 Well, I will introduce myself because Mike didn't my name is Allison Sheridan. I do a bunch of podcasts. My main podcast is called the no Silicast. Hey Brian, I'm presenting here He's supposed to be the audio help that's good Mike mentioned that the he said that the topic was create and he just said that a lot of people Think that they're only analytical and I am only analytical. I'm an engineer for Cran out loud I am convinced if you opened up my head the whole right brain side would be completely empty because I am only a logical thinker And so I started trying to think what kind of thing do I? Do I do that is creative and I Realized that I started creating a podcast And I'm gonna I'm not gonna do what I said in the topic of course because that would just make Mike feel good If I talked about what I said I was going to talk about so I started thinking about What happened because in on May 13th 2005 I picked up a Samson co1u Mike and I plugged it into my power book and started a podcast And the main thing I want you to get out of this is that when you when you start creating something You don't realize what you're actually creating my first podcast. I tell you hey, you know what I'm gonna do here I'm gonna read you articles from the Wall Street Journal by Walter Mossberg about technology that of course It's not what happened and it it turned into a life of adventure that that I never saw coming And we're gonna we're gonna go through this in a in a little different way. I Thought first of all I would start by drawing you a diagram And this would so be really really interesting if I did it this way But then I thought you know I really would rather have used a mind map This is actually an app called draw.io that lets you draw diagrams on on the web works better on Chrome than Safari Great diagramming program, but it was maybe kind of boring So I thought what if we need a Plant make your own adventure game So I'm gonna need a little bit of assistance. Is there is there a volunteer in the audience who could possibly possibly help me There's my able assistant Yeah All right, so you pick a picture and I'm going to tell you the story of how we got from here To that ending condition so then the condition in the upper left That's Rod Roddenberry Jean Roddenberry's son talking on I believe it was a Google hangout to the no silicast a ways who couldn't come to a party at Mac world The upper right I call community and that's the ending photo was actually taken at Mac stock And it's the story of how the community got built the bottom left is how did I end up in a screencast online? staff photo and The middle bottom is called blindfolded. How did I end up doing a presentation at Mac world not being able to see? And in the bottom right how did picking up that microphone turn into me at an eclipse in Chile just about a month ago You One of the one of the interesting things about doing these talks is you have to figure out how to break up what you're going to say Into a 20 minute chunk and into a 45 minute chunk So I've done these different adventures and if you come to the breakout session that's later on today I think it's a four o'clock five o'clock whatever. It's one of the last one And it'll be back here on the main stage. I will go through all of these so don't worry You'll get to hear all of these pictures. I didn't catch a time when I started. Is there a time thing anybody can hold up signs? Tell me when I'm going too long Nope. All right, I'll be on for about 45 minutes. This will be great In the breakout session I'm going to show you how I did what I'm going to do here So I am actually going to very carefully see if I can move my mouse over here So if I press on any one of these buttons It's going to go through a different set of slides in my presentation where many of these slides actually repeat So it's kind of tricky how I did this is kind of cool And I'll show you how I did it in the pre in the breakout session So that's where you'll actually learn something. This is just gonna be fun. What did they decide on? Yes, all right So that's a fun one So I'm going to tap the s button now my job is to never touch the keyboard if I just tap I'm good All right, so in 2006 I went to the very first podcast expo to meet other people who were into podcasting And I met someone named Adam Christiansen who does the Mac the What is it the Mac cast I almost said Mac review cast And I also met a guy named Slough Haliton and he's part of one of the other tracks If you if you stick through and see the next section when I do this again so Adam and I got to meet each other and Which track am I I'm on it s got always hit the right button if I hit the wrong button we're doomed this whole thing falls apart So because of Adam he introduced me to the Mac around table and invited me to be on this show This was a show that ran for many years First with four people and then they expanded out to a greater group and it's it's sort of pod faded all the I believe It's still up that Adam still maintains the website Met a lot of really wonderful people one of the people I met online just through voice was a guy named Don McAllister And I want s again Gotta keep track of what letter we I also met Tim Verporten of the Mac review cast the Mac review cast and Unfortunately Tim is no longer with us, but he was one of the greatest people I've ever met my lifetime So I just like putting his chart up. It doesn't have anything to do with this story But but it was a boost to my show by meeting him because I met him on the Mac review on the Mac round table I ended up getting a lot of my listeners from the Mac review cast and people still tell me to this day that That's how they found my show. So I owe a lot to Tim and he was a great wonderful wonderful human So he gets to be in the slide show So now this is where things start to get kind of interesting Adam went to the Apple store in San Diego to buy Whatever the newest gadget was it was big long line and he's standing in line and this young man comes up to him and says Oh my gosh, I love your podcast. It is so great. This fantastic. Hi. My name is Rod Roddenberry I'm Gene Roddenberry's son. So after Adam got up off the floor, right? He's like, oh my god Died in God in heaven. I mean those moments are the best So he starts talking to this guy and he says Rod says, you know what? We're rebooting the whole Star Trek movie series and I'm gonna do a special showing over at Catalina at the What is it called the casino theater over on Catalina Island? For those of you are not from California it's an island about 23 miles off the coast of Los Angeles And he said, you know what invite all of the background table podcasters invite them all now David Sparks Lives right next to the to the port where he could have gone David Sparks did not go Let's see who else lived down there Victor Cahiao used to live down there He did not go but one person did go with Steve and me and that was Don McAllister So Don flies from England We by the way, that's the Catalina theater there It is the worst place you can possibly see a movie just telling you The screen wasn't wide enough So when you remember during the first Star Trek reboot They would say like what year it was in the upper left and it would say Kansas or wherever wherever he was from that Was completely cut off. There was no center channel. So so when Ohura finally says her name. We didn't hear it But it was really really fun to see there. Nichelle Nichols was there and George Stekai was there. It was it was an amazing experience But anyway, so Don goes and we didn't know Don from Adam in this case. So we knew I Didn't even plan that joke that just worked out So Don and Don comes is going to come over and we said hey, why didn't you stay with us? So this is the adventure is starting to expand already you can see this is this is getting exciting so he comes over and Then he gets to know me and he says he had done a couple of what was called the Mac Mania cruises Unfortunately, these are not going on any longer because they were sponsored by Macworld Which was tragic in my opinion But he invited our convinced captain that a great speaker for the next Mac Mania would be Allison Sheridan So when we get to the eclipse line this charts going to come back in because this this plays into that plot But he convinced me and convinced convinced Captain Neil that I would be a good speaker now What Don didn't tell me that Captain Neil was going to make me do I thought he was doing me a big favor Because I got a free cruise out of this We got to go see an eclipse out off the coast of Australia Steve got to come for free It was an amazing amazing experience, but he had just wrote me into doing eight 90-minute unique talks As one of my new friends his name might be Andy and they was Andy said that's a curriculum, right? I mean, I'm good talking. I'm good talking on my feet. I could talk a long time But eight times to do nine ninety minute completely unique talks. It was bananas. I didn't do anything from February to November I literally I needed new clothes friend of mine went to the store bought me clothes brought him home Let me try him on took back what I didn't like I had no time for nine months to work on that Is that nine eleven minus two there we go, but anyway, I had a really really good time doing it Definitely didn't regret doing it, but boy 90 minutes. It's a long time, too I figured out that the audience like to talk to so I just let them talk a bunch and stretched it out so Don apparently thought that I was if I could pull that off I was worthy to become one of his employees, so I work for the man now and He hired me to start doing video tutorials for him and that from a technical perspective turned into something really really enjoyable I had to learn how to use screen flow. I had to really learn how to use tools in depth So I tend to use tools and kind of use like the top layer like everybody else and you never learn anything more When you have to do a tutorial though, you have to know everything about that tool You have to poke every single button and figure out exactly how it works And so I spent a lot of time learning new tools and and having to up my game on audio and on video JF Prasett is the editor for screencasts online and dang is that guy picky about audio? I mean he puts Dave Hamilton to shame. That's all I'm saying I mean I've had to buy soundproof blankets for my office and all kinds of stuff because it just he can hear everything And I'm like I can't oh wait. Yeah, I can hear that tiny little thing So that's been really cool because I've learned all kinds of new things now and now I'm working for a guy in England I think that's that that was an interesting adventure So after he wrote me into that he said hey, would you start writing for the magazine now too? And so I write for the screencasts online magazine that comes out once a month This is not an ad for screencasts online, but you can go to screencasts online.com get a free seven-day trial Anyway, I've had a lot of fun doing that and figuring out ways to do things like this one This article was about you putting map and wordpress on my on my Mac to Simulate running a website on my Mac and that one was that was really hard a real mind-bender how to record that So sometimes you know these meta situations where you're recording recording recording. That was a fun one and Because of that so this this takes a sideways turn here at a Mac World Conference in Expo Somehow cards against humanity broke out. I blame Adam Christensen because he introduced me that was first time I met Kelly also Kelly about Gamot and no, we're not going to tell those stories. So there were martinis involved Yeah, that was embarrassing. So anyway, but in that cards against humanity game. I also met a gentleman named Barry Falk Everybody know Barry. Where's Barry Barry's here. So I met Barry Falk and then Barry Falk introduced me this Joker Mike Potter Who's barely paying attention back there and Mike Potter convinced me to speak at max stock Expo And that's how I ended up in the staff photo with Mike Schmidt Frank Petrie Wally Turinski and Wendy Turinski last year So if I press this H button, I should go back to the beginning. Okay. Anybody got any idea how my time is going? Yeah, what time did I start quarter after right? I think so I'm really supposed to do 20 minutes. I could do Should I do one more? Okay, so the 45 minutes isn't going to go 45 minutes if I do one more Mike. How's my time? Okay, we'll just do one more we'll speed things up because somebody else is going to run late later. All right, so How's my MC doing? Oh? Kelly can you pull my pants up because I'm wearing two sets of microphones here I'm serious. I got Mike's. I'm Mike's. I'm both. Oh, sorry Okay, yes pull back up. All right. I got my assistant. Okay. Okay. Okay. There we go. Thank you Should not be seen. No, I don't want to do that one Let's do Do the eclipse. All right, we heard the eclipse. I would you accept that as our final answer? All right Okay, these are actually all based on time. We're not taking your opinion at all Okay, so in 2006 I went to the podcast exos so you remember I picked up a microphone 2006 I go to the podcast expo and I meet Adam Christensen of the Mac cast and also slaw Halitin who you will see in a Later show by the way, you're going to catch on that these repeat aren't you but you're wondering how did she do this with these little buttons? So then I went on to the Mac round table where I met Adam Chris Or I knew Adam Christensen He got me on and I met Don McAllister and a bunch of other cool people Virtually met Don McAllister and I met Tim Verporten of the Mac review cast You're going to keep hearing his name come up each time and Then Adam is it turns out you have to tell each story like it's brand new because it's a whole new thread Right so Adam. It's amazing. He's at an Apple store and this young man comes up to it says I love your podcast Guess what my name is Rod Roddenberry. I am Gene Roddenberry. I am Rod Roddenberry's son. So Did I say it backwards? I'm Rod Roddenberry Gene Roddenberry son. I had it right the first time I corrected it. I Should just tell it the rehearsed way and not try to be cute So then he invites us all over to Catalina to go to a screening of the Star Trek movie And let's see David Sparks didn't go and Adam Adam actually didn't go either. I didn't tell you that So anyway, so we get to meet Don, but we're not going to go that whole path. We're going to take a quick turn Now I met Mac world and I specifically searched out Gene McDonald everybody Gene McDonald Gene is laid up with a busted knee right now, which is very very sad is why she isn't here So Gene worked for a company called smile and she did the support for text expander and it was awesome And I specifically went to go Look her up at Macworld now. That's important because Don gets me to go on to this eclipse cruise where I'm going to be speaking And he makes me do eight 90 minute speeches. That's a whole curriculum Wait, what how many eight eight of them 90 minutes that's long I didn't even get to buy my own clothes. That's the way the plot goes, right? So we're on the ship and guess who's on the cruise as well gene McDonald now I didn't tell I didn't put this whole story in but the couple next to the next to her are Devon polishek and Marianne Gary two professors who live in New Zealand because of this cruise we invited ourselves to their wedding in New Zealand So that's like a whole mother story. I could tell the funny part was when we got there There were 30 people at this wedding We didn't invite ourselves to a 300 person wedding We we became like 8% of the wedding party, but they put us to work I was the photographer and Steve was the videographer it worked out and they became friends for life They actually come back into the plot if you go down the block if we ever go down the blindfolded plot line Remember this is because I picked up a microphone, right? So gene and Steve conspired When we found out about the great American eclipse that went across the country in 2017 that we should go to Oregon meet up with gene and go see the eclipse Now there's a reason. Oh wait a minute. Did I I hope this works out? I can't remember what I did but I can't go backwards by the way This this only goes forward if I miss a chart if I screw up I can't go back so it could burn burn and crash and burn So anyway gene convinces us to go see the eclipse and we go see it and it is absolutely amazing If you ever get a chance to see a total eclipse way different than a 98% eclipse. It is amazing. There's one Oh, I've got some votes for that 2024 it's actually going to be coming through close to here Indiana. It's gonna hit It's gonna go up through New York from Texas up to New York. Definitely go see it It's a trip of a lifetime or three trips of a lifetime So remember this chart we saw this earlier, but this comes into the plot of how I end up in Chile So Steve used to work for a woman named Sue Baumgarten and when she retired We kind of lost track of her we're friends But we didn't didn't hang out or anything and she decided she wanted to go see this eclipse That was going to be happening in off the coast of Australia So she was looking for a way to see the eclipse She happened to find the Macmania brochure and saw that one of the speakers was Allison Sheridan So she wrote to me and she said hey, that's really cool. You're speaking We're actually not going to go on the cruise though We're going to be in Australia, but we'll see the same eclipse, but not together So that was the first time we didn't see an eclipse together This oh, I can't back up, but the Oregon eclipse she was also at the Oregon eclipse She was also in Bend, Oregon where we saw the eclipse We got together for dinner and didn't watch the eclipse together So she she is a an alumni of UCLA as I am I am as well And she invited us said hey you should go on the eclipse trip that UCLA is doing with UCLA alumni And we did and that's how I took that photo of a total eclipse of the sun The sad part is she slipped a disc right before the eclipse and had to go home early So that is the third eclipse we have not seen together Think about what just happened I picked up a microphone and I ended up at a total eclipse of the sun in Chile You don't know what you're going to have when you create something You just don't realize what it's going to turn into This is not sitting and reading the wall street journal into a microphone by myself So I hope you guys will all come to my talk in this afternoon where I will tell the rest of the stories. Thank you All right, actually maybe that should be one of those uh my mac podcast Game show things right one of the trivia items. Who's four hours older? All right, so we've we've already gone through a couple of these What did we do we did we did the screencasts online one and we did the eclipse so what do you guys want to see next? Blindfolded right So this is a fun one. All right now chuck just did a thing Where he explained whatever you do or remembering his presentation on bad presentations He said you can't show the cursor during a presentation. Well, he's wrong. I can So let me press my little b button here All right, so this actually starts down a slightly differ path It's going to cover back onto one of the other paths and then it's going to divert again I am going to go through these other couple of adventures And then I'm going to get into uh how I did it and we can play as long with that as you want to In 2005 that was the first podcast expo. I went to that's before the one where I met adam christensen I met a gentleman named daryl shandro. He's on the right He did the blind access journal out of lives in arizona someplace the gentleman He's talking to is adam curry adam curry and dav weiner Are the inventors of podcasting adam curry likes to call himself the pod father of podcasting And from a technology standpoint, it's kind of interesting rss Really simple syndication was is a text file format that let you read blogs get get notifications of blogs And these two guys figured out they could attach something to the that rss file you could put in an attachment Which was just text pointing at the file someplace else an audio file a video file You can actually do pdf's if you want to as attachments To a podcast if you want so he was the guy that helped invent it and started one of the first podcast So anyway, but it was actually not important that I met adam curry. It was important that I met daryl shandro You remember this picture? So I met adam christensen at the 2006 podcast expo, but I also met slough halliton I don't know how to pronounce his name hallit halliton something like that Anyway, c goes by slough and he did a podcast as well and we got to meet him at I got to meet him at that show and b So daryl convinced me at one point to go to something called the csun assistive technology conference And this has turned into huge fun for steven me over the years back Then I was going to these shows myself, but steve goes with me now to everything and At this particular one the first one I went to I met a woman named susan gearhart and susan had written the first Podcatcher for the visually impaired so back then itunes didn't exist as a podcatching client You had to get it through other kind of podcatchers And so the all these different people were writing podcatchers and she had written one As a sign of a kind of a side story this this the guy in the picture I forget his last name his first name is herald He convinced me to be on the advisory board of the computer science department for Santa Monica city college Which was huge fun if you ever get asked to be an advisory board Totally say yes because all you do is you go like once a quarter and you pontificate And they think you're brilliant and then you go home and you don't have to implement any of your ideas It's like being a consultant. It's awesome All right, so by the way the cease and assistive technology conference if you ever get a chance to go to it It's somewhere in southern california, but it moves around Basically, it's a toy farm. It's a place full of really cool gadgets Really fun stuff for people who are blind or visually impaired deaf people There's a guy that goes every year. He's got an implant in his brain That's that that's taken signals and sending it to his optic nerve So he can actually see kind of like an 8-bit thing right now I think they did a firmware upgrade recently and he sees 16 bit now, but they're working on all these cool ideas There's there's dogs everywhere There's things for people with autism. It's a really really fun interesting conference. Steve and I go every year So what happened next? Oh, this is kind of fun I ended up going to blog world several times So podcast expo kind of turned into blog world and new media expo And then it all fell apart because they it was kind of trying to put snowboarders and skiers in a room together Didn't work so but anyway, I did a presentation called how to increase your audience size through accessibility And my idea was to trick people into coming and caring about accessibility Because I know everybody who does a blog or a podcast or anything All you want is more people to watch and listen and read right? That's what you're looking for So I thought I could trick them into going if I said, why don't you get all these people who use assistive tech to to start getting involved So at the time I put up this statistic This is a screenshot and if you read ahead, you'll see why it's funny I put it out that there were 314 million people who are visually impaired And 278 million people with moderate moderate to profound hearing loss and at that time that was more people than there were on facebook Anybody remember what how many are on facebook now? Twice as many billion as we are total humans. I think right 2.3 billion something like that. Yeah, so anyway at the time my point though was look at all the people that you're ignoring If you don't do things in an accessible way That's a huge number even if you don't compare to facebook. You're thinking, you know, five six hundred million people Wouldn't you want to have those people as your audience members? One of the things that happened during that is what I was explaining about how if you have a visual only capture I mean everybody hates captures right those squirrely letters everybody hates them, right? But if you put one of those on your website that doesn't have an audio component Then that's basically a do not enter sign to the blind or the visually impaired And so I put this up and and at the end of my talk this guy came up to me And he said I got to tell you Allison. You made a huge impact today I work for section 508 of the united states government section 508 is the law that says That all government websites must be accessible He runs the website for section 508 and he had three visual only captures on the website Now while I felt great that I had a huge impact I'm thinking so who is training you for this job, you know Because it's if I know this one. It's an easy one You know, I don't know all the hard stuff, but I know the easy one So anyway, I thought that was that was kind of funny another interesting thing happened A guy came up to me and he was in a wheelchair and he said You know, you talk all about the blind and the deaf you never talk about people with a motor And I said, what does the blind and the deaf talk to me? They tell me things there is so if you want me to know this stuff help teach me and he said, okay I will and a few weeks later. I got a letter from him His name was Patrick Henry and we became pals and we've been emailing ever since And about I don't know maybe six months ago. I said, you know what Patrick? It's so crazy to think that in 2010 I did a presentation at blog world because we met we're still friends these years later You're still teaching me stuff. He says I never to blog world expo I don't know where Patrick came from and I don't know what happened to the guy I talked to but uh, I never made the connection But Patrick teaches me a lot of stuff. So anyway All right, where do we go from here? I'm not going to read this slide to you But I've saved it in in this form because I want to make sure I never lose it I got an email from a guy named James in the uk and he wrote to me and explained to me That he really appreciated the fact that my even though I do a podcast I blog everything that I say So there's a full-on blog post for every single one of the things I talk about And he said allison I sit in bed with my mac mini and a braille reader And I read your podcast because I'm I'm not only blind. I'm also deaf And that just floored me that I was making a difference to somebody who you know Had so much trouble being able to communicate and be and understand things and to be able to have this for him I just said I'm going to blog everything for the rest of my life Um, I I'm just to know that James might still be out there reading I'm going to keep doing it another funny thing about I blog everything that I podcast is someone told me I said well allison. Why do you put that up as a blog post? They might read and never listen I said, yeah, that'd be terrible if they got the content the way they wanted it Right I I should stop Some people just don't get it, you know So you remember I mentioned meeting slough halliton at the second podcast expo with adam christensen We ended up going to new york to visit slough. Actually, I'll back up a little bit You remember the two women I mentioned that were on the on the ship that They that we met with gene mcdonald And I said they were from new zealand. We ended up going to their wedding Well, they went to new york and we'd never been to new york So we thought well it'd be easier to fly to new york to see them to pay to fly to new zealand again So we actually went to new york just to meet with people from new zealand and we met up with slough This is slough running his studio. He's a musician and he runs a recording studio He's completely blind. You can see he's running logic up above and I believe at the time it was Mac os or os 8 I think is what he's running if maybe somebody can identify what that looks like But it was because they hadn't yet made the new version accessible so he couldn't go to os 10 He has since then gone to os 10 finally But he's actually working right here. He's he's live mixing a song called if every day were christmas It is a fabulous fabulous song. It's the first pod safe music song for christmas adam curry tricked him into This with a whole bunch of different recording artists So it's kind of like one of those we are the world sort of things with all these different artists singing it And he has re-released it mixed it himself done all of the recording with a bunch of violinists and and and uh All those other violin looking instruments that are different size of what violas things like that Anyway, that was a really really cool experience so write that down if every day were christmas everybody go buy it It's a dollar. It's a best christmas song. I just love it so Got to get off the be so over time Blind people just kept writing to me Just over and over and over again all these people just it was like I was collecting them as friends I don't I don't know where most of them came from but just by talking about accessibility once in a while on the show I started to get more and more influence from from people who are visually impaired Like I said, they kept talking to me and it made slyo's name a little bit bigger because of what he did to me here I I wrote to or started talking on the show about how it would be cool to start learning voiceover So I started teaching myself little tricks. Oh just to explain voiceover is the tool The accessibility tool that allows an iphone to speak out loud to the people with visual impairments And on the phone It's really really easy to use voiceover It's you turn it on and you have to learn a couple of different gestures. There's a few things but to become rudimentary capable in it. It's it's not too bad So I've I got this idea. I said, what if I tried to do a presentation blindfolded What if what if I could do that if I could do it? So I turned in a tech talk to uh to mech world and unfortunately got accepted to do that And um, I wrote to all these people and a whole bunch of them scott hollow in particular keith one Buddy brandon, I know we're all big and bill holton I'm not sure I think daryl might have helped a little bit But I remember distinctly talking to slyo and saying well, how hard is it to learn this and he goes? Oh, it's easy. It's not going to be hard at all So a couple of months later I've been working on this trying to learn how to use it and I called him up and I said This is really hard and he just starts laughing and he says, oh, I know it's really really hard But I figured if I told you that you wouldn't try to do it Unbelievable that guy's such a crazy man, but in the end I did a presentation blindfolded at mac world. I I used the phone first. I created a I think I created a calendar invited invited katie floyd to something and And then I switched over to the mac and I started doing the thing on the mac They always tell you never ever ever change your change your presentation at the last minute, right? Don't ever do that. So I changed my presentation at the last minute But all I did was I took it out of a folder and I put it on my desktop thinking it would be easier to get to I wouldn't be fumbling around to find it, right Somehow I don't really know how this happened But I got it I got it stuck to my cursor and it was like I was walking around like this I had it stuck to I couldn't get off of it And I and I don't I didn't know what was happening either So I didn't know why it was doing that to me why I couldn't let go of it And the audience is just yelling out instructions and trying to tell me what's going on Eventually I started accidentally opening folders on my mac and steve's panicking because you know I might pull up like a medical report or our taxes or something because I have no idea I'm just flailing at this point. So I finally pulled it up and I peeled a little bit and I had to peek But other than that I did not I did actually pull it off And a lot of people said that you know, I was disappointed because I had I had flawless execution ahead of time And they said they said no it was good because it showed us how incredibly hard this actually is That it might sound like oh, you just use voice over and everything's fine, but the mac is hard the iphone is very very easy So that is the end of the blind. Oh one more thing on the blindfolded story McAllister had a presentation shortly after mine And he got up and he said, you know, I was really nervous about doing my presentation But I just watched allison do one blindfold and nothing's going to be harder than that My fault, uh, we did did we do rod we did rod right? No, we didn't do rod Well, you know most of rod already so we'll do that one. We'll save community for last So I met this guy named adam christianson With slaw haliton at podcast expo 2006 And I just clicked the wrong button So if you click the wrong button There's no way to get out Wait, well, I could do it a really weird way If I stay on the b There we go, okay r Because you'll see the curtain pulled back too soon All right, where's an r? There we go. All right, so we meet adam there And adam gets me on the background table And I meet tim verporton And then did I do it again? Oh, no, but that's okay. It works out because I'm on they are I think that's okay if I can pay attention allison Okay, so stay on the r so we meet rod there Or he meets rod rod convinces us to go to uh to catalina And then This is me getting to interview rod roddenberry. He was the coolest coolest guy So so it's don and steve and me and we stay in a hotel and in the morning we wake up And we realize we're here as his guests, but we have no idea what he looks like We just know gene roddenberry's son invited us So what if we run into him on the street? We walk right past him. I mean we've got to find out who he is So we went out and we went online and we found a video Back then it was called a vlog A vlog that he had done and so we got to see what he looked like and we're like, okay Now we know he we walked out of the hotel and we were standing on the corner And I suddenly hear someone say Oh, man, it's weird to hear you outside of my head and not into my you whispering in my ears And it was it was rod roddenberry Talk about a died and gone to heaven moment rod roddenberry listened to my show. It was Very very cool. So when I asked him, I said, would you sit for an interview? He said, oh really? I could be on your show Oh my gosh, I love him. He is he is the greatest guy so Then I went to a macrold expo where a game of uh of uh Cards against humanity broke out and there were martinis and then I met a guy named barry falk And now we take a turn now at macrold expo we decided steven I decided to start throwing a party for the no silicasta ways and Steve is very excited about the banner that we got This is a this is this is going to get into the community thing a little bit But one of the fans of my show made that for us had it sent to us guy named george from tulsa He sends very odd gifts to us from since then but he actually had that banner made for us for the party And then we had these scary looking bouncers And then at at one of the parties we put up a Steve walked around with a laptop and got people to get on a google hangout with people who couldn't come to the party So no silicast ways who really wanted to be there but couldn't be there And this is rod rod spent about 45 minutes talking to people that didn't get to be there And we were just talking to one of the guys kevin big in virginia He said I distinctly remembered that being like such a crazy cool moment that I got to talk to rod rod and barry So anyway, that was uh, that rod is rod is the real deal. He he left All of a sudden and didn't say goodbye and I was kind of like, oh, oh, well, okay Well, that was cool. He did all this great stuff about 10 minutes later. He comes back goes. Oh my gosh, allison I forgot to say thank you. This is so great I can't believe you did this is and I said wow your mama raised you right and she said he says no, but my babysitters did So I always say my babysitter raised my children. So I think it's all fair. All right. Let's go through this last one here So I call this one community in uh March of or may what was it may of 2005 I picked up a microphone and I started recording and I recorded four episodes And I did what's in the business known as pod fading I didn't make any episodes for a couple weeks And someone named jumbo shrimp his real name is neal. He wrote to me and he said hey, where's the podcast? And that was the first time that I knew there was someone on the other side You know, I was talking into a mic and I didn't know anybody was really there But the minute I got that feedback I was like, oh, I'll do some more You know, it's like a little bit of adrenaline And so that was kind of a big turning point for me that that really got things started By the way, this is my original logo pretty nice, huh? In september of 2006 a gentleman named barb wuchat sent in a little bit of a review of a piece of software And he ended it by saying I'm going back and I'm listening to all the back shows and I'm really enjoying it Keep the good work That really changed the show that this this young man did this Because where we are today is I've spawned four more podcasts All because of him In the upright that's taming the terminal my main show is the no silicast by the way I don't think I even ever specifically said that but Taming the terminal is a 32 part series that barb did teaching how to use the terminal on a mac It's a great series. It's bite-sized chunks. It's kind of evergreen. It's it's finished But it's out there for anybody who has always wanted to learn the terminal He could to walks us all the way through the whole thing and how to use it very cool In the bottom left. I need to work on the graphics there Uh Programming by stealth we're on something like 70 80 episodes of that. He's teaching the audience to do a To learn to be programmers We started with html and css and went into javascript and were landing mustaches and bootstrap and all these other cool things And then I have this show chitchat across the pond that used to be kind of lighter conversations But we split it off into chitchat across the pond light and and the heavier stuff the propeller beanie stuff That bert's involved in so just because he wrote that one email. I sucked him into my madness And then he multiplied it And talking about community one of the things that changed a lot of stuff Was when I had a community where other people could talk to each other So I started google plus community and all of a sudden the people were talking to each other Not just to me and it was kind of nice because people ask me how to fix things how to do things And it's kind of a heavy load to you have to fix everybody's problems All of a sudden somebody would post something. I don't know the answer somebody else answers So the google plus community really started to take off But then the giant sucking sound of facebook pulled me in and I sort of felt like resistance is futile You know you've got to do it And so I started a facebook community and that sort of bifurcated the community which was unfortunate because a lot of people Will not go into facebook in my community in in particular bart won't go into into uh into facebook So he stayed in google plus But then google plus got killed So we had to find a new place to go and I knew I wouldn't get those people into there So I moved it over to slack and when we did that things really picked up a bunch I think google plus dying people weren't there and a lot of people use slack for for other business reasons One of the reasons I did facebook is because people are already there and you kind of go got to go where the audience is But the facebook i'll get it yet the slack community in particular bart does a big segment on security Every other way called security bits. This is where they talk to each other about security issues This is where they talk about programming by stealth So this has taken on a much bigger life than google plus ever had But it's just so cool that these people are in there talking each other and helping each other You know that that community was still kind of growing and that adventure I don't know where this is going to go because this just started this could turn into I don't know I might be on mars next time I talk to you. You don't know I wanted to show this picture. This was one of the early uh times We did a skype call from that same party from the nocella castaways party That's bart getting to meet the nocella castaways for the first time. They had never seen him before so that was kind of cool Now remember by this by the way bart is in lives in ireland and I have never met him Until later So this is uh a tweet up with don mccallister in liverpool where I got to meet a bunch of people We had a little tweet up got to meet some friends and because we were going to liverpool We went to ireland and this is the first official chit chat across the pond in person I think Steve staged that photo So that was that was Amazing, right? I picked up a microphone and I ended up in ireland meeting somebody one of my best friends I mean, I'd known him for more than 10 years by the time I met him in person And I remember thinking you walk different than I thought you would you know you We were always on a microphone So then something huge happened a gentleman a young man He I think he was around 18 at the time named ben mcredman said you should do a live show So he started out This was uh, this is a very blurry screenshot of his screen Using stick am and irc chat and we routed my audio through to vlc and to itunes So you could hear me live and irc was for the chat But this was this was starting to become Something much bigger and this this continues to grow Eventually we moved over to wirecast which was a third party tool and justin dot tv And just recently we switched over to a Program from boinks called memo live This is actually a screenshot of steve's screen one of the big things we were able to start doing is while i'm doing the live show I was also juggling everything else. I was running the video. I was running the chat room I was reflecting my screen all these the sources were coming for me And I was just juggling everything and it was really really hard. So we made it really hard on steve now We had a 27 inch iMac with eight cores and 16 gigs of ram and i'm on a laptop doing all this stuff So we moved a lot of the power hungry stuff over at his machine and that that really helped out a lot And so now we have uh, we're using discord as the chat And we do this every sunday night at five o'clock pacific time except this week when i'm here next week when i'm in canada We will continue to do this, but it's really really kind of fun and This was a big big community change as this grew all of a sudden I had people who were my friends because we got together on sunday night And and I read an article about how Our parents used to play bridge And have cocktails and they sing afterwards and I don't know if your parents did this but my parents were crazy about it And it wasn't about bridge It was about getting together on sunday night right it was getting together and hanging out with your friends We have a community that gets together every sunday night and and when we're not we're not there They're like well, what the heck are we supposed to do on sunday night now frank petrie sitting right here Rick harder. Where's rick here? He's here. Oh, oh he'd be in trouble if he wasn't here. Okay. There he is Um, I mean they're always in the chat room and I know them as good friends now because I see them in the chat room and and I mean, I think we probably knew frank before I don't know Might have But okay Okay, I'm one of the panels. All right, so we ended up getting to we get to know these people like this When I mentioned kevin big in virginia. We know I mean, I know his children's names I mean, I know, you know, where his daughter's going to school. I've seen pictures of her going to the prom and sandy So kevin is steve's wingman His job is to stop me from yelling at steve and doing mean things to steve So like try to people try to get me to not be mean to chuck And but then sandy stepped in as my wing woman and she's the one in charge of keeping making everybody be nice to me And stopping kevin from being nice to me But I mean there's all these dumb little private jokes like kevin was a very large man at one time He no longer is but he'd he'd have to move so three people could get a seat is what he would say And then he'd be in the back throwing spitballs But there's just just it's it's family fun. You know, there's kids in there actually tj's here We met tj uh, the the the young very young man who's oh, there he is tj's in the back I almost there tj waving to everybody tj's here because of the live show because of that I mean to get to meet somebody like tj in real life and and geek out with them. It's so cool So you don't know what's going to happen when you when you just start something creative like this This is my childhood toy Mipples and that's with an m as in mic just so you know, so I say that clearly mipples is his name He ended up kidnapped by kevin That's kevin in the background holding on to mipples He kidnapped him and sent ransom notes to me and he held him until I bought steve a new 27 inch iMac I didn't I didn't put the picture in here because it's embarrassing for steve But I got this picture of him going like this with his new iMac was delightful So, you know, you just you don't know what's going to happen These crazy things happen in your life when you do something more interesting Interesting like this and I took this photo. I think this is from last year And just collected people together that that we got to know because of community right because we're here You know, we've gotten to know just coming to this you're meeting people that you're going to be friends with forever That you're going to continue to commune with just because we've collected over this odd thing You know these things made by apple So with that That is the last of the make your own adventure game thing. So now I can show you how I did it Do you guys want to see that? All right, so I've got two different ways I can do it. I'll start with Me got a exit out of here And I'm going to slide this over we'll let you see chuck says never jump out of your presentation So we're going to slide out here So you won't be able to read this very well. Uh, actually, let me see if I if I control scroll does this work? Yeah Okay, so this is not the slide sorter This is where's view So this is show outline I don't know why but you can name things in the outline that never show up on the slides Like you notice for the most part, I just have pictures on each slide Right. I've got a couple of slides that are a bunch of words, but most of these just pictures So let me um, I'm going to open another presentation No, no, no, we're going to open. Oh, actually, I've probably opened recent. That'd probably be the easiest way here I made a little fake one. You know what I need to do? I need to mirror this darn screen See it's really hard doing this by remote control displays And where's mirror come on arrangement. There we go. There it is Okay, now I can look this way that'll be easier. Okay Let's quit this So I have another presentation that I that I will show you how I did this demo linked slides Let me go full screen on this So Actually close your eyes for a second I thought I left this in an unfinished state here. There we go. Uh, let's see. These are clean. These are clean Yeah Uh, uh, uh, no here that remove pretend you didn't see any of that So I've got on my first slide. I've got two buttons here button one and button two And what I want to have happen is if I hit button one I want to arrive on this slide that says arrive from button one And demo link slides here if I go button two I want to end up over here on arrive from button two And on both of these slides I want to be able to go back home Which is what my final h is that was to go home So It turns out if you click on anything, uh, it can be words. It can be So it can be text. It can be a button. It can be a graphic a picture anything I chose to make buttons and you go up to format add link slide Let me zoom up so you can see that So you go up to slide You can add a link to a slide. You'll notice it says command k. I got real good at command k But I click on that and we have a choice of different things we can go to but one of them is slide And then you can say next previous slide. I don't know why you'd need that But I went to slide and I said okay here. I want to go to slide two And then I can either remove it. You just saw me do that, but I can actually go to slide to test it Okay, so that one works I want to do a command k and here I can say I want to go back to slide one And then on this one I'm going to command k And you don't have to use the pull down. I was using the pull down But there's 50 slides so that would have gotten real long and hard So I could look in the left sidebar and you see how I can see it's one two three in the left sidebar I can just say I want to go to three and go to slide So now if I start here And we'll go into slide show If I click on button one That takes me to the slide that says from button one. I can go home go to button two Right from button two And I lost my cursor Oh, I didn't make that one. Oh, that's it. Well, maybe that's why you could see my cursor because I had those buttons Oh, Chuck might be right Don't tell him All right, let's go back here. Let's try that So button two Yeah, that is why that's interesting Okay, so there is a way to make your your button your cursor show if you want to So I can go back home and that's back to the beginning. Is that cool? Thank you So the other thing I did When I went into here and I don't think you can increase the font size. So let me bring this up over So the reason I wanted to point out that I I could type anything I wanted was I put numbers and letters here So this I could look and say okay r1 to r2 to r3 This is the rods the the set of rod slides and the s ones That's the screencasts online ones and these are the ones for the for the eclipse And you can see it'll jump around and some of them go backwards You see things jumping around and going all over I could write those in so I could okay I want to go from here to here to here to here and then I put a little hint for myself of what was that slide about Because when you first do that there's nothing there. It's just empty. It just says one two three four five So I was able to put those in and then I could look at it and when I when I watched here While I was building the slide say I was on this one I could say okay. Do I want to go to slide five? Let me check So I'm starting from from the choose page slide five would be this one. Is that s one? Yes Okay, that's the one I want to go to And that's how I kept him kept them all in order And then I practiced it and got rid of all the mistakes over and over and over again One of the most interesting things I discovered was how Unfragile this is so let's go here and uh go back to this one Let's say I wanted to insert a slide Let me oh here's a really weird thing I discovered if you're in here and you're editing the text My cursor is halfway in between linked and slides If I hit enter It splits that text and creates another slide I have no idea why it does that But the nice thing is I can just be at the end of a line and I can hit enter and I've just created another slide So let's call this I always call things boogers just because that way I can find the thing I made And uh, we'll call that home Let's do and we'll call that bugs And get out of that. So now let's say I wanted to change this button. I wanted to go I see is that going to really I got to make I got to make a third button Let's duplicate this and throw another button up here. We'll put button three And we'll have that one go Let's go this one. We're going to say we want to go backwards instead of going to home We're going to go to button three Actually, we're going to go to boogers. So we'll go to two. I don't know what I'm doing here I'm not really paying attention go to slide. All right, so that one will go there I'm not sure I illustrated this right But basically what I what I wanted to show you and I didn't really do it Right was you can you can rearrange slides and you could pull a slide out And any slide that was trying to go there would suddenly lose its its little arrow So the arrow is gone, but everything coming after that would stay in order They would stay is cohesive. So I could slide in a new slide and say, okay You go to here you go to here and all the other ones would ripple down and keep track I can rearrange the slides move them up and down and they all stayed It was very easy. I'd go. Oh, I don't want to change this But okay, I will and then it always had to be much easier than I thought The only problem I had was because I created this elaborate numbering scheme I had to go reorder those go r1 becomes r2 r2 becomes r3 r3 becomes r4 So that was a little tedious, but the software doing doing the insertions worked really well So anyway, that's all I wanted to teach you. Oh, yeah questions You can can you copy and paste the buttons and keep the targets correct? Yes, you can I didn't do a lot of that because I didn't want them going to the same place But that is kind of how I did it The the one thing I had trouble with and Chuck talked about how Annoying it is when people slides don't When things move around that that should stay still from slide to slide I had trouble keeping these In the consistent place like if you watch let me bring this down So you don't need to see the speaker notes here When I go from here to here see the buttons moving And I asked him in the in the thing and I well How was how could I possibly keep those straight because I was copying pasting But the same buttons aren't on every slide and he said well just just click on the button And go to Actually, oh, I might not be able to do that Arrange no there it is. So there's the position. I could have put in precise positions from slide to slide Oh, so I could visually see it Okay, he's suggesting I put the buttons on the master slide The but no they can't be They can't be on the master slide because they have to have that command k done to each one of them separately They're all different. They're all going to all different places. So yeah, they would have to be it would have to be replicated Yeah So he's suggesting I could have copied and pasted put all of them down on all of them and then done all the assignments But that assumes that I wrote this whole thing and ordered it perfectly And then went back and put all the buttons in It's not quite the process I followed. It was a little bit more chaotic than that I had other threads. I was going to go down here too Like one of my favorites is the the episode or the the podcast expo where I met adam christensen Another funny thing happened there that turned into yet another adventure is I had Got in a text from adam. He said hey, how would you get from the airport to the hotel? Or the yeah from the airport to the hotel. I said, oh, I just took a cab I texted him back So later on I saw him at the This is at the next podcast expo. I guess because I already knew him and I went up to I saw him and I went up to him and I said I said, hey, you know, how'd the taxi work out for you? And he went And he walked away for me. He just like shook his head and walked away. I was like, man, what a jerk that adam christensen is wow It wasn't adam christensen It was And I'm gonna I'm gonna do something here. You should never do I'm gonna drive down into my folder. I think I have it here Is this it No, that's not it. That's another one. Oh shoot. Let's see hang on There it is It's not my fault It's tom merit Tom merit of the daily tech news show I mean, you got it. Yeah, I mean they kind of look alike, right? They look a lot alike. It's not my fault So I found later on I found I I went up to adam and I was like, oh my god, you're wearing a different shirt That wasn't you. So everybody whose name I've gotten wrong jason and dan. Yeah, I mean I do this all the time I mix people up and I but uh The end of the story is I'm now a guest on the daily tech news show. So that all worked out for me Anyway, any other questions? Yeah Right Oh, so he's asking why I said I needed to move the slide or move my cursor The one that was this slide Yes So had I hit the button it would have advanced to the next slide What I had to do was tap on Normally when you're doing a presentation, you just tap anywhere on the slide and and the animations occur or whatever Had I tapped this button it would have advanced to the next slide Yes, I moved it first But my big fear and I didn't do it So yay me was that I would tap a slide and it would advance to the next slide and the next slide isn't necessarily The next slide right because I might be going to slide 48 instead of slide 37 That's the one right after where I am and I managed to never accidentally do that and I'm very pleased about that Oh, because that's the other thing I didn't take the time to do I could have done it but think about the complexity of it is to make a back key on every one of these So back is different depending on which so I'd have to have like an s minus one and an e minus one and an r minus one Yeah, I couldn't quite hear it Right. Oh, he just said one of the options was last used slide That might have worked. Yeah. Yeah All right. Next time. Yeah. No, that's that's great. Yeah So he was saying that it was next slide and previous slide and then the slide number But I missed one of them said last used slide That would have been good. Yeah, because that would be basically slide negative one of whatever my path was I'll have to test that and see if it works What's that? Oh trail bread crumbs. Yeah. Yeah the bread crumb. I want the previous bread crumb exactly Oh, yeah, last few slide would go somewhere else Yeah, this might require some experimentation to see what would go wrong. I I'm just I'm just pleased I got it to go I The only way I knew how to do it would be to jump all the way out and and or go to the end And let you see everything I was going to do hit home go all the way back to home and then go all the way forward again So, uh, yeah problematic, but yeah, I'll try that. That's a great tip But yeah, I could have put a home button on every slide just like my escape hatch Get out of jail But one of the ways I knew when I was done with the thread was there was a home button So if I had a I could have had a home on the left maybe like a little teeny one little tiny age Anyway, it was kind of fun figuring that out and I thought it made the the presentation a little more fun to follow along So thank you very much for your attention All right