# You know you are a computer nerd when: **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [September 14, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-computer-nerd-when/200657 "2006-09-14T01:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![colombianking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@colombianking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/colombianking)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-computer-nerd-when/200657/1 "2006-09-14T01:36:55Z")
You try to enter your password on the microwave. - You now think of three espressos as “getting wasted.” - You haven’t played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years. - You have a list of 15 phone numbers 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 a Web page. - 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. - You consider 2nd day air delivery painfully slow. - You refer to your dining room table as the flat filing cabinet. - Your idea of being organized is keeping ‘My Documents’ defraged. - 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 instead of in person. \*You’ve made your family pics into icons so you can spend time with them - Your 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 \*U have thought up about 100 smiles more clever than 🙂 \*Co-workers have to email 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 - U turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one \*U see a good web design and still have to change it \*U feel sea-sick and light headed when you finally take those reading glasses off and try to stand up. \*U dream in HTML - U find yourself typing “com” after every period when using a word [processor.com](http://processor.com) \*Monday has become your favourite day, back to your free PC with broadband too. \*Friend tells you all about his Cressida V6 ; U reply “Yeah, I had V5, but it was full of bugs!” \*U refer to going to the bathroom as downloading \*Your holiday was ruined … there was no internet café in town \*U take lunch in your office snacking with your chat friends . \*U find u can still get butterflies in your stomach … the thought of seeing your PC again after your holiday/vacation \*U have prayers said everytime your PC dies. - U ask your doctor to implant a gigabyte in your brain. \*U dream of coming back as a cyborg. \*The remote to the T.V. is missing…and you don’t even care. \*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 \*U have owned a calculator with no equal key and know what RPN stands for \*You’ve spent consecutive Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings programming a computer \*U refer to your age as 2.x \*Your I.Q. number is bigger than your weight