{"id":2067,"date":"2008-07-27T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2008-09-22T15:40:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T23:40:46","slug":"stick-a-finger-in-my-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2067","title":{"rendered":"stick a finger in my eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

After wearing glasses for thirty-odd years, I’m tired of it. I’m thinking of surgery; since I’m on the verge of needing bifocals, my bright idea is to have one eye adjusted for distance and the other for arm’s length (the typical distance of a computer screen or a gun sight). It did occur to me that this might be a Bad Idea for some reason I hadn’t thought of, so I decided to bring it up with my optometrist. To my surprise, as soon as I mentioned LASIK he brought up monovision<\/a>. He pointed out that some people find it very hard to adjust, and suggested that it would be wise to try it with contacts first before risking anything permanent.<\/p>\n

So now I have contacts; temporarily accepting a lot more optical fuss in the hope that later I’ll have much less. With them, my dominant eye is (according to Doc Lowe) about 3\/4 diopter more farsighted then<\/del> than<\/ins> my, er, submissive eye. (Presumably there is a term of art but I don’t know what it is.) I think his plan is to increase the difference every few weeks.<\/p>\n

I haven’t got the knack of taking soft contacts out. With hard ones, you just put tension on the lids and pop!<\/i>. These I have to drag out with a fingertip. Today and yesterday I stripped one eye on the first try, but had a much harder time with the dominant eye – which is counterintuitive; you’d think the thicker lens would be easier to grab.<\/p>\n

Entirely unrelated: In The Atlantic<\/i>, an article on the rationale of the naked streets<\/a> movement (though it doesn’t use that phrase). The key point: when rules take the place of judgement, people learn not to use judgement. A similar argument has been made about safety regulation in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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