117: ‘I Touched Ron Johnson’ With Guest John Moltz
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 30 April 2015
⏱️ 153 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And did you actually need the iPad or was that just for you know, you want to look like Wolf Helm? |
| 0:05.4 | I needed it not like because it was like a gross hole in my eye that needed to be covered up, |
| 0:13.2 | although it was kind of red, but it was never like gross to look at. So it wasn't cosmetic |
| 0:18.0 | and it wasn't for the cool look. I needed it because the vision out of that eye was so weird |
| 0:24.7 | that there was no other way that I could see like to read or watch TV because my brain couldn't |
| 0:32.6 | process. Yeah, too destructive. It was way too destructive. So I used an iPad for at least a month |
| 0:39.8 | for stuff like reading and watching TV and then I started by like not using it for TV |
| 0:46.5 | and now I don't use it for anything. But it's weird though like if I close my good, I can't read |
| 0:51.5 | my computer at all. But that's partly because of the eye is just not good, but it's also the case |
| 0:58.2 | that my prescription is no longer valid. So I actually have an appointment going soon to get a new |
| 1:03.3 | prescription for the bad eye. But right now like as we record the show, I'm wearing my glasses |
| 1:09.8 | and the lens in my glasses is, I mean, is this interesting? |
| 1:17.2 | The lens in my glasses is, I don't even know, is this interesting? |
| 1:24.4 | It's fascinating. I mean, we can talk about baseball for our kids. Long story short, |
| 1:32.4 | see what started the whole saga for me was that last year the vision of my left eye started getting |
| 1:40.4 | I thought blurry and I just thought it meant that I needed a new prescription. And I was also |
| 1:45.0 | having trouble reading with my left eye, which I attributed to being 41 and I thought, well, |
| 1:49.4 | I'm getting presbiopia. I need you know, reading glasses, but only for my left eye. And I talked |
| 1:55.1 | to my regular optometrist and that just was that you really can't go for like bifocal, so whatever |
| 2:02.2 | you know, you want to call them until both eyes need them. That your brain doesn't really process |
| 2:06.1 | it right. If one eye doesn't, and my right eye still didn't. So he said, really, you know, |
| 2:10.8 | it's, I know it's a pain, but you know, this is getting older. It's, you'd be better off just |
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