Explain again, was this factual description (save for the fact that I
ain't got kids) of my life supposed to be funny ? ;)
Actually, I used to work at a place where there was a keypad for passwords
on the microwave..
--thomas
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Nick Taylor wrote:
> SIGNS YOU LIVE IN THE USA IN Y2.001K
>
> 1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
>
> 2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
>
> 3. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He emails
> (or AIMs) you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
>
> 4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
>
> 5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you
> haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
>
> 6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it
> contains Echinacea.
>
> 7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she
> can create a screen saver.
>
> 8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if
> anyone is home.
>
> 9. Every commercial on television has a web-site address at the bottom of
> the screen.
>
> 10. You buy a computer and 6 months later it is out of date and now sells
> for half the price you paid.
>
> 11. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the
> first 20 or 30 years of your life, is cause for panic and your turn around
> to go get it.
>
> 12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would
> be a hassle and take planning.
>
> 13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the
> back seat of your car.
>
> 14. Your main reason for not staying in touch with family is that some do
> not have e-mail addresses. Then you find out that they do and just didn't
> tell you.
>
> 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 get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
>
> 20. You disconnect from the internet and get this awful feeling, as if
> you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
>
> 21. You get up in morning and go online before getting your coffee.
>
> 22. You wake up at 2am to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your
> way back to bed.
>
> 23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
>
> 24. You're reading this.
>
> 25. Even worse; you're going to forward it to someone else.
>
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Thomas Heide Clausen
Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
M.Sc in Computer Engineering
E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop
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