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 Order On The Phone From A Catalog, And Start To Give The Operator Your Email Address.

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-- 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.

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You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you check your email more often than your paper mail, and you remember your network address faster than your postal one.
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... ...after days with YACC, you start to parse your conversations.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you get snail mail, and you think to your self "You have new mail on node "your_address" from user "name_on_the_frank".
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you are trying to remember something but hear in your head
parity error at address......
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start dreaming code.
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... ...you send email to somebody who's three terminals down the lab.
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.