[walshemj]

Well one of the DBA's I worked with at BT made his own sensory deprivation tank and used to meditate on problems.

They where also renowned for saving a huge sum of money for the company when a quarterly CSS run barfed badly - CSS was the BT billing system and the worlds largest IBM system at the time.

[hfdgiutdryg]

That's not passion. That's a reasonable, experimental approach to problem solving.