Adventures of a Wetware Hacker

• You refer to the Democratic Party as “those damned conservatives”.
• You follow the fashion tips in Wired.
• You stay awake for more than 48 hours straight several times a week, because you will not be a slave constrained to your biology, no matter how much it hurts, damn it.
• You or one of your pets has an RFID implant.
• You refer to gray goo theory as “sweet”.
• You have practiced saying, “Please hire me, I am an engineer,” in Chinese, just in case. (请雇用我. 我是工程师.)
• The thing you miss most when camping in the wilderness is the hum of your server and fourteen CPUs in the background.
• You have an RFID-blocking wallet that you made yourself out of duct tape and aluminum foil.
• The computer tower you built includes a transgenic fish tank as part of its cooling system.
  
• You would sleep with Jude Law’s robot-gigolo character, regardless of your sex.
• You plan your career around the Singularity.
• You wonder how Bill Joy went so horribly wrong.
• You cannot understand the phrase, “Leave well enough alone.”
• You secretly wish Ray Kurzweil was your father.
• You sold your car to buy the $1200 DNA-synthesizer on eBay.
• You don’t mind bio-Luddites; evolution will take care of them eventually.
• You laugh to yourself while reading this because absolutely none of it is an exaggeration.
  

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