No One

"Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy."
-Ted Dziuba

I was reading this article this morning and came across that line. It's a good one-liner that encompasses a lot of what I feel sometimes.

I read the tech magazines and have my cool 2600 shirts, but no one can relate. Nearly everyone I know has better things to think about, and they don't give a shit about what it is I do. That is, until they have a problem with some electronic device. But even then, they just want it fixed. They don't really care what the problem was. They ask, but they don't listen to the answer or really care for my explanation.

I like to think I know what I'm doing most of the time, and so far it's working. It's just that I'm lonely in my enthusiasm about computing. There is no one here like me.