My worst nightmare came true this morning (well, not the one about going to school naked or how Darth Vader is your father). I was teaching a workshop on Audacity audio mixing program in the Multimedia Studio, and nothing on the Instructor Station worked! There it was, projected for all the world to see, error message after error message, permissions problems, non-existent files, you name it. Getting surprised was the worse part. I assumed it would work like it did yesterday. Sigh.
So I basically had to wing the whole presentation. Thankfully, all of the workshop participants had working machines, more or less (oh, except for that one guy in the front row who ended up need to share a station with the guy next to him). “So if you click this button here, it should do [insert some cool audio mixing function]. Uh, you won’t be able to see it on the large screen, but it should work on your station.” In the end, the workshop took twice as long as it was supposed to, but I think the information got conveyed. Now that both workshops are over (I had another one after lunch), I feel much more prepared to teach Audacity.
On a totally separate note, one of my Stanford friends who is a year younger than me, whom I barely knew was married, just had a baby girl. Wow. And there I was debating with someone else the other day about whether so-and-so was actually married or if I just made that up.
…that’s my year. and i’m only six months younger than you (seven, i guess). freaky.
Who had a kid? 🙂