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Finnish Wife Carrying

July 14, 2009 Finland

So in the middle of all the excitement of getting settled we missed the World Wife Carrying Championship which took place (as it has for the past 14 years) in Sonkajärvi, Finland – about 500km north of Helsinki.
Eager to see what it would take to participate next year, I came across the official site which [...]

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Crazy Tennis Court in the Sky

June 26, 2009 Sports

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In 2005, the helipad of the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai was converted into a tennis court for a promotion featuring Agassi and Federer.

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Doppelgängers (part 2)

June 16, 2009 Sports

My sporting alter-ego is taking time off from pitching for the Yankees after recently getting surgery for numbness in the arm.

I’m even prouder of my son’s namesake who won the Stanley Cup after just one season with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Stanley Cup’s Colorful History

April 27, 2009 Current Events

After last night’s loss to Anaheim, the San Jose Sharks are out of the running.  Might as well post some highlights from the checkered past of the world’s most famous trophy.

In 1905, the Ottawa Silver Seven tried to drop-kick it over the Rideau Canal on the Ottawa River. (They failed.)
In 1906, it went missing after [...]

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NBC holding Olympic videos hostage

August 14, 2008 Current Events

NBC is milking their investment in broadcasting rights for the Beijing Olympics by making anyone that wants to view their videos jump through a few hoops.
Hoop Number One: Install Silverlight 2.0.

This limits installation to only Windows machines or Intel-based Macs. Oh, and you have to restart your browser so you if you don’t save the [...]

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Watching the Oakland A’s

June 28, 2008 Sports

I had a windfall a couple weeks ago when our neighbor ended up with extra tickets to a sky suite at the Oakland Colesium. We went with Tyler and the neighborhood boys to see the Yankees play the A’s. On the way back from getting cotton candy, a photo service vendor took a photo where [...]

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Big Waves off of California

January 10, 2008 Sports

While on vacation in Hawaii, I had the chance to head up to the North Shore a few times and get a peak at the surfing scene during the winter months. The winter storms churn up some good surf and the Triple Crown was underway. Those same storms gathered strength and slammed into California bringing [...]

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Hecka nice

November 24, 2007 Alameda

“He’s an extraordinary player who makes every team a lot better. This guy is hecka nice. . .”
High school coach for Jimmy Rollins who has just been named Baseball’s National League’s Most Valuable Player. Jimmy Rollins is from Alameda, CA where I live. Encinal High School, where Jimmy played, is in Alameda. We’re all really [...]

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Human Flying Squirrels

November 16, 2007 Sports

Check out this insane video of nutbags jumping off cliffs and flying down with nothing but a modified bat suit (they call them “wingsuits”) to slow them down. Favorite quote, “At first we used to try and jump as far away from the cliff as possible but that got boring. . . ” Watch when [...]

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Pitching for the Yankees – “Ian-Kredible”

September 2, 2007 Identity

So I’ve been following my doppelganger’s budding baseball career ever since he first blipped up on my Technorati feed as a hot prospect for the Yankee’s draft last Summer. I’m super-pleased to see that the young Ian pretty much aced his debut as a pitcher against the Devil Rays and has earned himself another start [...]

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