Jim Hammond sent this to me today, from the Nephron announcement Friday.
I don’t know what I’m smirking at as I line up that shot on the iPhone. Perhaps I think I’m catching someone in a compromising attitude. Or maybe it’s that I realized Jim was shooting me as I made that shot. Who knows why I smirk? The Cartesian take on it would be, I think, therefore I smirk.
And I’m not turning up my nose at anyone. I mean, I do turn up my nose, sir, but not at you, sir. It’s just that I wear bifocals, so I do that a lot.
I’m kind of jealous of the quality of Jim’s camera. It does a good job with a backlit subject. I have a really good camera, too — really good — but it uses film. And that’s just too much trouble and expense these days for everyday use.
Oh, and here’s a picture from way back of me biting my thumb — I mean, turning up my nose — at Dan Quayle. It’s from a chance encounter at a banquet years and years ago …
ME: "I'll have you know, sir, that in South Carolina, we DRESS for dinner!" QUAYLE: "All I want is a potatoe."
Dude–have you had the same eyeglasses frames since Dan Quayle’s day? Wow.
Well, yeah, pretty much.
I have a couple of newer frames, but one is only good for looking at a desktop, and the others give me a headache when I try to wear them.
I can’t get new lenses for these, but even though they’re not the right prescription, they don’t give me headaches.
Why can’t you get new lenses for those–they’re actually back in style. You can fit lenses in vintage frames, and that’s what those are….
Dang, Kathryn has stolen my thunder again. That was my exact thought.
I couldn’t get new lenses for my frames last time I went to the eye doctor. Planned obsolesense is alive and well in the eyeglasses world.
Brad,
I haven’t switched to a digital SLR either. We have digital Point & Shoots. But my 30 year old Canon still works. I had to order ISO 100 speed film from New York City when I went to Florida for the final Space Shuttle launch. I couldn’t find 100 speed film in Columbia. All the traditional camera stores in Columbia are dead.
Walmart in West Columbia put sunglasses lenses in a pair of 80s plastic vintage frames I bought at etsy. They cautioned that the frames get brittle over time and the process of installing the lenses further stresses the frames, but if I was game, they were. I suppose you are gambling the cost of the lenses,in case the frames didn’t make the process, but Wally World is cheap.