Profile avatar
danhiggins.bsky.social
Media, Higher Ed, and a third thing.
363 posts 75 followers 71 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 16 Comments 34

The fact that so many public schools still lack air conditioning feels like a moral failure. (Also, bureaucratic failure, political failure, messaging failure, etc).

submitted 259 days ago • 0 comments

You won't learn to write well unless you read a lot

submitted 259 days ago • 2 comments

Oh, the prompt was: "Show your age with a vague benchmark," or something.

submitted 267 days ago • 0 comments

My father's neighborhood had a "rag man," who went up and down the streets in a horse drawn carriage, selling rags. My dad, who was six or seven at the time, got in bad trouble for putting a piece of long grass in the horse's nostril.

submitted 267 days ago • 1 comment

I also learned that Frank Sinatra once rhymed, "For Heaven rest us/ I am not asbestos." (Technically I guess it was Oscar Hammerstein and Dorothy Fields who did the original rhyming).

submitted 271 days ago • 0 comments

Learning a lot this week as I teach a 40 hour course to unionized construction workers. "You don't want to get two checks today" = don't do anything to get fired. "Must be the shop steward" = the guy who is most attentive to when lunch time starts. "If you're not in a hurry, you're behind."

submitted 271 days ago • 0 comments

Well, folks, I'm networking. Looking for a new job, with the knowledge and support of my current employer. One thing I miss about Twitter is the convenience of DMs in a situation like this. Uh... find me on LinkedIn? Tossing this out here to see what happens, I realize I'm light on details. Thanks!

submitted 287 days ago • 1 comment

Today I thought I had an earworm but it was just a Kennedy.

submitted 298 days ago • 0 comments

My golf Mount Rushmore: Tiger Woods, Jeremy Irons, Adam Driver, Wedge from Star Wars.

submitted 301 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been reading about Jerry Seinfeld. I’m shocked, shocked! That a 70 year old billionaire who has been world famous for 30 years is embarrassingly out of touch.

submitted 307 days ago • 0 comments

It would be great if the < passport clerk > at the post Office agreed with me that my son’s birth certificate is proof of US citizenship. < screams in bureaucracy > . That was wild

submitted 307 days ago • 0 comments

Damn brilliant ad by World Wildlife Fund. It's just the perfect mix of context and humour.

submitted 308 days ago • 10 comments

This is all I can muster this morning, not that anyone asked: "All of this has happened before; All of this will happen again." Imagine the person saying this is very, very exhausted and glum.

submitted 313 days ago • 0 comments

One good way to follow the protests at Columbia and other schools? The school student newspapers www.readtpa.com/p/trying-to-...

submitted 315 days ago • 3 comments

I have an Ego brand electric lawn mower. I had to call customer service. Here's how one of the automated voice menus end: "For any other problem you're having with your Ego, press 2."

submitted 315 days ago • 0 comments

columbia university achieving the daring dream of a no-student no-faculty all administration university

submitted 315 days ago • 29 comments