1987 Revealing

I saw a lady speak recently and she was very interesting. But it was also interesting because she revealed how location-centric folks can be. She was speaking from a meeting room in Lacey. But she was obviously from Olympia. Because when she went to talk about another two facilities in the area, she said one of them was "in Olympia" and the other one was "out in Lacey."
Did I mention she was speaking in Lacey at the time? We are creatures of familiarity. It creates problems sometimes.
Like in another interesting presentation thing that was iPad related. A guy was giving a demonstration but instead of having his familiar laptop hooked into the large screen on the wall, he had his new iPad jacked in. Which created unforeseen issues in what was seen.
Namely, he had no cursor. Unfortunate, since his presentation was about showing people how to navigate a website. So every time he needed to point out a tab to click on the website he had to use a laser pointer. No laptop, no mouse, no cursor. Ironically, in his effort to streamline he had to remember to bring extra stuff like the pointer anyhow.
Also, he had to enter a webpage in the demo where he needed to type in his password. No problem, he brought up a virtual QWERTY keyboard on half his iPad screen---for all of us to see. And we saw all. It was just dots in the password slot in the upper part, but as he tapped each key on the keyboard in the lower half, it virtually and visibly showed that it was depressed on the large screen on the wall.
When he saw that, he finally brought a familiar cursor to the presentation after all.
It was him.
America, ya gotta love it.