So here's a bit of craziness.

I was with my class this afternoon. Not lecturing, as today was just a prep day for students to get ready for their debates and ask questions, etc. Suddenly a bunch of my students tell me they're getting text messages from the University of Miami's alert system saying that the campus is on lockdown. I check my phone and I've also received a couple of message.

The first reads something to the effect of "SHOOTING ON CAMPUS, remain indoors and stay away from windows, campus on lockdown".

Scary right?

Then the second text reads "Await further messages. BB GUN WAS USED".

Um, what?

All of the doors on campus are automatically locked at this point, including our classroom door - we can still get out, but nobody can get in. So, I hang out with my students while we wait for more news. Nobody is really worried now that we know it's a BB Gun, but we figure better safe than sorry. Forty minutes or so later we get the all clear message. The BB Gun terrorists have been apprehended.

Only in Miami...

Here is a collection of videos of veterans being greeted by their dogs when they arrive at home after months overseas. Some of these dogs get crazy excited!

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/40324

And just in case you don't care much about videos of dogs, the last video is a montage of soldiers surprising their kids at school after being overseas, they are all very moving.