Technology: 0 , Me: -2

So in preparation for the second class of the semester I decided that it would be a good idea to try out the projection system a couple of times to make sure that I had been able to work out all the bugs. Sure enough I was able to clear things up. I even figured out how to display the slide on the projector while keeping the speakers view on my laptop screen. Having managed to accomplish this in only a couple of minutes in the actual classroom that I was to be teaching in I felt pretty confident that I wouldn’t have any problems.

Incidentally, have I mentioned how stunningly fast this Mac laptop is at booting up? Wether from a full shutdown or just being put to sleep by closing it up it will generally boot up in less than a minute.

Well yesterday I went to the class about 10 minutes early to ensure that I would have enough time to get things rolling. I went through all the steps that I had successfully used last time and sure enough nothing happened. Not nothing went wrong, I mean nothing happened. The projector didn’t pick up the feed from the computer and I was left sitting there like a putz. Ok, I’ve still got time to handle this, maybe if I close the laptop and open it again I can get it to figure out the connection to the projector.

By about now you should be able to see where this is going and why I included that little mention of how quick the laptop is too boot up. Sure enough when I opened the laptop up it got stuck in some eternal booting loop that I just didn’t have time to deal with. So by my scoring that puts technology at zero and me at negative two. Some might argue that it should be 2-0 for technology but I don’t see technology as having won anything yet, it’s simply fucked things up and made me look like an ass. Stay tuned for more score updates in the coming weeks.