You've Been Programming Too Long When... When you are counting objects, you go ""0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D..."". When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits. When your wife says ""If you don't turn off that darn machine and come to bed,then I am going to divorce you!"", and you chastise her for for omitting the else clause. When you are reading a book and look for the space bar to get to the next page. When you look for your car keys using: ""grep keys /dev/pockets"" When after fooling around all day with routers etc, you pick up the phone and start dialing an IP number. When you get in the elevator and double-press the button for the floor you want. When not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you remember your {network address} faster than your postal one. When you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're doing the math in octal. When you dream in 256 palettes of 256 colors.