vale[ blog ] diary of the last hollow soul

Last thursday i started downwards on a slope. I did my philosophy essay for class, and that took long. Long into the night. I can't recall exactly, but late. Then friday was painfully similar. Saturday i started working on my economy report on chaos, and i ended up playing with stock data until around four in the morning. And sunday i actually wrote that report, which took so long that it was almost five by the time i got to bed. So today, going to sleep at two is like midnight was in high school: still not ideal, but it could be loads worse.
Tomorrow (looking at the clock, today) will be my presentation on linguistics, starting from the origins of the hungarian language to end up 160 kya, at the beginnings of human culture. But that will be the easier part, i mean doing a presentation. Keeping it roughly ten minutes long will be a bit harder, considering that when i talked shortly about the outline, it turned out around thirty minutes. But this evening when i tested, it was not much longer than ten minutes. And again, that's still not the hard part.
But thursday is the history day, i mean, the day i could write history here at Jail C, by killing a certain person. We are having an exam, on a quite nice range of stuff, most of which was hardly mentioned in class, where a certain person was enjoying himself screwing us instead of focusing on the curriculum. And a writing on Fukuzawa Yukichi is also to be handed in then. That's what seems to be a bit interesting to complete all till thursday…

It's so difficult. It's so tempting. What am i talking about? The big three: smartphone, tablet pc, and laptop. The only problem is, i don't need a smartphone, i don't need a tablet pc, and i already have a good candidate for laptop. But still, when i see all the fuss going on about the new iPhone, the new Android-based whatever, most impressing still being the Nexus One, or the new Windows Phone 7, the iPad or the Microsoft Courier, i am way too tempted. It makes me want to buy one, even though i know i don't need one, and that's like a mantra i'm reciting in my head whenever i'm reading those articles. But still, if i were to choose, i wouldn't choose the Apple stuff. First, it's way too trendy. Everyone is or will be carrying around one of those (second) glossy, child-safe looking rounded stuff. I don't like that. And also, when i watched a video of the iPad, it didn't impress me nowhere as much as any promo material of Courier. Same goes for the iPhone vs (Nexus One OR Windows Phone 7). As of Nexus One vs Windows Phone 7, now that would be more difficult. Nexus One with Android is open, and thus closer. Also, the Win7 phone had Internet Explorer icons, which although the latest versions are quite sleek, i still can't get myself to use it: the memories of the IE6 nightmares still linger around here. On the other hand, the Win7 phone looks simply great, and i've seen much more of it than of Nexus One. (Probably my fault.) As for the laptop, the only competitor possible for the above linked ASUS power machine is a high-end MacBook, but as i said, i don't like Apple products by default…