It is probably not wise....
It is probably not wise to claim any kind of victory these days-that’s just asking for a smiting from the gods of [insert your favorite iconography], yet, I have had tiny bits of luck in the last day or two. Tiny, but I’ll take them.
First, I lost the ear cushion for my iPhone headphones. I noticed it as a was scooting to the bus, in the rain, yesterday morning and was pretty bummed. These cushions are virtually impossible to replace and the headphones, with the built in microphone and secret laser planet destroyer, are quite pricey. So much joy was had when I arrived home to find the earpiece had fallen off inside my apartment.
Next, in trying to deal with a bloated email account, I somehow managed to create, not just a second copy of all my folders and contents, but three copies and then couldn’t get them to go away, even after “deleting” them several time (Oh, Microsoft, you do hate do you not? Outlook for the Mac-I am not impressed.). Then, fiddling around in the IMPA configurations I accidentally triggered a cache purge and, voila, all the phantom folders disappeared.
Finally, last quarter I tried in vain to get some media coverage for my students’ seminar work on local historical monuments. One of my students had done a nice job on Seattle’s moving war memorial-it’s moved from downtown almost to Shoreline (not bad for a multi-ton chunk of bronze and granite). After talking to the student yesterday, I thought I would try to tie it to Memorial Day and pitch it to a few media outlets. I got a positive response within 10 minutes and we’ll see if he can get a radio interview.
Tiny wins, but I’m easy to please these days.
Now to do a little grading.
First, I lost the ear cushion for my iPhone headphones. I noticed it as a was scooting to the bus, in the rain, yesterday morning and was pretty bummed. These cushions are virtually impossible to replace and the headphones, with the built in microphone and secret laser planet destroyer, are quite pricey. So much joy was had when I arrived home to find the earpiece had fallen off inside my apartment.
Next, in trying to deal with a bloated email account, I somehow managed to create, not just a second copy of all my folders and contents, but three copies and then couldn’t get them to go away, even after “deleting” them several time (Oh, Microsoft, you do hate do you not? Outlook for the Mac-I am not impressed.). Then, fiddling around in the IMPA configurations I accidentally triggered a cache purge and, voila, all the phantom folders disappeared.
Finally, last quarter I tried in vain to get some media coverage for my students’ seminar work on local historical monuments. One of my students had done a nice job on Seattle’s moving war memorial-it’s moved from downtown almost to Shoreline (not bad for a multi-ton chunk of bronze and granite). After talking to the student yesterday, I thought I would try to tie it to Memorial Day and pitch it to a few media outlets. I got a positive response within 10 minutes and we’ll see if he can get a radio interview.
Tiny wins, but I’m easy to please these days.
Now to do a little grading.