Maybe it's a sign that I still don't really understand the process, but I get a palpable thrill from running this:
xterm -e ./bbs.exe &
in a terminal window on my work machine, executing code stored on another machine 34 miles away and having the UI show up right in front of me on the screen attached to my work machine. (It's seems worth noting that ./bbs.exe telnets to a computer in Iowa.)