Been to a live gig recently? I met more systems programmers backing up a vocalist on some instrument than anywhere else. The most recent one was a local fellow yank here in Sydney, he plays jazz for a living; this guy introduced C++ to MCI/LDDS/Worldcom back when it was a macro-processor, and he was their in-house compiler geek (btw, geeky bar talk with strangers has a peculiar taste to it; register allocation strategies over beer ftw! :-)

I also met a former Atari dude who now runs his own bar in Thailand.