UPDATE (11:06, 15 December):Take 11-year-old Katie Johnsen of the District, who wants a virtual snowboarding game and a chocolate fondue fountain. She turned her list into a PowerPoint presentation with red and green backgrounds, a picture of Santa and links to the Web sites where the items can be bought.
"They are big operators," said Ellen Yui of Takoma Park, who has two sons. "They know how to work the system. They know how to work us big time."...
Yui's kids, 11-year-old Yoshi and 13-year-old Zen, changed the screensaver on her computer one Christmas to read "I love you" over and over again -- and end with a request for a video game.
See Neddie Jingo's response to the PowerPoint problem here:
Aww, Ain’t That Cute
2 comments:
Here's the most distressing thing about that article.
My little ones are a year or two away from having that behemothic sack of toxic crap enter their lives, and their schoolteachers are going to have to deal with a very cranky dad who happens to be a fairly well respected information designer who can demonstrate that there is a direct line of correlation between PowerPoint and Stupid.
Baby, turn on your lvljt
There. I've done something about it.
ntvirq, what PowerPoint is turning us all into.
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