Are We Too Addicted to Computers?

Posted by Frank J. on November 1, 2009 at 1:32 pm

I tackle this question in my latest Pajamas Media column. It’s perhaps my dumbest column yet… or my most smartiest!

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17 Responses to “Are We Too Addicted to Computers?”

1. Corona says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 2:43 pm

   Frank, your Mom told my Mom to tell me to tell you that your article is very good. Now can we get back to building that fort?

   Actually it IS funny. Yeah…pilots. Pilates. Pontious Pilates. I hate those guys, except when I’m in the plane too. Must be one of the weirdest jobs out there. Your day is basically filled with mundane check-ups, reading commands, walking entire lengths of airports, smelling the air in the jet getting staler and staler, like walking into a 7th-period school classroom where periods 1 thru 6 the same classroom was filled with kids who previously ran around the track during gym. And didn’t shower.
   All this mundaneness, followed by moments of sheer terror trying to take off like a rocket and land like a floating baseball card in a contraption the size of a hotel and you’re so far up front in it you might as well be strapped to the windshield outside. AAAAAAAA!!!

   I scared myself.

2. Terry_Jim says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 4:57 pm

   Hey Corona,
   you forgot the snakes on the plane, the gremlins walking on the wing, and the poisonous airline fish dinners.
   That job is boredom, punctuated with moments of sheer terror.

   Addicted to computers? Nah, If I was an addict, I would have googled links to all those movies referenced above and included them in my comment.

   Nope, no addiction here…
   Not at all… hmm…
   Rats,
   rats ,
   rats.

3. Plentyobailouts says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 7:09 pm

   I never use my computer on weekends, so… no.

4. Crusty says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 7:15 pm

   I don’t own a computer. I’m whistling ASCII into a payphone right now.

5. MikeLL says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 8:36 pm

   HaHa! Love the ending. Thanks, Frank.

6. MarkoMancuso says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 10:49 pm

   Recently, I have come to the conclusion that rocks are superior to these “personal computers”.

   Food for thought.

7. Steve says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 11:23 pm

   I quite like the idea Frank…and it’d be a wonderful way to implement that whole “survival of the fittest” thing.

8. Jimmy says:
   November 2nd, 2009 at 1:24 am

   I still think that laptops are not real computers. Is it possible that you’re just too addicted to laptops, Frank?

9. bigDon says:
   November 2nd, 2009 at 2:57 am

   smirtest column indeed! how did you know i was looking at my computer? Anyway, Fred Thompson’s “Rules for Reactionaries” requires punching at least 1 hippie per day in RW. Hunting them down and running them over in GTA does not count.

10. Sgt Relic says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 8:17 am

    That’s going to be tough to do. Oh, I can give up my computer, no problem, but drawing something that looks like anything is gonna’ be almost impossible for me. Is something in the style of Pollock acceptable?

    (note to law enforcement: You can cross me off that list of possible art forgers.)

11. Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 am

    The answers will be different depending who you ask. My answer is, I when I am not near one after a few days, I tend to miss it.

12. Ernie Loco says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am

    I don’t own a computer. I’m whistling ASCII into a payphone right now.

    That’s the thread winning comment right there.

13. Silicon Valley Jim says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 am

    But if I give up my laptop, what will I ask the hot chicks to dance on?

14. saveacountryeatalib says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    I don’t own a computer. I have never looked at one. I don’t even know how to turn one on. I cannot relate to your article.

15. storm1911 says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    Anytime I consider giving up my computer it starts singing “Daisy” and calls me “Dave”. Then it emails me about Skynet. Uh-oh.

16. Joel Hoekstra says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    “Plus, people were limited to hunting things that were easy to draw.”

    That line made me LOL! That’s the sort of off-the-(cave)wall humor that leads me to believe that my two grueling years of Art History class were totally worthwhile. So dumb or not, I applaud Frank’s clearly superior intellect. More please!

17. 4 of 7 says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    “The main goal of humanity is to become omnipotent immortal beings of energy with godlike powers to shape the universe.”
    - Frankj.

    “Been there, done that, got the shroud.”
    – Jesus.

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