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Wow. That was so weird.

There’s so many people who lie. It’s normally little things, but why bother lying to people to make yourself seem cooler then you are. Do you want to be cool so badly that you’ll take the chance someone will figure you out? Maybe that’s cause most people won’t even care, they won’t try to call you out, even if they know you’re full of shit.

This guy just IM’d me here at work, it sounded like he was looking for advice, but then he was just bragging?:
“do you know anything about javascript?”
“Uh… yeah, done a little bit.”
“cause I’m trying to set up a chatroom via SSL”
“well I’ve seen java applets for chatrooms, but you’re going to need something running on the server to do SSL”

he comes over:
“Yeah, my aunt works for homeland security and they want me to do a couple sites for them, yeah, I’m like yeah $200 an hour, sure, no problem — just need a couple more of these and can get money like I had stuffed away before I lost my job, before this damn accident. They want to be able to do chatrooms, and have people chatting, but not have someone be able to come along and join if the chat is already in session”

Already I know this guy is bunk for several reasons:
1 – he didn’t know the difference between javascript and java, or what SSL is for.
2 – before I lost my job? this accident? true he was in a car accident, but supposedly the guy was paying all the bills and he was in for some money. maybe he was talking about being out of work while he had his operation, since he’s a temp he doesn’t get time off, he just doesn’t get paid.

Dropping $200 on someone who doesn’t know the difference between java and javascript? or that SSL is server side? Oh man, this guy is trying WAY TOO HARD!
Anyhow, just to see if I could trip him up (I didn’t necessarily want to burst his bubble, but I wanted to see how deep it went) I asked him:
“So what do you do your code in?”
“oh, you know, HTML, java”
“what program”
“Wordpad, I don’t really use those dreamweavers or golive”
“yeah, I only use golive when I’m setting up CSS, then I edit it by hand”
“yeah, yeah, that’s cool”
“so I guess my aunt says they’re worried about bird flu coming over here”

ok… and this is why they need chatrooms? please… stop, head hurts.
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