As a rule of thumb, children between age two and five are the best candidates for correction resulting in usable binocular vision.
So it would seem that I was slightly outside that range.
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Well, it's not necessarily a good party trick, just neat (especially to me).:)
It weirds people out a bit, because my eyes shift slightly, left-to-right, or right-to-left. Also, I think my focus changes slightly - the eye that had been looking straight at you is now looking kinda "through" you.
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Fascinating - I may have to go sometime. I wonder if that would work for me. Any idea what the new tech is?
I haven't been to the opthamologist for about 4 years now... there's been no need. I do need new glasses, though - that's going to be the main reason I end up there.
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Nope - I had my first surgery when I was 15 months or so, and another when I was 5 or 6. Though I do still have the plush Garfield they gave me - the doctor put a matching eye patch on him to make me feel better.:)
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Yep - but my brain learned to just put the two images next to each other, instead of overlaying them.
So my vision looks kinda like the binoculars view they use on TV:
CO
where (in the pictured case) the O is my dominant right eye, and the C is just what the left eye adds on.
It's exactly how you see, except there's no 3D overlap.
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Yeah - I get the same thing, especially after driving. One of my eyes has a better blue response than the other... it was a little disturbing at first, before I realized what was up.
I don't have prescription sunglasses, so I just drive with regular sunglasses - unlike when I'm wearing corrective lenses, I have to consciously switch to my left eye when looking up at the rearview mirror. Otherwise, by default, I'll look up there with my nearsighted (right) eye, because it's closer.:)
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Funny, yes, but true for me. I was cross-eyed at birth, and in the course of my surgeries, I lost stereoscopic vision. I have vision in both of my eyes, but it isn't in 3d. All of my 3D vision is from learned depth cues and unconscious motions. The upside, of course, is that Doom, Half-Life, and any other FPS is more fun for me.
Holograms are effectively 3d for me - I can see the change when I move my head. But the Magic Eye posters and anything with red-blue glasses doesn't work at all.
So I always keep a watch out for these 3D monitors and any new 3D tech to see if it'll work for me - I'd love to see something that actually did change depending on what angle you viewed it. It doesn't look like this one will do the trick - it still depends on stereoscopic effects.
Oh - neat party trick I gained from this, though, is that I can change my dominant eye at will. Quite fun - and useful, since I'm nearsighted in only one eye.
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A cinema movie is 24 fps, and it generally looks smooth because it has motion blurring.
Yeah - I hate large landscape pans and quick motions in movies for that very fact - they aren't smooth. I can always see the framerate, and that bugs me. Now, when we get ~60 Hz framerate for movies (should be easier when we go all-digital), that'll come closer to full immersion for me.
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The dirt is abrasive, and can leave scratches. The skin oil collects the dirt, and it acts like sandpaper.
Almost anything (besides water and chamois, et cetera) can leave a scratch on the car's finish. That's why it's best to keep any area you're cleaning completely wet and saturated - water, soapy water especially, keeps the dirt moving and suspended so it can't scratch.
Well, given that Israel has been in violation of UN resolutions for at least three times that and the US has never lifted a finger against them.
FYI - the resolutions against Iraq were mandatory under article 42 of Chapter VII of the UN's charter:
Article 42 Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations.
Contrast that with the resolutions concerning Israel, which are, without exception, always issued under Chapter VI, which is basically a suggestion:
Article 36, paragraph 1 The Security Council may, at any stage of a dispute of the nature referred to in Article 33 or of a situation of like nature, recommend appropriate procedures or methods of adjustment.
Okay, now that the site's back up, I'll be shutting down the tracker. There aren't enough peers out there to make the downloads faster than a.edu connection.
Yep - I use earplugs in my apartment to shut out the sound of my neighbor's TV when I'm trying to sleep.
But the way I was able to deal with the distractions at work was actually the exact opposite.
I would prefer a quiet environment to work, and I looked at shooting muffs, earplugs, lots of stuff. But in the end, I realized that I could block sound by using brown noise in my [enclosed, muff-style] headphones, in addition to anything else I'm listening to.
So now I run two copies of Winamp, one with static, and the other (optionally) with music. I can adjust the volume of each independently, and now I can't hear people talking or typing near me.
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Reminds me of an animated stort I saw called "Bingo" (based on Disregard this Play), which is possible based on those intense drug rehab places (like Straight Inc.)
Good call.
Here are a couple links to copies of that animation:
I used to get AIM spam all the time from porno bots. I have no idea how they got my screen name, but I would entertain myself by making snide remarks back, or by making them fail the Turing test.:) I've still got the logs on my machine, and I'm thinking about putting them up in a section on my web page. Here's an excerpt from a good one:
snuglybaer493 (1:39:10 AM): hi:) wanna chat? kwabla78 (1:39:24 AM): a/S/l?!!??! snuglybaer493 (1:39:29 AM): asl (age sex location)? snuglybaer493 (1:39:38 AM): 24/f/new york kwabla78 (1:39:59 AM): i'm a taco from mitsubishi, and i'm older than the hills snuglybaer493 (1:40:07 AM): so what are you up to kwabla78? snuglybaer493 (1:40:12 AM): cool. i was just hangin out. kinda bord.. kinda horny:) kwabla78 (1:40:27 AM): are you horny like a rosebush? snuglybaer493 (1:40:33 AM): should i take that as a yes? kwabla78 (1:40:34 AM): or wait... was that "thorny" snuglybaer493 (1:40:38 AM): feel like cybering with me ? please please... snuglybaer493 (1:40:43 AM)::) kwabla78 (1:41:00 AM): what is this that you speak of? is it like cyber-warfare? if so, then by all means. snuglybaer493 (1:41:18 AM): hold on. lets get a simple yes or no answer. you are of age and you want to cyber with me? kwabla78 (1:42:15 AM): um... yes, i am older than the hills, and i wish to engage in cyber-warfare. i want to help the Department of Defense against those cyber-Taliban! kwabla78 (1:43:02 AM): do you also?
Or this one...
Tonadzift559 (6:36:14 AM): Hey kwabla78, what's going on , monday-monday, I wish someone would answer my IMs. Do you wanna chat with me:) I have a cam. and My 2 best friends just showed up. kwabla78 (6:36:38 AM): PLEASE MAKE IT STOP OH THE PAIN
Thankfully, it's stopped... but it was entertaining for a while.:)
I had really only known Bob Newhart as my parents' type of comedian (they watched the sitcoms he was in, as I recall). I'm 25, so I missed a lot of his earlier work.
Until, on one of my 600-mile round-trip pilgrimages to my parents' place, I caught an episode of Comedy College on public radio, featuring some of his past work . I was amazed by what I heard - dark, textured, subtle, and not at all the sitcom man I'd originally taken him for.
I'm a fan of deadpan, so naturally he was instantly appealing to me. (I also like Norm MacDonald for that reason [fyi: not my page, but good info], but few seem to agree with me on that one... I'm one of the few that actually liked Dirty Work.:) )
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174 seeds as of 8:47. woot!
I keep forgetting to reply to the story instead of the ACs, so my links usually get buried at the bottom of the page.
.torrent link for the .WMV file - I've got like 84 seeds as of 8:26PM CDT.
Here's a
http://www.mskf.org/SH_Episode00.wmv.torrent
Have fun...
Yep - http://www.mskf.org/SH_Episode00.wmv.torrent
Here's an excerpt from a link I found:So it would seem that I was slightly outside that range.
Well, it's not necessarily a good party trick, just neat (especially to me). :)
It weirds people out a bit, because my eyes shift slightly, left-to-right, or right-to-left.
Also, I think my focus changes slightly - the eye that had been looking straight at you is now looking kinda "through" you.
Fascinating - I may have to go sometime. I wonder if that would work for me.
Any idea what the new tech is?
I haven't been to the opthamologist for about 4 years now... there's been no need. I do need new glasses, though - that's going to be the main reason I end up there.
Nope - I had my first surgery when I was 15 months or so, and another when I was 5 or 6. :)
Though I do still have the plush Garfield they gave me - the doctor put a matching eye patch on him to make me feel better.
Yep - but my brain learned to just put the two images next to each other, instead of overlaying them.
So my vision looks kinda like the binoculars view they use on TV:
CO
where (in the pictured case) the O is my dominant right eye, and the C is just what the left eye adds on.
It's exactly how you see, except there's no 3D overlap.
Yeah - I get the same thing, especially after driving. One of my eyes has a better blue response than the other... it was a little disturbing at first, before I realized what was up.
:)
I don't have prescription sunglasses, so I just drive with regular sunglasses - unlike when I'm wearing corrective lenses, I have to consciously switch to my left eye when looking up at the rearview mirror. Otherwise, by default, I'll look up there with my nearsighted (right) eye, because it's closer.
Funny, yes, but true for me. I was cross-eyed at birth, and in the course of my surgeries, I lost stereoscopic vision. I have vision in both of my eyes, but it isn't in 3d. All of my 3D vision is from learned depth cues and unconscious motions.
The upside, of course, is that Doom, Half-Life, and any other FPS is more fun for me.
Holograms are effectively 3d for me - I can see the change when I move my head. But the Magic Eye posters and anything with red-blue glasses doesn't work at all.
So I always keep a watch out for these 3D monitors and any new 3D tech to see if it'll work for me - I'd love to see something that actually did change depending on what angle you viewed it.
It doesn't look like this one will do the trick - it still depends on stereoscopic effects.
Oh - neat party trick I gained from this, though, is that I can change my dominant eye at will. Quite fun - and useful, since I'm nearsighted in only one eye.
Yeah - I hate large landscape pans and quick motions in movies for that very fact - they aren't smooth. I can always see the framerate, and that bugs me. Now, when we get ~60 Hz framerate for movies (should be easier when we go all-digital), that'll come closer to full immersion for me.
The dirt is abrasive, and can leave scratches. The skin oil collects the dirt, and it acts like sandpaper.
Almost anything (besides water and chamois, et cetera) can leave a scratch on the car's finish. That's why it's best to keep any area you're cleaning completely wet and saturated - water, soapy water especially, keeps the dirt moving and suspended so it can't scratch.
Two things:
.sig. (I gotta have more cowbell!)
1) Awesome
2) I like that your handle is "Bad As Scat." I, personally, am only as bad as masticated pomegranates.
Just a quick note - look at my reply to the parent comment, it addresses some misconceptions about Israel.
Here's some other reading on the subject.
Okay, now that the site's back up, I'll be shutting down the tracker. There aren't enough peers out there to make the downloads faster than a .edu connection.
Fortunately, I downloaded the movies and made a BitTorrent version available:Enjoy.
Yep - I use earplugs in my apartment to shut out the sound of my neighbor's TV when I'm trying to sleep.
But the way I was able to deal with the distractions at work was actually the exact opposite.
I would prefer a quiet environment to work, and I looked at shooting muffs, earplugs, lots of stuff. But in the end, I realized that I could block sound by using brown noise in my [enclosed, muff-style] headphones, in addition to anything else I'm listening to.
So now I run two copies of Winamp, one with static, and the other (optionally) with music. I can adjust the volume of each independently, and now I can't hear people talking or typing near me.
Here are a couple links to copies of that animation:If those don't work, keep going through these search results until you find one that does:If you have consistent trouble downloading from those sites, reply to this message, and I'll set up a BitTorrent tracker.
Get DeadAIM. It addresses nearly all of your complaints. :P
Except for the sounds, and you can turn those off by yourself.
I've still got the logs on my machine, and I'm thinking about putting them up in a section on my web page.
Here's an excerpt from a good one:Or this one...Thankfully, it's stopped... but it was entertaining for a while.
I had really only known Bob Newhart as my parents' type of comedian (they watched the sitcoms he was in, as I recall). I'm 25, so I missed a lot of his earlier work.
:) )
Until, on one of my 600-mile round-trip pilgrimages to my parents' place, I caught an episode of Comedy College on public radio, featuring some of his past work . I was amazed by what I heard - dark, textured, subtle, and not at all the sitcom man I'd originally taken him for.
I'm a fan of deadpan, so naturally he was instantly appealing to me.
(I also like Norm MacDonald for that reason [fyi: not my page, but good info], but few seem to agree with me on that one... I'm one of the few that actually liked Dirty Work.
Close - it was a Mad TV sketch.
It featured both Bob Newhart and Mo Collins.
The best part was when he would cut her off whenever she described a prob-STOP IT!