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| Reasons Geeks Stay Up Late | 
| 11. | To watch the 12 disc extended director's ultimate special cut edition of Lord of The Rings on DVD. | 
| 10. | Online gaming with friends in Singapore. | 
| 9. | Too much adrenaline from extreme programming methodologies. | 
| 8. | Desperately trying to remember that backdoor password you put in back in 1997. | 
| 7. | Trying to knock 20 seconds off of Windows boot time. | 
| 6. | Feeling guilty about being curt with a dumb customer today on tech support line. (OK, who am I kidding, you slept like a baby on morphine). | 
| 5. | Searching in crate of floppies for one that still works. | 
| 4. | Can't wait to see the result of the defrag. | 
| 3. | It's 11:00pm and you're only on the third reboot while trying to install Win98. | 
| 2. | Maybe getting that job in Greenland wasn't such a good idea after all. | 
| 1. | Breeze from twenty cooling fans keeps you awake. | 
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