I keep asking myself that question.
I could not code my way out of a wet paper bag. I remember Warp giving 
up trying to explain that using GOTO is a bad idea. I am sure he was 
right but…
Photorealism: maybe but I am not very good with textures and I am more 
interested in animations than still images. The render times would be 
horrendous. So that is out.
Visualising data: Yes but Excel is quick and good and you only need to 
use functions mostly. Not programming.
Looking at other people’s work: Definitely, at least I have an 
appreciation of what lies behind the making of them.

So what brought this on? Drugs actually, I woke up early at 4 am and as 
I am going into town today. To stop falling asleep I took one of my 
remaining Modafinil tablets that I was prescribed for jet lag, a few 
years ago. It is known as a “smart drug” a cognitive enhancer. I would 
never use it for that if I were studying. I find it too easy to get 
distracted. I was watching a video on very large numbers when it went on 
to TREE(3). So I googled it and spent an hour following the links within 
links in Wikipedia so I could try and understand what was being talked 
about.
Since we seem to have lost our mascot I thought I would stand in for 
Andrew, for a while.

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Regards
     Stephen

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