Crawling

I hope if I ever become a father, that I'm more patient with my child than I am with adults. I can only imagine the quizzical look on my baby's face as I explain in that mile-a-minute way I have about how the bones of the foot spread out to absorb and redirect impact force every time we walk while my infant simply asked me if I'd hold his or her hand for stability while he/she tries to stand up.

I spent about 12 minutes on the phone with yesterday's web design engineer explaining how an rsync command is parsed, and I sure as hell hope he got the gist of what I was saying because he's poised to fuck up our website something fierce if he didn't. I'm not stupid: I didn't try to teach him how to use rsync. I just explained what the command I'd e-mailed to him earlier was going to do, because God knows if he tried it himself he'd break everything 8 ways from Sunday. I opted for the more productive "here, type this" approach.

And still there were questions. I just hope he's read the man page as much as he says he has.