Tech Guide Gifts

Since we started online classes, I've had to get through a long, slow lesson every day. Me too. I constantly have to teach my parents how to use technology.

'Okay, Mum. Now click 'File', then 'Save As'.' - 'Eh? What's not working?' - 'No... listen to me. Click 'File', then 'Save As'' - 'No, no... single click! single click!' - 'No, no, no... don't get Dad! He clicks even more randomly than you do...'

"The good old days of eating the washing off the line are all gone methinks: The farmer has bought an electric dryer..."

'My name's Google and I'm being inundated with requests for information about every damn thing imaginable, by people I don't even know...It's endless!'

"Meet the author"

The DaVinci Code

"He's taught himself work-life balance."

"I didn't complain, when you crashed the computer."

Olivia just hacked into the boy scouts' site and sold them 30,000 boxes of cookies.

Ascent of Machine.

'Can our software do that?'

"Where's the business end of this thing?"

'Anything you can compute I can compute better. I can compute anything better than you.'

'You don't have to explain the software to me. I wrote it while I was in the womb.'

Moses' Tablet

If nobody had invented graphics

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

"I don't believe I've missed a single sign since you made the switch to Power Point."

Elfie Stick

'Trust me, there's nobody to rescue that way...'

'He's been like this ever since he had his laser eye treatment.'

#Whyneighborsdon'tknowtheirneighbors

'Help! I'm wired and I can't get up!'

"No, our home wasn't stolen. Since it's a 'smart home', it keeps having itself moved to a nice neighborhood."

'Calling Tech Support does NOT count as one of my wishes!'

"Invest in technology."

"All this spinning...shouldn't this be charging our phones or something?"

"Since he got that thing, he mostly just kills time."

"Whoever made Keir Starmer did a sound professional job."

Gadget geek.

Man runs into Bigfoot taking a selfie.

Graduates on their phones

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

Hamlet's struggle with online shopping addiction. To eBay or not to eBay.