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The Internet is Like a Snowblower: (And 200 Other Things I Got Wrong About Tech This Year) by [Mike Range]

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A stunning statistic I just made up shows that 95% of us don't fully realize how technology affects our lives.

This book is not going to help.

What it will do is propose answers to important tech questions like:

1) How is Harry Potter like Windows 10?

2) Who had the worst luck during the hacking of an adultery website? And, of course...

3) Is the internet really like a snowblower?

These and at least 197 other burning technological issues are addressed in The Internet is Like a Snowblower (And 200 Other Things I Got Wrong About Tech This Year). Each story contains a true event ("Google Translate can now interpret 27 languages") followed by an rash, uninformed assumption loosely based on that true event ("Their next goal is an update in time for the Republican debates so we'll know what the hell Donald Trump is talking about").

This is a technique top creative writing professors at your finer colleges like to call "making stuff up.”

Look, there are plenty of sources where you can get tech news presented with thorough research, enlightening insight, and relevant analysis. But I think we can all agree that books based on wild conjecture with just the flimsiest link to reality have been sorely lacking. Finally, with The Internet Is Like A Snowblower, there's equal time for the shallow, reckless rambling about tech the world has been craving.

With three or four stories per page, it's a perfect book for finding out what proctologists think about Spotify while you ignore a TV commercial or why pizza-making robots should get their own TV show while you stand in line at Best Buy.

So if you like tech, and are willing to trade accuracy for laughs, there are over 200 reasons you should read this book. And you don't have to believe me. A noted comedy critic with the impeccable credentials of being my wife has stated, "It's pretty funny. I'm not all that into technology, but I got through over half of this book, and, if Doctor Who hadn't come on, I may have finished it!"

What more do you need to hear?

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Publisher : MIke Range; 1st edition (December 4, 2015)
Publication date : December 4, 2015
Language : English
File size : 1244 KB
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Best Sellers Rank: #2,829,040 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,428 in Two-Hour Humor & Entertainment Short Reads
- #6,251 in General Technology & Reference
- #30,773 in Humor (Kindle Store)

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Bryan Spencer

All of the tech news that's fit for print

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2016

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This is a great laugh at the tech news of 2015, I could not stop laughing. Please release your 2016 recap as I need more laughs.
Your best book yet.

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Funny look at tech

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2016

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Wonderful collection of Blog notes for the Daily Tech News Show podcast website. Talks about the tech news of day with a wry humorous interpretation to tickle the funny bone.

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wizkids32

Loved it

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2016

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Loved it very funny and cute

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Tech for the not-so-technically inclined!

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2016

The Internet Is a Snowblower and 200 Other Things I Got Wrong About Tech This Year by Mike Range

This is an haliarous selection of stories from Mike’ Blog—The Weekly Tech Views (where accuracy is a lucky coincidence!)

I will say this right up front. There are many, many humor writers out there, but there are only a select few that can really make me laugh. Many famous humor columnists just don’t cut the mustard for me. Two who do are Dave Barry and outdoor humorist Patrick F McManus. Now I can add in tech savvy humorist Mike Range!

In this book you can learn many tech related things like:

How to tell the difference between Facebook and Chromebook
How to deal with the Comcast tech support team
Why Black Friday online shoppers get carpel tunnel
The true identity of the CINDY system
The Ashley Madison adultery site hacking (A running joke!)
The over insistent Windows® 10
Amazon.com Attack of the Drones
Why there is now practically an i-everything
Searching for aliens with Breakthrough Listening
The Great Printer Ink Wars
Twitter—You are no longer limited to 140 characters (Great. My neighbor tweeted a book)
AT&T Hotspots to avoid
Canon’s 247 megapixel camera (anything that makes it easier for the NSA, yeah?)
Adding a dislike button to Facebook
Car Hacking—yes, Hacking, not Car Jacking
The Roomba 980 Vacuum Cleaner

The convenience of a tablet/laptop combo when your buddies have you keyboard magnetically attached to a spare hoop in the Phys-Ed department

Mike sneers at Smartphones, Android, Emojis, Paypal, E-Bay, Verizon, Apple, Microsoft, Windows®, The Bitcoin, App Land, and many other breakthroughs in technology.

All are mixed with Mike’s dry, witty sense of humor that leaves you laughing all the way to the end.

I give this book five stars.

Quoth the Raven…

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