You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Dream You Have To Write Device Drivers For Your Refrigerator, Washing Machine, And Other Major Household Appliances Before You Can Use Them.

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you dream you have to write device drivers for your refrigerator, washing
machine, and other major household appliances before you can use them.

You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you have been hacking X and the colors of your tv don't look right so you think maybe you should use a different Visual.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your alarm clock goes off, and in your dream you try vainly to figure out what keyboard command to use to turn it off.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your friends send you to the refrigerator to get an imported beer, but you can't find an opener, so you repo
bottle: cannot open, opener: not found...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you can remember your ethernet hardware address.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you stop by the grocery store on your way home, and write your check out in hex.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you realize you have never seen half of your best friends.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...in a dream, you are walking down a path (using PostScript's pathforall) and get woken up by a closepath.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you wonder why you can't just go
leep 28800& and go on with your hacking?...

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Dream You Have To Write Device Drivers For Your Refrigerator, Washing Machine, And Other Major Household Appliances Before You Can Use Them.

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