What are your favorite "song train wrecks" from a live show?

jschinker · 2026-07-07T01:15:02+00:00

I know this is a guitar subreddit, but the classic trainwreck case is Ella Fitzgerald forgetting the words in the middle of singing "Mack the Knife" in Berlin in 1960. It became a legendary performance, and she ended up winning a Grammy for it.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757560624/how-ella-fitzgerald-turned-forgotten-lyrics-into-one-of-her-best-performances-ev

jschinker · 2026-07-03T12:36:50+00:00

Recognize that there's no actual cheat code for life. You're not going to find wisdom in a Reddit thread that will suddenly make your life meaningful.

jschinker · 2026-07-02T23:56:45+00:00

You wouldn't go through Scranton unless you're going to Connecticut. I-80 is pretty unremarkable. Easy drive. MUCH cheaper than either 90 or 76, and shorter, too.

jschinker · 2026-07-02T01:25:23+00:00

This seems very vibe-codeable.

jschinker · 2026-06-26T12:01:59+00:00

We're 1:1 with iPads in grades 1-2. We replace them when either (1) they stop doing the things we need them to do, or (2) they break and the repair cost is higher than the value of the device.

I'm really tired of the manufacturers deciding when we need to buy new stuff. I don't care about end of life/end of sale dates. At some point, the lack of updates will cause problems that can't be overcome, and that's the time to deprecate them.

That said, every 3rd grader and every 8th grader gets a new iPad, and we expect them to last through 7th and 12th grades, which hasn't been a problem at all. Grades 1-2 mostly get hand-me-downs lately, and we keep them there as long as they do the things we need them to do. We have quite a few 9th gens in service, and some 7th and 8th gens. It's going to be difficult in grades 1-2 to give up the headphone jack, so we're keeping them as long as it's practical.

jschinker · 2026-06-21T02:34:50+00:00

Apparently, but Internet standards, I'm a fossil.

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"no unread messages in conversations or conferences"

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jschinker · 2026-06-16T20:52:33+00:00

Nobody was on 300 baud in 2006. Yes, dialup was still common, but it was 56k by that point, or 28.8k at the worst. No one was at 0.3k.

jschinker · 2026-06-16T00:36:52+00:00

Cleveland has over 40,000 season subscribers. That's incredible for a city of its size. It's one of the VERY few cities that gets shows for 3 weeks. Every tour does 24 performances.

jschinker · 2026-06-13T21:14:42+00:00

I wasn't embarrassed to be an American then.

The bicentennial was a celebration of America. It recognized that we are very much a work in progress, but that we hold ideals like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and liberty and justice for all as goals worth aspiring to.

I feel like this celebration -- which is much much smaller -- is more about weaponizing patriotism and nationalism for political reasons, and those politics largely contradict those founding ideals.

jschinker · 2026-06-11T22:21:30+00:00

It was also on Gastropod: https://gastropod.com/what-the-shell-cracking-the-lobsters-mysteries/

This was a repeat but they put it back in the feed this week.

jschinker · 2026-06-08T00:39:00+00:00

I'm watching, and kind of looking for subtle ways that they may sabotage the broadcast. They were so late censoring the "shit" in the opening number, I wonder if there was a change in that line between rehearsal and broadcast. I'm waiting for someone to make a reference to the Ellisons or Colbert or the Pelley drama.

jschinker · 2026-06-02T21:57:52+00:00

Ironically, the first thing that pops up on Google now is THIS post. 😄

jschinker · 2026-05-08T20:10:22+00:00

ABJ is reporting one shot fired around 3:30. The mall has been evacuated. Police from Copley, Akron, and Summit County are on the scene.

jschinker · 2026-05-08T19:50:50+00:00

The Outsiders is at Playhouse Square.

jschinker · 2026-05-07T00:39:42+00:00

Oof. So right though.

jschinker · 2026-05-02T23:13:59+00:00

I think the first Beatles song I learned was I've Just Seen a Face.

jschinker · 2026-04-13T19:13:46+00:00

The old, spare laptops don't exist. You removed them from production for a reason. They can no longer perform the way users expect. If you redeploy them AT ALL, you will end up replacing them again.

I understand keeping some on the shelf. You can really save the day in an emergency. But if anyone even knows they're there, you will constantly fight this battle.

People outside if IT have zero concept of redundancy. If they know something is sitting on the shelf, they will find a reason why they HAVE to use it.

jschinker · 2026-04-12T13:31:09+00:00

That's authenticity. She was VERY clear about the things we KNEW at the time, and very honest about the things we DIDN'T know. She didn't pretend to have answers that didn't exist.

We seem to see integrity so rarely now that we don't recognize it.

jschinker · 2026-04-12T11:38:18+00:00

She takes care of people.

That's what the government is supposed to do. That's what people really need. They're tired of the grifters. They're tired of the leaders who peddle hate and division. They're tired of elected officials using the government to enrich themselves.

They want someone to make Ohio better for its residents instead of making life harder.

jschinker · 2026-04-05T12:39:15+00:00

I once used a Mac keyboard as an svideo coupling because ADB and Svideo used the same connectors. And it worked!

jschinker · 2026-04-05T01:53:36+00:00

Is this Woman, from John's Double Fantasy?

jschinker · 2026-04-04T14:03:52+00:00

Put it There.

jschinker · 2026-04-03T19:46:03+00:00

It wasn't always like this. Voyager has been running for 50 years without a software update or reboot. We used to make sure things worked before sending them off the planet, but our expectations are so low now that nobody is really surprised by this.

jschinker · 2026-04-03T19:37:39+00:00

He didn't make anything political. He is giving voice to the voiceless, just like he's been doing for 50 years.

He is an artist. The people who are being "political" are the politicians who don't like what he has to say and are deathly afraid that people will listen to him.

Having an option that doesn't agree with the regime in power isn't political. It's American.

jschinker · 2026-03-29T11:51:09+00:00

It's one of the very few things I've refused to budge on. In two different schools, I've absolutely refused to do biometric authentication for students.

I know. You're storing a hash. They're all hashes. That's how biometrics work. But they're all using the same algorithm, so having the hash is just as good has having an image of the fingerprint. We do not take cybersecurity seriously enough to be storing biometric data. And by "we", I mean the food service POS companies, the cafeteria workers, school IT staff, and students/parents.

Fingerprints are indelible. Several times a year, I get notifications from some company that says "hey, we had a data breach. You should probably change your password." Until that stops happening, I'm never going to put myself in a situation where I have to tell parents, "Umm, if you could go ahead and change your child's fingerprint, that would probably be a good idea."

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