I thought the inflatable Chinese myopic testing mascot at the Food Expo was rofl. But apparently it’s serious business. This 3 year old kid has it pretty bad, but what really drove it home was that he got myopia with intercurrent astigmatism and amblyopia from marathon sessions of Counterstrike. On the other hand, since I’ve started playing first persons shooters again, mainly bf2, my visual acuity and hand-eye coordination has definitely bettered. His corrective glasses reminded me of those crazy oakleys that Michael Jordan promoted back in the crazy late 90’s.

In SD David, Jake and company like to play games. Speed scrabble is a variation of scrabble where you get 7 letters and you make your own arrangement. When you use a letter, you say “honk my horn!” and everyone takes another letter such that you always have 7 letters in your hand, plus your arrangement. Points don’t matter, only who ever finishes first. If you’re slow in the head, like me, you get overwhelmed by constantly having more and more letters to deal with. I tend to think outside the box (read: outside the rules of the game), so I just waited till I had tons of letters and aimed for high humor scores. (Sensia 400)