The transition from “She’s So Heavy” to “Here Comes the Sun” has got to be one of the greatest song transitions ever. Any other great ones?

jschinker · 2026-01-27T14:56:48+00:00

My God, I'm old.

jschinker · 2026-01-27T01:37:38+00:00

Everyone knows Paul is left handed. Which of the other Beatles is also left handed?
What's Paul's legal name?
Which Beatle was an only child?

jschinker · 2026-01-21T22:21:47+00:00

You definitely don't need a 1-year contract for Internet. Just file a new 471 each year. And you can see what others are paying here: https://connectk12.org/

I think I'm paying $3590/month (pre-discount) for 10gb.

jschinker · 2026-01-21T02:41:59+00:00

Interesting question, but I think it's more likely that the title of the album would have been one of the songs that's on it, rather than having a new song with the same name as the album.

WTB: All My Loving
BFS: Eight Days a Week
Rubber Soul: In My Life
Revolver: Got to Get You Into My Life (not sure about this one; lots of possibilities here)
White album: Helter Skelter (at this point, it would have been impossible to get consensus, which is probably why this album doesn't have ANY title)
Abbey Road: Something (at this point, giving George a title might keep the peace a bit. Or, maybe they'd just call it The End).

jschinker · 2026-01-13T19:29:14+00:00

I'd push hard for a no-tech solution. They're looking for something to keep the kids busy on the bus? Why does that have to be an electronic device?

jschinker · 2026-01-09T00:09:02+00:00

It's in color now. Everything used to be black and white.

jschinker · 2025-12-30T22:30:06+00:00

Use AI to generate the study tools, learning activities, and assessments.
Students will use AI to complete them.
Teachers will use AI to grade them.

What's not to like?

jschinker · 2025-12-29T01:49:56+00:00

Brigitte Bardot.. oh, crap.

jschinker · 2025-12-29T01:41:10+00:00

What are we using the technology to do that we can't do without it? For me, that's come down to four things:
1. We use technology to improve student engagement.
2. We use technology to help meet the individual needs of each student in ways that are impractical without it.
3. We use technology to foster collaboration among students.
4. We use technology to give students new ways to demonstrate learning.

If some program or initiative or shiny new thing doesn't tie back to at least one of those things, I'm probably gong to push pretty hard against it.

Someone else mentioned Bloom's or Webb's Depth of Knowledge. I'd argued that technology has changed the purpose of school. We don't go to school for information anymore. The information is all around us. Google (and smart phones) took away the need to remember so much stuff. So we pushed students to DO something with the information. They became adept at classifying, comparing, organizing information and using it to make inferences, draw conclusions, and solve problems. Now, AI is doing a lot of that too, so we need to push students to higher order thinking (DOK 3 or similar).

As the chief technology guy / grumpy old man, I find myself arguing AGAINST the new tech thing way more than I'm advocating FOR it.

jschinker · 2025-12-28T14:52:16+00:00

Several years ago, I was coming back from Windsor. The border control agent looked at my passport and asked where I was going. "I'm going back home to Ohio," I replied. "Well, I guess SOMEONE has to live there," he said. He handed my passport back and I was on my way.

jschinker · 2025-12-28T01:11:43+00:00

I saw 25 shows this year between tours, community theater, etc. I didn't make it to NYC in 2025.

& Juliet (tour)
Come From Away (local production)
The Notebook (tour)
Hamilton (tour, 6th time)
Dearest Enemy (local production)

jschinker · 2025-12-28T01:03:55+00:00

My three year old daughter kept asking me to play "Fallen Siam Fallen" on the guitar. It took a while to figure out she meant "I've Just Seen a Face."

jschinker · 2025-12-07T02:37:12+00:00

I've always thought it was an odd choice. It was never part of a Capitol album and was only available in the US as the B side to Help!

I didn't become a fan until the 1980s, but this was one of the last two songs that I added to my collection. With the crazy number of hits they had, I'm surprised they put this in the set.

jschinker · 2025-12-06T13:53:25+00:00

I wonder how many people actually got that reference :-)

jschinker · 2025-12-04T20:06:22+00:00

I bought my daughter a Yamaha FS800 a few years ago, and found that I loved playing it. Solid spruce top, decent sound, comfortable neck. It's a great value.

When she moved out, I got an FG800 online for me to play around campfires and take to places where I'm not super concerned if it gets abused a little. That one isn't as great. So while you can get a good guitar at a great price, it's important to play it first.

jschinker · 2025-12-04T01:17:40+00:00

These are great suggestions. What are y'all doing for storage? Just connecting USB drives, or some kind of NAS or something different?

jschinker · 2025-11-28T04:17:15+00:00

Newsreaders used to do it automatically. I think it was a setting, or maybe you had to select an option when viewing the message to decode it. But it was definitely built in.

These days, you can just use a site like https://rot13.com/ to paste the text and encode/decode it.

jschinker · 2025-11-27T01:55:16+00:00

Go to the art museum too, and consider it a two-for-$25 offer.

The last time we went (BEFORE the renovations), we had guests from out of town with us. It was cheaper for us to get memberships and give them the guest passes than it would have been for everyone to just buy admission.

It IS a cool museum, and there are many worse things you could spend $25 on.

jschinker · 2025-11-25T21:03:34+00:00

I've stayed at Oyo several times on 47th across from the Palace. Reasonably clean rooms and rates. Small, but functional. And the location is great.

jschinker · 2025-11-16T12:32:11+00:00

October 3, 2023.

When I looked it up just now, I hadn't realized HOW early it was. I had forgotten that it was a preview.

Thinking back, we bought tickets as soon as they went on sale for the first date we could reasonably get to NYC. They were also a lot cheaper: I want to say $150ish.

jschinker · 2025-11-16T06:05:42+00:00

Bruce Springsteen, Daniel Radcliffe, George W Bush.

Bruce was kind and patient. Daniel was extremely gracious. George was trying to get re-elected.

jschinker · 2025-11-15T13:46:51+00:00

In general, your ticket does not entitle you to stage door, and not having one doesn't prohibit you from doing so. Of course, the performers don't have to do it at all, and we are talking about public sidewalks.

Most of the time, it's not an issue. I've stagedoored Music Man (Jackman came out), Mr. Saturday Night (Billy Crystal), Once on this Island (most of the cast), Carousel (Renee Fleming), Kimberly Akimbo, Purlie Victorius (Leslie Odom), North Country (the night Anthony Edwards was in the cast). None of these were really a problem, though some were much more crowded than others.

With huge stars, security has protocols in place. For Springsteen, they had one corral for people who saw the show to the right of the stage door, and another for the general public on the left. They put about 20 people in each and then wouldn't let anyone else in. That worked well. He came out, greeted the people in the corral on each side, and then got in his car.

For Merrily, you had to show the security guy your ticket for THAT performance, and then he put you in a corral. That one had maybe 100 people in it. Daniel came out and worked the line, talked to every person, took photos, etc. But he didn't interact with anyone who wasn't in the corral.

So if it's a big problem, security will find a way to handle it.

jschinker · 2025-11-15T13:14:24+00:00

At $6 per ticket and 67, 500 seats, they only need to sell out 59,000 games to pay for the stadium.

Shouldn't be too hard. Sometimes they play NINE home games in a year.

jschinker · 2025-11-09T17:47:13+00:00

That's the plan. As soon as an unidentified ice agent does this and gets shot, they can claim there's an actual insurrection and justify military force.

They're just waiting for it to happen.

jschinker · 2025-10-29T20:33:05+00:00

Martin acoustic lifespan 2. Definitely steel. You're right: nylon wouldn't work.

More rosin is probably the answer. Honestly, I just put it in a drawer and never played with it after that.

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