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St. wrote:
> I have actually. Isn't this the one where a laser cuts a line in 360
> segments around the pupil
That's possibly radial keritography or some such spelling. The LASIK I
had, they slice the front of your eye off, peel the flap back, burn away
bits of the cornea underneath, and put the flap back down.
Yes, it was potentially the most uncomfortable 90 seconds of my life.
Yes, you smell your eyeballs burning.
Yes, it's not unlike when the dentist is drilling, except it's your eyes.
Yes, it's probably the best thing I've done medically speaking.
My primary advice is two-fold:
1) It's your eyes. Don't go to the cheapest place. Go to the place where
the doctor has actually invented improvements to the process.
2) Take all the vallium they'll give you. :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:10:48 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
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>> Whatever, the idea of laying on a table while someone cuts open my
>> eyeball, shines a laser into it, and then *saws* it back together
>> doesn't appeal, somehow...
>
> NAAAAAAAARGH!!! >_<
>
> God damn it, one friggin' character out, and the entire sentence becomes
> gibberish.
>
> Obviously I meant "sew" not "saw"...
Much more fun with "saw", since it's just about exactly the opposite
meaning. ;-)
Jim
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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Obviously I meant "sew" not "saw"...
And they do no such thing.
--
- Warp
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And lo on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:44:24 -0000, St. <dot### [at] dotcom> did spake,
saying:
>
> "Sherry Shaw" <ten### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
> news:47ea4ba0@news.povray.org...
>> St. wrote:
>
>
>>> I believe you, I'm the same. It's not nice. :o/
>
>> Yeah, me too.
>>
>> Actually, if I want magnification (at least at short distances, say
>> roughly at the end of my nose), I take my glasses *off*.
>
> Yes, same here. Everything looks SO sharp close-up when I take my
> glasses off. Long distance though, well, without my glasses, I wouldn't
> have a driving license that's for sure. :o/
Without my glasses things come into sharp focus at about 10cm I'd have
made a fortune as a Babylonian seal maker :-)
> The eye is such a magnificent (and of course a significant) part of
> our anatomy, that I wonder why it breaks down at all.
Oh yeah magnificent - jiggling around all the time because all the sensors
are plugged in back-to front and the wires have to go somewhere, high
processing overhead to deal with the filtering effects caused by said
wiring, susceptible to fractional errors leading to out of focus images,
laughably poor night-vision and a pathetically small visible range of the
EM spectrum. If someone built a camera like that you'd ask for your money
back.
> Are we to be blind one day because we no longer need them? (Some deep
> sea fish have lived like this for ages now). Or, will our eyesight get
> better as time travels on? *X-Ray Vision* :oO
>
> Heh... ;)
I recall a short story by Asimov/Dick/Anthony which included a forced
acceleration of human evolution, blind, toothless, hairless and nailless.
Our fingers grew larger and both more dextrous and sensitive and we could
still see/sense our surroundings (it doesn't go into details but suggests
some form of ESP, but it could easily have been the equivalent of sonar).
So that's something to look forward to :-)
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Stephen wrote:
> So where is your second head? You look too normal for a geek :)
Er... thank you?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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You know, I think this hairstyle makes me look ridiculous, but almost
everybody I've shown this photograph to really likes it. Hmm...
There's an old saying. "If your mum likes the music you bought, you've
bought bad music." Well, my mum *really* likes this hairstyle. Surely
that's a clear indicator that I should never, ever wear it again?
Anyway, I am *hoping* to arrange another social trip this Friday.
[Nobody seems to have noticed, but in the past month I've spent a *hell*
of a lot of time outside, and in pubs, talking animatedly to other
humans.] I am hoping that a certain young lady who I quite like will be
there.
My friend [the same one who pimped me out in this photo] insists that I
should recreate this look.
What say you, POV-Ray?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Am Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:54:38 +0100 schrieb Invisible:
> My friend [the same one who pimped me out in this photo] insists that I
> should recreate this look.
>
> What say you, POV-Ray?
Listen to yourself, this hairstyle looks plain stupid. It's just not you,
I'd say.
A long time ago you posted a picture of your Nerv clan with you in it,
AFAIR you looked much better then, more natural.
To conclude with a beaten phrase, you want the lad(y|ies) like you for
what you are, not what you look like.
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> My friend [the same one who pimped me out in this photo] insists that I
> should recreate this look.
Maybe it will work for picking up those 18 year olds you were out last week
with, but it looks a little, ermmm, "young" to me. I think if you were
aiming for a relationship with someone more your age then they would
appreciate something not so "radical" ;-) Just go to a decent hair shop (ie
not one that you pay a fiver for some guy to shave your head) and ask them
to cut it for you - you can't really go wrong then.
Just my 2 cents.
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scott wrote:
> Maybe it will work for picking up those 18 year olds you were out last
> week with, but it looks a little, ermmm, "young" to me.
Hmm... if only I'd tried learning to be normal back when I *was* young. :-(
I don't know, sometimes I just think to myself that old men like me
aren't really "supposed" to be out dating girls. You're supposed to do
that when you're a teenager, or at best early 20s, find the girl you
want, marry her, and spend the rest of your life together. It seems I've
left it a little late.
[Seriously. Everybody I know of seems to be getting married. All of the
girls I've ever tried to go out with are married now. My sister is
always going to her friends' weddings.]
On the other hand, I guess I could simply pretend I didn't just have
this thought, and carry on my merry way as if nothing ever happened? :-S
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:51:04 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
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>> So where is your second head? You look too normal for a geek :)
>
>Er... thank you?
You're welcome
--
Regards
Stephen
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