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• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you're awakened by your SO and all you can think of
  in that muddied half- conscious state before becoming fully awake, is something having to do with male and female serial connectors and how the baud rates have to be synchronized....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you have to put a happy face on paper, and do it sideways.
  )...
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you wish you could study for an exam by executing the command
  cat civ100 | tee brai...
• 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... ...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 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... ...more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you send your SO notes like
  while !(together(you,me)) miss(you)...
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your SO asks you where you want to eat on a friday night and you want to
  cat yellowpages | grep pizza | grep carryout | more...