algernon prepping for RustWeekThis is a plot that will not be in the talk. But you'll be able to cargo bench it once I open up the repo after the talk.
With today's HN story teardown out of the way, I ran the current iteration of my #RustWeek talk by the family, this time with most props present (only one placeholder left).
They're still lovingly offering a straightjacket.
I'm calling this a success. But my slides and the repo I'll open up after the talk need more work. Can't run the latter by the family, and the kind of work I'm still doing on the slides is something they won't notice (they lack the context - which aren't essential to understand the talk, and the slides, they're completely unrelated to the talk itself, but I find it fun to hide 'em).
algernon prepping for RustWeek (@[email protected])
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All props are offline, by the way, and none of them have any computers in them as far as I can tell. They're all very safe for work too.
I ain't bringing things on stage that youtube would ban the livestream for.
And I didn't even use the real props, only placeholders. Doesn't make much of a difference, but... the props do play an important part, with only placeholders, some dramatic effects are less dramatic.
In other news, I just delivered a practice run of my talk to the family, and they lovingly offered a straightjacket.
'tis going well.
I need some props for the talk, and had a few bookmarked, but... for some reason didn't order them yet. Wanted to prep my talk a bit further, to see more clearly what I need.
I had a minor heart attack today, because I was almost ready to hit the order button when I noticed the estimated shipping: "not before May 21st". That's the day I fly back! That's a a good few days too late!
BUT WHAT WILL I DO WITHOUT MY PROPS?!?!
Luckily, I phoned around in the family, and will have all the props I need in time. Will have to visit both parents before I fly off on Monday.
BWAAHAHAHA.
I found a fun way to play with colors1.
There's gonna be a number of subtle (and some not so subtle) subliminal messages in the slides and the talk itself.
This toot was inspired by Lord of the Lost's My Funeral, and the color "pink". ↩︎