Presentation Faux Pas

Ahh...what can I say, the stars were apparently not aligned yesterday. First off, I had my presentation on 3 different medium: floppy, special format RW CD, and the web. I think, NASA's fairly technical, they must have lots of equiment in conference room. And what did the conference room end up having kids: a iMac!
WTF!!!! Of course, the floppy wouldn't work, the special IBM formated CD wouldn't work, and the damn thing wasn't connected to the Web!!! AHHHHHHH!

Long story short, I had to wait out of turn. Not a good start but I did go. So I was going, and going, and going. And the head of the main division suddenly popped out a technical question about GPS receiver and high altitude. I was FREAKED!! So I told him I didn't know and went right on my presentation. At the time, I was only pissed that I didn't know the answer to the question. It was only after the presentation when my friends were like, 'Dude, you told him off!' Which was so not my intention! that I realized my faux pas. And after that, I gave terrible answers to all the questions cause I was feeling extremely prickly and defensive.

I could live with my technical inadequency but not being rude... But apparently, it wasn't that bad. Alot of people tells me that it was normal cause he interrupted me in mid-thought and that I was very focused on giving the presentation. The other thing to have done if I didn't know the answer was to say that then pause and see if he'll respond...but I didn't.

And in retrospect, the question was overly vague anyway.

But apparently from people who knows, this sort of things (Murphy and Qs)happens all the time in technical presentation. In fact, people will specifically try to make an idiot out of you. The standard answer would be, "I'm sorry I don't know the answer. I could find out and get back to you."

But I think, the ultimate fault is still my own because I didn't really have the correct atitude this summer and for the presentation. I've been complaining so much of how I dislike my work that I never really focused very much on it. I am ashamed :(

And a wiser and better June will hopefully rise from all this-->if only I could find out what I want to do with my life.