Mailbag:

We’ve accumulated a variety of questions over the last month – some trivia – some from people just looking for answers, so this Q & A should clear up any remaining ambiguity.


I recently got into business school. I’m hesitant about going because of the price tag. Will the return on my investment be worth it, and do you have any other suggestions?
- Craig Zajak, Manhattan

Well Craig,
You’re not the first person to struggle with this decision. I’ve spoken with many entrepreneurs and the consensus may surprise you. The short answer is no, you don’t have to drop 100K on business school, you have a couple options:

a) Conventional wisdom says watching Secret of My Success twice is equal to one year of business school. So if you were considering a two year program, watch Secret four times, a three year program, watch it six, and so on….Secret is a concise mix of terminology, number crunching, and an intimate peak into the soul of the business world.

b) 10 day MBA is a quick read written by Steven Silbiger, introducing the tenants of business and giving a brief synopsis of what you may expect to learn in business school. The value of this book, however, doesn’t lie in the information between the pages, but what you can do when you’ve read that information. What can you do? Write MBA on your resume (if you want to be technical put the “ten day” in 6 font), how do you think I landed this job.

Hope this helps

Is Elisabeth Shue in Adventures in Babysitting hotter than Nicole Kidman in Days of Thunder?
Nick Jordanopolis, New Canaan, CT

Nick,
They’re both probably taller than you, but - Yes, absolutely

Who wins in a fight, Blade vs. Braveheart?
Ryan Faulkner, San Francisco, CA

We’re soon to be creating a bracket that will allow our community to vote on the biggest badass of all-time, and I would be shocked if these two didn’t make the final four. I can’t give a judgment on this at this time, but all questions of this nature should be answered within the month.

OK, what about Bear vs. Tiger?

Are they in a cage?

Yes

How Big?

70X70

What kind of bear?

Brown

Tiger, hands down. A tiger is a killing machine. It’s composed of 80% muscle, its carcass can fit in a suitcase, and it can leap 30ft in any direction at the drop of a hat.

Yes, a bear is powerful and outweighs the tiger (a larger Brown Bear weighs about 900lbs, why a larger Siberian Tiger weighs about 700lbs), but with a little room to roam the tiger would gain the advantage and inevitably get the back of the bear’s neck, jamming his two canines into the bears upper vertebrae and rendering it helpless.

OK time for one more

Who do you think are bigger geeks, the guys who play poker on ESPN or …..

I’ll stop you there, because there is no “or”. The guys who play poker on ESPN are hands downs the most annoying and obnoxious people I’ve ever seen. I’d beat up any combination of three poker players at the same time.

(The Crew, apparently taking the poker world by storm?)

Live Free and Die Hard my friends