A monkey and his key-bored: Laser beams...

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Laser beams...

Today I go in for LASIK surgery. That is right, I will be having a large "cold" lazer cut a flap in my cornia (covering of the eye), reshape my eyeball, and then lay the flap back down. The end result should be (and if it is not I will be rich from malpractice money) 20/20 or better vision. My vision isn't horrible now, but it is bad enough I have to wear glass all the time and if I don't I have trouble functioning. I need to thank my wife since she is the one who decided this would be a great graduation present (reminding everyone again that I am not graduated yet), it will be nice to wake up tomorrow and not have to search for my glasses. I will post a couple videos documenting the goings-on.

Bill

1 comment:

amyJune 30, 2010 at 4:52 PM
awesome! let me know what you think about the no glasses look!
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Where am I? This isn't my beautiful life (Heads, T. 1980)!

Why the name???
One of my favorite sayings in the world is, "If you give a monkey a typewriter and infinity, he will write the Bible (you can insert any great book here as to not offend a religion)." I love this quote because it really makes several interesting statements. At it's heart it is a comment on probability. Basically saying that if you try at something long enough you are bound to succeed...no matter how deficient you are. It is the basis of science, failure begets failure, until we learn enough from failures that we are able to succeed, and I love science.

I also feel like this statement reminds us all that we shouldn't get too impressed with our abilities as a human race. We are not so far away from that monkey clunking away on the typewriter. Yes, we have invented many wonderful things. But, we have also participated in some horrible wars over odd things, excluded and hurt people simply because they are different, and created general mayhem on the environment. Despite the Parthenon, Shakespeare's sonnets, and our religious tomes we are just one small incident away from becoming monkey's chucking spears (or poop). The image should keep us all humble.

I often feel when I am authoring a blog that I am trying to create something meaningful that will, at the least, entertain people. Associated with that feeling, I often feel like I am flailing miserably. However, I shall keep hacking away, hoping some day probability prevails and I write something meaningful. In the event I do write something worthwhile, I hope I am level headed enough to remember my second point. If not, the five of you who read this blog can feel free to remind me.

And what about keyboard being spelled key-bored? Aside from the fact I utilize the English language like a dog would handle a paintbrush, bored refers to the emotion that usually precedes my writing, boredom. Get it? It is my attempt at being clever and deep.