Modern computer visualization tools enhance the effect, drawing the full attention of the designer into the device he's forming from the nothingness of cyberspace. It is such a clean, orderly world. If the engineer is competent and has a sufficient mastery of the design tools, the process of creating something new under the sun flows smoothly, fluidly, towards the final realization of the answer to the problem at hand. Such total control, such an ability to order things towards the purpose at hand can be quite absorbing. Steve was rather quickly caught up, without realizing it of course.
Few engineers are poets.
Jenny, on the other hand, was in a meeting. The post-modern office meeting is often a charade, a play where various actors have roles. This is especially true when it is a weekly event, as this meeting was. Jenny, a consummate actress, had an unfortunate habit of actually falling asleep during her trips to the islands, which meant that she was forced to pay an unusually strict amount of attention to the presentations being given, one after another, about her product's engineering performance. The sleeping had just gotten too embarrassing.