May 11, 2008 at 11:20 pm · Filed under IncTrade, Life, Products, Services
Mothers Day has been around for a while now and nobody seems to question how it started and why. They just do “the usual,” with the flowers, card, and special dinner or what have you. It’s pretty meaningful stuff and especially in America, everyone eats it up. The point in bringing up this subject is to find out and inform everyone of how this interesting trend started in the first place. What better place to find it than Wikipedia.com? Here’s an excerpt of information you might not know about Mother’s Day:
One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (15 March) to 18 March.
The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.
In some countries Mother’s Day began not as a celebration for individual mothers but rather for Christians.
(And another interesting piece) Mother’s Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States.
I’m sure you were one of those people complaining about the long wait and the bad service! Apparently everyone and their mother are waiting in line to get eats on Mother’s Day. On a personal note, it sounds like I was lucky to be at home hanging out with my Mom having a toasted peanut butter and banana sandwich! Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
Anyway, you all know the drill, give your mom a big thanks and let her know she’s appreciated for all the great things shes done and continues to do for some of us. Hopefully yours was enjoyable. Until next year,
Happy Mothers Day!
May 8, 2008 at 8:30 pm · Filed under Entrepreneurs, Life
This may look like a long distance shot of a restored castle from back in the day, or a picture from a high school history book, but it’s not. Actually, this is a close up picture of a castle made entirely of Legos. Believe it or not, but there is this one and an entire city to go along with it. A good friend of ours discovered this during a trip to Germany. I’m not quite sure of the details as far as location, who created it or why, but I do believe this is worth a nice chunk of change. Within the city, there is a Lego Colosseum, an airport, a soccer (football) field, and more. Whoever it is that had this idea probably ended up banking from this now that it is a standing structure and thousands of people view it every day. I know the next time I’m in Germany, I’ll be sure to stop and check it out. Being the fact that this is IncTrade, its important to mention the business side of things in this. If you think about the investment, it couldn’t be more than a few hundred dollars to buy enough legos for a city (probably 200,000 pieces?). Having the skill is another thing, but had you created one, the return on the investment could be phenomenal to display it at arts and craft shows. Just a thought. Anyhow, below are some pictures, some in more detail, of the logo city.
Lego airport terminal, yes the inside of the plane has detail too.
The entire city, very intricate.
A Venice like city, the water is real.
Yes, all of those are actually lego people. It is supposed to be somewhat of a lego Colosseum.
After looking around a little bit, I found a very interesting link to this stuff. Apparently it is a big deal and people do this as a hobby… and some as a profession. Here’s a link to some other lego cities if you’re interested. Enjoy.
May 8, 2008 at 3:48 pm · Filed under Life
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