, and sent 120 people
to sessions. Portions have been presented at IRD Glass and Tower Optical. This program is one of less than a handful of precision optician training
programs in the U.S. It is available for presentation at your company.
Thoughts for the moment
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to
worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon
"The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is
what they become." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you have a problem you cannot solve,
enlarge the context." French diplomat Jean Monnet
"If reality is the night sky then words are the constellations" Anonymous
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a
song." Maya Angelou
"Of those who say nothing, few are silent." Thomas Neill
"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of
human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will
never sit." Dr. Elton Trueblood
"The problem, if you love it, is as beautiful as the sunset." Jiddu
Krishnamurti
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the
key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” Albert
Schweitzer
"You cannot prove the nonexistence of God; you just have to take it on
faith." Woody Allen
"The world's cemeteries are full of indispensable men." Charles
DeGaulle
"The map is not the territory." Alfred Korzybski
"A skeptic questions your assumptions; a cynic questions your motivation."
Rey San Pascual
"I dream of a world in which chickens can cross the road without having their
motives questioned." Attribution unknown.
"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you."
Austin O'Malley
"Courage is the choice to accept the consequences of a life not controlled by
fear." Larry McGinty
"On the outskirts of every agony sits some
observant fellow who points." Virginia Woolf
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the
crowd." Max Lucado
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that
will allow a solution." Bertrand Russell
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