I'm an Editor!

I am now a Contributing Editor for the Optical Society of America’s journal Optics and Photonics News!

This is one of those magazines you can’t usually pick up at the local 7-11, or even the local big-city news stand. If you’re lucky, you could maybe find a copy at the local college or university.
There’s an on-line version at http://www.osa-opn.org/ , but, unfortunately, you can’t view any of the articles unless you’re a member. Hell, I’m a member, and I can’t even open the articles.

I’m editing the Light Touch column. I’ve already edited two columns by others, but the current one is the first one I’ve written myself. I intend to pull it away from its current stand as a site for explanations of Lecture Demos and the like, and to turn it back to Weird, Interesting Optics written with a Humorous Touch. Kinda like my Teemings columns, but with more physics.
So, if you ever manage to run across an actual, accessible copy, let me know what you think.

And I picked up Optics and Photonics News at the corner newsstand just last week. They had that cover story on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Applications for Electronic Terahertz Technology.

Yay!

I may have to switch my subscription from the rival Photronics and Optics News, though I’d miss their 3-D centerfolds.

Congrats!

Very exciting! And I have to confess that I read it at first as Optics and Phonics. I think maybe I better clean my specs.

Congratulations!

It’s a myopic world sometimes, isn’t it.

Congratulations Cal on this visionary appointment …

Congratulations from a fellow editor and Massachusettsian. Or is it Massachusettsite? Massachusettser? What do they call us, anyway? And the first person who comes out with Masshole is toast. (Freedom toast, of course. ):wink:

Congratulations from a fellow editor, j.g. (I’m the copy editor, as well as a reporter and a columnisht at a small daily newspaper, so I suppose “contributing editor” could describe me as well.)

I suspect yours carries a somewhat greater cachet. Use it wisely and for the powers of good in the universe.

Hometownboy

Congratulations from a fellow editor, j.g. (I’m the copy editor, as well as a reporter and a columnist at a small daily newspaper, so I suppose “contributing editor” could describe me as well.)

I suspect yours carries a somewhat greater cachet. Use it wisely and for the powers of good in the universe.

Hometownboy

heh heh. Even a copy editor can double double post post! :smiley:

Bay Stater
Saves wear and tear on the SpellChecker

Hooray for you!

Does this mean you’ll get hot and steamy letters from opticians who did it with co-eds ?

Dear Editor,

I’ve been an optician for ten years and have have a suggestion to help other opticians have at least ten hummers a day. My secret? Change the Eyechart to read:

BLOWMENOW
YOUREDHOT
VIXENOFLOVE

Signed,
Phil from Schnectady.

Yep – and Ruby, that’s on my GOOD days.