Public Speaking

I spent last Thursday’s writing time preparing a presentation of the Spherical Model for the local Tea Party meeting. It’s put together now as a video, such as it is, below. I did video, on my phone, of the other speakers at the meeting. But all I could do for myself was press start and go speak. And then we had issues with the projector, which had cycled off during the other speakers. I had to stand on a chair and reach it up near the ceiling—because I’m taller than any of the men who were handy. And then I totally didn’t think about whether I was standing in view of the camera, because I was talking to the audience. So there’s quite a lot of time I totally wander out of view. But no problem; we just use the slides (Mr. Spherical Model helped me edit), which makes them a lot clearer than a video of the screen in the room.

And then we couldn’t get the microphone to work. I don’t have a very loud voice, even though from my perspective I was talking really loud. But the room was small enough that going without a microphone went OK—except I was 15 or so feet from the camera, so not great sound.

Enough apologies. It’s yet another effort to explain these ideas. I hope this is helpful. The presentation is called, "There's No Such Thing as a Right-Wing Extremist."