I had it done. Hoopes Vision is a great place to have it done. (I had it done somewhere else.)
If you win, do it. On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <[email protected]> wrote: > You may recall from a thread[1] that I started (about a year and a > half ago) that I've been interested in getting lasik and in hearing > the PLUG's wisdom on the topic. I went in and got the screening and > did lots of research, but in the end, other expenses took priority. > > *time passes* > > About a month ago, I heard an ad on the radio about a video contest to > win free lasik. I was interested, but I mostly blew it off thinking > it wasn't my type of thing. Anyway, the night of the deadline, I was > talking to my brother about how cool it would be to win. Well I > couldn't resist. On the way home from work, I stopped at the local > D.I. and picked up the thickest glasses that $1.75 could buy. I > started the camera and the results where, ah, kinda funny (and > creepy). After about two or three takes, I had my contest entry[2] . > I asked my wife what she thought and she was like, "You're kidding > right"? I knew then, it was the right thing to do :) > > I was kinda surprised that the video did as well as it did. I was > even more surprised when I eventually got selected as one of the > contest finalists. Right now it has more then 1/2 the views of the > official contest video and 50-350% more views then the other > finalist's entries. Two winners will be selected, one humorous and > one serious. On Sept. 9th we find out who wins. > > I'd love it if you might help by voting[3] for your pal Roger > Bespectacled (you think I'm going to use my *real* name for that?), in > the humorous category. If you do vote, keep it clean by only voting > once per IP/day. > > If you're extra bored with life, consider friending "Roger" on > facebook[4] and following him on twitter[5]. Don't get too attached, > as I'm pretty sure Roger either dies an ignominious or victorious > (TBD) death on Sept. 10th. > > Thanks for your time :) > > Gabe > > > 1) http://www.plug.org/pipermail/plug/2008-February/029678.html > 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yntDtQq5PnE > 3) http://www.hoopesvision.com/contest/ > 4) http://www.facebook.com/thebespectacled > 5) http://twitter.com/thebespectacled > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
