Year: 2004

To run something for all day long for every day of the month, multiply the watts by 0.0612. A 230-watt computer to run as a server non-stop would cost $14.08 a month (230 watts x 0.0612 = $14.08). Here’s the…

The Tribune Company (owners of the Chicago Cubs, and my employer) has installed a super huge HDTV in the lobby of the Tribune Tower. When the Cubs are playing on WGN during the day, they broadcast the game in the…

This week is National Egg Salad Week, but then May is National Egg Month. Wouldn’t it make eggcellent sense if National Egg Salad Week was in the same month as the National Egg Month?

Chicago Cubs radio announcers Ron Santo and Pat Hughes have the attendance guessing game. White Sox tv announcers Ken Harrelson and Darren Jackson have the pick to click bet. The Chicago Cubs tv broadcasters Steve Stone and Chip Caray should…

Why don’t we have more parking garages in the city? Is there something that people don’t like about them? There is an obvious parking problem in the city, why not build more parking garages?

At Wrigley Field the Chicago Cubs are bringing the brick wall behind homeplate closer to the field, creating 213 extra “Dugout Box Seats”. The cost of the seats are: * $50: value added games. * $100: regular games * $250:…

There is no such thing as the font Univers Condensed Black, yet there is a Univers Extended Black. Oh, the poor condensed, so skinny yet not deserving of the super fat weight.

World Heath Day is the day after National Twinkie Day. Coincedence?

Today is National Twinkies Day. Celebrate!

OS X have a ba-jillion font locations, and you end up with this super duper long font list menu. Here’s how to make the font list smaller. Read more.

A list of pranks I bought for April Fool's day

24, WWE, MXE, OC, ER, Ed, CSI are there more?

Being able to look into the future would be an incredible power. But what about being able to look into the past? We have that power, but in limited quantities based on our own experience. But what about the extreme…

News in Motion sells computer-generated animation clips to TV stations and websites. Here is their folder and a sampling from the 12 different sheets included in the kit. The previous marketing collateral for them involved lots of full-bleed photoshop work…

A new window washing photo/collage has been posted to my deviantartpage: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/6170996/

I caught parts of the movie “Rad” on the spanish channel this weekend. It’s an awesome 80’s teen epic movie with an even greater soundtrack.

Wow! spudart.org has reached 2,500 comments! A big hearty THANK YOU to all the incredible people who visit my site. 🙂 🙂 🙂

I actually like the suburbs, despite the normal urban response of hatred. The suburbs are: * nifty * peachy keen * spiffy * gosh darn special

I don’t know how many graphic dorks we have on here (I know we have a few), but what is your favorite pantone color? A folder solid flush with 021. Bam! talk about bright!

Whenever we get a new employee, I like to leave a little welcome note on the person’s desk before they come in for their first day. These welcome notes have been growing each time. This time there is a little…

A new photoscan series is up on my deviantart site with prints for sale. http://spudart.deviantart.com/gallery/

Dropping truck driving terms in an office conversation is like an air-horn of fresh thinking. (From the April 2004 issue of Men’s Health) Bad Load: Cargo that doesn’t pay much. “The Tate project is such a bad load, I can’t…

I’m designing a label for a foam rocket, and recently did some research at Walgreens. Small cylinder products that lay down horizontally almost always have the main logo on both sides of the product. i.e. candy While larger cylinder products…

Why aren’t there any pens with gray ink? Because gray ink would look like the pen is running out of ink? Isn’t gray type easier to read than black?

You know you’ve been playing with photoshop brushes too long when you’re outside in public and you start to see all these textures that you could create with a photoshop brush. “Dude, look at the sidewalk, that’s totally like a…

The 2004 Olympic torch looks like a pen. Is there some significance to this?

What is up with the registration marks on the woman’s breasts? Here’s some wallpapers of this odd big-footed duo.

I got a hunch about pocket protectors. I want one.

The domain computron2000.com is not registered. Oh so tempting to reserve it.

This applies to Chicago’s mass transit system. (The metra has a different system) Front and back car: not in a rush, easy going Middle car (where most CTA exit stairways are): In a rush. Packed. On a mission–wanting to be…

Inspired by Stuart’s doodle page, my blog will now be featuring doodles! Here’s the first one. Check out the medium scan, and the super huge scan. These were drawn while waiting for pdfs to rip on my computer. It’s not…