Wisconsin AV Inventory

So this ultimate online AV training should be mandatory for all Faci, MC, and your OCP who will anyway end up asking some random techy geek from LC X to put out the fire in the plenary. All these years and I finally find the OC's best friend in one simple training! I would also highly reccommend this training as a stress-buster for all AI members on the second day of any IC ;-)

(turn on your speakers and let it completely download before you play it or it may be choppy)


And I had a good laugh when I got this e-mail at work recently;

To: Wisconsin region Faculty and Staff
From: AV/Media Services Coordinator

The Media Services department is currently doing audio visual equipment
inventory in the Wisconsin region. Your assistance is vital in our efforts
to address the expanding equipment and technology needs at our institutions.

If you have any equipment (including LCD Projectors), please either:
1) Return the equipment to the AV/Media Services department or
2) E-mail a brief description of what you currently have to me

Example:
Item Make Model Number Serial Number
LCD Projector NEC VT660 11110000XXX42

Thank you,
AV/Media Services Coordinator


Reading this, I initially got hallucigenic reflecting back on countless AV meetings particularly in Milwaukee, Phoenix and Detroit ;-) Specific mention goes out to a lengthy AV meeting involving several rounds of Margarita-slamming in the Hotel-Bar in Phoenix. I recall fitful moments amongst this particular OC concerning why the muck the MC required three LCDs (beamers for you Euro kids) at the same time in three different places in the agenda and why they only gave us about two minutes advance notice.

Haha, the above moments were just the beginning. Fast Forward 4 years later. Have you ever had AI ask you in a sincere manner to raise 22 LCDs/beamers two weeks before the biggest annual conference is supposed to start?! Result; Hardcore AV meeting in the MC Kitchen in Bonn, (size of 3 bathroom stalls) with 30 plus members, support people, CC, MC etc... until there was no more A (alcohol) left to make a V (violation) ;-) at some undetermined early morning hour.

Given the above memo, my reflection also led me to imagine the Rowdy Region may have left a few countless AV items around at earlier YES conferences or even lost an LCD/beamer to God knows what. The reason I can say this is as I have seen LCs get their University rights to an LCD revoked on both sides of the Great Atlantic pond within a couple year's time. No comments on which LCs those were...

So it does make sense that Wisconsin's University's are finally retrieving their AV items and calling for a state-wide inventory. Shit, at least it was only the lawn chair and not the beamer that sky-dived off the 3rd floor into the hotel pool in Phoenix! But I do recall someone from Penn spilling beer on the beamer, dammit. And the internal emotion while transporting a University LCD through the Grand Canyon or through the main train station past the drug sales on the University front lawn in a shopping cart at 2am are priceless @ experiences!

Concluding this AV reflection, I would suggest a region-wide AV meeting of any National OC members out there at a bar near me in Milwaukee. Don't forget to bring the LCD lens cover and the 50 foot DJ snake cable. I'm sure those are still in Detroit and Phoenix (respectively) too!