PowerPoint Killed The Technical Talk
Posted by Jerry Kuch Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:55:00 GMT
With apologies to The Buggles, Peter Norvig and Edward Tufte...I saw your PowerPoint slides for your technical talk,
Glazing over as you read each one aloud,
The crappy format stopped knowledge coming through.
Oh-a oh
Its many wizards gave ugly, eye-sore templates,
Low contrast gradients and still homelier fonts,
And that’s notwithstanding the content you killed.
Oh-a-oh
It ruined your sem’nar
Oh-a oh
Why did you do this?
PowerPoint killed the technical talk.
PowerPoint killed the technical talk.
Six bullets on ev’ry slide.
Oh-a-a-a oh
Subject-less sentences and vague passive voice,
Weaken my verbal and spatial instincts.
Disembowel any statistical sense.
Oh-a oh
Your talk need’nt be crap.
Oh-a-oh
But you just droned on.
PowerPoint killed the technical talk.
PowerPoint killed the technical talk.
Four-thousand words on every slide, just print it out, it’s gonna
suck.
Oh-a-aho oh,
Oh-a-aho oh
PowerPoint killed the technical talk.
PowerPoint killed the technical talk.
Four-thousand words on every slide, just print it out it’s gonna suck.
Don’t stare at the screen, it’s just a crutch. Kill the slides, they’re just clip art.
This was a technical talk.
This was a technical talk.
PowerPoint killed the technical talk.
PowerPoint killed the technical talk.
PowerPoint killed the technical talk.
PowerPoint killed the technical talk.
PowerPoint killed the technical talk (this was a technical talk).