Digital Arts Service Corps - money

Cheap Glasses

Rebecca White — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:16:09 +0000

For those of you who wear glasses: this spring I got two pairs of prescription eyeglasses (including the lenses) for $8 and $12 from zennioptical.com. My old glasses have broken several times and while I've been able to repair them with superglue so far, I know they won't last forever. The glasses from Zenni Optical aren't the nicest glasses you'll ever buy, but they're great as backup glasses, prescription sunglasses (+$4.95 for the tint), or "my bank account has $50" glasses.

To buy prescription glasses online, you need to have your prescription (duh) including your "pupillary distance." You can get your prescription from your eye doctor who you got your last pair of glasses from, but you'll probably have to specifically ask for them to include the pupillary distance; as far as I know they avoid giving it out because it allows you to go elsewhere for prescriptions (but it's part of your prescription, and yours to know). At Zenni Optical, they don't require a copy of the prescription, you just enter it in yourself.

I have a few pictures of my new glasses tagged "glasses" in my flickr account.

Public Access Blues

Richard T. Anderson — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:44:41 +0000

Well there was a lot of deliberation about me going to a conference around here. But finally it was decided that I would be going to the ACM 2007 International Conference & Trade Show.

But things have changed. And it's all thanks to that lovely bit of legistlation that SBC/AT&T pushed down Michigan's throat a few months back.

While Comcast did agree to maintain it's contract with the CMC, they also took advantage of the loop hole in under the new laws which allows them to change the payment schedule. So the francise fees (over $150,000) that the CMC usually gets in April will not be coming until August. Thus all expenitures must be cut back to the bone.

So, I will not be attending the ACM conference. Nor will anyone at the Media Center be doing so including Laurie, our director, who was scheduled to speak there.

That's the way the Public Access cookie crumbles.

I don't think I'm going to be presenting the Media Center with any new program ideas. Not unless my idea is a money maker. And charging for services would kind of defeat the point. *shrug*

It's a tough time to be in this business.

I hope everyone is doing well.

Later,

Rich

You call this poor

Will Quinones — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:33:15 +0000

I got my first check yesterday. yea it was a little dissapointing. I thought maybe i would be better off as a migrant worker lol. The work is good. i'm not sure why i only recieved $85. Anyway i lived off less. after all i wasnt working for the whole summer. hopefully the nearby shelter will supply me with dinner until the next check.

o yea my organization is fundraising and wants me to ask you guys for donations. but please send cash because i cant claim anything else on my taxes, i mean THEY cant claim anything on their taxes. so send your money to:

help feed Will foundation

357 9st

Brooklyn NY 11215

thanks for your support lol.