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
Quick, which if the following factors plays the most important role in effective hand washing: water temperature the amount of soap used time spent washing hands If you guessed "time spent washing hands", you are correct. The other two factors had no impact on the amount of bacteria left on a person's hands after washing … Continue reading The “Science” of Hand Washing
Maybe it was the result of watching too much news coverage from the Comey hearing today. Maybe it was the culmination of months of frustration with what is happening in our country these days. Maybe it's being a sore loser from the Presidential election. Whatever caused it, I just wrote a post that was highly … Continue reading I’ll Have to Sleep on the Post I just Wrote
Of the four (sorry soccer) major professional sports leagues in the U.S., I would have to pick baseball as my favorite. It's the one I played most as a kid (but not very well), and I could recite the entire Phillies lineup and imitate the batting style of every player. I'm guessing that helped to … Continue reading Is This a Bad Omen for the Future of Baseball?
Harvard rescinded the acceptances for at least 10 students as a result of the students having traded sexually explicit memes and messages that sometimes targeted minority groups in a private Facebook group chat. The chat grew out of a roughly 100-member messaging group that members of the Class of 2021 set up in early December to … Continue reading A Tough Lesson for Some High School Seniors
Borden's Blather 