{"id":3760,"date":"2010-10-05T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2010-10-05T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T17:30:13","slug":"new-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/10\/05\/new-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"New glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been putting off a visit to my ophthalmologist for several years. I realize that’s not a good strategy at my age, but there are other bills to pay, and this one was “ignorable.” But now it happened: I broke my glasses over the weekend and need a new pair.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So I’m going to try something new: I’ll be ordering my new glasses (after this afternoon’s eye exam) online<\/a>. I figure if people can buy shoes<\/a> online, they can buy glasses this way, too. Or suits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve already had a chance to have a twitter-based conversation with the folks at Clearly Contacts<\/a> (who, despite their name, also offer glasses – including sunglasses; they also have great tutorials for measuring what will fit, and a virtual mirror that lets you try glasses on).<\/p>\n

Incidentally, I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a shout out to British Columbia-based companies, specifically from the University of Victoria<\/a>‘s Business School: Clearly Contacts<\/a> was co-founded by UVic grad Michaela Tokarski while Indochino<\/a> was conceived by Kyle Vucko, both University of Victoria Business School<\/a> grads. …And that happens to be my son’s faculty (he’s a 3rd year BCom student), so I’m expecting great things from him, too! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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