You Know You've Been on the Computer Too Long When...
- When you are counting objects, you go
"0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D...".
- When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits.
- When your wife says "If you don't turn off that darn machine and
come to bed, then I am going to divorce you!", and you chastise her
for for omitting the else clause.
- When you are reading a book and look for the space bar to get to the
next page.
- When you look for your car keys using: "grep keys
/dev/pockets"
- When you look for your homework using: "grep homework
/dev/backpack"
- When after fooling around all day with routers etc, you pick up the
phone and start dialing an IP number.
- When you get in the elevator and double-press the button for the floor
you want.
- When not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail,
but you remember your {network address} faster than your postal one.
- When you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're doing the
math in octal.
- When you dream in 256 pallettes of 256 colors.
- ...You're writing a homework assignment, and get the end of the line in
the middle of a sentence, tack on a '\', and continue writing on the
next line.
- You try to sleep, and think ... "telnet xxx.dreams.heaven"