My cousin Steve Pate turning 50

My cousin Steve Pate holding trophy at Nationwide Event in Bogotá (Hamptons)

Still hitting the balls on the pro golf circuit

Not many golfers are planning on a full year of pro golf in their 40s let alone their 50s like Steve Pate.

Hot after winning The Nationwide Event in Bogota, Columbia last year, my cousin Steve says he is planning on planning all of this year’s events.

Over the weekend, he hit 2 under par 69 at the Stadion Classic.

Steve is heading for the Senior PGA Championship in Louisville, KY which starts on his 50th birthday – May 26th.
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Nicollette survives another fall off the horse

She has a bandage on her hand, my cousin Steve Pate has no marks

Nicollette Sheridan with my cousin Steve Pate - her hand has a bandage and he has no scars (inf.com photo)

The Daily Mail is reporting Nicollette Sheridan got thrown from her horse. Again?

“Nicolette’s boyfriend Steve, a wealthy financier. looked equally dashing in a black suit with an open neck white shirt.”

“The trendy steak house appears to be a favourite of the couple – just two weeks ago the pair were also seen arriving for a spot of dinner.” (Daily Mail)

She’s been heavy dating my cousin Steve Pate for ages now that the horse accident story seems… well … a little old.

It’s a better excuse than Tiger Woods came up with for his SUV accident.

My aunt from Texas assured everyone on the family mailing list that Steve has no scars or bruises on his face.

Maybe Nicollette did hurt her hand falling off the horse.

Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives, Nicolle’s old role, was a man-eater not a man-beater.

We all breathed a sigh of relief that Steve wasn’t taking it on the chin, if you know what I mean.

Those movie stars can be high strung fillies and Steve’s just a good old boy from Texas.

Steve is used to gorgeous women in Texas, but he also knows you can’t tell a Texas woman nothin’.

Steve CANNOT get Nicollette to wear a riding helmet. That might have saved her head but not her little finger, which is the item of faîte du bandage as they French say. Continue reading

I’m Screwed. The Vincati Ride Report

Confessions of my cousin Steve Pate on his motorcycle mania

Vincati by Matt Biberman

Matthew and Sid Biberman visited Chicago for the show on June 19th-21st, and were able to spend some time at my shop meeting people and signing books, etc.

It is a visit I will never forget, for several reasons. As Glenn Shriver put it, I got to “sit at the feet of the master” for a while. What capped it all off however, was the opportunity to be the 6th person ever to ride their Vincati.

To say I was giddy at the opportunity would be a massive understatement. When Matt offered, I said “ I will ride it… so be careful what you offer. I ride everything I get offered”.

He appeared unfazed, or at least did a damn good job pretending. As part of my job I get to ride seemingly everything, new and old. The ‘catch twenty-two’ is that I no longer get very excited by much.
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My cousin Stephen Pate at the Super Bowl

Don’t come looking to me for tickets

Stephen Pate, operations manager for New Orleans Saints

All the razz-a-ma-tazz and hoopla is over for this year’s Super Bowl. Now that the New Orleans Saints won, I can finally tell you about one of my cousins normally who wouldn’t be in the limelight.

Yes that’s right, my cousin Stephen Pate. Not the golfer, although he is doing well winning in Bogota as the oldest professional golfer to win a tournament at 48.

He’s not the millionaire horse-thief who squires TV star Nicolette Sheridan. (My aunt is going to kill me for the ‘horse-thief’ crack.)

Not the motorcycle mechanic who was with Jay Leno last fall in LA.

Not the Baptist preacher, nor the Houston lawyer nor the one in Tennessee.

He’s not a UNIX programming whiz. He’s only a distant relative of Steve Pate over in China.

He’s not even close to my cousin Jim Pate, one of the few ethical politicians out in Arizona or anywhere.  Continue reading

UNIX Filesystems ultimate Christmas Gift by my cousin Steve Pate

Everybody trying to make sense of an internet site needs UNIX Filesystems

UNIX File SystemsAfter almost 4 decades of working on computers, I have to come to grips with UNIX and thankfully my cousin Steve D. Pate has written the book UNIX Filesystems. (In Canada UNIX Filesystems: Evolution, Design, and Implementation)

How did he know I needed help?

This year we had to bite to bullet since our hosting company, like everyone, runs on UNIX. We could use Windows if we hated ourselves but it is not practical.

If you’re like me trying to keep your head above water running a blog or website there is a step most of us missed.

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My cousin Steve Pate goes front page

You asked for it and we give it to you

My cousin Steve Pate and how to find him on the front page

My cousin Steve Pate and how to find him on the front page

When I first started writing stories about the exploits of my US cousins Steve Pate, I had no idea how much trouble…I mean how many interesting stories they would generate.

I didn’t think people, other than my mother an aunts, would read them.

Lo and behold, they are very popular stories.

People send me emails and ask “How can I find more ‘My cousin’ stories”?

When I tell them to search on Steve Pate that doesn’t work since I write a lot of stories with Stephen Pate in the byline.

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My cousin Stephen Pate visiting Jay Leno

Jay Leno with Vincent Black Shadow

Jay Leno with Vincent Black Shadow

Restoration Werks owner delivering Vincati to Jay Leno in Los Angeles

Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, August 12, 2009

The famous Vincati built for Big Sid by Matthew Biberman is making a trip to Jay Leno’s garage today. My cousin Stephen Pate from Restoration Werks is taking it there with Jacqui Van Ham, Big Sid and Matthew.

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My cousin Steve Pate and Nicolette Sheridan hit the beach

Easy to see why Steve is not coming to the Congrès mondial acadien 2009 this month in New Brunswick

My cousin Steve Pate in the water at Malibu with Nicolette Sheridan

My cousin Steve Pate in the water at Malibu with Nicolette Sheridan

With story from Entertainmentwise and MailOnLine

My mother told me in Halifax two weeks ago that everyone had lost touch with our cousin Steve Pate from Los Angeles. All of a sudden my aunt in Texas sends everyone these shots of Steve and Nicolette Sheridan at the beach in Malibu. No wonder he’s not replying to my tweets.

Related story -Steve Pate, my cousin, dating Nicollette Sheridan

Does Steve have something in his eye or is he avoiding the camera. Some one said the sheriff was out looking for him, something about horses. I don’t know. He’s my cousin and we stand by him.   Continue reading

My cousin Stephen Pate opens Italian motorcycle shop in Windy City

Sid and Stephen Pate of Restoration Werks eye the fancy Vincati, only one in the world

Stephen Pate of Restoration Werks and Big Sid Biberman eye the fancy Vincati, only one in the world (photo by Matthew Biberman)

The continuing adventures of my cousins Stephen Pate

One day a few years ago, I came across my long-lost cousin from the States Stephen Pate while surfing the net. He had a website called StephenPate.com. In our family, we usually defer to the oldest family member when registering dot.coms except when your cousin beats it to it.

Stephen, my cousin and not the one I’m named after, has an interesting career. In 2006 he opened a shop in Milwaukee to fix motorcycles. Starting with $500 and a Craigslist listing, Restoration Werks was so busy that he soon was working on more than 80 motorcycles.

This proves the inherent value of Craigslist for real people doing really important work. I don’t think my cousin was running a sex ring out of the back of his shop like some people who use Craigslist. See State AG ultimatum to Craigslist: Pull racy ads or face prosecution Continue reading

Looking for my Chinese cousin Steve in all the wrong places

There were only teddy bears

There were only teddy bears

I’m not against better sex, but I have my own way of figuring that one out.

Nonetheless, every day I get hundreds of offers for live sex, video sex, email sex, sex aids, Viagra etc. Email spam filters catch them.

I was deleting 260 sex offers from my Gmail account today. Noticed most of the emails were Chinese. Continue reading

My cousin Steve Pate -2 and middle of the pack at Texas Open

Collated first round scores in the US PGA Tour Valero Texas Open, The Resort Course at La Cantera Golf Club, San Antonio, Texas, United States (par 70)

Justine Leonard shares lead after 1st round of Texas Open

Justine Leonard shares lead after 1st round of Texas Open

With story from Sky Sports

Justin Leonard and Paul Goydos share the lead after one round of the Texas Open with at 7 below on this par 70 course. My cousin PGA golfer Steve Pate is 2 off par at 72. Pate is just off the middle of the pack.

Here are all the scores, from Sky Sports:

63 Justin Leonard, Paul Goydos

64 Jeff Maggert, Marc Leishman (Aus), Ted Purdy

65 Brian Davis (Eng), Greg Owen (Eng)  Continue reading