Hmmm. Maybe I have a detached retina.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
oh my. john. get yourself to a doctor & stop worrying!!
― sweet tater, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
it's normal anyway. You can get that staring at a clear blue sky, too. Everyone has that.
Maybe I have a detached retina.
hypochondriacs should be denied access to all medical websites.
― kenan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Try waxing your eyeballs.
― n/a, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I think you can just pop them out and scrub them, can't you?
― kenan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, like I said, I have to make an opthalmologist appointment soon, anyway, so I'll just mention that I've had an increase in floaters and then the doc can tell me what that means.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
an increase? A minute ago you'd never heard of them.
― kenan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Argh!! MINE EYES! I was just looking at the wiki entry on opthalmologists and saw an eye surgery pic.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm assuming he means from zero to some.
― sweet tater, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
As a kid I kept asking my eye doctors about floaters and they kind of brushed off my question and I keep thinking: these things look like bacteria! like little organisms!!
Get some bromide eye wash from the drugstore -- it will make your eyes feel better and will clear them out temporarily.
Also, I don't know why this would be, but maybe they've increased since you started wearing glasses.
Is there a really big moon in it? One of the plays is called Welcome to the Moon. Shanleys plays and screenplays from that period, all the plays and Moonstruck and Joe Versus The Volcano are pretty much one long continuous work.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
AMOEBAS
― dan m, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
http://wilderdom.com/images/Amoeba.gif
http://www.gpmatthews.nildram.co.uk/animalcules/clathrulina.gif
― dan m, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
but maybe they've increased since you started wearing glasses.
I wondered that, too!
Yes. I mean, I'm pretty sure they've been there when I've stared at a perfectly clear blue sky, but now I see them just when I'm reading a book.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
SUMMER 2008
DON'T
CLOSE
YOUR
EYES
"floaters" www.floatersthemovie.com (c)2008
― Eazy, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I am scared to find out what that movie is about.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
floaters, duh
― kenan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
I just made it up. I imagine a series of posters, each with a character (various ages, genders, races) with a balled fist against each eye.
Uh-oh!
Because floaters or flashes can be an indication of a serious problem, you should our doctor when: You see floaters for the first time You notice an increase in the number or size of floaters You experience the sudden onset of flashes
― Eazy, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
What movie was it where someone threw a snickers bar in the pool?
― KitCat, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
True story: first grade show-and-tell, my show-and-tell was telling everyone to close their eyes and dig their face into their arm so that they could see all the little colorful fireworks flashes.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost Caddyshack!
― kenan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
and it was actually a Baby Ruth
http://www.docsteinmetz.com/low_vision/floaters_flashes/images/2smallani.gif
― Eazy, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
argh nebbishy people
― dan m, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
"My daughter has come home from her year in Japan and I have all these squiggles in front of my eyes when I look at her."
― Eazy, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Caddyshack has philosophical implications as well.
So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
― kenan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
http://sseizure.ytmnd.com/
― dan m, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
-- dan m, Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:45 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Just to continue to bitch for a minute, a coworker of mine is stuck with some file problems, and instead of going the sure-fire, low-impact route of getting new files, he is hemming and hawing and being all indecisive, which is starting to cut into my time and resources... and making me BATSHIT INSANE.
― dan m, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
What kind of file problems?
― KitCat, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Images that may or may not be f-ed up in a number of ways.
― dan m, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I have been making smoothies lately. The first one I made was mango/banana/OJ and was probably too thick. Not enough OJ, in retrospect. The second was raspberry/blueberry/white peach/OJ and was pretty good, although the peach wasn't ripe enough. But the one I made last night, strawberry/banana/OJ, was the best. An unfuckwithable combination.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Toss in some peanut butter, srsly!
― Jordan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
That never occurred to me!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Also recommended: milk, plain yogurt.
― kenan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
It's a great excuse to buy fresh fruit that I'd forget about in the fridge otherwise.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
See, I was thinking these kind of files http://www.cleansweepsupply.com/pictures/standard/xqx01486.jpg.
Throw some skim milk or yog into those smoothies!xposts
― KitCat, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
It's also fun to have some frozen fruit on hand for said smoothies (or to throw in muffins).
MUFFIN SMOOTHIE
― Jordan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Wasn't someone on ILX talking about a chocolate-cake smoothie recently?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
you ain't seen nothin' till you're down on the muffin
― kenan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Reminds me of the time at Perkins that some of my bandmates convinced the waitress to make a chocolate shake and then grind up a chocolate chocolate chip muffin into said shake.
xpost!
― Jordan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh yeah: Milkshake/Smoothie Suggestions
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
man, i just ate this quiche from trader joe's that was good but small and now i'm hungry still AND it was pretty high in the ol' calorie department.
― sweet tater, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I made curry lentils but I put them in a vintage glass bowl that I had at my desk and it broke in the microwave. So not only did I have to throw away a beautiful bowl that was a gift I can't replace, but my lentils turned out to have tiny shards of glass in them so I can't even eat them out of a paper cup. And of course I discovered the tiny shards of glass with the roof of my mouth so now I have a cut.
I hate today.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
This article put a smile back on my face, even though it's not terribly sophisticated or terribly well-written. I just like the "just plain folks"ness of it, and the fact that a SMRT message reached exactly the person who needed it most (as opposed to the already-converted fringe).
http://practicalpedal.com/summer2007/daughter.html
― Laurel, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Ow, that sucks three ways, Laurel.
Where'd they put Trader Joes in Mpls., Kelsey?
― Eazy, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm eating some roasted eggplant/artichoke/tomato/onion stew WITH INJERA.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I had leftovers from the awesome dinner Sarah made last night: couscous with vegetables and craisins and chickpeas, and homemade harissa to put on top. I also had a faux-turkey sandwich.
― n/a, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I had leftover chicken makhani last night and it was awesome.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
I had a bunch of carrots.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link