Are you paranoid if people are trying to do exactly what you think they are?

According to the University of Florida it's malaria that has been eradicated, not the Anopheles mosquito.

Untrue. There are fields near my house that have been in corn continuously for at least 5 years. When the price of corn is high, it's worth buying tons of fertilizer. It probably has all of the bad effects that you write about, but it happens.

Pack of sadists at Microsoft?

I've been as high as -7.50 in both eyes. As my presbyopia develops, it's dropped to -7.00 / -6.50. My wife is higher still. Your long eyeball explanation is correct, though.

I have a pair of bifocals (non-progressive, as I don't wear them often). My opthamologist recommended normal bifocals over progressives as I usually wear contacts (only need glasses for reading). He said that the progressives take quite a while to get used to.

I use a single-prescription pair of reader glasses (-1.5) for computer work -- and they are less than what I use for reading books and newspapers (-2.0) as I usually sit further from the monitor than I hold printed material for reading. My opthamologist recommended the cheap ones from the drug store as opposed to a custom made pair. He said that's what he generally recommends unless someone has a dramatic difference between eyes.

I am a Christian. I got a chuckle out of Tyson's post and I suspect many other Christians did as well. Good flamebait catches even those with a sense of humor.

More like a .NET / C# / C++ / C developer in a mostly .NET group. There is plenty of non-.NET code that we have to maintain and interface with. Most of the rest of the company does not use .NET at all -- yet.

My group began using .NET. Other groups have followed. Some groups are just now beginning to move to .NET. Not all will, depending on the products they develop. But not even the groups that do not use .NET talk about "weeding out" .NET.

Really? Weeded out? I've been developing in C# since .NET 1.0 showed up. Around .NET 2.0, we wrote our first full product in .NET. Our next new product uses .NET 4.5. So far I've heard nothing about .NET getting "weeded out" from anyone at my company.

hahahahaha!

We had developed an app for them (which didn't move very well, although it did win a Control Engineering award). A few months ago, we tossed everything as our cubes were being reformatted.

The host of the long-running Milwaukee Public TV show Outdoor Wisconsin is named Dan Small. On most shows, it sounds like he introduces himself with the line "Hi! I'm Damn Small." Once you've heard it that way, it's really hard to hear the "Dan" instead of "Damn".