To continue my comments above. The 10 contacts on the Sony a6000 - what do they do. Well, at least two of them be reserved to the "+" and "-" DC power leads. The other 8 for various operations like zoom, focus, other(?). As for pin numbers - are assignments exactly the same for all cameras and all lenses? If so, adapters would be easy. If not, it would take a basket full to match up all thr combinations - and for us users a royal nightmare. Methinks I'll not do mixing and matching.

My google of scoville index turned up a bunch of options. The top one looked like a seller. The second one mentioned wikipedia and it had a list, not exactly like mine but close enough.

If you can find the chemicals and a light tight tank and advice about the steps, you might be able to process yourself. Or maybe some oldtimer Hog might volunteer. If you suspect anything historic, especially if to your family, no price would be too much. My wife had to make a side trip from her tour of Norway to the national library in Oslo to get a 47 page document about my family made in WW2. The cost 100 kroner - well worth it.

With that long lens you were at least at a safe distance just in case the snake flip might have sent the critter your direction!

This post brings up something I hadn't worried about. What kind of electrical/electronic stuff is inside of a lens. Is the some kind of memory chip inside. If there is a 'reset', then the chip would have to be RAM, but that make its data contents liable to variability which makes no sense. So the chip is most likely a ROM, for which 'reset' makes no sense. To are semiconductor experts here - can the firmware on a ROM be reprogrammable (easily).

Would any adapter be 'benign' in the sense it just lines up the contacts right and the mounting breach right. The lens on my Sony a6000 has 10 contacts. Might posters particular adapter be made with the connectors mis-wired - as in a manufacturing error for that one item. From what happened, I would think the adapter manufacturer should be liable. Will keep that maker in mind.

This last makes me think there should be a list of crappy manufacturers and sellers somewhere.

Wow, that one looks like it has well over a dozen doors. One bump and angry hordes emerge. What'dya bet not even a ten-foot pole would not be safe. If the wibd is still would a 'smoker' pot work?

I have had it lots if years now. Got my link from a bro-in-law who loves chili peppers - he's a Texan. Unfortunately I no longer have a link. You might try scovill in Google or Wikipedia. I'll try a search and will post whatever I get, if anything.

In my last look around, most everything is available by seeds only. I was looking for a seller of the scorpions.

We haven't had a hard freeze with a few days below 30 yet, so am gonna hold off on taking down. Do wasps just die or hibernate, they leave spring hatchable eggs.

After the leaf fall this nest in our crab apple tree was duscovered. Anyone know whether is hornets, wasps, yellow jackets? Dead after hard frost?
The iPad Air 2 camera pic was heavily cropped.

Nest in tree

For those who cook hot stuff

Hot Peppers Scoville Units


Item Scoville Index

Poblano 500 ~ 2,000

Espanola 1,000 ~ 2,000
Ancho 1,000 ~ 2,000
Mulato 1,000 ~ 2,000
Pasilla 1,000 ~ 2,000
Anaheim 500 ~ 2,500
Sandia 500 ~ 2,500
Cascabel 1,000 ~ 2,500
NuMex Big Jim 1,500 ~ 2,500
Rocotillo 1,500 ~ 2,500
Peter 1,500 ~ 2,500
Pulla 700 ~ 3,000
NuMex Joe E. Parker 1,500 ~ 3,500
Big Jim Heritage 2,000 ~ 4,000
Espanola Improved 2,000 ~ 4,000

Mirasol 2,500 ~ 5,000
Guajillo 2,500 ~ 5,000
NM 6-4 Heritage 3,000 ~ 5,000
Chimayo 4,000 ~ 6,000
Hatch Green 5,00 ~ 6,000
Barker's Hot 5,00 ~ 7,000
Chipotle 5,000 ~ 8,000
Fresno 2,500 ~ 8,500
Long Thick Cayenne 6,000 ~ 8,500

Jalapeño 2,500 ~ 9,000

Hot Wax 5,000 ~ 9,000
Sandia Hot 7,000 ~ 9,000
Puya 5,000 ~ 10,000
Hidalgo 6,000 ~ 17,000

Serrano 8,000 ~ 22,000
Bolivian Rainbow 10,000 ~ 30,000
Manzano 12,000 ~ 30,000
Shipkas 12,000 ~ 30,000
NuMex Barker's Hot 15,000 ~ 30,000
De Arbol 15,000 ~ 30,000
Jwala Finger Hot 20,000 ~ 30,000
Jaloro 30,000 ~ 50,000

Santaka 40,000 ~ 50,000
Super Chile 40,000 ~ 50,000
Piquin 40,000 ~ 58,000
Tien Tsin 50,000 ~ 70,000
NuMex XX Hot 60,000 ~ 70,000
Yatsafusa 50,000 ~ 75,000
Red Amazon 55,000 ~ 75,000
Haimen 70,000 ~ 80,000
Chiltecpin 60,000 ~ 85,000
Thai 50,000 ~ 100,000
Diablo Grande 60,000 ~ 100,000
Malagueta 60,000 ~ 100,000
Charleston 70,000 ~ 100,000
Pico de Pajaro 70,000 ~ 100,000
Merah 85,000 ~ 100,000
Tabiche 85,000 ~ 115,000
Bahamian 95,000 ~ 110,000
Carolina Cayenne 100,000 ~ 125,000
Kumataka 125,000 ~ 150,000
Bahamian 125,000 ~ 300,000
Jamaican Hot 100,000 ~ 200,000
Birds Eye 100,000 ~ 225,000
Madame Jeanette 175,000 ~ 225,000
Tepin (Wild) 100,000 ~ 265,000

Texas Chiltepin 100,000 ~ 265,000

Datil 100,000 ~ 300,000
Devil Toung 125,000 ~ 325,000
Fatalii 125,000 ~ 325,000

Orange Habanero 150,000 ~ 325,000

Scotch Bonnet 150,000 ~ 325,000
TigrePaw-NR 265,000 ~ 348,000
Rocoto / Manzano 225,000 ~ 350,000
Caribbean Red 120,000 ~ 400,000

Choclate Habanero 325,000 ~ 425,000
Red Savina Habanero 350,000 ~ 575,000

Dorset Naga 800,000 ~ 970,000
Naga Jolokia "Ghost Pepper" 800,000 ~ 1,041,000

Naga Viper 800,000 ~ 1,382,118
Trinidad Scorpion 900,000 ~ 1,463,700

Pure Capsaicin 15-16,000,000

At last, a person with credentials and experience in solid state electronics has posted. One of my concerns is whether there is sensor equivalent to grain size in silver halide film. I have been prone to dividing the physical area of a sensor by the number of pixels to evaluate the pixel size, but not knowing the actual structure of the light sensitive sensor elements I am very suspicious of this approach. There are exacting mathmatical optics equations that define the tolerable focus limits (usually termed depth of focus) achievable and these require knowledge of a 'circle of confusion' which is halide film grain size. As there are other CoC factors, such as visual acuity and lens aberations, the calculated DoF might be thought to be a 'base' or 'core' DoF of the ideal camera. So the importance of a sensors equivalent 'grain' size.

Was the lack of focus intentional for expression.

The "s" is the security url. Sites that use https: are more secure but most will accept http: . The differences can be read on Wikipedia.

When out in the field, Bob, do you run unto cottonmouth snakes much.

Were they alive or taxidermized.