i hate hate hate hate hate computer science. at times, it's like puzzle solving.
there's a job people don't want to do, so it's proposed to make a machine do it
for you. yeah. great. guess who gets to figure that out? bah. sometimes it
works, though. a solution is discovered. code is written. in an instant modern
marvel, the machine does the redundant task. you sit back. you watch it calculate
endlessly. you know you made it do it and you get a feeling of power from it.
sometimes, though, it just won't work. the solution is too hard to find out. you
can't find a way to make a silicon board add up the numbers the right way. this
is why i hate it. this is exactly the kind of thing that makes a geek into a mad
scientist. it's not enough to have it not work. to admit defeat. it eats away at
you endlessly. you know you can do it. the machine just sits there and laughs at
you. the feeling of power is gone. you find it somewhere else, say, from building
some kind of mutant super-race to do all of your bidding. that's why minions are
so expendable. the second they disobey, it reminds dr crazygonuts of that first
program that wouldn't work and they flip out and kill it. some times i have total
sympathy for mad scientists.