Maybe because it reminds me of undergrad or all the programmers I worked with at my old government job, and definitely because it was free and I don’t want to proof-read, I watched the first episode of Silicon Valley this morning. The game they play in the closing scene reminds me of Rashig, which was a big, orange, plastic dice found at a group house that rather than the six had the word RASHIG on it, and the game was to roll the dice and should it land on RASHIG, everyone would yell RASHIG!. Not the most strategic game, but a game nonetheless.
Sometimes I think I should have been a programmer. I am not the best programmer and when I do program I generally use it as a very rough hammer and bang on the code until I get it to do what I want, but sometimes, I still think I would have been good at it if I had enjoyed it. And then maybe I could learn how to do it properly, like how I never made header files for my c code. Maybe that’s important.
But still, at a low because of dull weather and sore throats, I think I could have made some app that people care about, create that way instead of this way, which is not profitable, but the only thing I am good-enough at that I don’t hate, like sitting at a desk job programming. Realistically, I know I’d hate that, but in the last month, three people I know have been hired by google, so I guess it’s on my mind.