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

From: James Elliott (james.elliott_at_newted.org)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 13:02:53 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 try to move text around on paper and are puzzled when the
pen's line doesn't get larger when you hold it for a moment.

-James

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