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Derby got me thinking recently about the first REAL bet I ever made (other than gambling with friends of course). It was at Ellis Park, a horse track just outside of my hometown of Evansville, Indiana. My grandfather owned race horses and our family would always go to cheer them on. He named each horse [...]

Here’s a quick guide to how you could have made $300k in 12 days. Start with $1,000. Bet on Virginia Commonwealth in the play-in game on March 16 to win. They were a 1.75 to 1 underdog. They win, you have $2750. Bet it all on VCU to beat Georgetown, 2.1 to 1 underdog. They [...]

Brittany and I decided to wait until our child was born to discover its gender. In the hours leading up to the birth, I purposely put off thinking about ‘what if it’s a girl?’, and ‘what if it’s a boy?’. I wanted to put these thoughts off until the moment I actually found out–to see [...]

Hoping for a perfect bracket this year? With contests online giving away 1, 5, 9 even 100 million dollars on a perfect bracket, the odds MUST be slim, right? Right. I’m a proud math nerd, and my favorite aspect of math is probability. Let’s get started: Assumptions: You’re filling out a 64 team NCAA bracket [...]

Saturday some friends and I went to Barren River Lake. We rented a pontoon and a cabin and made a day out of it. It was 100 degrees with a 118 heat index. We drank a lot, had fun and made a few good stories. Here’s one: We parked the pontoon for most of the [...]

6 weeks ago I entered a pushup contest with Nick Fenton, Brandon Powers and Liz Horrall. The test was to see who could do the most in a row after 6 weeks. If anyone did 100 they won. Some used the hundred pushups phone app, some just worked out a lot, I used hundredpushups.com.(+bjj) I’m [...]

Yesterday I posted a brain teaser on twitter that boggled almost everyone who read it. Cudos to BusTechno1 and stringsn88keys for getting it right. Here is the text of the twitter: Teaser (3/5 diff) 3 coins in hat: Double sided head, dbl tail & 1 head/tail. Blind draw one, you see head. What’s % that [...]

Today is my least favorite day of the year. Most Americans don’t distinguish it from any other day. They can thank me and other high earners for that blessed ignorance. The top producers pay 35% federal income tax. (source) The top producers pay between 0 and 11% state income tax (source) The top producers pay [...]

I have never done anything for April Fool’s day and this year I decided I would. It was my first attempt (two actually), and they turned out decent. On the office: I spent a few hours after work rigging up a glitter shower above Andy, Seth and Brandon at our mytrade office. I drilled a [...]