Shadowfax Cluster Rant 2009-2024 Release 36.07: LIMACON 2017 SUNY Old Wesbury?

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

LIMACON 2017 SUNY Old Wesbury?

UPDATE: LIMACON 2017 SUNY Old Wesbury?

If it's March it's gotta be LIMACON, right? Nope, not this year. I was not invited as a guest speaker, something about new blood and new ideas? Anyway, I can speak every other year, so I'll go again next year. I was thinking of going just as an attendee, but I didn't see any new blood that was of interest, sorry. I usually give my talk and then go to the rest of the conference for free.

FYI, here's what I spoke about last year:

Confessions Of A Presenter At

LIMACON 2016:

Houston We Had A Problem!

You know I'm meticulous about my tech! So I got to my room half an hour early and had everything working. I set up my PC and Projector, Media Center and Projection Screen, my mic, my screencasting software, my pdfs and my mp4s, ... everything!

Then, right after I started my session, everything fell to pieces! The PC couldn't handle rendering my video as it ran out of hard drive space after only 5 minutes of recording. When I tried to show a video from YouTube, the speakers died! I tested all this stuff before the attendees arrived. I was good to go. IDK what happened!

Not to worry, I covered everything I had to cover in my presentation and then some! In fact, I think the presentation was a great success. I just wanted to record it for YouTube and I wanted to jazz up the presentation with some Calculus Filks.

Maybe I'll rerecord it sometime this week (I did, see videos above).

The irony of the situation is that I had my brand new Samsung Galaxy NotePro 12.2" Droid Tablet with me (instead of my laptop). Given enough time, I could have mirrored the PC Desktop to my Tablet over WiFi controlling everything from my Tablet like a remote SmartBoard and recorded the whole thing right on the Tablet.

However, I did not want to waste the attendees' time with all that, so I skipped all the tech except for my primary focus: teaching Calculus with

http://sagecell.sagemath.org

I even sang when the audio went out.

In retrospect, I should have set up the Tablet in the first place.

BTW, I've been attending LIMACON at SUNY Old Westbury since 1986 and presenting since 2001.

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