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| Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 | | 8:44 pm |
Dudes, it's real. This... actually happened!
I can't tell you how happy I am with how this project turned out! Please check out our short film, Advantageous, the first film in the new season of Futurestates! http://futurestates.tv/episodes/advantageousThis was the dialogue editing project I may have mentioned earlier. I think I was also credited as a post-production producer, which I probably at least half-deserved, even though the timeframe was short. The film is about 20 minutes and you will be floored. Put it up on a big screen, turn up the volume, etc. There's even a great making-of feature, with intelligent interviews, and some short essays about the motivations behind the film, and so on. A really nice website with great quality playback. I'm really looking forward to checking out the other films in the series, and from previous seasons, too! ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7) krasnoludek, I expect your analysis and review shortly! Better watch the rest of the films too, young man! | | Monday, June 20th, 2011 | | 9:24 am |
| | Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 | | 11:38 am |
| | Thursday, August 12th, 2010 | | 12:26 am |
It is time for a beer or two
By the way, seeing as how I wasn't done with grad school until a week after landing in Europe, and I'll now be back in town (as of Friday afternoon), some local celebration might finally be in order! Gonna be hanging out with my brother Robin on Sunday (8/15) to do who knows what shenanigans (a nice lunch? a movie?), and at around 6pm heading to the Albatross Pub to sit and compare their many brews to the European varieties I've been sampling the last three weeks. (Yeah it's the quiz night, don't know if we'll be interested in that or not). Should be there for several hours... maybe even past midnight? 21 and over only, sorry! So hey, simply show up if you're interested in the pub, or get in touch with me if you want to hang out during the day beforehand. | | Friday, August 6th, 2010 | | 11:52 pm |
There, that's better. Good Prague. (pat pat pat)
Well, before yesterday I wasn't entirely convinced that it had been worth it to spend my few vacation days in Europe with a little side trip to Prague. But I decided to spend my last day fully devoted to the region's Jewish history, and came away quite impressed with the multi-building Jewish museum, whose exhibits are organized in very sensible fashion as you go from synagogue to synagogue, with everything explained very clearly in Czech and English (but not German, which is quite indicative of the decline of German-speaking people in the area since the time before the two World Wars). The two most profound parts were the handpainted lists of names of people from the towns and cities of Bohemia and Moravia who are known to have been murdered by the Nazis, covering the walls of Pinkas Synagogue, and the terribly moving exhibit on children's artistic efforts from the transitional concentration camp at Terezín/Theresienstadt northwest of Prague. This is where the Jews established some form of self-government and education which the Germans eventually encouraged for propaganda purposes as their "model camp". A model camp where almost all of the residents, living under the shadow of transport to "the east" that could come at any moment, did indeed end up there after a few short weeks or months (i.e., sent straight to Auschwitz) where they mostly went directly to the gas chamber. Every piece of artwork is from some kid roughly 10-15 years old, with the date of birth, date of the artwork, and date of their death at Auschwitz, with each panel organized into themes the kids had put into their work, like their persecution and ostracism in their villages during the year or two prior to deportation, and life in the camps, and some truly hauntingly raw portrayals of single concepts such as works that were titled simply "fear". This was all especially profound for me since I had just come upstairs from seeing scores of my distant relatives' names all over the walls of the synagogue. I had no idea I would find even a single recognizable name, let alone all these scores of people from the families of my mom's grandparents on her father's side (more on that in a locked post). After the halls of names, you pass through the unbelievably concentrated old Jewish cemetery, where nearly every headstone is in contact with several others on all sides, all of them at crazy angles. So anyway, after that nice full day of gut-wrenching holocaustin', (but try the museum in D.C. if you want the full-blast all-day firehose), I had some extra Czech monies to burn before leaving, and I just happened to walk into a grocery full of many Czech beers at nice cheap prices (less than a dollar per 0.5 liter bottle). I ended up with a big bag of them (along with some sensible bananas and plums) and took a detour to the Náměstí Míru metro stop (the longest escalator in Prague and one of the longest in the world, apparently, at 290 feet), where I carried my quarry up and down in a victory lap before heading back to my hostel for the night. Hardly slept, though, because half the people in the room were out clubbing until 4 am, and when they came back they all started chatting about their sister who goes to BU or whatever nonsense, and texting with their cellphones which weren't even on silent, and typing away on laptops, as if there weren't a bunch of people in the room trying to sleep. Maybe I've outgrown the desire to sleep in communal quarters... it's just too hit and miss when it comes to people behaving sensibly. The train ride toward Holland today has been very fun -- ended up in a compartment with a girl from Vancouver (I didn't ask if her name was Alberta, but I kind of wish I had), a jolly Westfalian, and a Czech woman who lives in the UK with an English husband and was traveling with her mother. I had seven bottles of beer with me, fresh from the fridge, so the German and I had two each, which had to pass the Czech mother's smile-vs-frown test before they could be approved for consumption :-) Just one of those nice train rides where you talk about all kinds of things and have a great time, then go your separate ways without ever learning each other's names. Upon arrival in the Netherlands, it turned out that Nijmegen is currently really hard to get to from the east or north due to construction at the Arnhem station, so I got all super-detoured for an extra hour and a half, heading west over to Amersfoort, then southwest to Utrecht, then southeast to Denbosch (which is actually spelled with a word beginning with an appostrophe, 's-Hertogenbosch, so no wonder they call it by a different name... also, check out that hilarious coat of arms! A couple of woodsmen "dressed" in what appear to be a light sprinkling of vines, wielding enormous smash-your-head clubs), then finally northeast to Nijmegen. Got to see the lovely countryside, absolutely full of cows of various colors and sizes! I think there was even a farm of miniature Dexters. Lots of horses and ponies too, with the young kiddos doing eyebrow-raising things like trying to hump their mothers. And a scarecrow in a field of crops that looked like a small orange octopus, or perhaps a Cthulhu? Meanwhile on the final train to Nijmegen someone immediately started banging on the doors, from the inside, when they closed and the train began its journey, and she kept on sobbing and wailing and ranting like a crazy person for at least 20 minutes, though I couldn't understand a word. The Netherlands, a dimension of crazy and/or awesome. I kind of really want to see what Amsterdam must have in store, at this rate. | | Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 | | 7:17 pm |
confused about foreign showers...
I know folks do thing differently over here (came in to Berlin today), but I'm just not at all sure about what one is supposed to do given that the shower isn't sunk into the floor... and the floor is continuous out to the rest of the bathroom, and the whole floor becomes a lake whenever you take a shower. Yes, there's a small rubber grid one can stand on when at the sink, but there's nothing right in front of the toilet. So, is everyone supposed to walk around in the water in bare feet? Or wearing shoes and leaving mud everywhere? I don't get it. Showers were this way in China too, but cheap plastic shower slippers are available for purchase on every street corner... it's ingrained in the culture, and easy to adopt. I just asked the people at reception where I could get some shower slippers/thongs/flip-flops, and they didn't understand what I wanted them for. I tried to express, well, obviously, there is a choice one has to make... walk barefoot in a lake of water, or leave mud all over the bathroom and the main room from one's shoes, because when you take a shower the water goes all over the bathroom. And get this, the guy actually tells me, "well yes, just like every shower in the world..." Wow. I decided not to press the issue further, because at that point they started apologizing for me evidently being unsatisfied with the room.... which isn't it at all! Like I said, I was used to this in China, I just want to get some plastic slippers! But I'm kind of floored that these guys who speak perfect English have no idea that bathrooms actually vary and no, in lots of places we don't simply turn our bathrooms into lakes on a daily basis... (you should see Japan... those shower units are Self! Contained!) Also kind of annoyed that this place is absolutely chock full of rowdy young teenagers. Oh well, everything else about the trip was gravy. I can't believe how much nicer it is to fly in a big fat plane with a little more room (just an Airbus A330... nothing too crazy, but it's a wide body). All these years I keep going on 5-hour flights on Southwest, which is 100% 737s, between Oakland and Chicago, and those things are so cramped and awful although I've gotten used to it (this is also how I got from Düsseldorf to Berlin, and the contrast was staggering). The flight from San Francisco was roomy, (nobody in the two seats next to be in the center section), the food was tasty, really very relaxing. Except it was tricky sleeping since we went from one day to the next without letting the sun ever set! We were up there over Greenland somewhere at local midnight, evidently north enough or high enough in the sky that we never lost the sun. Kind of cool to think about it shining on us over the pole, from the other side of the world.... | | Monday, May 3rd, 2010 | | 12:57 am |
Also, one very deserving Oscar went to:
El secreto de sus ojos ("The Secret in their Eyes"), which won the best foreign film Oscar at the most recent awards. Best god damn movie I've seen all year. Maybe in a few years. It's got a little bit of everything. Crazy good performances, completely absorbing story, and very sobering allegory too. And I'm not even someone who could really follow half of the amazing (so I'm told) wordplay. Impossible not to draw more than a few parallels with Zodiac, another great film. Not as great as this one. | | Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | | 6:35 pm |
In new heights of beating AT&T over the head...
I continue to feel a little bad about my seemingly ever-increasing ability to get what I want out of CSRs of enormous megacorporations whose machinations I distrust. But hey, I still haven't had specially assigned super agents assigned to deal with me yet, so I must still have a ways to go... (right heathey?). In the latest, a couple weeks ago I found that it was impossible to cancel one's AT&T DSL using the online interface (the one which of course does absolutely everything else, other than allow you to stop your service). Instead you have to call them, get through the voice-activated bullshit, wait on hold, run out of time to do the call, leave for other events, try to call back at 5pm, find that they are closed at 5 until after the weekend is over even though they claim operating hours through 7pm, finally manage to call back days later, at which point you are Not Going To Pay Another Penny beyond the day you first tried to cancel, and you might as well just have the supervisor on the line right away because you aren't going to deal with their crap any longer, by gum. Anyway, the earlier disconnect person was really quite curt with me after I called her on her obviously false claim that she "couldn't adjust" my bill to be prorated like I demanded. Suddenly she was able to credit me $5.... lying is tough to do when you're bad at it, hmmm? I think she also made several mistakes on that call, like never asking for my secret question or anything beyond my account number, yet still putting in the stop service request. When we were done, she just hung up... no goodbye, no "thank you for choosing AT&T and we hope you'll come back and use our services again." But I called back today to make sure the service had actually been stopped (it was, finally, on the 20th) and to try to get someone else to agree that since my last day of actually using the service was the 12th, that's how I should be prorated (in other words, an $8.77 discount rather than the $5 the other CSR had tossed my way). It's really not a lot of money either way, but the principle of the thing just irks me. You should be able to do it online, and it should go through that day, and they should prorate you automatically without you having to call up and be an Irate Customer (even if they don't manage to turn stuff off until later... but that's their problem). Thank goodness number porting with cell phones causes the previous service to cancel immediately, so there's no arguing to be done. Anyway, the new CSR was totally jovial, and intelligent, and asked me a secret question that I don't even remember setting up (yet I still correctly guessed what my humorously false response to it would be), and he didn't think my request was unreasonable. In fact just to smooth things over he declared that every AT&T customer gets a one-time "dispute" freebie of a full bill's balance, and since I was ending my service now and hadn't made use of it, he was just going to give it to me. So for these efforts I first went from a $34 final bill balance, to a $29 balance, and then when asking instead for a $25.23 balance, I suddenly end up with -$5.00 instead, hooray! Thanks for the free 30 bucks, CSR dude. I wonder if I ended up with him due to an "irate" flag in my file :-D And now for more tech-related ramblings... I know some of you folks love to nerd out about these things (aren't utilities fascinating!) but others may want to skip ;-) ( Adventures in Comcastland! ) | | Saturday, February 20th, 2010 | | 1:03 am |
Is my computer still safe?
Oh gurus of the current state of Mac OS and PC viruses, malware, and so on.... some advice please. Some of you may have gotten an obviously virus/spam message in your Facebook inbox from me today, with the subject "tua foto?!" and the phrase "Es este tu foto?" along with a link that may have been some variation on very sketchy or kind of legit-looking, and the closer "con amor!!". I'm curious, are there any known Mac OS X viruses that have successfully installed on Macs and stolen things like banking and email passwords as the user goes about their business? Last I checked there were still no known Mac OS X viruses, so hopefully I am safe, at least as far as my computer and things outside of Facebook go? Here is the story -- On Feb. 10 I got a Facebook message from a friend in Mexico with the "Es este tu foto?" query and a link. Just my luck that it's a distant friend in a Spanish speaking country... heck I don't know what she uses for Flickr etc. over there, and the link actually had the facebook domain, the full "www.facebook.com/", at the start of it, and some more stuff with the word "photo" in it, so it seemed like some kind of photobucket thing although it was not one I had seen before. Yes yes yes lets ignore the strange mixture of Italian and grammatically incorrect Spanish... this is the internet, and people misspell things all the time. Against my better judgment, I clicked on it, it loaded a bland website of some sort, and wanted me to enter more info into blanks or register or something, at which point I said "yeah whatever" and closed my browser. That's it. No downloaded files as far as I know, nothing entered into any boxes, I didn't do anything except click the link in the facebook message. But here we are 10 days later, and at least three people reported to me today that they got this same message from me on Facebook, with different links. If you're one of these people and haven't done so already, please visit this facebook security page and report my profile URL as well as the URL of the link in the false message you received from me (don't click that link in the process of copying and pasting it!!). If you happen to have clicked on such a link, your own Facebook account is likely infected as well, which you should also report, somehow... So anyway, I changed my FB password and reported this stuff, but I have no idea whether my account is still sending out virus messages, or how long FB will take to fix it, or anything. Is this likely to go away on its own? Am I safe to continue doing online banking and so on from my machine? Is it at all likely that I now have a keystroke logger infecting my Mac or something similarly very bad? | | Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | | 6:27 pm |
Fun poll - hearing test...
From isomorphisms, these pages are nice because they provide a sweep with a voiceover telling you what frequency is playing, and you merely need to hover the mouse over the little orange dot to get it to start playing. I recommend doing this with headphones at fairly high volume (especially headphones that are rated at least at 20Hz to 20kHz). Low Frequency test(this is more a test of your equipment - I don't know that people normally lose their ability to hear down to nearly 20 Hz) High Frequency testI'm 31 and I can still hear to nearly 18 kHz, go me, I guess? Hopefully I can get this to last, if I want to make a career out of audio editing... (because it's useful to be able to detect when there's a high pitched hiss that needs to be dealt with). (I start hearing the sound ramp in right after he says "18 K", but on a different site that plays steady tones, I'm able to clearly hear the 17k tone but not the 18k one at all). But practically speaking, given the logarithmic way that frequency relates to pitch perception, losing a few thousand hertz off the top doesn't amount to much. For example, in terms of musical notes, being unable to hear above 14 kHz amounts to losing only six half-steps (half an octave) off the top, out of a total of 10 octaves perceivable at birth! So getting older, losing the top 20th of one's perceivable pitches... no big deal. Check out this cool interval calculator (100 cents equals one half-step). | | Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | | 3:42 pm |
Hey look, this movie came out!
If you live in San Francisco/Berkeley, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cambridge, or New York (and some other places I guess), please check out this film! It's called "(Untitled)" and it's hilarious. Especially if you're into art, art criticism, artistic endeavors and performance in general. Or if you just really like Adam Goldberg. I was the dialogue editor. Review here. ETA: actually, much more comprehensive set of reviews on the Rottentomatoes.com page. Website with trailer here. Playing at Embarcadero in SF, Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley, AMC Pipers Alley (1608 N. Wells) in Chicago, Uptown in Minneapolis, Kendall Square in Cambridge, and City Cinemas Village East in NY. ETA: also playing in DC, Philly, Dallas, Seattle, Portland, San Diego, LA, and Monterey. Ends this Thursday in Chicago. Probably ending other places soon too.... I think I'll go see it on Friday at Shattuck (6:50 pm) since my brother'll be up here to hang out for my birthday. | | Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | | 7:16 pm |
Finally took my faithful mechanical companion to the dentist...
The good reviews of Art's Automotive aren't wrong, these guys are great! Apart from some new tires back when I first got it, my 1995 Integra hadn't had even a check-up for these three years (and 13,000 miles) I've owned it, aside from routine oil changes (and, perhaps foolishly, I never even had it inspected because I trusted the comprehensive maintenance report provided to me by the former owner, performed 4,000 miles before my purchase). In that time, it's made it up to Tahoe and back at least four times, all up and down the Bay and Marin, survived being stolen from my street and doused in pennies and french fries and rudely abandoned in Hercules, lost its (not legally required) right side mirror, made it through a smog check that also miraculously repaired the jammed ignition, all the while without leaking oil or losing its air conditioning or its nice tight handling. But, lately, some road noise from the wheels in back told me it was time to see the doctor... not to mention I had always wondered if it would be easy to get the splash shield below the front bumper to stop hanging down like that, and whether it would be easy to fix the inoperable lowest two settings of the dashboard fan. The right rear window also gets stuck when being raised by its motor, but at least it's easy to get it back in place by simply reaching back and guiding it up with some hand pressure. All this time I never really bothered to check what the best general maintenance shops were, having gotten my tires at Big-O and my oil at (*shudder*) the local Berkeley Jiffy Lube (the Yelp reviews are accurate, these guys always did a terribly half-assed job for me, though they always did fill my car with oil and put the cap back on, unlike my friend Christian who, like some reviewers, drove away and smelled burning oil and opened his hood to find the cap had never been put back on and half his oil was smoking all over his engine block!). Anyway, imagine my surprise and pleasure to find that Art's, widely respected all over the entire Bay Area, is just a 15 minute walk from my house! So I bit the bullet and took the little guy in for the 1-hour, $98 bumper to bumper inspection along with my list of noted issues, hoping that the total repairs would come out to around $500 or so but knowing that realistically it might be more like $1,000. With a trusted repair shop, I actually find this sort of thing fascinating and enjoyable, what with all the learning about all the various bits of my car, their condition, their likely lifespan, and so on. Sure enough, I dropped $961 today, which is no chump change but still really quite good after three years of use on an excellent car which is now just shy of 200,000 miles, and which only cost me $2,650 to begin with. Here's what we did yesterday and today: ( Read more... ) | | Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | | 10:56 am |
You're part of the problem, dipshit
Yes, yes, another compelling story about an infant/toddler denied health insurance because of being in the wrong percentile: Underweight Girl Denied Insurance CoverageBut what really pisses me off about this story is the father's statement: "We would definitely like to see insurance reform," Rob Bates said. "We are not proponents of universal health care by any means, but what we want to see is that insurance companies have legitimate reasons for denying coverage." Alright genius, if insurance companies are still allowed to deny coverage and operate for-profit, what would be a legitimate reason, if not a perfectly grounded statistical cost-benefit analysis that your daughter, like many other applicants, is likely to cost the company more money than she would generate for it? You want insurance companies to come up with "legitimate reasons" for denying coverage, well, this is what you get. Americans and their goddamn individualistic "not my problem!" hoarding, and they can't even see it when it directly endangers their own family. | | Monday, August 31st, 2009 | | 12:17 pm |
Oh this is just too amazing
"One letter is missing" -- what a fantastic hook! Now wait for the punchline :-) And don't even bother trying to make sense of the nonsense he's thrown together to make the "word". Yes this is the Glenn Beck whose job is secure because of his phenomenal, and I fear, 100% non-ironic ratings. I've seen colleagues of my Alaskan sister comment on her FB status updates, with drooling back-and-forth high-fives rejecting healthcare reform and all things Obama and devolving into mutual "we love Glenn Beck" chirrups (evidently a useful group-call for determining friendly status amid a forest of potentially rational people). via gmonkey42 | | Sunday, August 30th, 2009 | | 1:19 pm |
August movies
This was a weird summer for film. Maybe the year in general too? The last couple weeks though, things have really exploded in the "worth watching" department. I've been getting up every day and just banging out pages of my chapters as fast as I can, but now and then I've taken a quick break: - District 9: Really enjoyed it. ( Read more... )- The Hurt Locker: Not only the best film about Iraq I've seen (this isn't really saying much, I suppose), but just a fantastically tense, unpredictable, well-balanced, well acted film by any measure. ( Read more... )- Ponyo: Kind of a return to Totoro-like sensibilities. ( Read more... )- Inglourious Basterds: haven't seen it yet! Going to! - World's Greatest Dad: Pretty skillful black comedy. ( Read more... )- The Fast and the Furious (1955): the Pacific Film Archive played this the other night in a free outdoor screen projected against a big cement wall in the Berkeley Art Museum sculpture garden (not a great "screen", but it served well enough I guess). Pure B-movie comedy gold! (This is a Roger Corman film, after all). There was also free popcorn and lemonade. (Spoilers ahead). ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 | | 7:22 pm |
| | Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | | 1:54 am |
| | Monday, August 10th, 2009 | | 3:20 pm |
Brief dental update
Well, I had pretty much given up on this ridiculous "SafeGuard" insurance of mine. Sure, $8 a month is a steal, but not if every single dentist in the Bay Area that takes their insurance is some kind of freakshow that will ruin your face! I even drafted my cancelation letter today and have it ready to mail, but I called my old dentist only to learn that even with their discount for the uninsured, a simple exam + cleaning + a couple of X-rays (not even a full set) will run about $200. Their receptionist helpfully suggested the UCSF School of Dentistry student clinics, where you can apparently get decent care at about half of normal cost, as long as you're willing to have very long appointments while the student's work is monitored and evaluated by their faculty supervisor. Still, if I have to go all the way into the City, I figured, might as well check some of their SafeGuard dentists. I got the usual horrifying set (think overtones of Russian Mafia, and plenty more stories of dishonest diagnoses and unnecessary work), but I think I may actually try this guy, Edward Zhao, who is seriously the *only* dentist I was able to select under my plan, who does not have absolutely horrifying reviews written by multiple people who registered for Yelp specifically to share their bad experience and save other people from misery. Amusingly, the first review is by another Berkeley resident who states right in her review that he's the only dentist in the Bay Area that both accepted her insurance and didn't have terrifyingly bad reviews, so I guess I've arrived at the same destination! | | Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 | | 2:46 pm |
Thinkin' about canceling this "SafeGuard" dental insurance...
Well, it was quite useful in getting me a cheap eye exam and 20% off on my glasses with Dr. Kiyomoto, a perfectly fine optometrist over at San Pablo and University. But I still haven't been to a dentist. I haven't been able to find a single dentist with great reviews that accepts their insurance. Instead, looking through their provider network, I keep running into results like this guy, who sounds like a real-life Dr. Nick (an analogy requiring no exaggeration at all, apparently). The one I'm officially assigned is University Dental, but I'm afraid their yelp page kind of spectacularly fails the smell test. Another possibility is Guolin Yu up on Telegraph but I haven't been able to find a single review anywhere online. So far Madelyn Ballard seems like the best bet, with lots of satisfied customers, but the one person who mentions fillings also makes it very clear that she doesn't really know how to do resin fillings. I've got resin composites in the couple of cavities I've had, and though I don't really think I have any cavities right now, it would suck if I had to head to a different dentist just because I don't want silver fillings (I worry about the look as well as the possibility of temperature sensitivity).She's not actually in my provider network anyway. Stupid badly designed website giving me false results. Is it worth $8 a month for cheaper cleanings even with a chance of needing to go back to my old (beloved!) dentist Dr. Assael, and have him do a filling without insurance? Perhaps, perhaps.... It may be worth mentioning that I generally have extremely healthy teeth and gums (it's a family thing... my mother and brother have had no cavities at all, in their entire lives, and they aren't exactly superheroes when it comes to proper brushing and flossing). I think I've had 3 cavities total, which were discovered in places where my (possibly ill-advised?) childhood sealants had partially broken off (leaving little traps), upon my return from a summer in China... during which I used locally purchased "Colgate" toothpaste that may have been made with melamine instead of fluoride. I might try Lavorini Dental Care. Downside is, though the reviews are reassuring, the fact they do well on Yelp (and are a "sponsored result") means they are completely swamped with patients.Why would you come up in my provider search results provided by my own insurance, if "this provider does not accept patients for this plan"? More humorously ALARMINGLY bad ideas in my provider network. In fact, this is my entire provider network! - Gentle Dental: "When all was said and done, my back teeth had been mysteriously sharpened and now there are so many weird gaps between my teeth I need a toothpick every time I eat so much as a bowl of ice cream." - Western Dental: "My teeth are ruined and i will probably have to have them pulled." - Oakland Dental: "I hate this dump with all my heart. People, you don't have to suffer through this." - Ronald Bullard: "The office is disgusting and smells worse than a truck stop men's room." - Andrew Cheung: "He told me I had 17 cavities... he then put some blue stain on my teeth, saying that would show me where the cavities were. Then he said if he could scrape the blue stain off, it was only plaque that needed cleaning, not a cavity. He started scraping, and it all started to come off. When he noticed that, he stopped and started pointing instead of scraping, saying it was all cavities." The only slight possibility seems to be Franklin Dental. But at this point I'm starting to seriously think I should just bail. The SafeGuard dental network appears to be the Dr. Nick Network in disguise. | | Monday, July 27th, 2009 | | 11:20 pm |
How is Bloo-ray formed?????
how factory get pragnent? Well, here it is. This gallery is basically pornography. Did you know that the polycarbonate disc material is first sent through the factory in granule form, through a series of tubes? Current Mood:  enthralled |
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