My friend has that shirt. It's really neat, but doesn't gain him much respect in school, as you can imagine. I'm really looking into one of those BSD hats. They're really cool looking.

I know what you mean about the whole user stupidity thing. I have friends who can't wait to get their grubby little hands on Windows XP, and some who already have. These are the same people who call ME over to install it for them at the drop of a hat, and the same people who can't figure out why their word processor won't recognize a file after they change the extension to .myfile. Not once do these people think, "Gee. Maybe what I have is perfectly adequate." or "What does my computer-knowledgeable friend think about this software?". And they CERTAINLY never stop to think, "Is my computer-knowledgeable friend going to be willing to give up his entire day at the drop of a hat to help me after I royally screw this up beyond recovery?" They just assume that I would be glad to drop everything to dig them out. After all, I have no life other than to try (in vain) to cure stupidity. I don't mind helping people. I don't even mind helping them for hours at a time, over and over. I DO mind when they call me over to recover their system from a horribly botched XP install while they go out to eat. I love helping people who want to learn, but I'm tired of being Mr. Fix-It for everybody who has a bug up their butt to get the latest Microsoft product.

Every one of these people think they're computer geeks because they have Windows XP Home Edition, and AOL 7.0. It really makes me mad. They go on bragging about how great their computer is and how great they are on it, and all they know is AOL and Word, and even that is extremely limited. Not one of these people would last 5 minutes on Linux or BSD, even if you gave them all the reference and other resources they could possibly need. They take one look at the screen, one look at the book, and whine that it's hard. The next day, they're back to bragging about how great they are on a computer. I say it's time to revolt. All you people out there who have to play fix-it for the terminally dumb, PUT DOWN THOSE SCREWDRIVERS! PUT DOWN THOSE DRIVER DISKS! If they can't fix their own problems, tough. They won't be so gung-ho to screw up their computers every time Microsoft releases a new software package. They'll have to fix their OWN problems! Think of it, no more stupid people. No more "Where's the 'any' key?" questons. People will be COMPETENT! IT'S A REVOLUTION!!!


That having been said, I feel much better now.