Re: BEg2 chapter 5 - “Winnie List”

[David Morris]

http://anji.com
*“Anjie’s List is now Anji.”*

The Winnie List is an obvious reference to  “Anjie’s List” the very
successful internet handyman-for-hire (cheap) website.  Playing with the
urban dictionary meaning of a “Winnie,” it is just a silly spoof by Pynchon
on the whole concept of a day-worker brokerage website, denigrating coders
into “Winnies” for hire, cheap, via the internet.

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 3:28 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Driscoll Padgett is a freelance Web-page designer, “making it up as I go
> along, just like everybody else,” also temping as a code writer, for $30 an
> hour—she’s fast and conscientious, and the word has got around, so she’s
> more or less steadily in demand,
> though now and then there’s a gap in the rent cycle where she’s had to
> resort to the Winnie list, or index cards stuck up next to dumpsters, and
> so forth. Loft parties sometimes, though that’s usually for the cheap
> drinks.
>
>           The Winnie List?
>
>          Mark Kohut pointed me to Urban Dictionary, but it didn’t seem like
> any of their entries described a nexus for employment, unless I missed
> something.
> […]
> *Winnie list*
> The New York World Wide Web Workers e-mail list — the WWWNY (or “Winnie”)
>