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Other day riding bike idiot turned right in front of me, slammed brakes (disk), cartwheeled the bike, literally landed on my glasses.
I'm thankful the optometrist who made my last pair insisted I go plastic lenses - formerly was always glass - talk about a good call.
Glasses frame completely mangled with 1 side a figure 8, (I'm guessing even with sprung hinges not the best choice for landing gear.) And both lenses: a few feet away but both intact. (I'm sure if they were glass I'd have been cyclopsed or worse - thanks eye-doc!)
Sin tack ear lol
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Plastic lens are useful for some things, I have found if you are soldering you can get flux spit that leaves a little divot and will drive you nuts!
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Yeah I had a small scratch on one lens (before the fall) that annoyed me. And yeah the plastic these days is really good, but there are still some things that hurt them over time (- which is why formerly I insisted on glass.)
But now: for sure I'll go the safety option of plastic; lesson learned (luckily not the 'hard way') - easier to replace scratched lens than an eyeball. [I don't do soldering - perhaps you could invest in a separate pair for that task.]
Sin tack ear lol
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I tend to were eyeshields that fir over glasses now
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Yeah those disks really bite when you pull on them. Almost did the same thing myself last year.
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There are a number of solutions to this problem:
1: Varifocal lens implants. Know a few people who have had this done and they are very happy with it. Same as a cataract operation apparently. You can see clearly within 15 minutes or so. No more glasses. This costs a bit but average pout the cost of glasses/contact lenses and the complete freedom and it is probably worth it. This will be my next optical adventure.
2: Mono-vision: contact lenses - one for reading, one for distance. Tried that for a few years and was perfectly fine.
3: Varifocal contact lenses: been wearing these for a few years now. They stay in for a week (sleeping as well as waking) and you rest your eyes one night a week. Chuck them out every fourth week and put a new pair in. These work brilliantly.
4: there is no 4 apart from sticking with the mess you have. 
Ok, so I still need glasses for a few hours one night a week but that's ok.
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I pay for vision care insurance which will buy me lenses every year and frames every other year . . . but only normal types of lenses and a default frame set are paid-in-full.
Default frame sets are fine with me. I pay about US$100 extra and get progressive lenses. One pair fits all - except very close work where I have to just take them off. Also, I have them put the straight-ahead sweet-spot to optimize at computer-screen distance, with 'infinity' a bit higher on the lens.
Don't forget to save bits of frame (from old pairs) to repair the new ones (tiny screws, for example). Loose lenses? Don't forget: epoxy can be cured!
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Get new glasses. If you don't need a new prescription, its not like new ones are all that expensive. And yes, the frames do eventually fail from stress unless you're very, very gentle on them.
I found that for me, the spring hinges save a lot of stress on the rest of the frame and allow them to last longer.. although I have worn a few hinges out. I've also standardized on a single pair of frames for all my different glasses -- that way I can swap parts if something breaks and I need it working in a hurry (Zenni orders take a few weeks to arrive). As a bonus, the custom clip-on sunglasses for the driving glasses also fit the reading glasses for when I'm at the beach. Of course, it helps that I'm also old enough to not really care about wearing the most stylish frames anymore.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I ordered a new frame for the walk around glasses this afternoon!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Don't mind that plastic breaks, but I do mind paying an arm and a leg for a few grams of cheap plastic.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Optical surgery time!
Or... titanium glasses.
Or... you know... Strong as steel[^]... 
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Joan Murt wrote: titanium glasses
The one pair of titanium frames I tried broke the fastest of any I'd ever had. I think they were relying on the flexibility of the metal to adjust for different sized heads, not realizing that it was putting tremendous stresses on the hinge points. Even Titanium fatigues eventually.
Kevin Marois wrote: Look into Lasik.
I agree. I was forced to skip Lasik and go to the next level, but the Mrs loved not having to wear glasses for anything after she did Lasik. Made me envious.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Look into Lasik. I did it 12 years ago and I'm so glad I did
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Jeeze, you really have fallen off the wagon.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, I wore glasses (and later, contacts) since I was ab out 8 years old. Finally had operation - they sucked the lenses out and stuck in plastic ones to my prescription. Hurray - no need for any type of glasses again! I have monovision lenses - left eye for close up, right eye for distance and the brain somehow merges them seamlessly (usually).
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Had laser eye surgery back in 2003 and I'd do it again without any hesitation even at twice the price.
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Hi All,
Thanks to Super & LabVIEWstuff, for the reply's sorry I can't get back to you until this evening your direct mails come through to my phone from my Personal email, which I can't get to from work (won't bore you why). Thanks for getting back so quick, this end not an issue as yet but I can see it being.
 have a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) on me!
Laters
Glenn
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It seems that my internal network (I'm in US) cannot get to the cdn.codeproject.com.
No styles, etc.
Also, tried to paste those as links but the those scripts also failed. 
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All fixed. Was it me -- my side -- or was it a hiccup at CP?
Just curious.
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Quote: Was it me -- my side -- or was it a hiccup at CP?
Yes, one of those.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Are you sure you paid your monthly fee?
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It was happening to me as well.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Thanks for chiming in.
I didn't think it was just me, but I was curious.
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