[martinrd]

I rubber duck A LOT. But instead of talking to a rubber duck, I talk to my girlfriend (we both work at home). It's an amazingly useful technique.

This also reminds me of a House M.D. episode where House is on a plane without his team, so he has to get a regular person to talk to, to finally solve the case.

[nsns]

Interesting fact about "rubberducking": orignally a Hollywood slang for explaining a character's psychological background as an alibi for everything it does ("Someone took his rubber duck when he was little, so now he kills people"). There's a good explanation in Sidney Lumet's Making Movies.