If You Build It, They Will Come

 I've been playing around with the open version of Chat GPT, and it strikes me that this tool is going to be super helpful and also super dangerous at the same time. Nothing you probably haven't read a million times already, but the vast amounts of knowledge that is available through that interface, and its ability to condense it and spit it back to us in a way that process information better is going to help out many people across many spectrums of work. Of course, I'm going to use it for dumb little ideas.  My favorite prompt so far has been "I want to create a board game based off the movie Die Hard With a Vengeance. Can you create set of rules for gameplay for this?".  Which it did, and with a few tweaks would be a fun game.  But, more specific to this blog, I've begun querying it for new Iowa Connections, because having thousands of collections doesn't mean I can't add a few more names. Here's the problem, Chat GPT lies to me often and with su...

I collect cards with Iowa Connections, and just recently I was looking for more connections and came across the Wikipedia page for the Iowa Cornets.  The Cornets was a team in the Women's Basketball League (WBL) that played from 1978 to 1980 before disbanding.  The WBL lasted only one season after Iowa left before folding play. The Iowa team was built with a cast of characters made for a Netflix mini-series.  Owned by the creator of the modern trampoline, George Nissen purchased the team for $50,000 in 1978.  The team had players of all sorts of skills and historical significance.  Tanya Crevier (South Dakota HOF) had a crazy handle of the ball and still travels today to show off her basketball skills.  Denise Long was the first woman to ever be drafted by an NBA team. Rhonda Penquite is an Oral Roberts HOFer.  Mary Schrad was paralyzed in a sledding accident in high school and was told she may never walk again, but still became a professional basketb...