[megakwood]

> It boils down to somebody else saying "are you fucking kidding me?" and you get to say: "no."

Yeah, the "are you fucking kidding me?" comes from the fact that you did something awesome, i.e. something can't be done trivially by some far simpler means. So I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me :)

The only "are you fucking kidding me?" that this hack evokes is "you spent all that time and talent to do /that/?".

[nknight]

My image of you is now a cranky old man who never learned how to have fun.

I assume you're similarly annoyed by any Rube Goldberg machine?