And lo on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:55:28 +0100, Jim Henderson  
<nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake, saying:

> On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:13:21 +0100, Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>
>> "Most people don’t notice bad nighttime lighting; if you do, it can make
>> you slightly crazed. When I’m driving at night, my wife has to tell me
>> to watch the road instead of looking back over my shoulder at a yard
>> whose trees have floodlights in their branches, or at an empty parking
>> lot so bright that you could deliver babies in it."
>>
>> ...WTH?
>
> Actually, I do this, but not to that great an extent.

What deliver babies in parking lots?

>  But when someone's
> coming at me with their bright lights on, I can't help but stare into
> them for some reason.

It's a pain - hello where did the road go. The road is grey, the pavement  
(if any) is grey, the kerbstones (again if any) are grey; drive along our  
up and down and side to side roads and it's real good fun.

Oh wait we'll stick some cat's eyes down the middle of the road, great  
except the standard cleaning mechanism relies on them being run over and  
that clearly hasn't happened in years so they reflect as much light as a  
speck of glass.

Hmm how about glow sticks down the road, same styling as the cat's eyes,  
but with a sturdy little solar panel on top just enough to trickle charge  
some LEDs. The input from the charger drops the lights come on, I also  
know that they've come up with a better cleaning method. Brighter and  
cleaner.

-- 
Phil Cook

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