Burst of midnight creativity....
I spent the better part of the last few days @work reading up some code that needed to be made thread-safe. It's some pretty cool code and does some pretty cool stuff and is pretty important, I guess you pretty much get the picture :D
However, for some weird reason by the time I leave work I feel like a zombie, almost like I'm brain dead. I'm not able to make meaningful conversation to anyone and feel perfectly disconnected from just about everything including the code that I spent hours reading.
Normally, I wouldn't think about it so much, it's happened to me before that I just get so caught up in what I'm doing that I become rather oblivious to my own existence. I'm sure it's happened to almost everyone at some point or the other.
But this time was different because I was not thinking about work. I was just not thinking.
Somehow in the process of looking at code, my brain seemed to have entered a coma.
I wondered if the lack of creativity was to blame here -- there is nothing particularly creative about make thread unsafe code thread safe. If I were to put it on a timeline, I would say its one of the first things that a code auto-generator would fix, before they become more advanced and solve more complex problems on their own.
So I wonder -- did I adapt? In the space of a few hours did my brain recognize that creative voyeurism, is not the order of the day (hour) and automatically shut off?
I wonder....
However, for some weird reason by the time I leave work I feel like a zombie, almost like I'm brain dead. I'm not able to make meaningful conversation to anyone and feel perfectly disconnected from just about everything including the code that I spent hours reading.
Normally, I wouldn't think about it so much, it's happened to me before that I just get so caught up in what I'm doing that I become rather oblivious to my own existence. I'm sure it's happened to almost everyone at some point or the other.
But this time was different because I was not thinking about work. I was just not thinking.
Somehow in the process of looking at code, my brain seemed to have entered a coma.
I wondered if the lack of creativity was to blame here -- there is nothing particularly creative about make thread unsafe code thread safe. If I were to put it on a timeline, I would say its one of the first things that a code auto-generator would fix, before they become more advanced and solve more complex problems on their own.
So I wonder -- did I adapt? In the space of a few hours did my brain recognize that creative voyeurism, is not the order of the day (hour) and automatically shut off?
I wonder....