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

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Steve Haavik wrote:
>> I miss good depth perception, i haven't had it for many years.  Anyone
>> know of a good website has information about lasik?  I think i need to
>> go find a good place to have it done...
> 
> I got my eyes done last year and I'm still getting used to not having 
> glasses anymore (reaching for them in the morning, before I realize I can 
> actaully see and stuff like that.) I used this place 
> http://www.lasikplus.com/ because the eye exam was free and it's 2 minutes 
> from where I live and I got a life-time warrenty (they'll fix my eyes for 
> me as I get older.) I fully expected that they would tell me they couldn't 
> do it. The only problem I've had is my eyes are a lot more sensitive to 
> light now. Being able to navigate the house at night with the lights off 
> without bumping into walls or stepping on the cat is very nice, but bright 
> lights while driving at night can be painful now.

I'm definitely also more light sensitive.  I now own my first real pair 
of sunglasses.  8-)  I've also learned to look at the fog-line on roads 
at night instead of into the headlights like I used to.

> I know someone else that got her eyes done at the same place a couple 
> weeks before me that did have problems. From what I understand she had one 
> of the other procedures though. I had the one where they cut the cornea 
> away from the eye and laser the inside surface of the cornea. She had the 
> old less accurate procedure where they take it from the outside. I think 
> she ended up having to have them redo one of her eyes after it healed 
> enough. Of course now they say they have even better lasers...

I also got the flap operation done.  My eyes were bad enough that the 
non-flap operation wasn't an option.  I also had it done with the fancy 
eye-tracking laser with computerized cornea mapping.

Peace...  Sridhar