Jake rose to a position of fame, fortune and global respect as the go-go dancer for the late, great, Big Dead Fish.  Rarely would a BDF concert pass without the loincloth-clad Jake mesmerizing the crowd with his cobra-like moves.  Hence his creative nickname, "Jake the Snake."  When such concerts would happen to fall on Good Friday, well, then the performance was something else entirely.  But we won't go into that here.  Suffice it to say, you had to be there.  We'd love to put pictures up, but sadly, they have been lost to the sands of time.

Today, Jake is, by his own admission, "currently working in Phoenix as a unix admin for a big evil oil company being acquired by another, whilst I look for a better job (startup) in san diego or sillycon valley."  So you can blame him directly for the high gas prices.