Life in Pittsburgh pittsburgh

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First week in Pittsburgh

It’s been a week since I’ve arrived in Pittsburgh. 

There were quite a lot of items I bought, and issues I experienced with the purchases.  

Items I bought–

* Furnitures: Table, Chairs, TV Stand, Bed frame + Mattress…

* Kitchen Utensils: Pans, Cookers, Cups, Storage Containers…

* Bathroom Accessories: Shampoo, Body wash… 

* Groceries and etc. 

For future reference, here I leave a note on those items and purchase experiences (problems only!) 

* IKEA online delivery takes about 2-3 weeks. To reduce the time, make a list of items to buy and call or send email to local IKEA store. (Received delivery next day!)

* When receiving delivery package, make sure all the items delivered correctly. My sofa was missing and I am still waiting for it. 

* Self-installed internet service should work fine. However there are times when things don’t work as expected. There might be physical problems: check the cable line into your outlet is intact. Mine was cut off. (Had to wait 2 more days to get the technician fix the problem). 

* Hand wash Top Care (For the Kitchen) doesn’t smell good. I won’t buy it again. 

* Hand wash Method (Sea Minerals) smells so so. I may buy it again.

I will keep post my life in Pittsburgh once a week (hopefully)!

blah safari Retina Macbook Pro WebKit nightly

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Let’s use Webkit Nightly

I’ve avoided using beta or nightly builds for years. 

However, after using my wife’s MBP retina, I decided to become a nightly build user.

Safari input text bug drives me crazy!! 

Related apple discussion forum thread

If you suffer the same pain, get one here: http://nightly.webkit.org 

(Or you can enjoy the snappy Chrome, yes.) 

fancy Fancy Box items headphone gloves

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This month’s Fancy Box:

All My Friends Are Dead | Mod Retro Vintage Books | ModCloth.com http://fancy.to/twv2w

Verse Headphones by Urban Beatz http://fancy.to/22ru5

Touchscreen Gloves by Mujjo http://fancy.to/tw32w

All Purpose Congratulations Greeting Card http://fancy.to/wh953

Hello Red Champ Pullover http://fancy.to/89j31


Items are getting better and better. Weird thing is, I already received a hello t-shirt last month. (Though the colors are different.)

중얼중얼

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가을 좀 탈라 했더니 벌써 춥다.

blah morning off

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Taking the morning off

I know all things are relative, but it feels pretty good to sleep for additional 2 hours in the morning. Since I am not a kind of morning person, this 2-hour sleep in the MORNING acts like a super charger.

As a bonus, the metro at this hour has enough personal space for everyone.

day blah

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Today’s trip.

Started from Seoul National Univ. station, to Pangyo where the office is located. To Maeheon to have lunch, to office again, and now I am heading for SNU stn. About 2-3hrs later, I have to drop by Inbae’s house. Not a typical day for me.

By the way, there’s reason for my last post was written in Korean. It’s been a long time I actively did something in English. I couldn’t easily write something longer than 140 characters in English.

출근일기 지하철 관찰 기회 위기

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위기가 기회다?!

아침 출근길 지하철 2호선은 사람들이 굉장히 많이 이용한다. 열차 한 두대는 보내야 겨우 탈 수 있고, 그 안에서는 사람들 사이에 끼여 눌려 있어야 한다.
이렇게 많은 사람들이 이용하는 열차는 문이 닫힌 뒤에 가방이 끼었다거나 하는 등의 이유로 문이 다시 열리기도 한다. 열차 안에 충분한 공간이 있다면 이 상황은 기회가 될 수 있지만, 아침 출근 열차는 그렇지 않다.
지금 내 뒤엔 문이 열린 기회를 타 비집고 들어오신 분이 괴로워하고 있다. 어찌어찌 밀고 들어왔는데, 문에 끼였고, 주변에서 당겨줘서 본인은 열차 안에 겨우 탑승할 수 있었다.
문제는 손에 들고있던 종이백이 문에 끼었다는 거. 목적지가 삼성역이거나 더 지나서라면 다행이지만, 강남역에 내려야 했었다면 들고온 짐을 포기하거나 삼성역까지 갔다가 돌아와야한다.
우리는 위기 상황에 처했을 때, 작은 기회에 너무나 갈급한 나머지 그로 인해 발생할 수 있는 더 큰 문제들을 충분히 고려하지 않은 채 행동을 취하곤 한다. 궁지에 몰리면 실수하기 쉬워지고, 합리적인 판단을 하기가 더 어려워진다. 그런데도 위기를 기회 삼아 성공한 이야기가 많이 나오는 것은, 위기 때 작은 기회를 과대해석해서 망하는 경우가 너무나 많기 때문일 것이다. 성공한 케이스가 드물기 때문에 (그리고 우리는 그런 이야기를 듣고싶어하기에) 그 이야기가 많이 들린다는 이야기다.
위기 상황을 극복하기 어려우니 좌절하고 포기하자는 말이 아니라, 위기에 처할수록 더 냉정하게 판단할 줄 알아야 한다는 것이다. 위기에 보이는 기회는 많은 경우 파괴적인 문제들을 내포하고 있다.

bag lexon airline backpack

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Bought a new bag from Lexon. I used one of their early airline models several years ago. I think it lasted about a year. Hope this one lasts longer.

OS X Mountain Lion Finder Hang SPOD Copying File Operation

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Finder hangs. 

I am trying to copy relatively large number of files from my USB External HDD to newly bought NAS (about 10,000 files, separated in 1800 folders, total size of 120GB.)

When I dragged the selected folders into a folder in a NAS, Finder stopped responding to my keyboard/mouse events and showing the spinning beachball of death. File operation seemed to be working, so I just fired up the Activity Monitor to check if it’s dead or not. 

Even though the name of the Finder was in red with dreadful “(Not Responding)” tag, its CPU usage kept changing. Since I’m using both Disk and Network IO, by checking those values assured me that Finder will revive from it’s non-responding status when all the copying is done.

Why have Finder blocked main thread? Isn’t it what Apple strongly discourages?

media server airport express NAS

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New Apple Airport Express with Apple TV 2nd Gen.

A few days ago, I bought a so-called ‘white Apple TV’ Airport Express. Before buying this one, I’ve been using 2nd Gen Airport Express for my home router.

It was not that the existing one needs replacing but I wanted to improve home media sharing system.
After marriage, old MBP late 2008 took the role for awhile.

There were 2 problems:
- Cost of turning on MBP 24/7 was high
- Internal SSD used as the media storage freezes occasionally

I was able to persuade my wife that we can get benefit from a Network Attached Storage. As for the first step of getting a NAS, new router with lan port is required. That’s why I bought the white Apple TV express.

Unfortunately, I didn’t know it supports only 10/100 Mbps. Man, it’s 2012! Who would make a router without Gigabit support?!

For that reason, white apple tv express lived in our home only about 5 days. Though it was short, I liked it sitting next to my Apple TV.

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