There's an xkcd for that

"Radians Fahrenheit or radians Celsius?" "Uh, sorry, gotta go!"

I spent more time trying to get an audible.com audiobook playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music that I ever paid for.

I don't even *want* this package! Why did I join the stinging insect of the month club, anyway?

The place I'd least like to live is the farm in the background of those diagrams showing how tornadoes form.

You can also just mash the keyboard at random, but you might end up with a gibberish name no one can pronounce.

'Whoa, twenty-two in two hours!' 'Your site got twenty-two hundred hits in two hours?' 'No. Twenty-two. But still, that's like half the people on the internet!'

You could come across a smallish post while browsing a blog, think "acually, that's pretty fun", and bring it out to all those following me.

The other part was it felt like we were all in it together. Yeah it is fun getting notes, but they weren't just my notes, they were our notes.

Without specific amounts of notes attributed to each part of a reblog chain, it was like we were all equal contributors.

xkcd 936:

and of course, xkcd 2501:

It means shuffling quickly past nuns on the street with ketchup in your palms, pretending you're hiding stigmata.

I had a really hard time not writing '...profit!'

I know a lot of people hate these, but I prefer them to touchpads.

But the windows! What if there's a voyeur watchi-- wait, now I'm turned on too.

I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

Certified skydiving instructors know way more about safely falling from planes than I do, and are way more likely to die that way.