Siri wants to remind you to call your mom, be your personal assistant

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"Call Mom."

Seems like a simple thing to remember, but with 50 niggling little distractions running through my head including the sultry Australian voice of Yvonne Strahovski telling me, "Go get the Collectors," I tend to forget the simple things. Without recording them somewhere before my digital schizophrenia sets in, my mom doesn't get called and people are sad.

Siri, the virtual personal assistant, helps make moms everywhere less sad. Well, that and a few other things.

Here's one example how I've been using it over the past four days...

While eating a delicious a chicken fried steak I thought, "You know what would be great for desert? Beef jerky!". I grabbed my iPhone and told Siri, "Find beef jerky near here." A few seconds later it pulled up a Yelp listing for the Beef Jerky Emporium a few blocks away.

MMMMM meat-tastic!...

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