Sometimes, I just love being rude

[ciphergoth]

I'm sorry, it's a guilty pleasure I know, but I just sent Fritz Klein a snotty email and it fills me with pleasure. He asked "Can you please send me: dates, urls and e-mail contacts" about BiCon 2003 since apparently he "cannot find information on the web" about it.

I replied:

I'm curious to know what measures you tried to find BiCon 2003 before mailing me. I tried every approach I could think of, and every one worked first time. http://www.google.com/ in particular was entirely successful.

Running BiCon is as you probably know a great deal of work. It would be even more work if we were obliged to find information for our attenders that they could *very* easily find for themselves. Fortunately only a very few people are rude enough to expect this of us.

(For those who don't know: Klein is a painfully self-important American academic who has written some about bisexuality. I'll save the detailed description for another time...)

Comments

[stgpcm.livejournal.com]

be kind, he is American, and studies have show that americans can't scroll web browser windows, and that's why you have to click after every three lines of text...

my search revealed:
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BICON - the Baltic Insurance Consultant Network
Bicon Dental Implants - Case Studies
주)한국 바이콘 - Bicon Korea Corp.
bicon MIDDLE EAST
BICon ICon Business & IT Consulting for the Financial Industry
Welkom bij Bicon weird flash

before

BiCon 2003
Home Why Come?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

What search did you do? On Google, I get BiCon 2002 as the second hit, which of course links to BiCon 2003 on the front page; bicon.org.uk is hit 5, ditto; BiCon 2003 is hit 9.

A search on BiCon 2003 is even more successful...

[narnee.livejournal.com]

be kind, he is American, and studies have show that americans can't scroll web browser windows, and that's why you have to click after every three lines of text...

Nah, be especially mean, because Americans like him make life difficult for American travellers (as opposed to tourists) and even more so for American expatriates.