Mystery packages from the former USSR
posted in Photography by Cargo Cult on Monday June 25 2012
eBay is brilliant for potentially terrifying US Postal Service operatives with dodgy-looking packages from Belarus. What's inside? Bit of Soviet-era optical equipment. Why did I need it? Well, some idiot (namely me) forgot to properly bolt his chunky old USSR-constructed LOMO microscope into its carrying case properly when emigrating to the USA, allowing it to rattle around inside without any kind of protection - resulting in ... a slightly bent monocular head for the eyepiece.
Apparently, Soviet-era optical equipment is built to last.
With the replacement, everything is back in focus again! I'll post micrographs of microscopic things on Flickr as soon as I figure out how to align my dSLR-carrying tripod correctly.
Stupidly enough, it wasn't this purchase that got my credit card temporarily blocked - it was trying to buy $5-worth of groceries at a nearby Safeway. And this reminds me, I still need to post packages out elsewhere...
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1. Suspicious behavior
Posted by chiasaur11 at 12:28AM, Sunday July 1 2012
Well, of course it was the groceries that got you locked down.
Know what a terrorist can do with 5 bags of goldfish crackers?
It isn't pretty.