You know you've Boinc'ed too much

[joker]

Ok, I could see your point if your are owing/getting 10s of thousands of dollars, but I personally would not see much "return" on a $700 annual investment and as I stated before, my $700 is not going to get the government a whole lot either. Even if I invested that $700 and made a whole...lets say.....$28 then guess what....they tax me on that! And I still have to pay them them the $700 at the end of the year plus the tax on the $28. I am guessing that you make way more money then I do.

[Maxwell]

You know you've BOINC'ed too much when you have 230k credits randomly show up on a project you haven't crunched in a couple months...

[trigggl]

Instead of your Social Security Number, you have your Cross Project ID memorized.

[dan]

I knew I BOINC too much when I walked into Best Buy today to buy a battery backup for the Silver Hammer only to find out that they don't actually sell one that's big enough...

Been there done that. I have a Best Buy one block from my home. I find myself there during challenges. I never get anything, cause they are too expensive and not good performance equipment. Now if there was a New Egg one block from my house...

[Slicker]

When you get depressed because your RAC will drop by 15K because someone turned off the computers that were crunching in your cubicle -- even though you quit working there 45 days earlier!

[Clank [MM]]

That's easy:


When your throwing breakers.

Your utility bill doubles.

You don't use your primary computer because you don't want to lose credits.

You check your machines when your on vacation.

You buy upgrades only so you can crunch more.

You leave the AC on 24/7.

The word farm has a totally different meaning.

You start eyeballing machines at work.

You bought a calculator just for figuring credits.


And last - you know your crunching to much when everybody around you doesn't understand what the hell your doing.

Patrick

[DrPop]

. . . someone turned off the computers that were crunching in your cubicle -- even though you quit working there 45 days earlier!

hahahaha!

[Bryan]

I don't get the humor Patrick ... isn't that what everyone does?

[Fire$torm]

........you know your crunching to much when everybody around you doesn't understand what the hell your doing.

Oh yeah, tell me about it!

[trigggl]

Oh yeah, tell me about it!

I don't even bother to try. Every time my wife asks me what I'm doing, "Nothing".

Obviously, she doesn't understand why I have a playstation running 24 hours a day that I can't play games with and can't watch netflix with. In fact, it's not even hooked up to a monitor, just power and ethernet.

If she knew what boinc'ing was that's how she would know.