I don't remember ever going into a "hostile environment" as a swimmer. Sure, the water might not have been the temperature I preferred (the warmer the better), or the walls may not have been the easiest for making a turn (especially on that final turn of the 200-yard butterfly), or the starting blocks may not … Continue reading I’m Glad I Was A Swimmer, We Didn’t Usually Get Booed
If someone were to ask you what you think is the top tourist attraction in the U.S., what would you say? (hint, it's not South of the Border) My first response would be theĀ Grand Canyon; if the person said 'guess again', I would reply with Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park, and if the person … Continue reading The Most Popular Places to Visit in Every Country
This is the third in a series of blogs in which I plan to go through and āmusically annotateā Bruce Springsteenās autobiography, āBorn to Runā. This involvesĀ going through the book page by page and listing the artists, and when possible, providing a YouTube video of the artists and songs that Bruce mentions as among his … Continue reading A Musical Annotation of Bruce Springsteenās Autobiography ā Born to Run, Part 3
OK, I know. Some of you are thinking, 'I already have a label for you.' But I'm worried what that label might be. So I thought I would try to take control of the situation and give myself a label, at least as far as my philosophy of life is concerned, and perhaps one that … Continue reading I Now Know What Label to Give Myself
I was doing my required daily reading at the web site "The Art of Manliness" (I've still got a lot of reading to do), Ā and I came across an article that talks about how James Bond would take a shower. He would start off with the water nice and hot, and then turn it down … Continue reading How a Scottish Shower Is Helping Me Become a Man
We've had our Amazon Echo for about three months, and we love it. We've got it synced with our Spotify account, so just about any song you want to hear, the Echo will play for you by just saying "Alexa, play ..." and it starts playing. The quality is fine, and the volume can get … Continue reading Amazon Echo’s Spectacular Fails
I wonder what John Lennon would have had to say about this report. The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the worldās focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. IEP achieves its goals by developing new conceptual … Continue reading Give Peace a Chance (but first, let’s measure it)
A colleague at work posted an article from the New York Times that looked at whether faculty should allow students to bring their laptops into the classroom. The author , Darren Rosenblum, a law professor at Pace University, claims that "laptops at best reduce education to the clackety-clack of transcribing lectures on shiny screens and, … Continue reading This Is a Test; Can You Read This Entire Post without Multitasking?
Here's a compilation of a variety of "Best Books of 2016" lists I came across int he past couple of weeks. I was putting the list together for myself, and I thought some of my readers would like to see such a list as well. There was only one book that appeared on all three … Continue reading A Compilation of Multiple Best Books of the Year Lists
I was looking back at some blogging stats for 2016 (many of them courtesy of the great WordPress plugin Jetpack), and I thought I would share what I consider one of the most fascinating stats, and that is with the number of countries that have read at least one of my posts. According to WordPress.com … Continue reading Borden’s Blog: A Global Report Card
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