You are a Loser
and over 100 Other Embarrassing and Funny Stories of Technology Gone Mad
by Rick Broadhead
Overview
FROM THE PUBLISHER
In addition to being one of the country's leading technology experts (he's co-authored more than 30 books), Rick Broadhead has had a life-long predilection for stories of the strange-but-true genre. In Dear Valued Customer: You are a Loser, he combines his two abiding passions to present an exhaustive, fascinating, and hysterical collection of technologically enabled blunders, bloopers, and mishaps. Heard the story about the bank in Chicago whose computer made overnight multi-millionaires out of hundreds of its account holders? How about the man in California who was informed that he owed 39 trillion dollars in overdue library fines? Or the woman in New York state who claimed she was seeing the names of dead people on her caller-ID box? The Most "F" words in a Disney movie, The Most Embarrassing Open Mike Gaffe by a Politician, The Strangest Discovery by an Airport Metal Detector (a woman discovered she had a surgical retractor in her stomach) . . . these and more than one hundred other bizarre stories will keep readers uproariously enthralled.
My thoughts
My apologies to the author but this is not my kind of book. I received the book sight unseen as part of a woot.com "Random Bag of Crap" that I purchased. For those of you unfamiliar with woot.com, they sell one item per day. Every so often they put a grab bag up for sale for a dollar. You never know what you'll get and half the fun is waiting to find out and then comparing with other wooters. I've only been able to buy a "Random Bag of Crap" once, but one of the items in the bag was this book.
Admittedly it is not a book I'd have bought knowingly, thus it's unfair for me to judge the book. It had an unfair disadvantage from the get go. But just the same, I gave it a shot and it fell quite short.
Favorite Passage
Not a favorite passage, but a passage typical of things you'll find in the book. If this strikes you funny, you may enjoy the book.
While working at home one day in 2002, a Swedish scientist accidentally burned his genitals as he was using a laptop computer.
