Did the people on planet Mercury sent a rover to planet Venus yet? We know Venus has sent probes to Earth. We Earthlings sent rovers to Mars. You KNOW Jupiter sent a rover to Saturn. Just look at Jupiter. They are huge! They got rovers roving all over the rovin' place.
I love how appshopper.com has a wish list feature. It makes me be more wise with my app purchashing decisions. Here's what I have in my wish list now. What apps should I get?
$1.99: ToonPAINT allows you to easily create awesome looking cartoon-paintings with yourown photos. Even if you have never drawn or painted before, ToonPAINTsets you up for quick success by providing a...
$9.99: Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager. Othertodo applications either oversimplify or are too difficult to use.Things instead offers the perfect balance between ease...
$2.99: GoogleReader Client. - Syncs with Google Reader - Browse by feed or folders -Manage starred items, notes - Support for shared items and friends'shared items - Mark as unread - Image caching -...
$1.99: BEATDRUMS WITH ANIMAL! Recipient of the Editor's Choice Award fromChildren's Technology Review "built-in kid appeal...also plenty of funfor older players who enjoy music- and rhythm-centric...
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$0.99: Check out our latest app iVideoCamera - it lets any iPhone record videos witheffects for 99¢!!! Search for "iVideoCamera" now! Sonar Ruler is awinner in the Best App Ever Awards - "Most innovative...
$0.99: Use your own handwriting to write everything from thank you notes todoodles, to love letters. Then send them by email, post them toFacebook, or to Twitter! Simple and easy to use, your writing...
Your first name. It's yours. But it also belongs to millions of other people. Who is the most famous person with your first name? Here's how to find out.
You could just google your name, but then you get a ton of results and it doesn't really tell you who the most famous PERSON is. It tells you the most famous WEBPAGE with your name. You want to know a person with your name, not a webpage. To force Google to search for actual people, add "site:wikipedia.org" into your search. For example, here's how to do the google search for matt: matt site:wikipedia.org.
Matt Hardy: Matthew Moore Hardy (born September 23, 1974) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on their ...
Matt Harding: Matthew "Matt" Harding, (born September 27, 1976) is an American video game designer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that ...
Matt Groening: Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening (pronounced /ˈɡreɪnɪŋ/ GRAY-ning; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer. ...
Matt Mullenweg: Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas) is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. He is the founding developer of ...
In the comments below, please post who is the most famous person with your first name.
The first CD I ever owned is Bobby Brown's "Don't Be Cruel." Classic. What's your first CD you ever owned? Feel free to leave it in the comments below or tweet it with the hashtag #firstcd
It's the Wednesday after St. Patricks day weekend, and I'm walking down Michigan Avenue to work and I see someone wearing green. I immediately thought, "wow, that person has been wearing that shirt since Saturday!" So I tweeted about how not to wear green after St. Patricks' day,
"Never wear green the week after St. Patricks day, ppl will think you never change your clothes #tip" [link]
And then I come into work and someone was wearing green! Oops! So I tweeted this,
"Never tweet while commuting to work about what ppl shouldn't wear, cuz one of your coworkers will be wearing that when u come in #tip #style" [link]
And then I realized that Wendesday IS St. Patrick's day. No wonder why people were wearing green. I'm such a clueless Protestant boy.
By the way, as of today, my "Finger tattoos" photo has been viewed 20,030 times and "Chicago's Moving Bridges over the Chicago River" has been viewed 37,598 times. Finger tattoos is catching up!
I was just wondering if monkeys drink water. Because I never saw a monkey drink water, I thought maybe monkeys don't drink water But then a friend happily shared this video with me, Youtube - Monkey Drinking and Playing with Water.
I want to drink water like this monkey.
Note: this video is more fun to watch with the sound turned off.
2018 Winter Olympics bids were due yesterday. Only three cities put their hat into the ring:
* Munich, Germany
* PyeongChang, South Korea
* Annecy, France
It's really cool how blueletterbible.org has audio pronunciations for Greek words. Give a listen to the greek word anapauō (meaning rest). I wish when the guy read anapauō, that he would have said it in a more restful manner. Instead I feel like I'm getting punched in the face.
When Jesus said, "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." I don't think he said "rest" like he was punching someone in the face.
There is no song titled "Jackin it up" on iTunes or Amazong MP3. Quick! This song is just waiting to become a top 40 hit.
The jackhammas are a-poundin'
I say
The jackhammas are a-poundin'
outside the Tribune Towerin'
I'm tryin' to git some work done-in
But these jackhammas
these jackhammas
They keep a-poundin'
a-poundin'
A-prrrchh-a-prrrrch-a-pprrchhhprrccch-prrrccch.
Seriously. The Pioneer Court outside the Tribune Tower has some jacked-up tiles and it's all fallin apart. So they've been replacing the tiles in sections. It's only taken them two years so far.
We had peace and silence for a couple months, and then today, the jackhammers came back and are now working on another part of the court. This will take them about three months. So I get jackhammers all day long for three months at work. Hence, I'm trying to spin this into a positive and get into the jackhammering by finding a song titled, "Jackin it up" on itunes or amazon mp3. But alas, there are none.
alforque tweeted: WTF is Gen Z?! RT @ChicagoGirl1: There is a Generation Z now? When did this happen? http://bit.ly/ciOPp1
What would come after Generation Z? Is there a letter that comes after Z? In the Greek alphabet, the last letter is Omega. Would that then be Generation Omega?
A yelp post asks, If there was a new letter after "Z", what would it sound like? Here's a couple of their responses:
-- Gillooly
-- Sub-class 'z', 'zed'
-- A Double "Z" like "ZZ" like Double "U" makes a "W"
-- it would be the schwa sound we all learned about in phonics in the 1970s
Rather fitting that this Yelp post about the end of the alphabet has its comments turned off due to the post being older than two months. It's like the question about the endings, hit the end itself.
A smoker walks in your direction on the sidewalk. You pass each other by and hold your breath, because of the stinky smoke. 15 feet after the smoker, you are able to breath again because the smoke has dissipated into the air.
I'm thankful that cigarette smoke fades into the outdoor air. What if it hung around like a nasty cloud? Bleh.
Or what if our atmosphere was so heavy that the smoke fell to the ground and made a line on the ground? That would be weird. We'd have contrails of smoke everywhere from smokers walking and smoking.
Next time someone tells you, "I'm tootin like a ballotin," you can respond with, "Yes, I appreciate your flatulence metaphorical reference to a deep decorative rectangular cardboard box with overhanging edges used for packaging chocolate candies."
"How about we get ourselves a ballotin of Godiva chocolates?"
On the 14th floor of the Tribune Tower there is a gray garbage can in the kitchen area. We throw away so much stuff in the kitchen that can be recycled. To help solve this, a few weeks ago I put a blue recycle bin next to the garbage can.
But nobody uses the recycle bin. It rather baffles me. Today I found a clean paper bag and paper wrappers in the garbage. Normally I will quietly garbage pick the paper and put it into recycling. But the quantity of the paper in the garbage today unsettled me. As i took the paper out I audibly said, "what is this paper doing in the garbage? It can be recycled," hoping that the perpetrators heard me.
Knowing just saying something out loud probably won't do much, I put a couple sticky notes on the garbage cans directing people to the blue recycle bin. Then to be even more specific, the sticky notes listed what little things can be recycled.
here's what the notes said:
PLEASE RECYCLE
use the blue bin
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tea wrappers,
papers, cardboard,
bags, sugar packets
every little bit helps :)
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I purposely made the list in all lower case to make it more friendly. I know I'm being passive-aggressive with this. But c'mon people, at least put your paper in the recycle bin that sits right next to the garbage can. Every little bit truly does help.
A friend of mine is trying to exchange her broken hair dryer. Today she IM'ed me, "whoa, this hair dryer thing is becoming a pain in my arse!" To which I responded with the following hair dryer puns:
-- this whole hair dryer thing BLOWS
-- it's totally DRYING the life out of you
-- this is a HAIR-RAISING experience
-- you are getting totally ripped off and SCALPED
My twin brother is going to start spelling the word "gray" as "grey." I disagree. I'm just not a fan of the spelling of "grey." Grey eliminates the simplicity of gray. Grey makes gray complicated and stuffy.
Gray is simple. Gray is pure. Gray is honest. Long live gray!
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