Unrelated: Why won't my grading do itself? Perhaps I should ask an LLM so my students can get some plausible looking feedback on an average range of similar assignments without any need for exercising judgement, or my brain. What a time to be alive.

Related: until recently I had a YouTube premium subscription, because I wanted to support creators without enduring ads.

I've cancelled because I'm fed up of the AI summaries. I'm not going to fund your planet burning plagiarism machine directly. I'll be looking for other ways to support creators.

I hope nobody ever finds out that I apply similar principles to my lectures.

Oops, did I say that out loud?

One of my tutorial groups is unusually quiet this semester though. Maybe I should start taking a banjolele along and threatening to use it if they don't engage.

Nobody will ever believe me

I got as far as Bielefeld at least! Nobody will ever believe me.

Also I've just remembered a thing a filker said to me a couple of weeks ago: "I bet your students think you're weird."

I can't argue with that. Probably not for the reasons they think though. I mean, I've never taken a ukulele out in a lecture, but it might be a good thing to threaten...

I did have a more heavyweight solution along those lines for a bit, but I have other jobs for the mixer. I have a small gadget that let me plug multiple sources into the speakers now though.

I've never found bluetooth anything other than frustrating. Plugging things into things is so much better.