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This is the second day with temperatures above 30 degrees (Celsius). If you live in a place where high temperatures are normal, you might not think it’s something special. But for a Norse like me, it’s terribly hot!

I have found a list of strange phobias on the Internet: The Phobia List.

A phobia is not something to ridicule. But even people who suffer from Genuphobia (fear of knees) or Aulophobia (fear of flutes) should probably be able to see the fun in the disorder?
Or maybe not, if they suffer from Geliophobia (fear of laughing) or Catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).

I can not decide if the most bizarre are the things that people fear – or that someone has invented names for these disorders.
One of the most ironic phobia names must surely be Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia which means fear of long words. That could almost lead to Phobophobia (fear of phobias).

Weather Forecast for May:
Days with a little rain, mixed with days with a lot of rain.

Sigh!

I began to wonder how it could be that the soldiers we send to war are also those who have least to fight for? It is mostly younger people who have yet to obtain homes they can lose; or career soldiers who have nothing else to lose in a war than themselves.

Yesterday I went to see one of the first 3D TVs from Sony. It isn’t buyable yet, but soon.

First: It was impressive!

Second: This type of 3D isn’t like earlier experiments, with things flying out of the screen.
It is like the new world of 3D cinema (Avatar and Alice in Wonderland), where the image starts at the film screen and creates an artificial depth on the other side. And like 3D in cinemas, you need special glasses to get the 3D effect; otherwise you just see a blurry picture.
People who can only see with one eye, still needs the glasses to remove the blurriness, but they will not be able to get the depth effect.

As I said before: It was really impressive! The 3D effect was more noticeable than I had expected, and it was possible to watch the TV even from a great angle. But the glasses weren’t comfortable, and what was worse: I experienced an annoying flicker! While I was there, I thought that it was the TV that couldn’t send the images fast enough, but now I have started thinking about whether it could be the lighting in the room that gave this flicker? So if you buy a 3D TV and a 3D Blu-ray player, you may also have to purchase some special 3D enabled light?

I can’t help wondering, that if you need special glasses to watch 3D, then why not build the TV into the glasses? I would prefer a solution where glasses were not necessary. I find them very uncomfortable.

For the time being, I continue watching movies in 2D.