Showing posts with label App. Show all posts
Showing posts with label App. Show all posts

Friday, 5 December 2025

There's an App for this

 

It's amazing what you can do with modern technology; and with many Apps available for this and that, and with AIs giving you answers to every question you have in mind, and responding to your every need.

I wanted to write something really nice for my wife's birthday card. Something more meaningful than the usual Happy Birthday and Best Wishes etc ... Unfortunately, I am not a good writer.

So I asked the App - or was it the AI, on my cell-phone?

They said:

"My dearest precious treasure. Another year has passed that has shown me that I am the luckiest man alive to have shared my life with you. If I could only stop time ... ... ..."

It went on like that for a bit; but you get the idea. So I faithfully copied every word in my best handwriting on the birthday card, and left it on the kitchen table, as I left for work.

Whilst I was on the train I got a text from my wife that said - "Thank you. Did you use an App to write all this?"

I did not know what to do. So I asked the App how to respond to my wife's text.

They said:

"My dearest wife/husband. If words were mere snowdrops falling from the sky I would capture them as an offering to convey my love for you ... ... ..."

And the App went on with more snow references that soon turned to slush.

I copied as much as I could into a text which I sent back - omitting of course references to wife/husband, and similar examples like his/her. I'm not stupid ... 

I made sure the text looked personal and my message came from the heart. In fact I said so. 

Unfortunately the damn auto-correct said this message was from the "fart" not "heart".

I had a lot of explaining to do when I got home that evening. But at least I bought some flowers from the gas station on my way home.

Monday, 20 September 2021

New Must-Have App

 

I have this new fantastic App on my cell-phone. It is really good. Everyone should load it on their cell-phones.

It checks everywhere in the world and keeps me informed at all times.

The other day, as soon as I loaded it on my cell-phone, it "pinged" and said, "nothing important has happened anywhere in the world". 

I was relieved and got on with my work digging the garden. A robin visited me and started eating worms I'd just dug up.

A few minutes later it "pinged" again and said, "still nothing for you to be concerned about". That was good news, because I like to worry. It raises my blood pressure and makes my heart beat faster. Instead, I calmed down and continued digging the garden with my friendly robin supervising.

Would you believe it? Fifteen minutes later the App "pinged" once more and said, "no celebrity anywhere did or said something that is worth reporting on". 

Can you imagine that? Out of all the self-important celebrities throughout the world not one of them did or said anything that I should know about and pass on to my followers.

I was a little concerned about that. Normally celebrities, like the half-baked idiots that they are, say or do the most inane things to attract attention. What's the matter with them all? Have they suddnely realised that they're not important after all?

What is the point in being a celebrity on a reality show, or a pretend comedian, if no-one is reporting on your asinine behaviour? What will reporters and photographers have to report on if these people don't do or say stupid things?

Half-an-hour later the App "pinged" that none of my millions of social media "friends" and followers had posted anything that I need to stop what I am doing and check immediately on what they said.

What a relief that was. Normally, I spend my time logging-in from one social media platform to another to check what everyone is saying. I am a member of ten million different social medias and my fingers get really tired tapping on the cell-phone to log-in, check on every "friend" and follower, and read their interesting news which I then pass on to other "friends" adding a selfie or two of myself. 

The other day, one of them said that she got to work late because she could not find her shoes. The dog had taken them to his bed. How hilarious. That really made my day. 

Another one had tweeted that her husband had been taken into re-hab to cure his alcohol abuse. How sad. I tweeted back a sad emoji face in return. I don't really know that person, or her husband. She is just one of my many internet "friends". But I'm sure it would have made her day to receive my sad-face emoji.

This time, my new App had reported that none of these "friends" had tweeted or posted anything worth me responding to, or even reading about.

This fantastic App has also got another brilliant feature. If there's nothing worth me knowing about, it just switches the cell-phone off. Isn't that clever?

Of course, it switches the phone on if someone rings me. Otherwise it is off and quiet.

For an extra small payment, the Advanced App will throw the cell-phone in the trash can for you.