"Think of it like this — does it bug you that there’s an absolute high score to Pac-Man? It bugs me."

Am I not a geek? I've been programming (and playing Pac-Mac) since I first got a C=64, but that doesn't bug me. If anything, it's slightly comforting that there's a limit.

"It’s wondering exactly how far you’ll go to get the Legendary badge on Stack Overflow."

The cheesy points/badges are the thing I hate most about stackoverflow. Unfortunately, for some kinds of questions (C#, Javascript, SQL) it's the best support site out there, but I'd kill to turn its UI back into something ruthlessly practical, like USENET.