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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I drove in Austria and Germany for work a few times. After a day or two, you pick up enough words on signs to understand “Entrance” and “Exit” and “One way”, but between the symbols and the English on everything, it is probably much easier for us to drive there than for a non-English speaker to drive here. I bet most immigrants learn “No turn on red” faster than “No Parking Enforced on Alternating Wednesdays and Saturdays except on Holidays from 6:00 PM to 12:45 AM”.

    In any case, speaking English is not required of citizens. Tests were offered in Spanish because of a need for it. It’s not that they cannot learn to read a few signs, it’s that the written portion of the test needs to be clearly communicated. The ADA requires that illiterate adults be provided with an audio test or interpreter, because it’s more important for people to understand the test than it is for the government to bully immigrants to score political points with bigots.


  • It could be made safe, but it isn’t currently safe (especially considering the shoulders are probably still snowbanks). More importantly, it is illegal because it isn’t safe and scraping up pedestrian smears off the highway is traumatic for the people thay have to do it. It was made illegal instead of being made safe.

    I’ll also point out that this circuitous route is estimated to take an hour while in a car it takes 3 minutes. If they put in a sidewalk, a traffic light, and a crosswalk, you could walk from that hotel to the stadium and beat anyone driving because they still have to park. But that’s just that one hotel. I would bet money that if you made the area walkable, you would see more hotels and parking lots pop up.








  • There are a whole bunch of minor league team names that are fun. There are teams called the Jumbo Shrimp, the Iron Pigs, the Flying Squirrels, the River Bandits, and all of them have fun logos already available on baseball hats.

    There is of course the question of copyrights, but there are three good reasons why you probably don’t need to worry about getting sued. First, it would be unbelievably bad press for any major or minor league or team to sue a bunch of tiny fans. Second, you’ll probably be buying a bunch of merchandise like hats and banners with their logos on it (assuming you aren’t printing your own using their logos). Third, they would probably get laughed out of court at the notion that a multi-million dollar franchise needs to differentiate itself from the sandlot kids in diapers. You’re not profiting from the name or logo (right?), and they have better things to do with their time than volunteer to be the villain in the court of public opinion.

    Edit to add some more: Trash Pandas, Rumble Ponies, Sod Poodles, Yard Goats, Blue Wahoos, AquaSox, RubberDucks, PaddleHeads, Hot Rods, Cannon Ballers, and the Baby Cakes.