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• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you hear your alarm, but can't seem to get fully awake until you successfully page your left arm back in from swap space.
• 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 realize you have never seen half of your best friends.
• 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... ...it takes a conscious effort NOT to pronounce the 'd' at the end of common words.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your children do something they shouldn't do
  you tell them to stop, they do it just once more anyway, so you think "Well, they prefetched the instruction and are executing it in the delay slot....
• 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... ...before you call someone on the phone, you think
  'finger joe@his.house'...
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you begin all of your questions with "INPUT.
  . ....