Demented Entertainment

RantWoman's weekend was well spent.

Saturday night found RantWoman in a lovely mixed ages crowd playing the sort of interactive games that are supposed to get everyone laughing and singing and to gon until the littlest players are just past giggly but not quite to howling in exhaustion. RantWoman's favorite game involves players sitting around in a  circle and smiling--or NOT smiling. One player gets down on one knee in front of someone else and says some variant of "Honey, I love you. Won't you please give me a smile?" The second player is supposed to say something like "Honey, I love you but I just cannot / do not know how..." The second player is supposed to say this without smiling or laughing. Once in awhile someone is especially poker-faced and manages to avoid turning into the next player but this is rare. It is really hard not to wind up laughing even if, as in RantWoman's case, one would need a spotter to figure out the facial issues.


Sunday night, for something COMPLETELY different, rantWoman went to Startup Weekend! As previously noted RantWoman missed the initial schmooze and intros. Sunday night events ran a little behind schedule and RantWoman sat a spell before being joined by guys she did not know. RantWoman's reward: the thought of Powerpoint Karaoke! Powerpoint karoke means grabbing random slides for instance of the internet and giving  atalk based on the slides improvisationally!

RantWoman thinks this is a PERFECT approach to Powerpoint--and karaoke both..

Well not quite perfect.

RantWoman dedicates the following idea to translators everywhere bedeviled by cryptic column headings and Talmudical captions in Smart Art. RantWoman thinks the ONLY way to improve on Powerpoint Karaoke would be....drum roll...Sight Translation Powerpoint Karaoke! Grab slides in one half of one's language pair. Deliver a talk in the other language drawn on the slides!

Now, just HOW much money would it take to get rantWoman to try it????