More Badgering

[kevin_standlee]

I'm afraid that jorhett has written us off and has taken everything more personally than he should, which is unfortunate, but meanwhile the SMOFS e-mail list is merrily burbling away discussing the idea of photo-ID badges -- which nobody over there considers a good idea, either, it seems. Michael Walsh applied a bit of Google-fu, and found the following:

Evecon 4 badge
Evecon 5 badge
Evecon 6 badge
Evecon 7 badge

jorhett claims I'm misquoting him, which is certainly possible. Indeed, it's perfectly possible that what he said was not exactly what I heard. However, he has not responded to my offer to print a correction if he'd tell us what exactly he says he said, but has instead apparently stormed off in a huff. Possibly it surprises people that I don't claim to be infallible, it being oh-so-fannish to never admit being wrong and to assume that one's own experiences are the entire universe.

Seriously, I can state things pretty confidently sometimes. I'm perfectly aware that this comes across as arrogance to some people.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

#5 in particular is uglier than sin.

And ... we've found something worse than photo ID badges, worse even than the cleverly unreadable background on the unphoto'd #4: having attendees hand-print their own names. Wow. Just ... wow.

[kshandra]

I'm having trouble reconciling "the first and friendliest con of the year" with a photo of someone holding what appears to be his driver's license....

[pnh.livejournal.com]

"it being oh-so-fannish to never admit being wrong"

Right, because mundanes never display this personality flaw.

Seriously, this is the second or third time lately that I've noticed you making generalized assertions that equate "fannishness" with some specific negative trait. That's an early symptom of burnout.