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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 1, 2003
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 11, but we still had to share them.
Some movie trivia, by the way -- Agent Smith aka actor Hugo Weaving can be seen this December reprising his role as Elrond in "LOTR: Return of the King." And if you want to see him in a completely different (but hysterical) light, check out "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert."
He eats only the Red M&Ms -- Greg Martin
Signs his name in streaming binary -- Dale Childers
Practices Kung Fu moves while in the bathroom stall -- Joseph Nieves
Always asking that someone throw something at him so he can dodge it -- Eloi Mallet
Reclined in his office chair, with a SCSI cable duct-taped to the back of his head -- Darin Lory
Submits 'discuss how deep the rabbit hole goes' as topic for all meeting agendas -- Peter Scott
Quietly stretches out hand before saying, "no," to anyone -- Jeffrey Bianchine
Says "That's an old neural data port. It's not a hicky -- Henry Rohlfs
Keeps trying to plug a cat 5 cable into the back of his head -- Andre Kruger
He adds a cookie recipie to the "Oracle" database and insists that you'll feel "just fine" by the time you finish eating them. -- Dave Newman
Tries to move in "bullit time" through the server room -- Carol Hammond
Seeks out your Oracle server to tell him if he is "the one". -- Kate Allen
Desperately searches for the EMP button whenever IT director approaches his cubicle -- David Whittaker
Keeps staring at the "Xmatrix" screensaver looking for the woman in the red dress -- David G. Miller
Can read PDF file print codes -- Jim FritzHuspen
Mysteriously disappears every time a phone rings...leaving you to handle all the user support. -- Ryan Bruins
Transformed the server room into a cave like dwelling -- Jeremy Barker
Suggests using an electromagnetic pulse to deal with a virus infection -- Patrick Kingsley
When dealing with troublesome users and management, can be heard mumbling, "Why, oh, why didn't I take the BLUE pill?" -- Patrick Kingsley
He keeps saying he knows kung-fu, but a third grader could beat him up -- Steve Long
Sets up a "test" server, that only test the xmatrix screensaver -- Drew Decker
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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