Like ... I have a presentation I need to do that's 10 slides. I draw ten blank squares on a sheet of paper and then make brief notes for what each is going to contain. Introduction, Example, Conclusion, Sources. Kind of like an outline, but in squares.

Not generally, but I have on occasion. It's helpful if you haven't really worked out your message yet.

Outlines then slides? I totally do. Helps me work to the right length, and allot the different sections their correct proportions.

I kind of outline on the slides -- make the headings I think I want first, see if I still want them.

Awesome. This is only the second or third time I've done a presentation and it's good to see that others who use it more frequently find this technique helpful.

I follow the Jesse method. Did that a lot for school presentations, especially on team projects. It helped to divide up the work. Created blank slides with just the heading.

I just want to take a moment to say that FNL's Taylor Kitsch was cute like a thing that is cute judging part of the skills competition at the NHL All-Star weekend events yesterday.

I think the universe is trying to kill me with all my too-young tv crushes resolving to have outside interests that line up with mine. I do not know that I can handle hockey-fan Taylor and blues-singing Gareth in such close succession. It may be excessive adorable.

I spent the afternoon dozing off & on, on the couch with Baby T. Considering I hadn't slept well due to a evil bout of heartburn, this was basically the ideal way to spend the day: warm sleepy baby and naps.

I went over so the other two could have some parent-time without the baby, who is at that limpet stage. It was a success and I expect I'll get called to do it in the future.

Seriously, as much as Miss P loves her new brother and they have to watch her to keep her from taking on too much mothering, she's also aware he's a competitor for time and focus. She's been writing these awesome, heartbreaking notes:"I need to talk to you about how I'm feeling, but I don't know if I can explain." and then a picture of a parent holding the crying baby and P on the stairs, waving around behind their backs. Kid, you did a pretty good job there. And she's doing it as notes, not acting out, which blows my mind.

Goddammit, I just found out that a friend of ours from the filk community died in a house fire last night. His wife and stepdaughter weren't home at the time, but they've lost everything.

2008, you're on notice.

How old is Miss P? She seems wise beyond...well, not just her years. I've been told of a lot of childish behaviour this weekend.

Watching the Fight Science MMA ep. Ah, Bas Rutten, how you make me laugh. I've never met him, but most of the instructors just before me have (some of them went on his Las Vegas stag night) and he's true to the tales.

I've stolen some of the principles for teaching the straight punch. It's a refinement of what I've said before, as well as an elevation above folk science. Confirmation and edification.