I've played in rec leagues (basketball, tennis, soccer, softball) for as long as I've been able to bounce a ball and have continued doing so to this day (much to the consternation of my wife). I can tell you without hesitation that if I'd been one of these guys I'd have had the time of my life:
Thanks to Kristen Daukus for sharing this on Facebook.
Considering this video went viral you've likely already seen it, but hey, why not see it again?
I watched this and wondered, "Did I ever do anything with my kids that was even 1/10th as cool as this?"
Have you read the story about the conductor who called out a concert attendee whose cell phone kept going off? That's one approach to dealing with a performance interruption, but this violist has another that I quite like. According to an article in the Huffington Post this is legit and not some kind of PR stunt.
This is too cool not to share: Omniglot is "the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages." Seriously, how can you not be fascinated by the Cherokee Syllabary? How about Celtic languages?
There goes a day.
We've all probably seen the UPS logistics commercials. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they could learn a thing or two from the Army.
This is incredible.
I've been an enthusiastic online traveler for about 15 years, maybe a little longer, and I've always wondered when the wonder of it would wear off. As long as I keep stumbling across things like this blog post about triangular letters used by Soviet soldiers to send news back home from the front in World War II I doubt it ever will. An excerpt:
Folding had one more advantage: that the content of the letter was easy to check. Therefore, it was forbidden to seal them in any way. The censors working at the front did not primarily search for letters reviling the system – according to the analysis of the surviving front letters, almost none of them includes any political reference or Stalin’s name –, but whether they include any indication from which military movements and plans could be deduced. These were erased with black ink, but the mail was still transmitted.
Someone is anonymously leaving paper sculptures in libraries in Scotland:
One day in March, staff at the Scottish Poetry Library came across a wonderful creation, left anonymously on a table in the library. Carved from paper, mounted on a book and with a tag addressed to @byleaveswelive – the library's Twitter account – reading:
It started with your name @byleaveswelive and became a tree.…
… We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books… a book is so much more than pages full of words.…
This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….. a gesture (poetic maybe?)
Seriously, does anyone work these days?
Befuddled 