Lead a man to fish… and then tell him how to eat it step by step by step.
Sometimes I feel like I am too nice for my own good. I know thats a horrrible thing to say, but I definitely feel that way right now.
I know to a lot of people, I am more or less labeled “The geek” or “The computer guy”. I’m only useful to fix things! It irritating, sure… but I’ve learned to live with it. There’s not much I can do about it short of picking up and moving across the country, growing a mustache, changing my accent, and HOPEFULLY never running into anybody that knew me in my “past life”.
The good thing about this is that most of the time, people are nice about it. I say most of the time because there are always the occational “friend” that will “ask” for “help”, and go about it in the absolute rudest way they possibly can manage. When they are “asking” for this help, its really just “hey how do I do this”. No punctuation. Is that a question, or a statement? Hell, “How do I shot web?” works better in this situation; At least it has a question mark at the end! And the “help” is really more like “hold my hand for every step, and if it doesn’t work then it’s your fault”. I try to be as helpful as possible without being a babysitter, but apparently this just isn’t good enough. The old adage works well here… “Google is your friend.”
Best part about this situation? The complete lack of gratitude for my help!
No thanks necessary, I guess.
Thankfully, as I’ve said before, this isn’t such a widespread problem. I would really like to find a better way to deal with, and ultimiately, eliminate these situations. I seemed to have grown into the habbit of being dismissive, subtlety insulting, and even just ignoring the culprit, but that doesn’t appear to be helping! It makes me feel like a dick some times, too. :-\ Oh well.

This morning I chanced upon a link on the Twitters for a newly released project called 
