You Know Your A Computer Geek When... You kiss your girlfriend's home page. Your bookmark takes 15 minutes
to scroll from top to bottom. Your eyeglasses have a web site burned in on them. All your daydreaming is preoccupied
with getting a faster \par connection to the net: 28.8...ISDN...cable modem...T1...T3. And even your night dreams are
in HTML. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one. You
refer to going to the bathroom as downloading. You start introducing yourself as "Jim at I-I-Net dot net dot au Your
heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site address in print or on TV, even though you've never
had heart problems before. You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved and you don't have a clue
when it happened. You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives. Your wife
drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like. All of your friends have an @ in their names.
When looking at a pageful of someone else's links, you notice all of them are already highlighted in purple. Your
dog has its own home page. You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem. You check your mail. It says "no
new messages." So you check it again. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box. You code your homework
in HTML and give your instructor the URL. You don't know the sex of three of your closest friends, because they have neutral
nicknames and you never bothered to ask. Your husband tells you he's had the beard for 2 months. You wake up at 3
a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed. You tell the kids they can't use the
computer because "Daddy's got work to do" and you don't even have a job. You buy a Captain Kirk chair with a
built-in keyboard and mouse. Your wife makes a new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed." You get a tatoo
that says "This body best viewed with Netscape 2.01or higher." You never have to deal with busy signals when
calling your ISP...because you never log off. The last girl you picked up was only a jpeg. You ask a plumber how much
it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a toilet. Your wife says communication is important
in a marriage...so you buy another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat. As your car crashes
through the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is to search for the "back" button.
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