Week 5 - Twenty-Six, Gum Grafts, Gosling
Channel: Stephen Torrence
Date: 02/02/2014

This week I turned twenty-six, got gum surgery, and found out that I'm more attractive than Ryan Gosling! ...according to one person.

## Show Notes

### 1. Twenty-Six Years!

Yep, I turned 26 on January 30th. I'm old.


### 2. Gum Grafting Surgery

Gingival Graft (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gingival_graft


### 3. More Attractive Than Ryan Gosling*

*According to Melissa on Tumblr
http://thetalkingriceball.tumblr.com/tagged/50+riceball+men/page/2


### BONUS stuff that I found cool this week

The Secret Weapon
http://www.thesecretweapon.org/

The Experience of Being Trolled (Idea Channel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHSSNyIlAps

The End of Higher Education's Golden Age (Clay Shirky)
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2014/01/there-isnt-enough-money-to-keep-educating-adults-the-way-were-doing-it/

The Future of Programming (Bret Victor)
https://vimeo.com/71278954


## Transcript

Coming up!

I got gum surgery for my birthday.

Ah... I only own... four shirts.

One!

I turned twenty-six on Thursday. Yay! This past year was crazy dense. So much happened, and I hope this year is just as fun. It's already shaping up to be that way, so... Yeah, I'm older. Weee!

Two!

You might notice that like my jaw, my chin is kinda swollen, and it look's like I've got a really strong chin. I got gum grafting surgery on Tuesday. And that is related to the birthday. I'll let you figure out... how. I can't really talk comfortably or move my face as much, but I should be healed with a week and a half.

You know, what I miss the most is... is chewing things. I just wanna take a bit out of something. That's what I miss. Yeah. At least now I have gums, instead of not having gums where I should have gums.

Three!

So I google myself... rarely. So I often don't find out about things that people have written about me until like years after they've written about me. I was looking through Tumblr, and somebody on there had a list of her fifty most attractive men in the world according to her. And I am #29 and Ryan Gosling is below me. So according at least one person on the planet, I'm more attractive than Ryan Gosling.

So... thank you for that unintentional birthday present, Melissa. Appreciate it.

My face is getting sore again from moving it this much, so I'm gonna cut out. Because I didn't talk about too much this week, I put a bunch of links in the doobley-doo for you. The transcript is down there. Hope you have a good week. And...

This pair of scissors is awesome. You should NOT run with them. You should subscribe instead.

My face is sore, but I love you. See y'all next time. Buh bye!