You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Get Snail Mail, And You Think To Your Self "You Have New Mail On Node "your_address" From User "name_on_the

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Get Snail Mail, And You Think To Your Self "You Have New Mail On Node "your_address" From User "name_on_the_frank".

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you get snail mail, and you think to your self "You have new mail on node
"your_address" from user "name_on_the_frank".

You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you check your email more often than your paper mail, and you remember your network address faster than your postal one.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...the message `New mail in /usr/spool/mail/foo' becomes an NMI.
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 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 send E-mail and end each line with \n.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you have been hacking X and the colors of your tv don't look right so you think maybe you should use a different Visual.
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 hear your alarm, but can't seem to get fully awake until you successfully page your left arm back in from swap space.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you realize you have never seen half of your best friends.

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Get Snail Mail, And You Think To Your Self "You Have New Mail On Node "your_address" From User "name_on_the_frank".

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