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.

View from the summit



View from the summit

Leah and I went to the US Open last night with couple of our friends. Since we weren’t celebrities, tennis players, or just plain rich, we got seats at the last row of the whole stadium. The court may look very far from the photo but actually the view isn’t all that bad. Not too different from watching the match on a small TV in your living room (of course watching it on HD is a different matter!).

The first match was Davenport/Medina Garrigue which Davenport had a slow start. After struggling through the first set, she just breezed through the second. We left the stadium before she wrapped up the match and moved to the Armstrong stadium to watch other matches.

We ended up watching the Grosjean/Robredo match. We managed to get seats just off the first level and thus very close to the action. The match turned out to be an epic 4 sets match and we certainly got our money worth.

By the time this match finished, which lasted over 3 hours, it was already past 11PM and we made our way back to the Arthur Ashe stadium to see the Haas/Ginepri match. This also turned out to be an epic 5 sets match with Ginepri barely won the match.

So we didn’t leave the stadium until after 12:45AM and only managed to get home an hour later. Long night but it was well worth it being able to watch pro tennis this up close and personal.

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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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