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Posted: 25 April 2002 12:01 AM [ Ignore ]
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Finish the phrase “you might be a geek if…” 
It would be extra cool if it was something that is true about you too. icon_smile.gif

I’ll start us off:

You might be a geek if you are currently sitting in front of three computers and trying to use all of them at the same time.

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Posted: 02 February 2002 12:55 AM [ Ignore ] [ # 1 ]
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You might be a geek if you have extra furniture dedicated to storing computers. icon_smile.gif

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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

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Posted: 02 February 2002 01:39 AM [ Ignore ] [ # 2 ]
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...if your boyfriend runs a computer-centric website.  icon_biggrin.gif

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Posted: 02 February 2002 02:03 AM [ Ignore ] [ # 3 ]
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...if you’re happy and you know it, tell the Web! *clap clap*

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Posted: 02 February 2002 10:48 AM [ Ignore ] [ # 4 ]
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...If you would be perfectly willing to spend $5000 on a badass computer, but probably wouldn’t spend half that on a car.

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Posted: 02 February 2002 12:11 PM [ Ignore ] [ # 5 ]
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If you tell people what your master’s degree is in and then have to spend more than 15 seconds explaining what it is, ...

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Posted: 02 February 2002 03:12 PM [ Ignore ] [ # 6 ]
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...if its quarter after 7 on a saturday night… and you are sitting in front of your computer, and tv.. watching tech tv…

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Posted: 02 February 2002 04:31 PM [ Ignore ] [ # 7 ]
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At some point, you bought a 16-port ethernet hub “just in case”. icon_eg.gif

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Posted: 02 February 2002 05:11 PM [ Ignore ] [ # 8 ]
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YMBAGI… you’re in college, and your computer desk is still covered in legoâ„¢s

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Posted: 02 February 2002 07:02 PM [ Ignore ] [ # 9 ]
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... you’re nearly twelve years out of college, and your office computer desk is still covered in Legos® (to say nothing of those hanging overhead).

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Posted: 03 February 2002 05:38 AM [ Ignore ] [ # 10 ]
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...your big activity this evening was IRCing and playing with Raena’s scripts.

Her scripts, I said!

 

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Posted: 03 February 2002 11:11 AM [ Ignore ] [ # 11 ]
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...you were up until nearly 4am playing with said scripts.

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Posted: 03 February 2002 01:40 PM [ Ignore ] [ # 12 ]
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YMBAGI… the first thing you do when you wake up is sit down at the computer, and the last thing you do before you sleep is stand up from the computer…

and didn’t move away from the computer at all

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Posted: 04 February 2002 02:18 AM [ Ignore ] [ # 13 ]
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YMBAGI ... you have ever looked at a naughty picture and were more interested in the rendering than the contents.

 

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Posted: 04 February 2002 03:15 AM [ Ignore ] [ # 14 ]
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YMBAGI…you think the sticker slogan “Users are losers” does not refer to illegal mind-altering substances.

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Posted: 04 February 2002 08:25 AM [ Ignore ] [ # 15 ]
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YMBAGI.. you post to a thread just to make the folder flash different colors icon_wink.gif

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