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Wolfgang, you wrote:
"regarding "PowerPoint is evil" I can only remember someone giving a - pretty interesting, by the way - PowerPoint presentation on the use of lunar distances..."

Ahh, Wolfgang. I'm afraid you don't really understand what people are saying when they talk about the PowerPoint problem and its "cognitive style". You should do some reading on it. The links I provided in my last post should get you started. Those two presentations of mine at Greenwich were NOT PowerPoint presentations in the narrow sense, and they were not PowerPoint-like in style. In fact, the slides that I created were very INTENTIONALLY not PowerPoint in style. I chatted with someone after the first talk who specifically inquired about the style of the presentation slides and how much he liked them. Many of my slides were pure visuals --photos of logbook pages, for example. Others had a single image and only three or four words of text. They were TOOLS of the presentation rather than a slavish PP-style outline with a bullet for every point.

And you added:
"But what I really admire is the ease with which you utter scathing judgements about institutions and people you hardly know anything about."

Oh wow, Wolfgang... it's been a while since I've seen this sort of thing from you. But oh yes, it's still familiar. I am so sorry that you saw my comments as "scathing judgements". If you disagree with anything I said, I would be happy to discuss it with you --if you can be specific. As for any chance that I may have offended the hard-working staff of HMNAO, I am sure that they are well aware of the very limited relevance of their work in the year 2013 and the resulting precarious nature of their employment status. This does not in any way reflect on their characters, and like everyone in the world (EVERYONE), I am sure they look after the apparent importance of their positions in the eyes of their employers.

-FER

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