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[prog]

Thanks, all, for the birthday wishes.

Ricky asked me, as he does every year, how it feels to be N. Instead of saying something like "Same as it felt to be N - 1" I said "I think it's gonna be a really good year." And I meant it!

Ricky's birthday was a few days ago (he's 51 now) and mom got him mandolin lessons, which is a bang-on typical good-

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[treacle_well]

Re using QT movie for teleprompting.

If you're willing to do practice to get the speed right, and you would find it any easier to create PowerPoint slides than use QuickTime, you can set PowerPoint to automatically move through slides, and I'm pretty sure you can set your own timing between slides.

[prog]

It's true, and I may try that too. But (before trying either option) I bet the smooth scrolling will work better, since it eliminates the chance that I'll get the pace wrong and either run out of words or have the page flip before I'm ready.