With all of the controversy and idiocy over Nike, Kaepernick and the Betsy Ross flag, we thought it would be good to do something different.
The Denver Brass and their friends, Celtic Colorado Pipes & Drums, surprised the patrons of the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver, Colorado with a fun and patriotic flash mob on July 6, 2014.
Great stuff. (Even the bagpipes!)
It seems that every year there is a story about authorities shutting down a lemonade stand run by a child in their front yard:
Girl puts up lemonade stand, told to pay for business license
Child’s lemonade stand shut down for no permit
Police shut down girls’ lemonade stand for lack of permit
After all, we can’t have kids learning the value of hard work. We can’t let them indulge in the entrepreneurial spirit of America, can we?
We can’t let a kid sell lemonade without government intervention!
The makers of Country Time Lemonade have seen enough. The company is organizing to help people make lemonade stands legal in all fifty states without the bureaucratic hassles and permits.
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Imagine wanting to go from Frederick, Oklahoma to Santa Fe, New Mexico. According to googlemaps, the trip is about 480 miles and will take you over 7 hours by car.
Now imagine that you are two brothers named Abernathy – 9-year-old Louis “Bud” Abernathy and his 5-year-old brother, Temple who want to make the journey. Now what?
In 1909, Bud Abernathy and his brother asked their father if they could ride by horse from Oklahoma to Santa Fe. The father, law man Jack Abernathy, said “yes” in order to “toughen up” his two young children whose mother had died.
Off the brothers went.
The trip was not without perils.
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We’ve been looking at videos from Boston Dynamics and their work in robotics.
This one caught our eye.
“How’s he so good at dancing?”
Boston Dynamics “AlgoRHYTHM baby!”
The robot is named “Spot Mini” for somewhat obvious reasons and is part of the Boston Dynamics “family” of robots:
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Don’t blame us, we’re only the messenger.
The website the Pudding has created an interesting map of the US:
A People Map of the US, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident: people born in, lived in, or connected to a place.
While the image above is for the entire US, you can zoom in and get down to small towns.
In our area (Brevard County, FL) towns would be named for a comedian (we are being gracious with that term,) a rock singer, a football player, a surfer, a lawyer, a author from the early 20th century, a golfer and a mixed martial arts fighter.
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Something different than politics:
Trine Softball Wins Super Regional With Hidden Ball Trick Play!
With two outs and runners on first and second in the bottom of the 7th and final inning, Trine Junior Catcher Victoria Porter threw the ball back to Senior Pitcher Kate Saupe. Saupe faked a throw to second and several infielders and outfielders sold the fake by diving and sprinting towards the outfield fence. The Geneseo baserunner took off for third and Saupe, still holding the ball, tagged her out to win the NCAA DIII Super Regional Championship. Trine advances to the Championship round in Tyler, Texas next weekend!
Frank Manchel
Manchel, 95, collapsed and died on his flight home to San Diego after a weekend seeing memorials and historic sights in Washington, D.C.
In the final moments of his life, Frank Manchel knew that many people honored him for his World War II service.
Manchel collapsed Sunday, on the final leg of a trip sponsored by Honor Flight San Diego, a nonprofit that gives World War II veterans all-expense-paid visits to Washington, D.C. Two physicians aboard the chartered American Airlines flight tried to resuscitate him, but he died before the plane landed at San Diego International Airport. He was 95.
One of the things we love about sports is that just when you think you have seen it all, you see something new.
For example, you have this practice swing hitting the golf ball by Zach Johnson at the Masters Golf tournament on Friday:
There was no penalty for this, but you have to love the reaction of Johnson and the other golfers. “What the heck just happened?”
Just when you think you’ve seen it all……
And then there is baseball.
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