Jennifer Harrison's Blog - Posts Tagged "silicon-valley-wtf"
Random Questions
1. Is the ability to increase the size of the text in iPhone settings the greatest technological gift ever? My eyes feel like frisky youngsters again.
2. Are you concerned your numerous passwords might gang up all at once to attack your failing memory? Sure, I jotted them down, but where? And who has time to compile all of those effing post-it notes? I began typing passwords directly into my phone (with heavily asterisked mystery codes I hope are daily dementia-prevention exercises)... but which phone?
3. Does the idea of lube, on any part of the body, when publicly displayed, utterly gross you out?
4. Is it clearly acceptable to ring up organic fruit at the grocery store self-check-out as merely cut-rate fruit? All due respect goes to the organic farmers, while the gigantic supermarket chain receives a small reduction in mark-up. Wait... Never mind. Forget I said anything. Never stop trusting us, Safeway.
5. Do you still give your curling iron time to heat up when you know full well the warming process takes roughly thirty seconds?
6. Is the chronic “slacker” label stuck to Generation X extremely annoying? Now that we’re hitting middle age and have given the naysayers everything entrepreneurial — including most of the ways the Internet has changed all of our lives — can we lay the lazy stereotypes to rest?
7. Are the rumors of the mastery of wireless Internet service providers infuriatingly overblown? On a friend’s recent home visit, the technician proudly displayed the network strength of the wired computer (hello, 1990), nonchalantly stated that a wireless signal could not be guaranteed at all (despite the company's neighborhood monopoly), and callously declared wireless service on the back deck “has never been included." Which prompted a defeating debate over whether the deck is part of the “house” the homeowner owns...
In Silicon Valley. In 2014. Is this the best we can do, America?
https://twitter.com/webmistressJH
2. Are you concerned your numerous passwords might gang up all at once to attack your failing memory? Sure, I jotted them down, but where? And who has time to compile all of those effing post-it notes? I began typing passwords directly into my phone (with heavily asterisked mystery codes I hope are daily dementia-prevention exercises)... but which phone?
3. Does the idea of lube, on any part of the body, when publicly displayed, utterly gross you out?
4. Is it clearly acceptable to ring up organic fruit at the grocery store self-check-out as merely cut-rate fruit? All due respect goes to the organic farmers, while the gigantic supermarket chain receives a small reduction in mark-up. Wait... Never mind. Forget I said anything. Never stop trusting us, Safeway.
5. Do you still give your curling iron time to heat up when you know full well the warming process takes roughly thirty seconds?
6. Is the chronic “slacker” label stuck to Generation X extremely annoying? Now that we’re hitting middle age and have given the naysayers everything entrepreneurial — including most of the ways the Internet has changed all of our lives — can we lay the lazy stereotypes to rest?
7. Are the rumors of the mastery of wireless Internet service providers infuriatingly overblown? On a friend’s recent home visit, the technician proudly displayed the network strength of the wired computer (hello, 1990), nonchalantly stated that a wireless signal could not be guaranteed at all (despite the company's neighborhood monopoly), and callously declared wireless service on the back deck “has never been included." Which prompted a defeating debate over whether the deck is part of the “house” the homeowner owns...
In Silicon Valley. In 2014. Is this the best we can do, America?
https://twitter.com/webmistressJH
