woah! that's a pretty harsh comment there.
I, too, enjoy the whole coding business. still in school for it, which kind of sucks (especially when dealing with unfair grading and arrogant professors), but the thrill of understanding the key to a seemingly difficult problem, or having the understanding of a piece of logic no one else does ... that's pretty rad.
I've always likened writing code to writing a report or building an argument. Sure, you can do mind-numbingly boring things (i.e. writing legal briefs, which i've also done), but you can also write stories or come up with analysis that hasn't been done.
I enjoyed that first post, even if i don't necessarily consider myself a geek.
