Spanky's Place

Although I don't have a name for it, there is a feeling that comes over me when I "get" a new project. To clarify, when I am working on something new and or exciting, or something that is just plain cool, I get this feeling that starts way down in my gut and pushes up through me, until it feels like I'm going to burst with excitement.

I think all hackers (true hackers, not the cracker scumbags) get this feeling as well. Whether you're a coder, wirehead, carpenter, welder, or artist; you've probably had this feeling or something like it before. The closest analogy that comes to mind right now (at 4 am) is the feeling you had the day before your high school prom: you knew that something really cool was going to happen, you knew that if you did everything right it would be awesome, yet you also knew that if you screwed up it would suck a lot. And you really weren't sure how things were going to turn out.