Tololy’s techie gibberish protest
Have you ever noticed how so many technie people, particularly males, are socially under-developed? If you have not been paying attention to this universal fact, let me announce to you that by reading this entry your situation of ignorance shall be remedied.
(Most) Techie males: a species resembling regular human beings distinctive for their social incompetence, and often for perverse fantasies under a cloak of inhibition.
That, in a nutshell, is your 101 on (most) techie males. I said most, in severe cases of benevolence I will replace that with the word “many”. This is not such a case.
Since we’re on tech talk, I read over at 360°east that Skype is getting blocked in Jordan. How very fascist! It’s funny when I remember how sincere and eager to “improve services” a TRC (Telecommunications Regulatory Commission) representative came across during a certain meeting.
I feel totally Orwellian at the moment.
“Really now, let’s block Skype so we can milk the Jordanian tech-savvy and/or cosmopolitan to the last drop. Then we can block Blogger and Word Press to force the growing number of blog-addicts to buy our biased newspapers and read our old news. After we do that, we can dig a canal around Jordan and turn it into an island, and isolate it from the rest of the modern world that screams “FREE” all too often.”
I say viva Skype. No to Fascism.
On a final note, I ruined my “The Visuals” section while trying to fix it, which just proves how very un-techie I am. You can either check my flickr for recent pictures, or fix my Visuals.
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October 5th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
Look on the bright side…if you become an island, you can rename yourself "New Jamaica." People will come from all over to drink your native grog, "Wadi Rum." :)
October 5th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
By the way, 3 months a go, Skybe was blocked here in UAE…
October 6th, 2006 at 12:24 am
I wonder how long they’ll be able to keep the ban on voice over IP going for. Especially since Jordan is keen to attract outside investment and guys who travel around with their laptops don’t take kindly to having to buy expensive phone cards. <br /><br />Maybe the relevant authorities are after Skype "censor ware" as in China….http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/22/report_skypes_china_.html<br />
October 6th, 2006 at 6:11 am
<span style="font-weight: bold;">I used it thru a proxy today.. worked fine</span>
October 6th, 2006 at 10:09 am
So strange… a friend of mine in Libya couldn’t get skype to work earlier today, but Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger still worked. <br /><br />Tololy, you are too a techie… how else did you make sucha cool blog? :-P<br />
October 6th, 2006 at 11:12 am
Oh a friend of mine made this design for me, Craig!
October 6th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
I love it when when you rant so articulately, Tololy! The good news is, techie guys are easily transformed into wonderful husbands.<br /><br />Mahdy, "Skybe" very cute.<br />
October 6th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Yes Kinzi, but the Telecommunication Companies have another opinion…
October 6th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
I’ve just thought of something, if you were Fastlink,
Mobilecom or Ettisalat, what your opinion will be??? Are you going to welcome a
product like "Skybe"???
October 12th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
<p>Being a techie male I object to this harsh, unfair and unrealistic portrayal of "most" techie males.
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<p>This is the sort of role casting that I thought you hated (being a Girl wearing Hijab and speaking English).
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<p>I will give you the view of the group of "most techie males" of the general public. The view I’ve seen common among most of my techie friends is that the average person is not very smart, shallow, and more concerned about their looks and personality than their brains and character.
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<p>This also is another role casting infringement, one I am sure you will learn to dislike.
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October 12th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Sari, I cannot tell you how delighted I am that you object to the content of my post. To tell you the truth, I have met more techie males than you can possibly imagine (actually, it seems all the males I meet are techie males- I do not know why) and I needed so badly for the negative image I have of them to be shattered.<br /><br />You did not shatter it, though. I still think they are mostly socially challenged people.<br /><br />
October 12th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Tololy, you know why???<br />
I’ll tell you something:<br />
- I’m telling my secrets to<br />
- I watch movies with<br />
- I play games with<br />
- I listen to music with<br />
- Someone never lied to me<br />
- Someone always available when I need him<br />
- Someone knows all my chats<br />
- Someone knows all my passwords<br />
- Someone I can shape as I like<br /><br />
WHO CAN DO ALL OF THIS????<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">
ITS MY LAPTOP… [I'm sure that we are the same]</span><br />
October 13th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
[...] … Ponders the great TRC titan. TRC stands for the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission who, as I noted previously, were deliberating blocking Skype in Jordan. Fortunately, many people took this fascist intention seriously and talked about it. As I have read, the TRC went ahead and blocked Skype (partially) then magically changed their minds about the “threat” Skype poses and unblocked it. [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 8:42 am
<p>Tololy,</p>
<p>I never set out to shatter any images. What I wanted from my comment is to highlight the fact that images people have of the others is the result of their own understanding. It is the result of the lens they hold infront of their eyes to focus the world the way they want to see it. </p>
<p>Everyone needs a lens to make sense of things. However, you should understand that this lens comes from within us, and to change it we should start from the inside.</p>
<p>If you need an image altered, it is not at all difficult, if you work on your own lens that is.</p>
February 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
[...] This is sensational! Do you remember when I ruined The Visuals and had my Tololy’s techie gibberish protest? I confessed back then that I ruined my “The Visuals” section while trying to fix it, which just proves how very un-techie I am. You can either check my flickr for recent pictures, or fix my Visuals. [...]