Utilizing a heavy plastic magnifying glass to find a single carpet cleaner’s phone number hidden in the microscopic text of the giant commercial print directory.… Read More »2022 Classic: The Yellow Pages Magnifying Quest

Watching a family member spend twenty minutes trying to guess a five-letter word on their phone and asking why they don’t just open a real… Read More »2022 Archive: The Wordle Interrogation

Maintaining a precise stack of twenty-year-old miniature condensed digests, organized strictly by the faded color of the cardboard spines. Part of the 35 Senior &… Read More »2022 Legacy: The Bathroom Magazine Archive

Intentionally placing a heavy footstool in the middle of the hallway to block the path of a small automated circular vacuum, treating the machine like… Read More »2022 Archive: The Robot Vacuum Obstruction

Refusing to use a new desktop computer because the evening news said a program called ChatGPT can write essays, fully convinced the machine is listening… Read More »2022 Classic: The Artificial Intelligence Alarm

Eyeing the restaurant waiter with extreme intensity to ensure the hot water was poured exclusively from the orange-rimmed pot and not the regular caffeinated one.… Read More »2022 Vintage: The Decaf Coffee Verification

Refusing to look at a calendar app on a smartphone, firmly maintaining that if a month doesn’t feature a physical picture of a sleeping puppy… Read More »2022 Archive: The Paper Calendar Defense

Getting permanently locked out of the afternoon broadcast of Judge Judy because the television automatically logged out of a streaming service and demands a password… Read More »2022 Archive: The Smart TV App Overload

Causing a high-pitched, metallic whistle to echo through the quiet dining room because the small microphone is pressing directly against the wire frame of a… Read More »2022 Classic: The Hearing Aid Feedback Drone

Being completely rejected by your smartphone’s automated facial scanner at 6:30 AM because the computer refuses to recognize Grandma before she puts in her teeth… Read More »2022 Legacy: The Touchscreen Face ID Denture Crisis