On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:58:17 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

When it gets to the point where I absolutely need eye glasses, I want
something like these:

http://www.instablogsimages.com/imag...s_uBYnd_54.jpg

Yes. Those are cool. Wonder if they can put a prism in them.
--
John H

"If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free!"
--Anonymous

U-joint Buster wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:58:17 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

When it gets to the point where I absolutely need eye glasses, I want
something like these:

http://www.instablogsimages.com/imag...s_uBYnd_54.jpg

Yes. Those are cool. Wonder if they can put a prism in them.
--
John H

"If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free!"
--Anonymous

Remember in the late 70's and early 80's when ladies wore those giant
eyeglasses? Forward to 2009, my wife gets all of these old 8 and super
8mm movies from her mom and dad's attic and has them made into a very
cool dvd. Anyway, one of her first comments was something about how
silly those things look now! BTW, if you ever want to do that, go to
your local Wolf or Ritz Camera. They did a fantastic job.

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:34:42 -0700, Calif Bill wrote:


David McCallum was Illya and the show was Man from U.N.C.L.E. Great
show.

I'm not sure it holds up. I liked the show when it was originally on,
but I saw an episode several years ago. I can only say, it sucked.


Was great in its time. But may be aged now. So?

On Aug 26, 12:31*pm, U-joint Buster wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:58:17 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

When it gets to the point where I absolutely need eye glasses, I want
something like these:

http://www.instablogsimages.com/imag...punk-five-lens...

Yes. Those are cool. Wonder if they can put a prism in them.
--
John H

"If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free!"
--Anonymous

I figured they were already built in.

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Calif Bill wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:15:34 -0700 (PDT), Katie Ohara
wrote:


I did not see that one. However, the recent movie about Atlantis (a
cartoon) with the submarine was an excellent example. Wild Wild West
was another (the crazed Confederate General was good). The Golden
Compass was another.
Here is a compendium of Steampunk art:
http://photobucket.com/images/steampunk/?page=10
Not being an artsy person (ok, I'm aesthetically challenged) I just
dont "get" most art genres but Steampunk I do, along with Romantic
Realism and whatever genre Maxfield Parrish was in.
Thanks for reminding me of Wild Wild West. I knew this steampunk
wasn't new. WWW was one of my favorites. Think WWW and that spy
thing with Robert Vaughn and Ilya Kuryakin ran back to back in the mid
sixties.

--Vic

David McCallum was Illya and the show was Man from U.N.C.L.E. Great show.
And the original WWW was much better than the remake movie.


Man, when I was a kid I lived for UNCLE. Trouble is, we lived in a
valley that pointed toward Syracuse NY, so we couldn't get the closer
Rochester stations. Our TV consisted of very snowy black and white. I
remember my uncle would watch the evening news every night, and some
nights you could barely make out a silhouette (damn I love spell check)
of a person!

Never really went for UNCLE.. but back then I was just outside of
Hartford and we got the three main networks, pretty good...

--
Wafa free since 2009

JustWait wrote:
In article ,
says...
Calif Bill wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:15:34 -0700 (PDT), Katie Ohara
wrote:


I did not see that one. However, the recent movie about Atlantis (a
cartoon) with the submarine was an excellent example. Wild Wild West
was another (the crazed Confederate General was good). The Golden
Compass was another.
Here is a compendium of Steampunk art:
http://photobucket.com/images/steampunk/?page=10
Not being an artsy person (ok, I'm aesthetically challenged) I just
dont "get" most art genres but Steampunk I do, along with Romantic
Realism and whatever genre Maxfield Parrish was in.
Thanks for reminding me of Wild Wild West. I knew this steampunk
wasn't new. WWW was one of my favorites. Think WWW and that spy
thing with Robert Vaughn and Ilya Kuryakin ran back to back in the mid
sixties.

--Vic
David McCallum was Illya and the show was Man from U.N.C.L.E. Great show.
And the original WWW was much better than the remake movie.


Man, when I was a kid I lived for UNCLE. Trouble is, we lived in a
valley that pointed toward Syracuse NY, so we couldn't get the closer
Rochester stations. Our TV consisted of very snowy black and white. I
remember my uncle would watch the evening news every night, and some
nights you could barely make out a silhouette (damn I love spell check)
of a person!

Never really went for UNCLE.. but back then I was just outside of
Hartford and we got the three main networks, pretty good...

Me and a couple of friends had hiding places all over my uncle's barn
where we'd play UNCLE. But mostly, I ran around in the woods, and fished
for trout.

Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:44 pm, Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:21 pm, Guzzistimo wrote:

What the *hell* is 'steampunk'. I couldn't find that kind of music on
youtube.
--
John H
"If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free!"
--Anonymous
Steampunk is not a music genre but is an aesthetic genre that posits
that 1890s type technology based on steam continued and that the
styles of decorative machinery such as elaborate wrought iron legs on
machinery and gleaming oversized brass knobs and dials were still
used. It is the mad scientist/lone inventor mythology applied to
modern implements.
This guy does it very well:http://steampunkworkshop.com/
In Steampunk, one never calls an object by a common name but by a name
that the supposed crazed inventor calls it, thus a radio would be an
"Aetheric Wave Modulator" or similar. Steampunk crazies always wear
cobalt blue goggles to protect their eyes from the radiation their
devices produce.
Clearly the result of reading too much Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.

I take my company to a trade show for electron microscope accessories
once a year and I told my guys that I wanted to "steampunk" one of our
old electron microscopes to take to a show and we could all go looking
the part. They were all baffled and basically vetoed it by looking at
me like I was nuts. I wanted to call the electron microscope an
"Electrical Corpuscle Magnascope" and the x-ray spectrometers would be
"Elemental Roentgen Ray Divisors". They just didn't see the fun in it.

You are talking my wife's language, Scanning Electron Microscopes, Dual
Burner Gas Chromatographs, Porsity Meters. She's not really Steampunk
but she has a closet full of early 80's clothes.

On Aug 27, 5:04*pm, BAR wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:44 pm, Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:21 pm, Guzzistimo wrote:

What the *hell* is 'steampunk'. I couldn't find that kind of music on
youtube.
--
John H
"If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free!"
--Anonymous
Steampunk is not a music genre but is an aesthetic genre that posits
that 1890s type technology based on steam continued and that the
styles of decorative machinery such as elaborate wrought iron legs on
machinery and gleaming oversized brass knobs and dials were still
used. *It is the mad scientist/lone inventor mythology applied to
modern implements.
This guy does it very well:http://steampunkworkshop.com/
In Steampunk, one never calls an object by a common name but by a name
that the supposed crazed inventor calls it, thus a radio would be an
"Aetheric Wave Modulator" or similar. *Steampunk crazies always wear
cobalt blue goggles to protect their eyes from the radiation their
devices produce.
Clearly the result of reading too much Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.

I take my company to a trade show for electron microscope accessories
once a year and I told my guys that I wanted to "steampunk" one of our
old electron microscopes to take to a show and we could all go looking
the part. *They were all baffled and basically vetoed it by looking at
me like I was nuts. *I wanted to call the electron microscope an
"Electrical Corpuscle Magnascope" and the x-ray spectrometers would be
"Elemental Roentgen Ray Divisors". *They just didn't see the fun in it.

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:21:57 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Aug 27, 5:04*pm, BAR wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:44 pm, Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:21 pm, Guzzistimo wrote:

What the *hell* is 'steampunk'. I couldn't find that kind of music on
youtube.
--
John H
"If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free!"
--Anonymous
Steampunk is not a music genre but is an aesthetic genre that posits
that 1890s type technology based on steam continued and that the
styles of decorative machinery such as elaborate wrought iron legs on
machinery and gleaming oversized brass knobs and dials were still
used. *It is the mad scientist/lone inventor mythology applied to
modern implements.
This guy does it very well:http://steampunkworkshop.com/
In Steampunk, one never calls an object by a common name but by a name
that the supposed crazed inventor calls it, thus a radio would be an
"Aetheric Wave Modulator" or similar. *Steampunk crazies always wear
cobalt blue goggles to protect their eyes from the radiation their
devices produce.
Clearly the result of reading too much Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.

I take my company to a trade show for electron microscope accessories
once a year and I told my guys that I wanted to "steampunk" one of our
old electron microscopes to take to a show and we could all go looking
the part. *They were all baffled and basically vetoed it by looking at
me like I was nuts. *I wanted to call the electron microscope an
"Electrical Corpuscle Magnascope" and the x-ray spectrometers would be
"Elemental Roentgen Ray Divisors". *They just didn't see the fun in it.

You are talking my wife's language, Scanning Electron Microscopes, Dual
Burner Gas Chromatographs, Porsity Meters. She's not really Steampunk
but she has a closet full of early 80's clothes.

Taht new?

i still have a couple of J.C. Penney leisure suits around somewhere...

(Here's a cheap shot.)

Do they fit?
--
John H

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson

Tim wrote:
On Aug 27, 5:04 pm, BAR wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:44 pm, Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:21 pm, Guzzistimo wrote:
What the *hell* is 'steampunk'. I couldn't find that kind of music on
youtube.
--
John H
"If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free!"
--Anonymous
Steampunk is not a music genre but is an aesthetic genre that posits
that 1890s type technology based on steam continued and that the
styles of decorative machinery such as elaborate wrought iron legs on
machinery and gleaming oversized brass knobs and dials were still
used. It is the mad scientist/lone inventor mythology applied to
modern implements.
This guy does it very well:http://steampunkworkshop.com/
In Steampunk, one never calls an object by a common name but by a name
that the supposed crazed inventor calls it, thus a radio would be an
"Aetheric Wave Modulator" or similar. Steampunk crazies always wear
cobalt blue goggles to protect their eyes from the radiation their
devices produce.
Clearly the result of reading too much Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.
I take my company to a trade show for electron microscope accessories
once a year and I told my guys that I wanted to "steampunk" one of our
old electron microscopes to take to a show and we could all go looking
the part. They were all baffled and basically vetoed it by looking at
me like I was nuts. I wanted to call the electron microscope an
"Electrical Corpuscle Magnascope" and the x-ray spectrometers would be
"Elemental Roentgen Ray Divisors". They just didn't see the fun in it.
You are talking my wife's language, Scanning Electron Microscopes, Dual
Burner Gas Chromatographs, Porsity Meters. She's not really Steampunk
but she has a closet full of early 80's clothes.

Taht new?

i still have a couple of J.C. Penney leisure suits around somewhere...

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