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In Denial

6 agosto, 2007

Winter break is almost over. Which means that as of August 20th I’ll be back to university life.

And I can’t help dreading the moment when I have to set foot on a classroom again. Not that I’m a slacker or I don’t like studying. Quite the contrary, I’ve always liked learning new things. [ Note to the readers: Please remove that nerdy/geeky image you've just built of me in your mind... ]

Good things are easy to get used to, in my case is spending time at home after work (or having time at all to spare). As you might remember from a previous post, time is a BIG issue in my life. And when I have some, I’m on cloud nine.

So during this winter break, I took advantage of my free time, and did a lot of things that have been marked as Pending in my to-do list. In first place I bought new furniture and assembled it. So if you have a chance to visit, you’ll see two of these (see image on the right) in my living room –>

In addition, I also brought home some of my stuff that was left at my parent’s. Yes, I’m officially out of mom and dad’s.

So the new furniture was destined to store all the books, clothes and every other paper I left behind in Morón.

I also brought my computer from home, so now I don’t depend solely on my ThinkPad. :) It’s a good thing, I don’t have to drag it home to fill my computing needs -or should I say conectivity needs?

Anyway, the point is, after spending some time on myself doing what I couldn’t do because of lack of it, now I’m in denial. I can’t bear the thought of returning to a crazy routine, to the daily home-work-university-parent’s circuit.

No, no, no. I refuse.

I know I’ll end up doing it anyway, but just for the record, I couldn’t leave my feelings unexpressed.

The Greatest Gadget of All Time

28 julio, 2007

Wired Magazine has launched a tournament to choose the greatest gadget of all time. The prize for the winner is an Apple 4GB iPhone.

Wired's The Greatest Gadget of All Time Tournament

The tournament is a bracket-style elimination contest. If your picks match the popular choices, you score points, and whoever scores more points takes the iPhone home! Deadline is on 08.08.07.

All you need to do to participate, is sign in. And start picking the most relevant gadgets through history.

What are you waiting for? Check out the tournament’s highly interactive site at

The Greatest Gadget of All Time Tournament

Harry Potter 7 is out!

22 julio, 2007

So yeah, finally after so much wait the book was released. :)

I remember when the first book was out. I wasn’t much of a fan back then, I thought it was a book for children, young adults maybe, so I prefered other novels to read.

Then as usual, curiosity beat predjudices and I bought a copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”. What can I say: it blew me away. I couldn’t put it down. I found myself taking the book everywhere, until I finished it. And then the rest of the books of the series passed in front of my eyes just as quickly as the first.

I even got my sisters to read it !

Anyway, everyone’s expecting to find out who’s dying in J.K. Rowling’s last Harry Potter. Last week, I was able to download a PDF file that was supposed to be a leaked copy of HP7. I have no basis for comparison -I don’t have my book yet!- so I can’t tell the difference. But I did manage to keep my eyes away from the last pages. ;) Just in case.

I’m not planning to read it right now. I have a pretty extensive queue of books at home, waiting! Besides, as many of HP’s readers, I’d have to read all 6 books again to refresh my memory, although I have a general idea of the plot.

So, no spoilers please!!!

Snowy Buenos Aires

9 julio, 2007

For the first time in 89 years, a polar air wave has brought snow to Buenos Aires.

Snow in BA

For someone like me, that never experienced snowy weather, it was a novelty.

I didn’t wake up really early in the morning, and have no windows looking out the street, so by the time I found out of the weather conditions, it was already noon.

Collective Joy

It was interesting to see the day evolve in to this historic event -as Clarin.com calls it- to see people out on the street despite the cold sub-zero temperatures.
In almost every public channel on TV the news were the snow fall, and how the citizens celebrated this extraordinary phenomena.

Crowd at the Obelisco

Interviews to porteños and tourists at the Obelisco were everywhere.

It’s too bad I didn’t get to take pictures of this memorable day. Although I have a pretty good cell phone camera, it didn’t capture the snowflakes. :(

Oh, by the way… Happy Independence Day!

Ouch..!

8 julio, 2007

Ouch

Art by ~evol1314