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You Know You Are A Geek If...


- You can write recursive sentences like this one, because you should read it again.

- In the ninth grade, you got tired of doing all those redundant calculus problems, so you wrote a program to solve them, and every time you got a new assignment, you handed in source revisions

- Your glasses broke so you soldered the frame back together... AND ... all of your friends thought it was cool.

- You pick up the phone to call your chick for a lunch date, dial her IP address, and get some damn recording that says the number doesn't exist. Yeah, like you wouldn't know your own girlfriends IP address.

- Your girlfriends IP address is 127.0.0.1.  Take a hike rosy.

- The last time you went to the movies, it was SCI-FI, and there were only members of the same sex with you.

- Your alarm clock consists of a Perl script and some .au files, and the only time it wakes you up is when you fell asleep 10 minutes ago at the keyboard.

- You exercise personal hygiene with extreme efficiency, but only during power outages.

- You wish the moon weren't so damn bright.

- When you visit your relatives, you try to hack AOL so you can retrieve _your_ e-mail.

    telnet geekplates.com 110
    user bincar
    pass ^McOa@#(^%23)sa!)bBzZ
    stat
    retr 1
    retr 2
    retr 3
    ...
    retr 759
    quit
    telnet geekplates.com 25
    helo thisip.aol.com
    ...

- You once missed Christmas because you were on a roll.

- A can of Coke counts as a meal.

- You know more acronyms than the Army -AND- you can "say" them without thinking about how to pronounce them.

- You know at least 2 one-syllable names for each of: ~ ! @ # ` , . / ? > < ; : ' " { } [ ] ( ) - _ = + * & ^ % $ | \

- You just parsed the above line.

- You can't get past those pesky frames only messages while using lynx, so you switch to telnet.  -or- you have the new version of lynx which does support frames, but prefer telnet.


If you know of any more sayings then please email them to me.

 

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