Recently I discovered a series of videos on YouTube done in tribute to the late astronomer Carl Sagan by Reid Gower. The production quality is quite good. So far my favorite is the latest video The Gift of Apollo:

Each video is around five minutes in length, give or take. Head over to The Sagan Series site for the complete playlist. Right now I think we need nothing more than some solid advocacy for science and critical thinking.

This year's move in weekend was my eighth since I started at App back in 2003. Well, technically the seventh if you don't count '03 since I wasn't a student employee yet. I used to hate it back then but now that I'm a certified desk jockey I actually enjoy roaming the dorms and setting up machines for folks. A lot of parents had positive comments about the move in process and many nice things to say about the volunteers. Other than a few elevator issues in the west campus dorms everything seemed to go smoothly. The photos attached are the lines of volunteers, students and parents waiting for said elevators to return to the ground floor.

Oh, I definitely managed to recruite a few new players for AppGaming's Minecraft server. Looking forward to some epic builds on this year's map.

Hopefully this year's freshmen aren't pinched too hard by the budget cuts.

The important thing is I'm meeting new people.