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My contact prescription is -9.00 in my right eye and -10.00 in my left.
When they're examining my vision, without corrective lenses I can't even see the bit "E" on the chart.
Do I win?
I got glasses in second grade, and then my vision degenerated so rapidly my parents started wondering if they were underprescribing as a scam of some sort so that I'd continually need new glasses. They weren't. My vision just got that bad, that fast. They stabilized around 9th-10th grade, which is around when I got contacts.
When they're examining my vision, without corrective lenses I can't even see the bit "E" on the chart.
Do I win?
I got glasses in second grade, and then my vision degenerated so rapidly my parents started wondering if they were underprescribing as a scam of some sort so that I'd continually need new glasses. They weren't. My vision just got that bad, that fast. They stabilized around 9th-10th grade, which is around when I got contacts.
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I can't see the big E either, but I'm only -5.75.
I have a question for all those who are members of the LDS church... (so, off the top of my head: Slim & Steph)
Is it offensive to be called a "Mormon"? What's the difference between calling yourself Mormon or saying "LDS"? Is it just old fashioned to say Mormon? Too much stigma attached to that name? What's the deal?
I have a question for all those who are members of the LDS church... (so, off the top of my head: Slim & Steph)
Is it offensive to be called a "Mormon"? What's the difference between calling yourself Mormon or saying "LDS"? Is it just old fashioned to say Mormon? Too much stigma attached to that name? What's the deal?
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We're not offended to be called Mormons. It was a nickname given a long time ago and has obviously stuck. There has been some problems recently with people not knowing that the LDS church and Mormons are the same, so a few years ago, Pres. Hinckley suggested that we start identifying ourselves as LDS and educating others that Mormons are LDS so we can hopefully (eventually) get rid of the confusion.
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Vision: I've worn glasses since 3rd grade. Everyone in my family wears glasses, and I have the worst vision of them all. I prefer glasses over contacts and eye surgery. I just don't like the idea of sticking things in my eyes. Besides, I think I look better with glasses anyway.
I always ask my eye doctor what my vision is, and his answer changes every time (depending on the doctor) though it seems my prescription gets stronger every time. The worst was the first time I asked (about 8 years ago) and he said 20/1600.
I can't remember the negative numbers, but I would say around -8, but I really don't know. I'll have to get back to you on that after I my next eye appointment. I'm probably due.
But for some real perspective, to read the normal size print on this forum without my glasses, I have to read from three inches away.
Me and my youngest sister would sometimes play "How many fingers am I holding up?" across the room. The game usually goes like this:
Me: "How many fingers am I holding up?"
T: "Four"
Me: "How did you guess?"
T: "I just counted"
Me: "Are you wearing your glasses?"
T: "No. You can't tell?"
Me: "No. Okay your turn."
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Me: "Tell me when you are holding up your hand."
Usually from there, we just play "How many limbs am I holding up.
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Mormon: (To add to what steph said) The way I see it, the reason we emphasize "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" is because we realized a while back that a lot of people didn't realize we believe in Jesus Christ.
Personally, I don't mind being called a Mormon. But when talking about the church itself, I much prefer it to be called by the full name.
I find the Style Guide at the lds.org newsroom to be helpful.
I always ask my eye doctor what my vision is, and his answer changes every time (depending on the doctor) though it seems my prescription gets stronger every time. The worst was the first time I asked (about 8 years ago) and he said 20/1600.
I can't remember the negative numbers, but I would say around -8, but I really don't know. I'll have to get back to you on that after I my next eye appointment. I'm probably due.
But for some real perspective, to read the normal size print on this forum without my glasses, I have to read from three inches away.
Me and my youngest sister would sometimes play "How many fingers am I holding up?" across the room. The game usually goes like this:
Me: "How many fingers am I holding up?"
T: "Four"
Me: "How did you guess?"
T: "I just counted"
Me: "Are you wearing your glasses?"
T: "No. You can't tell?"
Me: "No. Okay your turn."
...
Me: "Tell me when you are holding up your hand."
Usually from there, we just play "How many limbs am I holding up.
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Mormon: (To add to what steph said) The way I see it, the reason we emphasize "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" is because we realized a while back that a lot of people didn't realize we believe in Jesus Christ.
Personally, I don't mind being called a Mormon. But when talking about the church itself, I much prefer it to be called by the full name.
I find the Style Guide at the lds.org newsroom to be helpful.
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in addition to finding the endercon oddyssey videos I also found my write up my adventures in Endercon, since I believe it's come up in this thread, here's what I wrote when the memory was fresh about Ollie-inna-trunk
I almost forgot one of the biggest highlights of the whole weekend. Since Naomi had found the correct parking lot, and we didn’t want to walk around, we all piled into her car, Dave Nathan and Noah all were already in the back seat, with Ollie and I looking on, so I said, “bye Ollie†and squeezed into the back seat as well, shutting the door and leaving Ollie looking rather astonished. When Naomi realized that Ollie couldn’t fit, she offered him the trunk, which he reluctantly accepted. So for about five minutes of circling the campus, Ollie was trapped in the trunk of the car, I cannot begin to convey how extremely funny this was, even though it put us all on the list. Ollie even called his mom to tell her he was in a trunk, a trunk in Utah, and then spelled out Naomi’s name for her. We got back to the hotel and after fixing the script headed off for the Star Party, we followed Naomi and managed to miss the final turn off, though this didn’t put us too far behind them and we eventually (about two or three minutes) realized our error(s). We got to the star party, looked at a few nebulas you could see since it was a little overcast, then I went back to my car, grabbed the quilt in it and brought it out for everyone that could to lay on. Most of Pweb did and we proceeded to sing a good version of Row, Row, Row your boat, followed by many not so good renditions of most of the recent Disney musicals, which included most of the songs from Lion King. After about an hour or more of singing and talking on the quilt all the clouds had disappeared and people trickled off to look through the man telescopes in earnest, this part was fabulous and beautiful. Star Party was overall great! We got back to the Hotel about 12:30 talked for an hour or so then fell asleep.
I almost forgot one of the biggest highlights of the whole weekend. Since Naomi had found the correct parking lot, and we didn’t want to walk around, we all piled into her car, Dave Nathan and Noah all were already in the back seat, with Ollie and I looking on, so I said, “bye Ollie†and squeezed into the back seat as well, shutting the door and leaving Ollie looking rather astonished. When Naomi realized that Ollie couldn’t fit, she offered him the trunk, which he reluctantly accepted. So for about five minutes of circling the campus, Ollie was trapped in the trunk of the car, I cannot begin to convey how extremely funny this was, even though it put us all on the list. Ollie even called his mom to tell her he was in a trunk, a trunk in Utah, and then spelled out Naomi’s name for her. We got back to the hotel and after fixing the script headed off for the Star Party, we followed Naomi and managed to miss the final turn off, though this didn’t put us too far behind them and we eventually (about two or three minutes) realized our error(s). We got to the star party, looked at a few nebulas you could see since it was a little overcast, then I went back to my car, grabbed the quilt in it and brought it out for everyone that could to lay on. Most of Pweb did and we proceeded to sing a good version of Row, Row, Row your boat, followed by many not so good renditions of most of the recent Disney musicals, which included most of the songs from Lion King. After about an hour or more of singing and talking on the quilt all the clouds had disappeared and people trickled off to look through the man telescopes in earnest, this part was fabulous and beautiful. Star Party was overall great! We got back to the Hotel about 12:30 talked for an hour or so then fell asleep.
So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
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He was such a crybaby! Wittle momma's boy.Ollie even called his mom to tell her he was in a trunk, a trunk in Utah, and then spelled out Naomi’s name for her.
Thank you for posting this, Adam. Great memories. I loved the Star Party.
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Alea,Ed, what sector are you looking to get into after this 13 week schooling process? If you want to share, that is.
That would be the information technology sector, more specifically working with databases. As it is right now, the BS in Computer Science and minor in Business Administration just isn't cutting because I have zero work experience. The program is intense. It's filled with projects, exams and the like. At the end I will be certified by Microsoft and be able to use my instructors as technical references, which is good because currently I have none. Also they have a career services department that will help me spruce up the old resume as well as market me after week 8 of the course. I know that once I get my foot in the door, I'll get a good position because I am a very good interview. However, I haven't been able to get my foot in the door. Hopefully this just the trick. I think it will.
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Don't you just love that catch-22? We won't hire you because you don't have experience but you can't get the experience until someone hires you.As it is right now, the BS in Computer Science and minor in Business Administration just isn't cutting because I have zero work experience.
Sounds like a good plan to me. I wish you the best of luck with it.
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I hate to be a brat (<-- that is my "warning: zero's going to be a brat" sign)... but at least in this field, the way I see most people getting around it is by doing stuff you don't get paid for. Software engineers can work on open source projects and stuff, and sysadmins/DBAs can run their own little fun systems, or run labs/websites/whatever for places on campus (or elsewhere). There's always plenty of this work to go around, at least it seems that way where I always am. So I never really understand complaints of this kind.Don't you just love that catch-22? We won't hire you because you don't have experience but you can't get the experience until someone hires you.As it is right now, the BS in Computer Science and minor in Business Administration just isn't cutting because I have zero work experience.
That program sounds pretty great, though. Best of luck!
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Actually, no. Apparently the technician forgot to record the sex. The doctor was even quite bewildered. That's alright with us though. I didn't really want to know anyway. I'm all about surprises. As for my mother, well, she is upset about it, she really wanted to know so she could start buying clothes. Well, I guess generic colours it is.wigginboy, sorry if you have posted it and I just happened to miss it, I noticed your avatar and wondered: do you know the sex of your baby now?
My question is for all parents on Pweb. This is our first child and we are pretty young. The baby isn't here for another three and a half months and I don't feel like a parent yet. When did you first feel like a parent to your child(ren)?
I do. Including this one, the search says that I have 22 whole posts in "Milagre Town Square".Also, suminonA, do you ever post in Milagre? 'Cause I've never seen any of your posts here.
I post more in "Religion and Moral Philosophy" and "The Game Room", but that's because that's what I like here most.
I don't think so. It doesn't come from "Anonymous", but from "Anonimus", given that I'm not an English native speaker, but a Romanic Language native speaker.I have a question - suminonA, shouldn't it be spelt suomynonA?
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It's all just a matter of interpretation.
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I wish I didn't need glasses. I've worn them since I was six.I have perfect vision.
But I ALWAYS wanted glasses when I was younger! I knew that glasses meant that you couldn't see well, but I don't think I fully comprehended that needing glass meant you couldn't see well. It was a fanciful whim, and I confess that every now and then I still sort of wish I had glasses.
I wear contact lenses sometimes, but my eyes don't tolerate them as well as they used to, so I don't wear them daily anymore.
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Oh, man, I remember this. It was so much fun. My kids and I rode over to the Star Party with Ami.We got to the star party, looked at a few nebulas you could see since it was a little overcast, then I went back to my car, grabbed the quilt in it and brought it out for everyone that could to lay on. Most of Pweb did and we proceeded to sing a good version of Row, Row, Row your boat, followed by many not so good renditions of most of the recent Disney musicals, which included most of the songs from Lion King. After about an hour or more of singing and talking on the quilt all the clouds had disappeared and people trickled off to look through the man telescopes in earnest, this part was fabulous and beautiful. Star Party was overall great!
I think some of the Star Party attendees thought that those of us singing were nuts!
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To EL: How do you pronounce the first part of your name? (I mean Eaquae, of course).
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!
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Ee-ah kwai, or something close to that. It's three syllables, and it's actually two words: "ea" and "quae". When I was new to the Internets I didn't think they'd let me get away with three words in a name, so I went with two.
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Not until I had my 2nd one. Seriously, there were many days before Brayden was born that I would wonder when Tyler's parents were coming to pick him up. It felt like I'd been babysitting him for an awfully long time and that couldn't be right, since I'm not really ready for the whole motherhood thing.
My question is for all parents on Pweb. This is our first child and we are pretty young. The baby isn't here for another three and a half months and I don't feel like a parent yet. When did you first feel like a parent to your child(ren)?
I hope it happens sooner for you!
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I thought about it myself, but in the end, it's not really that funny.I'm disappointed you felt the need to include this:
(I mean Eaquae, of course).
It would have made it potentially funnier without it.
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!
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Just to the Zero being a brat part.I hate to be a brat (<-- that is my "warning: zero's going to be a brat" sign)... but at least in this field, the way I see most people getting around it is by doing stuff you don't get paid for. Software engineers can work on open source projects and stuff, and sysadmins/DBAs can run their own little fun systems, or run labs/websites/whatever for places on campus (or elsewhere). There's always plenty of this work to go around, at least it seems that way where I always am. So I never really understand complaints of this kind.Don't you just love that catch-22? We won't hire you because you don't have experience but you can't get the experience until someone hires you.As it is right now, the BS in Computer Science and minor in Business Administration just isn't cutting because I have zero work experience.
That program sounds pretty great, though. Best of luck!
That was from my Bob post. Hence my slacking in college and not doing anything related to my field came back to haunt me. But I actually did think that my degree would get my foot in the door. At least for an interview, which it didn't. That was my mistake. I know what I did wrong, so don't take it as me complaining. You can take that as Mr. Pinz being a brat.All the slacking in college and getting jobs unrelated to my field of study really came back to haunt me.
Anyway, Thanks to you and Alea for the good luck wishes. Week 1 is done and so far so good.
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You're welcome.Hey, you know what, you're right!
Thanks for telling me what I would find funny!
Now I can stop trying to figure it out for myself.
Feel free to ask me anytime.
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!
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