Things I Know I Know

My new theory of the Internet is that everyone eventually ends up looking at happy puppies. You'll be doing research or looking for information or just randomly clicking and suddenly...OMG Happy Puppies!!!!!

It's what glues the Internet together.

I would put pictures of happy puppies in this very post, but I'm too lazy to get up and get my camera and cable and transfer said pictures over.

I have had a weird couple of days, some of which I can't comment on, some of which I don't want to comment on yet, but will at some point. Among other things, I gave a talk at a national conference but because I couldn't actually be at the conference I did it via videoconferencing. Word is that it went really well and I got great feedback, but really, don't ever do this unless you have no other choice. If you rely in any way on audience response (eye contact, smiles, nodding heads, frowns, crossed arms, sleeping in the back of the room) and I do, well, you get *nothing* from a video conference. There's no audience response. This particular talk was compounded by the fact that I was showing two videos that were several minutes each and at my end that was just blank silent time. So, yeah, you're giving a talk and then you stop in the middle for five minutes, then you start up again, and then there's time for three questions and some talking in the back of the room that you can't hear and then you're done.

It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, though.

Just in case you were wondering.

Okay....one Happy Puppy picture: