powerpoint

I spent two days at a medical convention listening to power point presentations. There was a moment of relief when the computer of one of the participants didn't work and he had to speak extemporaneously ---a human sound as Camus once put it

Great Sentences

JIEGU, China — Long after the bulldozers have gone silent and the rescue workers have retired to their tents, the only sound in this earthquake-battered city is the plaintive barking of dogs that have lost their homes, and in many cases, their owners

Andrew Jacobs NY Times April 18