"I am a computer programmer, I am supposed to be arrogant." Can you believe that? Ya, computer genius guys or computer whizs and such people are believed to be very moody, do what they want types, arrogant, weird or other things of that nature. One of my computer programer friend says, "Computer programmers won't dress for anyone, not even if its the president coming to your office". In my experiences studying different courses, I have seen that we as computer engineers, computer scientists or programmers, always make fun of the business students, most women too, and various other people who can undertand basic calculus and stuff. A friend of mine was once asked in his psych class by a friend for some help on probability and matricies, and he looked at her like, "WHAT?", you can't do that?
He couldn't believe that she dint know how to do basic math. And he did eventually help her, but while doing so if she would take 10 minutes to think something, or a long time to reply, he would get so frustrated that he dint know what to do, simply because according to him it is just impossible to not understand some stuff. Such programmers / engineers / scientists etc. do stuff that no one else can probaly do. Some really cool, genius work, can understand math which seems weird to most people, very easily and other such stuff. However, remember that there is a fine line between genius and madness. What I am worried about is, if you are in a lab doing that same thing forever, would you cross this line ?
- Saw How Cool I am? See The Stuff On The Board, I DID IT!! LOL!!
Its not just about the madness or extreemse stress, but there are so many traits. Arrogance is the biggest. Probably because they think they can do such great stuff so quick, that if some other major had to do it, it would probably take them forever. Another is madness. Craziness, which I'm not going to get into. Amongst the various other traits, another common one is weirdness. Some people think that these guys are weird. Which may be true because, they may not understand some of the stuff these guys talk about, ever.
However on the other hand, there is stuff thats kinda different. In that, they are weird. Period. Not just that they sound weird coz of their tech jargon or something. They just respond weirdly to certain situations and stuff. Today I came to another research lab to meet some people for security related discussions over lunch. Great people. Fun mood around. Awesomee, simply genius work was being discussed across the table. Really high tech stuff, that would easily intrigue and even stun some of the most intelligent of the "genius" geeks. However, toward the end I noticed something that drove me crazy.
There was a bunch of really awesome people doing something weird. The discussion started of by talking about how to join two round tables. People gave all sorts of theories and some people are like, there is no perfect way to join to rount tables.. you can make aquares out of them and join those to get a perfect table, but blah blah .. !!! I got so pissed off, I got up, dragged the other table close to ours and there was an 8 like shape, and we were sitting and talking happily after that. Not that it looked great or anything, but it was just an hour of lunch for God's sake !!!!!!
After that over the course of converstaion there were like more than 3 people playing with thermecol cups. One person was like biting chips off it with his nails.. another cut out a ring that slid over the rest of the cup and was so proud of it.. and all sorts of weird stuff... Yaahhh.. WEIRD..
Anyhow, this blog entry had gotten deleted and in place of this there was some weird text.. dunno how it got there.. so.. I had to rewrite the second half.. but doesnt matter.. Iv given a briefing on it..
- My Office @ IBM Research, in NY, last year...!
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