Comments on: The Breakup Style of PowerPoint http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/ Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:35:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19373 Anonymous Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:14:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19373 Also check out <a href="http://roonweb.com/wtfbreakup_files/frame.htm" rel="nofollow">http://roonweb.com/wtfbreakup_files/frame.htm</a> for another PowerPoint breakup!! Also check out http://roonweb.com/wtfbreakup_files/frame.htm for another PowerPoint breakup!!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19372 Anonymous Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:41:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19372 Getting dumped by sms is worse than by email. Then it's Powerpoint in abbreviation. To use your slide as a reference, by text messaging that would be: "U R dumped. U lied abt who u wr & wt u did, yr crak-smkg chld-abndng mthr/2, cops want 2 ? u, p!=np". ... when really all you needed to say was "cya lsr". Getting dumped by sms is worse than by email. Then it’s Powerpoint in abbreviation. To use your slide as a reference, by text messaging that would be:
“U R dumped. U lied abt who u wr & wt u did, yr crak-smkg chld-abndng mthr/2, cops want 2 ? u, p!=np”.
… when really all you needed to say was “cya lsr”.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19371 Anonymous Mon, 02 Aug 2004 00:48:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19371 We use point form because we understand visual language better now than we did in the past. It's a way of saying: These ideas are all structurally related, and we're going to make the structure clear for you. We use point form because we understand visual language better now than we did in the past.
It’s a way of saying: These ideas are all structurally related, and we’re going to make the structure clear for you.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19370 Anonymous Sun, 01 Aug 2004 18:19:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19370 Joey, I loved the screenshot, BUT feel compelled to mention that to be true to the PPT format, stylistically one should eschew using full sentences. Or even proper grammar. Here's my remix: <strong>Dumping you: Reasons</strong> <blockquote><em>Lies</em><blockquote>Who you were</blockquote><blockquote>What you did</blockquote></blockquote> <blockquote><em>Your lifestyle</em><blockquote>Child-abandoning mother of two</blockquote><blockquote>Crack-smoking</blockquote></blockquote> <blockquote><em>Unusual level of police interest in you</em></blockquote> <blockquote><em>Your claimed proof that </em>P = NP</blockquote> Feel free to incorporate my humble suggestions as you see fit. Rich Joey, I loved the screenshot, BUT feel compelled to mention that to be true to the PPT format, stylistically one should eschew using full sentences. Or even proper grammar.
Here’s my remix:
Dumping you: Reasons

Lies

Who you were

What you did

Your lifestyle

Child-abandoning mother of two

Crack-smoking

Unusual level of police interest in you

Your claimed proof that P = NP

Feel free to incorporate my humble suggestions as you see fit.
Rich

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19369 Anonymous Sun, 01 Aug 2004 08:27:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19369 Heh. The "PowerPoint breakup" would seem to be a form of incongruent communication. One of the main topics of the AYE (Amplifying Your Effectiveness) Conference is congruent communication, and it's the only conference I know of where presenters *never* use PowerPoint. Over on the AYE Wiki, they have a page discussing why. I pointed them to this blog entry, and Jerry Weinberg asked me to provide the reciprocal link: http://www.ayeconference.com/wiki/scribble.cgi?read=WhyWeDoNotUsePowerPoint -- Laurent Bossavit Heh. The “PowerPoint breakup” would seem to be a form of incongruent communication. One of the main topics of the AYE (Amplifying Your Effectiveness) Conference is congruent communication, and it’s the only conference I know of where presenters *never* use PowerPoint. Over on the AYE Wiki, they have a page discussing why. I pointed them to this blog entry, and Jerry Weinberg asked me to provide the reciprocal link:
http://www.ayeconference.com/wiki/scribble.cgi?read=WhyWeDoNotUsePowerPoint
– Laurent Bossavit

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19368 Anonymous Sun, 01 Aug 2004 07:07:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19368 I was dumped via email in 1998. I worked at an ISP, and my girlfriend was a university student. The email could be said to have listed my faults in point form, if each point is taken to be a raving, hystrionic paragraph! Sadly, I no longer have an archive containing that email. It was a truly painful, scathing Dear John letter! I was dumped via email in 1998. I worked at an ISP, and my girlfriend was a university student. The email could be said to have listed my faults in point form, if each point is taken to be a raving, hystrionic paragraph!
Sadly, I no longer have an archive containing that email. It was a truly painful, scathing Dear John letter!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19367 Anonymous Sun, 01 Aug 2004 04:09:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19367 Just to show, that there are worse possible ways to be dumped then by an email.. take this as an example. Before you ask, yes this really happened. One night, thinking everything was fine, I check my GF blog, and low and behold it says... I am going to visit Alex to tell him I am dumping him, and I have met some one new. It then prattles on about how she felt it was worth the $ to come and do it in person. Never mind the fact she had just announced her intentions to the world 24 hours before the specified trip. Just to show, that there are worse possible ways to be dumped then by an email.. take this as an example. Before you ask, yes this really happened.
One night, thinking everything was fine, I check my GF blog, and low and behold it says… I am going to visit Alex to tell him I am dumping him, and I have met some one new.
It then prattles on about how she felt it was worth the $ to come and do it in person. Never mind the fact she had just announced her intentions to the world 24 hours before the specified trip.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19366 Anonymous Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:23:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19366 My first thought was that breaking u[ by e-mail is a wimpy, weasle-like thing to do. (I think the phone is also unacceptible.) However, it did occur to me that you might get more honesty about the reasons for a breakup from a bullet list, rather than "It's not you, it's me." and "Ineed a change." platitudes that people often say when breaking up in person. - wife of Platypus, using his account - My first thought was that breaking u[ by e-mail is a wimpy, weasle-like thing to do. (I think the phone is also unacceptible.) However, it did occur to me that you might get more honesty about the reasons for a breakup from a bullet list, rather than “It’s not you, it’s me.” and “Ineed a change.” platitudes that people often say when breaking up in person.
- wife of Platypus, using his account -

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19365 Anonymous Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:54:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19365 i did this a couple of years ago. sort of elaborates on the powerpoint thing, and is a lot more polite: http://www.foto.gu.se/~matpoz02/projects/form/intro.html i did this a couple of years ago. sort of elaborates on the powerpoint thing, and is a lot more polite: http://www.foto.gu.se/~matpoz02/projects/form/intro.html

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19364 Anonymous Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:42:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19364 Ha! I quoted Tufte in an intra-office msn message yesterday. But your blog entry is oh, about a million times more entertaining than my little message was. I will have to link to this off my blog, and then point my colleagues to it. Ha! I quoted Tufte in an intra-office msn message yesterday. But your blog entry is oh, about a million times more entertaining than my little message was. I will have to link to this off my blog, and then point my colleagues to it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-19363 Anonymous Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-powerpoint/#comment-19363 Wow. That gave me a great laugh-my-ass-off experience this morning. ;) I think that some folks are in a level of Powerpoint-induced cognitive dissonance that the only way they can think is in bullet points, not a proper narritive. And couple that with the increasing reliance on e-communicaton to handle anything you don't want to handle in person, and you get the Powerpoint breakup. Here's the part that weirds me out. I can't do bullets anymore. If I'm working on notes on a wiki, it'll be all in narritive form, no bullets. I agonized over my latest powerpoint presentation (in front of the corporate CEO) because I couldn't figure out the best way to do bullet points. Besides, how do you make a bullet point for "Introduce co-worker in most amusing way possible in front of the CEO of your company"? Wow. That gave me a great laugh-my-ass-off experience this morning. ;)
I think that some folks are in a level of Powerpoint-induced cognitive dissonance that the only way they can think is in bullet points, not a proper narritive. And couple that with the increasing reliance on e-communicaton to handle anything you don’t want to handle in person, and you get the Powerpoint breakup.
Here’s the part that weirds me out. I can’t do bullets anymore. If I’m working on notes on a wiki, it’ll be all in narritive form, no bullets. I agonized over my latest powerpoint presentation (in front of the corporate CEO) because I couldn’t figure out the best way to do bullet points.
Besides, how do you make a bullet point for “Introduce co-worker in most amusing way possible in front of the CEO of your company”?

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