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the computer guy


computer guys are weird--which is why i'm glad to say that i'm not one (i just play one on reality tv ;)

the other day a computer guy is walking by my desk at the office, frowning, grumbling about something, muttering "life has no meaning" and some such existential nonsense. being a decent fellow, i naturally ask what's wrong, to which he responds, predictably, that it's his code (what else matters to these people anyway).

"does it compile?" yes, he says. "you're getting run time errors?" no, he says. "so...what's the problem?"

"don't you see," he sighs, irritated, "we priests of this new religion meditate eternally at our digital altars, gazing through virtual windows into the electronic abyss; and all our lofty logic and subtle sophistry is finally reduced to the 1s and 0s of being and nothingness!"