Maybe it's me. Maybe the world has passed me by, and what I see in stock represents the new realties my ivory tower obsures from view. The other day, I put my cynicism aside, and tried to find a picture of an IT-type looking at a monitor--easy enough right? Well, after an hour spent looking at pictures of people and the computers they love, I have discoverd that, indeed, much has changed since my exile from the mainstream:

1) People who use computers in isolation are either confused,
enraged or bathed in a strange, colored light.

2) Perhaps to combat the above trend, people have begun to use
computers in groups of three to eight. One group member seems
to be the designated "pointer."

3) Despite being a point of anger or frustration, most computers are
either doing nothing in particular or aren't even turned on.

4) People who use laptops dress well and work mostly in hotel lobbies.

5) Despite being only half the total population, minority groups
represent 88% of all computer users.

6) The only subset of computer users truly happy with their machines are
the remaining 12%--white guys who talk on the phone when they
should be working.

7) Businesses have abandoned their Wintel notebooks for utterly unstyled
Tibooks and iBooks. And the humongous Apple logo stuck on the lid of
Mac laptops seems to have kept an army of retouchers very busy.

8) And last--despite being charged with the maintenance and
problem-free operation of thousands of networks and millions
of computers, IT guys are the only people on earth who do NOT
actually use computers.

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