Computer Jokes

Here's what your e-mail address says about your computer skills: Own domain (e.g., @joesmith.com): You're skilled and capable. @gmail.com:When the Internet stops working, you actually try rebooting the router before calling a…

I finally convinced my mother that it was a good idea for her to learn to text. Her first message to me? "Whereisthespacebar?"

After an enthusiastic recommendation from my wife, I began listening to the audiobook version of Frank McCourt’s  Teacher Man. “I love it, but his writing style is so disjointed,” I complained. “He refers to characters I…

The computer in my high school classroom was acting up. After watching me struggle with it, a student explained that my hard drive had crashed. So I called IT. "Can someone look at my computer?" I asked. "The hard…

Not everyone has mastered the art of texting. Case in point: Mom: Stop at dollar store on way home and get lunch maggots. Me: Lunch maggots? Mom: Baffles. Mom: Baggies. Mom: Ziploc lunch Baggies. Mom: Spell-check is not helping…

"I'll miss you, Great-Grandma," wrote my mother's great-grandson in an e-mail he sent before shipping out to Iraq. "I'll miss you too, dear," she responded. "Stay safe. LOL, Great-Grandma." Poor Mom…

Scene: A bookstore Customer: Can you help me find a book? Me: Of course. Do you know the author or title? Customer: Well, I was at the beach and I saw this girl reading a purple book. She looked like she was really enjoying it. I…

My techie husband and I were walking in the high desert when he stopped to photograph one stunning vista after another. Overcome by the sheer beauty, he paid it his ultimate compliment: "Everywhere I look is a screen saver!"

Facebook and Formspring are two of the many social-networking sites that allow users to embarrass themselves in front of millions of friends and strangers, like these people did. LARRY: Happy Valentine's Day to All, especially…

It was my friend's first camping trip with her husband, and they were lost. He tried all the usual tactics to determine direction—moss on the trees (there was none), direction of the sun (it was overcast), and so on. Just as she…