> Er. Wow. People think I'm cool? Thanks, but you're letting yourself in for a big disappointment if you ever meet me. I'm the least interesting person for miles around. It's just that the 1% of my life which *is* interesting is what I tell people about here. I could tell you all the details of the HTML errors I fixed today in my day job, or how I vacuumed the hallway yesterday, if you like.
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> Brunnen-"I *did* feel cool in that simulator, but they let us take a nice hot shower afterwards"G

So what is coolness?

Nobody thought Clark Kent was cool, and the comic books of course left that part of his life out. Still, the things he did on the edges of his time, as Superman, made all the difference.

In the same way, even someone who cleans up after messy programmers (in more that one sense, I suppose) can be cool by having way-out-of-the-ordinary experiences, especially dangerous ones. :)

gab"I hike. That's it. Plugging leaks with mattresses is SO much cooler."by