The news last week that Amazon made an offer to buy Whole Foods took a lot of people, myself included, by surprise. I like the move by Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. It's just another in a long line of bold moves he has made, such as Amazon Prime, Amazon Web Services, the … Continue reading Looking into My Crystal Ball
I thought I would bookend our weekend trip to North Carolina to see our oldest son with a set of blog posts about the trip south (which I posted on Friday, with a hat tip to David Kanigan), and the trip north (tonight's post, with a hat tip to Dan Ariely). I've written a few … Continue reading Driving 95 North, with a Hat Tip to Dan Ariely
Every once in a while, someone comes up with a better mousetrap. Such is the case with the KAZbrella. The KAZbrella is the culmination of 10 years of research and development. Thanks to its patented technology, the KAZbrella is an umbrella that opens inside out. This leaves the wet side of the canopy contained on … Continue reading Thinking Outside the Umbrella
As my wife and I were heading down to Raleigh to visit our oldest son for the weekend, I couldn't help but think of one of my favorite bloggers, David Kanigan. David has been blogging on a daily basis for several years, and got started with blogging back in 2011. Many days, he has multiple … Continue reading Driving I-95 South, with a Hat Tip to David Kanigan
I came across this video on Facebook (I think one of my cousins had posted it), so many of you may have already seen it on Facebook as well. That's OK, because it's funny every time you watch it. I had tears coming out of my eyes when I first watched it yesterday, and then … Continue reading Funniest Video I’ve Seen in Quite Some Time
Morning Consult, "a media and technology company at the intersection of politics, policy, Wall Street, and business strategy" according to its web site, just released its ranking of the most admired employers. The results are based on surveying over 220,000 adults, and the rankings are broken down by age, gender, education, political affiliation, geographic region, … Continue reading And the Winner Is…
If someone were to ask you which one of the following terms does not fit in with the others, how would you answer? Mathematics: the study of topics such as quantity (numbers), structure, space, and change. Economics: Â a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and … Continue reading Is This What Students Are Learning in College These Days?
For the past 18 years, Warren Buffett has held a charity auction, and the winner, along with up to seven of his or her friends, gets to have lunch with Mr. Buffett at the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in New York. The winning bid from this year's auction, which ended this past Friday, was $2,679,001, which … Continue reading I’m Thinking about Having an Auction: “Breakfast with Jim Borden”
The book came highly recommended to me several years ago by a Villanova prof I have great respect for. He told me he had been assigning it to his students to read in his Philosophy classes for many years. It's hard to get a better recommendation than that, so I soon went to our local … Continue reading Maybe This Time I’ll Finish It
Mary (my wife) and I had the chance to spend some time at Chanticleer today, one of the hidden gems of our town. Chanticleer has been called the most romantic, imaginative, and exciting public garden in America. The garden is a study of textures and forms, where foliage trumps flowers, the gardeners lead the design, … Continue reading It’s Deja Vu All Over Again
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