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Man, it feels weird

December 23, 2008

My dentist repaired an ablation fracture on the back side of one of my eye teeth yesterday, adjusting my bite a little in the process.  The repair itself is a beautiful bit of micro-sculpture, at least from what I can tell by my tongue.  The weird part is that I have a minor sunburn on the roof of my mouth.  The repair material is set by UV light, and the fracture was right at the gumline so there was no way to avoid exposure.  Oh well, it’s been 12 hours and it is almost all better now.

He’s a wonderful geek, my dentist – he likes historical technology too.  His latest project is that he built his own spinning wheel by copying a 17th century example, and is learning to spin his own yarn.  For Christmas I gave him a nifty book on fracture mechanics that I enjoyed recently.

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  1. Still Me
    December 23, 2008 at 19:51 | #1

    That’s a cool book!  I don’t think that liking science should make you a geek, but that is unfortunately what it’s come to in much of the USA—anyone who got a B in algebra is labeled a geek. 

    On a lighter note, go and see what the Norskies can do with a shoe when the angle and direction are configured properly:

    http://flash.vg.no/grafikk/2008/bush/kast_sko.html

    Geeks rule.

  2. Still Me
    December 23, 2008 at 19:57 | #2

    Oh and this one is in English but it’s not as visually appealing.  It does have a list of the top Bush-shoeing countries.

  3. Still Me
    December 23, 2008 at 19:58 | #3

    Oh and this one is in English but it’s not as visually appealing.  It does have a list of the top Bush-shoeing countries.

    http://play.sockandawe.com/

  4. December 28, 2008 at 12:56 | #4

    I think it might be possible to get a sunburn on your palate by drinking copious amounts of alcohol and passing out with head lolling back and mouth agape and a favorable angle between sun and victim. This would certainly require a much larger than average mouth and could only occur at more southern latitudes. In other words, the odds of this confluence of factors actually unfolding are practically nil, and you will forever remain the only person I’ve ever heard of to have what amounts to a sunburn in the area in question.

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