I've lurked for the better part of a day here and read plenty of reviews and finally pulled the trigger on my first laser! (Nothing special, it's the 50 mW green laser from ledshoppe, although I considered the DX one as well). I'm an American currently studying abroad in Denmark for the semester, and my interests include graphic design, computer art, filmmaking, and business (My home school is the University of Pennsylvania, if anyone else on this forum goes/went there!). My first post was actually in a banner competition thread, but I look forward to doing some contributing here, as well as learning all of the crazy terminology you guys are using (a link to explain some things, such as divergence and the dangers of IR radiation would be helpful, but I'll check search later).