A joyful scene from the Musical SIX where the six wives of Henry the 8th are singing, while confetti drops.

A scene from the musical SIX, with ten six wives of Henry the 8th singing while standing on stage in front of a small band.

The musical SIX came through Omaha. I did not know much about it (or the wives of Henry VIII, to be fair). I now know that it has a disturbingly catchy soundtrack that’s trapped in my mind, and that there are 100s of books about each of the wives!

They’re performing this at the local theatre here in Omaha this month. It’s a great story (and play)!

I had no idea!!

I love that someone here knows Ale-8-One. Oh my Kentucky childhood!

One of the best, and sadly so true! I hadn't heard this one in years.

Not a robust data set by any means, but BNA does put wait times on its website. They’ve rarely had more than a 10 minute wait; largely unaffected in the current… situation.

I’ve been to the Final Four alone. Going alone is great! All sport, no distraction!

The Fishwife stuff is great. I had their anchovies for lunch today — fantastic.

An Australian cattle dog named Walter lays in front of a stuffed blue dinosaur that separates him from a Dutch shepherd mix named Helen!

Walter and Helen checking in!

It’s also kind of bonkers to tell young people AI is going to make their jobs/future jobs irrelevant, but expect them to embrace it.

And I hate even more when people think it's cute or clever. 🙄

I have a smallish Ego snowblower that is battery powered and works (reasonably) well if you attack the snow every six inches or so!

I read this early in the morning… the whole thing is written in a way that is both odd and somehow unsettling.

Walter, an 11 year old Australian Cattle Dog, rests his weary head on a pillow.

Helen, a four year old Dutch shepherd mix, lays on the floor in the sun with her Valentine’s Day toy that says “Chew Love”.

Walter and Helen, both rescues, wish you well.

Uh oh. He didn’t thank us for our attention to this matter. He must be coming (further) unhinged!

Walter, an 11 year old Australian Cattle Dog mix, takes a rest on a white couch pillow.

Helen, a four year old brindle Dutch shepherd mix stands over Walter’s confused and mildly irritated head.

You should absolutely get a dog. No question here. Our sweet rescues Walter and Helen endorse this…

I LOVE a cinnamon roll!

For researchers working with the IPEDS dataset (nces.ed.gov/ipeds/), which can be kind of a bear to work with, especially over time, I've constructed some code to harmonize the data into a single DuckDB database

github.com/paulgp/ipeds...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HENRY!!

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

That is an excellently-perfected egg. (An eggxellent egg?)

I do! Shoot me your email, and I'll send it over!

"Siri, what does envy look like?"

Meanwhile, senior management teams are hellbent on asserting (not testing, asserting) the overwhelming virtues of generative AI for students and “the student experience”. If we vacate this dispute without pragmatic pedagogic and ethical research, universities are sunk.

I suspect if you were POTUS, we’d be in a happier place!

Yeah, seeing a lot of people share a post that is talking about stuff that happened a while back...

I love this idea/thread.

Fantastic. I’m looking forward to digging into these — Thank You!

Nudge @dcollier74.bsky.social ! Would love your thoughts. 🙏

You’ve got it. More of an intro/survey class that serves both Masters and EdD programs online. I have my standard lineup… but would like to discuss more of our current situation; hoping to tie to some good resources! Thank you 🙏