If you have ever proclaimed "First" via a comment on anything.

If you have ever taped down an arrow key while sending your screen's character directly into a corner in order to advance valuable Agility and Dexterity points while you sleep.

If you have a potted plant that Twitters.

If when you see "pwnd", you understand it.

If you've ever burned more than one Linux distro to CD.

If you know what the hell a LInux "distro" is.

If you have ever had a conversation about whether a wizard is more powerful than a Mage.

If your stack of Magic cards was bigger than your baseball card collection.

If you have more than 3 remotes to run your entertainment system.

If you've spent more than $200 on a remote that you can program via the internet to control all of your entertainment system components.

If you know how to, and have, subscribed to video podcasts on your Tivo.

If you have built your own Tivo.

If you are able to update Twitter and your Facebook status at the same time....via a cell phone.

If the name Adam Curry makes you think of more than just endogenous 80's hair metal bands.

If you know every lyric to "Code Monkey".

If "baud" over 9600 used to make you drool.

If you pronounce "wares" as 'wears' instead of 'war-ez'....and you know what 'wares' means.

If you've ever set up an FTP server, mail server, or web server on a throwaway machine.

If you've ever fried a CPU by overclocking.

If the concept of bittorrent doesn't completely melt you head.

If everyone in your circle of friends calls you any time they can't figure out why 'the internet is broken'.

If you have running, at any moment, an XP box, a Linux Box, and a MacBook.

If you have more iPhone apps installed than you do friends in your contact list.

If you have more email addresses than family members.

If anything on your MySpace page sparkles, twinkles, shimmers, or makes noise.

If the word SCSI means more to you then bringing back memories of that kid in high school with flakey, oily hair that always smelled like old bacon and cigarette smoke.

If your Second Life avatar has a girlfriend and you don't.

If you have logged more hours in an MMORPG than you have earned college credits.

If you've ever said "I'd like to .com her...." and heard your buddy say "I'd like to .edu her....you know, I'd school her..." and you didn't feel sorry for him.

If Battle Bots ever made you buy a book...or a robotics kit.

If you've ever had a birthday cake that read "010010000110000101110000011100000111100100100000010000100110100101110010011101000110100001100100011000010111100100100001"

If you know what do Google when you see "010010000110000101110000011100000111100100100000010000100110100101110010011101000110100001100100011000010111100100100001" in order to translate it.

If you don't need Google to translate "010010000110000101110000011100000111100100100000010000100110100101110010011101000110100001100100011000010111100100100001"

If you have a rat's nest of gadget and cable chargers that not even Rainman could untangle.

If you dream of Cali Lewis instead of Pam Anderson.

If your 4-year-old daughter has her own PC....running Linux....with Firefox extensions....

If you've ever skipped school or work because you needed to 'level up before the raid'.

If you have an opinion about John C. Dvorak's opinions.

If you own more than 3 .coms.

If "C#" doesn't make you say "C pound?"

If you know that XML isn't that itchy skin disease.