TCS - Signs of the times

Signs of the times

by Fred Langa
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-01-11.htm#10
From the March 2001 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter

  1. You tried to enter your password on the microwave.
  2. You now think of three espressos as "getting started."
  3. You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.
  4. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
  5. 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?"
  6. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone IS home.
  10. Every commercial on television has a web-site address at the bottom of the screen.
  11. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
  12. The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.
  13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the backseat of your car.
  14. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
  15. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
  16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
  17. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
  18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
  19. You're reading this.
  20. Even worse... you're going to forward it to someone else.

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This item reprinted with permission from The LangaList (a free email newsletter available at http://www.langa.com/newsletter.htm), Copyright (c) 2000 Langa Consulting."
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