Observation to visiting idiot

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Birds gotta fly. Fish gotta swim. Powerpoint gotta corrupt. It's part of the circle of life. Deal with it.

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[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

Your icon is made of win.

And of course, I have to see it just after having seen the massive Final Battle of Uber Destiny. And now for the remainder of the Earth Alliance Civil War.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Thank you!

I'm fond of this icon as well

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

ha! Kitty Kosh!

[dreamatdrew]

KITTY KOSH LOVE FTW!!!!

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much where I am in my rewatching too ... although it's stalled a bit lately. Must take it up again. B5 is good for the soul.

Except, apparently, the Lost Tales, which is good for ... not much. Ah well.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

I liked "Lost Tales" actually. Yeah, the low budget aspect showed, (according to JMS, when they opened the storage unit that the props and the like had been stored in, they found most of it had been stolen or lost), the story *felt* like Babylon 5 - and felt right.

Of course, one's mileage may vary. But I'd be interested in seeing the next one if/when made

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

I would say the same thing but more so about Access ...

[canray.livejournal.com]

*Holds Up Cluebat-With-A-Nail-In-It* Oh, I'll deal with it, alright!

Re: You are doing it wrong.

[forge.livejournal.com]

aliens ftw!

Re: You are doing it wrong.

[canray.livejournal.com]

It's game over, man, GAME OVER!!!

[forge.livejournal.com]

In the service almost every training class and EVERY briefing had power points. I was so sick of em, because they all used the crap icons and flashy animations.

What's worse is that there were patches made for the pilots uniforms that said "1000 Hours: Powerpoint." As if that wasn't bad enough...

"This is my PowerPoint. There are many like it but mine is 4.0.

My PowerPoint is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life.

My PowerPoint without me is useless. Without my PowerPoint, I am useless.

I must format my slides true. I must brief them better than the other staff section who are trying to out-brief me.

I must brief the impact on the Commander before he asks me. I will.

My PowerPoint and myself know that what counts in this war is not the number of slides, the colors of the highlights, nor the format of the bullets. We know that it is the new information that counts. We will brief only new information.

My PowerPoint is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its fonts, its accessories, its formats, and its colors.

I will keep my PowerPoint slides current and ready to brief. We will become part of each other. We will…

Before God I swear this creed. My PowerPoint and myself are defenders of my country. We are the masters of our subject. We are the saviors of my career.

So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but peace (and the next exercise)!"

[blossomingfire.livejournal.com]

Mmm..........Full Metal Office.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

My dad, a retired Navy O-6 who did a bunch of technical consulting for NMCI (Navy-Marine Corps Intranet), sent me an "A-head" from the Wall Street Journal. (A-Head is that funny column usually in column 4 of the front page of the WSJ.) This one said that Powerpoint got to be such a time-sink at the Pentagon, to say nothing of a technical nightmare of getting every powerpoint loaded from any conference room, etc. that it was banned at the Pentagon and Pentagon Annex. As with every other office on the planet, too many man-hours were being devoted to tweaking colors, transitions, and sound effects.

I don't know if the ban has been rescinded with new guidelines for low-brightwork, high-content presentations, as I would expect from the military, or what-- it also wouldn't surprise me if they went back to transparencies on the overhead projectors.

[forge.livejournal.com]

I used them a ton, and i got out in 05. Although I never used the pretty effects. I stuck to basic backgrounds, no transition effects, etc. Made my life easier that way