Should Claire be worried?

In a moment of introspection this morning, I noticed I was doing something odd, and thought I'd share it with you.

I have to take medication every morning (no, it's not anti-insanity pills), and I've got a memory like a ... well... a thing with a really bad memory. Problem is, I forget take my pill regularly, well that's not accurate, more like randomly, but on a regular basis... lets say regulandomly.

Anyway, due to my regulandomly pill forgetting I set a daily reminder on my iPhone. Now, and here we get to the possibly worrying bit, every morning at 7:05 my iPhone chimes and a message pops up. I've begun responding to my iPhone by saying something like "sound advice Mr iPhone", or "thankyou iPhone."

So... am I talking to my phone? Or since I set the reminder, am I merely having a one-way conversation with myself in the past? Or should I possibly start taking the anti-insanity pills as well?

So obvious now...

In what might become a trend... or not, you'll have to wait and see... here's some geek news. Well, not news per se, since it's from 2003, but in a way it's kind of timeless.

Anyway, getting on with it, have you ever played Sim City? Go on. I won't tell anyone... yes, I knew you had. Anyway, why did this never occur to us?

What's that, it did occur to you? Oh, well, then you're a little weird. But in the same direction as the Penny Arcade boys. And that's a compliment. See what I did there, it looked like I was insulting you, but it was actually a compliment. Witty, witty stuff.

OMG Want!

Playing Dungeons and Dragons on the new MS surface? Yes please!

If only they'd improve the speed of the dice rolls... or improve the dice physics for that matter... or let you roll real dice on the MS surface!

Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Visual Story TAs on Vimeo.

Why the apocalypse won't suck: boobs.

This is the kind of research that makes the future, even the darkest scariest bits of our potential the future, brighter. A bra that converts to a gas mask! ... or more accurately, two gas masks.

Think of the implications people! Not only will we survive thanks to this invention but our quality of life will be significantly improved when we’re most at need. During the most dispiriting first days, when the sky is a reddish brown and fallout rains down, we will be cheered by our wives, girl friends and SOs bra-less boobs.

Inspiring work people. Inspiring.

At this point some of you are probably thinking “he’s kinda’ an ass”, or “if there was an apocalypse I wouldn’t give him MY gasmask bra”. So I’d like to say this: women are much more than their boobs, they are our equals in every way. I just really like boobs. I think this audio essay by Tim Minchin sums it up better than I ever could.