Popagandhi

Or wired up, as they say

1. When you have are using a networked laser printer, and the printer runs out of paper, you walk to it to top up the paper while grumbling, “wah lau why cannot make a network laser printer that can network refill paper?”
2. You try to get your father to buy you a networked laser printer, to replace your non-networked laser printer, and when pressed for compelling features you say: “don’t need to walk there to print! just sit here and send!”
3. You wake-from-sleep over the network your iMac G5 ââ�¬â�� which is located about 4 steps from where you are ââ�¬â�� because it’s easier to do that, than to walk there and press a button
4. You do all that because you wanted to print something to your non-networked printer. So you can print through the iMac, rather than “bring your PowerBook all the way there” to the printer and go through that dated concept known as USB.
5. Your family members take turns to wake you up by calling you on your mobile.
6. You talk about needing to find a ’systematic workflow’ through which you can ‘improve your search process’ in the ‘daily task’ of ‘locating your clothes’, and your friend bats an eyelids and says: “you mean you want to tidy up your impossible room, and wardrobe.”
7. She’s right.
8. You briefly contemplate making a USB BBQ (buy one? real geeks make things!), but then admit commercially available products can do things you can’t do, like download recipes and warm up over any Internet connection.
9. You realize one gaping flaw in this strategy: the fridge is about 8 steps away from your computer.
10. You congratulate yourself for being not as geeky as you feared ââ�¬â�� you don’t have a fridge, networked to your computer, just yet, so you still have to walk.