Got this in an email from George a while ago. I've italicized the particularly entertaining or "true" ones for me...
You Know You're From Silicon Valley When...
1) Your combined household income is $140,000 and you can't afford shoes for the kids
2) You think anything slower than DSL is barbaric, but can't get it in your neighborhood
3) You know what DSL stands for
4) You and your spouse almost come to blows deciding to hit Peet's or Starbucks
5) You think that American food includes sushi, naan, pho, pesto and pad thai
6) You met your neighbors once
7) When asked about your commute you answer in time, not distance
8) Even though you work 80 hours per week on a computer, for relaxation you read your email and peruse eBay
9) You have worked at the same job for a year and people call you an 'old-timer'
10) The T-shirts you value most were for products that never made it to market
11) You can name four different programming languages and you are not a programmer
12) You remember the names of the three closest cheap sushi joints, the location of all the Fry's in the area and which companies your friends work for that are going public in the next year, but don't know the name of the mayor
13) Standing in line at Starbucks you wonder why the employees don't call a head hunter
14) You work 6 miles from your home and spend two hours a day commuting and $40 a week on gas
15) Winter is when your lawn grows too fast and summer is when it dies
16) The median price of a house is $500,000...for 1200 sq. ft. with no yard because it's a town house
17) You live on some of the richest farm land in the world but most of what you eat comes from South America on a boat
18) Your best friend lives across town but you hardly ever see each other because after your commute you're too pooped to spend another hour driving to their home
19) You have a master's degree in engineering but half the people in your department either didn't go to college or have history degrees, except if you have a master's from Stanford, in which case everyone in your department has a master's degree from Stanford
20) You cringe when you see people in suits at your office, wondering if someone in management will make you stop wearing bunny slippers
21) You plan your vacation so that you don't have to drive back from the airport in commute hours
22) You don't go to sporting events unless you are given tickets by your employer
23) You could sell your home and live like a king in 99% of the rest of the world, but don't because it would be difficult to move back
24) You have at least three computers at home
25) You own at least one domain on the Internet, probably several
26) You think it's normal to see chip-design software or relational databases advertised on freeway billboards.
27) You know that California isn't just one big beach
28) You know that not everyone in California surfs
29) You know there's lots of skiing in California
30) You know your rotating outage block number at home and at work, and listen for them whenever there are rolling blackouts.
31) If someone refers to "SunnytogaDeAnzavale Road", you laugh and know what they're talking about
32) You take your out-of-town friends to see the techie gadgets at Fry's. But you don't let them buy anything
33) You know how to recognize re-sealed returned electronics at Fry's.
34) You don't ask the staff any questions at Fry's. You know they hire idiots and pass the savings on to you.
35) You watch dot-com boomers go back to the states they came from, and the traffic gets better by the month. But you are home so you're not moving
36) You own a Sport Utility Vehicle and have never taken it off-road. You wouldn't know what to do if you tried. Same with all your friends
37) You don't know how to drive in snow. You're a road hazard when you visit the mountains
38) You think the horn and middle finger are essential driving tools
39) You think bicycles don't belong on the road
40) You think any car ahead of you doesn't belong on the road
41) Your out-of-state friends are impressed at how much money you make... until you tell them how much you pay for housing
42) You know that a "fixer-upper" home could cost a half-million dollars
43) You do a "California stop" at stop signs. And you think it's only Californians who call them that
44) You aren't bothered much by earthquakes because you're ready for them. But the thought of tornadoes and hurricanes terrifies you
45) You clearly remember where you were when the Loma Prieta quake hit
46) You know several funny stories about swimming pools in the quake
47) You can't recognize a thunderstorm without seeing lightning first
48) You cringe when a Southern Californian refers to highways like "the 101". It's just "101". No "the"
49) You call low clouds "fog" even if they're hundreds of feet off the ground
50) At least once you have gone to San Francisco for the day wearing shorts and a t-shirt because it was a warm clear day in San Jose. And you froze your little *@#!% off in the fog, drizzle and wind
51) You say you're from Silicon Valley because no one knows where San Jose is
You Know You're From Silicon Valley When...
1) Your combined household income is $140,000 and you can't afford shoes for the kids
2) You think anything slower than DSL is barbaric, but can't get it in your neighborhood
3) You know what DSL stands for
4) You and your spouse almost come to blows deciding to hit Peet's or Starbucks
5) You think that American food includes sushi, naan, pho, pesto and pad thai
6) You met your neighbors once
7) When asked about your commute you answer in time, not distance
8) Even though you work 80 hours per week on a computer, for relaxation you read your email and peruse eBay
9) You have worked at the same job for a year and people call you an 'old-timer'
10) The T-shirts you value most were for products that never made it to market
11) You can name four different programming languages and you are not a programmer
12) You remember the names of the three closest cheap sushi joints, the location of all the Fry's in the area and which companies your friends work for that are going public in the next year, but don't know the name of the mayor
13) Standing in line at Starbucks you wonder why the employees don't call a head hunter
14) You work 6 miles from your home and spend two hours a day commuting and $40 a week on gas
15) Winter is when your lawn grows too fast and summer is when it dies
16) The median price of a house is $500,000...for 1200 sq. ft. with no yard because it's a town house
17) You live on some of the richest farm land in the world but most of what you eat comes from South America on a boat
18) Your best friend lives across town but you hardly ever see each other because after your commute you're too pooped to spend another hour driving to their home
19) You have a master's degree in engineering but half the people in your department either didn't go to college or have history degrees, except if you have a master's from Stanford, in which case everyone in your department has a master's degree from Stanford
20) You cringe when you see people in suits at your office, wondering if someone in management will make you stop wearing bunny slippers
21) You plan your vacation so that you don't have to drive back from the airport in commute hours
22) You don't go to sporting events unless you are given tickets by your employer
23) You could sell your home and live like a king in 99% of the rest of the world, but don't because it would be difficult to move back
24) You have at least three computers at home
25) You own at least one domain on the Internet, probably several
26) You think it's normal to see chip-design software or relational databases advertised on freeway billboards.
27) You know that California isn't just one big beach
28) You know that not everyone in California surfs
29) You know there's lots of skiing in California
30) You know your rotating outage block number at home and at work, and listen for them whenever there are rolling blackouts.
31) If someone refers to "SunnytogaDeAnzavale Road", you laugh and know what they're talking about
32) You take your out-of-town friends to see the techie gadgets at Fry's. But you don't let them buy anything
33) You know how to recognize re-sealed returned electronics at Fry's.
34) You don't ask the staff any questions at Fry's. You know they hire idiots and pass the savings on to you.
35) You watch dot-com boomers go back to the states they came from, and the traffic gets better by the month. But you are home so you're not moving
36) You own a Sport Utility Vehicle and have never taken it off-road. You wouldn't know what to do if you tried. Same with all your friends
37) You don't know how to drive in snow. You're a road hazard when you visit the mountains
38) You think the horn and middle finger are essential driving tools
39) You think bicycles don't belong on the road
40) You think any car ahead of you doesn't belong on the road
41) Your out-of-state friends are impressed at how much money you make... until you tell them how much you pay for housing
42) You know that a "fixer-upper" home could cost a half-million dollars
43) You do a "California stop" at stop signs. And you think it's only Californians who call them that
44) You aren't bothered much by earthquakes because you're ready for them. But the thought of tornadoes and hurricanes terrifies you
45) You clearly remember where you were when the Loma Prieta quake hit
46) You know several funny stories about swimming pools in the quake
47) You can't recognize a thunderstorm without seeing lightning first
48) You cringe when a Southern Californian refers to highways like "the 101". It's just "101". No "the"
49) You call low clouds "fog" even if they're hundreds of feet off the ground
50) At least once you have gone to San Francisco for the day wearing shorts and a t-shirt because it was a warm clear day in San Jose. And you froze your little *@#!% off in the fog, drizzle and wind
51) You say you're from Silicon Valley because no one knows where San Jose is
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