my new office mate

[Sarah Atkinson]

I have an office mate who is a bit one on the young side and knows next to nothing about computers. She looked on several pages of html that I was working on the other day in amazement wondering how I could understand what it all meant. She then caught me on line checking out messages on WebmasterWorld and the CSS-list. Her response was "You mean there are lots of other people like you." I'm still not sure weather to feel good or bad about that comment.

[jecasc]

Everytime someone passes my screen when I have some Code open, they take a glance at it and look at me sceptically: "And you understand all this?"

Actually I wonder myself sometimes when I take a step back from the monitor and look at some PHP or HTML or JAVA Code how I can understand this. It is funny: If you do not look at Code line by line but look at the whole from a distance, (like if you would look at an image) you know where the idea for the green screens with those falling letters in Matrix came from.

Probably she expected that the phone would ring in the next moment and you would disappear.

[Habtom]

>> "And you understand all this?"

lol, that is exactly a visitor to the office said to me. But then I have to confess, what was on the screen was a loop out of control.

Hab

[edited by: Habtom at 9:45 am (utc) on June 17, 2007]

[henry0]

It does not stop when the statement is delivered

Then they make an association with everything about
computers and the next thing is "I have a PC problem could you fix it?" :)

[edit_g]

I once explained my job to someone, and their reply was: "wow, I didn't even know people like you existed".

[Essex_boy]

lots of other people like you. -ROFL

'You understand that?' - A comment made to me when I was about 12 years old and I keep hearing it.

[Sarah Atkinson]

Then they make an association with everything about
computers and the next thing is "I have a PC problem could you fix it?" :)

Oh that already happens I think it is in my job description.

I love fixing the simple stupid problems.
I loved the non-system disk errors. I'd fix the computer with a touch of a button and boom be back to my desk before my coffee got cold. I've heard that other computer people hate the simple problems. I've had people loose there outlook menu or star menu then I fix it and they are just so happy and they swear that I have saved their day. It feels good.

[ergophobe]

That's funny, when my wife walks by and sees me coding, she just says: "Why don't you use Kernighan-Ritchie braces instead of Allman style? I hate that wasted line."

Just kidding.

[grandpa]

Just kidding

<insert eerie music>
. . . or are you?
<end music with fade>

[ergophobe]

Mmm... half and half. She doesn't know the diff between K&R and Allman, but she has just taken a job as a full-time web admin so suddenly she stays awake when I drone on about this and that web-related. Sometimes it even seems like she's not feigning interest anymore ;-)

No, seriously, actually we built our first web page together in 1996, but I got hooked and she didn't really. Now she's hooked and learning a ton. I suspect in a couple of months I'll be going to her for answers on some topics (she'll be running some PPC campaigns, and I've never had 1000s of dollars for that. Best of all, she'll be using OPM to learn on).