Top 10 Reasons You know you're a Geek:
- Everyone in the neighborhood brings you (to) their computers to figure out what is wrong.19 up, 7 down
- WAIS is your life.15 up, 7 down
- You spend more than 10 minutes contemplating how traffic lights work.15 up, 8 down
- You'll spend a long time customizing a computer you'll use for one day to the absolute pinacle of comfort, but you won't bother to spend two hours sewing up a skirt, and wear the damn thing sarong style.13 up, 6 down
- You get really excited that your mixer has a dough hook.12 up, 7 down
- You can count the number of moderately good hacker/computer dude type films on one hand. (I promised not to froth at the mouth when I went to go see The Net -- I failed miserably. )12 up, 7 down
- You get sudden attacks of bittersweet nostalgic feelings when thinking about your long-lost old Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX-81, TRS-80 (or whatever hardware you were raised on), and use large amounts of money/time trying to track one down.10 up, 6 down
- You've created a new variety of rose.13 up, 9 down
- There's a newsgroup dedicated to you because of your netly activities.12 up, 8 down
- You walk past a Con and people know who you are.15 up, 11 down
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- You can remember your web address faster than your phone number.14 up, 10 down
- If you paid $6000 for your computer and $500 for your car.13 up, 10 down
- Someone mentions the Q Continuum, and you know what that means.10 up, 7 down
- You went to a high school where the only team with a winning record was the Chess team.14 up, 11 down
- You organize your CDs, so the tops all face upward, alphabetically, or by record label (If you do more than one of these, you are an Anal-Retentive Geek).10 up, 7 down
- You look at a movie trailer and think, "I have that typeface."14 up, 12 down
- You set up an automatic rerouting of your e-mail to your pager.11 up, 9 down
- You already know what you want to write both Master's papers and your dissertation about, and you just graduated from College.10 up, 8 down
- You plan to get two Masters degrees.10 up, 8 down
- You can hold detailed technical conversations in a second language.9 up, 7 down
- Sleep and nightime are no longer irrevocably linked11 up, 9 down
- You are a member of the USENET elite, invoked in posts in threads to which you have not posted.10 up, 8 down
- You seriously consider devoting a web page to your computer. (Not the brand, mind you, but the actual computer itself)11 up, 10 down
- If you know the correct pronunciation of Tex, Linux, and TCL.10 up, 9 down
- You are on the Obscure Software and Computer Crap Junk Mailing Lists10 up, 9 down
- You've ever contemplated collecting graters.8 up, 7 down
- You froth at the mouth when someone talks about the "Information Superhighway."9 up, 8 down
- You can sing any song from Grease 2. If you do the hand movements while singing, you should get out more.10 up, 9 down
- You plot to get your grandmother on E-mail.11 up, 10 down
- You have more e-mail addresses than you do pairs of shoes.9 up, 9 down
- You get depressed when you get less than 10 e-mail msgs a day.9 up, 9 down
- Someone asks you what languages you know, and you reply Upper Slavic, French, Esperanto and C.9 up, 9 down
- You have a definite philosphy of stacking wood for fires.9 up, 9 down
- You do your best work after 11 p.m.11 up, 11 down
- You can track the geek gene through your family tree.9 up, 9 down
- You don't hand in final papers unless they've been formatted on a desktop publishing program.10 up, 11 down
- You calculate the odds of getting one of the primo parking spaces in relation to your apartment, factoring in time, weather, season, etc, and are accurate over 80% of the time.8 up, 9 down
- You realize you _never_ cook, eating only take-away pizza.8 up, 10 down
- You start getting paranoid you aren't getting all your e-mail.(If you have sent me e-mail, and there seems to be no life from me, try again.)9 up, 11 down
- You buy a Mac SE, install 7.1 and MacHTTP, and become a web server - running over PPP (Hi Sean!).8 up, 10 down
- You design detailed floorplans before moving all of your furniture around.8 up, 10 down
- You set up your own newsgroup.8 up, 10 down
- You can explain how AppleTalk Networks work.8 up, 10 down
- You rig up elaborate mechanisms to do really basic tasks.9 up, 11 down
- You know about USENET cultures in groups you don't even read.8 up, 10 down
- You can sing Tom Lehrer's element song.9 up, 11 down
- You arrange your jobs so you can telecommute.9 up, 11 down
- You can talk for hours about how, in 25 years, the whole country won't have E-Mail addresses.11 up, 14 down
- You arrange to get e-mail access no matter where you go.9 up, 12 down
- You hear the word "Scuzzy" and the first thing you think of is not an adjective.7 up, 10 down
- Not only is your computer in the center of your room, it's set up so as allow 'netting from your couch, as well as your desk chair.7 up, 10 down
- You check your web access_page more than once a day.8 up, 12 down
- You put your pathfinder on the web8 up, 12 down
- You get REALLY excited when people from countries with limited access to the 'net are frequent visitors to your pages.8 up, 12 down
- You write web pages about your web pages.6 up, 10 down
- Your favorite part of Geometry was proving theorems.7 up, 11 down
- You head straight past People and the always entertaining Weekly World News for this month's Computer Shopper8 up, 12 down
- You are wearing ten year old spectacles, made of steel.7 up, 12 down
- You can discuss the philosophical and physical differences among the tangos.6 up, 11 down
- Although vaguely insulted by pocket-protector jokes, you still find them funny.6 up, 11 down
- If anyone has said to you: "You are Jhayden?!?! I see you on the Vax all the time!" (Insert the appropirate substitutions, as appropriate.)8 up, 13 down
- You've bought one of those license plate holders on which you can have your URL or E-Mail address embossed.8 up, 13 down
- You spend a lot of time figuring out which of 100 adult goldfish are the most fertile, have the strongest genes, and combined to produce tiny little goldfish.5 up, 10 down
- You've ever contemplated devoting a web page to World News Now, Kevin, Thalia, Bill, Shielah, Nissan, Okido, Asha, Dick Schapp, Willis, or, natch, Barry.7 up, 12 down
- You seriously consider scanning in a picture of a squirrel, just to bug Maryam. (Got the nice picture; am using it for blackmail.)6 up, 13 down
- You work in a building where you need a badge to move between floors.4 up, 11 down
Comments
1 Jesipr - September 18, 2008 at 9:05pm.
When you check your email every 3 minutes cause "Time past fast"