I frequent a forum for a wrestling site out on the interweb. We have a user there who apparently thinks that he is some sort of tech god and his word is rule. There was a thread started about suggestions for a computer, and it boiled down recently into a “best way for non geeks to learn”. This other user seems to think that just by looking at podcast and YouTube videos that anyone and everyone should be able to dive in and work on their computer. He fails to see that there are some people that just can’t get up the courage to touch anything on an electronic device because they are fearful of damage to it. He/she assumes that just because he learned something and feel confident at it, everyone should.

Eh, I guess that is commonplace with some people. They tend to think, “if I can do this, anyone can.”  Sadly, I learned how to set up and run lights and sound for theatrical sound, so just by watching a video online or a podcast, he should be able to focus lights, get a great color mixture, cue the show in  the board, set up the speakers, wireless and wired mics and have everything sounding perfectly fine and then run the show and not make glaring mistakes. If he can do that his first show, I will eat my underwear.