Today I used the "internet"

After fervently searching for hours on the internet (and probably unwittingly downloading thousands of megabytes of spyware onto my laptop), I was beginning to get frustrated. Mike King was either a ghost, or didn't exist at all, for as far as I was concerned, if Google couldn't find you, then you didn't exist.

At the height of my frustration (and possibly a diet coke caffine rush), I found Mike King by chance. I decided to try a WVU directory search for him, on the off chance that at some point he had been involved with the university, and BANG, "Mike King" returned one search result

This had to be the man! But how to capitalize on this information, because even his directory listing was shrouded in mystery. Why was his classification classified? Was he a student? A faculty member? Even a janaitor? I had no way of knowing as this most critical piece of information was withheld from me by the server. But I also had his email and phone number so I could contact him!

My first attempt was email, because I reasoned that if he was a professor he would check it very regularly. While I waited for him to respond I decided that I would call it a night and head for bed.

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