On December 13, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
> > >> > I'll bet you're presbyotic (far-sighted)
> > >>
> > >> Nit pick time. I think you mean presbyopic. presbyotic would be
> > >> someone who can only hear things far away.
>
> Actually, neither of you are right. Presbyopia is not being able to see
> near or far due to lack of accomodative ability caused by age.
> Farsightedness is hyperopia.
...and Sridharopia is the desire to hack on a 1GHz PDP11 in a
storage locker with an electric heater using an old DOS box as a
terminal! :-)
There, that was at least *closer* to being on-topic!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 16:49:48 GMT