Month: May 2005

  • On Crowns and Floss

    One can dream, right? See the whole thing So earlier I hinted I got some dental work done. Yep. Yesterday I got a crown. Or, at least, a temporary cap until the crown gets put on in a couple weeks. How crowns work is like this: they grind down your old tooth enamel, place a…

  • Anaesthetic and eating don’t mix

    Note to self: trying to eat a chicken breast when half your mouth is anaesthetized is a lesson in “extreme difficulty”. That is all.

  • Apple Studio Display 17″ flickers again

    Well, this post is mostly just for the record-keeping, but after more than a year of working perfectly, yesterday morning my 17″ Apple Studio Display LCD flatpanel decided that the upper half of the backlight would work at half the brightness of the lower half. But the problem disappeared almost as quickly as it appeared:…