The World of StuffSemi-geeky musings, links, and observations by an all-geeky teenager.Will be blind, but now I see- July 30, 2008 I always worried about this day. Now it has come. Well, it hasn't quite. But I can tell it's coming now. Yesterday, after a routine checkup, the ophthalmologist or optometrist or whoever (I like optometrist better because it's easier to spell) told me I was slightly farsighted, more so in one eye than the other. She ...http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/07/29/will-be-blind-but-now-i-see/ Ten times better- July 28, 2008 In October 2003, I "suddenly became obsessed with the metric system," as I put it at the time. I mentioned plans for writing an article called "The Metric System: Ten Times Better or Inching Toward a Metric America." Well, that didn't happen. A fragmentary draft exists on my computer, last modified on October 19, 2003: In ...http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/07/27/ten-times-better/ My brain is behind the times- July 25, 2008 I played baseball with my some of my friends again yesterday. They've really been getting into it lately. Even though my friend Nick wants to start a league or something, we still didn't have enough people to play a game, so we were just hitting the ball around. I got a left-handed glove, so I, ...http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/07/25/my-brain-is-behind-the-times/ |