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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: The theraputic properties of writing a plea for help.
From: Curtis Hawthorne <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:55:45 -0800 (PST)
Reply-to: discussion@xxxxxxxxx

What's even more fun is when you're halfway through
explaining your problem to someone else and you
realize a stupid mistake you made and then try to end
the conversation without making yourself look too
stupid...

--- Carl D Cravens <raven@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, J T wrote:
> 
> > I recently found myslef writing an e-mail,
> preparing
> > to state a plea for help to the list when, in the
> > process of going through various things and
> verifying
> > the output for the e-mail, I solved my own
> problem.
> 
> You have discovered the First Key.  You may now
> advance to the next Level.
> 
> Explaining your problem to someone else requires you
> to logically step
> through the facets of the problem.  Even great
> programmers and systems
> administrators will grab a peer to explain the
> problem to, hoping not only
> for feed-back, but self-enlightenment.  It's a weird
> experience to finish
> explaining a problem to a peer, then ask them to get
> out of your office
> because you've got it figured out and you don't need
> them now.
> 
> --
> Carl D Cravens (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> Windows isn't crippleware: it's Functionally
> Challenged.
> 
> 
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