2003-12-01 - 6:44 p.m.
You
are an OS X geek when ..
- After getting a pile of Apple t-shirts you think "kewl, now i don't
HAVE TO buy for new clothes for a while".
- Your internal (body) time iSyncs to PST (e.g. GMT = PST +8).
- You have or try to get a phone number containing funny numbers or numbers
equivalent to apple stuff, http or your favorite unix codes (777, 700, 666,
404, 403, fsck, list, kill, http, ipod etc).
- You use an apple or MacIntosh scented parfumes, soaps, candles etc, and drink
apple juices or -cider or have apple candy just because it's apple ..
- You leave or have left your bf / gf just because he/she asked if Cupertino
was a football coach.
- Your dreams are in objective-c -or- can be browsed in finder (a better version
than the actual).
- You realise you don't know many Windows users any more.
- When you are asked your favorite color, you answer giving the hexa code of
your favorite web safe color.
- When your terminal session is better than your date.
- You add clothes to your closet expecting that either the closet will grow
to accomodate your new additions, or everything inside the closet will automatically
shrink to create more room.
- You make a mistake in real life and do the keyboard shortcut Apple + Z with
your left hand.
- You wish you had a "save dream as .." button in your dreams, so you'd be able
to save them in quiktime, mp3, or just text format.
- When you try to fall asleep, try to find the apple > Sleep option inside your
head.
- When you wonder "where teh fsck is terminal in Classic" and when you want
to ask that on a Mac board to see the pure Classic users reaction.
- When you have had sex with someone using Unix commands, or talking dirty or
just insulted your friends in binary
- When on the rare occasions you need to use Windows, you take the mouse in
continuation down and wonder where is dock.
- When you have forgotten what is a pop-up.
- When you start to talk really sslloowwllyy to people who are Windows users.
- When you realize that "windows-compatible" and "windows-user" are contradictory
terms.
- When your non-mac using friends start to ask for the copies of your mac games
for their Linux or Windows machine, such as Deimos Rising, Pop-pop, XGates,
XBill...
- When you look at your iCal before answering what you are doing tonight.
- When you move your eyes up and right to see what time is it, even when you
are not at your monitor.
- When while you try to remember something you wish you had a chip in your brain
that was connected online so you could google for what you don't remember.
- When you are looking for a car, one of the main criteria are how well it will
look sticked behind an apple sticker.. and the other weird criteria is the car's
iPod compatibility.
- When all of your favorite t-shirts are mac or apple or just geek, and you
don't know how many of them you have.
- When your record of posts in a mac related board is over 170/day.
- When at some point you have talked more often to apple or its tech support
on phone than to your mum.
- When you have completely forgotten that there is a huge mac related poster
attached to your fridge.
- When you want to make a program to your iPod that could manage the fridge
contents and work as a shopping list.
- When it is more "normal" to watch movies on your laptop screen than on tv.
- When you watch the keynotes of WWDC, apple expos etc, and plan your life and
flights so that you can see them online.
- When you have been in more than one opening of an apple store or in more than
one apple store a day.
- When you have been the first customer of an apple store.
- When you touch peecees now only when your friends or relatives ask you to
.. format their peecees and then install Linux to them.
- When you have tabbed dreams at night, and before waking up quit the dream.app.
- When you stay in the movie theatre to see the end texts only to check if they
give any hint on what software they used to make the animations.
- When you find your blog googling for weird words like stevejobsism, stevewear,
stevejobswear, iclothes, and your site googlin for apple tattoo.
- When 666 makes you think about Microsoft.
- When you have brang souvenirs to people working at your local apple store(s).
- When your turistic photos are "me/we and my/our iPod(s).." instead of the
other peoples' "we and this and that monument".
- When your iPod turist photos can be seen in iPodlounge.
- When you know that your hip bones exist so that you can use them as laptop
holders.
- When someone (working) at Apple Store asked why you wanted Panther before
it was released yet ("What, aren't you happy with Jauar..?") you answer was
something like "I want it so I can have a bakground picture in terminal" and
not the usual things about fast user switching etc (which will be handy too).
- When pr0nbook or similar "normal words" get hits only to your page
- When you'll add something to the list of these computer stupidities
;-)

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