Dear Fridge Bandit,

Your Link issues are piling up and we’ve been getting complaints. Please pick them up soon.

Thanks

There is an interesting theory out there called the Dunning-Kruger Effect, that simply put, suggests that Dumb People Think They’re Smart. At Cornell University Justin Kruger and David Dunning hypothesized that:

1) incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill,
2) incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others,
3) incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy,
4) if they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, these individuals can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill.

For detailed information about their findings you can read their submission in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology entitled Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.

Until recently I never really gave much thought to the psychology and reasoning behind some individuals desire to overestimate their own abilities and label others as mediocrity. I suppose that subconsciously I have noticed this form of social interaction but brushed it off for arrogance. For example, in college my peers that would widely vocalize their comprehension on a particular subject or discipline would often exaggerate or speak as fact when they were not certain. Whereas my peers that were more soft-spoken and less likely to gloat were far more gifted. Outside of college, whether it be in a social atmosphere or in a work environment, the same basic principles applied.

A few weeks ago a co-worker of mine turned me on to this phenomenon by referring me to a Wikipedia article about this concept. After reading this article and others related to this mentality I am now much more aware its apparent existence.

Whether you find this to be true in your life or not it is really worth a read….

My web development boxes:

Windows Box:
P4 1.0 Ghz
512MB RAM
Broken Keyboard
8MB GFX Card

Linux Box:
Unknown Processor
64MB RAM
Unknown GFX Card (It has black, white, and a greenish tint)
5 1/4 DISK DRIVE WTF!!!

…. No comment ….

Legend Duh!

In 15C there has been questions as to what exactly is the wreaking ball. What is it you ask? Well unfortunately that question will not be answered here. I can tell you however that the wrecking ball is probably one of the coolest stuffed things around

Caution The wrecking ball has been known to slam its head into unsuspecting office supplies.

Not only does Matt have an entire phone number appended to his Gmail email address he actually goes by the name “PHPMatt”. We all agree that this warrants an infinite number of demerits, however in an effort to save time we’ll round it off at several billion demerits.

DELETED!

Today at lunch I decided to create some new cartoons. I must say that these are the best and graphically rich cartoons on the net. To steal from a drastically misused and unjust web development term… they are “Web 2.0″.

I put together these masterpieces during a lunch at the 16th floor Bistro Club (BC) while enjoy a steak and cheese lean pocket.

On a side note, Ratt received 10 demerits points at the BC today. The executive board will be reviewing his case in order to best determine if he should be allowed back.

Until next time…

The Fridge Bandit

Just moved into my new apartment in Virginia Beach. The community I moved into, Saltmeadow Bay Apartments, is five blocks from Ocean Front and extremely nice. In my opinion this is the nicest community in Virginia Beach. The other tenants are really nice and it’s comforting knowing you are in a safe location.

I moved this past Friday and Saturday (very long 2 days) and the only part that was exceptionally annoying was the move out of Reflections Apartment Complex. Carrying everything down three flights of stairs nearly killed me. The move into Saltmeadow Bay on the otherhand was quick and painless. We put everything on a dolly and rolled up to the front lobby, into the elevator, and through my front door.

I must thank my brother, my best friend Ricky, Stephanie, Rod, and of course Brittany.

Until next time… I’m going to go take a walk to the beach!

Nigerian scammer was expecting to receive a Powerbook. The notebook computer he received brings a whole new meaning to “Notebook Computer”



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Seems like I have been buying a new computer every other week. Over my lunch break I decided to take a break from coding and run over to the MAC store. Needless to say I came out of the store making an unanticipated purchase. I picked up a new MacBook Pro and AirPort wireless router. The ease of use and the over all power and functionality is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’ve installed Parallels and put on Vista (I’ve spent a total of about 45 seconds actually using it). Honestly the only reason I installed Vista was so I could install Zend Studio and Visio for work-related programming needs. Right now I’m working on setting up my configuration and customizing everything in order to take complete control of everything I need. I plan on installing Fedora over the weekend to make this thing complete (Mac, Linux, and Windows) on a single machine. No dual-boots on this machine just VMWare so I can run multiple OS’s at the same time.

Never thought I’d become a “Mac Guy.”