Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:44:59 -0800
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From: "Lunatic E'Sex" <Luny@apple.com> [now lunatic@pobox.com]
Subject: Fwd: You know you are from the Bay Area when...
Status: RO

You know you are from the Bay Area when...


You make $100,000 a year, yet you still can't find a place to live.

Your commute time is 45 minutes and you live 8 miles away from work.

You stop asking how much things cost, but ask "How long will it take?"

Two-Thirds of the people you know are from Boston or New York, but you
are living in PST.

You know vast differences between Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese
(Cantonese, Szechuan, AND Mandarin), and Korean food.

Your home computer contains mostly hardware/software that is not on the
consumer market yet.

You go to "The City" on weekends but don't live there because you like
having a car.

You think that "I'm going to Fry's" is an acceptable excuse to leave the
office for a while, and your boss does too.

You lost your alarm clock. You'll get to work when you get there.

You go to an industrial-heavy-metal bar and see two guys get into a fight
over what flavor is Unix(tm) is better.

You own more than 10 articles of clothing that have hardware/software
companies printed on them. Bonus for embroidered stuff.

"Your best buys..." you know the rest.

You know where Woz Way, Resistor Ave, and Floppy Dr are located.

You know who Woz is.

You know 280 North runs west, and 680 North runs East.

Even though Microsoft employs quite a few programmers in the Bay Area,
they only work on Powerpoint, and the company is still the embodiment
of Satan.

Even if their stock IS worth more than yours.

You see a billboard that says "FPGA2ASIC" and aren't phased.

When you need the updated Diamond Monster 3D drivers, you just walk
across the street.

You have more bandwidth in your apartment or condo than most major
universities.

You have to hire security to keep the panhandlers off your terrace
(Oakland/Berkeley).

None of the people you work with are bible thumpers.

You scan yard sales for back issues of "Dr. Dobbs."

Your favorite computer reseller speaks only Cantonese.

Your workplace vending machines dispense "100% natural twig-bars" right
next to Jolt cola and Instant Espresso mix.

No one brings radios into work - they just use RealAudio and listen to
thedj.com, rebelradio.com, or other out of state stations.

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You forward lists like this one and...


You add "Szechuan" and "Mandarin" to the foods list

...and reclassify the Chinese regional cuisines.

You correct the capitalization of "unix" and add "(tm)".

You correct things like "FGPA2ASIC" (the "G" and the "P" were switched)

...and know what "FPGA2ASIC" _means_.

You have photographs of the "corrected" MSN advertising billboard, where
the tip of the pointing index finger is moved over to the middle finger.

On your drive to/from work you see more cars with the Darwin fish on the
back than the original christian fish

...and your own car has a Darwin fish on it.

The first thing you do when you pick up a Metro newspaper is flip it over
to look at the Fry's ad on the back

...and you're more upset when an issue comes out that doesn't have the
Fry's ad than you would be if it didn't have "Life in Hell."


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