Rickrolled!
I gave my last Secure Computing lecture today - the last ever Secure Computing lecture, as it happens - and my students prepared a little ’surprise’ for me. Halfway into the lecture, “Never Gonna Give You Up” began blaring out from beneath the lectern!
On investigating further, I discovered a notebook computer and miniature speakers, carefully concealed behind a poster. Kudos to Chris Worfolk for making it happen. Now if only he’d hacked my laptop and made that Rick Astley video appear in place of the slides…
May 7th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
[…] Soon we had concealed within the desks at the front a laptop and a pair of travel speakers set to run a scheduled task and play an MP3 at 10:25, midway through the lecture. I’m sure you can guess which certain MP3 that was
. The plan went off without a hitch. Now if only we can find a way to get that live band in for next time… […]
May 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Well, rickrolled I haven’t been, but it still is good to have a loast wrap-up session with students at the end of semester- the more fun, the better.
The trend that has my students transfixed is writing English verses for traditional regional poetry: it started with one mixed-language performance and has taken off in a big way. Until our internet speeds improve, it will be poetry before Rick Astley videos. One reason to stick with the luddites on occasion
May 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
[…] Nick wrote about what it was like to be Rickrolled on his blog […]
May 13th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
wow, wish i was there!
I didn’t know you was leaving… no secure computing next academic year then
Ive missed out!
What does life bring now then…?
May 14th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
I’m not actually going anywhere!
I took up a temporary (2-year) position in December, based in the Faculty of Engineering rather than the School of Computing - although my physical location remains in the corner of the Long Room
The new job leaves me with much less time for teaching (for the next 18 months or so, at least). I’ll be in charge of first-year programming next session, but nothing much beyond that.