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02 June 2010 ~ View Comments

Biggest Rattlesnake Ever

Whoa, i just got sent this.  Apparently in south Jacksonville, near the St. Augustine outlet in the new KB Homes subdivsion they found a 15 foot Diamondback rattlesnake.  That’s right, 15 foot!  Apparently it’s the biggest every caught on record. Some facts about this snake: One bite from a snake this large contains enough venom [...]

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27 May 2010 ~ View Comments

What People Will Do for Laker Tickets

I have a friend, let’s call him “HotRod” who had tickets for this Thursday’s Laker game. Unfortunately, he couldn’t go. So, he put the tickets up on Craigslist. He was expecting some nice cash offers as it’s game 5 of a big series. Here was his favorite response: Whoa. You can guess what his response [...]

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13 April 2010 ~ View Comments

Into the Fire: Startup Life

There is an ancient Chinese story of an old master potter who attempted to develop a new glaze for his porcelain vases. It became the central focus of his life. Everyday he tended the flames of his kilns to a white heat, controlling the temperature to an exact degree. Every day he experimented with the [...]

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04 February 2009 ~ View Comments

25 Random Things About Me

Image via CrunchBase I got tagged in Facebook to do one of these lists.  I really enjoyed reading some of my colleagues and some of my old friends from high school so i thought i’d put one together. The rules are that once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 [...]

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26 September 2008 ~ View Comments

Chris Paul's Missed Free Throw

I had never seen this video before.  It’s a great clip about Chris Paul, his grandfather and a classic game.  It’s a great example of how sometimes sports can transcend the game [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxwyE5m44x4]

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20 December 2007 ~ View Comments

Hollywood story

I’m reposting this from Marc Andressen’s blog. It is a story from Paul Zollo’s book Hollywood Remembered, an oral history of the movie industry. A great story about drive and commitment. A 2001 interview with A. C. Lyles, a producer at Paramount who was born in 1918 in Jacksonville, Florida and worked at Paramount for [...]

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28 September 2007 ~ View Comments

Bear jumps over bridge and lives

This bridge is on the Old Donner Pass Highway . It has spectacular Sierra views and views of Donner Lake and Donner Pass on Route 80.  A bear was walking across Rainbow Bridge (Old Hwy 40 at Donner Summit, Truckee) on Saturday when two cars also crossing the bridge scared the bear into jumping over [...]

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06 August 2007 ~ View Comments

Hippo craziness

This is a bizarre story of a family that keeps a pet hippo. Not only is it a pet, but they feed it in the kitchen, give it a massage at night and have it sleep under blankets. “i can’t tell if she sees me as a hippo or she sees herself as a human” [...]

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01 June 2007 ~ View Comments

Bo Jackson is Legendary

When i was a kid, i loved Bo Jackson. He was the first dual-sport athlete and not only did he play 2 sports, he dominated them. In one season he was voted MVP of both the MLB all-star game and the NFL all-star game. Imagine being that good at both sports. He was also the [...]

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28 May 2007 ~ View Comments

The Biggest and Baddest Pig Ever

I just read this story where  an 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.  He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50-caliber revolver [...]

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