"Too Much Tech" joke

You can no longer sit through an entire movie without having at least one device on your body beep or buzz. You have to fill out a form that must be typewritten, but you can't because there isn't one typewriter in your house -- only computers with laser printers.

You think of the gadgets in your office as "friends," but you forget to send your father 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 constantly find yourself in groups of people to whom you say the phrase "digital compression." Everyone understands what you mean, and you are not surprised or disappointed that you don't have to explain it.

You stop saying "phone number" and replace it with "voice number," since we all know the majority of phone lines in any house are plugged into contraptions that talk to other contraptions.

Your wife asks you to pick up some minipads for her at the store and you return with a rest for your mouse.

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.

You become upset when a person calls you on the phone to sell you something, but you think it's okay for a computer to call and demand that you start pushing buttons on your telephone to receive more information about the product it is selling.

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