Query on Word History, was Re: The Moral Life of Geeks

John Kawakami johnk at cyberjava.com
Wed Sep 13 11:41:52 PDT 2000


thanks - i guess it was pretty funny (but life is pretty funny, sometimes)


>omigod! you're on a roll today. keep 'em coming. i'm sending
this on to my boss. he'll love it. maybe i'll use it in security newsletters next month! heh. i write one for an information tech department, but gotta fly it past lawyers first. hmmmmmm
>
>man.
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>a good laugh.
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>kelley, good thing i refreshed my supply of depends john!
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>>Geek only refers to helpdesk people, windows sysadmins, and the
people who come to your cubicle to install Office upgrades.
>>
>>Unix admins prefer to be called wizards. Skilled expert
programmers like to be called gurus.
>>
>>Programmers, after some time, start calling themselves "coders" to
express their sense of alienation from the product of their labor.
>>
>>"Software engineers" call themselves "programmers", especially in
the presence of civil engineers, whose jobs seem more macho.
>>
>>MCSEs call themselves "admins" or "MCSEs", but that's only to fight
that nagging sense that the unix wizards are chuckling at them and writing mean posts to alt.sysadmin.recovery.
>>
>>There are an elite class of technical managers that call themselves
"geeks" to sound "cool", and to hide the fact that their employees call them the "fuckin clueless VP/CTO".
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>>John Kawakami
>>johnk at cyberjava.com, johnk at firstlook.com

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