So, as a side note, you’re both on ratemyprofessor.com [a site where students can anonymously weigh in on their professors]. Have you checked your hotness ratings lately?
DD: I haven’t. Last time I looked, Martin was ‘hot’, but I don’t think I’ve been rated at Hopkins yet.
MS:Â Do you remember what he’s [Drew’s] rated as?
I don’t remember, I just remember there was a really eerie post for you, Martin, which just said in all caps, ‘MARTIN WILL HELP. MARTIN WILL HELP’.
MS: [laughs] I always said to my students that it was a lifetime contract, and that they could call me any time and I would help them. And sure enough, two weeks ago, the phone rang in Slovenia or some place, in the middle of the night. It was a student of mine from five years ago asking, ‘I need to make a DVD, and I don’t have DVD Studio Pro. What should I do?’  The answer was, sorry to her for saying so, but the answer was idiotically simple. I asked, ‘are you using a Mac? Use iDVD!’  She was like, ‘oh. Thanks Martin!’  And I went back to sleep!
DD: So she probably wrote that ‘MARTIN WILL HELP’ immediately. Continue Reading »