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16 November 2006
Who made pyramid bunny over there on the left? I dig that.
Little known fact: cmonkey has that weird disease where the eyes only move in one direction -- in this case, the left. (What's that called again?)
It's pretty amusing to walk around town with him, because if he wants to see something in his right he has to turn in a full counter-clockwise circle first. So you'll be walking down the street and be all "Hey, look over there!" And because he's sweet and trusting, he'll twirl around and do it. And then he'll want to slug you, but if you dart quickly over to his right side, he can't.
It's called Kohler's Strabismus. And thanks, pup, for telling the world. Now everyone is going to point over my right shoulder at meetups just to make me dizzy :-(
I once got to be in a scientific study on adults with strabismus and amblyopia. The grad student working the study was a sort-of-girlfriend of mine. I'm even in a published scientific paper (subject KB!). It doesn't make up for being really bad at parallel parking, though.
(I didn't even know that cmonkey had a type of strabismus!)