NTSC --> PAL = myth?

So I really want to buy a slim PS2 for when I go to Israel. Only one problem: a US machine doesn't play on a European TV (generally).

I've looked around for signal converters (US = NTSC, Europe = PAL), and I can't seem to find any for the price I want. However, I think that a lot of the newer TVs in Europe are multi-system, i.e. they can play both signals. Also, I've read that some regular PAL TVs can play NTSC signals just fine, only they're in black and white.

So...do I buy the PS2 and gamble that it will work when I get there? I guess by the time I buy all the stuff I want, the $30 - $50 for a converter won't seem like much anyway.

What do you think? Let's see if anybody actually reads this...

hmm...it seems something is missing...

I just noticed that the last week or two of my trip isn't up here. I
have no idea why. Did I forget to type it up? I could have sworn I
had everything. Maybe I did type it, but never posted it.

I sure hope I didn't lose it. That would make me one sad panda. I'll
look around, because I'm sure you don't want to miss a single second
of my trip!

First I graduated, then I got a J-O-B!

Hello there, it's been a long time.

Fortunately, now that I'm traveling to Israel to live with Limor until she graduates, I'll be in "travel mode" for quite some time, so I think you can expect to hear from me more frequently.

I just received notice from the "Stagerim" <http://www.israelprograms.org/Stagerim.htm> program that they found me an internship! I don't know the details yet, but I do know that I will be working for Dr. Adi Wolfson of the "Sami Shamoon College of Engineering" (formerly the "Negev Academic College of Engineering").

I don't know too much about either Dr. Wolfson or the SCE, but what I do know I got from a Google search and Limor's translation of their Hebrew website:

http://www.sce.ac.il/Extra/
http://www.matimop.org.il/newrdinf/company/c6119.htm
http://www.hait.ac.il/jse/organizations_list/nace.html

Dr. Wolfson is involved with "green fluids" (that's the translation, I think it means "green solvents" or possibly "green chemistry"), and I think read somewhere that he was instrumental in developing an environmental engineering course in the SCE, much like those taught in the US. Sounds like he's doing what I like, so I think this should work out nicely.

More coming soon...

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jeremy schwartz
unity: [jrschwar]