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iago
If ten or more of these apply, I hope you work in the computer industry.

You introduce your wife as "mylady@home.wife".
You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.
Dilbert is your hero.
You can name 6 Star Trek episodes.
Your spouse sends you an e-mail to call you to dinner.
Your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting
the decimal point in the right place.
Your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest
science-fiction movie looking for technical inaccuracies.
You have "Dilbert" comics displayed anywhere in your work area.
You carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a
test that actually takes five minutes to run.
You are convinced you can build a phazer out of your garage
door opener and your camera's flash attachment.
You don't even know where the cover to your personal computer is.
You know the direction the water swirls when you flush.
You own "Official Star Trek" anything.
You have ever taken the back off your TV just to see what's inside.
You see a good design and still have to change it.
The salespeople at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions.
You have more toys than your kids.
You can remember the passwords for seven different computers but not your
wedding anniversary.
You have ever owned a calculator with no equal key and know what
RPN stands for.
You know how to take the cover off of your computer, and what size screw
driver to use.
You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.
You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't
get enough sleep.
You spend more on your home computer than your car.
You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you
just pulled the plug on a loved one.
You spend half of a plane trip with your laptop on your lap...and
your child in the overhead compartment.
You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two,
just for the free Internet access.
You start using smileys in your snail mail.


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In case anybody is wondering, I got a loose 14 (should be 13 since I don't have a wife, but I WOULD know 7 different computer passwords and not our anniversery :))
July 26, 2003, 3:49 PM
j0k3r
I got 10 on the dot... and same case as iago I would probably forgot the anniversary too...

It's not at all hard to have more friends on the net than in real life, join a clan, there's more than real life already...
July 26, 2003, 7:30 PM
Yoni
[quote]You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.[/quote]

Hmm... My modem can be turned off? What a useless feature...
July 26, 2003, 11:18 PM
iago
[quote author=Yoni link=board=4;threadid=2082;start=0#msg16079 date=1059261523]
[quote]You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.[/quote]

Hmm... My modem can be turned off? What a useless feature...
[/quote]

My dsl modem can be turned off, but I've never had to. My friend actually turns his off, as well as his computer, whenever he goes afk for any extended period.
July 27, 2003, 3:28 AM
Yoni
Let me guess. Your friend isn't a geek.
July 27, 2003, 8:23 AM
iago
[quote author=Yoni link=board=4;threadid=2082;start=0#msg16124 date=1059294234]
Let me guess. Your friend isn't a geek.
[/quote]

He would score 8, because he does watch star trek and take apart his computer regularely :)
July 27, 2003, 11:56 AM
CrAz3D
So many of those apply to me it isn't even funny. :'(
July 27, 2003, 2:04 PM
Noodlez
only 2.... people at circuit city cant answer my questions (which is why i shop at newegg.com) and i dont know where my computer case is... ive never seen an episode of startrek... and ive seen one or two dilbert comics
July 27, 2003, 9:58 PM
Grok
You might be a geek if you regularly post on a forum where having the highest score for "You might be a geek if ..." is a good thing.
July 28, 2003, 12:53 AM
drake
You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you
just pulled the plug on a loved one.

That one really hit home as well as obviously the Circut City one and the computer case one.
July 30, 2003, 2:26 AM
j0k3r
[quote author=Grok link=board=4;threadid=2082;start=0#msg16197 date=1059353612]
You might be a geek if you regularly post on a forum where having the highest score for "You might be a geek if ..." is a good thing.
[/quote]

Well if that's the case I get 5 points for that.
July 30, 2003, 12:39 PM
hismajesty
i got roughly a 9 :'(
I'm not nearly as much of a computer geek as I would like to be....I gotta work on that -time to start watching startrek again instead of tech tv- :'(
July 30, 2003, 8:55 PM
CrackZ
my dad is a real big manager at CircuitCity...i get big discounts ;D
July 30, 2003, 10:33 PM
hismajesty
[quote author=CrackZ link=board=4;threadid=2082;start=0#msg16523 date=1059604399]
my dad is a real big manager at CircuitCity...i get big discounts ;D
[/quote]

I need two new monitors..mind hooking me up with some discounts? (do they apply to online ordering?) ;) :D
July 31, 2003, 4:29 AM

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