while (system is down) {find meaning out of codelessness}

Doh!
Our software development environment has crashed.
It's unlikely that we'll be able to do any programming for the rest of the day.
'We' being an entire floor of code hungry tech-heads with nowhere to channel their complex algorithms.
So far, it's not too bad.
The volume of chatter has gone up a bit.
Clusters of people can be seen congregating in the hallways.
But how soon will it be before such frivilous brain activity becomes boring?
There can only be so much social interaction that a tech-head can take before the desire to cut code overruns all sense of logic.

Oh look. Some people have started singing "Happy Birthday". For their sake, I hope it's genuine.
There's no telling what a tech-head will do to give themselves a sense of purpose.
Some of the most malicious pieces of code are those created out of boredom.
Viruses. Spyware. Windows ME. Tetris.   <shudder>