If you wear glasses, then you know how challenging it can be to find your glasses if you have laid them down and can't remember where you put them. You need your glasses to find your glasses. This is a way that you can make a quick, emergency pair of glasses for yourself or someone else that needs them. You will need: someone that needs glassesa piece of stiff paper or aluminum foila needle, pin, or sharp nail If you wear glasses, take them off. Look around you. Things probably look very blurry. If you don't wear glasses, ask a friend that does wear glasses to let you borrow them for a minute. By putting on their glasses, you can blur your vision. Now we are going to make some paper glasses. Put your glasses back on if you need them to see up close. Use the pin to make a small, round hole in the piece of paper. Hold the paper up to your eye and look through the hole. If you normally wear glasses, you may be in for a surprise. Things look almost as clear as they do with your glasses. They will look dimmer, but very sharp and clear. If you are wearing your friend’s glasses, you should see a clear image, even through their lenses. To understand how the pinhole works, you will need to make another pinhole, very close to the original. Now as you look through, you will see a double image of everything. Add five more pinholes and the image begins to blur as you get more and more images overlapping. If you add enough pinholes, things will look the same as they do without the pinholes. Think of looking at things without your glasses as looking through a tremendous number of pinholes all side by side. Using a single pinhole lets only a single image through, so it is dim, but in focus. In an emergency, you can even do without the paper. Put the first finger and thumb of your right hand together, as if you were pinching something. Do the same with your left hand and then bring your hands together to form a small opening between your fingers and thumbs. Look through this tiny hole and it will work just as your pinhole did. I have even seen adds in novelty catalogs for emergency glasses which were actually just cardboard glasses with cardboard lenses. Each lens had several pinholes in it. A neat idea, but not at $19.95. Less

A children’s story for children of ages 3-6. Please click the following link to go to Part 1 of the story. Less

“Go Raiders.” Spike’s fed up and miserable and needs to go to a funeral to remind himself of why he shouldn’t just cash in his chips and be done with it. What’s bumming Spike out this time? Mostly, gas prices. He won’t bore you with the story of how a fat, speccy guy from West Central Scotland ended up in West Virginia, but he will spend several minutes explaining why you are not Scottish/Irish/Italian/whatever, and will spend most of the show whining about rich people and paying $3.44 per gallon for gas. Incidentally, Spike’s about seven or eight million heads short for the revolution. Anyone want to help? Oh – and also, Deeds wants to know why a 44 year old man can’t buy beer and Spike plops on his tinfoil hat and wonders about election-rigging in Florida… not that it matters anymore, since they are now getting rid of electronic voting machines. Woot! email the show: theragemachine@gmail.com Skype: Taskerlands call: 206-600-5774 Less