Re: Stalking the wiley tech writer

Subject: Re: Stalking the wiley tech writer
From: "Sandy Harris" <sharris -at- dkl -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:21:24 -0400

Bruce Byfield wrote:

> >I am an anthropologist by training who is also a tech writer. And I love
> >watching the culture! It is the best. We are our own wacky little culture.
>
> Funny, I've always thought that tech-writers were
> anthropologists, interpreting geekdom to the world and learning
> just enough to fit in and observe.
>
> We even have the same status as anthropologists (which, at
> potlatches in Bella Coola, an anthropologist friend told me, is
> just above the mentally deficient and alongside children of
> indeterminate ancestry).

I tend to think of us as the roadies for the more glamorous developers.
As with musicians, they range from genius to arrogant over-rated clutz,
and none of them could do the show without us :-)

Now, where are the groupies, dammit?




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