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WHO IS GEEK?
YOU ARE A GEEK, IF...

  • You watch movies/TV/do Tae-Bo off of your computer,
  • You have a Web Development Office,
  • Your Math professor clarifies in his syllabus that "An orc ate my homework" is not an excuse,
  • Your fraternities make Flash websites to promote their party,
  • You know what "http://" stands for,
  • Your Athletic Facilities have wireless network capabilities,
  • Your President Announces his retirement via e-mail,
  • Youve found that its more cost effective and efficient to download movies then go to a movie theater,
  • Your collection of divx/xvid/avi movies burned onto CD outnumbers your DVD collection,
  • You host a Counter-Strike server,
  • You consider 4 hours a good nights sleep and/or partake in the NyQuil/No-Doz cycle,
  • You get flamed for sending out an e-mail, but forgetting to attach the files you reference in your e-mail,
  • You have phone numbers of late night take out places programmed into your phone,
  • You converse/argue with your roommates over IM or e-mail,
  • Your friends consider you "on the rebound" after your computer crashes,
  • Your first real conversation with your future significant other was over the language your intro programming class was in,
  • Your professor asks if you have "downloaded" the information from the board before he "deletes" it,
  • You can check the status of your laundry online,
  • Someone says G-Nuke, and you don't think of rap,
  • Someone says, "There was a big tiff in that email" and you dont know whether they mean an argument or the picture file format,
  • You walk into your computer science building, you don't think twice about the building hours being posted on the door in a Microsoft Windows dialog box,
  • A single computer program has changed your life as you know it,
  • You have more hdd's lying around your room than are in your computer,
  • You purchase your first home and the master bedroom becomes the computer room,
  • You web cast your wedding, or post it on the The Social Web,
  • You have a bumper sticker that reads: There's no place like 127.0.0.1,
  • You own any apparel with the Linux penguin on it,
  • You know your MAC address better than your social security number,
  • You set up a website, LiveJournal and AIM handle for your child,
  • You abide by a strict code of ethics for using "Reply" versus "Reply All",
  • You email yourself reminders,
  • You wish your friend a Happy Birthday with an ASCII art email,
  • There are two members of the opposite gender on your bed, and you're on your computer,
  • You convince your friends how well you know them by reciting their UNIX logins,
  • The weekly gossip includes why DC++ got shut down,
  • You only know one meaning of PDA: Personal Digital Assistant,
  • You use an ethernet cable to measure your waist size,
  • You know the font, size and color of all of the people on your buddy list,
  • You refer to a SanDisk USB flash drive (complete with lanyard) around someone's neck as "Bling, bling",
  • You have talked to your roomate via a microphone and AIM's talk function,
  • You have seen at least 5 people crowd around a computer to watch a movie,
  • Your professor emulates Windows on a Linux machine and people in the class applaud,
  • You have dreams (or nightmares) about Excel,
  • You have your computer set to refresh your email every minute,
  • You think it's quaint when someone asks you for mailing list help,
  • You turn nouns into verbs. Hypontenuse, Google and Facebook,
  • You've searched for "google" on Google,
  • You label your personal possessions with your UNIX username,
  • 1 TB of hard drive space isn't enough anymore,
  • You shun people who use Internet Explorer,
  • You have ever turned a Christmas tree into a web server,
  • You've ever webcast your New Year's Eve party, so people can "party remotely",
  • You've used IM to talk to your roommate, when you were the only two in the room,
  • Your mother buys you sheets to match your computer's LEDs,
  • You make your own Firefox extensions, purely for the functionality of others,
  • You email yourself important things (phone numbers, directions) to your GMail account with certain keywords for easy searching, and consider it a "safe place",
  • You effectively shut down the internet for your entire floor by sending 20,000 TiVo packets per second (367 mbps) to one user,
  • You don't realize your roommate is in your forced double (read: single room with two people) for over 20 minutes until you check your buddy list and see that she's online,
  • You created a wiki for yourself,
  • You can't sit at your desk with out the machine running and the monitor on,
  • You accidentally type UNIX commands in AIM windows,
  • You look for a date on a file sharing program,

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