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• 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... ...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 are having a bad dream (being chased by space aliens, etc.
  ) and you wake up, only to have another bad dream and realize that you are STILL dreaming, and had been dreaming you were dreaming, so you wake up again, and finally wake up once more and realize you were nested four levels deep in dreaming you were dreaming....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you leave the building at night and say "XGoodNight" to the security guard!
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you wake up at 3
  00am from a nightmare, and realize the reason for i...
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you are trying to remember something but hear in your head
  parity error at address......
• 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 dream you have to write device drivers for your refrigerator, washing machine, and other major household appliances before you can use them.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...before you call someone on the phone, you think
  'finger joe@his.house'...