Maybe your slide show will explain it

person pointing on the screen of a laptop

You clear a spot on the table around you for your laptop and pull up a slide show presentation you’ve been working off of for the last several committee meetings.

“Okay, I think this might best explain the sort of stuff I’ve been working on,” you pull up the slides, put it in presentation mode and wait for everyone’s attention.

“Ohh Yay! I can’t wait,” your mom said before a big bite of stuffing.

You start flipping through the slides and explaining the figures and the math. While you are going over the exact same information you’ve been presenting earlier, you have fancier graphics which holds the attention of your family for much longer before they start looking bored. You flip to a slide with some math, then a slide with some figures only to see the looks of excitement turn to confusion.

You present a graph analyzing the processing time and the Time-frequency fidelity to represent a pulsating wave form. You proudly crafted a two dimensional color plot which sums up your exciting results.

“So here you see that my transformation scheme is outperforming all of my competition.”

“Is that because it’s red?” your dad asked.

“Yes, in some key areas”

“Hmmm, can you make the text bigger I can’t see it that well.” You make a note, but it is on your tiny laptop screen.

“I still can’t say I completely understand but it looks great!” Your mom added. “So when do you get a Nobel prize? It all looks very impressive” your mom says.

There weren’t too many substantive questions but everyone seemed to have enjoyed it. What do you do?

Stop and eat some turkey

Try something else

Published by B McGraw

B McGraw has lived a long and successful professional life as a software developer and researcher. After completing his BS in spaghetti coding at the department of the dark arts at Cranberry Lemon in 2005 he wasted no time in getting a masters in debugging by print statement in 2008 and obtaining his PhD with research in screwing up repos on Github in 2014. That's when he could finally get paid. In 2018 B McGraw finally made the big step of defaulting on his student loans and began advancing his career by adding his name on other people's research papers after finding one grammatical mistake in the Peer Review process.

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