DJ Cravens <[email protected]> wrote: Strange, you expect a write up of a demo before it happens. >
OF COURSE I DO!!! For goodness sake, haven't you rehearsed?!? Don't you know what the thing will do? Assuming it works. This is mind boggling!!! I cannot imagine anyone going to a conference or a trade show with a device he intends to show who has not written a description of the device, and a script for a presentation, and who has not prepared gobs of data. Are you planning to wing it? Try the gadget for the first time in the conference hall??? Good grief! When I think of the weeks of work I put into trade show demos and customer demos in my youth, sweating bullets and rehearsing and rehearsing and rehearsing . . . To hear from you that you cannot write it up until *after the presentation*, makes my head spin. Of course the gadget may not work right, but that is all the more reason should have every detail nailed down, with gobs of paper and video presentation available in that event, ready to present in lieu of the demonstration. Heck I have devoted weeks to the paper I will present, and a month to Mizuno's poster presentation, and I will put another month into them when I get back. > You are not realistic. > And you are meshugganah, going off half cocked and unrehearsed! All I can say is, you are the polar opposite of a programmer. We leave nothing to chance, except when we must. - Jed
