Grant Bachman

Grant Bachman

@grant.bachman.tv

AV/IT Systems Specialist, Goshen College | Chief Engineer, @globeradio.org Audio mixing, coffee consuming, Mennonite-ing, Illinois boy at heart. #higheredAV My posts are my 🌶, not my employer's. I am @grantbachman on most other socials.

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Holy cow between unexpected certificate updates and now trying to patch everything on campus running PHP (which apparently is pretty much everything we host and use), this just turned into a crazy week

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Social Media FTW. The person behind those great Consumer Products Commission posts explains why he does what he does.

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Forecast exceeded again. River now at 21.02’ and rising faster than expected at Nora. Was not forecast to hit 20.9’ until after 2pm.

William Hazen@williamhazen.bsky.social

The gauge at Nora has already surpassed the forecast crest and is still rising. If you’re downstream, evacuate now. Do not wait until dusk. Forecast crest at Nora increased to 21.1 feet.

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A historic flood is forcing central Indiana residents to evacuate as the White River rises. Indianapolis is bracing for the river to crest at 20 feet by 8 a.m. Saturday, following excessive rainfall. DETAILS: https://tinyurl.com/24w8kdrc 

Keeping my old Indianapolis community in my thoughts today, I remember seeing those flood gates in Broad Ripple and wondering when they’d ever need to be used. The New Normal is here and it really sucks.

Crews are closing, or have closed, floodgates in various locations along the White River in Indianapolis. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at workers closing the floodgates at 67th and College near the Indianapolis Arts Center. (photos from DPW)

According to Hudl support “While we did support a public API structure in the past, we unfortunately do not have any public API integrations available to share at this time.” 😐 Cool awesome we’ll keep manually entering data in 5 systems every game. We’re small so that won’t matter to us right?

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SID and athletics broadcast nerds, has anyone found available APIs for the HudlTV system? I’ve poked around in vCloud and found a few promising spots, but this is my first foray. Hoping to be able to create some helper scripts for scheduling and updating our broadcasts. #sportsvideo

SID and athletics broadcast nerds, has anyone found available APIs for the HudlTV system? I’ve poked around in vCloud and found a few promising spots, but this is my first foray. Hoping to be able to create some helper scripts for scheduling and updating our broadcasts. #sportsvideo

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here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

The Higher Ed AV Awards were tonight and Goshen College was well represented—Isaac was nominated for Rising Star of the Year, and our new Schertz PC Computer Lab project received two awards including a best of class! #InfoComm2026 #avtweeps #edtech #higheredav #HETMA

I do apologize for my sudden posting - I’m headed to Las Vegas for the week to attempt simultaneous conferences: HPE Discover (I’m backup network & infrastructure at work) and Infocomm (I’m primarily AV at work). Stay tuned for various musings. Or mute me for a bit, that works too. #avtweeps

Heading to Vegas on Monday for a week of double conferences, gotta get the homestead in decent shape before I leave town. Nothing like mowing till it’s too dark to see with a tasty beverage.

Somehow, I’m going to try to balance going to both the HPE Discover conference and Infocomm at the same time this year, so already overachieving a bit. The ONE paid session I’m doing at Infocomm is the @avsuperfriends.bsky.social “From Prompt to Project” AI workshop. Really looking forward to it!

AV SuperFriends@avsuperfriends.bsky.social

AVSF is going to InfoComm 2026 and, shockingly, they’re letting us do several things with microphones. 🎙️ AI session. Live shows. Q-SYS game show. Show floor tour. Higher ed AV nonsense. Here’s the full hub: www.avsuperfriends.com/infocomm2026 #AVSF #InfoComm2026 #avtweeps #edtech #higheredav

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Me in 1991, watching “Darmok”: Communicating by allusion and literary reference? Ridiculous. Wouldn’t work. Me 35 years later: [communicates 50% by meme]

A small, modest proposal to make vanilla macOS even more useful: The built-in TextEdit.app should default to plain text instead of rich text on new documents, and create Markdown syntax with the WYSIWYG formatting controls. Markdown rendering on by default. Support rich text as an option.

Even in consumer space, Markdown has a strong foothold as a way to convey rich formatting options in plain text while still remaining human-readable. TextEdit.app wouldn’t take the place of feature-rich editors like Obsidian or Ulysses, but it would be a gateway to them. And handy for quick editing

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Make sure to check out our latest Globe News Report on our YouTube @91.1theglobe. We take a look into the closing of the Mennonite Historical Society. We follow the Globe staff on their trip to New York City. We’ll sit down with illusionist Vitaly. all that and more on the globe news report.

@globeradio.org this could make for a great question of the day! "If you need to make a big purchase (plane trips, TV, major event tickets), are you using your phone or a computer?"

Johnathan Perkins@johnathanperk.bsky.social

Somebody said millennials usually use their laptops (instead of smartphones) for major purchases, including booking flights. I can’t stop thinking about this.

I hate how many of Goshen's crosswalk lights won't ever cycle green unless the beg button is pressed. I'd still want the button for pedestrians to trigger the cycle just like the car sensor, but why *not* give peds a green every cycle?? If it takes too long to cross, that's not the ped's fault!

William Hazen@williamhazen.bsky.social

I stand by my belief that one of the few appropriate uses of beg buttons for pedestrians and cyclists is on transit lines with signal priority. They are wholly unnecessary everywhere else and it should be automatic.

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hear me out: instead of widening this road, what if you diverted the funds for this and future maintenance costs to extend the Monon Corridor to Cedar Lake

The Indiana Department of Transportation will host a hearing March 23 on preliminary design plans for a project along U.S. 41 for 3.35 miles south from U.S. 231 (to the

Do I know anyone on here who’s done motion graphic design for video, or knows someone who does? I’d love to explore building a library of branded templates and building block elements from an existing brand. #videoproduction #avtweeps

Awesome. Just found out that a major highway through Goshen is slated for a state upgrade from three lanes to five, severely impacting neighborhoods and the high school. Never mind the fact INDOT doesn’t have enough money to maintain the lane-miles it already has, gotta make more!

I just watched them upgrade a rural highway connecting small towns from a standard two lane to a divided four lane and - surprise! - People now fly at 90 mph past homes! More cars than ever! More rural farmland destroyed, more RV parking lots built. Just outstanding short term decision-making…

It’s hard not to laugh when Elkhart County natives still describe this area as rural. There are a few pockets of farmland, but it seems everyone who lives here only sees it as a future industrial park. anything not in service of future industry must give way.

Absolutely wacky weather right now at Goshen College in Goshen, IN. It hailed long and hard enough to actually build up on the parking lot, and even when the rain started coming back the hail got smaller and smaller, maybe more like big grapple. It lasted probably 7-10 minutes! #inwx #miwx

One thing they don’t warn you about buying some property in the country: the urge to buy a Tractor come on strong and fast… could all my problems in life be solved by a 2025r? Who’s to say!