2012 in review through bills, letters, notices, printouts, pamphlets, tickets, receipts & stubs

I finally got around to cleaning up my home desk which was flooded with lots of credit card receipts, letters of insurance payments, medical payments. While pictures taken throughout the year can tell you a story but so can the paper trail.  It can tell you even more detailed story. One can see the dental appointments and bills, lens bills for which only other record perhaps would be your medical history.

So what did I find in this year’s paper trail. The bulk of it was receipt from Curry Point which is the mainstay of everyday dinner, followed by QFC. Then you have all other restaurants in Redmond like Matador, JJ Mahoney, Celtic Bayou frequented occasionally. Potbelly is missing from the paper trail as I don't collect the receipt there. Neither does RajaRani Cuisine which is cash on delivery. Memorable ones are Tap house, Applebee’s & Cheesecake Factory with friends. Then there are ones while travelling like Shari's Cafe and Pies, Wildflower Grill, Pietro's Pizza, Ihop in Norwalk, Missippi Studio & BarBar etc.

On medical side it was dominated by insurance notice like for dentist visits, optician, general physician, podiatrist etc. One look at the bill and you can see that medical costs in US is really high. There are bills from Bartell drugs but they pale in comparison to the fees charged by doctors. There are big packets from Microsoft/Premera explaining next year's HSP plan. Without medical insurance one will have really have big hole in the pocket.

On money side you have mostly credit card offers. My stock holding firms also inform of their presence by occasional dividend notices. My bank has sent few letter as well.

One big bucket would be auto related items. The bulk of visiting cards I have are from the car dealers I visited this year. Then you have parking receipts from places in Bellevue and Pacific Science Center. There are correspondence for traffic tickets & notices. Then you have auto insurance bill explanation and notices. This is one area which I hope to see less of next year. Small paper bills consists mainly of gas fill-up credit card receipts initially a lot from ARCO on willows or from Chevron on 51st.And lot of other gas bills from various parts on the west coast.

Pamphlets providing information about tourist sites from various trips this year. Printouts of American byways from May and July road trips. Half a dozen flight tickets. Not too many hotel bills since others paid for hotels as in last stay at Doubletree was paid online. So I have bills of stay at Mitchell & very special stay at Zillah.

Bills of clothing, personal care & some of the books bought. Most valuable is the swimming trunk. Ah. Small table bought at Habitat EKC. I don't see any bill of big IKEA purchase done in March looks like I lost it. Fair amount from QFC. Some from Fred Meyer. None from Target or Trader Joe. Some bills from Bed, Bath & Beyond. Stubs of Movie Tickets from Bella Botega, Lincoln Square, Pacific Science Center, Totem Lake & AMC in Norwalk. Supercuts is there as well.

There are rare ones like printout of first company meeting entry, KCLS (need to go there more often) back to school notice. 13$ check of car registration refund which expired because I was too lazy to deposit it.

That pretty much wraps up the 2012 various  paper bills.

Fall Schedule

1. Monday
• Two Broke Girls
• Two and a Half Men
• Gossip Girl
• How I Met Your Mother
• House M.D.
2. Tuesday
• 90210
• Ringer
• New Girl
3. Wednesday
• Modern Family
• South Park
• Up All Night
• Suburgatory
• Revenge
• Harry's Law
4. Thursday
• Grey's Anatomy
• Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Private Practice
• The Big Bang Theory
• The Mentalist
• Person of Interest
• The League 
5. Friday
• Chuck
6. Saturday
• Rules of Engagement
7. Sunday
• Desperate Housewives
• The Good Wife
• Pan Am

HTML Refresher

 

It has been long time since my last blog post. I visited blogger yesterday and I must say I am impressed by nice changes done to the application . I also saw preview video of next set of changes to come and  they do look promising.

With all the HTML5  buzz and hype , I decided perhaps it is time to invest sometime understanding HTML . More like a refresher , since I do understand little bit of HTML and CSS.

Even though I started visiting sites and checking mails(yahoo mail) on internet  in 2001. It was not until my first year of IIT , when seniors held a HTML basics talk, I explored HTML a bit. I used notepad and Dreamweaver ,mostly Dreamweaver to create basic pages and styles. As with everybody new with HTML , I ended up creating a geocities page. which I never touched again. That was the only time I guess , I tried to understand HTML in a focused manner .

Afterwards , It has been mostly here and there on need basis like when creating web frontend for database project using JSP. Recently I used HTML while understanding ASP.NET web forms and MVC.

So I decided to read  Head First HTML as refresher course. I am through with first couple of chapters in breeze as there is nothing new to me till now.

That’s all for now.

Conned – Fake USB

I got outsmarted and conned by a fraudster and situation recently. I was late for office so I was in hurry . I  was approached by a person in scooter, I stopped as I thought he was going to ask for directions. He showed me four 32 GB Kingston flash drives in Kingston package and  told me some tale about how he acquired them which I do not remember as I was hardly paying any attention and was not interested.

Then he feigned innocence as if he is unaware of what it is worth. He offered me to test them and if I felt that they are good I can buy them.The offer seemed tempting so I decided to test it . So I took all four of them upstairs and broke open one and plugged them.

It showed 32 GB free  I formatted it to Fat32  and then I went to Kingston site and verified the seal the seal looked authentic. I tried entering the no. but the china site was not working. So I decided to test it by copying few media files and then disconnecting and reconnecting and see if they were working fine. It worked fine but slow and I was in hurry so I did not further testing.

So I went downstairs where he was waiting and gave him 3 USB sticks back and kept the one just that I have opened. He asked me how much I will pay I said 600 and he bargained for 800 and to buy more but I gave him 600.

Next two days I was happy thinking that it was either good obtained through illegitimate means or it was some Chinese product which is not guaranteed to last long.I told some of my friends and colleagues about this how it is too good to be true.But it was short-lived as two days later when I tried to copy some 2 GB of data to my friends comp it showed nothing on my friend’s comp.

After some research on internet I found out that I have been conned as it was 512 MB drive which has been flashed to show 32 GB.

So bottom-line is if something is too good to be true then it is not true.

Things that saved me from buying extra in hindsight were 

• He told me he is from Ghaziabad and I knew Ghaziabad is the biggest fake goods city in the India.
• I did not have lot of money in my pockets I only had 400 so I had to borrow some from building guard.
• The performance of  drive was slow.

Things that did not work in my favor

• I was in hurry.
• I  underestimated con people thinking they cannot make packaging almost like original with original looking seal.
• The guy’s innocent and suspicious behavior  acting was very good.
• I only copied files which were less than 512 MB had I copied a bigger file like movie file  I would have found out the truth.
• Most important point is he gave me full control like testing and fixing price so which made it seem like I was in control .

Here are few items to verify fakeness of USB drive :

1.Try using h2testw . It will write the complete size and verify it. This is sufficient condition but it will take long time as it will try to write full size.

 http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/h2testw-14-gold-standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/

2. One faster way would be trying to format it to NTFS if it fails it must be fake .(This is necessary but not sufficient )

3. If something looks dirt cheap think again.

There are lots of other links on internet to detect fake USB drives and lot of people have been conned by EBay sellers.

So after discovering that I have been outsmarted , I was amused at my bêtise, I broke open the drive and to see the insides and saw handiwork of it being tampered .

In case you are wondering how it looks like here is pic of the package

Here is link which shows one :-

http://www.gadget.co.za/pebble.asp?relid=1349

Also check-out the

http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/

Lies

You keep me in the dark

Until the difference from the truth

Becomes evident and stark

You play me around

Like a dog fetching the Frisbee

On the whistle’s sound

You give me false hope

Only to be disappointed like a person

Rappelling left with a cut rope

Why can’t you come clean?

Stop giving lame excuses and

For once just spill the bean

Because I am tired of being pushed around

Listening to same lines and

Being treated like a hound

IPL semis

Lets start with the team which has already made to semis :

Delhi is already in to semis with 16 points and four matches left because even if they lose all matches they will still make to semis

Chennai with 13 points and 3 matches left including one against KKR are favorites to go through

Rajasthan with 13 points have two matches including one against KKR so they are also looking  good

Lets have a look at teams which have matches against Delhi and Chennai, two strong but not invincible side as shown by Bangalore today.

Mumbai  to go through has to win its remaining two  matches against DD and CSK and still rely on other teams on not winning to go through.

Punjab needs to win against Deccan to have any real chance of going through.But it is only necessary condition but not sufficient because they have to still hope that Deccan does not win its remaining matches. With its matches against DD and CSK it is a tall task.

Bangalore need to win against Deccan because a loss there would concede them points and poor Run Rate of  Bangalore will force them out.

In order to go to the semis Deccan has one thing clear

Three straight wins guarantee semi final spot

Two wins from 3 games is sufficient to see them through in most case if they win against

1) Bangalore and Punjab both  as both team will be left with 14 points at max then while Deccan will have 16 and  MI will have 15 max

2)or Kolkata and Bangalore/Punjab on the basis of run rate (unless there is any dramatic change in run rates)

If it loses all three it is certainly out of semis as  Bangalore,Delhi ,Chennai and Rajasthan  will have more points.

Only scenario which can lead to multiple outcome for Deccan is single win,then it has to rely on Delhi and Chennai to beat its competitors.

Next three matches are important as they are decider for  the semis berth :-

DD vs. Punjab : Must win for Punjab otherwise they have to rely too much on their luck to go through

Mumbai vs. CSK : Must win for Mumbai else they are certainly  out

DC vs. KKR : DC must defeat KKR to make it easy for themselves

Watch out for rain and  KKR , they can certainly make somebody else’s life miserable if they prevail.

So lets see how things play out.

Deccan see through the see-saw battle

A good see-saw match was what I witnessed today.

Mumbai Indians are looking formidable side with Sachin, Jayasuriya, Duminy and Bravo . There young Indian players Nayar and Dhawan are good too. There bowling led by Maling, Zaheer , Harbhajan and Bravo looks good too.

Deccan Charger on the other hand have really great top but they have a really long tail which has again hampered the finish of the Deccan Chargers yet again. The addition of Dwayne Smith has further bolstered their explosive top compromising of Gilly,Gibbs and Sharma. The weak spot for them is the lax form of Laxman and no support from  Ravi Teja and Rao in middle order. So Deccan relies very heavily on its top to perform which they have till now. But recent games against Banglore and Mumbai has shown once the top 4 goes away they are not able to score runs and give  a decent finish to the game. Thankfully their bowling has been going well till now with pace duo RP and Edwards proving good support to each other. Pragyan Ojha has been good in the middle overs.

Going into the game I wanted Gilly’s team to win but on the back of my mind I knew Mumbai were more favorites to win as they have more evenly balanced squad.

Thanks to good batting at the top by Gilchrist,Gibbs and Smith it looked 200 within the reach. But once Smith , Sharma and Laxman departed due to good bowling from bravo  it was quite a slide from there one. What really put me off was how Rao got a set batsman of greater caliber run out. He should have crossed and let Gibbs survive. The long tail of Deccan and good bowling from Malinga made target of Mumbai shorter by 20 runs atleast.

Mumbai were curtailed well by tight bowling by Edwards and RP. But over from Harmeet let Sachin and Mumbai back on track. I think Harmeet would be dropped in next match has he was sloppy in the field and did not perform well with the bowl.Sachin and Duminy did well to propel Mumbai to half way mark at half time. At that time it looked like Mumbai were going to have a comfortable win. But as we have witnessed timeout has changed the momentum of the game . After timout Ojha took the crucial wicket of the Tendulkar and then bowled  couple of tight overs in tandem with Rao to gain the momentum back for Deccan. It was same scenario as Punjab to get 60 out of 30 but unfortunately for they did not have any set batsmen like Bopara once Duminy got out.

What surprised me was letting Rao bowl the 18th over instead of Dwayne Smith the more experienced person . It worked out well with going for only one six in the over. What I think Mumbai did wrong was after wicket of Tendulkar they slowed their momentum alot and let run rate climb high. The late charge by Harbhajan was great but it was just too much for him.

In the end Deccan won the game due to some fine bowling but they really need to finish the batting well by either ensuring the top stays till end or making change in team to include someone better than Teja and Rao.

With matches against Delhi and Chennai ,Deccan  is going to have tough test and will rely on top order and good bowling to do wonder as it has done till now.

At this stage Mumbai,Delhi,Chennai and Deccan look strong to go to semifinal unless Rajasthan does their last year’s magic.

Sri Lankan Tamils to India : Why so silent?

Indian Politicians and media were so enraged when Jade Goody said  a racial slur to Shilpa Shetty that they made it of national importance and hijacked  the UK minister’s main agenda and forced  it  on him.

But now when one of the most heinous racist crime similar to genocide  is being committed in Sri Lanka, why is Indian media and politicians ignoring it and showing the drama of Varun Gandhi. Are only racist words against celebrity by a white person of national importance and not the life of a normal civilian  subjected to bombarding under the veil of counterattack on terrorism ?

Have both  BJP (The Hindutva party) and Congress (The champion of common man) have been so blinded by Polls that they are giving this a miss. Both these party project themselves as self-righteous and moral , what is stopping them from raising this issue at global level.

Where is morality of Indian media which makes sure to push everyone else to gallows on issues of morality and righteousness.

Crashes,Connection and Changes

It has been sometime since I wrote my last blog, a few stuffs  have happened since then.I have endured two hard disk crash, change in broadband connection, and change of manager.

Hard disk crashes as random but  they seemed  in perfect agreement in my case.First my external 500 GB Seagate free agent goes berserk sometime in January ,So I submitted it for replacement but the person recording serial no. made mistake and wrote o instead of a 0(zero) which resulted in some phone calls and further delay of  a week. Seeing this as right opportunity my internal 500 GB Seagate hard disk decided to betray me. Note that these are both new hard disk  not older than 6 months. My older hard disk have not given me any problem like this ,touchwood. So I was reduced from 1 TB to 2 GB pen drive of read only Xubuntu Linux live CD  for about a week, till I got my external hard disk.

I decided to install windows 7 on my external USB hard disk but to my dismay I found it cannot be achieved. So  I installed Ubuntu on external drive and worked on it for a week, the experience with Compiz effects was good once I was able to install my display driver.Then I got my internal hard drive which I struggled to fit in the  slot (I just pushed in slot and was not able to screw it to case) and I was finally able to install Windows 7 . Well Windows 7  has been a delight at least.

After getting through this hard disk fiasco, my ISP decided to give me hard time. I was witnessing slow connection for a few days after which I decided to complain. The Airtel call center  guys were unaware of problem. It was only when technical guy came to my home I was informed of ‘Fair Usage Policy’ which dictates that unlimited connection of 384 kbps seize to be 384 and will become 256 once you have crossed upload + download limit of 25 GB. The sites were not updated still and Airtel help guys were not clear of details. It took a week to get clear details of this policy and sites were updated. So I decided to change my ISP, I contacted beam cable which never called me back . So I called Reliance Broadband which resulted in Wimax guy and broadband guy coming to my home. I refused Wimax guy as I didn't hear good reviews about it . After some documents ,emails and 500 rupees I was able to apply for reliance. I am not sure about exact days but after few days I got my reliance 1mbps connection(I decided to  upgrade to see how this affects my net life). I had asked Airtel guys for disconnection immediately but they have still not taken their equipments. Well with this sorted out things are fine finally.Although I have to solve reliance disconnection issue after some idle hours of connection which results in re-entering of password.

After changes at home were over, I got the news about change at work . So My manager has changed and my team has moved under new manager after some re-org. This change doesn’t requires much effort  from my part at least.

I witnessed weather pattern change also with summer coming early at Hyderabad. It was not even Feb. and  mercury had already risen. I thought Pune would be nice change from this hot weather but to my surprise Pune was no different than Hyderabad  on my short trip.

Well things have settled for now. Lets see how long that lasts in these turbulent times.

Tears of disbelief and despair

 

Tears rolling down the cheeks of two great players was a sight which we all saw after end of the Australian Open final. But the emotions conveyed by these tears where world apart. A tear of disbelief, a dream come true, joy  was followed by a tear of despair, helplessness, grief.

 

It was a match of  great player of all time against  great player at the moment. The best player of the moment survived in the end. "You need to win the point against him three or four times more than against all the other players" is what Verdasco said about his compatriot after losing in semis to him and rightly so. It was almost impossible to get through him as he was able to cover the whole world America to Asia without raising a eyebrow.

Although I had  believed Federer is really strong and can defeat Rafa but somehow he  just was not able to keep the momentum going in the last set as he handed the service  break to Rafa by committing a string of unforced error. The serving of both of them was not A-class. Overall it just didn't seem the A-game of  both the player.

Way Rafa has been improving over the year he seems very close to repeating the feat of calendar grand slam. I hope that Federer wins his 14th quickly but with each conceded win to Rafa , 14th slam is becoming further away from Federer.

Tipping Point to Six Degrees of Separation

 

I got fascinated by the word tipping point which I had used in my previous post. So I have started reading the book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference  by Malcolm Gladwell .

I have finished reading the second chapter (which talks about connector,mavens and salesman ) and it seems a good read till now .

I used the tipping point word sometime back in the post and then I researched the word as I liked the word and I found the book. My curiosity went up for the book and I decided I am going to read the book. Incidentally my friend had this book but it took me a few weeks to get hold of it . In the book they mention six degrees of separation which I think most of us might have heard states that everyone is connected to everyone else within six links.After reading about six degrees of separation , I got interested about it and I found another book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. In effort to get more about this I searched it and I found the movie Six Degrees of Separation which I plan to watch now.

Tipping Point -> The Tipping Point ->Six Degrees of Separation->Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age ->Six Degrees of Separation (Movie)

This too got covered within six links !

The note

A dream untold resting in sleep
a bright picture lying in dark to weep
Warm blood splattered on cold wall
a big room filled with people looks small

so much noise in silent residence
natural expressions replaced by pretense
providing with answers abound
but right question yet to be found

what forces one to end something so dear
something hard to understand ,never clear
it has got to be love , they say
work they say is the reason in play

so many reasons to die they will give
but only reason to live is to live
says simply the note
that the dead had wrote

Tipping Point

Earlier I had posted how I was eager to play Prince of Persia. So I bought a new computer system which would be worth around 60 k. I got a AMD quad core 2.5 GHZ,4 GB Ram,500 GB hard disk rig. But most important thing is my graphics card 512 MB ATI Radeon 4870 which was costing whopping 19 k when I bought and my benq 22 inch LCD monitor. I built this solid gaming rig because I wanted to play games and  PoP in particular.

I have completed Prince of Persia in last two nights.After completing it I realized that decision tipping thing for me to buy a new computer (spending 60k) lasted  for two nights only . I find it strange that although I wanted to play games , I did not  seriously consider buying a  new one until PoP came out . I have heard of tipping point in consumer's buying decision , but never consciously thought about it until today.

I think I had read somewhere how buying stuff although seems like a logical and rational decision,but in reality is irrational and emotional one.

Desktop Tools for windows

Yod'm 3D is Yet another desktop manager (DeskSpace of Otaku Software) provides a way to have four desktops on your windows. The four desktops are like walls of a cube when switching . This may enhance productivity of people but I use it for aesthetic purpose mostly.

Virtual Desktop Manager is an offering in Power tools section of XP which has other interesting also like ALT + TAB replacement. This one also has four desktops which are like 2 X 2 grid.

Madotate allows a interesting way to arrange item on your desktop

Topdesk from Otaku software offers ways to switch between your open applications on windows

Flip like Vista

Expose like Mac

As I had mentioned earlier power tools for XP provides ALT + TAB replacement

While talking about desktop managers one cannot forget to mention Compiz for linux.

If you have not seen Compiz in action here are few videos

Download never dies

Here are few things that one need to do ensure that one utilizes as much bandwidth of our broadband (these step are applicable only if your place has power cut and your bandwidth is not so high that you can get stuff for whole day in an hour):-

Step 1 : Set your BIOS to boot up after power outage this can be done. In BIOS go to Power and set your After AC failure to Auto(to return to previous state before power failure)

Step 2 : Step set your computer to auto login on start. you don't need to have your password as blank to do that. Use the second method which does not involve registry editing.

Step 3 : Add your torrent client say utorrent in startup by simply putting the utorrent's shortcut in startup folder.

Step 4: Also configure utorrent's web UI so that you can monitor it remotely.Get an OpenDNS account so that you can get your IP when you are away(applicable only if you have dynamic IP). You may have to do port forwarding on the router to make this work.

Alternatively you can use logmein 's free remote client service to login and do things remotely.

So, Now you are all set to download non-stop and you will be able to monitor and add torrents remotely.

Making life (read "browsing") simple

I wanted to share some new aids that one can use to simplify things and continue enjoying browsing.

First I would like to narrate a scenario to you.  I often go to a site and the site ask for registration , I decide to register and it asks for email address and email verification. Most of the time if I am really interested  I continue but if  site is not very interesting on first impression I would cancel registration due to fear of  spam or just laziness of signing in and verifying the link given. The solution to this has been provided by Mailinator "let them eat spam". This site provides an open inbox in which you do not need to register or intimate the site that you are using an email id for registration like idofyourchoice@mailinator.com and then just go to the site enter the idofyourchoice in textbox ,no password etc,  just read the mail and verify by clicking on the link given. The mails will be auto deleted in few hours. This site is a really helpful addition to web.

My next scenario is say you are on a computer which does not has Adobe PDF installed or you do not want to download the PDF to the computer, what would you do to view it(it's easier if it is attachment in Gmail. you would just say open in web page). Nodobe addon for Firefox will do exactly same thing it will add a context menu on right click to open with Nodobe in a new tab. To use this feature you need to have a free account at least with Vuzit (pronounced "View it") . You can use Mailinator to register if you want . Support for other filetypes is coming soon has been claimed by the website.

My next item is not so much about simplicity but more about making web a fun place. 3D world provided by Google , Lively is  really cool virtual place to hang out . It seems to be inspired by second life but nonetheless the offering by Google is welcome. It allows one to use one's avatar and style it with clothing.  The avatars can chat ,whisper to other avatar, and perform various moves like dancing,clapping etc .It also allows to create one's room and add various things to it from the catalog. So if you have good  broadband speed you can explore other people's rooms , create your own room ,chat with strangers or friends.

Next I would like to mention  nice  desktop utility named Keepass which one can use to manage the username and  passwords which keep growing at exponential rate these days for anyone who is actively browses web.  I know most of us use browser's ability to save password but it  is not disaster proof. Also if you have multiple browsers like me it becomes even more hassle. This tool will help centralize your usernames and passwords so it is not stored in browser. It comes with a hotkey which when pressed fills username and password fields and prompts user to select username if multiple username is detected for  a site. One can also use backup plugin for it to keep backing up the store at various location. One can use features like Dropbox or Live Mesh to  synchronize the Keepass database across multiple computer .

The Gamer Within

 

Of late the gamer within me has arisen from the slumber of what I think almost is around a  year. The cause for this stir is news of Prince of Persia releasing this holiday season. I am a big fan of Prince of Persia series . I have played Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Prince of Persia : Two Thrones .

The combat moves involving combination of various key resulting in complex move from wall run to jumping through poles and various other acrobatic moves are mainstay of the game. The gameplay involves finding way through maze , solving puzzle ,killing minions and other dark creatures. But the most fun part are the boss battles. Being chased by Dahaka "the death" ,racing towards a closing gate in a chariot or finding a way through plethora of roller blades to get that elusive life upgrade raises the pulse. The speed kill in the Two thrones were another great addition to incredible gameplay. Other most unique thing about the game is feature of rewinding in time using sand and checkpoint based saving.The setting of time island in warrior within with rock music was also really awesome. The Babylon with Arabic music in two thrones was pretty cool too. Check out the wiki entry on Prince of Persia for more details.

Now the Prince of Persia team at Ubisoft  have come up with latest addition to this series. The Prince of Persia 4 is set in past i.e.  before Sands of Time the first one in the series. If you have not already checked out the Prince of Persia's official site. I urge you to check out the videos of the new POP  which is scheduled to release on December 2nd. The prince has been provided with a companion Elika who is able to able to heal  corruption with her magical healing powers. Also several new addition has been made with the duo tagging up against the villains. Also there has been addition of several moves like slide , roof run,extremely long jump with the  help of Elika,extremely long rebound using pads.

Overall it looks like a great addition to Prince of Persia series. I am really looking forward to play this game to the extent I am considering assembling a gaming PC or buying Xbox to just play this game.

Here is trailer video of the latest Prince of Persia.

You can watch more video at official website. Watch out the commented walk through  video which displays gameplay.

 

Hue Test

I took a hue test. It is a test to distinguish between different hues if you have free time and you are willing to take troubles, you can click on the link given below and try your eyes yourselves.

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

Here are the results of my test it seems I had trouble discerning hues in green area. I got 8.

The Big Bang Theory

 

The Big Bang Theory is  a really hilarious sitcom created by Chuck Lorre ( of Two and Half Men) and Bill Prady . This sitcom is a must watch for anyone who appreciates how comic it is when people of opposite nature read geek scientist guys and sexy actress wannabe meet. The  timing of joke and the whole characterization of  Sheldon and  Leonard  is really creative may be bit over the top nonetheless fun to watch . They are aided by their flirting  creepy friend Howard and shy Koothrapalli .  There little star wars loving , online game playing , weird science experimenting world is shaken when Penny comes to live in apartment next door. This show is a must watch ,so friends go to Youtube ,CBS or search for torrent and just look for this show's pilot.

I hope you will enjoy watching this show.

TV Actresses I adore

Here is  a list of  actresses of current soaps, I love .

Kate Walsh (Dr. Addison Montgomery of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice)

Katherine Heigl (Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens of Grey's Anatomy)

Blake Lively (Serena van der Woodsen of Gossip Girl)

Cobie Smulders (Robin Scherbatsky of How I Met Your Mother)

Rachel Bilson (Lou of Chuck , Summer of O.C.)

Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars of Veronica Mars, Elle Bishop of Heroes)

Eva Longoria Parker(Gabrielle Solis of Desperate Housewives)

Yvonne Strahovski (Sarah Walker of Chuck)

Erica Durance ( Lois Lane of Smallville)

Evangeline Lilly (Kate of Lost)

I  like Allison Mack(Chloe Sullivan of Smallville ), Sarah Shahi (Dani Reese of Life) , Julie Bowen (Denise Bauer of Boston Legal) , Mary-Louise Parker (Nancy Botwin of  Weeds) .