My daughter is a very concrete thinker. When you’re dead, you’re dead, she says. One day in 6th grade she came home from school and told me she heard this great saying, something like religion is a drug. It was of course the quote from Marx. But she is not a great reader, except for vampire fiction.
She did decide that she wanted a bat mitzvah and I hired a Conservative cantor to teach her her torah portion and conduct the service in a Chinese restaurant on Bowery and Canal, witnessed by many including lots of mystified Chinese kids. When she started middle school, one of those kids told her that she couldn’t be Chinese AND Jewish, that she would have to pick one or the other. Great slide show, let me know if you’d like to see it (just zoom past the first third or so if you want to skip the service).
“slides crammed to the gills with graphs, equations, text, etc”
Part of my job requires me to approve PowerPoint presentations, for substance not style. And I am always amazed at how terribly packed with data they are. To me, they should be simple, short and to the point, or you’re going to lose your audience at the outset.
Bread is just the vessel, add some butter or olive tapenade and I would be quite saited.
As someone who stuttered, presentations were not fun. Practice and avoiding “w” and “p”s helped. Getting rid of powerpoint and becomming more interactive made it much easier. Was admonished once for only have a one page outline of my topic.
DIBS and CGar, stop trying to sandwich the bad puns between the other posts.
All religious discussions should be spiced up by passing around opiates.
“Man does not live on bread alone.”
Dough it does help with sopping up the gravy.
“Man does not live on bread alone.”
At yeast, spread some butter on your bread.
My daughter is a very concrete thinker. When you’re dead, you’re dead, she says. One day in 6th grade she came home from school and told me she heard this great saying, something like religion is a drug. It was of course the quote from Marx. But she is not a great reader, except for vampire fiction.
She did decide that she wanted a bat mitzvah and I hired a Conservative cantor to teach her her torah portion and conduct the service in a Chinese restaurant on Bowery and Canal, witnessed by many including lots of mystified Chinese kids. When she started middle school, one of those kids told her that she couldn’t be Chinese AND Jewish, that she would have to pick one or the other. Great slide show, let me know if you’d like to see it (just zoom past the first third or so if you want to skip the service).
All presentations should be spiced up by passing around qualudes
benson- sit through a CISM workshop. You’ll be screaming by the 4th slide (it may take several hours to get to that slide though).
“slides crammed to the gills with graphs, equations, text, etc”
Part of my job requires me to approve PowerPoint presentations, for substance not style. And I am always amazed at how terribly packed with data they are. To me, they should be simple, short and to the point, or you’re going to lose your audience at the outset.
“Man does not live on bread alone.”
Bread is just the vessel, add some butter or olive tapenade and I would be quite saited.
As someone who stuttered, presentations were not fun. Practice and avoiding “w” and “p”s helped. Getting rid of powerpoint and becomming more interactive made it much easier. Was admonished once for only have a one page outline of my topic.