From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 4 11:17:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA18418 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 4 May 1996 11:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA18406 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 11:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id RAA05082 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 17:28:37 +0100 (BST) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Signs that technology has taken over your life Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 17:28:36 +0100 Message-ID: <5080.831227316@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ------- Forwarded Message 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. ------- End of Forwarded Message