Potential Safety Topic - Environmental Hazard - Used Optics
Apparently, the lenses and lens coatings on optical gizmos are so delicate that when off-loading used ones onto an eager purchaser, the seller is not supposed to admit to having ever cleaned said gizmo. For example,
Noper. After some reflection on this particular subtopic, we at RGVECB have concluded that only factory fresh and sterilized optical devices will be admitted to the Cow Barn premise. Otherwise, somebody, probably Lomo, could infect the cows with pinkeye. This is, unfortunately, a decision late in coming. And we admit our mistake. We are guilty of poor planning and we hope that we have not harmed anyone by our cavalier treatment of this Potential Safety Topic, previous to this alert.
Soooooo. Watch out for these kinds of adds.
Used Nikon 10x42 bins. Never cleaned. The only stuff you might see with yer naked eye in the vicinity of the oculars are dust particles, oily residue, sweat marks, finger prints, snuff grains and hairs, maybe.
This optical device has been used only a few times and has never been cleaned as can be seen from the tiny dust specks on the lens.Whoa! How many diseases could potentially be transmitted on a dirty, used optical device. Also, wouldn't certain ah, human or proto human skin related substances accrue to the optical device. Jeez Louise!
Noper. After some reflection on this particular subtopic, we at RGVECB have concluded that only factory fresh and sterilized optical devices will be admitted to the Cow Barn premise. Otherwise, somebody, probably Lomo, could infect the cows with pinkeye. This is, unfortunately, a decision late in coming. And we admit our mistake. We are guilty of poor planning and we hope that we have not harmed anyone by our cavalier treatment of this Potential Safety Topic, previous to this alert.
Soooooo. Watch out for these kinds of adds.
Used Nikon 10x42 bins. Never cleaned. The only stuff you might see with yer naked eye in the vicinity of the oculars are dust particles, oily residue, sweat marks, finger prints, snuff grains and hairs, maybe.
posted by ray pistrum at Thursday, November 17, 2005
2 Comments:
Coincidentally, Karen said the same thing. Only she said "write one like the Lord of the Rings." But that's almost what this is now, except we pull too many punches. You may be right. Perhaps a fictionalized account of the same thing. No punches pulled. Let's sleep on it.
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Would you rather neutralize its power, or grind bones to make bread?
Hmmmm. You have hit the nub of the gist. There are some spunky ones who are also pretty smart, 5-6 maybe. I may be too close to the action to fictionalize that. But you could. Anyway I need to do something else literary first. "Adventures with a Texas Naturalist II". I've got promises to keep.
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In addition to the L of the K there are numerous critical essay treating on the L of the K. Now it turns out that Tolkien was a practicing Christian of sorts. He was a member of the Chuch of England, if I recall correctly. Anyway, a bunch of these critiques presumed that Aragorn, or maybe Gandalf, represented Jesus in those books. I always thought that was a long reach and I also thought that Tolkien was probably a pagan in his guts, and also that he had managed to scrounge up some Druid training from somewhere.
What I think he was trying to do was provide a story unifying a mythology for all the Brits; hence all the goofy mixing of Nordic and Cymric themes. Course given historical fact and conflicting extant mythologies, that's a hard row to hoe.
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