Broken & Fixed
The empty shell
Guess what that is? Yeah that's our TV - atleast the shell minus all the components inside it. The TV died an untimely death today morning and Tim went about trying to fix it, since it is his TV and the idea of putting a fish bowl inside the empty shell as replacement entertainment centre (while cancelling our Sky TV subscription) did not particularly appeal to him. It is the kiwi spirit of ingenuity and the 'do it yourself' attitude which shone through and Tim spent the whole of the sunday trying to find the problem - which turned out to be a blown fuse. He then went and bought a replacement fuse to try fix the problem.
Tim fixing the TV
It took Tim about 6 hours of toiling through the circuits and fuses, to be able to fix the problem. He put it back on and as soon as the power was switched on again, the new fuse promptly blew up again, at which point I reinforced the idea of a fish bowl but that didn't work. Greg got back home by that point, so Tim borrowed his TV tuner card to come up with a new solution.
The solution!!!!!
So yeah - that's how we are watching TV right now - on his laptop, through Greg's TV tuner card. We were discussing the possibility of buying some binoculars, so we can get a bigger view of the proceedings on the laptop...
Circuits
With the increasing amount of publicity of 'Superman Returns' I decided to do a quick refresher on the superman mythology and also explore the storyline whice dealt with 'Death of Superman' - which was a huge global media event that I can still remember from my school days {even though I wasn't into superman comics}. I found one of the best possible sources on Wikipedia- here is an article on Superman {as to how he gets his superpowers} and here you can also check out the article on 'death of superman'. Wikipedia is an interesting website, since it is an encyclopedia maintained by normal web surfers all across the world and man I am in love with the website since you can find almost any information you want on there.
Pandora and Grant are currently in Cannes - meeting up with potential distributors and sales agents - pushing the publicity for 'Nowhere to Love' and also seeing if we can secure some money through pre-sales to some international territories. It is an exciting phase but as I said in one of the earlier posts - also really nervous. How we make this movie happen depends on the financial outcomes over the next couple of weeks.
I think I will take leave, get offline and try and catch a movie before I go to bed.
Till later,
Amit
Pandora and Grant are currently in Cannes - meeting up with potential distributors and sales agents - pushing the publicity for 'Nowhere to Love' and also seeing if we can secure some money through pre-sales to some international territories. It is an exciting phase but as I said in one of the earlier posts - also really nervous. How we make this movie happen depends on the financial outcomes over the next couple of weeks.
I think I will take leave, get offline and try and catch a movie before I go to bed.
Till later,
Amit
Labels: Graphic Novels, Movies, Nowhere to Love
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