Being an engineer by education I guess I tend to see the form and function of objects first, and nothing pleases me more than an invention that effectively accomplishes both. An invention that innovates and makes something better while retaining a form that is pleasing to the human eye.

At a recent expo, unrelated to engineering, I needed to use the facilities and found they had removed the old hot air hand driers and drag down towel dispensers with a Dyson Airblade. The name sounds pretentious and overly markety (Bill Hicks would have a field day), but it’s function more than makes up for this.

There wasn’t much food in the apartment the other night, and not wanting to traipse out and pick something up I decided to just rustle myself up with something from what we had… which turned out to not be a lot. Anyway, whilst looking around I just buttered a slice of bread, rolled it up and continued opening and closing the same cupboards, as if magically hoping food would appear, whilst munching away on my piece of bread and butter.

How can forgetting something good be a pleasure? Well because it makes remembering that thing even better. Like, it’s been a good few months of moderate and sunny weather, but then suddenly it takes a turn and you have to pull that winter jacket out of the closet and face the bitter cold on the way to work.

Right now you are saying “What? How can he find escalators a little pleasure?”. Well here’s why. Being educated as an engineer I tend to look at things and see their functionality first. I’d say I’m largely against the ideal of “form before function” in that I’d rather have a candle on my mantle then a functionless statue. At least the candle is functional and already in place should the power go out, it also has form that is appealing but does not outweigh its function.

People take photos to remember the times when they are standing still. In my opinion, people listen to music to remember the times when they where moving.

It just happened to me this morning. It’s a very rare occurance so I thought I’d write about it. Basically it is the morning when there is just enough Cereal left in the box to fill the bowl, there’s just enough Milk left in the fridge to pour over it and, also, this morning there [...]