You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...after Fooling Around All Day With Routers You Pick Up The Phone And Start Dialing An IP Number.

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...after Fooling Around All Day With Routers You Pick Up The Phone And Start Dialing An IP Number.

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...after fooling around all day with routers you pick up the phone and start
dialing an IP number.

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You know you've been hacking too long when... ...after days with YACC, you start to parse your conversations.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you open a window to find a phone number in a file, then try to cut & paste it to the phone.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you order on the phone from a catalog, and start to give the operator your email address.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you fumble dialing the telephone, and make a stab for the backspace key [and wonder why the numbers aren't coming up on your screen].
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...a fly lands on the screen and you try to pick it up with the mouse and put it in the onscreen trashcan!
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you pick up a rootbeer and read the label as "High Res", not Hires.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start dreaming code.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you pick up a pencil and wonder whether it supports the Norwegian letters (TeX \ae, \o, \aa).
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...before you call someone on the phone, you think
'finger joe@his.house'...