Heh, you obviously didn't find any of the actual code used for the pre-historic import, the hostile import, the Raw Perforce Importer or the scarier SQL queries used to manipulate the data. Your program is far easier to understand :-).

Linus likes to name his projects after himself. Hence, "Linux" and "git" - the British slang meaning of the term being the one implied. I like the Oxford definition; "an arrogant or contemptible person". "bastard" has another meaning, though its slang use approximates the same :-).

They're online services. If you're on the edge of the internet, with lots of local bandwidth but little international, that's not terribly useful.

Douglas Adams famously wrote that a Computer Programmer is a Scientist who could never find their field. For me, it was certainly like that - science didn't seem to hold any new and exciting treasures.

If healing might be their thing, then I'd suggest a career in Acupuncture - the field needs bright minds so that there can be more decent scientific papers like this one. It's a lot different to your average Scientific field - it's very inter-personal, and there is a large degree of "knack" to be learned first while the mechanism continues to be elusive (I give it about 5 years myself before one or two of the key puzzles are unraveled histologically, then the fun will really start). Historically, the most renowned researchers have been accomplished physicians, and there is huge scope for learning complementing skills such as taiji, qigong, tuina massage, herbs... several of which are often combined for a patient.

Of course you need to find a good school ... preferably offering degrees, in-depth Western Medical training and research opportunities. Please feel free to write to me for recommendations.

I highly recommend Apocalypse 2012: An Optimist Investigates The End of Civilization. The author, a science journalist, goes through a number of end-of-times scenarios. The difference between this book and many others is that he actually visits Scientists in the field, and travels to the relevant spots - from Guatemala to Russia. The prose is very interesting, and even though he rants far off the rails later in the book in the section on Armageddon (which is, as he writes, the most disappointing of all possible end-of-times scenarios, because it would be entirely of our making), it's still a very good read.

Fuel: anything liquid and combustible (Th!nk City); anything liquid, combustible, with a flash point equal to or greater than the equivalent of a mix of 89% octane (Aptera)

This just in! Scientists in Russia have confirmed the results using Vodka! The article even mentions a Japanese lab trying using Sake...

What's this "fibres overlapping" rubbish? Muscles change shape because the cells change shape, not the fibres. Go read an anatomy book.