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Blodgett 2.0 ?

“Analyzing Safa’s $600 Google Target: “Ah, memories… So Safa Rashtchy of Piper Jaffray upped his Google price target from $445 to $600.  Is he INSANE? No.” —Henry Blodgett

Safa Rashtchy is Henry Blodgett 2.0. You heard it here first. –says Charlie in Bubble 2.0

OK, how about Blodgett 1.0, The Original?  In his aptly named blog, The Internet Outsider  (it really should be The Internet Insider Forced Outside…) he first explains why he doesn’t own Google, and goes into detail on why he has to be very careful offering his opinion about stocks, since his regulatory settlement does not allow him to give investment advice.   But then he goes on supporting Safa’s $600 call in a post that is as much about the subject matter as it is about himself and his famous $400 Amazon call.  

Is there a split personality here?  Well, it must be hard to walk the fine line between providing analysis and just posting his opinion … either way, it’s an interesting blog that I just subscribed to.

Update (1/04): Business Week Online: Google at $600? Welcome Back, Henry–Er, I Mean Safa

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Obsessed Tourist Marries Dolphin

The power of love Photo: Joe Kot

Eilat, Israel (December 29, 2005 ) Till death do us part? An unusual wedding ceremony was held in the southern resort town of Eilat on Wednesday, as Sharon Tendler, a 41-years-old Jewish millionaire from London married her beloved Cindy, a 35-years-old dolphin, Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.

The groom, a resident of the Eilat dolphin reef, met Tendler 15 years ago, when she first visited the resort. The British rock concert producer took a liking to the dolphin and has made a habit of traveling to Eilat two or three times a year and spending time with her underwater sweetheart.

“The peace and tranquility underwater, and his love, would calm me down,” the excited bride said after the wedding.

After a years-long romance, Tendler decided to embark on the highly unusual path of tying the knot with her beloved dolphin. Last week, she approached Cindy’s trainer Maya Zilber with the extraordinary request.

Zilber accepted the challenge and “talked the idea over with the fellow,” who apparently consented.

‘I’m not a pervert’

And so on Wednesday afternoon, the thrilled bride, wearing a white dress, walked down the dock before hundreds of astounded visitors and kneeled down before her groom, who was waiting in the water.

Cindy, escorted by his fellow best-men dolphins, swam over to Tendler and she hugged him, whispered sweet nothings in his ear, and kissed him in front of the cheering crowd.

After the ceremony was sealed with some mackerels, Tendler was tossed into the water by her friends so that she could swim with her new husband.

“I’m the happiest girl on earth,” the bride said as she chocked back tears of emotion. “I made a dream come true, and I am not a pervert,” she stressed.

Tendler said she and her newly wed husband will probably spend their wedding night bowling.

“But what kind of children would they have?” one of the children in the crowd asked his father.

 Video: British Heiress Marries Dolphin

(after numerous attempts the NBC site told me the video would only work on IE.  What a joke, in 2006)

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California, Wine Country, 2006 Jan 1st.

STORMS AND FLOODS USHER IN THE NEW YEAR / NAPA AT GROUND ZERO
Kayaks prove a handy means of transportation for Sandy and Steve Booth, who paddle down Coombs Street in Napa to check on their woodworking business. Chronicle photo by Michael Macor

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