Lego for Adults

Someone asked me recently, "why do you spend so much time programming random things that nobody will ever use?" While I didn't really have a good response at the time, the one that I like the most is, "why do kids spend so much time playing with Lego that nobody is ever going to use?" In short, programming random things is like Lego for adults. For me anyway.

The best difference here is that I don't have to take apart my software afterward in order to build something new. I can put it up somewhere just in case someone else comes along and wants to use it too.