You know you've been hacking too long when...
  
  You know you've been hacking too long when...:  The set-up line for a genre of
  one-liners told by hackers about themselves.  These include the following:
  
  * not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you
  remember your network address[1] faster than your postal one. * your SO[2]
  kisses you on the neck and the first thing you think is "Uh, oh, priority
  interrupt[3]." * you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're
  doing it in octal. * your computers have a higher street value than your car.
  * in your universe, `round numbers' are powers of 2, not 10. * more than once,
  you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language. * you
  realize you have never seen half of your best friends.
  
  [An early version of this entry said "All but one of these have been reliably
  reported as hacker traits (some of them quite often).  Even hackers may have
  trouble spotting the ringer."  The ringer was balancing one's checkbook in
  octal, which I made up out of whole cloth.  Although more respondents picked
  that one out as fiction than any of the others, I also received multiple
  independent reports of its actually happening. --- ESR]