So, a little birdie told me that someone (Possibly even staff themselves, although I certainly don’t know this for a fact) has been insinuating that Unofficial CKI was taken down due to pressure on me to do so. Some have said that it was “legal pressure” and some have said that it was “pressure from staff.”
Let me be the first to assure you that there isn’t a person in that office that could “pressure” me to do anything. They’ve tried and tried they’ve failed and failed. They tried being big and tough themselves, and got laughed right out of the picture. They’ve tried threatening me/us with the FBI, they’ve even called their big bad lawyers.
None of those things worked. In fact, I haven’t heard a peep out of the office since we shut them up by telling them to take their legal threats and stick them somewhere uncomfortable. I guess they must have done just that, as we’ve seen neither hide nor hair of them since.
So let me make it unfailingly clear: UCKI was not taken down to appease anyone. It was taken down for two very simple reasons:
1) It wasn’t being updated enough to remain useful.
2) It cost me money to keep up and running.
None of this should not be interpreted to imply that the new CKI site is adequate (which I’ve stated before that it clearly is not, especially for how much KI has allegedly spent on it — they got taken to the cleaners hardcore). The fact is that my interest in keeping the site up waned with my membership and other folks had (understandably so) more important things to do.
So the next time someone tells you that staff was exerting any sort of pressure, I want you to laugh a deep, hearty laugh and say this: “Are you strokin’ me? Those worthless bags of wind have done no such thing!”
And they’ll believe you, wanna know why?
Because everyone knows Casey Keller, Gloria Bidgood, and Steve Werner are not worth the paper their paychecks are printed on. Manny and I could replace them all with a very small shell script… and you know what? If we did that, your club’s addresses wouldn’t be fucked up, the website wouldn’t suck, and the will of the CKI House of Delegates wouldn’t be subverted in an attempt to conceal power-grabbing and poor spending policies.
You know what else? The food per-diem for ICON would be cheaper. Much, much cheaper.
No those dumb pricks didn\’t. I never hated a group of people so much in my life. Well, no I am not going to say it.
Casey is full of shit and so is her puppet Gloria. Steve, the Web\”Master\”, can derelique my balls. Pete you are right. They aren\’t worth the money nor the time.
I thought we can all be adult and move on from the situation. Of course not. They can\’t have that. They must egg us on. If my full time job and my grad studies didn\’t take up so much of my time, we would make circlek.org our bitch. Oh wait, I forgot. They have their secret weapon, the ad hoc website committee that only does Steve\’s bitch work.
To Casey, Gloria, Steve and all the haters of UCKI, I leave you with the words of Eazy E. \”Bitch PLEASE, check your nuts before you step to DEEEEZ!\”
Oh, BTW, how big do you want the shell script Pete? 1KB? That\’d ought to do.
\”I want you to laugh a deep, hearty laugh and say this: \”Are you strokin\’ me?\” Pete, that\’s priceless… I love you, thanks for the good laugh.
BTW… Manny is my hero
they had food at ICON?
Typically, Staff members get a \”per diem\” to spend on food each day that they travel. Some might argue that staff\’s is too high, although I\’m not sure what gives them that impression. innocent look
PS: \”Are you strokin\’ me\” is courtesy of Jo.
Don\’t forget the IBoard (unless things have changed) they get a high per diem too…and if the convetnion is in a big enough city, then it goes up even more…one good thing…they didn\’t give per diems in Jamaica since we were at an all inclusive facility
Pete all I have to say is this: \”No, but I could be!\”
Jo: \”Don\’t tease!\”
Oh Pete, you know I never tease!