Gadget revenge

There's a scene in one of master thespian Jim Varney's "Ernest" movies, where he becomes electrically charged by a brush with an electric fence. For a while there, anything electric near him went haywire (he was also magnetic, but that's another story).

That was me yesterday.

Color Laser? Error code blue.
Telephones? Barking static
DSL? on line, off line
PC? Cannot read from drive C
PDA? Stuck and had to be hard reset, thus losing my data

It got so bad I got out a pencil and a piece of paper. Remember those? I got into it though, so much that I pulled a rectangular object made of cloth, cardboard and paper off a shelf behind me.

I think they used to call them books.