Before rebuilding my brother’s computer I did some troubleshooting to see if I could get it to work again and tracked it down to a mobo power supply issue. The 4-pin 5V connector wasn’t working correctly and after some searching under magnification I saw a tell-tale bump which indicates something on the PCB blew. I thought for a second how many people would be able to figure out that minute a problem and smiled smugly. While cleaning up after the disassembly I turned the motherboard over and saw the 3-inch diameter scorch mark centered on the back of the pin-prick I’d seen earlier. I smiled anti-smugly realizing how much time I’d wasted finding a defect with the cross section of a pubic hair when I should have seen the scarring on the back that looked like it’d been inflicted with a brule torch.
Tag: arrogance
Arrogance Padawan
Coworker: Terry, I’ve been depressed lately.
Me: Bullshit, you’re sad. Stop abusing words.
Coworker: I’m sad, how do you overcome sadness.
Me: Unmitigated Egotism. Sometimes arrogance.
Coworker: Can you teach me to be arrogant.
Me: *Sharp Inhale* Are you willing to treat people like crap based on fleeting interactions?
Coworker: Yes.
Me: Are you willing to put your self on the line by making fantastic claims that you couldn’t support but the listener couldn’t understand?
Coworker: Yes.
Me: Are you willing to make your family feel like Barbie Dolls inhabiting your Malibu Dream house?
Coworker: Yes.
Me: Let us begin.
—Hours of Arrogance Training Later—
Me: So, despite not being me and therefore being inferior, what has your piddling brain grabbed.
- Superficial failings reflect deep personal inadequacies and these failings should be loudly and continually compared to one’s skills so the peon can learn from you.
- In that I’m better than everyone, all attributes I don’t possess are unnecessary and possibly even dangerous despite social and scientific evidence to the contrary.
- My shifting priorities are not a sign of inconsistency but of my ever expanding and superior understanding of the cosmos.
- Accepting an offer of help would allow someone to obscure my radiance during my eventual triumph. Aid must be either unmarked or untraceable for it to be accepted.
Me: Not bad. I would have phrased it far better but it’s a start. You have much Ayn Rand to misread.
Arrogance Padawan
Coworker: Terry, I’ve been depressed lately.
Me: Bullshit, you’re sad. Stop abusing words.
Coworker: I’m sad, how do you overcome sadness.
Me: Unmitigated Egotism. Sometimes arrogance.
Coworker: Can you teach me to be arrogant.
Me: *Sharp Inhale* Are you willing to treat people like crap based on fleeting interactions?
Coworker: Yes.
Me: Are you willing to put your self on the line by making fantastic claims that you couldn’t support but the listener couldn’t understand?
Coworker: Yes.
Me: Are you willing to make your family feel like Barbie Dolls inhabiting your Malibu Dream house?
Coworker: Yes.
Me: Let us begin.
—Hours of Arrogance Training Later—
Me: So, despite not being me and therefore being inferior, what has your piddling brain grabbed.
- Superficial failings reflect deep personal inadequacies and these failings should be loudly and continually compared to one’s skills so the peon can learn from you.
- In that I’m better than everyone, all attributes I don’t possess are unnecessary and possibly even dangerous despite social and scientific evidence to the contrary.
- My shifting priorities are not a sign of inconsistency but of my ever expanding and superior understanding of the cosmos.
- Accepting an offer of help would allow someone to obscure my radiance during my eventual triumph. Aid must be either unmarked or untraceable for it to be accepted.
Me: Not bad. I would have phrased it far better but it’s a start. You have much Ayn Rand to misread.