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We asked you faithful NWC readers to give us your "Top 11" signs your co-worker thinks he's Neo. Faster than jacking into the Matrix, you responded. As usual, we couldn't fit all the responses in our August 7th issue's Top...
August 01, 2003
  • Refers to the network as the 'Zion Mainframe' -- Tony Tiongson
  • Spends all day searching for a wall-hack while contemplating if life is represents in polygonal or rasterized phong shading. -- Matthew Aleksander
  • Refers to the system administrator as Agent Smith -- John Scott
  • Sets all of the routers Banner message of the day to "The Matrix has you..." -- Ryan Moore
  • Asks to trade in his fancy VOIP phone for a rotary dial unit -- Jim Cobb
  • Still wearing the the t-shirt from the 2000 BrainShare conference that says "I took the red pill" -- Ted A Richart
  • Says he types so fast because his neuro-kinetics are way above normal -- Leon Zandvliet
  • Tries to program code in hexadecimal using a green font on a black screen -- Jonathan Larocque
  • Always tries to bend everybody's spoon in his coffee breaks -- Jonathan Larocque
  • Refers to our Project Manager as "the Operator" -- Clifford Osburn
  • Uses Google to search for Morpheus. -- Cliff Osburn
  • Hasn't been into work since stating he was going to spend the weekend developing a new technique for down-range, mid-flight ballistic analysis -- Daniel E. Stafne
  • Pulls up floor tiles in the data center, muttering "Follow the white rabbit". -- Scott McKenzie
  • Manages to implement an anti-spam solution and applies it to hotmail. To your surprise, spamming is forever stopped. -- Brice McLoad
  • Recommends that casual Friday become trench coat Friday -- Mark Gringle

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