Scotland Trip!

I am so excited! Saturday I will be leaving for Scotland to see our 200,000 sq ft lens manufacturing facility. This is where we manufacture our lenses using the Thermofusion Technology for our Polaroid sunglasses. It will definitely be interesting to get a close up look at our process and procedures. 

The plant is located in The Vale of Leven right outside of Glasgow. Being my first trip to Scotland, I plan on working hard AND playing hard (obviously). We have two full free days. One will be used to see the sights of Glasgow and one will be used to travel to Edinburgh and see the castle and the Edinburgh Arts Festival. It shall be quite the cultural immersion. We also have a distillery tour planned to tour the Glengoyne Distillery! I am a bit of a whiskey girl, so this is right up my alley!

Unfortunately, I found out that we will be missing the rugby match (Scotland vs. Italy), which is highly disappointing as I just started playing a couple of months ago… but I suppose this means that I will have to make a trip back soon!

This is an amazing opportunity and believe me, I will most certainly take full advantage of it! I will take many pictures and post them when I get back. I want everyone to be able to share in this awesome experience with me.

Thanks for tuning in, look forward to hearing from you all!

~Kate

TV Hunting

So last weekend, I had to help my mother find a new TV. I am not talking about upgrading from an older HD TV to something newer and bigger… I am talking going from an old glass-fronted monster that is big enough for the actors and actresses to be acting out the movies inside of it to a normal TV that was built in this decade. This may be shocking to some of you. I am sure that if I had not grown up with it, that I would also be sitting there with my mouth hanging open in wonderment that such TVs are still in existence.

Anyway, we make a first pass at all of the TVs just getting a feel for things. Second pass and we have narrowed it down to 4 or 5. Third pass (20 minutes later) we are finally helped by a salesperson. After showing slight indecision, we are left to our own devices… again. I finally force my decision upon my mother (that’s the way it is supposed to work, duh) I start wandering aimlessly to kill time waiting for the salesperson to disentangle himself from more promising customers. In doing so I stumble across the 3D TVs. Amazingly enough, they do not have moving pictures. They are showing static pictures in the effort to “show off” their capabilities. Hold up… wait. What?! I step back and look around in confusion… look back at the TV… and am baffled.

Given this glaring lack of inspiring visuals, I allow myself to daydream… of ESPN 3D. I think about football coming to life… getting run over by Clay Matthews or knocked out by Ryan Clark and James Harrison… catching the baseballs that look like they are coming at my face, racecars coming at me like I am going to get run over, holding the winning hand of poker cards because they are obviously right within reach… and am sold. Not on the active technology… but the passive technology that is taking off (think RealD).

Segue: the passive technology is better for long-term 3D watching if you tend to get headache-y. This is also the type of technology that Polaroid’s 3D glasses are compatible with… and given that I already have my pairs for movie-going… it is a win-win for me.

I snap out of my reverie and hunt down my mom who has made her way into the titillating kitchen appliances section. I tell her that we should take the massive leap from our dinosaur to 3D and am immediately slapped down. Undeterred, I continue to work on it… until she tells me to buy my own. Being the perfect daughter and family-oriented girl, I obviously back off and declare her a fun-hater and move on to find the salesman.

No worries though, the seed has been planted and I will have one of my own 3D TVs to go with my Polaroid 3D glasses. Feel free to grab your own pairs here… http://www.polaroid-eyewearstore.com/categories/3D/

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