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Awesome Men Throughout History: Alvin Roy

Awesome Men Throughout History returns to sports this week, as we examine Alvin Roy, the man who brought weight training and anabolic steroids to football. Professional sports were probably better off without steroids, in retrospect, but either way, Roy basically ushered in the modern era of American sports, so he’s definitely worth knowing about. Back

The Self-Made Man: Gene Simmons

Awesome Men Throughout History: Joey Shithead

The Self-Made Man: Jim Buckmaster

TSB has talked about Craigslist as a product of self made men before, in that it was built from the ground up by someone with an idea and the willingness to work very hard in service of that idea. That someone, you may recall, was Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, but he’s not the only entrepreneur

Awesome Men Throughout History: Billy Lee Riley

I’ve probably mentioned before that I love classic rockabilly, and one of my absolute favorites was Billy Lee Riley, a guy who should’ve been a big star, but wasn’t. We’ll get into that, among other things, in this week’s Awesome Men Throughout History, because Riley is our subject this time around. Riley was born to

The Self-Made Man: Scott Dikkers

Awesome Men Throughout History: Wesley Morse

Anyone in my readership who grew up reading indie comics or chewing Bazooka Joe gum will appreciate this week’s Awesome Man Throughout History, because he was integral to both. Wesley Morse isn’t a name that gets dropped much now, but he was kind of a big deal in his own time, and his body of

The Self-Made Man: Manoj Bhargava

Awesome Men Throughout History: Howlin’ Wolf

I don’t think it needs to be said that old blues guitarists are the coolest people on Earth, but they are. Maybe it’s because they can make three chords and a very predictable set of lyrics sound awesome with what seems like no effort. Maybe it’s because a lot of them lived very difficult, unstable

The Self-Made Man: John Romero

This week’s Self Made Men returns to the tech community, but this week’s entry is more old-school than usual. We here at TSB fondly remember downloading the shareware version of DOOM and, a few years later, buying and installing all four million floppy disks of DOOM II and playing it for hours. Even now, there’s

Top Five Destinations of Lancaster, CA

I?m not sure what it is that makes Lancaster, California seem pretty far away when it isn?t that far from Los Angeles. It?s still over an hour drive there from downtown even with good traffic and with bad traffic it can approach two hours to get there. The Metrolink ride takes over two hours from