YKYBHTLW…. You know you’ve been hacking too long when you come up with an idea for a silly Science Fiction/Horror short story, in which the universe implements reference-counting, and as soon as the number of `references’ (i.e. connections to other people) you maintain reaches zero, you are visited by The Garbage Collector. (52 Words) [The Fishbowl]

You know you’ve been hacking too long when this makes you laugh out loud.