Insanely Awe-dical

A familiar pain struck me today. Blinking cursors and cryptic error messages relayed a problem that was not indicative of the real problem. All programmers have gone through the phase of the dreaded SEMICOLON. I'm working with a MySQL database today, and the error today comes from nesting single-quote marks. Experience shows me that the error the system is giving me is not really the problem, but merely a problem caused by the original problem.

me: gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah runtime errors
jae: lol
jae: i'd rather deal with runtime errors than pain in my legs