You have a window partly underneath a Post-It note stuck to your
monitor. You try to click on the window to bring it to the front of
the display, on top of the post-it note.

When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits.

When you are counting objects, you think
"0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D...".

When you dream in 256 pallettes of 256 colors.

When your wife says "If you don't turn off that damn machine and
come to bed, then I am going to divorce you!", and you chastise
her for for omitting the "else" clause.

You try to sleep, and think 
   sleep(8 * 3600); /* sleep for 8 hours /

When you are reading a book and look for the scroll bar to get to
the next page.

When after fooling around all day with routers etc,
you pick up the phone and start dialling an IP number...

When you get in the elevator and double-click the button for the
floor you want.

When not only do you check your email more often than your paper
mail, but you remember your {network address} faster than your
postal one.

When you look for a icon to double-click to open your bedroom window.

When you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're
doing the math in octal.

When you look for a trash can icon for throwing garbage.

You want an elevator to the basement and begin looking for the "0"
key, because 0 is less than 1.

You hit the wrong key on the elevator keypad and you feel frustrated
when you see that it has no "undo" key.

You are afraid to hit the snooze bar on your alarm clock too many
times because you think that the clock's subroutine was mallocing
memory each time it goes and printing the free memory on the front,
and soon it would run out.

When you look for your toothbrush by trying to do a '/toothbrush'
command.

When you write your code as follows:
(define Shit_lang
   (lambda (crap)
      (if (eq? crap ())
          (display "the shit is over")
          (begin
             (if (eq? crap never-ending)
                 (delete! all)
                 (shit_lang (- crap 1))))))
...in a program which takes up 38 pages (of similar stuff) after 28
hours
of work....

When you are trying to recall something and hear in your
head: "parity error at address..."

...You're writing a homework assignment, and get the end of the line
in the middle of a sentence, tack on a '', and continue writing on
the next line.

When you pick up a rootbeer and read the label as "High Res",
not Hires...

You try to sleep, and think ... "telnet sleep.cs.mun.ca".

You have two books, one on top of another, and think: "No problem.
I'll just click on its title bar to raise the other book to the
front".

You hear a prof lecturing, and think that
any question will crash his/her lecture interpreter.

When you think of the lyrics of "Jump! Jump!" by Kris Kross and wonder
if they can be assembled.....

When you start typing semi-colons
at the end of sentences instead of full stops;

You see something written on the blackboard and think: "Why
don't I just log on and download it?"

When you think you can't wake up in the morning because you forgot to
push a return address on the stack the night before.

When you wake up with a woman and you think that she is a PDP-11 and
you try to figure out how to boot her.

When you think your girlfriend is a VAX, and can't figure out where to
put the floppy.

When you plan a hectic day as follows:
'My load averages seem to be a bit too high, my scheduler might
die any moment, and I'm running out of swap space... I'd better kill
off some low-priority user processes.'

When you are reading a book and look for the space bar to get to the
next page.

You work on two Sparc stations, and get confused as to why attempting
to move the mouse off one screen doesn't move it onto the other.

When you watch TV and look for the INFO key in the remote control to
find out the name of the program.

When you want to grep a book.

When you want to grep a videocassette.

When you look for your toothbrush by trying to do a
'grep toothbrush /dev/gym_bag' command.

When you look for your car keys using: "grep keys /dev/pockets"

When you look for your homework using: "grep homework /dev/backpack"

When your children do something they shouldn't do, you tell them to
stop, and they do it just once more, and you react by thinking: "Well,
they prefetched the instruction and are executing it in the delay
slot..."

When after fooling around all day with routers etc, you pick up the
phone and start dialling an IP number...

When the bell rings ending class while the prof is in the middle of a
sentence, and you think, "How in the world is he going to carry that
continuation back to his office?"

When you watch the temperature display on The Weather Network say that
it is -0 degrees outside, and you catch yourself wondering if it was
sign-magnitude or 1's-complement...

When you get in the elevator and double-press the button for the floor
you want.

When you go to the movies and it takes 5 minutes to get used to
the flicker (damn low refresh rate...).

When you go to the movies and catch yourself wondering what the colour
depth of the screen image is...

When you see a flock of birds, and you sit there and try to figure out
the algorithms that determine their movement.

When not only do you check your email more often than your paper
mail, but you remember your {network address} faster than your
postal one.

When your SO kisses you on the neck and the first thing you
think is "Uh, oh, priority interrupt!"

When you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're
doing the math in octal.

When your computers have a higher street value than your car.

When in your universe, `round numbers' are powers of 2, not 10.

When more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in FORTRAN.
It is a frustrating dream, because you are trying to find out why the
dream isn't working.

When more than once, you have woken up recalling this dream: Two
pointers are chasing you, and you are caught in the linked list in
between.

When you wonder if you could comment out the code that caused your
girlfriend to get pregnant, but then you realise: you do not have the
source to your girlfriend, and even if you do, how are you going to
recompile her, anyway?

When your alarm clock goes off, you think it is spawning new alarm
clock processes and you have to kill them quickly so it wouldn't fill
up the process table and prevent you from doing _anything_ about it.
The only problem is, there is a monitor process that you won't kill,
and every time you kill off one of the ring_alarm(x) processes, it
will wait 9 minutes then spawn another one.

When you wish: "If only I could 'sleep 24000 &'"

...you try to bring a window to the front of something, then you
realize that "something" is a post-it (tm) on your screen...

...when in art class, you make a mistake in a drawing and look
frantically for the undo button on the paper.

...When you've been low-level debugging ethernets for a week and when
you see two people at a table trying to pick up the same jar of butter
and you directly wonder if they are using the correct CSMA/CD
algorithm to avoid a re-collision...