Comments for Skuds' Sister's Brother http://skuds.org "Please send me evenings and weekends" Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:55:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Varifocals by dorothy http://skuds.org/2009/02/varifocals/comment-page-1/#comment-103478 dorothy Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:55:50 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=3052#comment-103478 Im wearing my new varis now and after reading all the comments my neck is killing me. Distance is great but reading is literaly a pain in the neck. What do I do , I will go back to the optician again . Im wearing my new varis now and after reading all the comments my neck is killing me. Distance is great but reading is literaly a pain in the neck. What do I do , I will go back to the optician again .

]]> Comment on Varifocals by Jo http://skuds.org/2009/02/varifocals/comment-page-1/#comment-103386 Jo Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:48:02 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=3052#comment-103386 I'm on day 2 of my first pair of varifocals and I'm not happy. I dont like the swimmy effect I'm getting and I dont like having to keep moving my head around. What I fail to understand, and I hope somebody will enlighten me and not call me thick - Why the fuzzy bit at the sides? Why is there just a tunnel in the middle for the good bit - for distance? The reading bit at the bottom is OK. I paid nearly £500 for these, I've been assured by the optician they are the "best" - I havent scrimped :/ I’m on day 2 of my first pair of varifocals and I’m not happy. I dont like the swimmy effect I’m getting and I dont like having to keep moving my head around.

What I fail to understand, and I hope somebody will enlighten me and not call me thick – Why the fuzzy bit at the sides? Why is there just a tunnel in the middle for the good bit – for distance? The reading bit at the bottom is OK. I paid nearly £500 for these, I’ve been assured by the optician they are the “best” – I havent scrimped :/

]]> Comment on Lenny walks by Danivon http://skuds.org/2013/02/lenny-walks/comment-page-1/#comment-103366 Danivon Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:39:57 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=6328#comment-103366 I got the impression that he had received some complaints, going by the article in the News from the previous week. However, if he didn't have (or wasn't prepared to pass on) evidence, it would seem foolish to have gone to the press. He didn't, however, actually say that the council was 'institutionally racist', just that he'd heard that from employees as their opinion. If there are whistleblowers who went to him, they may also not have wanted him to 'out' them to the officers/leader. It's an odd situation. I got the impression that he had received some complaints, going by the article in the News from the previous week.

However, if he didn’t have (or wasn’t prepared to pass on) evidence, it would seem foolish to have gone to the press. He didn’t, however, actually say that the council was ‘institutionally racist’, just that he’d heard that from employees as their opinion.

If there are whistleblowers who went to him, they may also not have wanted him to ‘out’ them to the officers/leader.

It’s an odd situation.

]]> Comment on Varifocals by Jim http://skuds.org/2009/02/varifocals/comment-page-1/#comment-103359 Jim Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:34:46 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=3052#comment-103359 Jim here again. I have a VERY patient optician who has now tried no less than 4 different varis on me, all of them with an identically narrow corridor, and all absolutely useless for computer use. I just hope I'm not paying! I use a 1-dioptre correction for distance which is quite small. Most of my problem lies in being unable to focus in on close-up (presbyopia). It seems from lots of research that the narrow corridor just MIGHT be the result of the optician having set the reading part of the varis at too high a strength. Oddly, Essilor do not seem to be able to test the lenses they have made to be sure that they made the lenses they thought they made, to confirm or deny the bad experience I claim to be having. I notice that all the manufacturers e.g. Zeiss use an almost identical advertising chart promoting THEIR varis, so it's little use hoping to find a "better" manufacturer. I think after all that I am going to have to give in, and settle for two pairs of glasses: one pair of bi-focals with Reactolite for outdoors, and an "occupational" pair of glasses tied to the PC monitor. Ugh. Jim here again. I have a VERY patient optician who has now tried no less than 4 different varis on me, all of them with an identically narrow corridor, and all absolutely useless for computer use.

I just hope I’m not paying!

I use a 1-dioptre correction for distance which is quite small. Most of my problem lies in being unable to focus in on close-up (presbyopia).

It seems from lots of research that the narrow corridor just MIGHT be the result of the optician having set the reading part of the varis at too high a strength.

Oddly, Essilor do not seem to be able to test the lenses they have made to be sure that they made the lenses they thought they made, to confirm or deny the bad experience I claim to be having.

I notice that all the manufacturers e.g. Zeiss use an almost identical advertising chart promoting THEIR varis, so it’s little use hoping to find a “better” manufacturer.

I think after all that I am going to have to give in, and settle for two pairs of glasses: one pair of bi-focals with Reactolite for outdoors, and an “occupational” pair of glasses tied to the PC monitor. Ugh.

]]> Comment on Heavy Metal Britannia by charybdis1966 http://skuds.org/2010/03/heavy-metal-britannia/comment-page-1/#comment-103349 charybdis1966 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:13:37 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=4561#comment-103349 Dynamitezone, the music at the end is "Symptom of the Universe" by Black Sabbath. Dynamitezone, the music at the end is “Symptom of the Universe” by Black Sabbath.

]]> Comment on 2012 and all that by Andrew http://skuds.org/2013/01/2012-and-all-that/comment-page-1/#comment-103286 Andrew Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:10:08 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=6303#comment-103286 The Kindle really makes a difference, doesn't it? Had the same experience - piled through books in 2012, including lots I probably would have decided against in the bookshop. Advantages of one-click purchases :-) The Kindle really makes a difference, doesn’t it? Had the same experience – piled through books in 2012, including lots I probably would have decided against in the bookshop. Advantages of one-click purchases :-)

]]> Comment on Wilko by jams o donnell http://skuds.org/2013/01/wilko/comment-page-1/#comment-103283 jams o donnell Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:01:15 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=6309#comment-103283 Sad news indeed. He is truly one of the treasures of Essex Sad news indeed.

He is truly one of the treasures of Essex

]]> Comment on Varifocals by Jim http://skuds.org/2009/02/varifocals/comment-page-1/#comment-103259 Jim Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:10:51 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=3052#comment-103259 I wish I'd read this post two weeks ago . . . I bought the highest price Essilor varifocals having "warned" the optometrist that I did a lot of computer work, and thinking that if I poured money into the lenses, they had to be good. Bad move. They are worse than the cheap ones I got from Specsavers several years ago: at screen distance, I can only read about five words at a time on my PC without having to move my head around like a demented chicken. Essilor have a promotional chart with star ratings and photographs on it which make you think they have solved the "hour glass" problem with their "Physio" and "Ipsio" lenses. Well, you need to tell your optometrist EXACTLY what angle through which you need to be able to move your eyes before you reach the edge of the usable area. In the case of the average 17" screen, that's about 42 degrees. Don't settle for anything less. I wish I’d read this post two weeks ago . . . I bought the highest price Essilor varifocals having “warned” the optometrist that I did a lot of computer work, and thinking that if I poured money into the lenses, they had to be good.

Bad move. They are worse than the cheap ones I got from Specsavers several years ago: at screen distance, I can only read about five words at a time on my PC without having to move my head around like a demented chicken.

Essilor have a promotional chart with star ratings and photographs on it which make you think they have solved the “hour glass” problem with their “Physio” and “Ipsio” lenses.

Well, you need to tell your optometrist EXACTLY what angle through which you need to be able to move your eyes before you reach the edge of the usable area. In the case of the average 17″ screen, that’s about 42 degrees. Don’t settle for anything less.

]]> Comment on The new council by Richard W. Symonds http://skuds.org/2012/05/the-new-council/comment-page-1/#comment-103104 Richard W. Symonds Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:17:46 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=6152#comment-103104 Adam, to the already insane in an insane world, those who are desperately trying to hold on to their sanity will "come across" as more than "slightly insane". Adam, to the already insane in an insane world, those who are desperately trying to hold on to their sanity will “come across” as more than “slightly insane”.

]]> Comment on The new council by Adam Brown http://skuds.org/2012/05/the-new-council/comment-page-1/#comment-103103 Adam Brown Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:03:38 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=6152#comment-103103 You do often come across as slightly insane! You do often come across as slightly insane!

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