So why does this work?
I'm thinking CMF Jon can answer this, but I haven't had a chance to ask him directly. He seems to be a regular reader. Maybe we can exercise the comment feature here on blogger.
Why do my glasses work well no matter how far down my nose they are?
If you know me there there is a reasonable amount of slack here. That is up and down my nasal appendage. I don't know the answer, because, well there is "no why there" (as I tell the kids some times). I just don't know. I was sitting in a seriously boring meeting where 3 people were arguing something and, as per usual, a fourth party wanted to weigh in and he did so in a rather loud way near my head so I tuned out. I started wondering about how far down my glasses could go and I could still read the scribble on the white board. I found through experimentation that it didn't matter to me where they were. I could be in "librarian glare" mode way out at the end and it was the same as pushed as hard as I can up to where the polycarbonate is being brushed by my eyelashes. No difference that I could see.
I only got glasses when I turned 29. So I haven't been pondering this or even really had a reason to ponder this for six or so years. If the question sounds like it comes from a first grader, that's why.
I have a few of theories. The first of which is my eyes are strong enough to compensate for my stupid experiment. The other is the nature of my prescription is correcting for the not so spherical right eye I have and that type of correction it isn't critical how far from the cornea the lens is. Third (when I added the third theory I want you to know I went back and changed the word "couple" to "few" because people a couple is two and a few is three or more.) shit after my word usage tirade I've forgotten the third theory... Oh wait I got it. Third my left eye is strong enough to compensate (it's almost a 0 corrective lens on the left) for my stupid right eye that can't see shit.
So why do I think Jon will know the answer to this? Because one evening he took my glasses and started moving them around a few feet away from his eyes and played "guess the prescription" and he got it right. That's crazy. CMF
Why do my glasses work well no matter how far down my nose they are?
If you know me there there is a reasonable amount of slack here. That is up and down my nasal appendage. I don't know the answer, because, well there is "no why there" (as I tell the kids some times). I just don't know. I was sitting in a seriously boring meeting where 3 people were arguing something and, as per usual, a fourth party wanted to weigh in and he did so in a rather loud way near my head so I tuned out. I started wondering about how far down my glasses could go and I could still read the scribble on the white board. I found through experimentation that it didn't matter to me where they were. I could be in "librarian glare" mode way out at the end and it was the same as pushed as hard as I can up to where the polycarbonate is being brushed by my eyelashes. No difference that I could see.
I only got glasses when I turned 29. So I haven't been pondering this or even really had a reason to ponder this for six or so years. If the question sounds like it comes from a first grader, that's why.
I have a few of theories. The first of which is my eyes are strong enough to compensate for my stupid experiment. The other is the nature of my prescription is correcting for the not so spherical right eye I have and that type of correction it isn't critical how far from the cornea the lens is. Third (when I added the third theory I want you to know I went back and changed the word "couple" to "few" because people a couple is two and a few is three or more.) shit after my word usage tirade I've forgotten the third theory... Oh wait I got it. Third my left eye is strong enough to compensate (it's almost a 0 corrective lens on the left) for my stupid right eye that can't see shit.
So why do I think Jon will know the answer to this? Because one evening he took my glasses and started moving them around a few feet away from his eyes and played "guess the prescription" and he got it right. That's crazy. CMF
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