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• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you're awakened by your SO and all you can think of
  in that muddied half- conscious state before becoming fully awake, is something having to do with male and female serial connectors and how the baud rates have to be synchronized....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your speech is punctuated by finger twitches (or arm-waving) indicating braces.
• 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... ...your alarm clock goes off, and in your dream you try vainly to figure out what keyboard command to use to turn it off.
• 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 are trying to remember something but hear in your head
  parity error at address......
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you're reading from paper media and when you finish the page you press the spacebar.
• 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.