Seeks and destroys sea-bound CodeMonkeys... http://i.imgur.com/fDhfx.jpg
--Cpt. Vince Foster 2nd Cannon Place Fort Marcy Park, VA
P.S. I'm bored
The thing is, what can be interesting and cool to the one spending a huge amount of effort on can be dreary dull to someone else.
The realisation that not one single member of the human race is even slightly interested in any of the things that engineers do for a living is pretty much a prerequisite for the job. A complete lack of ego (and ideally a good sense of self-ridicule) is very useful in reconciling this fact.