A group of researchers offered participants of a study a choice between purchasing a Hershey ’s Kiss chocolate for 1-cent ($0.01) or Lindt Lindor chocolate truffle for 15 cents ($0.15). The participants, recognizing this as a good deal since the price differential in a supermarket would be larger than 14 cents between the two options, overwhelmingly … Continue reading The Power of Free
You Can Do This, Jimmy
You've got this, Jimmy. You can write a blog post that people will find both informative and entertaining. You've come up with some good headlines in the past, Jimmy. You can do it again. Sorry, I was just trying to psyche myself up (for some unknown reason, when I refer to myself in the third … Continue reading You Can Do This, Jimmy
Should a 15-Year Old Spend 68 Years in Jail?
Joe Ligon, believed to be the oldest and longest-serving juvenile lifer in the United States, has been released from a Pennsylvania prison after spending nearly seven decades behind bars. And all I can say, it's about time. Ligon was incarcerated in February 1953 at the age of 15, given a mandatory life sentence after pleading … Continue reading Should a 15-Year Old Spend 68 Years in Jail?
Here’s Something You Probably Never Wondered About – the History of Clapping
I heard another great Geico commercial on the radio today, and one of the lines was asking about how clapping ever got started. Why would you celebrate something by hitting yourself, the announcer questioned. It gave me pause, and I wondered "how did clapping originate?" Forty years ago it may have been hard to answer … Continue reading Here’s Something You Probably Never Wondered About – the History of Clapping
Three Cheers for the Ivies
Here was the heading in a Wall Street Journal story today: The Ivy League Is Still on the Sidelines. Wealthy Alumni Are Not Happy. followed by this sub-heading: Billionaire Joe Tsai’s rebuffed offer to fund a lacrosse ‘bubble’ is one sign of how pressure is mounting on the conference that never returned to the field. … Continue reading Three Cheers for the Ivies
Music Monday: It’s Way Too Easy…
This is a follow-up to a post I wrote back in December, 2019: Punk Rock with a Message I can’t say I know much about punk rock, but it is cool being friends with the lead singer and guitarist of a punk rock band. I’ve written about Bud Drago before; he is a fellow faculty member at … Continue reading Music Monday: It’s Way Too Easy…
One of the Best TV Series I Have Seen in Quite a While
I've previously mentioned a few shows I have enjoyed over the past few years, such as Bosch, Schitt's Creek, Broadchurch, Safe, The Undoing, West Wing, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Ozark. But over the past couple of weeks, my wife and I have semi-binge watched the show, Ted Lasso. And I think this may be my … Continue reading One of the Best TV Series I Have Seen in Quite a While
A Little Break-Up Humor…
During my accounting lecture yesterday, we were talking about how to account for interest expense (I'll stop right there, I don't want to lose my audience that soon). On one of the PowerPoint slides that one of my colleagues had put together, he had inserted the following joke: Why did the banker break up with … Continue reading A Little Break-Up Humor…
Thank Heaven for My Wife
"A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves a thousand moments of regret." I was excited. I had an idea for blog post hours before I usually start writing my post; most days I don't come up with an idea until much later in the day. When I mentioned the idea for my … Continue reading Thank Heaven for My Wife
Love Is in the Air!
I was leaving the grocery store parking lot when I noticed an older gentleman, perhaps in his late 70s, early 80s, walking gingerly across the snowy parking lot with a shopping bag in one hand, and a small bouquet of flowers in the other. And I thought to myself, true love. Two minutes later I … Continue reading Love Is in the Air!
Borden's Blather 