you know you're using the computer too much when...(please add your own)

nafortin · 12-30-2003, 02:04 PM

When you realize that you just read 15 pages of " you know you're using the computer too much when" statements...

sxa · 12-30-2003, 02:20 PM

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Originally posted by hobbestec
When your parents take away your computer keyboard as punishment when you were a kid instead of grounding you... this really happened to me

Oh yeah, if I get in trouble my parents just tell me to bring them my powercord.. and I am sure if I get in trouble now that I have this laptop they will take that from me too.. of course I don't really get in trouble that bad that often.. I usually keep to myself back in my room.. and beleive me being on the computer can keep anyone out of trouble.. Then again I do have a mouth on me, and I am noted for making smart mouth comments, thats when my parents get mad at me..

you know your using the computer too much... when you tell you life stories to a bunch of people on message boards...

Chu · 12-30-2003, 06:36 PM

Nah, LQ is so much more like a family.

... Of Linux geeks

sxa · 12-30-2003, 06:40 PM

You are very right..

Chu · 12-30-2003, 06:46 PM

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.... when you write an entire program in a dream...but can't find why the stupid code won't compile, and you keep hearing a beep thinking that's it's the compiler telling there's an error, while intead it's your alarm clock..

Yes I am guilty of this also; well not this exactly, but similar.

sxa · 12-30-2003, 06:50 PM

I have never had a geeky dream like this.. but my alarm lock as been part of my dream many times.. and thus I have been late to school many times...

snatale1 · 12-30-2003, 08:22 PM

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Originally posted by Winno
... or basically all you can think about is Linux! Or anti-Microsoft sayings.

Mmm, like some of you said, I found myself typing these into a DOS window:

-ls instead of dir
-cp instead of copy
-mv instead of move
-cd-ing into a drive, eg cd c:
-TAB to autocomplete
-using / instead of \

And one more: trying to log on as root when on someone else's computer.

are you stalking me?

sxa · 12-30-2003, 08:43 PM

I don't know if winno is stalking you but I am

Poetics · 12-31-2003, 01:10 PM

... when you start thinking in binary

sxa · 12-31-2003, 11:55 PM

I think in 1's and 0's all the time.. Oh yeah!

ChasidishHarry · 12-31-2003, 11:57 PM

When it's 1:00 a.m. and I'm STILL on the computer.

sxa · 01-01-2004, 12:42 AM

Its just about 1AM here and I am still on the computer...

pembo13 · 01-01-2004, 02:12 AM

It's 4 AM on New Years Day and I'm still on the computer

sxa · 01-01-2004, 04:03 AM

When you posted that it was only 2:12 on my time.. so now its after six where you live.. here is just now 4:04AM..

You know your using the computer too much when.... you are on a Linux Message board talking about your time spent on the computer

deanglass · 01-01-2004, 02:06 PM

You start recognising computers on ordinary TV programs and comment on what the hardware spec would probably be!