Mark Friedman, DDS uses Macs to enhance his dental practice in a wide variety of ways. Apple profiled this dentist and outlines the advantages that his approach affords.
“The implications are countless,” he continues. “Say my hygienist detects a speckled white spot in a patient’s mouth during a prophylaxis. She can capture it, at differing magnification levels, right into iMovie. Then, while the patient’s still having his teeth cleaned, an assistant can share the automatically compressed video file with an oral surgeon via e-mail. iMovie also lets us export a still image that we adjust in iPhoto and send to our color photo printer. So by the time our patient leaves, we know whether the surgeon wants a biopsy now or prefers to re-check it in a week.
The vicissitudes of life dictate that one is single at some point. Jim Gaffigan, with some observations:
I like being married, I hated being single. The worst
is when you would ask someone out and then they
would shoot you down, yeah. ‘Cause really what
they’re saying is, “You know what, I don’t even feel
like eating a free meal around you. You make me want
to go on a diet.”
Another good song from Death Cab for Cutie’s latest album Narrow Stairs.
You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed
With a single pillow underneath your single head
I guess you decided that that old queen was more space than you would need
Now it’s in the alley behind your apartment with a sign that says it’s free
A stupendous interactive infographic in the New York Times titled Is It Better to Buy or Rent? allows you to twiddle the dials of interest rates, appreciation, rent increases, taxes, and etc. to see when it makes more economic sense to buy rather than rent.
James Duncan Davidson, the photographer, is also a good writer. His latest, Surprised about Oil Prices? Really?, has some good (scary, too) points:
$4/gallon gas is definitely here in a big way and that’s
going to have major impact on America’s
suburban lifestyle. And, as a kicker, the news
people are running around talking about experts
and ordinary citizens being surprised. Surprised?
How the hell can you be surprised about this? Really?
And more:
I find it galling in the extreme that the head of state
has to effectively go beg for more oil to run the
machine that we’ve built over the last century.
It’s appalling, in fact. And, almost every member of
the United States government shares responsibility
for the mess that we’re currently facing. It’s not just
the reaction of Bush II that is wrong—it’s the result
of 35 years of U.S. policy that is wrong.
