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BILL ERVOLINO
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-09-2006

A family programmed to not figure things out
BILL ERVOLINO
Date: 04-09-2006, Sunday
Section: LIVING
Edtion: All Editions

At the moment, most of the people in my life are divided into two camps: the annoying people who have no interest whatsoever in technology, and the annoying people who are so up to the minute they can tell you how to operate gadgets that aren't even on the market yet.

For no reason in particular, I fall somewhere in between. So, basically, EVERYONE annoys me.

Last weekend, I must have called my parents 23 times, and the phone was either busy, busy, busy — because my parents don't have call waiting — or it just ...

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