{"id":3759,"date":"2011-04-04T22:28:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T21:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2011-04-04T23:07:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T22:07:48","slug":"dentist-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/dentist-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Dentist and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Picture taken a few days ago, as winter was still grappling with spring.<\/em><\/p>\n

Slice of life, finally!<\/p>\n

I went to the dentist and had the broken artificial tooth fastened again. This seems to happen once a year or so. \u00c2\u00a0I honestly don’t think he does shoddy work to get more income in the future; it is more like I have a tendency to bite down hard right there. Quite possibly how I destroyed the original in the first place.<\/p>\n

I used to say that “every time I buy a laptop, God kills a tooth.” (This is a pun on a popular Internet meme.) There really seemed to be a correlation, although there could not possibly be a causality. A tooth would break or come loose within a few days after I bought a new laptop.<\/p>\n

Not so this time. On the contrary: On my way home, my mobile phone started acting strange. \u00c2\u00a0It would scroll by itself to one side, even when I was not touching it. If I tried to scroll to the other side, it would still go its own way, so evidently it was scrolling faster than I. \u00c2\u00a0I turned it off hard, so it did a full reboot, and the problem persisted. I then pressed randomly on the sides of the glass for a while, and it seemed to fall quiet after that. But it may indeed seem like I am heading toward buying a new mobile phone rather than a new battery for the old.<\/p>\n

New versions of applets, like the most recent Facebook applet, also seem to run slower. This is just how it used to be on personal computers: \u00c2\u00a0They were just good enough, but after a couple years when processing power had doubled, new programs and upgrades to the old expected you to have a newer computer, and things slowed down.<\/p>\n

Seriously though, the phone is less than two years old. I bought it summer 2009. That means it is still under legislated warranty here in Norway. \u00c2\u00a0Except that the shop where I bought it closed last week, and the chain it was part of has been sold off to competitors. The Tooth Fairy seems to take her job entirely too seriously!<\/p>\n

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In other news, the weather is mild now, around ten degrees above freezing, so I really get the spring feeling! \u00c2\u00a0But it is still brown spring, the green spring usually does not come until the beginning of May or so, perhaps very late April. I also notice that it takes less use of space heaters to keep the house warm.<\/p>\n

Books I am reading: \u00c2\u00a0Another Sort of Learning<\/em> (paperback) and The Order of Things<\/em> (Kindle edition), both by James V. Schall, a Catholic professor, writer and philosopher. His writing is easy to follow for the modestly well-read layman, and often borders on the humorous. It is probably no coincidence that along with Plato, Aristotle, Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, he also sneaks in a recommendation for P.G. Wodehouse. As a result of this, I have also begun on Wonderful Wodehouse 1<\/em>, a collection of well-loved stories by the 20th century English humorist. It is also for the Kindle, and I read it on my mobile phone on the way home from work. At that point I am usually very tired, and scholarly works make me fall asleep quickly, whereas the subtle English humor so far has kept me awake.<\/p>\n

While I still lived at home, my brother would drag Wodehouse books to the home, probably from the library, although I am not sure we did not buy any. The house was already then lined with bookshelves, and is so even more these days. I have nothing to them when it comes to books, and indeed had not even before I gave away most of the novels in preparation for my two moves. \u00c2\u00a0Moving tends to make one re-think what one needs of material things. It also makes one appreciate e-books, which I now buy if available. (Also I have no illusion that my heirs will want to keep books in English.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, the Wodehouse books of my childhood was in Norwegian translation, and quite a good one I believe. This is my first time reading Wodehouse in the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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