(With apologies to Keith Knight.)

1. Squirting the bar of soap out of your hand in the shower and catching it in midair.

2. Coming up with the piped Unix commands that gets the job done 10x faster than the equivalent GUI tools.

3. Running late for a meeting and getting to the Metro platform just as the train is arriving. Bonus points if it happens again at the transfer station.

4. Ditto, taxi on Connecticut Avenue.

5. Getting coffee at Starbucks right before the movie breaks and the line goes out the door.

6. Seeing the large clump of people in line at the ATM machine evaporate when the one shlemiel they’re waiting for gets his cash.

7. An AppleScript based on GUI Scripting works on the first try. (This never happens.)

8. Just when you really need it, you discover you’re standing in an open wifi hotspot.

9. The cell phone battery lasts just long enough to upload that huge file on deadline.

10. The local diner actually remembers the meaning of the words “medium rare” when applied to a cheeseburger.