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I did that a couple months ago to get some new glasses measured. It wasn't too bad with the sun glasses they give you.
Don't they give you sun glasses down under?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: Don't they give you sun glasses down under?
No and they wouldn't have been much good with the glasses I wear any way. Well I wear contact lenses all the time but didn't put them in today as I was seeing the optometrist.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Here they give you some flexible disposable plastic things that wrap around inside your glasses. Work quite well actually, but not comfortable enough for long term use. They certainly are dark enough to protect dilated eyes.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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put ya sunnies on ya muppet
bryce
MCAD
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bryce wrote: put ya sunnies on ya muppet
Read the reply where I have my glasses on and not my contacts in.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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yeah dont you have any of those super cool sunnies that go over the top of your normal geek glasses?
i.e. the ones that all the girls swoon over ?
Bryce
MCAD
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Here in the Colonies, they're required to tell you in advance if they intend to dilate your eyes, so that you can plan to have another driver available to get you home. Of course, now that we all have ObamaCare, we'll all get free cab rides home when things don't work out quite as planned at the optometrist's shop.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: optometrist
That's another thing I don't really get. Why don't you just call it an eye doctor?
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Marco Bertschi wrote: Why don't you just call it an eye doctor?
Because they aren't doctors. The correct title for an "eye doctor" is ophthalmologist[^].
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That's what I don't get about it - ophthalmologists have a medical background. Everyone who has studied medicine or a similar subject (eye medicine for example) shall be called a doctor.
Around here we have eye doctors (opthaldingding, - I can't even spell the name), doctors, ear doctors, etc.
would be much simpler?
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The same reason we don't call a proctologist an a**hole mechanic, or you, a script kiddie - respect for their education and experience. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Went through the same a month ago - turns out my retina has a bubble in it, which was giving me a 'wobbly spot' in the vision of my left eye.
I drove back to the office after the drops on the most cloudless beautiful day Qld has ever seen.
Was not only agony, but when I got back to the office my mascara had run & I looked like a firggin' panda
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Shortly I'll be off to a meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to have a discussion about an up coming meeting. Does this happen at anyone else's work place?
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Of course... meetings... the practical alternative to work!!
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That's why my boss allways is in some meeting... I tend to avoid them, just time loose.
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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I can understand this if the meeting is with a client or the board and you need to get it perfect but all too often I see this sort of time wasting at much lower level on the food chain.
My biggest bitch is when a requirement meeting is called and 14 people turn up to put their ideas forward, and then spend the first 2 hours arguing about their internal processes.
OR when you can even find an owner of a process you are supposed to reengineer.
Damn will you not wind me up like that.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Damn will you not wind me up like that.
This meeting is with HR. Does that help?
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It explains a lot.
They really do have nothing else to do, so their metrics probably include "Number of meetings attended" and "number of meetings arranged".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If it is with HR, then it is probably important to have a pre-meeting meeting.
There are normally 4 reasons why HR are involved:
1) Someone is leaving and it is necessary to ensure that company assets (including intellectual properties) are recovered and / or protected.
2) Redundancy / Layoffs - there are normally legal hoops to jump through and it is important that everybody knows what they can and cannot do / say.
3) Recruitment - again there are normally legal things that must be understood: in some places it is illegal to ask questions about certain subjects - family, marital status, religious or sexual orientation for example. If you don't know, then you could land the company in a lot of trouble.
4) Disciplinary - again, legal and contractual procedures that have to be followed, and it is very important that the outcome of the meeting is known well in advance so that nobody starts arguing when the disciplined person is present.
It may sound like rubbish, but from a company point of view getting these things wrong can cost a fortune! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Ah! In that case it's even more important to have a pre-meeting meeting - I'd be tempted to arrange a pre-pre-meeting pre-meeting meeting without HR to discuss who is going to bring the ammo and who the doughnuts to the pre-meeting meeting at which you can shoot all the HR, making the actual meeting a much more relaxed affair that could even be held in the pub!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I've organised a few in the past: a pre-meeting meeting can be a good idea to plan out what you want to cover and to make sure that everybody is "singing from the same song sheet" when it comes to the response, and the way we want the meeting to go. Depending on the type of meeting, it can either drastically reduce the length of the main meeting, or make sure that no one on "your side" is going to go off towards a different goal, or raise matters that could cause complications that can be better copied with internally.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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_Josh_ wrote: The purpose of this meeting is to have a discussion about an up coming meeting.
You should have suggested that you have a separate meeting to decide if this meta-meeting is really required. And you should also convene a meeting to protest the practice of holding meetings over silly things. 
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