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Guys PLEASE NUMBER!

Has someone done this yet?

Most funny thread on EVERY forum.

I'll start :O

1. When you know the core, memory, sp, codename, etc, of every AMD card by heart.

2. When your Asian friend says he uses PPS to watch videos at home and you think "Pay-Per-Share".

3. When you go the Sahara Desert and say "Psh..my room's hotter than this lol".

4. When you check your miners every 30 seconds to make sure they didn't lock up or are getting connection errors.

I'll think of more later.

I like this thread ;D
I'll post if I found some

5. When you hear the fan of your GPUs going at maximum speed

When you run all your rigs using a dedicated facility, not at home.  ;D

no, man. that's when you know you have too much money.

5b. when, while in a noiseless place, you think 'there's a weird sound over here'

6. When your family is used to the power going out in the house.

7. When you enter an airplane and think "my rigs are louder than this". (Just happened to me)

8/ You hear voices in the fans.

9. Have a dozen bitcoin related apps on your iPhone/iPod/iPad/iMac/iDevice/Android/Nokia Phone
10. Spend your free time browsing forum.bitcoin.org instead of lolcatz, Youtube, Google+, or Facebook

11. None of your friends want to go to your house anymore because it's so loud :(

You know when you are bitcoin miner when...

12. ...you can tell the internet connection from the room temperature.  ;D

13. when you can't sleep with less than 90dB

14> When you think of your electric bill in Mhash/S

15: When your house is littered with empty boxes with weird labels like HIS, XFX, Biostar.

When you walk into your "room" and feel a strange comfort at the dry desert-like heat; you know your miners are mining.

You instinctively wake up from sleep when your fans slow down

When your computer sits "idle" (because you're mining) instead of gaming all day like before, and you can hang out with your wife more, she wonders who this person is and where'd he put her husband? :)

When a cold rainy cloudy day is a good day.

When you're visiting family/friends and you wonder how many free PCI-E slots they have...
...or, better yet, if they happen to be using an OpenCL-compatible video card!

+1 LoL

16. you CAN"T go to sleep until this last box is mining.

17. OMG silence in this room feel so surreal.

18. you touch the back of every card way too often...

19. keep fucking dreaming about new airflow schemes.

When the first thing you do in the morning is check the status of your miners and/or Mt. Gox

When you bid on every single Radeon 5850 on ebay and then realise you've already spent this months wages on 5850's.

When you've got two big piles of 5850 boxes, half empty and half waiting to go into the next rig.

When you no longer need heating for your house but infact need air conditioning.

When you go to the store and think about how much everything costs in bitcoins and how long it would take for you to 'earn' that chocolate / bag / shirt.

You want to draw a power line from that road lamp

You are searching for a solution which can both isolate noise and increase ventilation

When your sleeping and you wake up because the PC makes a weird noise.

Has happened to me a few times.

Please number guys!

I think we are on 33 now.

33. When the letters B, I, T, C, O, I, and N are worn off all your keyboards. And your phone.

Hah. This is what I do over at http://www.bitcoinaddict.com/?cat=1 - just took the last one from this thread.

You can submit your own whenever!

34.  When the local police department pays you a visit to check if you are growing pot and ends up asking you "Are you like Google or something?"

-All you want for your birthday is a few 1200W power supplies

-You critique non-reference card designs

-A power surge could defeat your retirement plan

-You meet a coal miner at a bar and try be his pal

-You've contemplated the legal risks of "unauthorized distributed computing"

-You put a donate address in your sig, just in case Santa Clause was an early adopter

One time a friend on the university said me "you spend a lot of time watching computer pr0n", and i was reading this (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7216)  :(

I laughed with all of your phrases guys, keep the imagination minning!

When you have a rack with earmuffs in your entrance.

http://arcsign.co.uk/images/uploads/600_x_400_ear_protection1.jpg

43. When this guy makes u think, hey that's just like what I have to do with my rigs to keep them online...

http://i52.tinypic.com/dzifdx.jpg

+1 I have had that happen, I can tell now when sleeping if a card locks up, it becomes too quiet.  :D

44. You check hardwarecanucks or Tomshardware every day for new Radeon hardware reviews.
45. You have vivid dreams about the price of bitcoin tanking or going to the moon.
46. Your firefox favorites bar is dominated by bitcoin-related links.
47. Your family has disowned you for heating up the house in the middle of July.

48) When you hear on the news that there were 33 Chilean miners 2000 feet underground for 69 days, you say to yourself:
"Why didn't I think of that!?  I wonder how many Mhash they had down there?"

 ;D

I have to step over a HIS box then a XFX box then a couple PSU boxes as well as some PN5-D board boxes then slip by the fan in the doorway to leave my room.

I so LOL at that.

So TRUE!

I love that TOTALY TRUE>

PPE ANYONE?

WHAT I CANT HEAR YOU!

STOP THIS IS TOO FUNNy

LOL, sounds like my gf wondering why I don't seem to be playing games much lately :D

51. You can tell the number of graphics cards crunching by feeling the room temperature

52. You stop playing WoW because: a) they don't accept Bitcoins as a payment b) you need to lower the settings on your miner for playing c) you need the time for real mining instead of WoW mining

53. You can tell the load of your rig by touching

54. You desperately await winter

55. when you test each and every Phoenix kernel modification and feel incredibly good with those 3-5 mhash you earned.

56. When your wife is pissed at you because every time she uses any major electrical device (like the microwave or the vacuum cleaner), breakers start tripping.

57. But at the same time your wife is happy because you no longer play computer games/watch YouTube/etc anymore.

58.  the only racks you've been checking out lately are computer racks...

59. When you install svn, python, pyoncl, zope.interface, twisted, numpy, pytools just to run the latest revision of phoenix + latest phatk kernel JUST to make sure that it's not faster than diablominer, cgminer, poclbm, or diapolo's modified phatk with phoenix that you already tried

You're killing me LOL

You know you're a bitcoin miner when...

• The guy on the Harley asks you to turn down the noise cause he can't hear his bike..
• Your best bet to pay the electricity bill is making it flip past 999999.9KWh
• Your water-cooled masterpiece provides central heating for half the neighborhood
• Thom Beers wants you to  star in "COINZ" the reality docu-soap
• The exchange rate on mtgox must go up by atleast $5 by afternoon or 'Big Louie' will break your legs for failing to pay off the loan on your rigs

i think that's all i got for now  ;D

You know when you are bitcoin miner when...


...you mine for bitcoins?

so I guess that even includes CPU mining? meh, that's not a real miner
I guess even fakeminer counts by your definition, it's a little slower than CPU mining, but it doesn't use any computer resources

66 ...you tell your shrink that the seagulls in "Finding Nemo" told you to mine...

AHAHAHALOLOOL.. this just owned the thread.

+2

Had one yesterday and the luck on BTC was just through the roof..........

67. when you know your graphics card is about to crash just by listening to the sound of the fan

68 ...instead of swimming gear, you take a rig to the pool...

69. Instead of going to the pool at all, you just enjoy a sauna. (your room with rigs in it)

How about when you ran out of space at your first facility (not your home) so you had to find a second facility. lol

You know you are a Bitcoin miner when.....

70. After upgrading your home to a 200amp service. Your neighbors are complaining to you about the recent amount of blackouts in the area.

71) 3 ,4, or 5 high end graphics cards in your system, yet you use now use intel graphics to came cause those cards are "BUSY."

72) You now don't mind turning down everything to get acceptable frame rates due to 71

lol yeah :D

73. When you got a big O phat whopper 120x120x38mm, 114.7 CFM of a fan running @ 2750 RPM to keep your core clock 1040 cooled.

74) When your power bill is your neighbor's salary.

75. When the power bill is the combined total of you and your neighbor's salary.

76. When the power company asks that you call them and schedule prior to starting up your rigs so they can bring additional generators online.

77. SWAT team assault your house suspecting illegal activities due to abnormal power draw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QkyfGJgcwQ

You know you're a bitcoin miner when...

78. you start telling the bill collectors you'll pay them as soon as mybitcoin.com is back online.

88. You steal plutonium from terrorists to power your farm


(i know we're not on 88 yet, save the spot for me, aight?)

You developed perfect pitch by tuning an instrument to the hum from your mining rig.

79) You can tell your monthly bill by the note emitted from your mining cluster.

80. You take off some roof panels to let the heat out...

81. Difficulty is at 200,000 and the exchange rate at $10

82. You get solar panels. Not because they are environment-friendly, but because you can pull the maximum amount of bitcoins out of your investment possible.

83. Your friends think you are using all of your video cards to hack their Facebook or something.

84.  You mine regardless of profitability and volatile price swings.

when you keep checking your router to make sure it has not locked up...

lol, that actually has happened to me.

86. you walk into a walk in freezer and instead of admiring the ice cold beers you think "if i put my mining rigs in here..."

This.

you have huge elecricity bill and your electricity seller comppany sends you a postcard telling "thank you"

86.  The 12-3 cable you ran to the shed is getting warm to the touch, so you head to home depot to buy another 100' of 10-3.

87. Upon reading this you think, "nahhh PUE of 2 sucks".

88.  see above

89.  You realize you'd be willing to shave your head like Valdimir (or do other severe things) for an embarrassingly low amount of bitcoins.  This makes you think, "What kind of person am I becoming?"

Thank you card from the electric company - ahahahahahaha  :D

90. After arranging your rigs to have all the fan face the same way, you and your friends test out model planes in your 'wind tunnel'

91. You try to convince your significant other to call you "Satoshi" during sex.

literally LOL  ed

92.  When you fear being accused of running a grow op because of your energy bill.

93. when you paged through every mining video on youtube and every page on google.

I had to google what PUE is. And then spent a good 15 minutes exploring all the whitepapers.

94.  Your rig pulls more electricity than your grow op.

95. You stop visiting youtube.com because it halves your hash rate

96) your wife asks why she can't spend "the bitcoins"
97) you have calculated the PUE of your home AC and rigs
98) your electric company sends you a letter that they are going to stop by for a 2nd reading

98 a) Your local news station issues an announcement asking everyone to conserve electricity... and mentions you by name.

98 b) Your child receives a failing grade on a project called "my family's carbon footprint" because the teacher insists he/she couldn't possibly understand the concept based on the results.

99.) Greenpeace has started protesting outside your house

100. You need to find out how to block DDoS attacks by other miners (and pools).
101. You need a 10Gbit/sec pipe to your home so that it can act as a backup DC for your pool servers.
102. If your miners go down for a day the next block difficulty will be lower.
103. You start looking for places around the planet with the lowest KWh costs.
104. You start looking for really cold countries to setup an outdoor air cooled mining facility.
105. You really do wonder which countries match the criteria for 103 and 104, and which would be the cheapest factoring in PUE.
106. You wonder if a nearby lake could act as a heat sink, but are still a bit concerned about possibly slow cooking all the fish alive.
107. You wonder how you can turn heat into an additional revenue stream. And begin by googling Low-temperature cooking and Sous-vide.
108. You wonder if you could ever mass market electric Bitcoin radiators.
109. You wonder if you have said too much about your addiction by taking part in this thread.

There is my 10, I hope at least one of them made you smile.

110. Your underground basement is actually hot.
111. You have checked your hashrates while naked and felt no shame.
112. You start taking breaks with the smokers as an excuse to check your uptime and mining yield.
113. You look forward to the top of every hour when your deepbit balance gets updated.
114. Your new favorite pasta is rig-atoni.
115. Instead of fantasizing about winning the lottery you fantasize about having 10k+ coins
116. You have wondered about the marketability of a wireless photo frame for your wall that displays your hashrate and coin balance.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

117.  You read an entire book about HVAC, another about Electrical, and seriously consider studying for the licensing exam even though you learned everything just to power and cool your rigs throughout your home.

106:  Formula 1 team McLaren operate wind tunnel, and apparently that generates a lot of heat.  They use a man made lake as a heat sink. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_Technology_Centre

to expand on my previous point:
McLaren Technology Center: (from wikipedia)

How cool would my rigs run if they were cooled by a 4 meter fan at 600 RPM?

107. when you start having nightmares (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=32839.0) about bitcoin.

Is that supposed to mean miners know nothing about everything involved?

108. When seeing post like gat3way's you check if forum has some reputation system to award some negative rep.

- You attempt to power your computer with Solar Panels.
- You attempt to power your computer with the heat from your computer.

111. When you build your own mining rig powered hot-tub so you can relax after a stressful day of watching the price of BTC swing up and down.

That's shocking...

Wow that's a great idea - an outdoor hot-tub and water-cool all your rigs with the hot-tub water, pipe it in from outside!

Building now, brb.

112. When you read every post in this thread to check which ones apply to you

+1

113. when you are checking your profile for mining pools while at work every hour
114. when you are checking your profile for mining pools with work blackberry

115. when you do not have your work blackberry anymore, because you quit your job to mine full time.

Post your pics when you finish it. ;D ;)

116 when you check newegg everyday for the 58xx knowing that the sapphire appears with the add to cart available then clicking. Then finding out that the add to cart has been replaced with add to notify.

117 tired of seeing rings and baseball cards when entering 58xx and 69xx in newegg's search.

118. This lost in transit pcie extender shipment from China CAN SERIOUSLY defeat your retirement plan !!!

(from; A power surge could defeat your retirement plan )

119: When you get a call from someone begging you to relocate to McMurdo.

120. When you still invest in more GPUs  and mining contracts even the price is lower than 5$!!!.

121. Aha and when you still look at this thread!

122. I do my beef jerky.

I don't get it. ???

+9000

Jerky/Biltong is meat that has been cut into strips, trimmed of fat and dried or smoked with low heat 40-70 °C (100-160 °F).

Thanks, I can't believe I didn't make the connection. :-[  I actually considered making venison jerky like that, but I used a dehydrator instead. :D

123. When you drink 5 liters of waters everyday  8)

124. ABCDEF / 123456 is changed to "14VsNiY8UCGAsdsk3MJmZcLiWPez9GS6wB" in your eyes!

125. When you know that any 34 character Bitcoin address starting with the number 1 is probably valid on the production block chain. And anything that isn't, that there is probably a joke hidden in the string.

126. When you're used to having windows open 24/7 rain or shine just to lower the room temperature

127. When you keep your garage door open overnight.

Lol.

128. When you set up a mining pool to use port 80 so you can get past the firewall and use your work's computers to mine when the office is closed.

129. You can't get sleep without that 90+ fan speed noise from your rig.

LOLOL, that HAPPENS to me !!!! And my rigs are in another room !

very very very very very very very SAD !

130. Your computer has the best graphics cards, motherboards, and PSU's money can buy - but you CPU is a Crappy $39 Dollar, 2.7 Ghz Single Core AMD Sempron

lol... too bad all you got left for her is a cpu miner  ;D

132.  When you realized that the last time you logged into Steam was 200 days ago.
133.  Driver/BIOS updates aren't as a high priority anymore.
134.  You're sacrificing body heat for an open window during the winter months.
135.  Open box AMD cards on Newegg become more of an obsession than Nvidia.
136.  You're changing the sleep profile for your monitor from "never" to "<5 min".