If you answer yes to more that 5 of these then you might be a modder.

1. When they offer you an extended warranty you laugh and say “I’m taking it apart tonight will you warranty cover that!”

2. Does your dinning room table have a soldering iron as a centerpiece?

3. Does the manager at Radio Shack ask you where your timecard is? (You donÂ’t work there!)

4. Do you visit more than one Radio Shack a day?

5. Do you know which Radio Shack has the better stocked IC/Relay/Switch selection

6. Is MacGyver more than a television show?

7. When you watch MacGyver do you ever say, “That won’t work!”?

8. When they diffuse a bomb you know exactly why they never cut the blue wire.

9. Do you have boxes of broken electronics sitting around and you plan to make them into something, someday?

10. Do you think Radio Shack should carry a bigger selection of Voltage regulators?

11. Do you have your accounts at Grainger, Harbor Freight, Frys, Marvac, Digikey, Markertek linked to the same bank account just to speed up the process.

12. Does eBay send you thank you letters and consider you a power buyer?

13. Does the term “Non-working but no visible blemishes” mean you still click on “Buy Now”?

14. Have you ever applied to be on Monster House/Garage because you could do a better job than those idiots?

15. When looking at apartments you take off the wall plates to make sure you can feed Cat5 cable between all of the rooms including the kitchen.

16. Do you think Tivo is for “The uneducated” and everyone knows that MythTV is the real PVR?

17. Do you have strong opinions about the DMCA only because you might go to jail over it?

18. Is there a vice clamp mounted where your toaster should be?

19. Are you looking for a 2-bedroom apartment so you can have a “workshop”?

20. Does “harvesting” mean more than picking corn or tomatoes?