It turns out that I, much like a PC, can crash. Tonight, I gave a 5 minute extemporaneous talk at CIDR in the Gong Show. I wanted to try out some ideas about how to do big queries incrementally that Nolan and I spoke about last week. I liked the ideas. I'll blog about them tomorrow.
So, I though I would go casual, lighthearted no slides, little prep. Well, that's not me and the experiment was less than successful.
I stood in front of the projector on the stage. Big blue screen bearing right down on me. Told my opening joke…no laughs. Then, forgot the title of my talk. 10 seconds pause maybe. Someone in the crowd gave me a bzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Then, I rebooted and got through my stuff. I was a little rattled so it wasn't great. I'm sure it was OK, but felt miserable.
To cool down, I took a long walk on the beach at 10 pm, where I encountered two yoots (that would be local youths) that decided that they would try and physically intimidate me.
Not Big Data's night. Hasta manana.
Discussion
So, that explains the pause! I was wondering whether that was part of the talk as well. Good to see you at FAST last week.