Sep/074
Car Update
Lars and Henrik arrived 7 days ago have been visiting Duke the past week. Lars went home yesterday and Henrik is staying a week more. Yesterday Henrik and I went to Jiffy-Lube in Durham and I had my car inspected (it passed!) and got an oil change. I am now pretty much done with all the talks related to the car, the only thing left is to send the old New Jersey plates back and to send my insurance company a copy of my registration.
I have a couple of lang-haul flights in the upcoming months (Seattle and Israel) and is currently seriously looking into noise canceling headphones. I tried a pair from Bose at an Apple Store in Raleigh two days ago and they were amazingly effective, they would make for a great companion on flight and on the train when I get back home. Unfortunately the technology is quite pricey with the top-of-the-range Bose headphones leading the field at around 300 dollars. I am also considering getting one of the new 8 gig iPod nanos (yes I know, I said I would never get one of those, leave me alone!) to go with the head phones. The iPod is actually considerably _cheaper_ than the headphones.
If anyone has any headphone recommendations, please put them in the comments to this post. I have read this positive New York Times review of different types of headphones, the technology looks pretty mature.
September 28th, 2007
I recommend The Bose speakers. No doubt
September 28th, 2007
Of course you do :)
September 28th, 2007
When are you going to Israel, and wherein?
I bet the iPod Nano uses GPL code. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?
September 28th, 2007
Well, I did resist and left the store without an iPod :). Unfortunately, I was also too cheap to get the headphones.
I am going to Eilat, Israel for an algorithms conference (ESA 2007)