AFAICR (As far as I can remember), back a couple jobs ago when I worked for iRobot's parent company at the time...it was the "Urban Robot", for urban use (like stairs and buildings), since a lot of the previous stuff was for driving around fields looking for mines (and usually promptly running over them...good thing they were inert test mines!). So, UrbanII must be the second rev of the bot.
It sure was cool to see Urban I driving up the side of a carpeted wall that was at like a 70 degree angle in the Hi-bay...
They had to give me two doses of valium. Aparently my blood pressure wasn't coming down enough. It's because I'm tall, yeah, I needed a bigger dose, yeah, it's not because I'm a wuss about my eyes...:)
Yup, this is key. I got Lasik two years ago, both eyes at once, and while it was a bit freaky at the time (What's that smell?), lemme tell you - I love it. My only regret? I didn't do it sooner.
I had 20/50 vision before hand, with an astigmatism that added an equal amount of distortion as the 20/50, and I'm now around 20/15 with both eyes, and 20/20 with each eye by itself.
The key was a good doctor. At one point worked with someone that went to a place that was only $1000 for both eyes, but if you paid cash - $800!! Wow! Her technician had aparently performed around 10 surgeries. Uhhh...no thanks, these are my freakin EYES here.
Now, she did this right after I quit that job, so I have no idea how her eyes are (This was 4 years ago), but I instead talked to my opthamologist. He recommended two doctors, Dr. Steel & Doctor Maloney. Dr Maloney was one of the inventors at UCLA, and had done 15K proceedures at the time, and and Doctor Steel had done about 10K proceedures, and was in my old hometown, and was $300 cheaper.:)
So, I put away the max $3k in my cafeteria plan, and used that for the surgery, so that I actually got about 33% back in taxes.
I also called around where I live now, and the local guy was bragging about his 4K surgeries, and was $1200 more.
It was an easy choice.
It took about an hour and a half at the doctor's office, plus some pre & post op appointments...and was awesome. The next day I went with my girlfriend & hung out on the wharf here in town & thought "WOW! THAT SEAGULL IS SOOO CLEAR!!! WOW!!! THE WATER IS SHIIIINYYY!!!!!" (Make sure you buy new sunglasses....my eyes were dialated for about 3 days...)
It's awesome. I'm really glad I did it. And I didn't even have "horrible" vision to start.:)
Check out the Linux MediaServer - there is a server available for Linux. No UI yet, but Rob Flickenger made a nice perl script to catalog your media files for the MediaPlayer.
Actually, it works just fine on Debian 3, it just didn't make the readme. And the OS on the MediaPlayer is based on Debian, but custom built for the needs of the MediaPlayer, but hey, who's counting?:)
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Larry Craig was involved in the DMCA? Didn't know what!
(Sorry, sorry, couldn't resist...)
Physics Students, Women in Engineering, and the Gun Club? Man, I'd love to see the after party on that one....
Hey! That's not nice.
Cabbage doesn't deserve being described like that.
I dunno, allergies sure are a characteristic near & dear to many nerd hearts (or their sinuses..Oy!).
:)
Me, I got allergy shots when I was a kid. HAH HA!
Sigh. If only that was the only characteristic...
Dang it, my "+1 Rimshot" moderation option isn't available.... :)
AFAICR (As far as I can remember), back a couple jobs ago when I worked for iRobot's parent company at the time...it was the "Urban Robot", for urban use (like stairs and buildings), since a lot of the previous stuff was for driving around fields looking for mines (and usually promptly running over them...good thing they were inert test mines!). So, UrbanII must be the second rev of the bot.
It sure was cool to see Urban I driving up the side of a carpeted wall that was at like a 70 degree angle in the Hi-bay...
They had to give me two doses of valium. Aparently my blood pressure wasn't coming down enough. It's because I'm tall, yeah, I needed a bigger dose, yeah, it's not because I'm a wuss about my eyes... :)
Yup, this is key. I got Lasik two years ago, both eyes at once, and while it was a bit freaky at the time (What's that smell?), lemme tell you - I love it. My only regret? I didn't do it sooner.
:)
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I had 20/50 vision before hand, with an astigmatism that added an equal amount of distortion as the 20/50, and I'm now around 20/15 with both eyes, and 20/20 with each eye by itself.
The key was a good doctor. At one point worked with someone that went to a place that was only $1000 for both eyes, but if you paid cash - $800!! Wow! Her technician had aparently performed around 10 surgeries. Uhhh...no thanks, these are my freakin EYES here.
Now, she did this right after I quit that job, so I have no idea how her eyes are (This was 4 years ago), but I instead talked to my opthamologist. He recommended two doctors, Dr. Steel & Doctor Maloney. Dr Maloney was one of the inventors at UCLA, and had done 15K proceedures at the time, and and Doctor Steel had done about 10K proceedures, and was in my old hometown, and was $300 cheaper.
So, I put away the max $3k in my cafeteria plan, and used that for the surgery, so that I actually got about 33% back in taxes.
I also called around where I live now, and the local guy was bragging about his 4K surgeries, and was $1200 more.
It was an easy choice.
It took about an hour and a half at the doctor's office, plus some pre & post op appointments...and was awesome. The next day I went with my girlfriend & hung out on the wharf here in town & thought "WOW! THAT SEAGULL IS SOOO CLEAR!!! WOW!!! THE WATER IS SHIIIINYYY!!!!!" (Make sure you buy new sunglasses....my eyes were dialated for about 3 days...)
It's awesome. I'm really glad I did it. And I didn't even have "horrible" vision to start.
ObPlug: http://www.steelvisioncenters.com/
8 hr/s a day?
:)
Where do I sign up for that, that's like a vacation!
(Back to my embedded systems work...on Saturday...)
Check out the Linux MediaServer - there is a server available for Linux. No UI yet, but Rob Flickenger made a nice perl script to catalog your media files for the MediaPlayer.
Actually, it works just fine on Debian 3, it just didn't make the readme. And the OS on the MediaPlayer is based on Debian, but custom built for the needs of the MediaPlayer, but hey, who's counting? :)
Actually, it's PRISMIQ, ideally in all caps, pronounced "PRIS-MICK".
Mmm....lickable, verb activated fish....