The Mesomorph Does PowerPoint

Filed under: Mesomorph, School | By DrHGuy | April 24, 2007 at 12:01 pm

Oh, The Humanities

I spent much of last night and this morning advising and tutoring The Mesomorph on the construction of a PowerPoint presentation of his last (if there is a God in heaven) high school Humanities project.

And you know what that means.

That’s right, I had no time to put together a Heck of a Guy blog entry so today’s offering is - in an amazing coincidence - an online collection of clips of my 18 year old’s high school project.

Well, whether viewers are excited or not, The Mesomorph and I are heavily invested in this thing. How motivated are we? Before I answer my own rhetorical query, I am obligated by The Blogger’s Principles For The Preventive Of Psychological Trauma to warn any in the audience who know anything whatsoever about my younger son to seat themselves before reading on.

The Mesomorph’s motivation is so high that the presentation, now in its final editing, is not due until Thursday - that would be the Thursday that falls TWO DAYS AFTER TODAY.

Referrals to appropriate counseling are available for those who feel emotionally queasy after having their conceptualization of the order of the universe shaken.

And here’s the requisite teaser promoting the movie - a subtle clue as to the source of the young lad’s motivation is contained within the project title he selected.

Technical Notes

Viewers may be interested to learn that reasonably priced software programs are available that convert PowerPoint presentations, animations and all, into video files.

I, of course, own none of this software and see no reason to spend $35 for such a program when I have a dandy camcorder that cost more than 10 times that much and will do almost half as good a job.

Today’s flick shows the display on my laptop as shot by my camcorder perched upon my nifty Gorillapod (a gift from the incandescent Lawanda).