Peeves

While I do not deny the importance of biology and chemistry (and particularly, of medicine), I am peeved when everyone thinks that those are the only important things in the world. Come on, what's the use of medicine if the engineering didn't exist to help build the drugs that they use in large enough quantities at good enough qualities? What if the science didn't exist to help in the diagnosis? What if the computers weren't invented to help do off-line simulations to test the efficacies of treatments and study the theoretical epidemiology of diseases before they can occur? Wouldn't medicine and medical science regress back into the medieval era?

My point here is not to bash any particular discipline, but to highlight the fact that each field/discipline exists because they contribute to the overall well-being of the human race. It is callous to claim that any single field is more "superior" than any other field; it is just an overzealous attempt by the zealots of the field.

That all said, it is time to talk about other things. So I'm sitting here once again in my room, working on Edythe (this time through Slackware, since as stated in an earlier post, the ssh client on cygwin seems dead). Things are of course going wrong as usual, and that sinking feeling is starting seep in again.

I just feel tired, and even things like writing blog entries doesn't seem to be doing much to alleviate the situation. I may soon turn to some other distraction...