My PowerPoint

From: http://www.nbc-links.com/powerpoint.html

This is dedicated to John “Slidemeister” Wilwerding. Remember the Marines’ rifleman creed (This is my rifle…)? This was created by a Marine at WESTPAC. (I don’t know who this guy is but it was on the e-mail that was received….)

This is my PowerPoint. There are many like it but mine is 7.0.

My PowerPoint is my best friend. It is my life.

I must master it as I master my life.

My PowerPoint without me is useless.

Without my PowerPoint, I am useless.

I must format my slides true. I must brief them better

than the other J-cells who are trying to out brief me.

I must brief the impact on the CINC before he asks me. I will!

My PowerPoint and myself know that what counts in this war

is not the number of slides, quantity of animations, the colors

of the highlights, or the format of the bullets. We know that it

is the new information that counts. We will brief only new information!

My PowerPoint is human, even as I, because it is my life.

Thus I will learn it as a brother.

I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its fonts,

its accessories, its formats, and its colors.

I will keep my PowerPoint slides current and ready to brief.

We will become part of each other. We will!

Before God I swear this creed. My PowerPoint and myself are

defenders of my country. We are the masters of our subject.

We are the saviors of my career.

So be it, until victory is America’s and there is no enemy,

but peace (and the next exercise)!