I never take off my glasses
Jan. 24th, 2018 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyWell, unless I'm sleeping, showering, crying, or, sometimes, reading.
So I'm occasionally surprised by how bad my uncorrected vision actually is. Thing I learned today: If I take a glance at somebody very far away without my glasses, their bodies will blur so much that they'll look like a headless blob instead of a vaguely person-shaped blob. What is this? Is this the astigmatism?
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So I'm occasionally surprised by how bad my uncorrected vision actually is. Thing I learned today: If I take a glance at somebody very far away without my glasses, their bodies will blur so much that they'll look like a headless blob instead of a vaguely person-shaped blob. What is this? Is this the astigmatism?
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The timeless allure of ruins
This Couple Who Met On Neopets As Children Fell In Love And Got Married As Adults (Aww.)
Even During Deep Sleep, Mouse Pupils Filter the Outside World
How to upset Gene Roddenberry (I deeply want this to be true.)
Israel's Indian Jews and their lives in the 'promised land'
Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
Raising a Social-Media Star
Hospital groups creating company to make cheap generic drugs
Cancer blood test ‘enormously exciting’
U.S. to dismiss charges against 129 people in Trump inaugural protests
What America can learn from cities with super-low unemployment
How Americans of the 1960s Really Felt About Nuclear Fallout Shelters
The Shot That Echoes Still
When the Army Planned for a Fight in U.S. Cities
Why does it cost $32,093 just to give birth in America?
Haitians face hurdles after protected-status renewal delays
U.S. Freezes More Than Half Of Aid To U.N. Agency For Palestinian Refugees
4 years on, ancient heart of Homs still abandoned ruins
It's not concussions that cause CTE. It's repeated hits, a study finds
Denial of abortion leads to economic hardship for low-income women
UN chief and rights groups raise concerns over Rohingya deal
Re: Gene Roddenberry
Date: 2018-01-19 07:40 am (UTC)http://www.thegeektwins.com/2014/07/6-horrifying-facts-about-star-trek-tngs.html
They stank, were too small, horribly uncomfortable, &c. Star Trek: The Motionless Picture had a similar problem: While the ‘space pajamas’ for the main cast were custom-tailored, the extras were handed feetie-jammies on the order of S, M, L, and the result during a long shooting day was nasty.
The screwy thing is, ol' Gene used to know better. Stephen E. Whitfield's invaluable Making of Star Trek quotes him as saying, “The more NASA described future clothing, the more it sounded like long johns.” He also said, and later utterly forgot, “We're making a show about 1966. People in the 23rd century would seem incomprehensible to ordinary viewers.”
Maybe if ol' Gene had not gone so horribly moldy by then that it was necessary to excise him from his own creation to make a worthwhile movie, the uniforms might have looked like this.
Re: Gene Roddenberry
Date: 2018-01-19 08:18 am (UTC)Re: Gene Roddenberry
Date: 2018-01-19 06:50 pm (UTC)Re: Gene Roddenberry
Date: 2018-01-20 02:10 am (UTC)Re: Gene Roddenberry
Date: 2018-01-22 07:28 pm (UTC)Marina Sirtis referred to her gray costume as “a denim spacesuit,” which is one of those phrases that sticks with you.
Re: Gene Roddenberry
Date: 2018-01-20 03:45 am (UTC)saw patrick stewart at dragon con in '09 & he said that they only changed them to a two piece (around season 3 maybe?) because he threatened to sue paramount over the back problems with his doctor supporting him on the medical side.
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Date: 2018-01-20 05:17 am (UTC)