Sometimes The Mighty Google Suffers the Stupids

I'm grading corrections to a test. The kids did poorly the first time around so the professor offered to have them submit corrections, we would grade the corrections and average the grade from the corrections with the original grade. In coming up with the corrections the kids were allowed to use their book and notes. Since the answers are all in the text book we figured that the corrections would all be, you know, correct. They're not. It's really depressing. Many kids wrote down the same wrong answer. The only difference is that the handwriting is neater the second time around. I can feel that I'm slowly turning into a math grouch -- "What is the world coming to? The kids these days!" 

I decide to take a break. I fire up Google Earth because I like to use the flight simulator to fly up the Colorado River from the Grand Canyon to the Glen Canyon Dam. I like to see how low down in the Canyon I can stay. Google Earth launches, and a window pops up indicating that there is a new version available. I try to click "OK" but another window pops up covering it. The second window is replaced by a third telling me about a not-so-useful tip. I need to click "OK" on the window with the not-so-useful tip, but I can't because the focus is on the window indicating that there is an update, but it's under the tip window. My efforts to move or rearrange the windows fail. I try to quit Google Earth but can't. I have to open a terminal, use 'ps' to find the process id and kill Google Earth by hand. Maybe it's just a fluke. Maybe there was an unexpected delay and something asynchronous caused the windows to open in the wrong order. Sadly, no. Twice I've launched Google Earth and twice the exact same thing happened. Did those geniuses at Google test the software they're writing? If they did, they missed that obscure usage case: starting the software! 

What pisses me off, is that now it looks like I have to re-install Google Earth, but the last time I did, it wasn't until after I had downloaded Google Earth that the software informed me that Google Earth wouldn't run on my operating system.  Grr.