Technological Synaesthesia

[mockney piers]

After another attack this morning i was just wondering whether anyone else suffers from this.

it's basically a crossover in conceptual understanding of the real world and how we interface with technology.

Symptoms, personally speaking, include:

Constantly trying to point at things in the real world with my mouse

Getting annoyed that singing a song to myself doesn't increment the number of plays in my iTunes library

Increased anxiety in lifts when i can't shoot out the overhead bulb

Admiring sunsets and wondering what the resolution is

Looking at nooks and crannies in my surroundings and working out how I'll get up there

Looking at nooks and crannies in my surroundings and avoiding snipers

Mentally highlighting an unfamiliar word in a book and hitting the 'definition' button

Anyone....anyone...?

[RosieH]

I still look at the basic geometry of my surroundings to calculate what shape I'd have to drop in to clear a line.

[mockney piers]

Ha ha yes, trying to fall asleep after too much tertris is a wholly weird experience!

Wanting to phone my misplaced keys, remote control, wallet, nice shoes etc. Actually I reckon this one might be just a matter of time.

[????]

A kind of version. Playing poker in the flesh - don't know when it's my turn have to be constatntly nudged. Constantly asking how much is in the pot and looking for a cursor to pull over it and tell me. Biting my lip trying not to say "Fucking lucky donk" when some one calls your bets with 2, 3 unsuited and hits a 2 and 3 on the turn and river...now where's that anoymynous chat box...

[mockney piers]

That's not a kind of version, thats full blown TS!

[Keef]

My female friends get very annoyed when I try to poke them in real life.

[binary_star]

If I'm very tired and doing a non-thinking task that requires basic but repetitive motor skills, I sometimes forget I can't just Ctrl+Z things.

[Loz]

Wanting to use the Sky+ remote to rewind a conversation and hear it again. This especially happens listening to the radio in the car.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Post-Limbo I'm now scared of 9 year old boys

I'm so prone to thinking london lacks a "quick travel" mode

Ace thread btw

[mockney piers]

Quite Loz, I get freaked out at live football matches that there isn't an instant replay with those offside lines and shaded Reas appearing on the pitch

[louisiana]

Terrifically annoyed that I can't type as fast as I can think the words.

Annoyed that the word-cloud-of-ideas needs to first be expressed in actual words before they can be typed. I just want to be able to throw the cloud of 50 words onto the page (screen).

And yes, peed off that I can't phone everything I lose on a daily basis. I want to be able to phone my keys.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Sean - all 8 year olds are scary. That is rooted in real life.

[Ant]

I often think it's a shame that I can't put boring people straight to voicemail when talking face to face. Or report people trying to hand me free crap/sign my up for randmom charity x as spam.

[steveo]

I saw a little kid fall over in the street the other day and thought, 'Apple Z'

[????]

When groups of people are involved in a deep an animated conversation in the pub, after a while I feel like shouting out "100"

[mockney piers]

He he, I just need to see a daily mail and think 'troll'!!

;-)

[Brendan]

Dozing on the sofa and in that state halfway between sleep and awake was trying to ctrl + X logs from the basket and ctrl + V them onto the fire.

[mockney piers]

:D

[mockney piers]

I asked mss us mockneynif she had any. She's not very geeky so had a think, then realised that (given fiery Irish temper) she mentally bashes ctrl+Z after losing it at someone at work.

I'm pretty sure we all would like an undo button from time to time.

[Applespider]

I was in the supermarket the other week and hunting for some nuts which could have been alongside the fruit/veg or beside the baking goods or with the 'snacks'

I was wishing for a search function that would just bring all the various packets of nuts and line them up in front of me rather than me trawling through all the aisles.

[YellowC]

Mr Yellow called me into the lounge and tried to Sky+ rewind a nosy neighbour incident.

[rememberwhen]

Wondering why the front door won't open while repeatedly pressing the car's remote at it!

[katie1997]

When I'm on the 176, I sometimes think how great it would be if I could use arrow keys to direct the bus away from its route and stop outside my front door instead.

(thread makes me think of those futurists and theories about the Singularity ... hurts my head trying to imagine the future)

[HonaloochieB]

Booting the cat up the @rse isn't sufficient for me, I have to _ _ _ _ _ _ him.

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[Jah Lush]

Reaching for my work pass card instead of keys to open my front door.