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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Fast Forward: You know you are in 2008 when ...

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played Solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they are not on your orkut account.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
9. You pout because nobody leaves a comment on your blog.
10. You give up on mankind because nobody reads your blog.
11. You close your blogger account and hope somebody sends you a hug on facebook.
12. Your favourite pastime is reading people's Status Message on Gtalk.
13. Your favourite conversation topic is the funniest Status message you'd read during the day.
14. You are still to watch all the movies on your system and your 250 GB hard drive because you've been busy hunting for new torrents.
15. You look for a net centre only to check out the latest notifications on facebook.
16. YOu do not have the patience to watch a cricket ODI on TV but while at work you refresh cricinfo.com page after every single delivery of a test match.
17. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
18. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
19. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
20. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
21. You are too busy to notice there was no #21 on this list.
22. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't #21 on this list
23. You desperately want to post this somewhere, on a blog or a tweet perhaps!!

PS: thanks kida, this is quite an eye opener ;)

10 comments:

Unknown said...

Nice, its quite a big list now :)
Waise, 10 days is the longest time for me without internet. That was on my NorthEast trip, finally I could not take it any more and I did some surfing on a VSAT connection 14000 ft above sea level :)

Sudhir Pai said...

@Prasad: Wow! I had plans of a north east trip sometime in october, now I'll take the directions to the net centre from you before i pack my bags... :P

he he! So now we know the heinghts of desperation is signing into your gtalk account 14000 feet! ha ha ha! that must've been one great experience! [:)]

Shashi Singh said...

You know you are in 2008 when

... instead of waiting for the highlights of the match you missed to be shown on TV... you go to YouTube and watch it there instead..

Sudhir Pai said...

@ Sass:
oh damn, i totally missed out on you tube. Man I'm suddenly getting new ideas...[:)]

kyra said...

Hell. ALL of them apply to me.

9. You pout because nobody leaves a comment on your blog.
10. You give up on mankind because nobody reads your blog.


*blushes*

Sudhir Pai said...

@Kyra:

Hi Kyra! I dont believe we've met, I hope I'm not mistaken. [:)]
and it's good to know that somebody agrees completely with you... [:P]
and more importantly, now i can claim there are 11 people who read my blog!!

Well I'm certainly not pouting today...and i'm not giving up on mankind just as yet! [:D]

Glad to hear from you. Cheers!

Descorpio said...

so, would that make me your 12th reader??
but there is a #21 on the list! and yeah, #9 and #10 totally apply to me too! he he..

Mottled mosaic said...

Din post it anywhere... but did send it to my dad. He found it hilarious!

Anonymous said...

good one!!...esp this one
20. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

Sudhir Pai said...

@descorpio: Yea dude! You the 12th man!

@mosaic: ha ha ha!

@anonymous: Ha ha! so who did you forward it to?