TheBanyanTree: My hate affair with forms: the acid test

[Peter Macinnis]

Well, OK, these people want me to come and do a seminar sort of thing. 
I ask them for what they want, they send me a po-faced public-service 
questionnaire to fill out.  I could be po-faced as well, give bland 
answers and scare them when I arrive.

No, I'll be me.  That way, they have time to change their plans.

Yes! The acid test!  More power, Igor, while I play a few chords on the 
organ!



PREFERRED TIME:
between midnight and midnight, or failing that, 'twixt noon and noon.
After coffee is always good.


PREFERRED FORMAT (PERFORMANCE, READING, PANEL, WORKSHOP, QUESTIONS...)
Combination of reading (brief snippets) and a workshop, discussing my 
work and work methods, fielding questions before, after or during.

Is the juggling of flaming gibbons contrary to fire regulations?

Oh well . . .


WHAT DO YOU NEED?
I would like, if possible, to have access to a suitable projector, able 
to connect to a MacBook, plus internet access. I will bring a USB 
thumbstick with all of the needed files on it, so I can also use an 
established system which may be easier.  I use PowerPoint, but don't 
cringe.  I will also need Excel and a Web browser, preferably Firefox. 
The PowerPoint file will also be available as a PPS file that does not 
need PowerPoint.

Gibbons, matches, petroleum jelly, a small bust of Charles de Gaulle, a 
broken alarm clock, a box of banknotes that you have discarded and 
somewhere to store the small stuffed beagle that I plan to bring. In a 
pinch, just the beagle storage will do, and it can fend for itself.


HELP WITH TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION
Yes please on both counts.  I am happy to crash somewhere in a spare 
bed, if your budget is tight, but be warned that my snore has been 
compared with Temeraire's Divine Wind, and was recently referred to the 
Guinness Book of Records in the industrial deafness category.

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There was more, but that will do.  Now we'll see if they're made of 
stern stuff or not.

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