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I need some props for the talk, and had a few bookmarked, but... for some reason didn't order them yet. Wanted to prep my talk a bit further, to see more clearly what I need.
I had a minor heart attack today, because I was almost ready to hit the order button when I noticed the estimated shipping: "not before May 21st". That's the day I fly back! That's a a good few days too late!
BUT WHAT WILL I DO WITHOUT MY PROPS?!?!
Luckily, I phoned around in the family, and will have all the props I need in time. Will have to visit both parents before I fly off on Monday.
HAH! #RustWeek just sent me an email asking me to look over and suggest changes to the script they plan to use when announcing my talk on stage.
AWESOME!
Say hello to "many pronouns, handle it". Not exactly that text, of course, because that has no mention of the talk's topic (although iocaine is related, and will get a very brief mention), but something along those lines.
Love it.
In other news, I just delivered a practice run of my talk to the family, and they lovingly offered a straightjacket.
'tis going well.
And I didn't even use the real props, only placeholders. Doesn't make much of a difference, but... the props do play an important part, with only placeholders, some dramatic effects are less dramatic.
All props are offline, by the way, and none of them have any computers in them as far as I can tell. They're all very safe for work too.
I ain't bringing things on stage that youtube would ban the livestream for.
Hrm. Do I join the #RustWeek discord, or do I not? Discord might be easier to keep track of during conference than email, because I will only have K9 and webmail with me, not my usual notmuch + emacs setup.
I'm not great at email either way, but without notmuch, I'm screwed.
Urgh. I will need to update my wife's laptop too. I won't be using it to deliver my presentation, but I kinda want to have a computer with me that's more capable than a horrible android phone.
But my wife's laptop is very deliberately configured for her, so there's plenty of stuff to add to the NixOS config until I can use it too.
So much to do, so little time. Argh.
(I don't have a laptop, wife was kind enough to lend me hers.)
