I love using my leet… I’m sorry 1337 hacking skills at work. Even though I am surrounded by all these extremely experienced software professionals, they all think I am this Linux Guru. Even though I love the attention I feel it is completely unjustified. When I see a Linux box, the first thing I do is pray that I won’t cause irreversible harm to it by logging in. After I get past this milestone, which I might add occasionally fails. I move on to a marathon style session of poking, prodding, and tutorial reading, attempting to figure out how people who are on another plane of intelligence when it comes to computers could possibly think to create some of this software. Occasionally I’ll tweak a setting or two, and when the gods smile favorably upon me things generally work. Through all this the biggest thing I’ve learned is that even though I may think I know a thimble full of information about a particular system (which is usually the case), as long as I know more than someone else they are completely astounded, and astounding someone is an awesome feeling.
Saw the new Harry Potter this weekend as well. First off I might say it is probably the best of all the movies so far, and it’s not like I am comparing one slightly shiny stone to a pail full of coal either. There was magic, intrigue, suspense, and oh that pre pubescent awkwardness, all rolled in to one giant blockbuster. I am fairly certain my delight in this movie was not the result of a blossoming Hermione though I have been wrong in the past. She is technically 16 now so I can’t feel all that bad. Though If I start seeing a Hermione count down till eighteen clock on the internet I’m sure I will get a slight chill down my spine. I do find it slightly funny that by the last movie when all the characters will be “17” They will in reality all be twenty somethings. I suppose I can’t make this complaint since one of my favorite shows is the OC whose lead character Ryan plays an 18 year old on the Show, happens to be five years older than me in real life. Then again I am a 21 year old who gets carded for rated R movies; perhaps my lack of Bar Mitzvah has stunted my aging. Maybe when I am suffering my mid life crisis people will begin think I am old enough to attend college…