mntlblok
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Boxes
Them dern mail boxes ain't near big enough for somebody as popular as I.
Why in the *hell* would you want to tip yer dern head back to see sumpin under water?? If I wuz to do that, I'd bang the back of my head into that thing I screw my regulator on with - which is what I've *done* ever since I lost that mask.
What I done wuz, I held my finger up in front of me about a foot away, wearing my dive mask at the time, and then poked a magic marker type thing against my mask, lined up right between my finger and my eyeball. I did that a bunch of different times at various distances from my mask and made a bunch of different marks until I had a bunch of them dots lined up like one of them least square regression things, and then just ran a line through them. Same thing that I did with that mask I lost a while back. I'll attach a pic of that one here. ((Aside - I lost all the above fine, typed stuff when I went looking into making that attachment in the wrong manner, and couldn't find anything in the FAQ to tell me how to get it back, so I just started over - *but*, I *then* noticed that down there on the lower left was a place to click that said something like "restore auto-saved junk". So, I clicked on it, and, *sure enough*, there it *was*!!))
If you hold yer finger up real close to yer face, yer eyes will cross - like you wuz lookin at yer nose. It's one of them angulation things that nobody ever thinks about. I, on the other hand, am constantly reminded that I "think too much" or "over-think" things. I like to think of it as thinking about it just the right amount.
Bottom line is, you don't want them readers at the bottom (at least not all the way across) for yer basic, "up close" vision - in my opinion. You want em near the middle of yer visual field, I think.
There is one manufacturer that sells a "reader" mask with the "reader" part next to the nose (Cork has one of em), but even *that* one is shaped as a semi-circle, instead of what makes sense (to me). Some may call it "thinking outside the box". I just call it "thinking". (Another aside - I'm currently having similar "discussions" with tennis pros in another forum about the way volleys and slice backhands are taught. Some nice screen shots supporting my point of view are available amongst my 50,000 Flickr pics if anyone is interested. )
Them dern mail boxes ain't near big enough for somebody as popular as I.
Why in the *hell* would you want to tip yer dern head back to see sumpin under water?? If I wuz to do that, I'd bang the back of my head into that thing I screw my regulator on with - which is what I've *done* ever since I lost that mask.
What I done wuz, I held my finger up in front of me about a foot away, wearing my dive mask at the time, and then poked a magic marker type thing against my mask, lined up right between my finger and my eyeball. I did that a bunch of different times at various distances from my mask and made a bunch of different marks until I had a bunch of them dots lined up like one of them least square regression things, and then just ran a line through them. Same thing that I did with that mask I lost a while back. I'll attach a pic of that one here. ((Aside - I lost all the above fine, typed stuff when I went looking into making that attachment in the wrong manner, and couldn't find anything in the FAQ to tell me how to get it back, so I just started over - *but*, I *then* noticed that down there on the lower left was a place to click that said something like "restore auto-saved junk". So, I clicked on it, and, *sure enough*, there it *was*!!))
If you hold yer finger up real close to yer face, yer eyes will cross - like you wuz lookin at yer nose. It's one of them angulation things that nobody ever thinks about. I, on the other hand, am constantly reminded that I "think too much" or "over-think" things. I like to think of it as thinking about it just the right amount.
Bottom line is, you don't want them readers at the bottom (at least not all the way across) for yer basic, "up close" vision - in my opinion. You want em near the middle of yer visual field, I think.There is one manufacturer that sells a "reader" mask with the "reader" part next to the nose (Cork has one of em), but even *that* one is shaped as a semi-circle, instead of what makes sense (to me). Some may call it "thinking outside the box". I just call it "thinking".
(Another aside - I'm currently having similar "discussions" with tennis pros in another forum about the way volleys and slice backhands are taught. Some nice screen shots supporting my point of view are available amongst my 50,000 Flickr pics if anyone is interested. )
