Thread:User talk:Armondikov/comment code in references?/reply (8)

I had a real life acquaintance who worked for Ba'al space technology in Boulder - on some really important trajectory that would calculate a speed to go somewhere for some satellite or another. Not deep space but in far earth orbit. Anyhow, he'd been working for literally 5 years on this one basic set of calculations to insure that the satellite would be -- i don't know, facing the right way to get the right measurement or something --. 5 years, and the thing honest to god blew up on the launch pad, and they scrapped it in favor of a new idea. He quite, and went into the then busting internet/tech industry. his words were "who needs job satification, i'll program web pages that take a day and do what i need them to". Me? I come to work... put in 8 hours, due to the economy, i have to answer phones now, too... but it's ok. at 4:30, i go home. Ahhhhhhhhh.....