I think you may be asking the wrong question here, and so answers will only disapoint you. My answer to your question is: "Show my hand? I've nearly got this code compiling cleanly and somebody wants me to take my hands off the keyboard? I've only got five hours until I have to go to work again and I'm supposed to sleep sometime as well" :P

I would have asked the question "How many people resent having to go to work because it gets in the way of all the coding projects I am trying to finish?". Myself and all my friends spontaneously code on our own time just.. because... errr.... somebody help me out here.... ;)

I have noticed that we don't quite understand people who DON'T sit down of an evening and turn out a few hundred lines of code for the hell of it. I swear a number of times our greeting to each other has gone along the lines of "Hey, I figured out how to get that routine working... yeah... we were overlooking the obvious, it's easy when you realise that...".

As for passion, we are all people who seem to be passionate about everything we do. When deprived of a terminal, we tend to passionately do other things, including throwing ourselves out of planes, riding our bikes down cliffs^H^H^H^H^H^H hills, hitch-hiking, hanging from cliffs by our fingertips (or more often, not) and falling in love with the most beautiful woman the world has ever produced.

In fact, if someone could tip me off on how to live a 'normal' life for a couple of months I'd really like to give it a try...

Update: People probably think I'm joking. I'm not. It's four thirty in the morning here, and I'm still trying to think about whether I should try to Tie two hashes together or if I should just post to SOPW.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.