I’m still cleaning out my desk drawer. Here is a sequence of films that shows a file that was swallowed and made its way out the other end. The dentist swears he was using a rubber dam and the file flipped over and under…

Receptionchick says that my desk is way too messy so she bought an in/out tray for me to hide stuff. This seems to have helped a little and so I’m going through my desk drawers again to clean them up.

Here’s a cool case I completed in 2002–a 5 canal lower molar.

I just gave Ender’s Game to Receptionchick to read because I’m so impressed with its sequel, Speaker For the Dead. I’d never heard of Orson Scott Card before signing up with Audible.com a few years ago.

Speaker is the thematically richer, more mature, of the two books, but I feel that Ender’s Game gives you a necessary prelude to Speaker.

Speaker forces you to struggle with real issues of morality and their relationship with catholisism in the environment of an alien world. It’s about understanding, accepting, and living with others that are incompatible with you and yet thus creating a xeno-diverse society that is richer and more powerful than the individual peoples.

Cell is reminiscent of The Stand, King’s epic holocaustic book. Cell is more about love and family and the will that these combine to allow us to fight the odds. I did find The Stand more entertaining, however. King once said (either in On Writing or in the Dark Tower series) that a story is about the journey and not so much about how it ends. This journey left me uneasy about my cell phone for a couple of days after I’d finished the book.

Blair and Larissa lent The Time Traveler’s Wife to us… It’s simple science fiction. But more importantly it’s simply about love. It’s about a love that builds out of time, within time, and over time. The depth of love that Henry and Clair develop for each other sneaks up on you until you realize how precious and rare and timeless it is. The book leaves the reader realizing that no matter how fragile our time on Earth can be, love will transcend.

Stationary Bike is a novella/short story that I found entertaining I haven’t read tons of King material, but it’s one of my favourites by him–along with Bag of Bones (I did find that he wrote an awesome love story in Wizard and Glass). Bike is about life and the creative process and how the two must coexist symbiotically for a person to be truly fulfilled. King hints at this in much of his work since being struck by a car in the late 90′s. I think that it was this realization (along with how short life is) that pushed him to finally finish the Dark Tower series.

I snapped this shot as I was leaving my driveway and heading to work today. The deer found something interesting over at our neighbour’s place.

The festival has been on all Summer at Ontario Place. We stopped by on Saturday to check it out and it turned out to be a great night for walking by the lake. Lots of people though.

The challenge was to take shots of the lights at night without a tripod and minimal camera shake.