People who are really good with computers fascinate me.
It’s like they somehow have insider info to a whole world I am not party too, like the starving kid staring in at the feast and leaving tongue marks on the glass. They know… things! Like how to create programs, create virtual machines, debug a system, crash windows or even find the ‘Home’ button on the keyboard without having to search for it! Such power!!
I suppose in a way we all take two views on people who are better than us in certain areas, especially areas we would like to be ace in ourselves. We tend to either sit in awe and feel akin to drooling hicks “what are watching a doc work on Aunty Susie Ray”, or we get envious and try to down play their accomplishments, like, “Please! I could compose MY own piano concerto if I had started playing at 3 years old, 6 days a week, with impeccable pitch, tone and good hair!”
It’s also interesting to see what happens when folk meet people who excel in areas they couldn’t care less about. I mean if I meet one of those rain-man-shoulda-been’s who can do math in their head and find trigonometry a nice way to relax after a hard days calculus, well, really so what? They’re just like a really expensive calculator you can’t put in your purse without uncomfortable questions being asked.
People who are brilliant in some areas do sometimes tend to have a bit of an ego though. They’re the ones we tend to not admire quite as much and, should they take a fall as so often happens, our sympathies are rather hard to express through the satisfied smirks.
People also sometimes forget they’re not the bees knees in every field just because they excel in one. Stephan Hawkings ,I’m sure, is a riot at any physics party but I still think you shouldn’t go to him for the suspicious rash on your butt.
A programmer is great bloke on his machine, but wait till his car breaks down! Then he runs around it panicking like a headless chicken, squawking about “googling carburetors” and how the flat is probably due to the pressure on the fanbelt because that happened to a Facebook friend! Meanwhile Billy bob and his mechanic lads watch on and think him, “The dang right stupiderest Pard’ this side o’ that side!”
I think, in all this, what I was trying to say, and not really doing so, is that people are all different. *MASSIVE INSIGHT!* We shine in some areas, and hide the bodies due to ‘EPIC FAIL’ experimentation in other areas, so it goes!
It’s just nice to appreciate people for everything they can do! A little gratitude costs nothing and makes everyone feel just that much nicer about themselves. It’s a nice warm, fuzzy moment!
Now, who wants to take a look at my home PC? There’s a ton of gratitude in it for you?
And a muffin!
