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Two eyeglass inquiries

Dan Misener — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:16:37 +0000

I got two eyeglass-related inquiries over the past week, and thought I’d answer them here. The first comes from from a (potentially crazy) man on the street outside my house last week:

You look like Woody Allen.
Are you related to Woody Allen?
You have the same geek face.

No, (potentially crazy) man. As far as I know, I am not related to Woody Allen.

The second inquiry comes from my email inbox. It’s a note about this post about my (then) new glasses:

I saw you wearing these glasses and those are exactly what I am looking for. They look like something you could find everywhere but in fact I have found it difficult. Could you tell me where you have bought them? And are they possible to get online. If not could you recommend a website. Thanks. By the way I am from London.

Looking at the inside of my eyeglasses, I see that they are Paul Smith glasses, style PS-236 CU/SG. Further web research indicates that they are made my Oliver Peoples, and (see page 46 of their 2008 catalog), and the CU/SG stands for Cubano/Sage. I bought my pair from the fine folks at Spectacle at 752 Queen Street West. I have no idea where to get them in London.

Variety is the spice of life

Dan Misener — Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:22 +0000

This past weekend, I went from this pair of eyeglasses:

to this pair of eyeglasses:

How to keep your glasses from fogging up

Dan Misener — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:35:26 +0000

So it’s the first day of February, one of the coldest months of the year. To mark the occasion, here’s a tip for keeping your eyeglasses from fogging up when coming indoors from the cold:

Walk in backwards.

I have no idea why this works, but it does. It’s a trick I learned when I was a kid delivering newspapers in Lower Sackville. My glasses would always fog up when I entered people’s homes on cold nights to collect paper money. One night, one of my bespectacled customers suggested I try it.

People have been looking at me funny ever since.