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Saturday, October 9, 2004
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 Saturday, October 9, 2004
started 10/9/2004; 1:07:50 PM - last post 10/14/2004; 2:00:48 PM
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Doc Searls - Saturday, October 9, 2004 
10/9/2004; 5:07:50 PM (reads: 6064, responses: 3)
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Out sight 
| | Idea: make cheap binoculars white instead of black. The black color of most binocs heat up to temperatures that loosen the optics inside, when they get left in the sun or cooking under the rear windshields of parked cars. White would make overheating less likely to happen, don'cha think? |
De Bait
| | I thought Bush won on style last night. He was passionate, confident, even commanding. Maybe even presidential. He was far better with the facts than most of us (partisans included) expected him to be. |
| | I thought Kerry won on substance. By that I mean, that he was somewhat better on the facts than Bush. |
| | I thought both were pretty much right about each other. Bush correctly labeled Kerry a Liberal (which Kerry is, inarguably). Kerry nailed Bush on a whole raft of issues as well. |
| | Yet neither was able to knock the other off his horse. |
| | As for telegenics, Bush I've always thought looked like Johnny Carson's missing brother. In other words, not a bad-looking guy, on TV. Kerry looked like he was wearing bleach (on my TV anyway). He looked less like an animated tree, but no less strange, all the same. |
| | Funny, but Kerry looks best when he's smiling. His wood-grain face pulls back to reveal a set of tombstone teeth and a charming, if slightly goofy, grin. Much easier to like. He should smile more often. |
| | Still, the edge went to Bush in the looks department, which is the big tie-breaker on TV. n spite of everything Andrew Sullivan says (and with most of which I agree), I wouldn't be surprised to see the bounce go his way after this one. |
| | Which would be a shame, because I believe the Bush administration is a creepy instantiation of neocon and religious ideologies wearing the mask of Reagan. In practice (spending, eagerness for war) it barely overlaps with either Republican or Conservative traditions. On that matter, I'm in agreement with Pat Buchanan in Where the Right Went Wrong. |
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C.K. - Re: Saturday, October 9, 2004
10/10/2004; 1:22:33 PM (reads: 513, responses: 0)
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I don't think the white binoculars will work. The same reason that they wouldn't get as hot (because white reflects light instead of absorbing it) would interfere with seeing through them in sunny situations.
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Dan Lyke - Re: Saturday, October 9, 2004
10/12/2004; 2:41:57 PM (reads: 587, responses: 1)
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Canon's larger high end SLR lenses have white bodies, ostensibly for this reason (although, let's face it, you also look cooler if you're carrying around a big SLR lens that doesn't look like anyone elses).
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Doc Searls - Re: Saturday, October 9, 2004
10/14/2004; 6:00:48 PM (reads: 569, responses: 0)
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That makes sense. I've noticed that about Canon.
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