I could've sworn I saw fireworks From your house last night

 

In another month it will be the 4th of July and lots of people will be buying and setting off fireworks. As the decades roll on by, I find that I'm not as enthused as I used to be to see, or especially to hear, fireworks. It's rare to see something I haven't seen many times over and wow, I'm now understanding why the loud booms bother animals so much. To combat visual burn out and auditory sensitivity, as well as pollution, it might be nice if places could use dynamic, imaginative fireworks created by drones. The pictures here are examples of some drone handiwork. 

Unfortunately, it is still rare for drone fireworks to be used. The major reason is the cost. Traditional displays cost between ten and twenty thousand but drone fireworks average around a hundred thousand. In larger cities and places that can swing the cost, the spectacle, safety, environmental friendliness and minimal noise to bother animals and elderly might be worth it. 

Everybody cut footloose!

Not sure if I wrote about this way in the past. At The Oracle of Bacon, you can enter another actor you may have some degree of separation from and find out how many degrees they are separated from actor Kevin Bacon, thereby finding out how many degrees of separation you are from Bacon. For example, one time my college roommate literally (mistakenly) crashed into Angie Dickinson at an ice show in Los Angeles, knocking her over. Since Angie was in the movie Ocean's 11 with Jessica James and Jessica was in the movie Diner with Kevin Bacon, my degree of separation from Bacon is four. 

The Great Moose Migration

The science fiction comedy Red Dwarf asked the question: "It's 1971, a Swedish man crashes into a tree, what causes the accident? There's nothing medical, nothing wrong with the car." And the answer: 

 

This is a screenshot from SVT where usually nothing much happens until the moose begin their annual spring migration across the Ångerman River in northern Sweden to summer pastures. Last year 9 million people tuned in to watch them. This year, I'm joining the ranks.