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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 order pie a-la-mode and a friend asks "What mode?
  o which you answer: 1755 (sticky bit)....
• 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... ...you pick up a rootbeer and read the label as "High Res", not Hires.
• 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... ...you're hacking on a project late at nigh
  you are trying to get at some munchies, and you are having problems opening them (fingers stay in keyboard mode) and you think...
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your SO asks you where you want to eat on a friday night and you want to
  cat yellowpages | grep pizza | grep carryout | more...
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...the funniest joke you came up with over dinner has the punch line
  "But what if it was in hex?" ...and the people you were with also thought it was funny....
• 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...