The other night I was browsing around the iPhone app store when I happened upon an interesting application.  It was an alarm clock that promised to measure your sleep patterns throughout the night and then offered to wake you up to a half hour before you needed to wake up based on how strongly you were sleeping.  I’ll admit, I was sceptical and not sure I wanted to be woken up any earlier than I needed to be.  So now, three days into this experiment, I can say that, while it’s pleasant to wake up to the calming sounds of the alarm clock, I’m still as tired as ever.  I’m not really sure I needed an alarm clock app to tell me that I’m tired.  Technology has its place in my life (a very big one) but I think this is proof that it’s not always necessary.  By the way, can you guess from the picture how many times Ryan was awake last night?