The “Techie High”
Anyone who considers themself a programmer and/or techie knows what I mean when I refer to the “techie-high.” It’s that sublime sensation that you get when you’re in the zone doing anything geek worthy.
It’s when…
You’re up at 4 in am coding your heart out — filled with caffeine — and could go on for another few hours without a problem.
You walk into Best Buy and know you’re going to drop money on something.
You begin trying to justify ways to purchase a new cell phone that does only one more thing than your current phone, but is twice as thin.
You’re hanging out with a fellow geek conversing about geek-ish things, and work each other up into such a geek-frenzy that you’ve begun to worry the rest of the world around you. (Happens often at Denny’s).
You’ve just coded Luhn’s credit card processing formula from memory and it validates correctly against sample data you found on the internet.
You have every reason to stay home (i.e. things to do, washes to wash, eat food for sustenance, etc.) but drop everything the moment your friend asks you to go to an electronics store. It’s that sudden jolt of excitement that surges through you and forces you to blurt out – YEAH! – don’t pretend like you don’t know what I’m talking about.
thinkgeek.com should learn how to bottle the “techie-high” up and sell it. That would be flippin’ sweet.