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"This Is Not My Beautiful Software "
Posted by ginger on 03-11-05 at 03:05 PM
Upgrade or downgrade?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/11/DDGIQBMB4G26.DTL




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"I *Heart* David Byrne"
Posted by FesterFan1 on 03-11-05 at 03:41 PM
And not just because he's a Bawlmoron.

Color me gellus that I missed that, erm, presentation.

Fester
Will you talk to me about anything but religion, Ginger dear?

"RE: I *Heart* David Byrne"
Posted by landruajm on 03-12-05 at 09:14 AM
Only a Bawlmoron could be proud of Arbuttucks.

Have you accepted Brian Billick as your personal savior?

"RE: I *Heart* David Byrne"
Posted by AugustGirl on 03-12-05 at 09:37 AM
You called?


Yes. Yes I have.

Mornin' hon.

"RE: I *Heart* David Byrne"
Posted by FesterFan1 on 03-12-05 at 04:21 PM
Not proud of Arbuttocks, just this particular Arbuttocksian...or is that Arbuttocksite?

Still, glass houses and stones, dood. Glass houses and stones.

Fester
I am an original member of the Church of Ray-Ray, and you know it. Don't talk to me of false prophets.

"RE: I *Heart* David Byrne"
Posted by landruajm on 03-12-05 at 05:03 PM
Your point? Other than, "things that go tinkle?"

What time is it?

"i'll play"
Posted by cqvenus on 03-11-05 at 04:01 PM

okay. i*heart*powerpoint, too.

~ cq


handed in a timeline in powerpoint and the prof said to do it over on cardboard. i loathe oldskool.

"RE: i'll play"
Posted by ginger on 03-11-05 at 04:04 PM
I'm torn - love the man, hate Powerpoint. I've never seen any Powerpoint presentation that gave me more than a miligram of information. Powerpoint seems to be a way for people to say nothing, at great length, with big pictures and dots and things.

I used to have a great "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as a Powerpoint Presentation" thingee but I can't find it now.

Do you think Byrne wore the big suit?



I will talk to you about EVERYTHING except religion, Dahlin Fester.

"RE: i'll play"
Posted by FesterFan1 on 03-11-05 at 04:08 PM
Yeah, but isn't it about the absurdity of PowerPoint? I mean the examples from the article, like "Reasons I Dumped You", were pretty hilarious.

David Byrne is a pop culture artist extraordinaire...which makes it all the stranger that I saw him shopping in Nordstrom's with his parents.

Fester
I guess even counter-culturists need underwear too.

"RE: i'll play"
Posted by ginger on 03-11-05 at 04:13 PM
What were the Byrne mater and pater familias like?



I'm imagining odd things.

"RE: i'll play"
Posted by FesterFan1 on 03-11-05 at 04:16 PM
Disappointingly suburban...yet really, really lanky.

Fester
I stalked them for a full 15 minutes until the wife said "Can we go yet?! Your son is up to his elbows in the bra bin."

"RE: i'll play"
Posted by ginger on 03-11-05 at 04:22 PM
Lanky. Okay, I guess that fits the image. Funny how she said "YOUR son," which is what one does when the kid is being annoying. When Fat Miranda vomits up breakfast, she's Sneetch's cat, not mine.




I would have stalked, too.

"RE: i'll play"
Posted by FesterFan1 on 03-11-05 at 04:26 PM
I think it was more along the lines of "the kid is being male", but, on the whole, you're right. When the child is doing something embarrassing/inappropriate/illegal, they're always "yours".

I'll take the blame for the bad genes. I mean, DUH.

Fester
His hair is truly white. It was stunning, really.

"RE: i'll play"
Posted by Immunegirl on 03-11-05 at 07:59 PM
My science geek self *hearts* PowerPoint too (well, except for the fact that I am supposed to be working on it now...)


Slice and Dice Chop Shop 2004

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"and?"
Posted by cqvenus on 03-11-05 at 04:03 PM

your thread title, as usual, ginger, is pure genius.

~ cq

"RE: and?"
Posted by ginger on 03-11-05 at 04:04 PM
It's a reflection on the subject, rather than the author. But gracias.



"RE: This Is Not My Beautiful Software "
Posted by landruajm on 03-12-05 at 09:18 AM
Wonderful article, and it sounds like a wonderful presentation.

I'm wondering if Byrne is an art-side proponent of that Tufte moron, who swears that PowerPoint is the downfall of communication.

The problem isn't with PowerPoint, it's with its users. When people use PowerPoint to creates slides of bullets, then read the bullets without delving into them, they're not providing much information. If you can create a slide and talk about it for five minutes, you're more likely to be talking effectively. If you burn through two slides a minute, you're probably not.

The most shocking revelation here: I wonder when David Byrne got so damned old.