Year: 2004

Dressed for intense classroom action, this 5 inch tall hard-plastic Albert Einstein Action Figure holds a piece of chalk in his hand, poised to explain relativity or to do battle with the forces of entropy. Features realistic disheveled hair and…

Jazz the Autobot transformer has a mullet in this icon rendition! Haha!

Wow, can you imagine having a forecast that has a 67∆í difference from one day to the next? Well, at the South Pole’s Amundsen-Scott’s station it will be -67° on Saturday, and then 0° on Sunday.

Anyone know where I can buy some fake plastic cicadas?

Today is the birthday of Mr. T. (May 21, 1952) Happy Birthday, foo!

I want to buy a new cubs hat. Something funky cool. Which one do you think? option A: fitted: $23.95: Cap Cubs Trucha Truckeroption B: non-fitted: $16.95: Antidote Mesh Cubs Trucker Hatoption C: fitted: $27.99: Alternate Desert Storm Camo Hat

I hereby challenge anyone to get a stepometer from McDonalds and see if you do more steps than me.

Today I bought a McDonalds Adult Happy Meal. It has a salad, Dasani water, a Stepometer with instructions, and “Step with It!” a walking program by Bob Greene, Oprah’s personal trainer. The instructions stated something rather humorous: “2. Make sure…

Invented by the Swiss George de Mestral (1907-1990), it was patented in 1955. While walking his dog one evening, he bacame annoyed by the burrs that stuck tenaciously to his clothes and dog. He examined them under a microscope and…

It’s wild that two of the three biggest cities in the US have palindromic area codes to each other: 312: Chicago 213: Los Angeles Update 20 years later: How Chicago got 3, 1, and 2 digits in their area code.…

It’s really fun to listen to any major league baseball radio broadcast. Sick of Ron and Pat of the Cubs radio? You can tune into the opposing team’s radiocast. How about listening to any other game? It’s all possible through…

Yeah, it’s supposed to be called U.S. Cellular. Whatever. But in 15 years, the area will be drastically different from what it is now and the Chicago White Sox ballpark will be THE place to be. (with Wrigley Field still…

The subway stations in Chicago are painted quite often. They hang up the same “Fresh Paint” signs everytime. Next time I’m gonna nab one, see what font is used, and make my own signs. What would be a good phrase…

What is it with people who call “Adobe Acrobat” just “Adobe”? i.e. “I used opened that pdf in Adobe.”

And we were both wearing yellow! [larger photo]

Yours truly, the Mighty Mauler unified ALL FOUR championship belts of the Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk. Check out this press photo.

I only drink natural water, none of that artifical water.

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There’s a great website out there, dpchallenge.com For newbies and experienced digital photo buffs alike, this site offers weekly challenges on a wide variety of themes, some for paying members and some for anyone. There’s also a lively community. Paying…

Here’s a new way to play Scrabble. Players are allowed to use an anagram machine, like the one at wordsmith.org. Yeah, yeah. First thing is that you think is that it’s cheating. But if all the players are allowed to…

Patriotic Afro WigNothing like looking an All-American Fool Patriotic Potato SacksWhat is more American than USA and potatoes?! *stands up and sings* God bless America! Land that I love! Stand beside… Metal and Rhinestone Patriotic Flag RingsBling bling. Can you…

The phrase that acoynmfinder spits out when you search for “much” is quite funny: “Sorry, much was not found in the database” Say it out loud, it’s quite funny.

I like the line “disappear in your city” found in this spam message I received today. It sounds very poetic. From: Lucile Sent: Monday, May 3, 2004 5:05 AM Subject: ceremony Kidd, Govenment don’t want me to sell UndergroundCD !Check…

The boats are going down the river and that means one thing in chicago… the start of summer! (and a new print on my deviantart page, Start of Summer 2004)

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen both got the same star on the Hollywood walk of fame, the first twins ever to receive such an honor. Perhaps they should have each gotten their own star. As a twin, you want to be…

I just created a “Beat the Streak” league on Major League Baseball’s website. It’s really easy to do. How to Play: 1) Your mission is to break Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak. 2) Pick one player every day. Get a…

Are there any websites that have a bunch of visual plug-ins for iTunes? I could only find two websites that have a couple visualizers. http://www.arkaos.net/site/en/index.html http://www.trinfinitysoftware.com/ When Soundjam was around, there were hundreds of visualizer plug-ins. There’s gotta be a…

Immediately upon opening up the package of Mini Chips Ahoy they reminded me of Cookie Crisp cereal. It’s like they are just packaging the Cookie Crisp cereal in fun small cup-sized containers.

Apr 28, 585 An unforeseen total eclipse of the sun interrupts a battle between Lydia and Media, bringing a sudden end to their six-year war.

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company announces that it has irrevocably changed the formula for its flagship beverage, unveiling “New Coke.” The company stands firm on its decision until public pressure finally forces them to reintroduce the original drink, exactly 79 days…

Fans can get a first look at the new Darth Vader costume from the 2005 “Star Wars: Episode III” prequel on the upcoming DVD collection of the original trilogy, Lucasfilm announced Monday. The first three “Star Wars” films will debut…