Year: 2004

Been busy over the holidays, barely even in front of a computer at all. Fun daily posts will be start up again on January 2, 2005. Thanks for visiting!

It’s a weird sensation to wear old shoes that you haven’t worn in awhile. With each step you become aware of how worn out the soles are. And you think, “Wow, this is how i used to walk two years…

2∆í predicted for the high on Christmas Eve to be chicago’s 2nd coldest Christmas Eve ever. -11∆í in 1983 was the coldest. 5∆í in 1972 is the 2nd coldest. (from Tom Skilling) What do you think the high will actually…

I rediscovered the automatic bookmarklet that makes it a lot easier to add links to the link section on spudart.org. So you’ll be seeing much more links in the future

The movie Shrek brought out lime green. Normally, lime green would have died a long time ago, but thanks to the sequel of Shrek, lime green stayed on the radar. Movies with sequels that have the main character in a…

I’m sitting here looking at a cup with cheese popcorn in it and wondering, if you stuck a bunch of cheese popcorn in a blender, can you make a drink? It might be a bit dry, maybe if you added…

People who repair public signs are “linguistic landscape repairman.”

Thanks to the inspiration left by unlikelymoose on a previous post, I now have some paper towel artwork hanging in my kitchen. View the full photo. Having a big hole cut in the middle of the paper towel renders it…

There’s some great auctions up by now featuring the duel turtle artist Georgie and Nikki. Yeah, those are the actual artist’s–a couple of turtles walking on a canvas. Auction 1: Spring, auction 2: Dreamscape, auction 3: Blue Dragon, auction 4:…

It would be so fun to do a comic strip. But it would take so long for one person to make 365 comic strips a year! So why not pick one theme, and have a bunch of artists write and…

Here’s a bunch of different ideas i’m playing with for my 2004 christmas card. Bubble wrap (I have a lot left over from my halloween costume) Including a birthday candle (for Jesus’s birthday). Then the recipient can use the birthday…

A hot combination is to include brights into a palette of neutrals. Peach, toupe, pale mauve with rich brass and coppers. 2005 will see more bronzes and coppers. Meanwhile, 2006 will see a marriage of silver and gold. A lot…

when coding websites, you assign color by a six-digit hex value. This value can have the following numbers/letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. So a piece of code for…

Leatrice often looks at movies that are in production and what colors will be emphasized in those films. And, of course, fashion. Leatrice and the Pantone Color Insititute talk to designers and query them about the colors they will use…

While getting my mail, i dropped a plastic bag containing 12 eggs inside a regular foam container. The container dropped flat on the ground. Six eggs were cracked. Six survived uncracked. 50% not bad.

A triple threat match. Which one do people prefer the most? I want to email Kit Kat and tell them to continue to make their delicious dark chocolate kit kats, but i need the statistical ammo to convince them. So,…

I’m shocked at how many more double dog dares there are vs. the triple dog dare. And what is up with the non-existent Pentuple Dog Dare!!! 7: Single Dog Dare 218,000: Double Dog Dare 6,740: Triple Dog Dare 63: Quadruple…

Only 3cm high. The Clione, which lives mostly in temperate waters, can be found in the Okhotsk Sea, off the northeastern part of Hokkaido in Japan.

And that country is… CANADA! wow. I woulda guessed Russia, cuz it’s got all that shoreline up north, and Russia is just huge. But Canada is no small turkey either.

Oh keyboard you look so comfy. Let me rest my head upon your giving keys. You are not like my desk so hard and flat. Your keys conform gently upon my face. Let me rest my head against the P…

As we pray to God, sometimes we have trouble articulating the words our hearts want to express. One of the prayers from the Lutheran book of prayer really struck me with the different variety of action verbs used: Grant Protect…

Every Monday for the next four weeks, we’ll have a new feature called Leatrice’s Lessons. Leatrice Eiseman is the Executive Director of the Pantone Institute. Here are some things she mentioned while giving a talk for a breakfast given by…

Read the press release. I can see how Lego must protect their market, but c’mon, really. It seems like such a waste. How about shipping these toys off to some 3rd world country where they can’t even afford toys? Actually,…

Today I got an email with the subject line: Oakley Replicas Ha! The ol’ Oakley sunglasses from high school (circa 1989-1993). Those then “ultra-hip” wraparound sunglasses. They remind me of gold chains, hamma pants and mullets. One day my sister…

The colon: The colon likes to explain things. The colon likes to demonstrate ideas. The colon likes to list things. Good job, colon! Aside from its function, they are two dots–one atop the other. Not touching. Keeping their distance from…

The following poem was inspired by the super loud firetruck horn that just blew down on Michigan Avenue. I’m up on the 14th floor and it was quite loud from up here. The horn musta been so loud that it…

The 2004 most dangerous toys list is now released. It’s funny how the advertiser links on this “Top Ten Dangerous Toys” list has links to other toys not on the danger list. Having this little call out box makes it…

Used bookstores now function as a warehouse for online selling. It’s a shrewd decision for used bookstores to join Amazon’s marketplace program, because not only do they retain their status as a real store where people can freely browse through…

Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have…

how long does it take you to write eell twenty times in cursive continously? What you need: √Ø√ùwriting instrument √Ø√ùsomething to write on, doesn’t even have to be paper, use the walls in your room if you have no paper…

Some people get Armistice day off. But in America it’s a very small number. Which makes me wonder what are the most common work holidays? Surely Christmas, Thanksgiving, Veterans Day, and Memorial Day rank up there. But it would be…