Laughter is an instant vacation.
- Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)

Storms make oaks take deeper root.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
- Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)

To be sexy in the eyes of a woman, you got to talk in a low voice, talk slow, and most importantly don’t talk too much.
- Ganz

I must say, there is a great need today to rid this world of its stupidity because we can’t have fools tomorrow behaving like their fore fathers.
- Ganz

Here are some of the pics I took when my projector was in use. Sorry folks I didn’t have time to, as my friend would say, juice them.

My Little Home Entertainment System
What a freaking mess!

Sofa Shot.

Dead or Alive 4 on big screen

Close up on an Argentinan player

England VS Italy, World Cup Quarter-Finals.

Note:
1) This is just a temporary situation in my home.

2) I promised my dad to get a mobile rack to place all my AV, Gaming and Sound equipment.

3) I am not projecting my images on a screen but rather using my balcony wall instead.

4) My projector can shoot images up to a size of 300″. Wohoo!

5) All my home walls are sprayed with rock stone, so I really need to get a screen.

6) I am not going to play my Playstation 2 ever again after seeing how great my Xbox360 games look on big screen. Thank the gods; I bought the HD VGA cable.

7) And don’t come pestering me about letting you into my home to the watch World Cup. I will call you guys if I need your company. Ouch.

I was only joking about point 7.

Epson EMP-X3 multimedia projector.

In a stunning move, yours truly has bought a projector. Yap, I brought home a brand new Epson EMP-X3 multimedia projector.

You see folks I have always been fascinated by large screens ever since I was a little boy. I still remember the day I stood in awe when I watched my first movie in the cinema and the day I saw the Lord of the Rings for the very first time.

There’s something about big screen I cannot explain with mere words. It’s an experience. I like to look at it as if it was a giant window to another world, a world that is beyond ours, a world that is trapped in the confines of a film, a world that is timeless. It’s probably one of those crazy reasons that influenced me to purse a career in film making.

Besides a projector is so much cheaper when compared with those Plasma TVs and HDTVs. The only thing that bothered me was Courts, Best Denki, Harvey Norman no longer sold projectors and I had to go all the way to Funan to buy the projector with my dad and brother. Although my dad paid for it, we three are going to share the cost. Oh well there goes my progress package.

So far I am mighty impressed with the projector’s capabilities and must admit I was blown away on how great my xbox360 games looked in high definition.

Nothing beats high definition gaming on a big screen, absolutely nothing. Maybe there are other things but damn it’s just so eye bleeding great.

By the way I consider this a steal deal because for $2000 I got a stunning projector, a 5 mega pixel BENQ camera and a 7” Shinco portable DVD player.

Sorry folks, I would have loved to stay and chat but you see I can’t resist gaming on my big screen now.

At the age of 80 the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges went to visit Mexico. His editor told me that after several days of lectures, conferences and tributes, Borges asked for an afternoon off to visit the Aztec pyramids in Yucatán.

The editor explained that it was a very tiring journey that meant going by taxi, plane and jeep. Borges was not dissuaded and they ended up arranging everything so that he could go to Uxmal.

He arrived almost at nightfall, after an exhausting day. He sat down in front of a 10th century pyramid and stayed there for a half hour without saying anything. At last he rose and thanked those accompanying him: “thank you for this afternoon and this unforgettable landscape.”

Borges was blind. But that did not prevent his soul from understanding what was all around him.

Unimaginable Technological Progress.

Since the beginning of evolution, more complex life forms have been evolving exponentially faster, with shorter and shorter intervals between the emergence of radically new life forms, such as human beings, who have the capacity to engineer (to intentionally design with efficiency) a new trait which replaces relatively blind evolutionary mechanisms of selection for efficiency.

By extension, the rate of technical progress amongst humans has also been exponentially increasing, as we discover more effective ways to do things, we also discover more effective ways to learn, i.e. language, numbers, written language, philosophy, scientific method, instruments of observation, tallying devices, mechanical calculators, computers, each of these a major advance in our ability to account for information occurring increasingly close together.

Already within the past sixty years, life in the industrialized world has changed almost beyond recognition except for living memories from the first half of the 20th century. This pattern will culminate in unimaginable technological progress in the 21st century, leading to a singularity.