Only if you never want to see again.
GasBandit
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There are some areas you don't want to go cheap on. Eye-targeting laser cannons is one of them.
That said, I got mine for a thousand bucks an eye and it's beautimous.
(or rather, my work got it for that much, since they got me Lasik on advertising trade)
As someone whose opinion I would at least somewhat trust, how's your night vision after the Lasik? I hear it tends to suffer after having your eyes seared by lasers.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Honestly my night vision wasn't great to begin with. That said, yes, there's some deterioration. For the first year after you get it, driving at night can be a bit of a challenge because the oncoming headlights cause starburst patterns. It gets better, but not back up to perfect. But I'd never trade back, not even for built in IR eyes. It's just so nice after all those years of having to keep up with glasses and wear glasses and clean glasses and replace glasses and worry about falling asleep while still wearing glasses and GET THESE GLASSES OFF OF MY FACE... to not have to worry about glasses any more, and be able to see clearly the instant I open my eyes in the morning.
The procedure itself was pretty easy, too. They gave me some valium, waited a bit for me to get niiiiiiice and mellow, then wheeled me in and said "ok we're going to cut open your corneas and shoot them with a laser so keep staring at this dot on the ceiling and try not to move your eyes" and I was all "nooooo problem, maaaaaan." And that little sponge-brush they use to keep your eyes moist and move the flap they cut feels REALLY GOOD. They make you wear goggles at night for a few weeks while your eyes heal so you don't rip them open again, but honestly if it wasn't for the valium I probably could have driven myself home from the procedure afterwards.[DOUBLEPOST=1354654829][/DOUBLEPOST]
Man... I don't remember. Maybe if I found some of my old glasses at home, I could tell. But I can tell you, before, without glasses, I could see about a foot and a half clearly. I was approximately 20/400.
Which brings back another slight-but-acceptable drawback - A quirk many very-nearsighted people have, I used to be able to scrutinize tiny things simply by holding them an inch or two away from my eye, and see the tiny details in crisp clarity. I could practically read the writing on microfiche that way. That doesn't work any more after lasik. In fact, if anything is closer than 6 inches or so to my face, I can't focus on it and it hurts a little to try.
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I went in for Lasik. I went to the consultation and was approved. I came back for the actual procedure, took the valium and was waiting my turn. Then the doctor calls me aside and tells me that he just got back from a conference, and they were no longer recommending lasik for people with thin corneas, which apparently I had.
At least I got the valium.
At least I got the valium.
I've yet to go in for a consultation but I have a feeling that the way my pupils dilate in the darkness will make me a candiate for extreme starbursts and halos in my nightvision.
I should not read this stuff about Lasik while I'm eating breakfast. Ugh.
Which procedure would be best for people with a slight astigmatism? I do require glasses for perfect vision, but I can do mostly well without them. Only needing them to read subtitles on undersized tvs and road signs at night. This is annoying because unlike a lot of my glasses wearing friends, unless my glasses are meticulously spotless, they downgrade my vision.
According to the Internet, that would be excimer laser. I also have slight astigmatism, so I found this research enlightening.
--Patrick
I'd like to meet the guy who set up the brakes on my car and beat him to death with his own spanner. I cannot think of a time, under any circumstances, when it would be good to have your brakes stop working if you hit a slick surface. Keep them from locking up? Sure. That sounds great. But to have the brake pedal go all the way to the floor as soon as one (or more) of your tires hits a slick surface, and then have to pump the brakes 10 or so times before they'll work for anything more than a quick tap? No, fuck that.
I was gently braking (to briefly slow down) as I crossed an expansion joint in the rain, and the pedal went to the floor, causing me to need to pump the brakes before I could use them properly again. Would have been fine if I'd been coming to a complete stop, but I wasn't; so instead I had to leave like 10 car lengths between me and the car in front of me and use the transmission (thank god I drive a manual) for 4 miles until traffic finally came to a halt on the freeway. Who thought this was a good idea?
Edit: Stupid multiple threads open at the same time...
I was gently braking (to briefly slow down) as I crossed an expansion joint in the rain, and the pedal went to the floor, causing me to need to pump the brakes before I could use them properly again. Would have been fine if I'd been coming to a complete stop, but I wasn't; so instead I had to leave like 10 car lengths between me and the car in front of me and use the transmission (thank god I drive a manual) for 4 miles until traffic finally came to a halt on the freeway. Who thought this was a good idea?
Edit: Stupid multiple threads open at the same time...
Sounds like he didn't bleed the brake lines properly. Nothing like air bubbles in a system designed for fluid that doesn't compress.
My music appreciation class is basically full of CHILDREN! Every damn class they are always WHINING about how bleeding long the class is, how hard the tests are. YOU'RE IN COLLEGE DAMMIT! The right to whine stopped being valid the moment you PAYED for this freaking class! I'll admit I'm not doing my best in class, but at least I enjoy it rather than bitching every fifteen seconds about being in a class for two hours and 15 minutes. I was once in a class that was nine hours long, this ain't SHIT!
I had Chinese food for lunch. I ate later than usual because the kids and I had dental appointments. I am still full and it's past 6pm. I know I will be hungry come 9 or 10 pm :/
Would that behavior persist over a period of multiple years? Cuz this has been going on for a while.
Yeah, I figured it was gonna be an expensive weekend. The behavior just confused me, because it only happens when I'm already braking and happen to cross over a surface with less traction than the one that I started braking on - mainly wet metal (it's Seattle, we've got a lot of wet metal) and ice.
It's a sealed system so if there aren't any leaks and there were air bubbles introduced... they will never have a chance to escape. So yes... it could go on for a long time if not corrected.
Tonight they seemed to vibrate a little bit, but that's the first time I noticed it. They also still seemed to slow me down when gently depressing the brake pedal, but I had to push farther on the pedal than usual, like they really wanted to make sure I meant to press that pedal at that particular moment. It just bothered me tonight because it was raining and dark, and because there were enough wrecks on the roads already. Still gonna have them checked though. Of all of the systems in my car, my two favorites are the one that makes it go, and the one that makes it stop, and not necessarily in that order.
So I’ve been playing on this server, right. Getting back into the groove a bit after being on a Minecraft hiatus for a long-ass time due to lack of inspiration. After a week or so of playing, managed to grab myself enough stuff to build the following:
Having made friends with one of the GM’s, I asked one of them to use voxelsniper to blow away some unslightly floating clumps nearby. Unfortunately, he’d forgotten he put his brush size to 200 for a different project. So rather than deleting those few floating clumps, he cut a hole in the server. A hole twice the size of my town. Everything you see there? It’s gone, and then some. If you turn up your render distance you can see the void.
Here’s the kicker; it can’t be undone. He tried and failed. I asked the admin for a roll-back, he says that don’t work because of the way voxelsniper does things.
Bummer.
Having made friends with one of the GM’s, I asked one of them to use voxelsniper to blow away some unslightly floating clumps nearby. Unfortunately, he’d forgotten he put his brush size to 200 for a different project. So rather than deleting those few floating clumps, he cut a hole in the server. A hole twice the size of my town. Everything you see there? It’s gone, and then some. If you turn up your render distance you can see the void.
Here’s the kicker; it can’t be undone. He tried and failed. I asked the admin for a roll-back, he says that don’t work because of the way voxelsniper does things.
Bummer.
He just didn't want to tell you about the xenomorph infestation he found there.So I’ve been playing on this server, right. Getting back into the groove a bit after being on a Minecraft hiatus for a long-ass time due to lack of inspiration. After a week or so of playing, managed to grab myself enough stuff to build the following:
Having made friends with one of the GM’s, I asked one of them to use voxelsniper to blow away some unslightly floating clumps nearby. Unfortunately, he’d forgotten he put his brush size to 200 for a different project. So rather than deleting those few floating clumps, he cut a hole in the server. A hole twice the size of my town. Everything you see there? It’s gone, and then some. If you turn up your render distance you can see the void.
Here’s the kicker; it can’t be undone. He tried and failed. I asked the admin for a roll-back, he says that don’t work because of the way voxelsniper does things.
Bummer.
As far as the lasik thing goes:
I had -4.75 in one eye, had laser surgery (and we don't get no bloody valium for it), much better sight now. Now my other eye has deteriorated so much I have to wear glasses...With window pane for my now-good eye. Anyway, they won't do it on my other eye now because I have thin corneas as well. It was perfectly fine for my left eye, but noooo..... It just meant they had to cut away at the surface and couldn't put a little flap back over the cut as they normally do.
My night vision's about as good as it used to be; my only complaint would be that I often have stuffed up/stuck closed eyes in the morning.
I had -4.75 in one eye, had laser surgery (and we don't get no bloody valium for it), much better sight now. Now my other eye has deteriorated so much I have to wear glasses...With window pane for my now-good eye. Anyway, they won't do it on my other eye now because I have thin corneas as well. It was perfectly fine for my left eye, but noooo..... It just meant they had to cut away at the surface and couldn't put a little flap back over the cut as they normally do.
My night vision's about as good as it used to be; my only complaint would be that I often have stuffed up/stuck closed eyes in the morning.
Get a Monocle.
At least he wiped...?
Jet will make a great millionaire...
It is likely no more dirty than any other bill in your wallet.
Are you trying to get her busted for money laundering?
