YOU MIGHT BE A COMPUTER GEEK IF...

* At Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burned out bulb in the string of Christmas lights.

* Choosing to buy flowers for your girlfriend or to spend the money to upgrade your RAM is a moral dilemma.

* Everyone else on the Alaskan Cruise is on deck gazing at the scenery and you are still on a personal tour of the engine room.

* In college, you thought Spring Break was metal fatigue failure.

* The salespeople at the local computer store can't answer any of your questions.

* You are at an air show and know how fast the skydivers are falling.

* You bought your wife a new CD ROM drive for her birthday.

* You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.

* You can type 70 words per minute but can't read your own handwriting.

* You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.

* You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards in the chairs to see how they do the special effects.

* You have saved every power cord from all your broken appliances.

* You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

* You know what http:// stands for.You look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys.

* You see a good design and still have to change it.

* You spent more on your calculator than you did on your wedding ring.

* You still own a slide rule and you know how to use it.

* You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep, or they're just equalizing air pressure on both sides of their eardrums.

* You window shop at Radio Shack.

* You're both in the back-seat of your car, she's looking wistfully at the moon, and you're trying to locate a geosynchronous satellite.

* Your laptop computer costs more than your car.

* Your wife hasn't the foggiest idea of what you do at work.

* You've already calculated how much you make per second.

* You've tried to repair a $5 radio.