If you refer to everything not SMDB as “a mundane…”
Also, if your boyfriend has ever accused you of having an online affair because you spend so much time online - and then laughs his ass off when he sees what you’ve REALLY been doing. :o
~Tasha
…you’ve worn out multiple copies of Cecil’s books.
When you’re browser’s history window only has this place, the main page, youtube, flickr, google, and Snopes.
Or, when you work as a computer science teacher and the head of curriculum at your school sends around an e-mail linked to a USAToday story about a study showing that educational software produces no measurable benefits to student achievement, so you read the story and two others like it, and, suspiciously, they all reported on it four months after the release of the paper, and so you Google the names of the two German researchers, and visit their site, and uncover the fact that not only do they display a hefty bias against computers in the workplace in their other work, but the paper has not even been peer-reviewed. So you read the paper and have serious misgivings about their methodology on top of all that, so you check around and find that other credible reviewers have the same misgivings, and you put all this, about two hours later, along with copious links, into a reply-to-all e-mail that you realize, after you hit “send”, is laden with enough snark to get you fired.
But you’re not fired, instead, your supervisor instead praises you for your academic dedication, and tells you he forwarded the e-mail to one of the researchers, who writes the absolute nastiest return letter you have ever read in your life.
That’s when you know you’re a Doper.
When you’re pretty sure you’ve seen this thread before. More then once. 