A very robot Christmas (card)
Electronic greeting cards are very lame. For one thing, they look like spam. Friends sometimes send them, but usually they're non-computer literate old people who put in their best set of false teeth and drive their Edsel down to the tellygraph office so they can send a note to the young 'uns.
The worst are people who send them because they're trying to network very cheaply. In other words, you're on the 'C' list; not important enough to rate a phone call once in a while to stay in touch, not even important enough to get a paper card, but they're going to add your email address to their list so you'll know that they're "thinking" of you.
It's too bad that you can't get some kind of USB gizmo that you can plug in and send a bolt of electricity flying across the wires to toast the well-wishers with some real holiday spirit.
Posted on December 27, 2007
