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... ...you Pick Up A Pencil And Wonder Whether It Supports The Norwegian Letters (TeX \ae, \o, \aa).

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-- 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).

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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 ask someone if they'd like to go get some "TeX-MeX" food.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you've been low-level debugging ethernets for a week and you see two people at a table trying to pick up the same jar of butter and you directly wonder if they are using the correct CSMA/CD algorithm to avoid a re-collision.
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 don't care whether C or C++ is compiled or interpreted.
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 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... ...your friends who aren't hackers wonder what happened to you.