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Jul
Why IT developers only get balder
There’s a lecturer in school with no hair. Just a shiny chrome atop the forehead of a really friendly person. I know that because I’ve met and talked to him on a few occasions, and he’s almost always smiling, even during the one time he barged into the classroom mid-lesson to conduct that one-off spot-check for unruly hair.
Thing is, each time I see him, my stomach would seize with fear, the cold emanating from a terrible thought that I might one day lose my hair too.
And my fear isn’t ungrounded. Whenever I get to breaking point in debugging code, I have an insane Hulk-like urge to rip apart my shirt, and then start dancing around the room like a mad rabbit. The trouble is, my brain retains full control over myself, and I end up clutching at my hair in utter frustration.
Now you know why a lot of IT developers no longer have their hair with them in this world. The concentrated power needed to solve weird complications in seemingly straightforward execution sucks the lifeforce out of the follicles, which is then harnessed into brain-juice to turbo-charge the brain, causing the person in question to either start singing Aaron Kwok’s songs like some sports dude high on endorphins, or to start disturbing his other classmates.
And since disturbing classmates also disrupts their ability to effectively troubleshoot their codes, they too need to harness the hair-lifeforce and in turn go similarly nutty. Which explains why in Singapore Polytechnic, most of the top students in school are also similarly off their rockers.
What happens to the hair then? With its lifeforce fully harvested, the strands fall off, leading to premature hair-loss. Somehow, the limited amount of hair on a person’s head seems to be enough to power the brain for the rest of his life, because he still remains productive way long after he lost his last strand of hair (otherwise affectionately known as the “Dipsy” strand).
This phenomenon is not just limited to developers in the IT industry. You can see this immediately when you get to university. Just look at all the bald professors in the faculties.
on July 8th, 2009 at 11:44 am
R u refering to the one in our class? and the lecturer whose head is as sparkling as a shiny star in the sky and gives good conduct to those who had his head done exactly like his?
on July 8th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Who are you referring to?