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When they replace your personality and remove your free will.
Dana
has anybody seen McGyver around?
...we are so screwed.
Cataract surgery was the best life improvement event for me in my ancient situation. I can see again. Reading is an issue because I have to put glasses ON now instead of take them off, but I can navigate the house and the outdoors without glasses quite successfully. I have one proper pair of prescription glasses ($250)
for best vision for driving and other long distance seeing, but for computer work and reading I just use the $10 
magnifiers on the drugstore rack.
The only thing I'm disappointed about is that although initially my vision was extremely clear for a year or so, it eventually started showing slight glows around thin bright lights like the numbers on my digital alarm clock when viewed in the dark. This is, I assume, because of a slight layer of eye proteins sticking to the implanted lenses. I've been watching it for two more years but it hasn't gotten worse and is not noticeable in daylight or well lit rooms. Regardless it is nowhere near as bothersome as the intense colored halos around bright objects all the time before my surgery.
But despite now having clear lenses again, my eyes have continued to fall apart (literally) with the development of major floaters of inner eye surface cell tissue making a run for it and heading for the wide open spaces of the inner eyeball that because of natural ageing used to be jelly-like but is now more fluid.
But all in all, for me, cataract surgery was quite an improvement. I like not having to wear glasses to watch TV or wash dishes or cook (except to read ingredient labels). Think good thoughts about your future surgeon, but sue the pants off him if he screws up.
One final thought, Because of my age and my floaters, and the slightly glowey point light issue, I do miss seeing clear images of stars. I haven't seen stars properly for at least 15 years.
PS: Being inhuman is a mental state, not a physical one.
meh eyelids crashing Zzzzzzzz
I am afraid the weather is very bad outside.
Does that mean you are unsure?
Look out the window and get back to us. 
east coast soggy
Weather is very windy. It is much calmer than earlier today and especially yesterday.
news saisd a tornado touched down in Alabama.
windy day not good time to board a giant ferris wheel
Hints on determining if the weather is bad outside:
If it's daytime and you can't see outside your window, it's bad!
If it's daytime and you're not in a moving vehicle and what you see out the window is completely different that what you saw a few moments ago, it's bad!
If your window is gone, it's bad!
If you didn't move and you find yourself outside, it's bad!
and your little dog too
The moment you start acting it.
Best of luck on the cataract surgery. If all goes well, it's apparently like seeing a whole new world.
Dana
Decided to watch Picard. At least the first episode.
The first hit is always free!
Dana
I've seen the first three episodes. Loving it.
Complaint: In another thread I read about 64-core CPUs and sigh in dismay that after decades of surfing the wave of computer technology from mid-'60s through 2002, I now am so far behind, floundering in the whitewater. In my good times I had government or corporate money to spend and bought wonderful toys. Now, I'm still spending government money but my Social Security check can't be equated with a NASA or MITRE or HP expense account. In my present state I was recently thrilled to add a new computer to my home lab. My new 6 core i5 joined a single-core Pentium, and a couple dual-core i3 systems and I thought I was in heaven.
Now I read of 64 core CPUs and I wake up and realize I'm being tossed around in the technological whitewater and wait for the inevitable skin scrubbing swipe against the rough bottom sand or the bone breaking bash against the rocks. (*sigh*)
But coming to my rescue are my memories. I was there, back in the day, when streaming was still being tested in the laboratory and a simple audio broadcast would fill the buffer after 3 seconds. I was there when wireless networking was being tested in the laboratory with a desktop computer being pushed down the hall on a gurney with car batteries for power and 200 pounds of electronics for the wireless do-hickeys. I was there when my roommate came home and was talking about having access at work to an IMP in the ARPANET system before there was an actual internet. I was there when computers didn't come with networking hardware and I had to build my own and create my own data exchange protocols. I was there when the "Internet" was still new and I was tasked with evaluating it. My report predicted many of the faults we currently suffer with. I was there when we needed parallel processing power from only single thread processing boards, I put three of them into a VME chassis, designed an operating system to manage them and was able to process data fast enough for the project. I was there creating an operating system that used a display screen and had floating windows of data to control and display information being processed in real time. I even called my little operating system "Windows", only to find out later that some upstart in the northwest had just claimed the name for his little project. (*sigh*) I was there when basic Internet protocols were still being invented. I was there when secret research into submarine detection was unfunded and was turned to ways to count whales. I was there when talking to a computer and getting it to understand speech was brand new and almost successful demonstrations to military generals invited to witness our progress were cause for much embarassment. "I'm sorry General, speaking louder doesn't help. Try enunciating more clearly. Perhaps it's your accent. Oh, you don't have an accent?" I was there predicting and detecting lightning strikes around rockets on the launch pad 25 years before lightning maps became a throwaway trinket on your evening weather report. I was there drawing wireframe graphic objects on a video screen when most computers were still using mechanical teletypes as input/output. It's these memories that make my old-man afternoon naps so relaxing. Y'all may have some wonderful toys, but I was there...
new planets in store
was hoping for saturn
nap sounds great. 1400 and feel exhausted already
dunno, vagner's ring cycle fit for a scifi intro? is kinda dark sounding. like klingon-ish
harpsichord sounds so different from a piano
It's the difference between being plucked by a plectrum or being whacked by a soft mallet.
Original name for a piano is piano-forte which in Italian essentially means soft-loud, (soft-strong) which was its technical advantage over other keyboard instruments like harpsichord or clavichord. It had a wide range of volume dynamics depending on how hard and quickly you depressed the keys. The piano was more suitable for use in large orchestras in large halls rather than just small musical ensembles like trios, quartets or quintets in small rooms.
I know personally that if I were an instrument I'd rather be whacked than plucked.
plectrums
having a senior moment 29 = xxix ?
and either my product suggestion disapeared or i forgot to hit the submit button after typing for 10 minutes >.<
...I guess better than...err...think I'll stop there.
found my favorite martian free with amaz prime.
i cant help thinkin Martin is rather pretty.
he's dreamin about belly dancers, and bill bixby can see his dream. he's telekinetic and tlepathic
his dhip has a gamma drive and his space suit is shiny.
Complaint: Nearly had a heart attack watching the Duke vs UNC BB game. After UNC leading most of the game Duke pulled off an almost impossible play to tie the game by getting the ball when they missed a free throw and then won by two points in a cliff hanger overtime.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/duke-vs-north-carolina-score-takeaways-blue-devils-stun-tar-heels-on-wendell-moores-buzzer-beater-in-ot/live/
I think sleeping is for tired people. Oh boy I am tired so I guess I need to go to bed soon.
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...just saw that on Sports Centre. Still have little love for Duke after they came back late in the second period to defeat my Badgers in the NCAA championship five years ago. The last time Wisconsin was in the finals was 1941 when the won it.
Meanwhile in the Pros, the Bucks continue to be the "beast of the east" having easily won over Orlando today, 111 - 95. They have been on top of the entire league for most of the season and currently are five and a half games ahead of the west leading Lakers. My old home state needs something to cheer about after Badgers lost (more appropriately fumbled away) the Rose bowl by 1 point to the Ducks and the Packers were schooled once again by San Francisco. Yeah I get this feeling that Green Bay's Aaron Rogers is this generation's "Dan Marino" great talent, nobody good around him and mediocre coaching.
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