Friday 01/19/2024
Just a short walk in the morning over to CVS to pick up 2 prescriptions. Then busily to work on preparing for two different AV events. On the 23rd, Patty will run a documentary from NHK (Japan TV) that was partly produced by her son Jeff. She wants to start with a map of Japan and the southern islands. She had picked up a map she liked from geology.com, but it was like 600×800 pixels. So I ran it through the magic photo ai app I have to make it much bigger and sharper, appropriate for display on a big screen. Then in the auditorium I tested running her documentary.
On 2/5, Oscar will present a book talk. He wants to discuss the movie made from this book, showing a number of clips from the film. He has a personal friend Gary who is a tech, very familiar with video production. So Oscar and Gary came at 1:30 to try out our equipment and practice the presentation. They fiddled around for an hour and seemed satisfied.
Next into the auditorium was Stew, wanting to test an idea for the upcoming music party (see yesterday). He wants to put sing-along lyrics on the big screen, but Joanne, in charge of getting people to dance, doesn’t want the screen down because she wants the stage clear for dancers. So the solution is to put the screen partway down, and to put the lyrics only on the top 1/3 of a powerpoint slide, and to make the slide background black with white text. It looks like it will work pretty well:
That was that until 6 when I joined the carpool group to go the SWBB game. This was the game where, if they won, Tara would tie the record of Coach K. They did win, beating Oregon by 30. They got off to what you might call a good start: the score was 20-0 halfway through the first quarter. To their credit, the Ducks came back getting to within 5 at one point, but to no avail.
Codgerville 