You know you've been sitting in front of your Lisp machine too long
when you go out to the junk food machine and start wondering how to
make it give you the CADR of Item H so you can get that yummie
chocolate cupcake that's stuck behind the disgusting vanilla one.
when you go out to the junk food machine and start wondering how to
make it give you the CADR of Item H so you can get that yummie
chocolate cupcake that's stuck behind the disgusting vanilla one.
Related:
- 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... - 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 ask someone if they'd like to go get some "TeX... - 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 wake up and desperately try to start a compiler... - You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you wonder why you can't just go:
sleep 28800& and go on with your hacking... - You know you've been hacking too long when...
..
you start dreaming in Tetris and trying to rearrange... - 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... ...your friends send
you to the refrigerator to get an imported beer,
but you can't find an opener, so you report: bottle...
From the same category:
- Scott: "But when they can build ships like your Enterprise,
who would want to pilot an old bucket like this?"... - A perfectly honest woman, a woman who never flatters,
who never manages, who never cajoles, who never conceals... - Life is too short, but if you do it fast enough,
you can live it one and a half times... - Damn! I'm running out of
integers... - One trivial mistake in syntax can cause
hundreds of
embarrassing error messages...
