{"id":3132,"date":"2009-10-26T23:52:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T06:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2009-10-26T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T06:52:54","slug":"ideal-viewing-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3132","title":{"rendered":"Ideal viewing angle."},"content":{"rendered":"

So now my huge 23″ TV is in the other room and I just measured the distance from the TV to my chair. It’s somewhere around 23 feet away. The worst part is that the 23″ Samsung has really awful audio and it’s kind of hard to hear the tinny sound come out of it. Here’s a picture of what I see when I’m watching TV.<\/p>\n

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It’s really not so bad. I remember when I used to watch a 12″ TV I hauled out of the trash in Japan. I had to fix it, and I sat on this awful foam couch that I also hauled out of the trash. Fortunately, my manager gave me some wicker chairs and I didn’t have to use that couch much after that.<\/p>\n

I just downloaded a bunch of books into my Kindle for the trip to Japan. I haven’t used my Kindle in months and the display said something about the battery being completely dead, which it can say because e-ink doesn’t take any power to maintain the text on the screen. I’m just hoping I haven’t read any of these already:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Mind’s Eye: an Inspector <\/b><\/td>\nHakan Nesser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nine Dragons<\/b><\/td>\nMichael Connelly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Confession<\/b><\/td>\nOlen Steinhauer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Pillars of the Earth<\/b><\/td>\nKen Follett<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Bridge of Sighs<\/b><\/td>\nOlen Steinhauer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Down River<\/b><\/td>\nJohn Hart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Coincidentally, I tried to read Bridge of Sighs<\/b> by Richard Russo on my trip to Japan last year. It took a LONG time to finish that book and it was worth it, but it took some work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So now my huge 23″ TV is in the other room and I just measured the distance from the TV to my chair. It’s somewhere around 23 feet away. The worst part is that the 23″ Samsung has really awful audio and it’s kind of hard to hear the tinny sound come out of it. Here’s a picture of what I see when I’m watching TV. It’s really not so bad. I remember when I used to watch a 12″ TV I hauled out of the trash in Japan. I had to fix it, and I sat on this awful foam couch that I also hauled out of the trash. … Continue reading Ideal viewing angle.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}