Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 17:28:36 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Signs that technology has taken over your life Message-ID: <5080.831227316@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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Does this sound like anyone you know? :-)
Gary
P.S. Appologies in advance for some (not obvious to me anyhow) US
references.
--
Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 02:49:23 -0700
From: firetigr@ix.netcom.com (Anita D Clark)
To: gpalmer@freebsd.org
Subject: Hehehehe...
This comes from a Comp Tech whose desk resembles WW3 and which is
clean when she remembers to toss out her old Coke cans, remember. :)
Signs That Technology Has Taken Over Your Life:
Original source - Joe Mullich, AmericanWay Magazine
11/15/94
1. Your letterhead lists a fax number, e-mail addresses for two
on-line services, and your Internet address, which spreads
across the breadth of the letterhead and continues to the
back. In essence, you have conceded that the first page of
any letter you write IS letterhead.
2. You have never sat through an entire movie without having at
least one device on your body beep or buzz.
3. You need to fill out a form that must be typewritten, but
you can't. Though you own a laser printer, there isn't a
typewriter in your house.
4. You think of the gadgets in your office as "friends," but
you forget to send your father a birthday card.
5. When you go into a computer store, you eavesdrop on a
salesperson talking with customers -- and you butt in to
correct him.
6. You use the phrase "digital compression" in a conversation
without thinking how strange your mouth feels when you say
it.
7. You know Bill Gates' e-mail address, but you have to look up
your own social security number.
8. You stop saying "phone number" and replace it with "voice
number."
9. You sign Christmas cards by putting :-) next to your
signature.
10. Off the top of your head, you can think of nineteen
keystroke symbols that are far more clever than :-).
11. You back up your data every day.
12. Your wife asks you to pick up some minipads for her at the
store and you return with a rest for your mouse.
13. You think jokes about being unable to program a VCR are
stupid.
14. The thought that a CD could refer to finance or music rarely
enters your mind.
15. You are able to argue persuasively that Ross Perot's phrase
"electronic town hall" makes more sense than the term
"information superhighway," but you don't because, after
all, the man still uses hand-drawn pie charts.
16. You go to computer trade shows and map out your path of the
exhibit hall in advance. But you cannot give someone
directions to your house without looking up the street
names.
17. You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per
gallon.
18. You know without a doubt that disks come in five-and-a-
quarter and three-and-a-half inch sizes.
19. Al Gore strikes you as an "intriguing" fellow.
20. You own a set of itty-bitty screw-drivers and you actually
know where they are.
21. You are so knowledgeable about technology that you feel
secure enough to say "I don't know" when someone asks you a
technology question, instead of feeling compelled to make
something up.
22. You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your
automobile tires.
23. You have a functioning home copier machine, but every
toaster you own turns bread into charcoal.
24. You understand all the jokes in this message.
25. You e-mail this message to your friends over the net. You'd
never get around to showing it to them in person or reading
it to them on the phone. In fact, you have probably never
met most of these people face-to-face.
26. You send this list to people who are in your mailer's
address book, but you don't remember who they are, nor do
you care if you get a response.
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