A page from your book of shadows has ever made it into Phrack.
One can find back issues of Equinox and 2600 side by side on your bookshelves.
You open and close e-mails with '0x5d'.
You take advantage of sleep deprivation during [finals,midterms,OS projects] to practise dreamwalking.
You've ever had to sneak your coven into your building for circle because you're too busy at work to leave.
You've ever sent your PFY out for fried chicken for a sacrifice.
Psychic protection means erecting a firewall.
Instead of north, south, east, and west, you call the watchtowers of TCP, IP, UDP, and ICMP.
You've ever written a spell in Perl.
You've ever experimented with glamour by trying to encrypt yourself.
You studied goetia in the hope of dealing with Word macro viruses more effectively.
...and it works.
"Waving a dead chicken" over your Exchange server takes on an entirely new meaning.
Your athame was manufactured by Gerber, Leatherman, or Victorinox.
Your wand is a laser pointer.
You refer to studying for the MCSE certification as 'walking the left-hand path.'
Your altar cloth is a few meters of old source listings.
A sabbat has ever been interupted by
...a crashing server.
...your pager going off.
...someone knocking over a candle onto your laptop.
...your laptop running out of power.
...a power outage.
...writing off a bug as the corner case.
Instead of the watchtowers, you invoke Linus Torvalds, Richard M. Stallman, Eric S. Raymond, and James Parry.
...by e-mail address.
...by MAC address.
...by message ID code.
...by public key.
You have ever GPLed a spell.
You banish by reformatting a hard drive.
Your ritual garb is a duster and a pair of mirrorshades.
You have ever developed a ritual to cleanse a computer of Windows.
An evangelist asks if you've been saved, and you produce a small DAT tape.
You've ever smudged the server room at work.
Being born again means executing `apt-get upgrade bash`.
Your book of shadows was written by Brian Kernighan.
You've ever used gematria on source code to find a bug.
You envoke your servitors from /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Working customer support and Inanna's quest are all too similiar.
You name systems after sabbats and esbats.
You have caught yourself chanting in binary.
You accidentally erase a directory and remak that the data is on its way to the Summerlands.
Root. God. What's the difference?
You've ever written a ritual in Perl.
...in C.
...in assembly.
...in LISP.
Books on the Craft and programming are intermingled on your bookshelves.
The Quabbalah sparked your interest in cryptography.
You use it regularly for this purpose.
The Old Craft means coding in FORTRAN.
Your circle is cast to conform to DoD Orange Book rating B-2 or better.
Your altar doubles as your workstation.
Your ritual space looks like a Radio Shack stockroom.
It is a Radio Shack stockroom. The manager's in your coven.
A Working has ever caused a major network outage in your region.
You've ever asked "Where'd I leave my tarot deck?" and the answer is c:\winnt\profiles\\personal\cards.txtor/home//religion/deck.txt
Your keyboard is burned or has melted wax on it.
Your weblog doubles as your Book of Shadows.
Your magickal language of choice isn't Latin, Ouranian Barbaric, or Enochian, it's L3375p34k.
You model your servitors after science fiction or video game characters, such as Daleks, Scutters, the sentrybots from Impossible Mission, the ghosts from Pac-Man, or Red Lectroids.
Your license plate or bumper sticker is an invocation of some kind.
You don't take querants or seekers into your order, you have PFY's.
You've ever used a sigil for your desktop background.
...computer case medallion.
You've ever venerated your servers as godforms in ritual.
You've made ritual tools out of discarded electronics.
You've found a way to use fibre optic cable in a rite.
You've ever consecrated your coffee maker.
You've ever fired a random Google Image search as a sigil.
You speak Perl.
You speak in regular expressions.
Your book of shadows was autographed by William Gibson.
You use punchcards as bookmarks.
You've ever gotten qwertyitis studying or writing in your Book of Shadows.
You read information security case studies to see if one of your workings has been written up.
Your vanity license plate was inspired by gematria or notariquon.
Your vanity license plate is one of the 'special numbers', like 23, 93, 333, or 74.
...in a different numerical system, like binary or hexadecimal.
