Year: 2003

A few life lessons I learned while working at an ice cream shop in Chicago, the Beverly Yogurt Oasis, during college summers: Don’t ever put gummy bears into the ice cream; they get very cold and hard. Therefore, the hard…

When saying letters our mouth, tongue, teeth and lips do different things. I’m amazed how much we use the roof of our mouth when talking (14 of the 26 letters). And it makes sense why we call a, e, i,…

U.S. Mint to unveil new nickel designs. It’s interesting they chose to release two different designs. Perhaps to go with the phrase “rubbing two nickels together.” What does that phrase mean?

Who likes hard candy? It sucks. (a bit of a pun there, cuz you have to suck on hard candy to eat it)

i’m going as a fly or maybe a spider. I got these foam tubes from home depot that I’m using as legs. And got strainers for eyes. I need a black shirt to attach the tubes too. (the tubes are…

the universal answer… “good guess! thanks!” it can apply to anything.

The America 24/7 project that I participated in May is now publishing the national book (which I did not get in). I thought they were going for more straight-on human shots, but based on their state examples, it’s pretty even:…

Remember the phrase, “Gimme some skin”? And instead of slapping five, you’d slide your hands across. (conversation with Dave the dog)

There are no websites that feature rubber band art. What a shame. I shall soon have to correct this oversight of the internet. If you have any rubber band art, please let me know in the comments. Thank you.

I’m organizing my bookmarks in explorer, and I’ve found that I got 2,173 bookmarks. How ridiculous is that? To find out how many bookmarks you have, export them into a text file, and then do a word search for like,…

79 people have signed my Bring White Castle to Downtown Chicago Petition. With great comments such as: “That would be a great treat to have White Castle’s in downtown Chicago. Maybe even in the building that looks like a White…

It would be cool if away messages on instant messengers could be logged onto a blog. Some people always have a different message up and it would become like an archive of what you do.

Can you imagine being the badminton world champion? I bet you would have to really kick some a55.

I heard that someone is doing a virtual 2003 World Series of the Boston Red Sox vs. the Chicago Cubs online. Where is it?

With this illustration of a %%278-7859_IMG_400.jpg]dunkin donuts cup on a dunkin donuts cup, which was designed first… the cup or the logo? (inspired by maroon shirt wearin Dave)

After the heart-breaking loss of the Chicago Cubs, it was time to take down the huge night window sign on the Tribune Tower, home of the Cubs owners. As the Tribune engineers removed the half-inch thick gatorboards, they discovered that…

The Cubs are going to clinch the pennant at Wrigley Field on Tuesday. I’m going to the ballpark during the game, and hang outside left field. (not inside the park, but outside.) I was thinking of anything wacky that I…

The look is picked up from the Insider Trading folder I did previously. Except this time, the twist is using the orange as the dominate color to differentiate the pieces a bit. Client: Tribune Media Services: News & Features department…

The Tribune Tower is putting up one of those big window night signs for the Chicago Cubs being in the National League Playoffs. The Tribune Company owns the Cubs, so it’s about time that they finally do this. I work…

hey, with this new $20 bill, all of the old bills will no longer be valid by this saturday. You can just send them to me and i’ll take care of disposing of them.

I simply cannot believe that the following phrases do not exist on the internet: * bouncy ball catapult * bouncing ball catapult * bouncy ball gun * bouncing ball gun * bouncy ball shooter * bouncing ball shooter

KRT Campus provides top-notch news, sports and entertainment content to college newspapers. The copywriter and I came up with a bunch of funny ideas for this brochure to target the college audience, but the client wanted something that speaks to…

my new phrase, i want to take a “rock star nap”

The person who got the least number of votes in the California Recall is: Todd Richard Lewis with 171 votes. I would think there would be someone with like only 25 votes. but 171, that’s not too bad. Lewis appeared…

I want to create tickets for whenever people complain about how cold it is outside. It’s Chicago, people. Deal with it. They would look very official Yet they would also be very humorous (so not to offend people at work)…

Today at the historic Tribune Tower in Chicago, the security man accidentally broke the %%274-7415_IMG_400.jpg]revolving door. It’s rather ironic that the guy responsible for keeping the building secure broke open the entrance to the building. (reported by ladies man dave)

Eric Zorn compiled a list of all the crazy headlines for yesterday’s Cubs win with pitcher Kerry Wood. I added some more to create this combined list: “It’s All Wood” (Chicago Tribune) “Too much Wood” (Chicago Tribune) “Braves go to…

I want to put trophies by things in public: * Best sidewalk crack * Coolest sewer cap * Prettiest view The little things that you don’t really notice. And things that are totally subjective, that is totally up to the…

What does a sidewalk taste like? Would it be more acidic or basic? After internet research I found: Wet cement is the number 1 cause of occupational skin disease in the United States. Wet cement burns with a pH of…

How much thinking a person does throughout the day? It would be cool if we could measure how much thinking one does in different jobs.

The high school reunion was fun. I’m glad I went. I wish i brought lisa with. Dave at work brought up a good point. It would have enabled her to see into a part of my past life. So when…