Alright, let's go with it. This is my personal experience,
everything is true and happened to me.

  I realized I had been raytracing too much when:
- my eyes began to pixelize;
- I realized my only CPU benchmarking unit was the skyvase one
(x-povray -iskyvase.pov -l/usr/local/lib/povray3/include -w640 -h480
-f -d +v +a0.3 -q9);
- I was able to estimate the skyvase-bench for a computer I had never
tried before at 10 % precision;
- I wrote a Perl script to modify Chris Colefax's include files so
that they work on a case-sensitive OS;
- I found myself having a Web surfing cycle of two months:
http://www.irtc.org/ is what caused that;
- I even tried PVM-POV over a null-modem cable (PPP link);
- I used my crontab to generate a new random background image every
hour. And complained about it because it slows down my other
renderings;
- I rendered a pie chart in POV-Ray;
- I found myself using my fourth generation of the same family of
raytracers (DKB 2.12 -> POV 1, 2, 3);
- I checked http://www.povray.org/povbeta.html looking for the Unix
word before checking my mail this morning;
- I wondered how I could change my Xterm windows transparents so that
I could see my background image through them;
- I spent a full week improving quality in an animation; my friends
did not see the difference;
- I wondered what this big orange spot was and why it was moving from
one render to another, until I saw the shadow of my fingers on the
keyboard caused by the sunrise;
- I used END_SPHERE in a POV-Ray file (a long time ago, though);
- I was able to type a full scene without a pause and without more
than a second delay between two keystrokes; and it rendered the way I
wanted it to;
- I piped the output of a Perl script directly into POV;
- I found myself hungry and discovered that it was 9 PM and that I had
been rendering since 8 AM without a pause;
- I was ashamed to post a question on povray.general;
- I seriously considered porting Moray to Linux;
- I wondered if a C to VHDL converter existed, so that I could make a
POV-Ray chip from the sources;
- I delayed my computer reboot (after a kernel recompilation) because a
POV-Ray job was running. That was two weeks ago, the computer still
hasn't been rebooted.

  I think I'll have to change. Or live with it, why not?

Roland.
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