a peek behind the curtains

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People often think that computers are scary and hard to use, and whoever works on them must be geniuses. Much as I’d like to be thought of as a genius, sadly, it’s not true.

In the spirit of showing my dear readers and non-technical friends that I empathize with you when computers are sucky and hard to use, I present to you the following snippet of conversation I had with a colleague today while trying to figure something out:

(11:37:58 AM) np: hmmm
(11:40:32 AM) np: I dunno what I'm doing
(11:40:41 AM) np: I feel like a monkey trying to write shakespeare
(11:40:42 AM) ac: me either. i feel like i'm watching a magic show

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  1. Monkey » a peek behind the curtains — October 8, 2007 #

    [...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptI feel like a monkey trying to write shakespeare (11:40:42 AM) ac: me either. i feel like i’m watching a magic show… [...]

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