scott adams

I picked up some good stuff at the library today. Like any good idiot, I walked there on a hot day in jeans and a long-sleeved black dress shirt. The walk to the library wasn't too bad, but returning home resulted in a very sweaty self. (I guess the books I returned weren't as heavy as the books I checked out.)

Before me now are:

Why does everybody else look down on us engineers. They think we are all nerds, nothing but nerds, with no interests or skills or knowledge other than techie stuff. This point is made and amplified over and over by Scott Adams with the wonderfully realistic Dilbert comic strip.

iGoogle quoted Scott Adams thus:

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.

So just what exactly is the point here? Let's consider some other examples:

• BusinessWeek.com Pushes into Aggregation, Video, Participation to Stand Out | PBS
  Quote - One of BusinessWeek.com’s top goals was to create deeper, more meaningful engagement with more blogs, audio podcasts, video reports and aggregating outside content.