Nothing like seeing a live demo of what the FBI and IRS are up against. Yesterday, our Intro to Accounting classes were treated to a presentation about forensic accounting by one of our fellow teachers. Professor Steve Liedtka, who I featured in a previous blog post (see the second video below), gave a wonderful presentation … Continue reading An Accounting Professor with a Flair for the Dramatic
I was scrolling through my phone this morning and I came across this short story about Twitter and its stock performance yesterday (Thursday): Shares of Twitter Inc. slid 5.56% to $34.48 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index falling 2.44% to 4,477.44 … Continue reading I Want This Technology for My Blog
It's an American tradition. Piling into the car and setting off an adventure. When I graduated college, two friends and I took a road trip from Pennsylvania to Vail to visit another one of our friends. It was a great trip. The day we arrived, our friend in Vail quit his job so he could … Continue reading Road Trip!
If you are a fan of Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar series, you will recognize the name Windsor Horne Lockwood III, affectionately known as Win. Here is how Win is described in the series, courtesy of Wikipedia: Win's hair is described as blond, perfect length, parted on the right side. His features are classical patrician, almost … Continue reading Windsor Horne Lockwood III: If His Name Is Not Pretentious Enough, Perhaps His Vocabulary Is
One of the things I enjoy doing if I have a few spare minutes are Sudoku puzzles. I consider myself of average ability when it comes to solving such puzzles. I can usually solve puzzles labeled as easy in less than 15 minutes, medium ones could take an hour, and even then I might not … Continue reading Am I Losing My Brain Power? (Assuming I Had Some…)
I can't believe you're still reading this. Wasn't the title enough of a warning? Today was about as uneventful as a day could get. Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind such days. But it does make it hard to write anything interesting. So let's see. here was my day: an easy 30-minute workout … Continue reading Uneventful Day Leads to Uneventful Blog
Are you a perfectionist when it comes to trying to craft the perfect thank you note? If so, Dan Ariely has some solid advice for you in the email exchange below. Dear Dan, I know I should probably write thank-you notes for the holiday gifts I received, but I’m bad at composing them. I end … Continue reading Thank You Notes: Just Do It
Last year I wrote a post that included a video that offered a fun way to remember how debits and credits work. I'll do my good deed for the day by not including the video on this post, but if you want to see it, here is the link to that old post. After I … Continue reading The Teacher Becomes the Student, or Old Dog Learns New Trick
As a follow-up to my post from yesterday which was a not-so-subtle attempt to try and get someone from the Republic of the Congo to visit my blog (no success at this point), I thought I would share a couple of songs from two different Congolese musicians, Bisso na Bisso and Sam Talanis. I came … Continue reading Music Monday: Music from the Republic of the Congo
Three weeks ago I wrote about my goal of trying to get at least one view from every country in the world. At that point, I was down to six countries: Central African Republic Congo Guinea Bissau North Korea Svalbard Western Sahara Today, I thought I'd try to add Congo, also known as the Republic … Continue reading Step One Towards Covering the World
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