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<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\nThere was a lot of discussion<\/a> prior to the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting about the fact that using a projector for PowerPoint would cost $25 if you requested it at the time you submitted your proposal, and $75 if you requested it later. Since I had two papers accepted, and did not decide immediately to use powerpoint (although I probably ought to have), it became clear that purchasing a portable projector made more sense than paying more than half the price of such a projector to rent one for my two sessions. So I bought a Samsung PICO projector<\/a> At the annual meeting in Atlanta, I stopped by the room in the Hyatt where I was scheduled to give my paper in the Intertextuality in the New Testament session. I discovered that there was no screen in the room, and worse, no flat wall onto which I could project clearly. So I asked at the front desk to see whether it would be possible to get a screen in there for my session, explaining that I had my own projector.<\/p>\n Their answer was \u201cYes\u201d I could indeed have the use of a screen \u2013 but it would cost me $65!<\/p>\n I made some further inquiries, and was able to get for free<\/i> a much more portable \u201cscreen\u201d in the form of several sheets of white flip chart paper, kindly given to me by some of the AV folks in the Marriott, who seemed genuinely surprised that I would be charged for a screen by the Hyatt when I had brought my own projector.<\/p>\n And so all I needed to purchase was a roll of the special \u201cscreen to wall adhesive tape\u201d pictured below, in order to attach the white paper to the wall. I came prepared to do the same thing for the session on Blogging and Online Publication, but found that there was a projector and screen already set up. Bob Cargill (who also brought his own projector) made inquiries, and since the projector and screen were set up and would be remaining in the room, we were told to go ahead and use them.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n