Tonight was the first night of the college championship on Jeopardy. The guy that ended up winning the show did something awesome. At least, awesome for you geeks that understand it.

He was way ahead going into final jeopardy. He had just over 30,000 and the person in second place had 8600. He basically didn’t have to bet anything to win. Well he got the answer right, then they showed his bet. This guy is a computer programming student, can anyone guess what his wager was? The most awesome geek moment on Jeopardy ever, his bet was 1337. Heh, Alex said “thats a very interesting bet”. He had no idea what that meant, lol, it was great.

Testing out the account settings

I’ve always told everyone that asked me about computers, to get one and play with it. I would tell them to dig in there and see what they can do. And not to worry because whatever they break, I can fix. I said this because that’s basically how I learned. I got one, and just starting screwing around with it. When something broke, I would figure out how to fix it. Having people like Peter to turn to always helps also. I always thought this was a good philosophy. I thought it would help people teach themselves how to do things. I guess that’s what I get for thinking.

I don’t know if it’s a lack of desire or lack of ability to learn new things. To me, it seems like it’s a lack of desire. Why learn, I’ll just have someone else learn, then teach me. That’s the part I don’t like. If you’re going to do things that way, then just skip the middle man all together, and have your tech savvy friends do it for you to begin with. At least that way there is no confusion. No expectation.

I love the people that I support who say to me “hey this happened, and I tried to do this, and I fucked it up”. You know why I love these people? Because they tried. That’s how you learn. Don’t ask me how to do something if you’ve never tried it yourself. That kills me.

Oh, and if you’re reading this message, I’m obviously not talking about you. The people that are savvy enough to navigate to my webpage are not the ones who I have issues with.

Think about that for a second. Don’t have the ability to navigate to a damn website. (sigh)