I guess the whole Internet is slowly headed towards that model, so you can catch me outside reading a book if that's how things go.

Whooping between each rep

I get the math, but zone plates still seem like straight up wizardry to me.

If you're contact printing Id just build an array and give up on the collimated part, although you might lose a bit of sharpness. It works for exposing silk screens.

Parabolic reflector feels like a good answer too.

Diode, optional pinhole, fused silica lens assuming your definition of "bright" and "collimated" isn't too strict.

I'm seeing 2 minutes into the future like Nick Cage in next.

Lotta wisdom here and I'm not just saying that because I finally have a good reason to remove skull crushers from my work out ("sir space dragon said so")

Now perhaps it's the act of picking a pepper which is somehow already pickled that's worthy of memorializing in a tongue twister. Fair point. But the alternative is he was simply pulling the pickled peppers out of a barrel, which is effectively just shopping.

signed a deal while eating chili out of a coffee pot
i even gave my life to christ
in a cracker barrel parking lot