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mercat

because science is power!

Nov 20, 2010 05:23

Hey, so you know Jason Segel's Muppets movie he's been working on? (astrid087, you're going to want to see this) Jack Black, Paul Rudd, and Lady Gaga may be involved. I WILL BE THERE IN THREE SECONDS PLEASETHANKYOU

Science cheerleaders!

A good comic with a certain movie poster in the background.

Dick van Dyke saved by porpoises, although I have no idea ( Read more... )

me, muppets, cats, actors, kittens, winnie the pooh, writing, science, lady gaga, indiana jones, dick van dyke, nature

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mister_sable November 20 2010, 19:23:10 UTC

THEY CUT YOUR CORNEA?!! Holy crap!! Glasses don't seem so bad anymore. I've been wearing them for 35 years anyway. :S

mercat November 20 2010, 19:35:51 UTC

Yeah, they used to have to cut a little flap up, I'm assuming so they had a "flat" surface to work on? As in, not having to deal with focusing/refraction. For the most part it apparently wasn't a problem, they didn't even have to "seal" it back up, but I don't think your cornea can really ever heal so every once in a rare while someone's little flap would pop up and they'd have to come back in and get it pushed down or something.

ANYWAY IT SOUNDED HORRIFYING WHEN I LEARNED ABOUT IT. But I read something a few months ago that the cutting is no longer necessary, which I'm assuming means they programmed the laser to deal with the curvature, since it was already programmed to deal with the fact that your eye isn't completely motionless anyhow.

mister_sable November 20 2010, 19:39:59 UTC

Just reading about a flap popping up is making me gag. It's good they've come closer to perfecting it and that it's no longer two grand per eye. It's like $500 or so now, isn't it? aaaugh! It's still terrifying!

mercat November 21 2010, 07:21:07 UTC

I have no idea, I'm lucky in that I have pretty good vision (although my eyes have started having trouble focusing on lights at night). They used to be SUPER sensitive though... To the point where I couldn't even talk about eyes without them starting to well up.

dancecat89 November 20 2010, 20:45:02 UTC

Dude. I am so in for that road trip. We went last summer - it's a cool museum and a pretty fascinating city.
Also, though speaking French is fairly unnecessary since most everyone knows English, it was nice to have enough to get around.

mercat November 21 2010, 07:27:24 UTC

Yessssss we should do this. We went there with girl scouts and I remember not having to really speak french, I tried like once or twice and it just ended badly, lol. JE NE PARLE IDEK THE WORD FOR FRENCH. All I can come up with is "franglais" damn you dad and your butchered french puns! C'est la gruyere.