Seeing this is cut and paste day from the MSM [Ed.: the dastards! Give me more.], this digital world meets the Darwin awards is a decent morality play for the day:
...a university professor needed help after he tried to fix a squeaky desktop computer by squirting it with WD-40 oil. The squeak went away, but so did his data.I once, during my spotty teens, used astringent face cleaner on my Elvis Costello lps so I feel their pain. If is a darn good thing that we do not have to clean CDs or Mp3s but does anyone think of the layoffs in the lp-cleaning industry? Where are they now? And those who made that K-tel lp flipping storage device. What of those?
Comments
Gordo - November 15, 2006 11:07 AM
If anyone here tries this I'll scream. You'll hear me in your limestone tower, Alan.
Flea - November 15, 2006 11:47 AM
I beg you all to remember this incident the next time some York prof spouts off about the environment or addressing matters of war and peace.
It takes a PhD to be this stupid.
Gordo - November 15, 2006 12:00 PM
You know it, Flea. I work with these people every day and I'm constantly surprised that some of them are able to dress themselves.
Flea - November 15, 2006 2:30 PM
It was irritating at the time but I am now convinced missing out on a tenure-track job was the greatest stroke of luck I have had this decade. The interview process alone should have convinced me even if years of teaching had not.
portland - November 15, 2006 5:45 PM
it's nice that you guys arent too bitter.
Gordo - November 15, 2006 8:27 PM
I'm a systems admin in one of the science departments here. The phrases "book-smart not street-smart" is permanently engraved in my lexicon.