On 10/18/06, Leo Mauler <webgiant@yahoo.com> wrote:
I still can't believe the differences between largely women's shows and largely men's shows. My wife does new age fairs with her fantasy portraits business and they usually go on for 9 or 10 hours a day (there is one this weekend which lasts 11-1/2 hours on Saturday), but these largely masculine tech shows go on for only six hours a day.
It isn't about being masculine...it is about business. Folks who go to a fantasy convention mean to be there for the duration. It is just as much social event as con. Folks who go to ITEC intend to find a good restaurant and a bar after the event. Why spend 12 hours listening to pitches when you can get fed *and* plastered on the company credit card? -- Matthew Copple mcopple@gmail.com "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." -- President Ronald Reagan