Signs of the times
- You tried to enter your password on the microwave.
- You now think of three espressos as "getting started."
- You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.
- You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
- You e-mail your son in his room to tell him that dinner is ready, and he e-mails you back "What's for dinner?"
- Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
- You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa ,but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor yet this year.
- Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail Inbox, asking you to send her JPEG files of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
- You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone IS home.
- Every commercial on television has a web-site address at the bottom of the screen.
- You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
- The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.
- Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the backseat of your car.
- Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
- You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
- Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
- Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
- You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
- You're reading this.
- Even worse... you're going to forward it to someone else.
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Tulsa Computer Society 2/01/2001
Don Singleton, President
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