I’m co-hosting with @ryangermick. We arrive an hour before the talk, plug in the title slide, get miked, etc. And then, we just hang out.
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About 20 minutes later, one of the A/V technicians comes running to us, with a worried and sheepish expression on his face.
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He goes “we’re seeing all of this noise and artifacts. We checked everything twice, but we still have no idea where they’re coming from.”
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Turned out, the CSS I put together was impersonating an old display so well it actually fooled (and frightened) the professionals!
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(The talk was really tons of fun otherwise. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttavBa4giPc …)
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The other actually genuinely scary slide I made a few years earlier. As part of Authors @ Google program, we were hosting Richard Rhodes.
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Rhodes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, most famous for his most excellent book The Making Of The Atomic Bomb.
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Pls tell me you've read Michael Lista's 'Bloom' (inspired by Joyce's Ulysses) surrounding day Slotin exposes himself/7 others to radiation?
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The Demon Core? No! Ordering later tonight!
/cc @vaurorapub
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It's an incredible poetry collection, based on actual day Slotin exposed himself to lethal dose. It is learned later he had discovered...
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his wife had had an affair with Graves whom he was training the day it happened. Incredible story and Lista crafts various poems of it in
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