Inspiration at the second attempt
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI think I need to work on my lateral thinking.
I spent at least two hours this afternoon using Power Point and trying to bend a graph to my will. It looked fan-frikkin-tastic, even if I say so myself. All the information present in a clear and precise manner; good, bright colours, easy to read, friendly writing, no extraneous material to detract from the slide at all. Could I animate it? Could I heck as like. A large chunk of the afternoon went by with my patience thinning even as my arteries thickened. Another half hour and I reckon I should have started popping rivets.
I was, in short, hot under the collar and getting hotter. And I hadn't even started the presentation notes to accompany it.
Then, over the water boiler, making my Xth cup of coffee (where X = a very large positive integer), I had the revelation. I put it together as a chart, see. As my boss put it: "It's all a learning experience". What I want was not a graph to be animated, but an animated graphic that looks like a graph. It doesn't need any underlying data; it's a demonstration of the principle, not an academic proof.
Another hour later I had my fancy graphic with oodle upon oodle of groovy animation plus the speaking notes.
Water heaters, eh? Is there nothing they cannot do?
I spent at least two hours this afternoon using Power Point and trying to bend a graph to my will. It looked fan-frikkin-tastic, even if I say so myself. All the information present in a clear and precise manner; good, bright colours, easy to read, friendly writing, no extraneous material to detract from the slide at all. Could I animate it? Could I heck as like. A large chunk of the afternoon went by with my patience thinning even as my arteries thickened. Another half hour and I reckon I should have started popping rivets.
I was, in short, hot under the collar and getting hotter. And I hadn't even started the presentation notes to accompany it.
Then, over the water boiler, making my Xth cup of coffee (where X = a very large positive integer), I had the revelation. I put it together as a chart, see. As my boss put it: "It's all a learning experience". What I want was not a graph to be animated, but an animated graphic that looks like a graph. It doesn't need any underlying data; it's a demonstration of the principle, not an academic proof.
Another hour later I had my fancy graphic with oodle upon oodle of groovy animation plus the speaking notes.
Water heaters, eh? Is there nothing they cannot do?
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Date: 2007-01-17 08:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-17 10:02 am (UTC)Power Point is probably the 2nd least kack component of Micro$not Orifice (Entourage being the leastest possibly.) But it is still flipping annoying in it's quirks, foibles and failings. Unfortunately there's not much else out there ...
in the nature of a private joke...
Date: 2007-01-17 02:06 pm (UTC)Argh! You rotter! I'm having a Stanton "Spock" Edgoose moment! Even after more than thirty years, I still say "where X is an indeterminate number" whenever I use X in that manner, in conversation. Actually, this does not happen often, as I am still mathematically bally clueless, and start to itch and perspire if I am required to count higher than four.
Re: in the nature of a private joke...
Date: 2007-01-17 02:26 pm (UTC)Forget the maths, it's all about the catch phrases!
Now, watch the board while I go through it again.
Re: in the nature of a private joke...
Date: 2007-01-17 02:28 pm (UTC)What a chortle-ful morning I am having, to be sure, and it's only 6:30.
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Date: 2007-01-17 03:58 pm (UTC)I have Brasseye-esque graphics floating through my head as I type.