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• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your friends who aren't hackers wonder what happened to you.
• 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... ...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 The set-up line for a genre of one-liners told by hackers about themselves.
  These include the following: not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you remember your network address faster than your postal one....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your friends send you to the refrigerator to get an imported beer, but you can't find an opener, so you repo
  bottle: cannot open, opener: not found...
• 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 can remember your ethernet hardware address.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you discover that you're balancing your checkbook in octal.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...after days with YACC, you start to parse your conversations.