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8:37am on Tuesday, 14th January, 2025:
Anecdote
Yesterday was my first lecture of the spring term. I'd tested my laptop earlier in the day, and copied over the latest version of my slides, so I was ready to go.
I set it up five minutes before 11am and pulled out my trusty laser pointer/slide changer. It didn't work.
No problem! I have some spare batteries for just such an emergency!
It wasn't a battery issue. The device had died.
Still no problem! I have a back-up laser pointer for just such a sequence of emergencies!
That didn't work either. I ended up having to press the space key on my laptop's keyboard and point with my finger.
Also, although I had indeed copied the latest version of my slides to my office PC, I hadn't copy them to my laptop. There were a couple of minor corrections I had to make during the lecture.
Oh well. A new laser pointer/slide changer has been ordered and should arrive today (albeit after today's lecture and class have finished).
One lecture down, nineteen more (plus nineteen classes and a lab) to go.
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