[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?

[Phil Stracchino]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>I want my hawklike vision back ....
> 
> In what way do your eyes malfunction?

Once upon a time, my right eye was 20/20, my left eye was "better".
Now, both eyes are somewhat longsighted, both have some degree of
astigmatism, and while my left eye is still sharp enough to pass as
20/20, my right eye has become rather blurry, especially at short distances.

> I had moderately bad nearsightedness (-5.5 and -6.0) and bad astigmatism 
> (+2.5 and +1.25 with two different angles) and now my vision is better 
> than 20/20.  On good days, better than 20/15.
> 
> I see better than I did with my glasses.  The thing that took a *lot* of 
> getting used to is having depth perception.  The astigmatism correction 
> in my glasses kept me from seeing depth.  Now I can tell how far 
> oncoming cars are and things like that.  I can catch a softball.  It's 
> the first time since I was about six years old.

That's gotta take a lot of getting used to, but must rock.


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