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You Might Be A Geek If...
If ten or more of these apply, I hope you work in the computer industry.
- Your wrist watch has more computing power than a 486DX-50.
- You introduce your wife as "mylady@home.wife".
- You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.
- You want an 16x CDROM for Christmas.
- 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.
- You look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys.
- You use a CAD package to design your son's Pinewood Derby car.
- You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts.
- It goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string of Christmas lights.
- You window shop at Radio Shack.
- 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 have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven.
- 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.
- A team of you and your co-workers have set out to modify the antenna on the radio in your work area for better reception.
- You ever burned down the gymnasium with your Science Fair project.
- You are currently gathering the components to build your own nuclear reactor.
- You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts.
- You have never backed-up your hard drive.
- You are aware that computers are actually only good for playing games, but are afraid to say it out loud.
- You truly believe aliens are living among us.
- You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance.
- You have ever purchased an electronic appliance "as-is".
- You see a good design and still have to change it.
- The salespeople at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions.
- You still own a slide rule and you know how to work it.
- The thought that a CD could refer to finance or music never enters your mind.
- You own a set of itty-bitty screw drivers, but you don't remember where they are.
- You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.
- You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal.
- You have more toys than your kids.
- You need a checklist to turn on the TV.
- You have ever introduced your kids by the wrong name.
- You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work.
- Your I.Q. is a higher number than your weight.
- The microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work and you rush up to the front to fix it.
- You can remember the passwords for seven different computers but not your wedding anniversary.
- You have memorized the program schedule for the Discovery channel and have seen most of the shows already.
- You have ever owned a calculator with no equal key and know what RPN stands for.
- Your father sat 2 inches in front of your family's first color TV with a magnifying lens to see how they made the colors, and you grew up thinking that was normal.
- You know how to take the cover off of your computer, and what size screw driver to use.
- You can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting.
- People groan at the party when you pick out the music.
- You can't remember where you parked your car for the third time this week.
- You ran the sound system for your senior prom.
- Your checkbook always balances.
- Your wristwatch has more buttons than a telephone.
- You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.
- You thought the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission controllers.
- 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 know what http stands for.
- You've ever tried to repair a $5.00 radio.
- You have a neatly sorted collection of old bolts and nuts in your garage.
- Your three year old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory.
- Your lap-top computer costs more than your car.
- Your 4 basic food groups are: 1. Caffeine 2. Fat 3. Sugar 4. Chocolate.
- Your nutritional pyramid is made of empty Jolt cans.
- You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your
e-mail on the way back to bed.
- You get a tattoo that reads "This body best viewed with Netscape
Navigator 3.0 or higher."
- You name your children Eudora, Mozilla and Dotcom.
- 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 laugh at people with 2400-baud modems.
- You start using smileys in your snail mail.
- You pick up the phone and manually dial your ISP's access number.
- You try to hum to communicate with a modem. You succeed.
- The only jokes you know are on the web
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