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.

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-- 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... ...someone sticks a Post-It note on your screen and you try to lower it behind some other windows.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you can't digest anything except VendeCoffee(TM) and VendeChoc(TM).
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...a fly lands on the screen and you try to pick it up with the mouse and put it in the onscreen trashcan!
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 open a window to find a phone number in a file, then try to cut & paste it to the phone.
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 make a mathematical proof and try to compile it to test if it is correct.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you try to ^Z out of Quattro.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you find yourself trying to CTRL-S the credits rolling on the TV screen.

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.

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