Keith Bryan

Embedded software developer, likes music and art, and anything that flies. Go Buckeye's! Go Dolphins! @roses_gum's pool boy

[Tracy ❤️🎶💫 @nunyabizz6773]

John Mellencamp
"Pink Houses"
Live at Farm Aid 1999
Enjoy! ✌️😎
#RockOn 🎸🥁🎶🔥🔥

[The Who Archive @thewhoarchive]

Keith Moon joins Led Zeppelin on stage at the Forum in Inglewood, California playing drums and the tympani on "Moby Dick" and "Rock And Roll" along side John Bonham on June 23rd, 1977

[Keith Bryan @buckeyeF16]

@FarmGirlCarrie Same

[Kim "Katie" USA @KimKatieUSA]

US Marine Colonel Elizabeth Pham is living proof that you can come to America with nothing and become something extraordinary.

Born in Seattle to immigrant parents, she earned her wings as an F/A-18 Hornet pilot and went on to fly over 155 combat missions in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. She logged more than 1,000 mishap-free flight hours in the Hornet and earned the prestigious “Top Hook” award during training.

She later held key leadership roles at the squadron and Headquarters Marine Corps level and supported major exercises across the Indo-Pacific while flying the UC-12W.

Colonel Pham didn’t make excuses; she became a combat-proven Marine aviator and leader.

This is what the American Dream actually looks like.

[Tim Carr @CowboyShepherd2]

Happy 250th Birthday, America!🤠

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

In 1951, Rose Totino walked into a Minneapolis bank asking for $1,500 to build her frozen pizza empire. The manager said no.

He didn't just reject the application. He didn't know what she was selling. She called it "pizza." He had never heard the word. It was a regional food, mostly confined to East Coast Italian immigrant neighborhoods. In the Midwest, it was alien. Rose had a high school education and a recipe from her mother. The bank had strict lending rules for women. The answer was a flat denial.

Instead of leaving, she asked the manager if he had an oven at home. He did. She told him not to eat lunch the next day.

The next morning, she stood in the small kitchen she shared with her husband, Jim. They were barely scraping by. Rose spent the hours before dawn kneading dough, simmering tomatoes, and slicing cheese.

The raw pie went into a square box. She carried it back to the bank. Bypassing the tellers, she walked straight into the manager's office. She handed him the box and gave him baking instructions. He took it home.

At the time, the banking industry relied heavily on character loans, but character was defined by collateral and male guarantors. The commercial lending guidelines of the early 1950s made no provision for culinary demonstration. Women could rarely secure business capital without a husband's signature, let alone for a product the loan officer couldn't pronounce.

The manager baked it. He ate it.

He called her the next morning. He approved the $1,500.

They opened a takeout shop. It was so small they had to store fifty-pound bags of extra flour in the backseat of their family car. But the city had tasted it. Lines formed around the block. They paid off the loan. Then they bought a factory.

Rose realized that if she froze the dough, she could ship it across the country. Nobody had successfully mass-produced the item before. She figured out how to keep the crust from turning to cardboard. She patented the process.

They shipped them in refrigerated trucks. The food the bank manager couldn't pronounce was now in freezers from California to Maine. By 1970, Totino’s was the top-selling brand in the United States. Pillsbury bought the company in 1975 for nearly $20 million.

She didn't argue with the rejection. She just gave the manager baking instructions.

She became the first female vice president in Pillsbury’s history. She sat in boardrooms with men who had Ivy League degrees. She still tasted the test batches herself.

The original takeout shop closed years ago. The brand she started now sells hundreds of millions of units a year. The recipe has changed. The boxes look different. The freezer aisle in every grocery store in America is built on a $1,500 gamble by a man who didn't know what he was eating.

Rose Totino: the woman who taught America how to eat pizza.
One woman’s vision created a culinary shift in America
Did you know this?

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

> Be Jonny Kim
> Born to South Korean immigrants in Los Angeles
> Grows up in an intensely abusive household, constantly full of fear
> The night before he graduates high school, his father threatens the family with a gun
> Police arrive, a shootout happens, and his father is killed
> Decides he wants to protect people so he enlists in the Navy at 18
> Survives Hell Week and becomes a Navy SEAL
> Deploys to Iraq twice as a combat medic, sniper, and point man
> Completes over 100 combat operations under fire
> Earns a Silver Star and a Bronze Star for saving wounded comrades
> Watches his close friends die in battle and realizes he wants to heal people, not just fight
> Leaves active duty to get a degree in Mathematics from USD
> Auditions for medical school and gets accepted into Harvard
> Graduates from Harvard Medical School as an M.D. in 2016
> Starts his residency in emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
> Gets bored of being a regular doctor and applies to NASA
> Selected as 1 of only 12 candidates out of 18,300 applicants
> Becomes a NASA Astronaut in 2020
> Decides space isn't enough, so he joins Navy flight school to face his fear of flying
> Earns his wings as a fully certified military pilot and naval flight surgeon
> Launches into space on a rocket to the International Space Station
> Logs 245 days in orbit, traveling 104 million miles around the Earth before returning home
> Returns to Earth as a SEAL, a Harvard Doctor, an Aviator, and an Astronaut at just 41 years old

And Jonny Kim is still the most humble guy on the planet who makes everyone else's resume look blank.

Jonny Kim is badass.

[Matt Devitt @MattDevittWX]

Thank you! 🙌🏻

[ChicagoMusicExchange @ChicagoMusicEx]

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[Keith Bryan @buckeyeF16]

@DrNeilStone @grok And tell us why we should listen to you? Re: this "ebola" crisis you were warning us about not very long ago???

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Stephen A. Smith admits he can’t wrap his head around “how the hell” the Clintons and Obamas left office worth upwards of $100,000,000 after “serving” the American people.

“Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas, grew up poor, relatively broke. How the hell he and the Clinton Foundation are worth hundreds of millions of dollars beats me.”

“Barack Obama was a community organizer who became the President of the United States. And last time I checked, that salary ain’t over $450,000.”

“How the hell you depart from office, [together] you worth over $200 million?”

Clintons’ net worth before office: ~$1,300,000
Clintons’ net worth today: ~$120,000,000

Obamas’ net worth before office: ~$1,300,000
Obamas’ net worth today: ~$70,000,000

[Alec Lace @AlecLace]

Boomer Esiason said it out loud:

“There is petty jealousy. She’s a straight white basketball player.”

The WNBA’s #1 superstar is a straight white woman and that’s exactly why so many in the league resent her.

No other reason explains the hate.

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

David Clayton-Thomas, the unmistakable voice behind "Spinning Wheel," "And When I Die," and "You've Made Me So Very Happy," has died at 84. He sold more than 40 million records across his career. https://t.co/LzQjnEsDuw

[Keith Bryan @buckeyeF16]

@20th_Centurygal Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes,
-Jimmy Buffett

[Keith Bryan @buckeyeF16]

@drantbradley You just described the Democratic Party.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

This is one of the best illustrations of what socialism (in any form) does to the poor. It promises a ladder of programs & benefits but can’t lift people out of poverty. No country on earth has made the poor better off under socialist governments.

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

Un père a dit à son fils : « Tu as obtenu ton diplôme avec mention. Voici une Coccinelle Volkswagen que j’ai achetée il y a de nombreuses années... Il a plus de 50 ans, mais avant de te le donner, emmène-le dans une concession en centre-ville et demande combien ils te proposent. »
Le fils est allé chez la concession, est revenu voir son père et a dit : « Ils m’ont proposé 10 000 $ parce que ça a l’air très usé. » Le père a dit : « Emmène-le dans un prêteur sur gages. »

Le fils est allé au prêteur sur gages, est revenu et a dit : « Ils ne m’ont offert que 1 000 $ parce qu’ils disent que c’est trop vieux. »

Finalement, le père a demandé à son fils d’emmener la voiture dans un club de voitures classiques pour la montrer là-bas. Le fils a pris la voiture jusqu’au club, est revenu et a dit : « Des gens au club m’ont proposé 100 000 $ ! car c’est une voiture très rare et recherchée parmi les membres. »

Le père dit à son fils : « Je voulais que tu comprennes que le bon endroit t’apprécie de la bonne manière. S’ils ne te valorisent pas, ne sois pas en colère ; ça veut juste dire que tu n’es pas au bon endroit. Ceux qui connaissent votre valeur sont ceux qui vous apprécient vraiment. Ne reste jamais dans un endroit où ils ne reconnaissent pas ta valeur ! »

[Mekka Don @MekkaDonMusic]

Happy Father’s Day!

[Keith Bryan @buckeyeF16]

@itsrosesm If they remove the payroll deduction limit we wouldn’t have this problem.

[💥Texas Girl💥 @Ilegvm]

On March 20, 2005, a convoy was ambushed near Salman Pak, Iraq. Her MP team (Raven 42) was ambushed while assisting with security along the eastern convoy route.

She led the counterattack, charged into the fight, took out enemy fighters at close range, and ensured her unit survived with no U.S. fatalities. Hester personally eliminated 3 at close range. 🔥

Salute to SFC Leigh Ann Hester—the first woman in the U.S. Army to earn the Silver Star for direct combat valor.🔥

Several Army women received it during WWII for support roles under fire.

Rest easy, Warriors. You aren’t forgotten. ♥️

Freedom is free. 🇺🇸