I’m one step closer to the home cinema experience. I have bought two real cinema chairs, originally placed in a cinema in Roskilde they were designed by some danish designer, I don’t know who, but i think he or she did quite a nice job. The only problem is that my current living arrangement doesn’t really allow for the optimal placement, but I’m working on it.
I’m feeling like a kid again.
Yesterday I bought a new toy, I’m once again finding my self playing with Lego brigs, but this time there is a slight difference. A few of the bricks are not only solid plastic blocks, instead they contain electrical engines, a light sensor, sound sensor or ultrasonic (think sonar) sensor. This toy has the added pleasure that when you finished playing with the bricks, you move to your computer and connect to your new creation through USB or bluetooth, you can then start programming the behavior the robot (or what ever you have constructed). Programming may be done through software which came with the toy or if you are somewhat of a tech geek like me, you quickly find your way to more advanced ways, using e.g. Not eXactly C (NXC) you may write multithreaded (task) programs which will run on the robots ARM processor and have its engines and sensores collaborate to find and retrieve exiting things, such as plastic balls and so on. I’ll keep you posted on whatever I get it to doo.
For the last couple of years I havn’t had the time or money to go on a “real” holiday, but this year I treated myself to one week in the sun. A friend of mine and me, booked one week at a hotel in Alanya, Turkey. I must admit that this “was just what the doctor ordered” (as one says). The sun was scorching, it was almost 50 C in the shade and I have no idea of what that meant in direct sunlight. Although this might sound unbearable, with enough beers, cokes an the occasional dip in the sea, which was approximately 100m from the hotel, this was just perfect after a hectic year of writing my master thesis.
Now I could continue writing about all the broing details of what we did and saw while we were there, but I won’t because it would simply bore you. Having said that, we didn’t really do anything there, except for lying around in the sun, drinking beers (to keep the body temperature down, of cause) and swimming in the sea.
Except that isn’t really true, because we did actually do one exciting thing. For the first time in almost 5 years i jumped in a wetsuit and strapped on a steel tank with compressed air, fines and a mask and went scuba diving. Although Alanya isn’t the coral paradise of the world, it was extremely great, once again to experience the freedom of diving.
The dive included a first time experience for me – a cave dive. Although I have almost logged 100 dives, I have never dived a cave. Although this cave wasn’t advanced in any way, I still had to force myself somewhat to enter the darkness, with the almost pathetic flashlights which we were given by the dive masters. Having found the cave opening at around 15m (forgive me if I remember this wrong) the entrance was a short 2 minute swim at a 45 degree angle toward the surface. The air in the cave was breathable and the cave was “decorated” with fascinating stalactite, shaped like something which resembles large rambo knifes – in turn, giving the cave its name (referred to by the divemasters atleast) “The Rambo Cave”.
