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.

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-- 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 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... ...people talk to you while you're trying to work, and you think, "mesg n".
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 make a mathematical proof and try to compile it to test if it is correct.
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... ...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... ...the executive who tells you that he read in PC week magazine that setting up a LAN in a multi-vendor environment using DECNET was easy and asks you to explain why it's taken you over a week to get the client/server applications in a "production mode.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you see a sign on a door saying "Please make sure this door is locked" and you wonder if lockd knows about it.

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.

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