(photo by ohalchemygirl)

It's a monster versus sushi smackdown! Who will be the last monster or sushi standing? My bet is on the tamago. I love tamago. (that's the rectangular yellow egg maki).

Please leave a comment about which character you think will win in this fight.

Share your entire iphone app list with others. I'd like an app that can do that. And share the folders you use to organize your apps. While, yes, many would argue they don't want people to know ALL their apps. But then you could just "mark as private" specific apps.

It would be fun to have an automatically updated list of all the apps you own and whenever a friend downloads a new app, you get a notification. That way, when you see a new app a friend downloaded, you can ask, "Hey, how do you like that ABC app you downloaded?" And it would spur people to use more apps, and also creating more community with users of the iphone.

(btw, the image in this blog post features the super cool app, Star Wars: Battle for Hoth, available on the iTunes store.)

Just a couple blocks from my apartment a car did a crazy parking job. jacklydon on flickr captured the moment with nine photos. After leaving a comment on one photo, I started to have fun leaving comments on other photos. It ends up that each photo in the series now has a funny comment. :-)

	I saw the aftermath of this, we were wondering what had happened. Now i know. Thanks! It looks like this car wanted to parkthere really badly.
	Nice parking job.
	The way people park these days. Sheesh.
	Only later did this person realize that this Subway is not a drive-thru.
	I know sometimes I have an insatiable craving for a cold cut combo and I'll say,"nothing will stop me from getting my cold cut combo" But c'mon, this is a little excessive.
	Someone gave this person bad directions. No,you're supposed to drive THROUGH the Lincoln Square gate, not INTO it.
	Google Maps FAIL. Don't park your car according to GPS coordinates, they may be a little bit off.
	Oh, this car had dreams of being a bicycle. Free to roam the sidewalks.

Do you have any funny captions for these photos?

Get your cherry-flavored H1N1 shots! Would you like your H1N1 shot to be flavored as blue raspberry, Coke or wild cherry? Walgreens has a bright yellow sign posted on their ICEE machine stating that people can get their H1N1 shots here at the ICEE machine. Sounds kinda gross.

UPDATE: Within an hour of sending my message, Walgreens called to tell me that the sign is now taken down. The woman on the phone was very nice and appreciative. See, Walgreens totally rocks!

Here's an email I sent to Walgreens about their H1N1 ICEE shot dispenser:

Dear Walgreens,
I'm a regular shopper at the Walgreens of 430 North Michigan in Chicago. For the entire year, you've had a sign up on the ICEE machine saying "GET YOUR H1N1 SHOTS HERE TODAY." Have you noticed that not many people are getting ICEE's at the popular Chicago location of 430 North Michigan Avenue? Chicago is having a hot summer this year, and it's a shame that your ICEE machine is being used to advertise H1N1 shots.

I bet many people, like myself, are afraid to get ICEEs just because it seems to be giving double duty as an H1N1 vaccine dispenser. All logic would say that an ICEE machine is not an H1N1 vaccine dispenser. We all shop based on feeling. Even if I have an urge for a nice cold ICEE, seeing that H1N1 sign makes me feel really awkward. I always have turned away from the machine, because of this sign. I bet many others do as well.

You should consider taking down the H1N1 sign off the ICEE machine. And then you'll notice a great increase in ICEE sales at this location. I know that for a fact, because I would certainly become a regular ICEE purchaser at this location. I'll buy enough to make the machine go dry.

I love Walgreens, so that's why I take the time to write this letter. I want to see Walgreens succeed, especially MY walgreens at 430 North Michigan Avenue. And please give Pilar (my favorite cashier) a little bonus. She's the best.

The word truly is funny.
1. Truth is absolute.
2. The ending -ly is like in appearance, manner, or nature : having the characteristics of

So truly would be having the characteristics of truth. But with truth, it's either true or not true. There's not kinda true. It's like as Seinfield said, something is either wet or not wet. Once you are wet, you can't be any more wet than wet.

To say truly, something would be to be absolutely true. Not just kinda true.

After work wanna unwind to some live meditative classical music in a beautiful setting? Every Tuesday during the summer, St James Episcopal Cathedral offers a wonderful getaway right off the Michigan Avenue. It's a beautiful church.

Get there no later than 5:30pm to get a seat. It fills up. I like to sit along the wall, so when I use my phone to tweet or checkin to foursquare or yelp, I won't be annoying to the older crowd. And it's truly an elderly crowd.

I sat and watched a spider spin a web. And a bug crawl on some guy's collar.

This review also appears on yelp at www.yelp.com/biz_share?flow=reviewpost&bizid=XwibCueA...

Transformers 3 is filming outside my window at Tribune Tower. I'm capturing the highlights in HD video and posting them to Youtube.

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Actors carry around poles with the transformers face to represent the Transformers. Here two transformers are in this scene while Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley have a dialogue inside a burnt-out car.

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Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley run across Michigan Avenue into an upside-down car while fire and smoke burn in the background. This was filmed from the Tribune Tower overlooking Pioneer Court.

It's pretty cool that we can measure the hotness of the air. Thank you Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.

The heat index got up to 102 in Chicago yesterday. How do those numbers add up? What if the temperature number always started at zero and it had to add up like peanuts in a jar? Just what is a temperature number if we start to think of it in terms of units. We have 102 floating units in the air at all times.

I really have no idea how temperature numbers work. It just measures the hotness. Or something with mercury rising in the heat. The wikipedia page on temperature has an animation of a bunch of balls bouncing around in a box. Looks like those balls would be pretty hot with all that activity. You think they ever stop for a water break?

I want to thank Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit for coming up with our temperature scale. But he wasn't the one who discovered temperature. I still don't really know who invented temperature, but we do know that Fahrenheit visited Daniel Rømer in 1708 and improved the Rømer scale, one of the first temperature systems.

I love graphs like this:

Isn't it nice how our planet spins around every 24 hours? We go to bed at night and it's still hot. But when we wake up, it's nice and cool. Imagine if our planet only rotated every 116 days. Then we'd never have the chance to cool off. It would get hotter and hotter. Yipes!

Here are the other planets day lengths for how long the Sun takes to go once around the sky, which is called the synodic period of rotation.

Mercury..175.940 days
Venus....116.75 days (2,784 hours)
Earth.....24 hr 0 min 0 sec
Moon......29.53 days
Mars......24 hr 39 min 35.24 sec
Jupiter....9 hr 55 min 33 sec
Saturn....10 hr 32 min 36 sec
Uranus....17 hr 14 min 23 sec
Neptune...16 hr 6.6 min
Pluto.....6 days 9 hr 17.0 min

And for you people who think you are smarty pants, and say that it's actually 23 hr 56 min 4.1 sec for the length of Earth's day. Well, that's the time it takes earth to rotate, yes (called the Sidereal Period). But if you factor in that the Earth rotates around the sun. And we are counting how long it takes the sun to rise and fall, then that is the Synodic Period or what we know as "Day." (source)

Do a search for coolest place on earth in Google Maps and it brings you to Earth, TX. Somehow I don't think Texas is the coolest place on earth. Sorry, Texas. But you are just too hot to be considered cool.

Here's my favorite six tweets from June 2010 tweeted from spudart.