Where to Buy Dry Ice
Airgas sells dry ice under the Penguin Brand name all over the place. Find out exactly where you can buy dry ice in supermarkets. I found this dry ice box in the front of a Safeway in San Jose.
The coldest winter I ever spent
Archive for 2008
Airgas sells dry ice under the Penguin Brand name all over the place. Find out exactly where you can buy dry ice in supermarkets. I found this dry ice box in the front of a Safeway in San Jose.
Here are some Motivational Posters for you.
Yes, they are all incredibly offensive.
Envy: When you can’t have one, pissing people off who do is the next best thing.
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Inspiration: Sometimes you just have to seize the moment.
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Stereotypes: They’re based on reality
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Birth Control: Because if you aren’t careful, one of these could be yours.
Way way more follow…
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You have a unique sense of fashionable hats and a discomforting closeness with your firearms. You may be the object of adulation for a small group of people.
Take the Which Firefly guy are you? Quiz at HeavyInk.com
The YSlow Firefox Addon suggested a few performance boosts for the blog.
This seems to cut 1-2 seconds off loading time. Nice :-)
added <?php flush(); ?>
just after </head>
I put this in my .htaccess file (at the root of lee.org). This helps a lot when revisiting my site :-))
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I sent this reply to Rick about… well, read for yourself
Don’t tell Charlotte. She wants a motorcycle but refuses to get one because she knows it’d be WAY too dangerous for her. And I should definitley NOT get a jet pack!
NOT
NOT!
NOT!!!——– Original Message ————-
From: Rick Taylor
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 10:35 PM
To: Lee Sonko
Subject: Yves Rossyhttp://www.jet-man.com/prod/index.html
You heard of this guy? Reminded me of your RC wings, thought you would be interested.
——– End of Original Message ——
I went to a molecular gastronomy talk put on by Michael Zbyszynski at Maker Faire a few weeks ago. Here’s the bullet points I wanted to remember
Get supplies here: http://le-sanctuaire.com/ 315 Sutter Street on the 5th Floor
Recipes: Read the “Hydrocolloid Recipe Book”
Sous Vide cooking (pronounced “sue veed”) is used by about 60% of the food on your plate at most restaurants.
Carrot Juice Caviar recipe: http://www.instructables.com/id/Carrot-Caviar/
a very interesting example as to what you can do with molecular gastronomy
A blog I found on the subject
http://thegreatindoorsman.com/?cat=17
Several years ago I ripped the original Hampsterdance.com homepage from Archive.org. It’s just a joy that every few months I get a thankful email from someone. Here’s the one I got today:
Hi Lee-
I just wanted to thank you for preserving the original hamsterdance so faithfully. I click on it whenever I need to smile!
Get some old-school internet joy right here.
(The sound might play automatically in your browser, or not. There is a link to the music at the bottom. Hey, it’s a faithful rip of the original site!)
Last month Melissa sent me a banana bread. I have to say that it was completely terrific. She wrote,
i made three, gave one to a friend and kept one. the one i kept was super cinnamon and was so good, it was a borderline cinnamon bread.
yeah that recipe is a total keeper…the secret are the folgers fresh crystals!
There you have it!
I haven’t made the plunge yet but I’ll be taking this person’s suggestions and buying my next pair of prescription glasses online. (Actually, I’m making this post mostly to remind myself of that blog post)
Here’s a copy of his article in case the internet eats the original
Adventures in $40 eyeglasses
Matthew Haughey | Nov 29 2007Glasses purchased online Last year, I stumbled upon a blog post about buying prescription eyeglasses online. It sounded too good to be true: you could get any frames you wanted quickly and cheaply, and the comments were filled with optometrists freaking out. Eventually, the author launched a dedicated blog for it called Glassy Eyes. When the site was recently mentioned on MetaFilter right around the time I was getting my 2-year exam, I decided to take the plunge myself and order some glasses online.
Why Buy Online?
As a lifelong near-sighted person, prescription eyeglasses and especially prescription sunglasses have long commanded a high premium due to the seemingly precise and scarce nature of creating them. Until a few years ago, I only had two options for eyewear: my optometrist (here’s an employee admitting they pay less than ten bucks per pair) or a 1-hour place like Lenscrafters (which is part of a multinational monopoly). About ten years ago, when I was fresh out of college and scraping by month to month with my first real job, I broke my only glasses and had to pay $400 for an emergency pair (that were ugly and I hated and I wore for two more years before I paid off the old ones and could afford new ones). For far too long, glasses have been expensive.
Today things are different, with Coscto and Walmart bringing prices down to the $100-150 range for frames/lenses and they serve as a good economical option to the mainstays. With the advent of online sellers, it’s now possible to get a decent set of specs for anywhere between $20-$100. The online selection is phenomenal as well.
Get Your Measurements Right
First thing you need is an up-to-date prescription. Though people usually get one every 2+ years, most optometrists will only honor them for a up to a year afterwards. If you’re getting one soon, you’re in luck, because you can go in knowing a little more than the average patient. When you’re done with the standard exam, ask the eye doctor or an assistant if they can give you your pupil distance. It’s a simple matter of looking through a binoculars-like device that measures the distance between your pupils. It should be a number in millimeters and be sure to write it down either on the prescription or on a piece of paper (if you get two numbers, that’s right/left which you can add up to be the PD). If you forget to ask or already visited an eye doctor recently, you can measure the PD yourself, by simply printing out a ruler and looking in a mirror (or taking a photo of yourself with the ruler below your eyes).
Armed with your prescription and your PD, you’re all set for ordering any glasses you want online.
Measure What You Have, Know What You Want
Goofy PhotoBooth shot of my new glasses It helps if you have two things: a bit of fashion sense and a measuring tape. I personally loved my last pair of eyeglasses (paid $500 at a fashion eyewear store two years ago), but they were a bit too short in the lens height department which became annoying as I could often “see” below my lenses during common everyday tasks. The glasses fit well otherwise and armed with my wife’s soft sewing measuring tape, I took millimeter measurements of all aspects of my old glasses: lens height, lens width, length of bridge (distance between lenses), total width of lenses plus bridge, and the length of the side arms.
Now that I had my prescription (with PD), and my frame measurements, I copied it into a text file and kept it open as I shopped online. I knew I needed lenses around 53mm wide, about 20mm apart, and the arms needed to be at least 135mm long. My old too-short lenses were only 26mm tall, so I was looking to get something with around 30mm of lens height. Some online shops let you plug all these numbers in and specify what you want to search on as the most important (I did “lens height must be at least 28mm” search), but most all online shops will display the measurements below each frame, which should help narrow down your searches.
In terms of frame design, I knew I wanted a half-rim frame (metal/plastic top and arms, clear lens below) or a full plastic frame, and most every online shop categorizes frames for sale by their construction in this way. Knowing that you want frameless glasses or nerdy plastic retro glasses definitely helps making shopping online easier because some online shops can offer 500+ different varieties of just one style of eyewear. If you’re not quite sure what you want, you might want to browse a real eyeglasses store for a bit to narrow down your desires.
Ordering Up, Playing the Waiting Game
Once you find something you like and it’s about the right size, it’s time to order. Plug in your prescription details (if you can’t make them all out, most sites have helpful tips on deciphering a prescription) and pick out your options. The one option that will turn a $20 pair of glasses into an $80 pair is the lens choice. Be careful when picking out a lens because there are plenty of add-ons you might or might not want. Generally I pay for the highest level of non-glare coatings and I usually pick the middle of the thin-lens options (my personal prescription rules out the thinnest, lightest lenses). Most of my online glasses have run about $50 or so.
Shipment and fulfillment is generally pretty good. I ordered five pairs of glasses total, from four different retailers and started receiving pairs about a week later. The longest one was maybe three weeks, which is about normal for most optometrists, so in general ordering online was faster than higher cost traditional options.
The Verdict?
Cop glasses, with finger moustache I used to wear the same glasses for 3-4 years between changes so I’m finding it incredibly liberating to pick from five different sets of glasses each morning. I have a couple fashionable pairs for going out, a couple understated ones for working and I can even take a chance with a wacky retro frame if I’m in the mood. All told, my glasses cost me from a low of $26 to a high of $84 per pair, mostly depending on the options I picked for lenses. If I had to come up with any criticisms, the only (very) minor issue I had was one pair’s lenses (with identical prescriptions on both sides) were cut slightly different, so that when the light hits them, you can see a bit more of border on one lens over the other (like I said, it’s minor). I purchased frames from four different companies mentioned on the GlassyEyes site and every pair showed up intact and the prescriptions all seemed identical.
I’ve had such good success with it that I recently ordered some higher priced specialized sports glasses online, saving about 35% over what an optometrist office would charge. Overall, I couldn’t be happier with the process of buying glasses online. I’m happy to have several backup pairs and different styles to fit my mood. About the only drawback is that there is almost too much selection online. Picking out each frame took me about an hour, after wading through 150-200 results and checking measurements on the ones that caught my eye.
I encourage anyone looking to save some money and get a bigger selection to search online. Glasses are no longer a scarce resource costing many hundreds of dollars, they can be as simple as buying a DVD or book online, and cost about the same.
Some of the comments mention good results with
my current glasses
160 50 19
temple length 160
eye size 50
bridge size 19
Pupillary Distance 65mm (I think, measured myself)
These people are amazing. If you are near New York City on June 1st, you should go see them. You won’t be sorry!
Here’s the email I got from them tonight
“A delicate blend of untamed nature dialoguing with new technologies, Lulacruza is a cornerstone in the musical DNA of Latinamerica.”
– Revista 23, Argentina
We’ll be playing in NYC at the beginning of June with an amazing video artist; and our incredible friend Dygn will be opening for us. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Lulacruza with live visuals in an intimate venue (please make reservations!) And forward this information to anyone in NYC who might be interested. Thanks!
Sunday June 1st, 8 pm
@ Monkey Town
Lulacruza
+ dygn
visuals by Lady Firefly58 N 3rd Street (between Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Reservations: 718-384-1369 or go to www.monkeytownhq.com
$8 (they also serve delicious food)*************
NEWS:::
Watch our new live mini-video/documentary: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RMRvefhAN_4
While in NYC, we will also be mixing our new album Soloina and getting ready for our South American tour in the Summer!We hope the Spring is bringing you all a lot of beauty, understanding and expansion.
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“Seldom does a sound emerge so ripe and innovative. Lulacruza’s Luis Maurette and Alejandra Ortiz weave haunting female vocals with South American instruments and electronically manipulated field recordings.”
Visavis.com“The universe of this duo spins around four elements: wind, earth, fire and especially water, creating primitive and vibrant songs. Like a nymph from the Andes Mountains, Alejandra hypnotizes you with a voice and lyrics that pay homage to Pacha Mama, mother earth to the Incas. Luis is in charge of creating the décor; an electronically processed primitive forest.”
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