[~ot] why is programming so fun?

[Chris Wright]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> I HOPE that nobody really starts to ponder on these things! One of my 
> girlfriends was a nurse at a mental asylum, and she told me (years ago) 
> that quite a lot of the inmates are physically normal people, who just 
> by bad luck had started to try to understand things like this or the 
> Meaning of Life or why we exist. She used to say "it's burned their 
> circuits".

Indeed! So stop thinking about the nature of existence, and stare at 
pretty pictures:

Anomalocaris: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/cambrian4.jpg
Marella: http://paws.wcu.edu/dperlmutr/Marella2.JPG
Opabinia: http://faculty.virginia.edu/bio202/Opabinia.gif

I believe those are all drawn by Marianne Collins.