The Official Status Update Thread - Part 32: Big Trouble in Little China

[Scutter01]

Joe Peacock: 'It's 2012! Ignorance is inexcusable!' – GeekOut - CNN.com Blogs

As Seth Godin points out, not knowing how to do something is the most easily solved problem any of us has these days. The entire sum of human knowledge is available on a 4-inch device that fits in your pocket. If you own a computer, everything you could ever want to know is one click away.

And that’s why we as geeks get aggravated with people taking the time to leave Wikipedia, fire up Twitter, and proceed to demand to know why Wikipedia was down, when Wikipedia put a link directly on the front page explaining why.

“Why didn’t they just click?!?” we ask ourselves. If someone is too lazy to just click that link right in front of you and figure it out, perhaps they don’t deserve to know. Geeks see stupidity as a problem easily solved by initiative: Just stop being lazy and you’ll stop being stupid.

 

[MrsGungho]

but I like being lazy

 

[OneBadV8]

Joe Peacock: 'It's 2012! Ignorance is inexcusable!' – GeekOut - CNN.com Blogs

Laziness is a huge pet peeve of mine.

 

[GBuck]

Joe Peacock: 'It's 2012! Ignorance is inexcusable!' – GeekOut - CNN.com Blogs

I didn't read it, are there any Cliff's Notes?

 

[MrsGungho]

alright, I have to get.. I have a bunch that needs done today

 

[GBuck]

Thanks for the new sig line, Scutter.

 

[Westside]

We dueling on the 12th?

I'll let you beat me. Everyone beats me on those things

I can make anyone feel better about their shooting.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Wow, Westside blew through 20K posts. Congrats Sir.

 

[Scutter01]

I didn't read it, are there any Cliff's Notes?

Yes, the quote I posted is the Cliff's Notes.


The thing is that the conclusion drawn by the author is wrong. Nevertheless, that's how geeks perceive the problem. It's maddening to stand over someone's shoulder, ask them to click a certain icon and then watch them stare, slack-jawed, at the screen for minutes on end before they move the mouse. You get this overwhelming desire to shove them out of the way and do it yourself just so you can both get on with your lives.

 

[Rayne]

Joe Peacock: 'It's 2012! Ignorance is inexcusable!' – GeekOut - CNN.com Blogs

As Scutter points out, not knowing how to do something is the most easily solved problem any of us has these days. The entire sum of human knowledge is available on a 4-inch device that fits in your pocket. If you own a computer, everything you could ever want to know is one click away.

And that’s why we as geeks get aggravated with people taking the time to leave INGO, fire up Twitter, and proceed to demand to know where is INGO's FAQ, when INGO put a link directly on the front page explaining where it is.

“Why didn’t they just click?!?” we ask ourselves. If someone is too lazy to just click that link right in front of you and figure it out, perhaps they don’t deserve to know. Geeks see stupidity as a problem easily solved by initiative: Just stop being lazy and you’ll stop being stupid.

FIFY

 

[Rayne]

Laziness is a huge pet peeve of mine.

So that's why you don't like me

 

[OneBadV8]

So that's why you don't like me

I've heard of all the chores and everything you do. You are NOT lazy

 

[Rayne]

I've heard of all the chores and everything you do. You are NOT lazy

you believe everything you read on the interwebz???

 

[OneBadV8]

you believe everything you read on the interwebz???

 

[Shadow]

 

[Scutter01]

you believe everything you read on the interwebz???

My daughter's principal, addressing parents at the beginning of the year:

We promise to believe only half of what your children tell us about you if you promise to believe only half of what they tell you about us.

 

[GBuck]

Yes, the quote I posted is the Cliff's Notes.


The thing is that the conclusion drawn by the author is wrong. Nevertheless, that's how geeks perceive the problem. It's maddening to stand over someone's shoulder, ask them to click a certain icon and then watch them stare, slack-jawed, at the screen for minutes on end before they move the mouse. You get this overwhelming desire to shove them out of the way and do it yourself just so you can both get on with your lives.

Believe me, I deal with this all the time. I am not an IT guy, however, my grandfather is the Secretary of our Lodge, and with that comes a LARGE database built and run through ACCESS. Him being Secretary translates into me doing a lot of extra computer work. I inevitably move him out of the way and just do it because it gets so frustrating trying to teach him. After watching me do it about 5 times, he will learn.

 

[OneBadV8]

Believe me, I deal with this all the time. I am not an IT guy, however, my grandfather is the Secretary of our Lodge, and with that comes a LARGE database built and run through ACCESS. Him being Secretary translates into me doing a lot of extra computer work. I inevitably move him out of the way and just do it because it gets so frustrating trying to teach him. After watching me do it about 5 times, he will learn.

Access?

I know a guy if you ever want to convert that to a real database and have a Web Interface or even a Windows Interface

 

[Rayne]

My daughter's principal, addressing parents at the beginning of the year:

That is so funny, reminds me of stuff I prayed my children wouldn't say when they were at school. Farming community or not they didn't need to discuss the hog breeding operation. They were educated at a very young age.

 

[jd4320t]

The little old lady at WalMart just laughed at me when I told her I was looking for 9mm...