The Delusions of Youth Club Ball
This coach’s commentary of a select lacrosse team he observed could apply to any sport.
Kristen’s Baseball Legacy Secure
Kristen hit her first home run at the LTYA 12U Drysdale field. A towering shot over the left field fence with two runners on.
From GameChanger game summary:
The Lake Travis Rangers shut the door early on the Lake Travis Yankees, capturing an 11-0 victory on Tuesday.
With seven runs in the first three innings, the Lake Travis Rangers left no doubt about the eventual outcome.
A three-run home run by Kristen …fueled the Lake Travis Rangers’ offense early.
Kristen racked up five RBIs on two hits for the Lake Travis Rangers.
Kristen got the win for the Lake Travis Rangers. He pitched two shutout innings. He struck out five, walked one and surrendered one hit.
Obviously, GameChanger, with its lack of recognition of gender, doesn’t think girls play baseball; but we know different.
Kristen intercepts inbound and drives for layup
No, she is not left handed. Here, she is playing up with 7th graders on the True team summer of 2013.
David’s 2013 Freshman Lacrosse Highlights
I created a highlight video with cool music of David’s freshman lacrosse season.
Google stripped out half the music, left half, and posted ads for the music they left!
So I decided to post the video myself with all music intact.
The video plays back in the default video player of your browser.
Depending on what you are running it may or may not play well.
Here are two links you can try in your browser:
David’s 1st High School Lacrosse Goal
Homemade Lacrosse Pitch Back
Bringing home the hardware
Kristen’s first basketball tournament trophy. The 6th grade team went undefeated in the Four Points Winter tournament at Vandergift High School with a draw of 6 teams to win 1st place.
2012 LTYA 12u All-Stars
Kristen appears at 1:36. Of course she was the only girl but also 1 of 2 11 year olds on the 12u team.
LTCavs 12u All-star team from Alan Kleymeyer on Vimeo.
A nicer funner CAPTCHA
Captcha is that technology used when you are logging in to a website that requires you to type in obscured letters or words to make sure you aren’t a computer robot trying to break in. I came across a different take on this technology which I think is awesome. You just have to assemble a very easy puzzle. Here is a screenshot:
Own your own Blog
Scott encourages folks to start their own blog, especially developers:
“You are not blogging enough. You are pouring your words into increasingly closed and often walled gardens. You are giving control – and sometimes ownership – of your content to social media companies that will SURELY fail. These companies are profoundly overvalued, don’t care about permalinks, don’t make your content portable, and have terms of service that are so complex and obtuse that there are entire websites dedicate to explaining them.”
It’s true that the world today is about social networks such as Twitter (ugh) and Facebook so to reach more folks, I simply post to my blog and then link to it on my Facebook wall. Best of both worlds!