Smart by association

So, my high school buddy, Mark, left a comment on one of the high school blog entries. We haven’t kept up. Shame on me. However, as I traced him down through his website, it dawns on me that he’s a lot smarter than I am. For one thing, he can program for the Mac. For another, he’s teaching in Frankfurt, Germany in April and people are paying a lot of money to be trained by him. Me? I’ll probably be sipping a sub-$1 coffee at Dad’s Place waiting for my ship to come in.