Posts by John Miles

When in the world did Best Buy start asking for phone numbers? That happened to me just this evening. I was already under the impression that Best Buy (or at least the Bellevue, WA store) was going for the gold medal in the...

Quote: John - So eye drops hinder the healing process? I was using them more often because I assumed they were helping the process. I'm glad to hear of your recovery. Hearing of another slow recovery gives me less to worry...

Quote: I changed my eye drops back to vials (no preservatives) and things have been a little better since then. Since it's been a couple months since surgery, you should probably make a serious effort to wean...

I have very large pupils (about 8 mm in a dark room, which I measured preoperatively by holding a ruler up to my eye and shooting it with a flash camera), so I figured I would be trading off some night-vision quality when I had LASIK...

I changed the post to cite iD Software and Doom because that better reflects the statistics I was able to find quickly. I remember seeing one graph from the FBI that was published in David Grossman's anti-entertainment jeremiad "Stop...

Quote: Do you ever wonder why kids are more violent They aren't. That's what bugs me about the whole thing: our newfound sense of moral outrage is directed at a perceived statistical problem that doesn't even...

Quote: Andrew, are you working with C or C++? If you're using C++ then you might want to impress your professor with function overloading. That would be like impressing your drill instructor by bringing a live...

Your vision is likely to fluctuate for at least a few weeks. I could see only 20/30, 20/40 the day after my own surgery in Vancouver BC this year, but within a week to 10 days it zeroed in to around 20/15. At night, the effect is...

Quote: oh and where was it that i said it was ok to be cruising along not only below the posted traffic speed, but below the speed of traffic? oh yeah, i didn't. You didn't; I apologize if I gave the impression...

Quote: yep, that's what the streets need, more chumps being on the offensive during their time behind the wheel. You say that like it's a bad thing, but the truth is, excessive timidity on the part of drivers...