Being a programmer sometimes has interesting side-effects on every-day situations.

Today, for instance, I was doing a lot of automation related programming, and some basic shell scripting. Only the shell scripting was really out of the ordinary. I arrived home after work, and found a nice frozen treat to hold me over until the movies tonite. It’s instructions called for defrosting before cooking. My first instinct was to somehow script the microwave to defrost for a time, then immediately begin cooking.

It was almost reactionary to the thought of having to come back to the kitchen to interact with the microwave a second time.

Perhaps I’ve been working too hard?