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The Sound of Silence

The next door neighbour recently has a baby. Being a new born, it cries a far amount day and night so we noticed its arrival a few weeks back. Last week, the husband finally came over and knocked on our door and told us about their baby. (Duh! As if we can’t hear its crying through the wall and corridor)

Anyway, apparently our prime time TV viewing with the sound system on is disturbing the baby’s sleep which is fair enough. Also my late night Halo 2 session chatters also permeate through the wall into their bedroom, which is adjacent to our living room. Fortunately I was still at work when he came over so I didn’t have to deal with the awkward situation/conversation.

So to solve the first problem Leah and I decided (via SMS) that we should purchase another set of the awesome Sony wireless surround sound headphones so we can watch TV in silence. The only downside is the even after being on sale for over 6 months Sony still hasn’t release a spare headphones for the same model. This forces us to buy an extra complete set in order to have an additional headphones!

Even though these headphones do not use the Dolby Headphone technology (they use Sony’s own proprietary technology, go figure) they still produce very impressive surround sound. So much so that Leah thinks it is the best thing since slice bread. (Ok, may be I was exaggerating a bit here)

As for the Halo 2 session, not much I can do about it apart from playing less during the night and being quieter.

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Cliffhanger

Tonight’s Prison Break cliffhanger was as good a cliffhanger as I’ve seen on TV. Though the ending was a bit obvious 20 minutes before the end but it was still great. Can’t wait till next March to see what happen next!

At least 24 will be back in just over a month time.

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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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Bump!

So I bumped into Zeljko Ivanek before but today’s encounter tops it easily.

Yesterday morning Leah left for work and minutes later she texted me to say that people are filming outside our apartment building. Apparently it is for Inside Man with Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster. When I left the building for work, they were still just setting up and I didn’t managed to see any actors, A-rate or otherwise.

When I left the office for lunch today, I spotted the movie trailers again and I knew it is the same movie. Again I didn’t see any one famous which was disappointing. But on my way back to the office, I was approaching one of the trailer and just when I was about two steps in front of the trailer door, it opened and Jodie Foster stepped out! She was no more than 4 feet from me and looks great just like she is on film, unlike most actors who look worse in real life. Definitely shorter than I thought, probably about 5′ 3″ or 5′ 4″ at the most.

Didn’t see Denzel or Clive though but no big loss for me 🙂

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London

Woke up to the news of the terrorist attack in London. Our TV has been on BBC America constantly and the TV footage are disturbingly spooky. It is because we watched a BBC drama “Dirty War” on BBC America this weekend. Although today’s attacks do not involve radioactive material, the scenes of fire service and ambulances from the real TV footage are almost straight out from the drama. And I hope the Met is more prepared in dealing with this attack than in the drama.

Whatever that may not be achieved in the G8 Summit at Gleneagle, at least the G8 leaders are trying to do something better for the world. What do bomb explosions killing innocent people, paralysing London transport system, and disrupting G8 meeting achieve?

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