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Pretentious? As if!

pre·ten·tious adj.

Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified.

Making or marked by an extravagant outward show; ostentatious. See Synonyms at showy.

– from dictionary.reference.com

I’ve always thought pretentiousness derives from behaviour, not intellectualism. So I was surprised that my down-to-earth wife has turned pretentious. I don’t think so unless I have turned too.

Alarm 1202*

What had happened this weekend and this week thus far:

  • Fixed bugs on Saturday at the office so we can move to make a release of our software today.
  • Went to a party after work on Saturday.
  • Played golf with friends on Sunday.
  • Watched HBO’s Rome premiere (1 hours).
  • Watched Fox’s Prison Break premiere (2 hours).
  • Watched Discovery Channel’s Top Gear (1 hour).
  • Watched Fox’s House (1 hour).
  • Watched History Channel’s Failure is Not an Options part 1 and 2 (4 hours in total).
  • Fixed disappearing toolbars in ecto (45 minutes).
  • Put and sold old TV and TiVo via Craigslist.
  • Finished reading last week’s New Scientist.

What will happen this week:

  • Watch Showtime’s Weeds (30 minutes).
  • Watch TNT’s Wanted (1 hour).
  • Watch Travel Channel’s Anthony Bourdain (1 hour).
  • Watch Discovery Channel’s Going Tribal (1 hour).
  • Transfer Rome (SD version) from DVR to VHS for Leah’s friend.
  • Watch Discovery Channel’s Top Gear (1 hour).
  • Watch Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix at Monza (~4 hours including practice, qualifying, and race).
  • Read this week’s New Scientist.
  • Finish up programming and testing of ecto for version 1.8 release next week.

* Alarm 1202 is the program alarm in the Apollo’s Lunar Landing Module when the landing computer is overloaded.

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TypePad "New" Feature

Finally I can select the photo albums that I want to display in my TypePad blog sidebar, thanks to my buddy Nick. This is one of my biggest complaint about the “media” features of TypePad, along with the inability to allow comments on photos, etc. Unfortunately, this new feature comes about 5 weeks too late as I am done with waiting and moved on to Flickr already.

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New office desk



New office desk

Originally uploaded by alexhung.

I spent the Friday helping the office move from our Chelsea/Park Ave location to the very uptight and proper Lower Manhattan/Financial District high rise building. The floor used to be a Wachovia office so some of the decor is very much bank like. You can see in the background that I have a teller-like window on the right.

This building is right next to the building I used to work in when I was working with JP Morgan Chase. I already spotted a couple of people I knew from across the road when I left the building yesterday. I am sure I will bump into more of them next week.

One good thing that came out from helping out the move was that we swapped our old CRT monitors with nice LCD monitors (finally!).

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