So I had a few things to do today. I’m visiting Wenona School tomorrow to give a talk to high school students in their lunch time science club. I told the teacher I’d do it on cameras and human vision, thinking I had a slide presentation ready to go. But when I checked, I’d sort of remembered two halves of different ones I’d done previously. So I had to spend some time deciding what content from each one to use, and then stitching them together into a single presentation. Which was complicated by the fact that one of them was very old and done in 4:3 aspect ratio at lower resolution, while the other was newer and in 16:9 at high resolution. I had to reconfigure and recrop a lot of the diagrams, so it took some time.
When I was done I uploaded a copy to Google drive and sent the teacher a link, suggesting she could download it to have a look, and maybe have a copy on a school machine just in case I have trouble connecting my laptop to their display.
Secondly, I’ve been trying to juggle a couple of requests from Outschool parents of two different kids who approached me about doing some additional classes for their kids. One wants a science class for a 10-year-old, and the other wants some one-on-one tutoring for a student starting Year 9 who needs help with formulating arguments in essays. I can do both these things, and would like to help them out – the main issue is finding time in my schedule. I suggested I could do them both on a Wednesday, during the day since they’re both in a good time zone for that (Japan and Australia). Now I have to make new class outlines and submit them to Outschool for approval.
In between all this I wrote a new Darths & Droids comic (which will have to wait until tomorrow to make), and picked up Scully from my wife’s work and took her for the long walk home. And then three classes on “Light and Darkness” this evening. Another full day!