You know you're a geek when........

[redbikemaster]

You make an alias to open your .bashrc file in nano so you can add new aliases quickly.

[JDorfler]

When waiting for a game to download and install while booted into Windows and you surf the internet you feel like you are cheating your computer.

[chili555]

When walking through the big box store, you veer to the wireless adapter aisle and, upon seeing certain well-known brands and models, you mutter, "Stupid ndiswrapper piece of junk!"

[nadrach]

You walk through the Worldcon lobby, see the slogan "Pass the Gaffer tape, the hamster's split." on a sweatshirt, and know what it means ...

[blackbird34]

You receive an email that Thunderbird thinks is empty for some mysterious reason and just dive into the source code and find the content anyway.

[Michael_McKenney]

When you spend more money on your power supply than your friends spend on their entire rig.

[Michael_McKenney]

When you count in 00000001, 00000010, 00000011, 00000100, etc.

[The Cog]

When you keep typing :wq in office documents.

[ofnuts]

When, while waiting at a traffic light, you have a glimpse of "export TurboPascal" on a billboard in your peripheral vision. And then find out that the thing is really an ad for the "Escort Turbo Diesel" (true story, but quite old, when did they stop making the Ford Escort? and TurboPascal?)

[Michael_McKenney]

I actually did a lot of programming in Turbo Pascal. I would love to see it come back.