Memory Lane
From Ye Old Blogge: Sunday, April 04, 2004
Sunday, April 04, 2004
I think I know what a Ninja is.
Just went to this rather amusing website and the thought has occurred to me:
There really is a difference between the majority and the select few... %) Heck, there are even people out there who would take that site as gospel truth. (Are they the "deselect few," in some twisted Darwinian sense?)
Well, take my workplace. There are around 60 people here, all of them programmers, developers, or tech sales and tech support type people. None of them should be unintelligent should they? Hmmm... Let's see...
I sent out a link to this timewaster and fully expected to get a lot of laughter around the office - but I also got one email complaining that his computer didn't have enough space. A tech support person no less...
We got an email with the subject line "air-con men will be in the office" and sent it back out as "air con-men will be in the office" and got about ten "what do you mean?" responses...
Or how about this - I (and about half the people here) walk about in our normal fashion (i.e. quietly) and we manage to freak people out by "just appearing out of nowhere" as some of the clodhoppers put it. Clodhoppers? Yeap, you know them - they're the people who throw themselves at the ground with every step, you can hear them walking clear across the other side of the building, who can't be bothered to develop a decent gait because their Nikes will cushion the shock for them.
There are thus people to whom using their brains is a revolutionary idea, to be avoided at any cost, and another group of people who don't understand why everyone else can hear them coming for miles and then take advantage of them, and another group who believe that things "just happen" to them and they can't help that or defend themselves.
The groups sometimes overlap, but between them they seem to form the majority of the population.
And that shows why Ninjas are so rare and so legend-worthy. They've learnt to walk softly and carry a big stick - and they can think...
These are random blog posts I recently rescued from a text dump of my earliest recorded blog posts from Ye Good Ole Days of writing stuff in Notepad and using some weird software that basically uploaded your entire blog every time you added a new article or edited an old one.
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