From buddy Tue Jan 10 22:00:23 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 22:00:04
Subject: signs that technology has taken over (3 of 3)


Signs That Technology Has Taken Over Your Life
(Part 3 of 3)

21.  You become upset when a person calls you on the phone to sell
you something, but you think it's okay for a computer to call and
demand that you start pushing buttons on your telephone to receive
more information about the product it is selling.

22.  You know without a doubt that disks come in five-and-a-
quarter-and three-and-a-half-inch sizes.

23.  Al Gore strikes you as an "intriguing" fellow.

24.  You own a set of itty-bitty screw-drivers and you actually know
where they are.

25.  While contemporaries swap stories about their recent hernia
surgeries, you compare mouse-induced index-finger strain with a
nine-year-old.

26.  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.

27.  You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your
automobile tires.

28.  You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster
you own turns bread into charcoal.

29.  You have ended friendships because of irreconcilably different
opinions about which is better -- the track ball or the track *pad*.

30.  You understand all the jokes in this message.  If so, my
friend, technology has taken over your life.  We suggest, for your
own good, that you go lie under a tree and write a haiku.  And don't
use a laptop.