Top 5 Oral Presentation Tips

Inspired by this post http://tinyurl.com/76hy9o from @jonburg, here are a few tips for making more interesting presentations in 2009.
1. Avoid filler words. Commonly abused (read repeated over and over and over again) words: really, like, um, you know. How to avoid them? Know your shit! If you know your material backwards, forwards and sideways, you’ll [...]

Happy Holidays

Sorry for the drop in writing lately. Family events and holidays oblige. What’s happening with me? Well,
Reading: Vol 2 of Blotner’s biography of Faulkner. Fascinating. Sad that some of the greatest American writers of the 20th C (Faulkner and Hemmingway in particular) were heavy, chronic alcoholics. I didn’t know that Faulkner was hospitalized several times [...]