Miscellaneous Collections

Miscellaneous Collections

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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... ...a friend asks you what you're going to do later and you answe
cd $HOME; mkbed; sleep 28800...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...after a large C program, you can't stop making algorithms.
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... ...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... ...after writing a big report, you try to backspace in a pen and paper letter.
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... ...even Juan Valdez couldn't support your drastic need for yet another cup of coffee.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...everything in your life turns into code.
..such as: main() { while ( sleeping ) { sleeping = !...
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.

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