Heart Attack of the 10ft Gina!
You may have seen my tweet today about my misadventures with the 10 ft. Gina and Ani. If I had not been sitting there I wouldn’t have believed it. A Twitter recount of 140 characters or less would never give this experience the justice it deserves, so I decided to communicate my near Crystal calamity here.
I am in the Municipal chambers wearing my day job persona and preparing to speak to the district International Education program regarding environmental issues and their research project in chemistry, biology, and physics. They are a captive audience as their project is dependent on my presentation. City leaders from each ward are in the audience anxiously waiting with feigned support as this is an election year.
It was the perfect storm of technological tidal waves that ultimately washed me out into the Venice see. Of course the entire city is Windows based and so the interface, out of sheer envy, refused to cooperate with my Keynote presentation. I exported the document to PowerPoint, but cataclysmic errors occurred in the formatting and therefore the video clips wouldn’t play. I am Mindschmootz, and I shudder at the thought of presenting my point of view without video!
Jim, my favorite IT guy, said I would have to use my personal MacBook and project it up on the 10ft by what has to be 12ft HD big screen, so he proceeded to connect it to the center monitor. Now this is no average screen. This is an extension of something, and it’s not small government.
I was busy looking over my notes and paying little attention until I heard an audible gasp from the crowd and then a WOOOOOO! I looked up, and then in all her glory, was 10ft CC in her beater and Jessica on her shoulder…definitely NOT Otalia. Oh my god, my screensaver! The sexual tension was tighter than the strained faces of the politicos in the front row.
Now Jim, being the keeper of the banned social website key, has been an occasional watcher of Otalia clips with me, and I have recently pointed him in the direction of Venice. He knew exactly what was on the screen and was just staring at it. Suddenly, the blood rushed back to the upper part of his body and he came to his senses. He hit the key pad, and just as quickly, Gina and Ani took second stage to the bland blue of the background.
All I could do was shake my head and smile…Gina and Ani in behemoth HD looked damn good. Venice crew, your first test city was a success. Perhaps I will be asked to speak in Dallas next. Cowboy stadium has that 60 yarder! That will require some thought…
Awesome story!!
Bravo! I so love your mind and how it works in the written word!
Oh bring it on..Dallas is just waiting for an event like that to happen…HA!
Loved your story. Just what Venice needed, free advertising!!
Way to PIMP Schmootz! frickin hilarious.
O M G, dude! That’s frakin’ amazing. Thudtastic even. I so wish I’d been in that moment. I wasn’t even there and I gave an audible EEP. I pure love it!
THAT is priceless!!! I’d love to see that on the screen…ad. for Venice haha.
That may just be the best goddamn cock up in the entire history of the cock up!!!
LOVE IT! LMAO!
Mindschmootz FTMFW!
I shall try the same tomorrow in a theatre in Cleveland. 10 ushers over the age of 50 and two hetero tech guys probably won’t gasp as loudly but pimping is pimping mistake (like you and your IT) or not (me and my trusty and new laptop).
LOL
That made me laugh out loud. maybe because something like that could happen to me. Thanks for sharing.
I know that must have been a ‘tad’ embarrassing for you Mindschmootz, but for me it was ‘f*cking hilarious. There are tears in my eyes as I write this. What a fab way to show off our girls…lol
))) Thanks for the huge laugh, even if it is at your expense 
))
Can we borrow that screen for full episodes????
LMAO…I wish I could have been there! Oh this is something that would happen to me. Well, at least you and CC & Co. know they’re a hit! Thank you for sharing this.
Love the story!!! That’s a screen that Giani deserve!! LOL
thanks for sharing with us!
You are so Frickin’ hilarious!! I love how you write! LMAO!! This story is sooo crazy! ( Crying over here!)
Anymore Day’s recaps up?? You’re so entertaining!
I totally think that this is an absolutely AMAZING piece of advertising! I just hope that you had the website on the pic!
When I was PowerPointing in the classroom (college), I could SO imagine this same kind of IT “cock-up” (and more than a few cl*t-ups, too! ;-D). Hang in there, and keep on pimpin’!
Thank you Mindschmootz for consisently making me laugh.
I think that mass audience pimping qualifies you for the Fedora Friday award!
OMG Tears XD.
You hav inspired many to flashup free advertisement of Venice when coming across a projector and a 12ft screen.
AWESOME!!!^_^
THAT ROCKS SO MUCH! WAY TO GO! And way to write. You are ‘fan’freakin’tastic!
hehehehhehe…laughing all through this…This is like when your naked or in your pyjamas in class…you’re just wishing to wake up…Your legs must have been like putty…but still wooohoo!!
You’re always so entertaining…
Thanks, C
Lol, the most worrisome part about this was that my mind got stuck on the “10ft HD screen”.Hmm…
Venice playing on that big a** JUMBOtron would be the only reason I ever step foot in that stadium.