To a non-programmer, what programmers do must seem like a magic act. We mutter various incantations into our keyboard like
@password =~ /^\d{6}$/ and out pops websites and graphical interfaces and sounds.
It also must be weird to hear our seemly random estimates about how long a given task will take and how difficult it might be. “ure, giving each user points for buying something on a Tuesday, piece of cake. Ten minutes tops. And then there’s Oh, you want that bar to be two different colors?? I don’t know if that’s possible.
When people and animals live together, I think they start to slowly merge into one being.
Here are the facts:
- Our dog is weird and rolls on the ground to scratch her ears. She demands food at 5 am. Our cat, days after arriving, rolls on the ground to scratch her ears and also demands food at 5 am.
- I am a huge nerd. My wife, by nature, is not a huge nerd. But here she is, staying up until 2 am making websites. And she also was hooked on World of Warcraft, which is a fairly nerdy game.
- The dogs snorts when she is happy. The rest of us now all snort when we are happy, in imitation of the dog.
- I now use hairspray on my luscious locks, just like the rest the girls in the house. (if I don’t, then my hair always gets down in my face)
Seagate CEO: I help people watch porn. Odd, how much help does one really need?