"Lots of people have a life outside of their job, or outside of computing. I know it's a difficult concept to grasp but they do exist. And those people are no less interesting or valuable than pure geeks."
I can definitely see jcwren's and BastardOperator's point. Perhaps it's not the issue of having a life outside of work, but an issue of having *curiosity* outside of work. The end of learning is the beginning of death.