Among the reasons I work as a coder rather than a Physicist is that coding accomodates my Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder in a way that Academia does not.<p>Whenever I go back to school I always end up spending a lot of time in nuthouses.<p>I wrote this particular piece in a locked Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland. While we were not permitted our power cords, the nurses were happy to juice our devices behind the nurse's station.<p>Stanford Medical Center even has complementary wireless for the patients.<p>However I was not permitted even my iPhone at Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Washington, not because it was regarded as dangerous, but because the staff did not want to have to pay for replacement of repair if my devices were stolen or damaged. That actually happened once, as they did at one time allow patients to possess computers in the locked wards.<p>So I continued working on Warp Life, my iOS App, by writing out its source code by hand, on paper with a pencil.<p>Back in the day, that was the only way one COULD write software, as keypunch machines and their operators were expensive, precious resources.