Danger and Excitement

I was doing a tutorial this morning and I had just run the program when all the power in the building went off. The students present were most impressed, they had never seen a program that could turn off all the lights.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) it turned out that it wasn’t my code. The power came back on after five minutes or so, and later on we got an email saying that owing to problems at the local sub-station we would have to shut down the university and leave early as “any delay could cause catastrophic problems”.

I had this vision of people standing around a pair of glowing wires and someone playing the Scotty role and saying things like “I dinnae think she’ll take much more captain..”

Unfortunately it meant postponing my 4:15 VB lecture. Sorry about that folks, we were going to learn all kinds of interesting things about file paths too….

Comments

[Christo Lionet]

Didn't see the power cut. Wish I had though, must have been fun!

Did you actually take that picture while driving? Or are you just waiting in front of a traffic light?...

[Rob]

The car was stopped with the engine turned off.

[Joel]

It does the all too familiar side effect of blurred edges. Good to see that your health was not adversly affected in the process!