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Footwear Fetish

On: October 16th, 2006 at 1:27 pm | Number of Comments » 4

Who would have thunk that I’d get into buying shoes, of all things? Usually I would have two, maybe three pairs: dress, casual, gym. And the “dress” have for years been Doc Martins. Still are, but I added some nice Spanish leather shoes last year. The casual have always been Converse. Well, as gentle Goyareaders [...]


Today I saw my optic nerve

On: October 16th, 2006 at 12:28 pm | Number of Comments » 7

When offered today the choice of dialation or the latest in retinal imaging technology, I opted for the latter because I had a stack of papers to grade today and didn’t want blurred vision for two hours. Maybe Optomap is an overpriced toy, but it’s a pretty cool one. It took several shots of my [...]