jon

I have my Vestaboard displaying the live medal standings once again.

Here’s the source code if you’d like to run it yourself: https://gist.github.com/jparise/f3142c58d3478ff1b236ee061f541724

https://preview.redd.it/489qxy51yfh81.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31aac2ac8afbbf1f694c1c5c0e7871b06a90ade7

Now that the Olympics are over, I'm displaying the current weather (from the nearest Purple Air station) and the upcoming weather forecast (from the National Weather Service).

Local Weather

After 9 months of waiting, my Vestaboard finally arrived. I haven't mounted it yet, but I did check out the API and built a quick toy that displays live 2020 Olympic Medal Standings.

2020 Olympic Medal Standings

I was thinking about the choice of "Ford" as the character's name, and I started making a list of the intentional and/or coincidental "Ford" overlaps:

• Robert Ford, the outlaw who killed Jesse James
• Henry Ford, industrialist inventor of the modern assembly line
• John Ford, renowned director of American Westerns
• Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was shot (from behind)
• Francis Ford Coppola, a central figure of the New Hollywood wave of directors

I'm certain many of these have been discussed here before. Are there others I've missed?