Friday 01/12/2024
My main job today was to lead the noon tour at CHM, but before that I got some tech stuff done. First, for my AV team, I installed some new body mics in the auditorium and put out an email explaining their use.
Then I took a tech squad call to help Joanne L. She was used to streaming PBS shows on her laptop, and mirroring them on her big TV. Something changed while she was away on vacation, her sister messed with her computer or something, and now that wouldn’t work. This turned out to be an easy fix, somebody had changed the Displays settings so the second display (the TV) was no longer mirroring her laptop. It was set to be a separate monitor. I showed her how you could move the mouse over to the right and it would show up on the TV, and you could drag a window there and see it on the TV. She didn’t care for that, wanted back the way it used to be, which was easy to do.
Then off to lead a tour. Just 5 people, but they were patient and appreciative so I gave them the bonus tour, talking about the Xerox Alto and how that led to the Mac, and so on.
On return I went to help Pam, who had asked as a personal favor would I look at a couple of weird things on her mac. I like Pam so I didn’t fob her off to the tech squad. I won’t go into her problems here but one was easy to fix and one was a real stumper. I sent her an email later with a possible fix, we’ll see.
Then I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a week or two. At the new year, SFJazz announced a new program where they make available to members only, the ability to stream any concert from their library of previous concert streams. They started doing those in 2020 during Covid and there is quite a collection. One of them is the concert by Veronica Swift that I saw last October when it was first streamed, and I was super impressed, made me a Veronica Swift fanboy overnight.
So now I could re-watch that concert, but why not share it? So I put out a message on CHBB, I would be showing a concert on the 11th floor TV, come watch. It was a great concert, and about a dozen people drifted in to watch, and almost all stayed to the end and expressed sincere thanks for my sharing it. Veronica Swift rules.
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