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Confessions of a a tech-aholic - (Funny, but real!)
JEWISH WORLD REVIEW.COM ^ | JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS

Posted on 12/30/2004 4:45:41 PM PST by CHARLITE

Immediately before Christmas I had an emergency root canal. Something went wrong and my Christmas weekend was spent popping vicodin and Motrin like M& M's. The entertaining of my children was left to my wife. I stayed in bed, emerging every couple hours to get something to drink and TO CHECK MY EMAIL! Clearly, I have a problem and I need help! My head was ready to explode and still I had to sign on to the Internet.

Hello. My name is Joseph and I am a tech-aholic.

I marvel at how intertwined all the Gizmos I have around the house have become with my life. How did I ever live without email, a cell phone and the handheld computer?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: addiction; cellphones; computers; gizmos; internet; lifestyle; palmpilots; technology

1 posted on 12/30/2004 4:45:42 PM PST by CHARLITE
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To: CHARLITE

I'm sitting in my living room with my PDA with the wireless surfing right now. No root canal this week.


2 posted on 12/30/2004 4:54:03 PM PST by Deetes
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To: CHARLITE
My palm pilot has recently taken to resetting itself because, well, it has a mind of its own.

I Love It! The great part about all this technology is that they need guys like me to fix it!

Show Me Da Money!

3 posted on 12/30/2004 5:01:43 PM PST by benjaminjjones
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To: CHARLITE
My wife and I are planning to network our entire house so now we can surf the web while sitting in our beds. If that is the only thing we can think of to do while in our bedroom we have definitely been married too long.

You win. You're WAY more addicted to the tech than I am.

4 posted on 12/30/2004 5:10:02 PM PST by irv
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To: benjaminjjones

ROTFLOL. Where were you last night when my computer tower suddenly became a screaming ambulance siren? Talk about technofright....I'm too old for that kind of intrusion upon my nerves. Blew my hearing aid out.


5 posted on 12/30/2004 7:25:44 PM PST by WVNan
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