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dad, entrpeneur & executive, tech & ai, history, sports, golf, electronics, travel, photography, bulldogs, sports, classical liberal, @lehighu alum & parent

Philadelphia, PA
Joined January 2008
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Oh thank goodness 🙏
BREAKING: Both police officers who neutralized the Krakow attacker have been brought out of their comas
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Gustavia’s harbor at sunset
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St. Barth above St. Jean
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Oen of my favorite movies!
Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, and Liam Neeson in “Excalibur” (1981).
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Incredible
🚨 Neuralink just delivered one of its most emotional breakthroughs yet Terry, diagnosed with ALS in 2024, is now speaking again using only his thoughts. The implant translates brain signals into words, with Grok Voice restoring his own natural voice. Watching him hear himself speak again is incredibly powerful. This is what restoring human connection looks like. Truly life-changing. As found.
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Very excited 🤓
Two weeks until we return to Middle-earth.
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Lower rates and no PMI sound great until the defaults hit and Philly taxpayers are on the hook. Same playbook that blew up in 2008, just local.
Philadelphia is preparing to become the first city in the nation to offer this mortgage model, with lower interest rates, no private mortgage insurance, and credit scores as low as 620.
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He would have to be proud of what has become of "his" land - warts and all.
Philadelphia, founded on this date in 1682!
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Putin offering Zelenskyy “security guarantees” in Moscow is basically the diplomatic version of “come on over, the window’s open.
BREAKING: Putin invites Zelenskyy to Moscow for direct peace talks, with the Kremlin promising “all necessary conditions will be ensured, including in terms of security.”
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What’s the next basic thing we already had the tech for in the ’80s that still hasn’t shipped?
JUST IN: Cheerios announces the first-ever resealable cereal bag, partnering with Ziploc to keep cereal fresh longer.
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How many of these guys never really talked about any of it once they got home? Amazing photo.
Richard Winters and Easy Company at the Eagle's Nest in the Bavarian Alps, 1945.
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Sat through enough of these to know the graph rarely cares how many times we walked the deck.
Private equity firms when EBITDA doesn't go up 20% just because that’s what the Excel model said
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Anyone else first catch this on a free HBO weekend after everyone else was asleep? 🎃👻🗡️
Happy 48th Anniversary to John Carpenter’s Halloween 🎃 Released October 25, 1978
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One of my favorites
Halloween released 48 years ago today. 25 October 1978 🔪
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Let’s go Lehigh Football!
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This movie freaks me out. Can't watch by myself late at night.
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN’s mega-hit THE EXORCIST (1973)
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Gonna be there! Should be a great day 🌞🏈⛰️🦅
Patriot League showdown down the Main Line! 🆚 Villanova 🏟️ Villanova Stadium 🕞 3:30 pm 📺 @ESPNPlus - bit.ly/4dUkUfP 📻 @LVFoxSports - bit.ly/489MRLU 📊 bit.ly/4iBTsWK #TheNest
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Contributors still get paid when their photos are licensed. Harder to see how that continues once customers stop needing the licenses.
BREAKING: Getty Images officially files for bankruptcy
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This Sixers game is crazy!
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