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2009
Radar Doppler – antena şi becu'
By DarkByte. Posted in Aberatii, Divertisment, The light-side | 9 Comments »
Do you know what a Doppler radar is ? Do you know who Doppler was ? Have you ever heard of the Doppler effect ? Doesn’t matter, you don’t need to know these things to read on … I was just curious 
The image in the left displays a Doppler radar. It usually is used for weather stations or in air traffic control. In other shapes and dimensions it is used as police speed guns, in radiology, and so on. How and why it works is not important for the story to come.
In Oradea, very close to the airport, is such a Doppler radar. Obviously, being close to the airport, it is very close to the much praised Tiago (which didn’t open anymore … at all). Watching from the city belt, the radar is right behind Tiago. In this other side of the city belt, at about 170 feet, is the office building in which I’m working. In a straight line there are, probably, about 650-820 feet between the radar and my job.
I introduced you to the places, you know what a Doppler radar is … let’s get cracking 
I went outside for a smoke today, around 16 o’clock, with a coworker. We were talking, smoking … there’s a glider passing right above us. My colleague (Radu) makes a comment regarding the low altitude of the glider, and I went on reading, from underneath it’s wing, the series number (or shoe size, whatever).
Radu snaps back at me, saying he can’t read at that distance, without even realizing where I was reading from. When he did, the glider was quite far, and the angle didn’t support our reading intentions. I, the brightest bulb in the lot, came with a brilliant idea. I point at the Doppler radar and tell Radu that I’ve made eye tests before, based on the radar’s antenna. For two and a half years since I work here, that little antenna was seen by only about 70% of my coworkers.
Radu glances, stares, wipes his glasses clean and strains again … nothing. “Yo, where, what antenna?”. I explain that the antenna is in the middle, right on the top of the radar. He asks me: “Above the flickering light bulb?”. Yes… He had lost me. “What light bulb, dork?”. Instead of answering, he starts laughing loud like an idiot.
Among the laughters I make out an “… the red one, moron…”. Ha ha. Red light bulb. Flickering. God damn that damned light bulb. I tell him that’s the reason for which I can’t see it. Any action has a reaction of equal, but opposite force. The reaction, in this case, can be expressed by amplifying Radu’s laughter. He was rolling on the floor laughing, for the simple and plain reason that I’m partially colorblind. He could barely breath, poor Radu, and I had no oxygen tank in reach. Lucky for Radu, for that oxygen tank might have crushed his skull 
He hurried back inside and told everyone who would listen, amusing everyone with the line “Do you see the antenna? … What antenna? The one near the light bulb? … What light bulb?”
Who said you can’t have fun at the office?
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November 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Victore, ai intrat in istorie… daca mai tusesc mult de la raceala, in combinatie cu rasu isteric care mi l-ai provocat azi, de n00b ce esti, o sa ma ai naibii pe constiinta
Ba drace, dupa ce-ai plecat, mi-o trimis boss pe messenger: “da’ ba, de ce-ati ras asa de bine? care-i faza?” … nu mai pot, iar ma apuca…
Asa ca o trebuit sa te dau in gat si la nivelul superior… Maine sa nu vii la lucru, ba, ca iti vopsim vreo 2 taste cu rosu
“Vezi antena? Care? Aia de lângă bec, bă… Care bec?”.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Mie mi-e milă de Victoraș
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(^ oricum, bună aia cu vopsitu’ tastelor
November 4th, 2009 at 9:13 AM
November 4th, 2009 at 11:45 AM
luata in sens nu tocmai metaforic,chestia asta e ca faza cu padurea si copacii…nu vezi copacii din cauza padurii…(sau e invers?
)apropo,daca doar 70% din colegi au vazut antenuta aia,cati au vazut becul? 
November 4th, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Nu știu câți au văzut becul, pentru că nu i-am întrebat. Pentru că nu l-am văzut eu
Din cei care i-am întrebat de ieri încoace, doar o persoană nu a văzut becul. L-am văzut și eu până la urmă, chinuit, când s-a schimbat nițel culoarea cerului și am avut contrast mai bun
November 4th, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Nu se pune; asa, ca azi ceru e alb, vad si eu antena
November 4th, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Scoate-te, scoate-te. Să vedem ce părere au restul care mai comentează pe aici de “scuzele” tale
November 17th, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Cred ca ar fi mai interesant daca ti-ar vopsi led-urile de la tastatura in rosu
, nu mai spun si altceva ca o sa le dau idei colegilor si nu e bine 
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November 17th, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Ar fi bine să le dai câteva idei … până acum au pățit-o cu câte un mouse cu laserul acoperit cu hârtie, wallpaper cu desktopul lor, etc.
Ar fi destul de corect să îmi facă și ei câte o boacănă