And so I attended the Mass Writing session that Darrel organised on Monday the 15th of June. It was brilliant!
The first and best realisation (as one of the student speakers) was that we were all quite terrified of one another. Boyd was worried that we were all going to say the same and that since he was neither an artist nor a professional programmer that he would be out of his depth. Ira was worried that he as an artist was going to have to speak to a room full of computer scientists. One of the guys mentioned that he has never done this kind of presentation before and I was starting to wonder where I fitted in with the artistic flair of a black spot.
Just to make absolutely sure that we were total wrecks, Darrel reminded us that the session will be webcasted.
However, things went really well. It was great to meet some of you guys in person. Meeting Ira, listening to his experiences and how he goes about doing things was absolutely enlightening and enthusing.
Darrel’s arrangements couldn’t be faulted and it was great to be introduced to his fantastic secretary and see his glitzy building where he is currently chief in charge of Computer Science. We had a lovely lunch between sessions and despite my tendency to fall asleep when I’m nervous, the sessions were so interesting that sleeping never crossed my mind … or my mind never crossed over to sleeping.
I said it then and I’ll say it now: Many thanks to Darrel for a marvellous day and a marvellous opportunity to have been part of this project.
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I watched the webcast and I thought you were really great and did really well. I'm sure you got a lot more out of it being there but it was good to watch, too.
Thanks Mike. I hope you didn't mind my reference to you in my presentation :-) Did I pronounce your surname correctly? I wasn't sure how it should be pronounced.
I didn't mind at all and, yes, you got it almost spot on. It's very awkward having an unusual name although the name is actually English back to the 1600s at least - it's from Cornwall.
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