Re: [NTLK] You know your a Newton power user when.........

From: Peter Cameron (pdwc_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 12:28:01 EDT


> 1. You use the back-light as midnight illumination to change your child's
diaper

> 2. You start to pick up Fred's Accent/Dialect

> 3. When you are half asleep with a snoring spouse , you tap them on the
forehead with your fingernail to get them to stop.

> 4. ... you're standard answer to almost any bare facts question is "I don't
have the slightest clue, but hang on for a second - ah, there we are" by
now.

> 5. When you start writing your abbreviations on a piece of paper and are
waiting for them to expand... (this happens more and more to me lately, to
the point that I'm developing my own shorthand, so to speak ;-)

> 6. You keep writing on your 17" monitor and get really surprised when nothing
shows up on the screen.

> 7. Youwriteonthecomputerandforgettohitthespacebar.

> 8. You drag highlighted items to the left boarder of the screen to put them in
one of the 9 clipboards. BTW, why did no freeware programmer realize this
drag to the screen boarder feature?

> 9. When you try to beam an address card to the solar powered angle screen
calculator sticking out the top of your wife's filofax.

> 10. You are writing something down on paper. You make a mistake and scribble
it out, and wait for it to disappear.
 
> (11. You start to correct the numbers & quoting on a threat like this)
 
> 12. You worry about radiation that might be coming from the humming backlight
;-)

13. Wardrobe decision are made on the basis of whether Newton and/or
accessories will fit in the pockets.

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