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Feb 18

Joe's a presentation dork...

wtf?

So, I've grown very very fond of Mac OS X's negative mode (you can invert the screen colors on a Mac OS X system by hitting Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-8). However, it seems that one can get too used to it. Case in point: I gave a talk yesterday at the ACCURATE retreat at SRI and was so excited/nervous that I forgot to turn it off during my talk. I didn't realize it until later that evening. No one else seems to have noticed as my talk was just black text on a white background (white text on black in negative mode).

I'm a dork. More on the ACCURATE retreat later...

Oh yeah, here's even more dorkiness. I use a little timer during talks to keep track of time (Chimoo Timer). It allows you to use Mac OS X's voice synthesizer so that it can "speak" at you when your time is up. During my talk, my timer went off and it said, "Time is up, biatch!" I quickly said, "Hopefully, none of you heard that." No one did.

1 comment

  1. § Ping said on : 02/18/06 @ 21:57
    I noticed that your colours were inverted, and i heard a couple of murmurs about it. But i thought it was intentional. It looked pretty cool.
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