conferences
Organizing conferences is fun. You plan and plan and speakers do not listen to your super-trooper planning and you get all files too late and spend hours in front of the printer…Thus: Wish me luck with the printer! This machine is wonderful, printing out entire booklets, folding, stapling, and spitting it out after while. I makes huge piles printed papers of which 5% at max will be read, fully colored….except you forget to press this one particular button or one paper sticks in its intestines. Suddenly you find yourself kneeling in front of its holiness, with dirty fingers, fiddling around like a surgeon trying to find out what is blocking its mechanism.
This is more or less where I am right now. I am organizing and finalizing a zero-perfumery one-day conference next week. I doubt that I will come across the perfume idea of the century the next days. Thus, zero posts until the weekend.
…. perfumer hopping off fiddling around with another invention of great implications: Powerpoint!
September 13th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Andy, good luck with that capricious god, the printer–and with the conference. Maybe you can pacify the electronic deity with a spray of something beautiful? You reminded me that I need to get Powerpoint. (Picture a less than thrilled look.)
September 13th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Isn’t it fun to create those slides! Good luck to you with you project and your conference.
I’m moving this weekend and don’t know how soon I’ll be hooked up with the computer as it is a brand new development that hasn’t been wired yet (and unfortunately I don’t have internet access at work, darn!). So, in the meantime, fragrant greetings to Zuerich. Hopefully it won’t take too long.