just installed this on my laptop + iphone and i have to say it's pretty darn sweet. especially the interaction between the iphone remote and the desktop application.

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watching Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations : Saudi Arabia and enjoying the fact that his doing a show about the place. glad to see that his showing the US audience more about this country.

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A. I wanted the opportunity to show the world a different side of Saudi Arabia. I was pretty confident that there would be interest since this is an area of the world where there aren't many visitors and people are interested in knowing more about it.

brilliant!

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registration form to try out for the show Everyday Edisons.

update : a 26 year old male died due to smoke inhalation. the fire happened on the 13th floor. again - the fire alarm went off for all of 5 seconds and then stopped. we have a friend whose on the 12th floor and she was having breakfast and she also confirmed she heard the fire alarm for all of 5 seconds then stopped.

we're moving.

Quoted: CLEVELAND - Firefighters are at the scene of a fire in downtown Cleveland Tuesday morning. Officials said a fire is under way at Reserve Square, which is located on East 12th Street.
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The building has been evacuated.
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It's unclear if there have been any injuries.

UPDATE : spoke with the management company just now about ending our lease. they basically stated that in order for us to break our lease we would pay $150 + any month they can't find a new renter for the unit. BUT the would rent out all the other units (the ones whose leases end) first and then ours... so basically when we move and they can't find a new renter for the apartment we would still have to pay $1600 + per month until they find a replacement renter.

i told them considering the circumstances i didn't think that was right. they tried to explain that :
A. our fire alarm on the 22nd floor didn't go off because the fire alarms are localized to the floors... since the fire was on the 13th floor only the 12th, 13th and 14th floor fire alarm went off.

B. the fire department were the ones who came assessed the situation and turned off the fire alarm.

my response :
A. we have a friend who lives on the 12th floor. she was up having breakfast getting ready to go to work and she heard the fire alarm for all of 5 - 10 seconds (same as us) and presumed that the fire alarm was faulty. i asked the management people. are you trying to tell me that the time for the fire alarm to alert the fire department. for the fire department to come to the apartment, assess the situation and manually turned the fire alarm off took all of 10 seconds?

B. if it's the alarm system to only set off localized fire alarms based upon floors and if the fire department isn't going to evacuate the whole building and i can't change either of these things then the only thing i can change is my place of residence.

i asked the management person. IF the fire had spread and finally my 22nd floor fire alarm went off (the 21st floor would have to be on fire/have smoke in order to set off my floors fire alarm) then i would have to take the stair well down 22 flights?! while fighting all the other people who are also trying to escape? i told them i would rather be informed (regardless of how 'contained') immediately about a fire so i can get my ass out of there. if they control it - great, no big deal - better safe then sorry. if it spreads - great, i had more time to get the fuck out of there.

they stated they can not do anything and i have to talk to the manager... who of course is on vacation and won't be back til Thursday. i couldn't even make an appointment with her and have to call her on Thursday morning in order to schedule a meeting to discuss getting out of the lease.

kitchen nightmares is quickly becoming one of my favorite shows. after watching a few episodes i'm shocked at how many restaurants featured in the show has unclean kitchens and old / frozen ingredients.

you would think at least those things would be a no brainier.

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