All I can say is that it is about time higher education started living up to their designated name.  Came across this from a blogger on TUAW.

A university in Wilkes-Barre, PA will remove every PC on campus over the next three years and replace them with the PCs superior counterpart, the Macintosh.  All in all, Wilkes University will replace 1700 computers.  Think Different.

When I was in college there were maybe six Macs on campus.  They were excellent, but neglected by the IT department because frankly they didn’t need any attention.

Kudos to Wilkes University.  I know where my kids will be going!

Tonight Jen and I attended our nephews elementary choir and band Holiday concert. I left thinking two things.

First, I apologize to my Dad and Mom for putting them through that in sixth grade. This band was small. My sixth grade band, with me on the alto sax-a-ma-phone, was double the size of this one. Which means double the awful!

Which brings me to my next thought: we gotta beef up the NEA! I think the band played Jingle Bells. However, it could have been the horn part at the end of Radioheads “National Anthem.” The string quartet played with string tracks. That’s not fair to the studio musicians!

The choir, however, was great! The choreography… not so much. Remember in school chorus and Melissa Gilbert and Natalie Jenson choreographed hand gestures to “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” It was all in vain, you can’t successfully perform hand gestures when your shoulder to shoulder.

Besides my nephews speaking part, the highlight of the night was the “pee kid” who wasn’t allowed on the risers. He had to stand on his knees and hardly be seen just to the right of the stage. The “pee kid” deserves a speaking part, too!

I would like to completely redo my schooling from K through 12. I’m pretty sure that, at least through 6th grade, I would not only do better, but also rock everyones world!

Kindergarten would be sweet for one reason and one reason only: nap time! The acceptibility of being able to wet my pants in public is merely a perk. Furthermore, I know – I KNOW – I would do better at pronouncing my “D” sounds this time around. Not to mention I would be able to use words like “furthermore” to impress my teacher and drive home the fact that all my classmates really are stupid.

Other words I will use during my redo: perfunctory, abolish, onomasiological, brachiocephalic, fynbos, lobule, nilgai, and the phrase shut up. When the teacher tells me I’m wrong – which I won’t be – I’ll just tell her to shut up. What’s she going to do about it? I’m 30! And when the other kids ask what those words mean I’ll answer with “A word looked up is a word remembered.”