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I doubt he remembers
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I admire your courage. The publishing was like the restaurant industry in that a lot of people have great ideas but it takes more than an idea to make a business. It takes guts to stick with it. Now the publishing industry is even more stressed because of so much competing content on line.
I noticed the "First Time Dad" image didn't have a bipad. Did it hit the newsstands?

I played in Super Bowls 2 and 3.

Ken Kesey served me fried chicken. It was excellent.

Well since everyone is dropping names I might as well too.

Over a period of several weeks. . .

I drove Buzz Aldrin to the airport.
Picked him up from the Airport
Drove him and picked him up from a private residence
And fixed his computer at his house in Orange County.

Incredible experience. He signed my flight helmet. . . I retired that helmet soon afterward.

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You know that guy that dated Gisele before she married Tom? It wasn't me.

Maybe not "famous" for this one but everyone there remembers it.
Heart Of The Forrest campground in Wellston MI... me dancing around the campsite with one of those flashlights you put on your head but I'm wearing it like a thong singing "This little light of mine... I'm gonna let it shine"
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Better than singing my ding-a-ling.

Thanks but not so much courage but more like I never know what I can't do so I just do it. Makes for a fun life. Modern Dad was paid subscription and on newsstands, FirstTime Dad was qualified controlled to childbirth educators, and in our situation, I think the absolute best financial model in all of magazine publishing. We hit 1.1 million annual circ and essentially printed 300K copies of the same issue per quarter, every quarter, for a year, and shipped in bulk to Lamaze classes, pediatrician offices, doulas, nurse midwives, etc. Since it was essentially a one time read for new parents, we did one issue a year.

Absolutely loved it. We built our circ base at childbirth trade shows, I would get hugs from educators at our booth. It was amazing.

Bringing back memories, an issue of Modern Dad was in the movie The Truman Show. Can't see it very well here but... We had the great-grandson of the founder of Radio Flyer wagons on the cover with his kid.

Publishing these magazines was easily one of the best things I ever did in my life.

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I created a unique system that replicated sunrise and sunset over the S.Pacific Ocean, changing with the lunar cycle, that was used in an installation specifically for the King, in the Royal Palace in Saudi Arabia
I was invited to stay in the Palace and help oversee the installation, and meet King Faud
I declined

I don't claim to be "famous", but:
- (26+) US patents, from a fulfilling career as biomedical R&D engineer/scientist/manager - providing the tools caregivers need to save lives
- served my country in the USN
- son of the best parents ever
- father of 2 wonderful and accomplished (both with M.S. degrees) daughters, one of whom regularly quotes my advise as being from "The Book of Dad".
- lots of volunteer work for my relatives and my community

IMHO, fame is not the important part - making a positive contribution and earning respect is more important.

I knew the guy and spent a New Years Eve w him, her, their families and maybe 5 other friends about 20 years ago. I did not even really know DiCaprio at the time, (his brother invited me to the party), but I had gone to his huge blow-out NYE party the year before for Y2K with live bands and hundreds of people in a rented mansion.

I felt a little uncomfortable, (no fault of his), being at such an intimate party and not knowing the host. It was at his beach house in Malibu so I walked out onto the deck over the ocean and there was a guy already out there who I swear looked like Bart in Blazing Saddles, a black dude in a fringed leather cowboy jacket w matching pants. We started talking and he told me that he was visiting from Minnesota, that his son was Leo’s best friend. I told him that I was also from MN. and he said something about his BIL working on a film so I asked his name.

When he told me, my head exploded. His BIL is one of my best friends and our dads were judges together in Mpls, in fact they were in Aspen together skiing as we spoke. That would be his FIL. I had maybe met this guy briefly at one point and I totally knew who he was, he’s an MD and his sons were good HS football players. My buddy, his BIL, was QB for Colorado and took them to the Orange Bowl. This small world experience was mind blowing under the circumstances but life is weird. We went inside and he told his wife who I was and it was a hug-fest, we’d met before after a play her brother was in.

Leo and Giselle are kind of dumbfounded by this reunion happening in his kitchen, (and who the fk was I?), when another attractive woman who was with my friend’s family says to me, “I think that my stepsister was married to your dad.”

“What’s her name?” (I’m kind of in shock at this point). She tells me and I nearly fell over. Her stepsister was my stepmother for a few years, although she was not much older than me. 1980-1984 to be exact. At this point we are all hugging it out and it’s almost midnight, so the Champaign is coming out. I no longer felt so uncomfortable, I now knew everyone in the house including everyone’s parents. They are all my friends to this day and I had a blast in the nightclubs w Leo and Jonah, (my buddy’s nephew), back in the early 2000s. I don’t get out as much these days.

The end. :)

And yes, I have insomnia because of a phone call from someone annoying after I was dozing off. I’ll blame the name-dropping story on that.

Keep going...

That’s quite a story. Sometimes fate smiles at you. Important to take the time to get to know people.

My mom was going through some mental illness issues and resided at an assisted living facility. I visited often and routinely took her to lunch. She wanted a friend to come and I said sure, but inside I had this “bad attitude” - the guy was in pretty bad shape; drooling, food stains on his shirt, diapers, old sweatpants - the works. I kind of just blocked him out. He wasn’t very cognizant, but enough to point-out I was low on fuel- the little yellow light was on. Had lunch and returned them both to the facility. Next weekend same thing. My light was on and he pointed-out “low on fuel.” By this time I figured there was something interesting in his background. I stated to converse more with him and turns-out he was a P-51 fighter pilot in Europe in WWII, F-86 fighter pilot in the Korean War and observer/leaflet pilot in the Vietnam War. You just never know.

unless he was selling hot dogs...yeah, I’d like to hear

Traded from which team to which team?

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Did you attend Grambling State?

Oh well. I played drums for Coral Gables HS marching band when half time events were local. Fun times.

When I was a teenager, I underwent penile reduction surgery

I met President George HW Bush, during Desert Shield/Storm, on Thanksgiving Day in 1990 and was wearing my shoulder holster with a loaded Beretta M9 (Model 92 FS) pistol. How many people can say they met the POTUS with a loaded gun?