Not Time Travel - Time Inflation!
People think that just by inventing time travel, all their problems would be solved. Yea, right. For every solved problem they'd just make two more problems. I thought time travel would be an amazing ability to have, too. But then I thought about the reasons for wanting time travel. And they all mainly reduced to: having more time! You know, work for 10 hours at the office, then zap back in time and have a nice cocktail at a beach, and perhaps a vodka-martini later while playing pool, all at the same time I worked at the office. Maybe zap back the third time just to update myself at the office of new thoughts I had while having a smashing time. And zap back in time once more to play tennis with a friend, since we both experienced a fantastic weather during the day, and, well, you never know what the weather will be like tomorrow, so why not having will-had played tennis the past day? See? Only new problems. We'd even have to invent a new tense or two.
Instead of time travel I propose something different, something that would have the same effect of being able to do much more in a day: time inflation. That's right: simply inflate the time. Hey, if it's possible with money, then time should be no different. Time is money, right? We should just apply the same economical mechanisms to time, raise the inflation, I don't know, to 10%? That should increase the time's interest rates and result in a general time saving instead of time spending. And after you've saved enough of time, you could afford yourself a nice cocktail at a nice beach party. Splendid idea, isn't it? Only, it's not new. I invented hot water, again.
Another approach would be to invent a device that would change the physical space-time continuum in such a way that time would become inflated. In essence a second would feel a lot longer, although all measurements would tell otherwise. Having an eight-minute instead of an eight-hour workday, because you could do all the usual work in eight minutes instead of eight hours. Well, yes, but dealing with time in an economical sense is stupifyingly easier. But hey - if you have an idea on how to change physical properties of the universe, I'm your man!
Life is Work, But What is Leisure Then?
Wow, It's been more than half a year since I posted my last entry to the blog. I probably don't have any readers anymore. I'll write more frequently from now on, honest! (But I'm careful enough to not make it a promise.)
A lot has happened. I passed an exam in September, yaaay! 6 more to go. I have time till October 2009 to graduate, after that I'd have to ask for a study programme conversion. I'm in the first generation that studied by the new computer ingeneering programme, but you see, it's not new anymore, it's old, this year the last generation has finished classes in the final, ninth, semester. If I'll have any luck, I won't only be among the first to enroll this study programme, I'll also be one of the last to finish it. Some luck, ha. And I'm so tired of even thinking about studying for exams. I'm suffering from a chronic lack of study motivation. I'll have to start fighting it again real soon - first next exam is on February 18th, and the next one is on March 28th. If I hadn't have a job - piece a cake. But now - I'll have to find a sleep suppressant.
The company I work in bought me a laptop. My first laptop, yay! A neat Dell Latitude D830. A big 1920x1200 screen, but shitty nonetheless. I guess I can't expect PVA or MVA panels in laptops, IPS panels being a mere dream. Damn TN panels should be prohibited for anything but gaming. I have an old nice big 1600x1200 LCD monitor with an S-IPS panel at home (a Dell 2001FP) that has wonderful colours and an excellent viewing angle. If I put the laptop next to it, it's like comparing
a cheap indian car to
a BMW. So I'm considering to buy a new monitor, a 24" one that has something else than a TN panel, to connect it to the laptop when at home. I'm waiting for the Dell 2408WFP to come out and be tested by someone, and then I'll decide. Perhaps I'll buy an
LG L245WP. And I'm seriously entertaining the idea of ordering it from abroad - within EU of course. The prices of monitors in Slovenia are strangely quite a bit above the European average. So much so that if I order the latter monitor
from UK, shipping included, I'll save from 100 to 150 Euro, depending on to
which Slovenian shop you compare it to. But perhaps I won't buy a monitor at all, I haven't yet firmly decided on this.
The government is suffering from a nasty case of diarrhea - I don't think I've ever seen so much dreck. The shit hit the fan a long time ago, only some people are not aware of this yet. Well, after another increase in prices of food that is being forecast by all major store chains for this and next month, I think everyone will be aware of it. Coupled with what will result from the last catastrophy, when syndicates and employers had a "difference of interpretation" of the result of negotiations between syndicates and employers (effectively destroying all the efforst up to now, making everyone furius), I think the dreck will start stinking real strong real fast.
Ah, I got an internet connection, at last. 10 days before the new year. 20/20 FTTH. Heaven. Signed up for 12 months, got first 4 months for free. Only I got the first bill already in January. Heck, this wasn't the deal, so I went and complained. I filled out a complaint form and was promised a response within 15 days. I got a response after almost two weeks alright, and it said they were notifying me that the resolution of the complaint will take significantly longer. Sheesh, in the contract it clearly states I have the first four months for free, what's so difficult to resolve? Then I got a debit note from a Slovenian online computer store from where I ordered a few fans for my computer the last year. And for an order I never ordered. It made me furius, quite mad in fact, and if their phones weren't busy for a whole hour before I gave up, I'd have screamed and insulted like there's no tomorrow. You see, the note also said I should either pay or fax them the certificate of payment. But since I paid to the postman upon receiving the package I don't have any receipt - if I hadn't paid I wouldn't get the package in the first place. After I sent them a diplomatically composed e-mail (I calmed down by then), they apologised and said they'll put it up with the post office instead. Gee, I got a note from the post office this Friday I should call them tomorrow because of a package. It seems this will be a year of errors. And I'll be the focal point.
Anyway, enough for now. It took me more than an hour to type all of this. The next time I probably won't have that much time. Assuming I'll post before than after half a year.
