Madagascar

Having spent most of the week at ICML, the lab at Tuebingen has been pretty packed on Saturday, with about half a dozen scientists around. Of course, we weren't all trying to work. I was busy catching up on my Ashes reading, for instance.

Meanwhile, Den et al were trying to get the DVD to work on the big screen. They had a version of an unnamed cartoon (see title) in Real Player format, but couldn't install Real Player on the main computer since they didn't have admin rights. By the time I was recruited to help out, Art and MatS were already there. After a lot of committee work...

"Why don't we use someone's laptop and attach that to the projector?"
"Wtf is the picture showing up on the laptop and not on the projector?"
"Hey, it's showing!"
"Now resize it!"
"Aaargh! It's gone!"
"Interesting screensaver you have there."
"Stop reading my diary!"
"This really ought to be a reproducible experiment."
"Anyone remember what we did?"
"Try dragging it through that one spot where the mouse moves to the projector."
"Where's this spot?"
"Dunno, but it exists. We got it through once or twice."
"Give me a constructive proof, for Chrissake!"
"Hey, it's on again!"
"Okay, don't make it full screen!"
"We really ought to get a large multi-author paper on this..."