Abby Li's Dad

For almost six years (1996 to 2002), I sent out a weekly email to my friends. This blog serves as an archive for those emails. The entries starting in May 2006 are my personal reflections on life as a father to Abby, a husband to Melissa, and everything else.

Monday, December 02, 1996

Some Humor

Hi everyone,

It's been a long time since I spoke or emailed some of you. I've been
really busy lately working on my business school applications, so I have
barely called any of you or wrote you anything. When I'm done, I'll try
to send you each a personal email. In the meantime, here's some humor
for your enjoyment. Sporadically I'll send you some of the amusing
emails that have been forwared to me.

Thanks to May Lee for forwarding me this. Sorry to all of you who have
already gotten this months ago.

Take care and talk to you soon!

-Josh.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE ADDICTED TO THE NET

1. All of your friends have an @ in their names.

2. You wake up a 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check
your
e-mail on the way
back to bed.

3. E-mail Deficiency Depression forces you to e-mail yourself.

4. You find yourself counting emoticons to get to sleep.

5. You religiously respond immediately to e-mail, while ignoring
your
growing pile of
snail mail.

6. You start using smileys in your snail mail.

7. You're constantly yelling at your spouse/children for using the
phone for
stupid
things...like talking.

8. Everyone you know asks why your phone line is always busy...and
you're seriously
considering getting a second phone line.

9. You find yourself staring at your "inbox" waiting for new e-mail
to
arrive.

10. You communicate with people on other continents more than you
do
with your own
neighbors.

11. You promise yourself that you'll only stay online for another
15
minutes...at least
once every hour.

12. You're being audited because you mailed your tax return to the
IRC.

13. At parties, you introduce your spouse as your "service
provider."

14. You think more about being online than you do about sex.

15. You wear a t-shirt that says "This body best viewed with
Netscape
1.1 or
higher.


TOP 10 SIGNS YOU ARE AN INTERNET GEEK

10. When filling out your driver's license application you give
your
IP address.

9. You no longer ask prospective dates what their sign is, instead
your line
is "Hi,
what's your URL?"

8. Instead of calling you to dinner, your spouse sends e-mail.

7. You're amazed to find out Spam is a food.

6. You "ping" people to see if they're awake, "finger" them to find
out how
they are,
and "AYT" them to make sure they're listening to you.

5. You search the Net endlessly hoping to win every silly free
T-shirt
contest.

4. You introduce your wife as "my lady@home.wife" and refer to your
children
as "client
applications."

3. At social functions you introduce your husband as "my domain
server."

2. After winning the office Super Bowl, pool you blurt out, "I feel
so
Colon-Right-Parentheses!"

1. Two words: "Pizza's here."

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