A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing

This morning was off to a bad start when on the bus I had to listen to two girls discussing loudly how they would be 'at it like rabbits' fairly soon. Luckily this seemed to be the only suitable subject matter and once it had been exhausted silence ensued  - which is a rare thing at the back of the 46.

More recently I seem to have spent a large amount of time trying to get my ipod to work. Admittedly it is somewhat elderly as these bitches of mp3 players go [especially amid frequent claims that they are designed to break after a year or two] but it's still frustrating when I have spent a substantial amount of time unchecking music so that my latest ska will fit (it's because I'm cool) due to the chronic lack of memory.

It turns out, the way to get an ipod mini to work is neither by:

a) shouting loudly at the inanimate ipod 'Corrupted? CORRUPTED? I'll corrupt you if you don't work!'

nor

b) repeatedly restarting the thing while it's still plugged in to the computer until it freezes on a screen saying 'it is now safe to disconnect'

And I have the audacity to make fun of my parents and teachers using technology.

It's disgusting. Teenagers these days.

World's Best Contraceptive

In philosophy today we were talking about how technology has developed in ways that to a large extent would probably have been beyond imagination centuries ago, so one day isn't it possible that we'll develop machines that answer philosophical questions? [this wasn't actually relevant to the lesson, but our discussions rarely are]
The example was a machine that could confirm the existence of God, which Lawrence called a Godometre.

This struck me as a hilarious invention, you can just imagine this box with a dial and speakers, which project a nasal, upper class woman's voice to forewarn you of God's presence. The good it would do for society would be incredible, in that it would be the worlds best contraceptive (trust me to make it sex-related):

-silence while boy and girl kiss-
Godometre: God's presence has been detected, God is currently in this room.
Boy: Shit, I'm off...
-leaves-

Not sure it would do much to stop Segun and Alex though. It was highly entertaining disturbing to watch them on the bus this afternoon: Segun in his faabulous tank top rapidly bouncing up and down on Alex's lap.
Oh dear God...

Anyway enough of my ramblings :)