Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:

> > "jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> >> "gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> >>> The technical society for my field,  ISTFA (failure analysis), has now twice
> >>> held a Video Contest. The prize is a free registration (~$950) to the next
> >>> conference.  There were 700 attendes at the actual conference, but only 7
> >>> bothered to enter the contest. No one else did "animation": it was mostly video
> >>> recording of metallurgical processes or FIB tools picking up TEM lamellae.
> >>>
> >>> Last year I got second place with a povray animation; this year I got first
> >>> place with a stop-motion animation done with clay. I think the key feature is
> >>> perfect matching of sound with the action. But for that, I actually used povray,
> >>> by first making a 6 fps animation with povray-printed numbers, one per frame.
> >>> Then I know how many frames I need to relay each sentence.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI0PPfTAdCc
> >>
> >> Very nice. If no one else did animation, that means you win by default?
> >
> > No, there were six other entries.  Most were video footage of tools that make
> > samples, like this one which was last year's winner:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYyttv7QHwo
> >
> > And while I'm pasting, here's my povray animation from last year:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgtXRQ8Py4U
> >
> >
> > Steven, the CMOS technology is still very much in use.  Voltage Contrast is just
> > one way of finding defects.
> >
>
> On a related note, are you part of the folks who were just sold as slaves?
>


Albeit with better medical insurance than before. Awaiting marching orders.

Best case scenario: Better medical, pay raise (on rapidly increasing bracket if
not immediate), see son graduate from high school (i.e., assigned to work at
same lab, only 25 mins from house), still have interesting problems to work on.

Worst case: Better medical, same pay, live out of hotel room until son
graduates, wrap the chocolates on the conveyor belt very quickly.

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