. . . buy a higher mile to the gallon car, so you can pay your electric bill.

...you wish you didn't convince yourself to turn off your computer because you were leaving it for 23 days.

[QUOTE=coolprimes]. . . buy a higher mile to the gallon car, so you can pay your electric bill.[/QUOTE]

... sell your car and use the money to buy more computers.

As soon as the BlueGene/L supercomputer is online, it gets hacked and starts running Prime95.

...you resign, frustrated and dismayed, from your company after it refuses your repeated requests to change to a 24,036,583-day calendar.

... if you hear the alarm clock in the morning and when you look over at it, you wonder how its LL test is coming along.

... if upon realizing that it's just an alarm clock, you wonder if there might be some way to put prime95 on an alarm clock.

You justify buying a new CPU to use as an alarm clock (and Prime95)

[QUOTE=Uncwilly]You justify buying a new CPU to use as an alarm clock (and Prime95)[/QUOTE]

and you buy an alarm clock anyway to avoid having to use those CPU cycles on the alarm.

....If, knowing darn well that you have enough work queued up that you don't need to touch your farm for the next two months, you still turn on the monitor at least twice a day to look at the progress on your exponents.

you check.. the forums 20 times in 10 hours..