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Harry chose contacts and here's why... believe it or not, it has to do with watching movies!

Hey folks, Harry here... typing at ya without the need for glasses. Now, I don't have a problem doing that usually, but as I'm always watching movies in the background, I have to have glasses on to see what's on that screen over there... Well, I don't know how many of you folks are like me... you've been a geek for a long time and you've been wearing glasses and those glasses helped to define your personality as well as your impression of your face.

Well... A few days ago I went to see BOLT in 3D and - well, I hate putting 3D glasses on top of my regular glasses - and I don't want to go through with the expense of LASIK LASERING OF MY EYEBALLS - and I've always liked the eyedea of contacts. So a few days ago I randomly picked an Optometrist out to go get my eyeballs evaluated for the exo-lenses for me vision. Basically - I feel I need protection for the fucking that AVATAR is going to be giving my eyes this time next year.

I don't know what brought me to Jerry Brinegar, OD - at Highland Mall - next to the LensCrafters, but ya know... sometimes the powers that be guide you to the absolute ideal physician to make things all awesome. Turns out Dr Brinegar is a big honking geek. So the small talk between the various eye tortures was about BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, STAR TREK, BENJAMIN BUTTONS, 3D, BLU-RAY and on and on and on. Hell, I think we even got a little LORD OF THE RINGS and STAR WARS in there.

For me, it really took the nerves off. I mean... here this guy is, measuring my eyes, talking me through pinching stuff off my eyeball and the entire process for doing everything and... well, he totally put me in my element. It's like my regular doctor, whose office is covered with Marvel & DC superheroes memoribilia and posters. Is this normal? Are all doctors cool, or do I just randomly have the super power to weed them out. Cuz it sure feels like fate, when the only two doctors I've gone to see were big honking geeks. So cool.

Anyway, Jerry was cool enough to email me my eyeballs to share with you. I know - you've seen my cut open leg and you've seen my exposed stomach... but here - you'll actually see the delivery device with which all movies enter my brain - and the nerves that carry them. Dr Brinegar says they're in excellent shape and I don't have any of the bad evil scary Diabetic problems with my eyes at all - which was a great relief. But right now - I'm just grooving to perfect peripheral vision. This shits amazing! Can't wait to go see POLAR EXPRESS at the IMAX in 3D or BOLT again!!!







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WTF?!
by CaptainCosmos
Dec 4th, 2008
03:15:26 PM
neat
by unkempt_sock
Dec 4th, 2008
03:16:04 PM
s
by unkempt_sock
Dec 4th, 2008
03:16:16 PM
I'm almost blind on my right eye.
by DerLanghaarige
Dec 4th, 2008
03:16:28 PM
Good call, Harry. Fuck Lasik!
by SpyGuy
Dec 4th, 2008
03:16:46 PM
oy
by DarthHomercles
Dec 4th, 2008
03:17:19 PM
this story is a non sequitur
by frankenfickle
Dec 4th, 2008
03:18:33 PM
Now we have your retinal patterns.
by Nordling
Dec 4th, 2008
03:19:17 PM
great
by Broodwich
Dec 4th, 2008
03:19:22 PM
Sweet, now DVD reviews please!
by SoylentMean
Dec 4th, 2008
03:19:26 PM
next up... boxers or briefs!?!?
by LargoJr
Dec 4th, 2008
03:19:46 PM
harry's brown eye
by smiteboy
Dec 4th, 2008
03:19:48 PM
Could it be stuff like this that drove Mori away?
by Hawaiian Organ Donor
Dec 4th, 2008
03:19:54 PM
Maybe I should really try some laser surgery one day.
by DerLanghaarige
Dec 4th, 2008
03:24:58 PM
I don't see Venom anywhere in those fucking things!
by Mr. Nice Gaius
Dec 4th, 2008
03:27:24 PM
You talked this guy about Battlestar Galactica...
by Johnny Smith
Dec 4th, 2008
03:27:26 PM
Contacts are the HD-DVD of vision correction.
by thebearovingian
Dec 4th, 2008
03:27:28 PM
When I had Lasik done...
by ZsAsZz
Dec 4th, 2008
03:27:31 PM
One other argument against LASIK...
by Archive
Dec 4th, 2008
03:28:36 PM
Harry -- Showering & Contacts
by I Own You
Dec 4th, 2008
03:29:44 PM
Thank goodness.
by HoboCode
Dec 4th, 2008
03:30:09 PM
Who gives a shit?
by Harrigan
Dec 4th, 2008
03:31:09 PM
I had a lazy eye for the first 16 years of my life...
by odo19
Dec 4th, 2008
03:31:32 PM
Had LASIK.
by Lucasblows
Dec 4th, 2008
03:33:01 PM
Lasik - worst mistake of my life.
by HoboCode
Dec 4th, 2008
03:33:18 PM
Sweet: Now I can defeat the Retina Scan security
by chromedome
Dec 4th, 2008
03:38:28 PM
BOYCOTT AVATAR!! SAY NO TO MEDIOCRITY!
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Dec 4th, 2008
03:40:52 PM
-sigh- I should get my contacts back.
by Anna Valerious
Dec 4th, 2008
03:41:35 PM
Don't be such a baby, Harry. LASIK
by Alifemde
Dec 4th, 2008
03:43:51 PM
Okay this was disturbing
by Orionsangels
Dec 4th, 2008
03:45:10 PM
dickblood...
by kaspianwithak
Dec 4th, 2008
03:46:09 PM
Hobocode...
by Alifemde
Dec 4th, 2008
03:46:59 PM
loser
by reckni
Dec 4th, 2008
03:47:45 PM
Photos of your eyeballs, Harry ??!!!
by Bill Clay
Dec 4th, 2008
03:48:55 PM
So since Harry titled this article the same way...
by Little Beavis
Dec 4th, 2008
03:51:49 PM
Next a photo of my testicles...
by quantize
Dec 4th, 2008
03:53:07 PM
DGDB please tell me your joking
by rhcp2sweet
Dec 4th, 2008
03:55:53 PM
Lasik
by MamoVaka
Dec 4th, 2008
03:56:43 PM
Though those were green coktail onions...
by Darth Macchio
Dec 4th, 2008
03:57:09 PM
Super power to find geek doctors...
by The Eskimo
Dec 4th, 2008
03:57:19 PM
The Doc should have talked about Saturn 3 while
by Monkeybrains
Dec 4th, 2008
03:59:06 PM
Lasik will be the way of the future...
by catman
Dec 4th, 2008
04:01:46 PM
Harry
by matalo
Dec 4th, 2008
04:02:43 PM
This is absolutely FASCINATING NEWS!!
by The Gospel According to Bastardface
Dec 4th, 2008
04:02:47 PM
Medical procedure for obesity, but not
by teethgnasher
Dec 4th, 2008
04:03:20 PM
So Contacts will be going out of business?
by Monkey Man Zero
Dec 4th, 2008
04:03:46 PM
Many people can't even see 3D anyways
by Mr. Moe
Dec 4th, 2008
04:07:24 PM
Harold's teeth
by Little Beavis
Dec 4th, 2008
04:07:53 PM
What the fuck just happened?
by My Mom Is A Whore
Dec 4th, 2008
04:09:21 PM
So no Tuesday DVD releases
by yomomma
Dec 4th, 2008
04:10:24 PM
The Gospel According to Bastardface
by unkempt_sock
Dec 4th, 2008
04:11:07 PM
I once sat throught BNAT with wire holding my glasses together.
by The Reluctant Austinite
Dec 4th, 2008
04:11:35 PM
Re 3D:
by GoSensGo
Dec 4th, 2008
04:12:41 PM
Harry has chosen toilet paper and here's why..
by BobParr
Dec 4th, 2008
04:14:42 PM
The main point
by evil twin
Dec 4th, 2008
04:15:36 PM
Harry, those pics are WICKED!
by SkidMarkedUndies
Dec 4th, 2008
04:17:28 PM
highland mall
by bluepizza
Dec 4th, 2008
04:18:55 PM
Caveat ocular
by TheGreatPumpkin
Dec 4th, 2008
04:19:45 PM
Harry hit a soft spot.
by The Reluctant Austinite
Dec 4th, 2008
04:21:17 PM
Cool News?
by p0llk4t
Dec 4th, 2008
04:26:23 PM
Fascinating
by MattmanReturns
Dec 4th, 2008
04:29:28 PM
Funny thing...
by p0llk4t
Dec 4th, 2008
04:31:19 PM
No..The Main point of this story is..
by conspiracy
Dec 4th, 2008
04:34:57 PM
3D movies are annoying.
by Pissed Off And Bitter
Dec 4th, 2008
04:36:26 PM
Harry, can you post the links
by the milf lover
Dec 4th, 2008
04:36:51 PM
Reluctant Austinite
by HEADGEEK
Dec 4th, 2008
04:38:53 PM
bluepizza
by yoko knowles
Dec 4th, 2008
04:41:04 PM
Slow news day?
by kravmaguffin
Dec 4th, 2008
04:41:11 PM
I was under the impression that Halloween wasn't for seeing
by SoylentMean
Dec 4th, 2008
04:42:49 PM
A family affair, here on AICN?
by SoylentMean
Dec 4th, 2008
04:44:06 PM
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
by kwisatzhaderach
Dec 4th, 2008
04:44:12 PM
ALL GOOD FUN 'TIL YOU SCRATCH AN EYEBALL
by Greigy Just Wanted To Say
Dec 4th, 2008
04:47:46 PM
Now those eyeballs...
by NivekJ
Dec 4th, 2008
04:49:26 PM
Best BNAT poster ever!...
by Nordling
Dec 4th, 2008
04:51:02 PM
DIAL M.. and CREATURE... Now That's real 3D
by Greigy Just Wanted To Say
Dec 4th, 2008
04:51:59 PM
Harry's nine visible inches?
by p0llk4t
Dec 4th, 2008
04:53:49 PM
And the dvd section!?
by enough22
Dec 4th, 2008
04:54:13 PM
enough22
by p0llk4t
Dec 4th, 2008
04:56:29 PM
IF ONLY YOU COULD SEE WHAT I'VE SEEN WITH THOSE EYES
by Greigy Just Wanted To Say
Dec 4th, 2008
04:58:06 PM
p0llk4t, I was gonna say the same thing
by SoylentMean
Dec 4th, 2008
04:58:09 PM
where can you still see Polar Express in GOOD 3-d?
by awepittance
Dec 4th, 2008
04:58:15 PM
I stopped using contacts this year...
by cifra
Dec 4th, 2008
05:00:33 PM
Polar Express in austin
by HEADGEEK
Dec 4th, 2008
05:04:43 PM
Sending to the Private & Personal/Shameless Promotional Room!!!
by seppukudkurosawa
Dec 4th, 2008
05:07:24 PM
Cifra
by drewlicious
Dec 4th, 2008
05:08:26 PM
wow, dude, even your eyeballs are huge
by Magic Rat
Dec 4th, 2008
05:11:34 PM
as my eyes get older and dryer...
by crankyoldguy
Dec 4th, 2008
05:14:57 PM
Glad to see you're breast cancer free Harry
by SomaShine
Dec 4th, 2008
05:15:06 PM
Dude, you should have just got the LASK.
by Lucasblows
Dec 4th, 2008
05:16:33 PM
Wow
by Mr. Zeddemore
Dec 4th, 2008
05:17:31 PM
Bob Parr
by Seth_Brundle
Dec 4th, 2008
05:20:40 PM
Don't use the red-tip rewetting drops...
by TheGreatPumpkin
Dec 4th, 2008
05:41:15 PM
I heard that Lasik makes your eyeballs fall out
by SoylentMean
Dec 4th, 2008
05:47:13 PM
Listen up mother fuckers
by C0ns
Dec 4th, 2008
05:58:45 PM
congratulations on contact lenses making their way to Austin!
by m00kiedood
Dec 4th, 2008
05:59:51 PM
Avatar is Cameron's attempt at an Edgar Rice Burroughs
by DRACULA_WANTS_THE_AMULET
Dec 4th, 2008
06:15:29 PM
Lasik is painfull to watch...
by Ironmuskrat
Dec 4th, 2008
06:17:12 PM
Hey Harry
by HOTDOGVNDR
Dec 4th, 2008
06:18:36 PM
Laser eye surgery
by gumbercules
Dec 4th, 2008
06:20:55 PM
Alifemde
by HoboCode
Dec 4th, 2008
06:30:25 PM
OMG, it's full of stars!
by Xandar1977
Dec 4th, 2008
06:31:23 PM
contacts and IOL
by Himbo
Dec 4th, 2008
06:50:55 PM
If you get lasik, you can forget about space travel
by DonnyUnitas
Dec 4th, 2008
07:21:14 PM
holy fucking shit
by The Amazing G
Dec 4th, 2008
07:21:27 PM
Lasik worked for me just dandy.
by Flip63Hole
Dec 4th, 2008
07:24:27 PM
the master of nonsense
by Lobanhaki
Dec 4th, 2008
07:30:39 PM
Seth Brundle
by BobParr
Dec 4th, 2008
07:44:42 PM
I didn't read the "article" because
by Exasperilious
Dec 4th, 2008
08:03:02 PM
Windows to the soul
by kafka07
Dec 4th, 2008
08:05:23 PM
WHERE'S HARRY'S "BOLT" REVIEW?
by BartholomewNeff
Dec 4th, 2008
08:09:14 PM
You have beautiful eyes, Harry!
by Carl XVI Gustaf
Dec 4th, 2008
08:20:19 PM
thank god for this article
by TheDudeintheShadows
Dec 4th, 2008
09:18:40 PM
Lasik...
by waylayer
Dec 4th, 2008
10:12:45 PM
Every "year," not "yes."
by waylayer
Dec 4th, 2008
10:13:27 PM
Thankyou Harry
by hallmitchell
Dec 4th, 2008
10:32:34 PM
TWILIGHT MAKES MY EYES SPARKLE :
by PTSDPete
Dec 4th, 2008
11:33:35 PM
Funniest TB in ages.
by Gilkuliehe
Dec 4th, 2008
11:37:52 PM
Harry, an honest question (or two)...
by half vader
Dec 5th, 2008
12:08:42 AM
half vader
by HEADGEEK
Dec 5th, 2008
03:31:20 AM
People have gastric surgery...
by emeraldboy
Dec 5th, 2008
05:14:35 AM
Glad it worked for you Harry
by The McPoyle Clan
Dec 5th, 2008
05:19:22 AM
TOO SOON!!!
by Cletus Van Damme
Dec 5th, 2008
07:33:41 AM
Paul Benedict just died
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Dec 5th, 2008
07:44:53 AM
Hey thanks for that Harry.
by half vader
Dec 5th, 2008
08:03:37 AM
Paul McCartney teaches eye yoga on Youtube
by MELGIBSONS_DICKCHEESE
Dec 5th, 2008
08:47:39 AM
Next up: Harry Knowles Colonoscopy
by Abominable Snowcone
Dec 5th, 2008
10:08:38 AM
The reason Harry shouldn't get LASIK
by Mr Incredible
Dec 5th, 2008
11:32:58 AM
Seems like a commercial for his eye doctor.
by Bob Cryptonight
Dec 5th, 2008
11:47:19 AM
Please post a photo of Yoko servicing your 9 inches.
by Bob Cryptonight
Dec 5th, 2008
11:48:39 AM
Bob Cryptonight
by Gh0ulardi
Dec 5th, 2008
12:37:35 PM

by Gh0ulardi
Dec 5th, 2008
12:40:32 PM
http://tinyurl.com/499bt2
by Gh0ulardi
Dec 5th, 2008
12:42:30 PM
Patricia--er, Yoko--that's an image I now have to live with.
by The Reluctant Austinite
Dec 5th, 2008
01:54:31 PM
Sailor's Wank
by mrbong
Dec 5th, 2008
02:32:07 PM
wanking over AVATAR
by mrbong
Dec 5th, 2008
02:35:11 PM
I don't want to Avatar to fuck me in the eyes
by My Mom Is A Whore
Dec 5th, 2008
03:01:04 PM
No pictures of Harry's 9 inches please
by My Mom Is A Whore
Dec 5th, 2008
03:02:17 PM
Why does everyone automatically believe Harry's got
by half vader
Dec 6th, 2008
03:40:02 AM
At least Harry can laugh at the whole "here's why" thing
by half vader
Dec 6th, 2008
03:42:05 AM

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