I’m down in Albany at a work thingy.. on the way down here I gave two talks at union college.. The first bombed.. the second was fantastic. What makes one talk go poorly.. and the next one go splendidly (I like the word splendidly) . ?  I was passionate about both topics.. I knew my material cold  for both.. I did fund demos and told funny stories in oth .. . Perhaps I misjudged my audience in the first.. I was talking to kids about getting other kids interested in science.. Maybe they were too close ?
  I don’t know.. all that I know is that really empty feeling of being half way through a talk .. all eyes on you.. and you just know that you’re sucking big time..   You can’t gracefully just stop.. thogh perhaps that would be better than continuing.. maybe the est thing to do in a circumstance like that is to reach for the fire alarm and jump out a window.
   Whatever the cause of the first fiasco the second could not have gone better.. for which I’m grateful. it seems there’s some karmic scale somewhere only allowing me to suck as much as I win..
   Oh well.. we live and learn..
now time for sleep.. tomorrow’s a usy day..

nite all, note sam !
-me