About a month ago, the Borden family made a big decision. We canceled our FIOS TV subscription and switched over to YouTube TV. The biggest benefit, to me at least, is the cost savings. It looks like the move will save us between $400-500 per year. Other benefits, from the YouTube TV website, include: 85 … Continue reading Our Switch to YouTube TV
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Dear Spammers: How About Just a Little Bit of Effort
Just about every bloggerhas gotten a comment similar to the following: "Hello sir/madam your website looks awesome please help me out to create like this. My website is.... Thank you for your support" Usually, I pay no attention to such comments, but this one stood out because of the salutation. I don't know if this … Continue reading Dear Spammers: How About Just a Little Bit of Effort
It’s Nice to Know We Are All in This Together
It's the big night. The finale of Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet. It was the first time we decided to stay up and watch the newest episode as soon as it was released, 10:00 pm on Sunday evening on HBO Max. Well, it seems like a lot of other people had the same idea. … Continue reading It’s Nice to Know We Are All in This Together
How Would You Like to Be in Charge of This?
The above is an image that depicts the global supply chain for Boeing's 787 aircraft, often referred to as the Dreamliner. I often use the image as the opening slide for my lecture on operations management since I think it captures so much about what operations are like these days. I never knew so many … Continue reading How Would You Like to Be in Charge of This?
Physical Remote > Remote App
A couple of months ago the remote for our Samsing TV stopped working. We replaced the batteries, but to no avail. My first instinct was to see if there was a remote app I could download from the app store to replace the physical remote, and indeed there was. In fact there were many to … Continue reading Physical Remote > Remote App
Kind of Cool, Kind of Scary
I have one of my British blogging colleagues, Clive, of the wonderful site Take It Easy, to thank for the idea for today's post. Clive had left a comment on my recent blog about Skittles by mentioning that he would stick to his wine gums and Fruit Pastilles. I replied by saying I had never … Continue reading Kind of Cool, Kind of Scary
Is It Time to Believe in UFOs?
When President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December, it began a 180-day countdown for US intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs. That report must contain detailed analyses of UFO data and intelligence collected by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena … Continue reading Is It Time to Believe in UFOs?
Taste the (One Flavor) Rainbow
A shout out to my blogging friend Brad, for making me aware of this story. Brad is a gifted poet, and you can find his poems at commonsensiblyspeaking. The story he sent me is not the kind of nonsense you would find on his blog, but everything is fair game on Borden's Blather. The story … Continue reading Taste the (One Flavor) Rainbow
Sad: Cheating Surges in Schools
From the Wall Street Journal: A year of remote learning has spurred an eruption of cheating among students, from grade school to college. With many students isolated at home over the past year—and with a mass of online services at their disposal—academic dishonesty has never been so easy. To me, academic integrity is at the heart of … Continue reading Sad: Cheating Surges in Schools
Music Monday: Shorter Attention Spans Affect Length of Popular Songs
Once again, I'm just the messenger, interpreting what I read. So feel free to take the following study with a grain of salt. Researchers at Ohio State University looked into the song structure of 303 top 10 hits, both modern and dating back to the 80s, hoping to discover how pop music has changed in … Continue reading Music Monday: Shorter Attention Spans Affect Length of Popular Songs
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