Good Call

When I was trying to wind up a phone conversation with David I said, "well, you could be the first to put the phone down..." which was promptly greeted with silence, so I pulled the phone away from my ear and and was about to hang up when I saw he was still on the line. Curious, I resumed speaking, saying something about how I thought he'd hung up. Simultaneously realising we were speaking on cell phones we both fumbled a few seconds for words to express the irony, but it was David who first managed to articulate: "We can't say, "put the phone down" (cos I tried that and I could still hear you), nor can we say "hang up" (cos they have nowhere to hang) they're such archaisms. I think the word we're looking for is "end call" (you know the red phone symbol button?)"

Right on Dubs, the modern way to end a call is to simply hit "end call".

Fake Falling

I happened to be drifting off to sleep thinking about how I went on a work conference last year back to my home city. So I decided to do the touristy thing and go up the sky tower which I had never done before. And I remembered what it was like to stand on the glass panels and see the city bustling between my feet many metres below. I remembered how it's just a "mind over matter" thing and the glass is so thick it would never break. Then I thought about what it would be like if it did break... What it would feel like to plummet toward the earth.

At that precise moment one of the slats under my bed popped out of it's socket (which gives both the loud banging noise and a sudden sensation of falling {even if only a few centimetres}). What a fright! I bolted awake. Weird coincidence or black swan event?

Good computer

I backed up my computer today (for the first time in four years). It took all afternoon. I had no idea what I was doing and I still don't know if I did it right but I hope I won't ever need to find out.