Lightning Crackling From Your Fingertips

You just dug deeply into your bag of tricks and made something work that no mortal could ever match.

Stand up.

Reach your arms above your head.

Feel it...feel it...YES!!! You ARE the Master!

(This is best done on a mountaintop bare-ass-nekkid, but in the absence of a mountaintop, at least step outside your cube; all the static electricity is hell on your computers, to say nothing of your ATM card.)

In the absence of a mountaintop, is bare-ass-nekkid still appropriate?

Perhaps XP says DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork because nudity could be rather troublesome in pairs or in a bullpen. Yes, yes, the secret agenda reveals itself. :-)

Actually pairs and nudity can work quite well together, if I correctly recall. -- RonJeffries (not the oldest living Smalltalk programmer)

I've had this feeling a few times. It's an extraordinary feeling. But, afterwards, I always feel a little bit guilty. To me, it's sorta like playing nine ball. When I call and make that double-bank-into-a-combo shot, I feel like strutting. But there's always this little voice saying "Who's the ******* who got into a situation where he needed to make that shot?"

For people who like the pool metaphor, I highly recommend Playing off the Rail ISBN 0679423745 . A fun look at a year in the life of a professional pool hustler (which is, thank you, nothing like the life of a professional software developer).

-- WilliamGrosso

Enjoy it. Remember...a river which never overflows its banks is not a river.