The ranting of a hurt ego;)
This was something I wrote a long time ago..those early days,when I joined the software industry.I didn't know anything.Imagine!A person who thought of being an archaeologist/art historian..ends up being a software engineer....I am not exactly dumb...but I have trouble being logical...so it took time for me to start using the left side of my brain;)
Though my team was extremely supportive..there were times when some stray comment would hurt...
one such time, with cheeks burning with indignation abt some jibe..tears threatening to run down my cheeks...to get the rage out of my system..I wrote this stuff.
Some of my friends..read this article and sent me mails,relating their stories of frustration...some went on to give me a lecture on the benefits of technology!
Let me make it very clear-I agree that technology has made our lives better(was there life before yahoo chat?)...but there are some drawbacks becoz ofthose very benefits...
remember ....I was emotionally perturbed when I wrote the below crap!(But I do admit,that whenever I feel low...this article still cheers me up and helps me laugh at the crazy things I do!)
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Today...I feel as though I am the dumbest thing God ever bothered to make.I don't know even simple things abt computers....when someone makes you aware of your ignorance it is mortifying to your pride..is it not?
moreoverI wish I could strangle that Charles Babbage...why did he have to make all this complicated stuff..and troubledumbos like me?!?!!?
Life!sometimes I feel women's lib was all wrong...we should have stayed aaramse at home...but most of the time..I think this whole evolution itself shouldn't have happened.An amoeba...floats around blissfully...without never having to bother abt OS and API..and all the other crap.I would have even settled to remain a monkey..but being a human being is too much to handle..particularly when u still retain the processing capability of an amoeba....life is only downhill:(
When the rest of the humanoids are cribbing abt how less they get to code..or... how simple their programs are...I am still trying to grasp the intricacies of pinging a system!and if this is just the beginning...I am wondering whether all that effort from my honorable ancestors was worth anything..if in the end there is only misery and the knowledge that unix provides 4 billion times the dataspace ,compared to windows?!?!?!
All thru my journey on this blue-green planet..I thought my sole aim was to learn the exalted virtues of the ultimate truth..but now ..I guess that's not anywhere near to being sufficient:(
A person who has trouble remembering to wear her footwear before leaving..home..and where she kept herkeys...is now expected to remember jargon she cant even pronounce!talk abt life's perverted sense of humor!
Look at those mongrels..out there..isn't that a blessed existence?sleep when you want..eat when you want...chase people you don't fancy....and don't give a hoot to whether linux is better than windows or not.And even mosquitoes...for that thing...eat,eat..eat some more...irritate the hell out of anyone..that's real power!and die before the whole thing starts getting boring....wow!
And for all the so called technology...has anything really improved?men still go bald..women stillput on weight around their hips..children are still impertinent..and almost everybody still gets diabetes!
I sometimes wonder whether all these so called computer nerds are really some kind of aliens waging a silent..canny war agst ..us..the naive earthlings!making our lives so miserable..so complicated withthese gadgets and protocols and what not..we never needed in the first place!we boast of having conqueredfar reaches of the space...of having landed many ugly looking space ships..everywhere...yet are still caught in the traffic jams back home...Are we humans...way too stupid..or too smart for our own safety..please let me know.but seriously...don't u think simplicity is a lost commodity?sad..sad ..sad.
PS:techies,please dont send me hate mail;)
Though my team was extremely supportive..there were times when some stray comment would hurt...
one such time, with cheeks burning with indignation abt some jibe..tears threatening to run down my cheeks...to get the rage out of my system..I wrote this stuff.
Some of my friends..read this article and sent me mails,relating their stories of frustration...some went on to give me a lecture on the benefits of technology!
Let me make it very clear-I agree that technology has made our lives better(was there life before yahoo chat?)...but there are some drawbacks becoz ofthose very benefits...
remember ....I was emotionally perturbed when I wrote the below crap!(But I do admit,that whenever I feel low...this article still cheers me up and helps me laugh at the crazy things I do!)
***********************************************************
Today...I feel as though I am the dumbest thing God ever bothered to make.I don't know even simple things abt computers....when someone makes you aware of your ignorance it is mortifying to your pride..is it not?
moreoverI wish I could strangle that Charles Babbage...why did he have to make all this complicated stuff..and troubledumbos like me?!?!!?
Life!sometimes I feel women's lib was all wrong...we should have stayed aaramse at home...but most of the time..I think this whole evolution itself shouldn't have happened.An amoeba...floats around blissfully...without never having to bother abt OS and API..and all the other crap.I would have even settled to remain a monkey..but being a human being is too much to handle..particularly when u still retain the processing capability of an amoeba....life is only downhill:(
When the rest of the humanoids are cribbing abt how less they get to code..or... how simple their programs are...I am still trying to grasp the intricacies of pinging a system!and if this is just the beginning...I am wondering whether all that effort from my honorable ancestors was worth anything..if in the end there is only misery and the knowledge that unix provides 4 billion times the dataspace ,compared to windows?!?!?!
All thru my journey on this blue-green planet..I thought my sole aim was to learn the exalted virtues of the ultimate truth..but now ..I guess that's not anywhere near to being sufficient:(
A person who has trouble remembering to wear her footwear before leaving..home..and where she kept herkeys...is now expected to remember jargon she cant even pronounce!talk abt life's perverted sense of humor!
Look at those mongrels..out there..isn't that a blessed existence?sleep when you want..eat when you want...chase people you don't fancy....and don't give a hoot to whether linux is better than windows or not.And even mosquitoes...for that thing...eat,eat..eat some more...irritate the hell out of anyone..that's real power!and die before the whole thing starts getting boring....wow!
And for all the so called technology...has anything really improved?men still go bald..women stillput on weight around their hips..children are still impertinent..and almost everybody still gets diabetes!
I sometimes wonder whether all these so called computer nerds are really some kind of aliens waging a silent..canny war agst ..us..the naive earthlings!making our lives so miserable..so complicated withthese gadgets and protocols and what not..we never needed in the first place!we boast of having conqueredfar reaches of the space...of having landed many ugly looking space ships..everywhere...yet are still caught in the traffic jams back home...Are we humans...way too stupid..or too smart for our own safety..please let me know.but seriously...don't u think simplicity is a lost commodity?sad..sad ..sad.
PS:techies,please dont send me hate mail;)
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