I've gotten addicted to 4x4 Evolution racing game while on vacation. I've made the most complete listing on the web of Macintosh racing games.

I'm searching for reviews on the The Medici show at the art institute of chicago, and not coming up with much. (here's a page with links)

If I were an art museum guard, I would talk to people about the art and then chronicle all the thoughts on an art blog. So then there would be many many reviews on the show available to the public.

Oh btw, the picture above is Cosmo Kramer of Seinfeld as depicted in one of the paintings in this show of Cosimo de1 Medici.

I was considering purchasing the "Worst Case Scenario" Game. It seems like a fun game with interesting questions, but after reviewing an opened box at Restoration Hardware, I found that I was very unhappy with the cards in the game.

When you play Trivial Pursuit, part of the fun is when you are reading off the question to your opponent, that in your mind you try to think of what the answer would be. You flip the card and then you see the answer and think, "oh I was right" or "oh I was wrong" or "oh they will never get this".

But with the Scenario Game, the card posts the question and three multiple choice answers all on one side. The correct answer is in bold. Now this is no fun to read the question, because you immediatley know the answer as you read it. There's no guessing for the question asker.

Plus the board itself is a very boring start to finish game. Board games are much more interesting when you have to travel around the board many times.

I was reminded of an email I sent to microsoft in september of this year. I have yet to hear a response from Microsoft.

Microsoft Outlook is missing a very important feature. In the drop-down menu to colorize body text of an email, there a range of 16 colors to choose from. Amoung this super wide range of 16 colors, there is no orange. Why has orange been omitted from my selection of colors? Orange is the color of autumn's falling leaves. It brings many people great joy to see this color at this time of year. Perhaps Microsoft's software designers are a bunch of summer dictorialists grouping together to create a regime of summer authoritarian power to annihilate any traces of autumn and the signs of the end of summer.

Yes, I know you are shaking in your boots, because I have caught onto your secret plot. If I hear no personal response from Microsoft, I will be forced to start a campaign to educate the public about your anti-orange schemes.

Finding boxes is a fine art. There should be centers where you drop off your used boxes. And then you could go there to pick up boxes too.

The source for this idea was an instant message with my brother.

It would be interesting to have a super large working zipper. So large each "tooth" of the zipper is six foot tall. There would be a weird feeling of how a zipper works. And I wonder what sound it would make. If any.

In my search for the world's largest zipper, I came across these other zippers. So I made a webpage for it.

Someone recently commented on my blog:
How come we don't have Thoughtsgiving Day? Is it because in that sense we are going to have 365 Thoughtsgiving Days a year?

My response:
Thoughtsgiving day. Actually, wouldn't thoughtsgiving day be a special day where you would give your thoughts to other people? Not just a day to come up with thoughts, but to actually share them. Much like Thanksgiving day is a day where we give thanks to others. That way, we can still have thoughts every day, but we have one day in the year that reminds us to share our thoughts with others more often.

The new planters on Michigan Ave function as works of art in the sense that they make you aware of the sloping sidewalk. Much like the function of Serra's proposed huge public art at Caltech, except without all the controversy.

Serra notes about his sculpture: "As one drives along or walks the site, the sculptural configuration foreshortens and extends, compreses and expands the entire field and its urban surroundings, continuously redrawing the viewer's relationship to the landscape and the architecture."

Maldre notes about the Michigan Ave flower pots: "As one walks along Michigan Ave, you don't immediately notice the slight grade (angle) the sidewalk has. But the planters angle along the base redraws's viewer's relationship with the sidewalk as the grade (angle) becomes apparent."

I've got this motorized foam disc shooter at work. It's fun to shoot people with these harmless foam discs at rapid succession. But i think it would be more fun to have lots of people with guns! Herein lies the genius idea.

You know how there are fire box things with estinguishers "break in case of fire". Well, I'd made a boxes similiar to those, except they would have these shooters inside. And you wouldn't have to break the glass to get them, you'd just open a little glass door.

Look out corporate america!