Reading Time: < 1 minuteTokyo is my favorite city. The food is excellent and there are excellent, small and cozy restaurants, both cheap and otherwise. The street food market is superb. The people are very friendly. The metro is top of the line. The streets are big Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesFame of actors and actresses In previous posts I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The unit of fame is the famon (= 1/1 000 000 relative % Ngram frequency). Marylin Monroe and John Wayne are still at the top Previous uses Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe iPhone is a powerful smart home controller. You can manage many home automations through the Home app, which serves as a central hub for controlling smart home accessories. As a result it can also be a excellent smart home cinema driver. To control Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSeoul is a modern city. It is clean and beautiful with large streets. It is dominated by modern high-rise buildings, outside of which there is always a big sculpture. There are many modern shopping malls and aquaria. The people are very nice and polite. Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew app update The Philips Hue app gets a new update. Among the changes is the fact the non Philips switches (i.e., Friends of Hue switches) get smarter by having time-based light, scene cycling and more. This is quite useful for a home cinema setup that is based on Friends Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesFame of actors and actresses In previous posts I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The unit of fame is the famon: with 1 famon = 1/1 000 000 relative % Ngram frequency. Marylin Monroe and John Wayne are still at the Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minutePhilips Hue is one of the most stable and reliable smart lighting systems. For those wishing to have their smart home based on Philips Hue this is a good timing. There is a Hue spring sale for the full array of Hue products, e.g. smart bulbs, lightstrips, controls, outdoor lights. Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesFame levels of various actors and actresses In a previous post I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The Ngram tool produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKuala Lumpur There are several tall buildings in the modern capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. However, three are among the most iconic ones: Merdeka 118 (2023, 678.9 m) Petronas Twin Towers (1998, 451.9 m) Kuala Lumpur Tower (1996, 412 m). Merdeka 118 is the newest building. Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI visited the impressive Kuala Lumpur for 12 days in February. During my visit to several malls, such as Pavilion and Suria, I had the opportunity to come across multiplex cinemas (e.g. Dadi Cinemas). The movies that were or will be in the theaters are the Malaysian: action comedy Happy Read more