The Lenses

April 5, 2013

I finally received the Oxy-Iso Lenses made by O2Amp which is part of 2AI Labs. These lenses are intended to make it easier for people who draw blood for a living to see blood veins under the skin. It was actually the people who ordered and started using the glasses who realized that they offset, to some degree, the affects of red/green color blindness.

Having received the lenses I looked over some online color blindness tests. I can defiantly see more of the ’hidden’ figures. I think I’ll go by Lens Crafters and see how much it will cost me to get them mounted in frames that can be worn over my perscription glasses.

Interesting side note, the green lights on the WIFI/hub completely disappear for both me and Peggy who, to all appearances, is not color blind.

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Update to Mail Order Shopping

April 5, 2013

O2Amp, after, apparently, loosing two sets of lenses to the Poastal Service, over nighted a pair to me by FedEx. I ordered the lenses because I’m rather severely red/green color blind and, at age sixty three, could not pass up the opportunity to get some idea what the world looks like to the rest,of you.

I am now wondering around the house and yard holding the lenses uo to my eyes. I will soon be investigating what it will cost to get the lenses mounted in frames I can wear over my perscription glasses.

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SunBody Hats

April 4, 2013

Where in I age myself, again, by referring to ‘mail order’ shopping.

I’ve just ordered a new hat from SunBody Hats. Here is a picture of my new hat -

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Yes, I know, those of you who se me in “real life” are saying, “It looks just like the hat you’re already wearing.” It is, I will admit, the same style (Sam Huston) as the hat I currently wear but it is a browner color they call ‘Oak’. They achieve this color by boiling the palm fronds before turning them into hats. The hat will also look different because it will have this horse hair hat band.

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The hat band cost $1.10 more than the hat, but I can wear it with my SunBody top hat.

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Mail Order Shopping

April 3, 2013

If you read my ’The Problem With Pink’ post you will remember my interest in, what I understand to be, amazing lenses called Oxy-Iso Lenses made by O2Amp which is part of 2AI Labs. I ordered a pair of these lenses through Amazon. I received notification from the O2Amp that they had shipped the estimated delivery date was:

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The notification included a tracking number. When I clicked on the tracking number I was informed that the delivery could not be tracked. On Wednesday March 13, 2013 I emailed the O2Amp and informed them that the lenses had not been delivered they replied-

“You are correct, you should have received your item by now. The number provided however is not traceable. More than likely the postal service lost it, is you location secure for delivery? If you don’t receive it this week please let us know and we’ll send you another pair.”

On March 17, 2013 I emailed O2Amp again-

“The week ended and I still have not received the lenses. I live in a single family residence, my mail box is beside my front door and, being retired, I’m almost always home when the mail is delivered so the location is about as secure as it can be. We have never had boxes, or any kind of delivery stolen.”

I got a reply on the 18th-

“We will put another pair in the mail for you today. Hopefully they won’t be lost in the mail this time.
Thank you for your patience
Sales Team”

I did not receive a tracking number or any notification when the second pair of lenses were actually shipped so I have no way of knowing that O2Amp actually shipped second pair of lenses. I waited two weeks, still no lenses.

I emailed O2Amp a third time on April 1, 2013-

“On Tuesday it will be a month since I ordered these lenses. I still have not received them. I am still very anxious to receive this order. If I pay for it would you ship them by a method that can be tracked so we can be more confident about their arrival? This household does quite a bit of online shopping. We’ve had five or six products delivered to this address since I ordered these lenses and there has not been a problem with any of them.

Please let me know how much it will cost to send them by a more secure method, I will gladly pay for the shipping.”

On April 2, 2013, since I had not heard back from O2Amp I sent another email-

“Did you receive the email I sent yesterday? What can we do to resolve this issue? I am serious about being willing to pay for a more reliable shipping method.”

The above is, essentially, what I emailed them today with the question “Can I, at the very least, get an acknowledgment that you have received my emails?”

It is, I suppose, possible that O2Amp is such a small company that their ’Sales Team’ is one person who is also the ’Shipping Department’, and that person is out with the flu and that is why I haven’t heard back from them.

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The Second Amendment

March 4, 2013

Do individual citizens of the United States have a constitutionally guaranteed right to own guns?

The Second Amendment-
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

We need to take a closer look at ’militia’, ’the people’, and ’bear arms’. Let’s start with ’the people’. Compare the phrase “We, the people…” in the Preamble and “the right of the people…” in The Second Amendment with the phrase “No person shall…” from the Fifth Amendment. The phrase ’the people’ in the Constitution is always used to refer to a collective right or a collective action of all the people (more accurately all the voting citizens) of the United States or of a state. The word ’person’ is used in the constitution to refer to rights that apply to individual persons not to the people as a collective. From this we can clearly see that the Second Amendment guarantees a right of the people collectively, not persons individually.

Now let’s look at ’militia’. In the usage of the time ’militia’, for all intents and proposes, can be considered to be equal to ’the people’. This first part of the amendment is explaining why the people have this collective right. The founders of our country feared, perhaps above all else, the existence of standing armies. Nothing, they believed, was more dangerous to the rights and freedoms of ’the people’ than having a professional military. In their view we, as a country, could only avoid this danger by maintaining ’well regulated militias’. Defending the country, they believed, was the collective duty of ’the people’ which was accomplished through ’well regulated militias’.

Finally, let’s look at ’bear arms’. First ’arms’ are not ’guns’. Arms are military weapons. All military weapons, collectively, are arms. Then, as now, ’bearing arms’ is is a reference to serving in a military organization. If you join the army, you will be ’bearing arms’ for your country.

As we have seen, the Second Amendment guarantees the right of ’the people’, collectively, to ’bear arms’ in a ’well regulated militia’. The Second Amendment has never been about individual ’persons’ owning guns.

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The Problem With Pink

February 24, 2013

Today, Saturday February 23, 2013, I discovered that there are glasses which, people report, correct for red green colorblindness. I can understand that most of the world says ’my, how interesting’, then goes about their lives. For me this is, if true, a major event. I’ve spent close to sixty three years wondering what major parts of the world really look like.

My first significant experience with my colorblindness came when other kids asked ’why did you color the sky purple’. This would have been in kindergarten. You remember when you had those shoe boxes full of the extra think crayon pieces that had all the labels torn off. I, of course, replied ’because I want to’. At that time, and at that age, I was too embarrassed to say ’because I can’t tell the difference’ or, when it first happened, ‘what are you talking about’. Somewhere, deep inside me, there is still a five year old boy who can’t understand why he can’t tell the difference between blue and purple crayons.

That was the first manifestation of what I later, at an older more philosophical period in my life, labeled The Problem With Pink. The problem with pink is that almost every time someone tells me that something is pink it doesn’t look like the last thing that somebody told me was pink. It took awhile, but I finally realized that I was missing the essence of pinkness. I’ve read explanations of pink as mixtures of other colors and as frequencies of electromagnetic radiation but none of that helps me see the essence of pink.

I’ve been laying awake half the night wondering if I could, finally, solve The Problem With Pink. Might I, after sixty three years understand the essence of pinkness? Might the five year old inside me finally see the difference between blue and purple crayons?

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Unrestrained Growth?

February 22, 2013

For those of you who believe that President Obama is responsible for massive, unrestrained growth in the Federal Government might like to take a look at these two charts.

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The spike in government employees was caused by the census. Other than that, it looks like a steady decline in federal employees.

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What else might you be wrong about? This graph, more than anything else explains why our recovery has been so lackluster.

These and other charts available on Rachel Maddow’s blog.

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