How to determine if technology has taken over your life:
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You can no longer sit through an entire movie without having at
least one device on your body beep or buzz.

You think of the gadgets in your office as "friends," but you
forget to send your mother a birthday card.

When you go into a computer store, you eavesdrop on a salesperson
talking with customers -- and you butt in to correct him and
spend the next twenty minutes answering the customers' questions,
while the salesperson stands by silently, nodding his head.

You know all of your friends' e-mail addresses, but you have to look up your
own social security number.
     
You sign Christmas cards by putting :-) next to your signature.

Off the top of your head, you can think of nineteen keystroke
symbols that are far more clever than :-).

You back up your data every day.

You think jokes about being unable to program a VCR are silly.

On vacation, you are reading a software manual and turning the
pages faster than everyone else who is reading John Grisham novels.

The thought that a CD could refer to music rarely
enters your mind.
   
You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

You forward 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.

Hee-hee.

~ Karen  ;-)