It's hard to read these posts and not feel like a complete idiot. 

I think if I spent the rest of my natural life studying this, I still wouldn't be able to do it.

I'm good for the occasional dum dum story, and macro photo.

If the development of IT was left in my hands, we'd still be using MS-DOS and tape drives.

If I were to use a computer for mining, it would involve smashing a 286 into a coalface.