I don't believe there's a membrane over the cornea, though, unless you mean the tear film (which shouldn't be affecting LASIK) or Descemet's membrane, which is underneath the cornea. If you'd really like I can link you to some reliable literature which explains the cornea really well?

The surgery was aborted midway through so it's unlikely he'll be able to reap the benefits of it :(

Gay men are buff gym rats everywhere...

ENGAGING CYNIC MODE

Richard, forgive me if this comes off as rude, but how exactly was your surgery a failure? Did the surgeon explain to you why? I'm just curious to know, is all. I'm an optometry student so I'm naturally fascinated by botched eye surgery, I guess.

It sounds like a good idea, but it just doesn't work for some of us. People in my family have to get up anytime between 5:30 and 8 so it's pretty much impossible to eat breakfast together.

When I was in school I'd have afterschool stuff until 5, but the bus wouldn't get me home until 6:40. If you have to commute for a private school (lots of kids do in Australia) then it wouldn't surprise me that people are getting home after 7.

Putting the "Play" button on that cover photo was a very cruel trick. I sat there for two minutes thinking my PC was lagging until I realised it was just a picture...

If I recall correctly humans only have a recorded history of about 10000 years in Westeros so I doubt they've been aorund for much longer than that. Given that real-life humans have been around for approximately 20000 (?) years it's not unreasonable to think that they're still stuck in the Middle Ages.

Bad troll, bad!

it refers to abruptly shocking/tragic/violent endings in games/anime that, on the surface, appear to be very happy otherwise. It comes from the ending of the School Days anime, which was, uh, quite shocking.

God damn it that scene gave me nightmares for a fucking long time.

if you're not charging them $50 for hints, you're not a hint guy.

Don't be afraid to use a guide, though. It's good and all that you like to do things on your own but sometimes the next place you need to go is more obscure than an FF game. And I mean REALLY obscure. If you don't want to use a guide, just make sure you pay attention to what NPCs say and try talking to all of them,…

I'd argue that this is a better way since you can save-state and reload as you please rather than have to go back to a telephone every time you get a game over.

I had a bad reaction from smoking a synthetic drug and you don't see me crying about everyone else's drug stories

look at me, I'm sucking the fun out of everything!

Bolin is gr8, he's so amazingly cute

Did anyone else mistake that pasta and chicken to be a headcrab for a second?

Oh, I suppose those are all very valid reasons for liking the anime. But what I saw of it thoroughly unimpressed me; the pacing was absolutely awful and I couldn't wait for the Defense of Trost arc to end... and it didn't, not for a long time. It was far too early to have a "long arc", in my opinion. Shows such as,…