So I’ve had my fingerprint reader for a while now, it’s been pretty useful and I find many more uses for it everyday (seems to have no effect when I point it passing cars). However I have to say that after reading TBB’s post about the LED being on 24x7 I couldn’t stop staring at the darn thing and had to turn it upside down while it’s not in use. Thanks TBB J!

On the bright side the little red lasers (ok LEDs) blaring in my eyes got me thinking about getting Lasix surgery again. I have been considering doing this for a long time but never really got past the early procrastination stage.  This time however I decided the go through with it and had the “treatment” done last week.  While this procedure worked great for me I’ll stop short of recommending it because it is not without risks.

The procedure was pretty uneventful but my wife and kids swear that they could see smoke coming out of my eyes as the laser did it’s magic,  I guess I am not surprised because I could smell burning hair (I guess burning eyeball and burning hair smell the same).   The laser time is about 30 seconds per eye and the surgeon spends about a minute slicing open your cornea and putting in back in place when the laser is done.  The procedure doesn’t hurt at all.  Next day I was seeing 20/20 and except for a few halos around lights at night (which will go away) all is well.   

So here’s to the fingerprint reader and it’s persistent little LEDs,  thanks for the inspiration.