Friday, May 25, 2012
You Know You're A Geek... When:
You know you're a geek when:
• You go online and order a New Motherboard by 2nd day air, and the store you ordered from is only 2 miles from your house.
• You wonder if you can set my laser printer on stun.
• You try to enter your password on the microwave.
• You consider three espressos as "getting wasted."
• You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.
• You have a list of 15 ways of commutation to reach your family of 3.
* Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
• You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor yet this year.
• You didn't give your valentine a card this year, but you posted one for your email buddies via social media site.
• The concept of using real money, instead of internet shopping, to make a purchase is foreign to you.
• Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags your computer desk.
• Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses or Facebook accounts.
• You consider 2nd day air delivery painfully slow.
• Your idea of being organized is keeping 'My Documents' de-fraged.
• You find you really need PowerPoint to explain what you do for a living.
• You think a "half-day" means leaving at 5 o'clock.
• You hear most of your jokes via email or facebook instead of in person.
• You've made your family pics into icons so you can spend time with them.
• Your web-browser bookmarks takes 15 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.
• Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.
• You have thought up about 100 smiles more clever than =(8^)
• Co-workers have to message you about the fire alarm to get you out of the building.
• Every night you tell yourself you will not eat tomorrows meals with a fork in one hand and a mouse in the other.
• You turn off your computer and get this awful empty feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
• You see a good web design and still have to change it.
• You feel sea-sick and light headed when you finally take those reading glasses off and try to stand up..
• You dream in HTML.
• You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com
• You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
• Your holiday was ruined… there was no internet café in town.
• You take lunch in your office snacking with your chat friends.
• You find you can still get butterflies in your stomach ... the thought of seeing your computer again after your holiday/vacation.
• You have prayers said every time your PC or electronic device dies.
• You ask your doctor to implant a gigabyte in your brain.
• You dream of coming back as a cyborg.
• You're amazed to find out spam is a food.
• You've sat 2 inches in front of your screen with a magnifying lens to see how they made the colors.
• You've spent consecutive Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings programming a computer.
• You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two or three, just for the free Internet access.
• You can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting.
• You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.
• The salespeople at Circuit City or Best Buy can't answer any of your questions.
• Your wristwatch has more buttons than a telephone.
• You're replaced your wristwatch with a smart device/phone.
• You can remember 7 computer passwords but not your anniversary.
• Your spouse sends you an e-mail or chat message instead of calling you to dinner.
• You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal.
• Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for two hours. You start to twitch.
• As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is to search for the "back" button.
• In college, you coded your homework in HTML and give your teacher the URL.
• You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
• You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.
• Your dog & cat have their own home pages and the goldfish's is under construction.
• You think people who can't set the clock on the VCR are pathetic!
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