Digital Age Gifts

Close Encounters of the Digital Kind

"Honest, D-D-Dad. My report card's 'in the cloud.'"

"Did you get my tweet?"

The Modern Apple

'I am the 'man with no name', and also the 'man with no e-mail address'.'

'Dad, how old were you when you started noticing HD?'

Mobile connections

"There, there, son, you know your mother and I are always here for you."

"My parents call me their, 'Postcard to the Future'."

"There's no such thing as 'bad publicity'." "All traffic is good traffic."

"You can access me by saying simply 'Agnes.' It is not necessary to add 'dot com.' "

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

"Would you relax? They never look up."

"Looking at you, the moon and beyond, don't you think we could start a blog?"

A secretary at a desk with a nameplate the says Dot Com.

'Can I download that as a PDF?'

'Don't worry about the thumb sucking...she'll be texting with it soon enough.'

"This is not what I meant when I said you needed to practice your play fighting..."

"Trust me, I'm a robot."

'The doctors say I have a rare illness that turns people into birds - it's untweetable.'

Press Any Key. No, Not That One.

Modern Life Blues

"I don't know what happened, your holiness! I painted the ENTIRE CEILING!"

"We do have on item the internet hasn't already beaten into the ground, ad nauseam."

"Wow, these e-readers take forever to burn..."

"If he has more than 20 followers on Twitter we call him a 'celebrity'."

"The Internet ate my baby!"

'We're beta testing Goo-Goo Glass.'

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

"I wasn't copying off others. I was just crowdsourcing the answers."

Modern Portrait Gallery

Quadruple dark hot chocolate. Whoa, everything all right? Sure, yeah, great. I'm a journalist and writer in an era in which the printed word has been totally devalued by free distribution of information on the internet. Can I pay in prose? Point taken.

"I love my new texting app, it automatically selects peoples preferred pronouns."

"It says 'Click here to enlarge.'"

Statue of liberty selfie