You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...someone Sticks A Post-It Note On Your Screen And You Try To Lower It Behind Some Other Windows.

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...someone Sticks A Post-It Note On Your Screen And You Try To Lower It Behind Some Other Windows.

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...someone sticks a Post-It note on your screen and you try to lower it
behind some other windows.

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You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you try to bring a window to the front of something, then you realize that "something" is a Post-It (tm) on your screen.
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 ask someone if they'd like to go get some "TeX-MeX" food.
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 try to ^Z out of Quattro.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you find yourself trying to CTRL-S the credits rolling on the TV screen.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you fumble dialing the telephone, and make a stab for the backspace key [and wonder why the numbers aren't coming up on your screen].
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you wake up and desperately try to start a compiler so you can use the 15 minute waiting period to sleep some more.
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?...