Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for June 11, 2010

Only the GOOD camps do that Clayton, only the good ones.

The REALLY BAD ones also teach you to hack the computers of said Technologically Inferior People.

As a Technologically Inferior Person (TIP) I take offense.

I need computer camp - any “scholarships” to help me out? I promise not to look down at TIPs

I can do e-mail and the Web. Everything else I call my kids.

Is Adam setting things up for Clayton to look down his nose at him? I know nothing about Adam’s tech savvyness, only that he uses a computer all the time for his job (as many of us do).

I want to go to computer camp! It sounds fun!

Lesson 1: How to spam Lesson 2: How to fish Lesson 3: How to create a virus Lesson 4: How to bring down a network Lesson 5: ….

And in the evening they sit around the campfire playing folksongs off of mp3’s, telling scary stories about ghostly COBOL programmers, and making SMORE’s (Scalable Migration-Oriented Router Encryptions).

Hey, fritzoid All us COBOL programmers aren’t dead, you know?

…and the obsolete COBOL programmers wander the Earth to this very day…

LOOK OUT!!! There’s one RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!

Adam just wants him to do his computer fixin’

I think the looking down your nose at the tech neophytes comes naturally regardless of the field of your choice. I know microbiologists at work who are like that whenever they find me ignorant of the basic facts “everybody should know”.