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Was there a build-up of static in the room??! ;)
~Steve~
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St. wrote:
> Was there a build-up of static in the room??! ;)
Well, it *has* been quite windy here recently...
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Oh, so that's who bought your calendar then ;-)
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:59:25 +0000, Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] dev null>
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Is that you? If so you weren't lurking in the Jack Horner, Saturday.
How did your party go?
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scott wrote:
> Oh, so that's who bought your calendar then ;-)
:-P I say to you sir. :-P
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Stephen wrote:
> Is that you?
Er, yes.
> If so you weren't lurking in the Jack Horner, Saturday.
No.
> How did your party go?
It was fun. I failed to meet anybody interesting, but it was enjoyable
none the less.
Unfortunately, I now have a cold. This is not fun or interesting...
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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
> > Is that you?
> Er, yes.
You get extra nerd points for the glasses with a stronger magnification
than an average magnifying glass. ;)
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Warp wrote:
> You get extra nerd points for the glasses with a stronger magnification
> than an average magnifying glass. ;)
...would you believe me if I told you that when I take them off, I'm
virtually blind?
I used to have big goldfish bowl glasses. These ones are smaller. (Which
means the look nicer, and I have a narrower field of peripheral vision...)
I did try contract lenses, but I just can't get used to purposely poking
myself in the eye...
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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Warp wrote:
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>> You get extra nerd points for the glasses with a stronger magnification
>> than an average magnifying glass. ;)
>
> ...would you believe me if I told you that when I take them off, I'm
> virtually blind?
I believe you, I'm the same. It's not nice. :o/
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:15:12 +0000, Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull>
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>Stephen wrote:
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>> Is that you?
>
>Er, yes.
>
So where is your second head? You look too normal for a geek :)
>> If so you weren't lurking in the Jack Horner, Saturday.
>
>No.
Good, because I was keeping a lookout in case you were :)
>> How did your party go?
>
>It was fun. I failed to meet anybody interesting, but it was enjoyable
>none the less.
Good!
>Unfortunately, I now have a cold. This is not fun or interesting...
But common
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St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:47e8f0bf$1@news.povray.org...
> > Warp wrote:
> >
> >> You get extra nerd points for the glasses with a stronger magnification
> >> than an average magnifying glass. ;)
> >
> > ...would you believe me if I told you that when I take them off, I'm
> > virtually blind?
> I believe you, I'm the same. It's not nice. :o/
Ever considered LASIK?
It's expensive and not 100% risk-free (no surgery is), but the risks are
rather small and the results rather effective.
I had glasses, and then LASIK. I haven't regretted it in the slightest.
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On 25 Mar 2008 08:26:23 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
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>> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>> news:47e8f0bf$1@news.povray.org...
>> > Warp wrote:
>> >
>> >> You get extra nerd points for the glasses with a stronger magnification
>> >> than an average magnifying glass. ;)
>> >
>> > ...would you believe me if I told you that when I take them off, I'm
>> > virtually blind?
>
>> I believe you, I'm the same. It's not nice. :o/
>
> Ever considered LASIK?
>
> It's expensive and not 100% risk-free (no surgery is), but the risks are
>rather small and the results rather effective.
>
> I had glasses, and then LASIK. I haven't regretted it in the slightest.
I did about seven or eight years ago, I went to a pilot study that
Moorefield's Eye hospital was running. I decided against it because I
did not want to lose my short distance vision. I've reached that age
where I'm getting more longsighted and would need reading glasses for
close up work. It might not be the best thing for a jeweller IMHO
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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>
Is that a fibre optic lamp I see behind you ... or possibly a lady with
ash blond hair in a similar style to yours
John
PS Nothing wrong with the hairstyle IMO
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world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
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Doctor John wrote:
> Is that a fibre optic lamp I see behind you ... or possibly a lady with
> ash blond hair in a similar style to yours
Er, yeah, RIGHT. As if there would be a lady in my bedroom! :-P
I have a fibre optic lamp, a lava lamp, two plasma balls and a lightning
plate. Much to my irritation, I've lost the power transformer for one of
'em...
> PS Nothing wrong with the hairstyle IMO
Hey, don't look at me. Wasn't my idea...
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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> I have a fibre optic lamp, a lava lamp, two plasma balls and a lightning
> plate. Much to my irritation, I've lost the power transformer for one of
> 'em...
>
I've probably got one that would work. I've got a collection of bits a
pieces that I can never bring myself to throw out (just in case). Any
idea of required output and connector?
John
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world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
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> Hey, don't look at me. Wasn't my idea...
>
We kind of can't avoid that, since you posted a photo...
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:01:52 +0200, Eero Ahonen
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>Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>>
>> Hey, don't look at me. Wasn't my idea...
>>
>
>We kind of can't avoid that, since you posted a photo...
Good point, Eero :)
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St. wrote:
> Was there a build-up of static in the room??! ;)
It goes with the posters, for sure.
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"It's the Age of Channelwood."
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:38:10 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>Unfortunately, I now have a cold. This is not fun or interesting...
> But common
Ah, so *that's* why it's called "the common cold"? ;-)
Jim
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:05:05 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
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>St. wrote:
>> Was there a build-up of static in the room??! ;)
>
>It goes with the posters, for sure.
I was wondering who would start on that :)
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On 25 Mar 2008 14:15:13 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom>
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>On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:38:10 +0000, Stephen wrote:
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>>>Unfortunately, I now have a cold. This is not fun or interesting...
>> But common
>
>Ah, so *that's* why it's called "the common cold"? ;-)
>
>Jim
Yesss or were you thinking about the "class system"? :0
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:03:12 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> On 25 Mar 2008 14:15:13 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:38:10 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>>>Unfortunately, I now have a cold. This is not fun or interesting...
>>> But common
>>
>>Ah, so *that's* why it's called "the common cold"? ;-)
>>
>>Jim
>
> Yesss or were you thinking about the "class system"? :0
Well, I can admit that I've never had a royal cold....
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On 25 Mar 2008 17:00:08 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom>
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>>>> But common
>>>
>>>Ah, so *that's* why it's called "the common cold"? ;-)
>>>
>>>Jim
>>
>> Yesss or were you thinking about the "class system"? :0
>
>Well, I can admit that I've never had a royal cold....
I thought that you might think that I thought Andrew was common. :)
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:16:27 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> On 25 Mar 2008 17:00:08 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
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>>>>> But common
>>>>
>>>>Ah, so *that's* why it's called "the common cold"? ;-)
>>>>
>>>>Jim
>>>
>>> Yesss or were you thinking about the "class system"? :0
>>
>>Well, I can admit that I've never had a royal cold....
>
> I thought that you might think that I thought Andrew was common. :)
LOL
Jim
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nice to make your acquaintance, porcupine dude. :)
What the hell, I've bought a digicam myself these days...
this from a lowres video, playing with my daughter on TV... :P
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St. wrote:
> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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>> Warp wrote:
>>
>>> You get extra nerd points for the glasses with a stronger magnification
>>> than an average magnifying glass. ;)
>> ...would you believe me if I told you that when I take them off, I'm
>> virtually blind?
>
>
> I believe you, I'm the same. It's not nice. :o/
>
> ~Steve~
>
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*.
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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
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>> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>> news:47e8f0bf$1@news.povray.org...
>> > Warp wrote:
>> >
>> >> You get extra nerd points for the glasses with a stronger
>> >> magnification
>> >> than an average magnifying glass. ;)
>> >
>> > ...would you believe me if I told you that when I take them off, I'm
>> > virtually blind?
>
>> I believe you, I'm the same. It's not nice. :o/
>
> Ever considered LASIK?
>
> It's expensive and not 100% risk-free (no surgery is), but the risks are
> rather small and the results rather effective.
>
> I had glasses, and then LASIK. I haven't regretted it in the slightest.
I have actually. Isn't this the one where a laser cuts a line in 360
segments around the pupil developed by the great Russian scientists in the
early '90's? I considered it because a good friend of mine had that same
laser treatment and he swears that it's fantastic. In fact, he doesn't wear
glasses anymore and says that his eyesight is "brilliant". The thing is, I
don't think he had the same treatment as yourself, (I'll ask him tomorrow if
poss.), but sometimes when I glance at any of his eyes (as you do when
talking), I sometimes see a small circular 'disc' where the pupils are. I'm
wondering if it's all the same thing?
But no, I don't think I want to smell my eyeballs burning right now.
Maybe in the future when I think I won't move my eyes in any direction in
that 60 second time limit. I have a LOT of patience, but I don't think I can
handle that.
~Steve~
>
> --
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"Sherry Shaw" <ten### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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> 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/
The eye is such a magnificent (and of course a significant) part of
our anatomy, that I wonder why it breaks down at all. 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... ;)
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> --Sherry Shaw
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St. wrote:
> The eye is such a magnificent (and of course a significant) part of
> our anatomy, that I wonder why it breaks down at all. 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
Apparently you can "see" with your tongue...
Some dude tried hooking up a grid of electrodes to a person's tongue,
and after an hour or two they were able to navigate around a normal
office block without using their eyes.
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Orchid XP v7 escribió:
> Some dude tried hooking up a grid of electrodes to a person's tongue,
> and after an hour or two they were able to navigate around a normal
> office block without using their eyes.
>
What were the electrodes connected to? A low res webcam?
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>> Some dude tried hooking up a grid of electrodes to a person's tongue,
>> and after an hour or two they were able to navigate around a normal
>> office block without using their eyes.
>
> What were the electrodes connected to? A low res webcam?
Indeed, yes.
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Orchid XP v7 escribió:
>>> Some dude tried hooking up a grid of electrodes to a person's tongue,
>>> and after an hour or two they were able to navigate around a normal
>>> office block without using their eyes.
>>
>> What were the electrodes connected to? A low res webcam?
>
> Indeed, yes.
Then yup, heard of it.
I also saw a little vibrating device you put on your finger... Connected
to a microphone and an amplifier... It's impressive how much deaf people
"hear" with that thing. Not to the point of hearing loud noises. To the
point of recognizing different music.
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St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> But no, I don't think I want to smell my eyeballs burning right now.
> Maybe in the future when I think I won't move my eyes in any direction in
> that 60 second time limit. I have a LOT of patience, but I don't think I can
> handle that.
It's impossible for a human to keep his eyes completely still for more
than a second or so. That's not a problem though. They use accurate eye
tracking systems when they are lasering you. The laser accurately follows
your eye even if it moves, and if it moves out of range, it immediately
stops.
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Warp wrote:
> It's impossible for a human to keep his eyes completely still for more
> than a second or so. That's not a problem though. They use accurate eye
> tracking systems when they are lasering you. The laser accurately follows
> your eye even if it moves, and if it moves out of range, it immediately
> stops.
Interesting. I thought they used drugs to paralyse your eye muscles so
you *can't* move 'em...?
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...
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:57:45 +0000, Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull>
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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...
That would not appeal to anyone so they don't do that.
They do something different.
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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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...
The eyeballs are not cut open (only the surface of the cornea is
removed), you don't see the laser, and I don't understand what you mean
by "sawing it back together". The surface of the cornea is simply put
back. It attaches itself without the need of any special procedure.
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Warp escribió:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> 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...
>
> The eyeballs are not cut open (only the surface of the cornea is
> removed), you don't see the laser, and I don't understand what you mean
> by "sawing it back together". The surface of the cornea is simply put
> back. It attaches itself without the need of any special procedure.
I saw the whole operation on TV a few days ago. Quite impressive.
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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> 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"...
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Orchid XP v7 escribió:
> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
> Obviously I meant "sew" not "saw"...
Well there is no way you can *sew* an eye...
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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] devnull> 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:
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>
>>> 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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