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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:33 pm

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technolog ... e=fullpage

So how many of the 10 signs apply to you?

For me at my worst it's 7/10 :wink:
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Postby Ian on Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:35 pm

I'm only a 3. :robot:
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Postby hoxlund on Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:21 pm

all 10 except i don't own a blackberry, but one of my better friends... aviationwiz does
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Postby aviationwiz on Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:13 pm

I'm three myself. The email one, the BlackBerry one, and the one about saying "LOL" instead of laughing, which I do when it wasn't that funny, but still sort of funny.
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Postby MonteLDS on Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:47 pm

I am
1) I forget to eat, but that cause i don't get hungy
6) sometimes, but only around other geeky kind of people.
7) I don't answer my phone, but i do glance the emails
9) ya, i owned 3
10) once again, only around geeky people most of the time
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Postby Alektron on Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:34 am

I think that I'm a 2.
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Postby wicked1 on Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:26 pm

I scored 7/10 if you count my palm Treo as the same class as a blackberry otherwise a 6/10. :-?
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Postby Alejandra on Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:47 pm

I'm a 3.

The first ones is the strongest, normally I forgot to eat at the meal times.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:54 pm

Alejandra wrote:I'm a 3.

The first ones is the strongest, normally I forgot to eat at the meal times.


Yeah, honestly if you don't have number 1, then you're just not a proper geek.
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