Techies and computers "scientists"

[E. Holtsmark]

I agree with Jon.  It's important to know these things and the people who 
don't probably want to know and want to be called the techie themselves.

Although I'm not that much of a techie, I feel a rush of gratitude and 
admiration from those who don't know techie stuff when I help them, and a 
slight bristle of hostility from those who do and whose turf I'm invading
by knowing the stuff they do.

Is that information politics? 

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Eva Holtsmark
School of Library & Information Science, graduate student
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA  52242
eva-holtsmark at uiowa.edu
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On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, Jon Knight wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Jose Perez-Carballo wrote:
> > Well, I am getting tired of the "techie" slurs my colleagues (mostly
> > librarians and information scientists (you've heard of those, haven't
> > you?)) feel free to throw at me.  Like the racial slurs, the "techie"
> > slur reveals fear (if not hatred) and distrust.  Cute as it sounds,
> > when one of my colleagues calls me "techie" it sounds as affectionate
> > as a cute racial slur.
> 
> Yeah?  I sort of like being called a techie.  The name comes along with 
> certain expectations such as you'll love playing with neat electronic 
> toys, doing wacky programming, wearing odd clothes and eating doughnuts 
> in the systems unit in the library.  Anyone should feel free to call me a 
> techie - I don't think of it as a slur at all.
> 
> Jon (attempting to stem possible PC overtones to the term techie...)
> 
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> Jon Knight, Researcher, Sysop and General Dogsbody, Department of Computer
> Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, Leics., ENGLAND.  LE11 3TU.
> * I've found I now dream in Perl.  More worryingly, I enjoy those dreams. *
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