Friday, 30 November 2012

Anomaly: Spoonfed

The results are in the from the National Students' Survey and the Department of Data Engineering at the University of Henley are not happy.

Many undergraduate students have complained the department's courses are too hard, want everything to be explained explicitly to them and that the department isn't providing enough feedback.

"Well if the students are expecting to be spoonfed, then spoonfed they shall be." proclaims the head of the department.

CUT TO

A silent sterile looking canteen where endless rows of undergraduate students gormlessly sit in silence in a  vegetative state. The head of department, now disguised in scrubs, rolls by with a medical trolly and orders a nearby student on the end of the row to open wide. The student obeys with no hesitation and opens up their mouth. The head of department forcefully jams in a spoonful of unappealing gruel into the mouth and forces shut the student's mouth with the spoon still sticking out.  The head of department rolls his trolly down the row and enters a door.

We next see the head of department and the rest of the academic staff working busily in a laboratory. The majority of stuff are handling large oil drums  in full radioactive uniform and we observe them refilling the a rows of empty bowls with the same unappealing gruel coming from a radioactive drum labelled, "Statistics for Spoonfeeding".

CUT TO

The head of the department overseeing the whole laboratory and sinisterly smiling at his clever scheme.

Friday, 2 November 2012

Anomaly: Phone Smart

In a world where the majority of the population are addicted to their smart phones, Fez takes it to a whole new level.

Fez constantly seems to be glued to his smart phone, even in the company dearest friends. He can't bear to be without it, even sleeping with it underneath his pillow, and becomes ever so tense when he becomes detached it for over a minute. 

But recently, his phone has become too clever his own good. He knows exactly what Fez wants to do, even before Fez knows himself, and has started to mimic Fez's cyber social presence ridiculously well. And then all of a sudden Fez disappeared from the face of the world.

But none of his friends have notice as he still continues to have an active unsuspicious cyber social presence; all thanks to his smartphone.