The Arizer Air
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OF
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Unless you're color blind......
Maybe if it had been Engineers they would not have chosen a color scheme that makes those of us who are 'red/green color blind' (about half the total) unable to use the feature. It's only men (for practical purposes) and about as common as being left handed (about 8% of the general population). Think about it, imagine half the left handed men could not tell fully charged from exhausted?
For me it's 'not white' followed by white followed by 'not white' again. 3/4 of the range reads the same.
If you ask me, I'll tell you I think they got it exactly wrong. It's easy to ignore other people's handicaps? Even if out of ignorance.
OF
GetLeft
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So @OF, how have you adjusted? Can you tell when you're at the blue light? If not I'm not sure how you'd be able to be confident regarding temp settings. Definitely a shortcoming. The fact that people able to see color differences well still experience confusion at times regarding the color schemes and combinations indicates an engineering weakness. Hmmm. Did those engineers recognize the shortcoming of using colors and use that method anyway?
OF
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I'm not exactly sure what the questions is. If it's 'how can you use the heat levels on Air?', fortunately I can count that high. I go to the bottom (or top) and count up or down to the step I want. I started using step 3 by default, now I use step 2. Color not withstanding. I can see blue just fine, and white usually since it's 'blue and other colors' but not enough of the other 3 to depend on. Some are worse off than I am.
If it's 'how have you adjusted to being color blind?' as a general question, there is none since you're that way from birth, there is no 'adjustment' per se. Up until I was 14 or 15 and went to the eye doctor for headaches due to eye strain reading (far sighted) and was tested in due course I wasn't identified as being color blind, I was simply judged stupid by the school system in Kindergarten when I was discovered using the wrong crayons. "Has trouble with colors" was passed along with the other key information.
I think it's generally ignored by those not involved. Not everywhere, for instance the funny color of green traffic lights is because of us, to make it different from red. And the position of the 3 colors is fixed for that reason as well. Strangely, at night, I can't tell flashing yellow from flashing red at the distance. I have to get close enough to see the frame of the lights to tell. I have to treat them as flashing red until then which means I approach slower than most......so there I've adjusted by being sure the guy behind me stays sharp and doesn't rear end me I guess?
Color changing LEDs area seductive idea, I think. Engineers love how it makes it simpler to build, the Suits (sales types) love the bling. If the few involved in such choices don't consider it, they don't consider it.
As a fun aside, Herbal Aire used to use a tiny version of those horrid red/green LEDs as it's only display, it had four red LEDs shining down for bling. You needed to see the color change to know when it was at correct temperature. The next (current) version, H2.2, replaced the four LEDs with a large 3 color one that uses the 'sea green' like traffic lights (very vivid) shining down under the uint tied into the temperature/heating display. Wanna guess why? After 'splaining the issue to them (they hadn't considered it, of course, not being color blind personally) and suggesting the next version use part of the light show to give us a clue they went the extra mile IMO.
OF
UnshavenFish
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Ashish
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That tickled me! great start to the day
Always entertaining
He's just lording it over those of us who didn't receive such a fancy edumacation.
EDIT: This reminds me of a story involving myself and several of my high school friends around 18 years ago. There were five of us all getting high in my tiny Honda Civic in a car park. We went through maybe a quarter ounce between us, through a bong, with the windows rolled up for maximum effect. Then we decide it's time to drive to Macca's (that's McDonalds, to you rest-of-the-worlders). I'm driving across the main bridge in our city on our way to sweet sweet munchies when we come across a RBT (police breath testing roadblock). As is customary at such traffic stops, the driver is required to count to ten whilst a breathalyzer is held just centimeters away from the driver's mouth. Being extremely stoned, I lost count at four. The officer was kind enough to do the test a second time; this time I lost count at six. Thankfully, this was before driving stoned was quantifiable and therefore it was not yet an offence. The nice officer simply waved me on, with that unmistakable wry smile on his face that made it obvious he knew exactly what we were up to.
TL;DR: Semi-amusing anecdote about being stoned.
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OF
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Yep, one of them things they taught me back when I was stuck in the second grade fer so long.....
Comes in handy sometimes, if the numbers aren't too big.
OF
Ashish
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Completely off-topic for the thread (but rather topical for this thread-within-a-thread) is this: I've spent quite a while in China, and of all the cultural differences I've ever come across in my time there, the fact that they count to ten on one hand still blows my mind the most. Okay, perhaps "blows my mind" is a bit of an overstatement, but still, it's pretty cool.
Here's how that funky oriental magic is done, in case you're wondering...
Here's how that funky oriental magic is done, in case you're wondering...
WoodVillain
Backwoods Rated
You can count up to 999 in american sign language with 1 hand. IIRC anyways.
I spent 14 months in South Korea, the herbal situation there is horrible, i was in the Army so i didnt get many opportunities to enjoy, but the couple times i risked it were extremely pricey for pretty crap weed. But i enjoyed the country quite a bit. Loved the jungles, snowboarding the mountains, swimming the beaches, the different foods etc.
Most of my military buddies didnt enjoy it as much as I did, but most of them limited themselves to the base, and right outside the base and a lot of them werent willing to take some of the chances i did either. I traveled from the DMZ to Busan and hundreds of cities in between. I spent time with local families and got to really learn about their culture first hand, i visited museums, went on tours, disregarded curfews AND PARTIED LIKE MAD!!!
Good times. Some not so good too though. I take what i can get.
Back to grinding on some steel... But first, a moment (or 2) with the Air
I spent 14 months in South Korea, the herbal situation there is horrible, i was in the Army so i didnt get many opportunities to enjoy, but the couple times i risked it were extremely pricey for pretty crap weed. But i enjoyed the country quite a bit. Loved the jungles, snowboarding the mountains, swimming the beaches, the different foods etc.
Most of my military buddies didnt enjoy it as much as I did, but most of them limited themselves to the base, and right outside the base and a lot of them werent willing to take some of the chances i did either. I traveled from the DMZ to Busan and hundreds of cities in between. I spent time with local families and got to really learn about their culture first hand, i visited museums, went on tours, disregarded curfews AND PARTIED LIKE MAD!!!
Good times. Some not so good too though. I take what i can get.
Back to grinding on some steel... But first, a moment (or 2) with the Air
Vape Hound
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This reminds me of one time I went night-skiing in SoCal, near Wrightwood in the San Gabriel Mountains a few years back. Mountain High West has always been a very permissive place for stoners, and it was normal for snow boarders and skiers to light up joints on the chair-lift going up, or to take group toking breaks off in the trees at the top, before setting off downhill nice and buzzed. The mountain air always smelt great up there, suffice to say.
Well there I was in that "anything goes" mindset during a short break spent in my car in the parking lot, and feeling it was ok to ask this guy standing nearby smoking a cigarette for a light to fire up this fat joint of Hawaiian bud, since I had evidently dropped my lighter, and my car lighter didn't work. No sooner had I asked for light than I noticed the man assume that unmistakable "ticket writing" stance of a seasoned cop, at which point I realized I might have just made a really stupid blunder.
So I asked him "You're not a cop are you ?" to which he replied "I sure in the fuck AM a cop", producing a California Highway Patrol ID, just in case I thought he was kidding. Anyway, feeling like a major dimwit, yet thankful for not getting ticketed or hauled in, I meekly handed over my treasured hooter and watched him crush it under his boot with extreme prejudice. Needless to say that incident killed my buzz real quick, and I wound up leaving for home at 7pm, instead of skiing till closing time at 9.45pm, as I usually did.
Moral of this story is NEVER ask ANYONE for a light, even if they are smoking tobacco ha ha.
OF
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Pretty cool, but calls for memorizing some 'hand signs'. Then again what would you expect from people who's written language calls for memorizing thousands of characters just to read a news paper?
There's also the old hardware/software joke, "Never argue with a guy that can count to 1024 on his fingers". By labeling your fingers as independent 'bits' (base 2, either one or zero) you can count 'to ten bits in binary', 1024 counts, rather than the 'one in ten' code we normally use yielding ten (actually 11) counts.
There have also been 'better way movements' to count by decades of 12, so called "Dozanal Systems". As well as a lot of other strange systems from the far corners of our strange little planet:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31879/12-mind-blowing-number-systems-other-languages
Just think if we were cartoon characters...... Micky Mouse counts in base 8.....
OF
A strange thing is happening with my Air. I pulled out the charged battery & put in another one (pretty new from Arizer) to charge, but it just blinks alternating red & yellow when plugged into the charger. Usually it is a green blinking light when charging. Does anyone know what this means? It's possible the battery had been run all the way down previously, a week or so ago. Is my battery dead or defective?
SquirrelMaster
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I'm really considering the water tool @OF came across http://m.dhgate.com/product/glass-atomizer-ash-catcher-dry-herb-vaporizer/213068750.html#pd-019
However I'm a little paranoid that I may end up pulling it off the mouthpiece without first tipping it over resulting in a wet Air. (Correct me if I'm wrong but this is what would happen).
I also came across this guy http://m.dhgate.com/product/pinnacle-pro-glass-smoking-water-pipe-vaporblunt/184494946.html#pd-019 somewhere in this massive thread. However there are some complaints about it not holding much water, plus it is more expensive and I would still need a 14mm GonG (waiting for the turbo at PV but it never comes back in stock).
I'm curious if it would also require the same care in regards to spill.
Can anyone comment on my questions and provide any other insight.
However I'm a little paranoid that I may end up pulling it off the mouthpiece without first tipping it over resulting in a wet Air. (Correct me if I'm wrong but this is what would happen).
I also came across this guy http://m.dhgate.com/product/pinnacle-pro-glass-smoking-water-pipe-vaporblunt/184494946.html#pd-019 somewhere in this massive thread. However there are some complaints about it not holding much water, plus it is more expensive and I would still need a 14mm GonG (waiting for the turbo at PV but it never comes back in stock).
I'm curious if it would also require the same care in regards to spill.
Can anyone comment on my questions and provide any other insight.
OF
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Where to start......
First off, the smaller one doesn't spill. You can put it back in the case with water in it, move it around and no leaks. Cool. I don't invert to take it on and off, although you could. Forgetting is not a certain disaster.....and I've tried.
The larger one also works fine. I'm not sure what to say about 'not enough water' since it's probably got 3 or 4 times what the other has, easily. It's not as good as a table top WT, but it does a good job IMO. It will spill big time. For travel I use a pair of rubber stoppers and still get minor drips.
BTW, that photo is upside down........not sure how that happens.....don't use it that way (unless you want leaks).
You don't need a 14mm GonG with Air and that bubbler, the plastic cap on the stem is designed to mate with the taper. Many prefer glass, but the stock stem works.
OF
photobooth
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Good deal here...http://fuckcombustion.com/threads/arizer-air-silver-130.18241/The VAS is so strong ... I just want to get the Air because it looks like a fucking awesome light saber ... Can't stop the urge...
GetLeft
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Funny. My AA has been my only vape experience. I really want to have VAS, but I'm having a hard time. I think I got lucky and found everything I want or need with the Air.
(I think if I were to go anywhere now it would be toward a plug in even though I'd probably not be able to use it with frequency. I'm thinking along the lines of a nano. Just as an indulgence. But don't want to get off topic…)
Episode666
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I'll just put this here...
2clicker
Observer
Together on the sand...
(Now thinking of that nofx song, good times
cuntry music played on the radio so i turned it off...
i think i may be ordering an Air soon. cant wait to join the club!
I made some dome screens, and I think I like them with the rounded side touching the bowl. Done up seems to be too hard to clean. Does anyone like dome up better?
I'm trying to get used to the draw resistance... Will pro ably order a pvhes shorty 14mm gong (is turbo a good option?). And possibly an edstnt stem for travel.
I can't seem to get what I've gotten used to with my nano, easy, breezy beautiful hits, haha. In surprised by the draw resistance, I didn't realize there would be so much. I had an imag+ which had the same or less resistance... I tend to breath fast if I'm not getting enough air..idk maybe its an asthma thing. Hoping the pvhes and TNT stem help with this.
An extra battery will be needed!
I'm trying to get used to the draw resistance... Will pro ably order a pvhes shorty 14mm gong (is turbo a good option?). And possibly an edstnt stem for travel.
I can't seem to get what I've gotten used to with my nano, easy, breezy beautiful hits, haha. In surprised by the draw resistance, I didn't realize there would be so much. I had an imag+ which had the same or less resistance... I tend to breath fast if I'm not getting enough air..idk maybe its an asthma thing. Hoping the pvhes and TNT stem help with this.
An extra battery will be needed!
I don't think it is out yet.