Comments on: In case there’s nothing on TV tomorrow night

By: Rebecca Clayton

Rebecca Clayton — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:52:33 +0000

Thanks for the generous offer, Dave!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:20:45 +0000

Rebecca, you’d be welcome to stay here in the guest house should you ever feel like making the trip – or happen to be passing through. You’d probably be especially interested in meeting my insect-collecting brother, who also plays clawhammer banjo.

By: Rebecca Clayton

Rebecca Clayton — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:02:43 +0000

Wish it weren’t such a long drive! I could use some face time with naturalists.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:00:02 +0000

Ah, that does look promising!

The crowd was small but appreciative, I guess. The fact that at least three of the blogs I talked about were by Auduboners made an impression, I think. I feel bad I didn’t make room for several more of my favorite nature blogs from the Appalachian region, though.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:51:28 +0000

Hope it went well! I would have loved to have seen it, but the drive would’ve been a bit far. :)

I’m checking out your list of links… someone passed a good one to me the other day, for fungi IDs: http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=199 . You send the pics and they help you ID the fungi.

By: Jean

Jean — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:40:09 +0000

Slides of an artist’s work is the other use of PowerPoint I don’t find dire – could indeed work well for you Marja-Leena, I should think, since your work looks good on the blog (though I’m sure it looks much different and much better in the original).

Hope it goes well tonight Dave.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:33:32 +0000

Thanks, Beth.

Marja-Leena – I’m sure it would be riveting to see slides of your work and the processes involved in making it. Now that’s the sort of thing that would really make a good addition to one’s website!

By: marja-leena

marja-leena — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:18:48 +0000

As Beth said. Sounds like you are going to have fun, so I’m sure it will be enjoyed by your audience.

I’ve never done PowerPoint, but now have its Mac version Keynote which I’ve been studying and hope to test out. Never know when I have to give a slide show of my work.

By: beth

beth — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:10:25 +0000

Will be thinking of you, Dave, and wishing I could be there to hear what you come up with. I’m sure it will be quite entertaining!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:06:03 +0000

It’s not going to be too big a thrill, trust me! The pics are of blogs and webpages that include good photos, but a certain amount of photo quality is lost during the screen capture. I guess I’m a fairly animated speaker, as long as I’m properly caffeinated.

The Audubon chapter’s webmaster has agreed to put my links list on the web, so I’ll be able to link to an outline, at least. I’m just afraid of hurting the feelings of those whose blogs I didn’t include. Many were chosen almost at random to try and represent the richness of place blogs, natural history blogs, conservation blogs, and miscellany blogs (like this one) that cover nature part of the time.