Right.... I just didn't read it that way, but i get that some people could. Thanks for pointing it out. It's weird i didn't think there was anything jokey about it, i definitely see this type of thing could be a joke. I just didn't see that there at all. I guess that says more about me and what I'm at that i couldn't see it as a joke...i should probably lighten up

I read it like the guy meant it because he felt unfairly sidelined and had some departmental spat with computer scientists...i don't care about that spat, i just thought he was being mean. Maybe it is a meant as a joke... But they say in every joke there's truth, and a lot of comics are the most angry people inside. Humor is their sublimation

Edit: i find this one funnier

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.jargon.html

But it definitely has an edge of bitterness within the cs department, as i suspected initially. The themes i read into the first essay are clearly present in the second. I think i was right that this guy has an axe to grind. Just because he writes some supposedly satirical essays doesn't mean he isn't a toxoc person inside or possibly out...