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), 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 world’s 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
Today started off like a lot of Sundays, Church followed by an easy workout at Planet Fitness. Usually that's followed by bringing coffee and bagels over to my Aunt's house around 9:00 a.m., but today there was a slight change in plans since my Aunt decided to go to church this morning, instead of her … Continue reading Shhhh… Don’t Tell Anyone, But This Is How I Spent New Year’s Morning…
I like reading the "best-of-the-year" lists that are popular this time of the year. I had thought about putting together a blog post that compiled the listings of the top books of 2016 from a variety of sources, and seeing which books, if any, were in common across the various lists (from what I can … Continue reading A Look Back at a Crazy (Statistically Speaking) Year in Sports
The Wall Street Journal posted a 2016 news quiz to its web site today, and since I read, and tweet, the WSJ every day, and often reference stories from the Journal in my classes, I thought this is the type of quiz that should be right up my alley. Well things started off pretty well; … Continue reading I’ve Got to Stop Just Reading the Headlines
At this point, I'm sure many of you have heard about the murder case in Arkansas where detectives are seeking access to audio that may have been recorded on an Amazon Echo electronic personal assistant. Specifically, the police were asking Amazon for “electronic data in the form of audio recordings, transcribed words, text records and … Continue reading “Alexa, Tell the Police What You Know”
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