Sometime early Saturday morning my 5-year-old Power Mac died. I knew because of some email logs my other computer sent me about not being able to access the down computer.

I got to the computer around mid-day and tried to restart it. No joy. I could hear the UPS upstairs screaming in pain when I tried that. So I moved the power plug to another outlet, mistakenly thinking that it was the UPS’s problem. Then I tried again. These things happened simultaneously: there was a loud “pop,” the lights flickered/dimmed, and there may have been a spark from the Power Mac. “Great,” I thought.

Do we really need that many nukes? Isn’t just a few hundred sufficient to thoroughly destroy life on Earth as we know it?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/03/us.nuclear.warhead.count/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

Today after class one of my students asked if I was teaching Production III next semester, because “[he’d] take from [me] again in a heartbeat.” Another student in my class, his friend, agreed.

Don’t that just make ya feel good? Thanks, guys.  :)

That kinda balances out the statement from earlier this semester by a student in my other class that mine was “the worst production class [he’d] ever taken.” This statement was also said to me in front of at least one other student in the same class, yet somehow didn’t have the same heartwarming effect. Go figure.

I particularly like the part about the tip from the USC Sound Department.

http://bondelev.blogspot.com/2010/04/capitalism-tragedy.html

http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/10-Wacky-Road-Signs-Around-the-World.html

I called the head of the job search committee at my ol’ Alma today to touch base and notify him that I’ve submitted my info. He called me back not too long ago: they’re down to their final four and about ready to fly them out for in-person interviews. And no, I’m not one of them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/education/18college.html

That’s funny.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14520306