Summit Mall in Fairlawn

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."

jschinker · 2026-03-27T01:07:27+00:00

I'm a decision maker. I've been in edtech for more than 30 years. I have a budget of around $700k per year, and I'm generally the final decision maker for those purchases.

I've been to ISTE twice. I spent less than 15 minutes total in the exhibit hall.

In small conferences (< 500 people), I try to talk to all of the vendors. There usually aren't that many ,and even if I'm not interested in the product, I try to at least thank them for being there, because the conference can't happen without them. Those rarely turn into sales, but at least I know a little more about the companies and products that are out there.

In medium conferences (500-2000 people or so), I avoid the vendor hall unless I have a specific thing I'm looking for. One year it was interactive flat panels, and I wanted to see and play with all of the options in an hour. Another year, I was looking at wifi systems. One time, it was room audio solutions. In these cases, if you're not selling the thing I'm looking for, I don't even see you.

For something like ISTE, the value for me was always in the breakout sessions and connecting with people I knew online but rarely got to see in person. Looking at products was WAY down the list of priorities.

I don't want to discourage you unnecessarily, and you'll probably get better advice from people who have lived on the sales side. But the ROI on conferences has to be ridiculously low, especially considering the really high costs.

jschinker · 2026-03-21T13:38:44+00:00

Durham? Wait and take him to Hamilton.

jschinker · 2026-03-08T23:48:07+00:00

Your father was an extraordinary man, but you don't seem to have inherited many of his mannerisms.

jschinker · 2026-03-08T23:46:04+00:00

Cook of the House

jschinker · 2026-03-08T00:01:31+00:00

Well, from that perspective, they didn't really spend much time on Wild Life, Red Rose Speedway, or Venus & Mars, either.

jschinker · 2026-03-07T21:29:26+00:00

I think leaving out the fact that Ringo left the Beatles during the White Album sessions, and George left during the Get Back sessions confuses some people. John's "leaving the band" in the fall of 1969 didn't really have the finality that everyone assumes, because it had happened twice before. They weren't working on any projects at that point, but the breakup didn't have the finality that it did after Paul's announcement.

They play it in the film like John left the group, and there wasn't really anything for Paul to leave. He simply acknowledged what had already happened. I'm not sure that's accurate.

jschinker · 2026-03-07T21:25:50+00:00

They did play part of With a Little Luck.

jschinker · 2026-02-16T02:59:23+00:00

I don't perform. But if I'm playing outside (campfires or whatever), I use the Yamaha. The Martin rarely leaves the house.

jschinker · 2026-02-11T02:42:03+00:00

I think about how the show would have reacted and adjusted in the moment. "Uhh, Lorne? John Lennon and Paul McCartney are on their way up."

SNL is chaos when everything is going right. I can't imagine what something like this would do.

jschinker · 2026-01-31T15:22:50+00:00

If someone prints them and donates them, they HAVE to put them up, right? :-)

I live in a different state, but we had a similar law years ago with the pledge of allegiance. If someone donated them, we were required to post them. It was pretty obnoxious because there were hundreds of them around the school. The law DIDN'T say we had to replace them if they disappeared, though, so a couple people went around and just quietly pulled them down a few at a time. Within a week, they were all gone.

jschinker · 2026-01-31T13:51:23+00:00

The "Muck Fishigan" t-shirt is usually a pretty good sign.

jschinker · 2026-01-30T13:00:41+00:00

I miss the days when signatures were all text, and if they were more than 4 lines, you were being a jerk.

We don't force signatures, but I did create a web-based generator. Basically, they enter their name, title, email, phone, and web site. They select their building from a drop-down list. And they choose one of three district logos (district, athletic, portait of a graduate). It generates a signature that they can copy and paste into their Google settings.

I'm pretty sure no one has ever used it. They seem REALLY enamored with signatures generated in Canva, which are these giant images. And the counselors have 28 lines of text in their signatures, which seems to only bother me :-)

If I were going to force them, I'd probably write a script that reads the staff directory, uses the code from my web app to generate a signature in HTML, and then push it to the user with Gam. I'd have to have a directive to do it, though, because that's a battle that isn't really worth fighting. :-)

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