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["Joe Komenda" <joe AT komejo.com>]

What does it mean? It's the geeks, baby.

       "Like a simmering kettle of yesterday's sweatsocks, the powerful
scent of the Oracle dba in his cubicle flowed outward, into the hallway,
into the street, into the very fabric of the community. The reek of his
powerful masculinity set fire to the narrow minds of the community, yea,
until the very moral fiber of the region was infiltrated by the sensual
magnificence of this warrior-god in on his throne."

    Seriously, I think Geeks and Gays are mutually attractive groups. They
obviously have a lot in common - and despite the popular stereotypes, they
attract all kinds. Mostly open-minded fun folks, but occasionally a
Republican, too. ;-)

Joe K


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas A. Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 1:03 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] For the future of the Triangle ...


> ... We need more gays!
>
> The Washington Post has an article today examining the correlation
> between the prominence of a region in the IT boom with the predominance
> of its homozexual population.  Apparently the more queers who live
> there, the more "successful" an area is in the information technology.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52561-2000Oct31.html
>
> Does this mean that the CED should be dropping flyers about RTP career
> and quality of life opportunities in gay bars around San Francisco, New
> York and Chicago?  Does this mean that gay-friendly Durham is poised to
> overtake Cary and Chapel Hill in numbers of high tech startups?  I never
> thought of Austin, TX, as a gay mecca.  Like the article says:  What
> does it /mean/?
>
> TaB
>
> Excerpt:
>
> "The eureka moment happened when he saw numbers compiled by one of his
> doctoral students, Gary J. Gates, on concentrations of gays living in
> metropolitan areas--numbers published with another author last May in
> Demography, a peer-reviewed journal of the Population Association of
> America.
>
>           "Florida took Gates's rankings of areas. He compared them with
> the Milken Institute's "Tech-Pole" rankings of high-tech presence in
> metropolitan areas. He discovered to his surprise that the number one
> thing that correlates with a region's high-tech success is the
> concentration of gay people living there.
>
>           "Close behind were concentrations of people with college
> degrees and people who fit into the Carnegie Mellon researchers'
> Bohemian index--people who identify themselves to the U.S. Census as
> artists, craftspersons and musicians.
>
>           "But gay concentration led the list.
>
>           "Could that be right? Could there be a connection between gays
> and high-tech success? Even if this idea turns into conventional wisdom
> when The Brookings Institution's Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
> publishes the paper later this fall as part of its series on the new
> economy, the question still has to be asked:
>
>           "What does this mean?"
>
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