Becky's T-Blog

Monday, April 03, 2006

Albedo

...was the word I was trying to think of whist sat watching a boring presentation this morning (once I’d exhausted the diversionary potential of picking tell-tell bits of gold varnish off my fingernails).

The projector had been set up a bit low, so that the green Windows XP “Start” button was emblazoned across the seated presenter’s completely bald and exceptionally shiny pate.

I wish the word had come to me during the presentation. It would have been nice to congratulate him afterwards for having “a very good albedo”.

tidyteatowel Albedo eh?

This might have helped:

http://www.env.leeds.ac.uk/envi2150/oldnotes/lecture4/lecture4.html

Or possibly not really.

Siobhan Curran My God - those diagrams. How hideously aliased

Selina "a very good albedo"? You mean he had proof he was somewhere else? :-)

VB-W Or did he have white hair and pink eyes?

Lizz He was shiny?

Um... Dare I ask... Are you sure you meant albedo?

Becky Yes, he was shiny! He had a high level of shine, hence his ability to display OHP graphics on his cranium. :-)

It's the right word! :-)

Selina, I thought you were a bit of an astronomer, you should know better! ;-)

Joanna I always felt that the best OHP screens were pale, but not shiny. Too shiny and you get glare, and a reflection off the projector.

Guess he could be pale but not shiny. Was his name Matt??....