Year: 2005

AAAAAAAA OOOOOO AAAAAAAAAA! Funny how we can call stuff “that’s so early 2000s” now. What else is from the era of the early 2000s?

Riding along in a car on a vacation sipping on an old soda that has been resting for a couple hours… that’s what drinking a warm soda reminds me of.

I like how threadless says your age in decimals: My threadless profile. It’s fascinating how that number changes every day. If someone asks me how old I am today, I can say 29.78.

This is a vegetable tray that Lisa and I made for a tiki party.

The weather forecast for the South Pole today is a high of 17°, but tomorrow’s high is -61°. That is a difference of 78 degrees!

Google has now released their own instant messaging service called Google Talk. It’s available for PC and Mac. There is a program for the PC users to download, while there is none for the Macintosh. However, Google Talk does work…

there should be an thesaurus that you can look up a word and it will give you ‚Ä¢ tv shows ‚Ä¢ movies ‚Ä¢ actors ‚Ä¢ fictional characters i.e. look up “architect” and it will give you every pop culture reference…

It would be fun to become an elevator cheerleader. While riding in the elevator with someone do loud obnoxious cheers for that person. “YOU CAN DO IT BOB! MAKE THAT SPREADSHEET! BOB-BEE! BOB-BEE!” And clap for that person as they…

Why do cashiers hand you the paper bills first and then try to precariously hand you the change on top of that? It makes no sense, because the coins end up sliding all over the place. PLEASE ALL CASHIERS OF…

At the end of 2003, Chicago lost all its toy stores downtown. Now there are no hardware stores downtown. I just found out that the Ace Hardware at 26 North Wabash is now a eye glass store. In 2000-2004 there…

Underscorebleach.net makes an interesting observation: Today is August 19, 2005, quite far into the 2005 MLB season. I think it’s rather remarkable that every single team in the National League East has a better record than every single team in…

Whenever I see someone buying hair products, I check out their hair. “oh they have beautiful hair, I’ll try their product.” or “oh boy, I’m sure not gonna buy what they are using if their hair looks like that.” But…

1) normal 2) lots of yawning, stretching. 3) inattentiveness 4) sloth. slow moving. 5) complete exhaustion. unfocused eyes. too tired to yawn. too tired to stretch.

It’s kinda funny how spiders like to sit right in the very middle of their web. It’s like taking a lawn chair and sitting right in the very middle of your backyard. I wonder if there is some sort of…

In America we drive on the right side of the road, and pedestrians tend to walk on the right side of the sidewalk. What about in other countries where they drive on the left side of the road. Do they…

From time to time we all tend to eat too fast. Ever finish a sandwich and wonder where it all went? What if you could order a sandwich that came cut up in individual bite-sized pieces? Much like how candy…

The phrase “how are you?” is said more as a greeting instead of an actual question. It always surprises me how many people ask a question and then just keep on walking and don’t even bother to hear your response.…

Does anyone out there use Macintosh’s iCal program? Or even one of the following ‚Ä¢ .ics format ‚Ä¢ Thunderbird ‚Ä¢ Firefox Calendar ‚Ä¢ Mozilla Calendar I’m thinking of publishing a bunch of calendars with the ics format, but wanted to…

To look like a efficient corporate worker while standing in the elevator, do not lean on the walls. Instead stand up straight. It’s so easy to lean on the walls in the elevator, I do it all the time. But…

This appears in the 2005 Graphic USA Design Annual. Tim Rickard sent Tribune Media Services a comic strip proposal for Brewster Rockit. TMS decided to take Brewster under an 8-week development deal to help improve the strip before syndicating it.…

On a bus shelter on Michigan Avenue in Chicago is an advertisement for DHL. I’m quite suprised to see that it’s customized for Chicago–and quite funny at that too. At first I was wondering if this could be a generic…

This artwork is quite long. To view the artwork click here: earth and sun to scale. In this file, the Sun is the circle on the left. To view the earth, scroll all the way to the right through outer…

I’m trying to come up with a shorter name for this phenonmenon: That’s-not-my-cellphone-ringing-although-it-reminded-me- that-I-still-have-mine-on-but-I’m-waiting-an-extra-miniute- to-turn-it-off-so-you-don’t-think-that-ringing-was-from-me.

Sitting in the 3rd row at midfield at a Chicago Fire game in Soldier Field, the fans barely ever stood and cheered–if at all. Granted the Fire was already down 0-3 with 15 minutes left when they scored two goals.…

There are three great Chicago community blogs. gapersblock.com, chicagoist.com, chicago.metblogs.com. But why are there none for the burbs? There’s gotta be community blogs for either A) The entire Chicago burbs B) Localized part of the burbs (i.e. West burbs of…

Policeman in Chicago are now giving tickets to adult bicyclists who ride on the sidewalk and disobey stop signs. (according to Chicagoist, Gapers Block, Chicago Notebook. I’m trying to picture the scenario of a policeman giving a bicyclist a ticket…

Tomsaaristo posted the revised food pyramid by Harvard University. Here’s my comments: It’s much better than the new one. However, it’s kinda odd how you have alcohol and vitamins floating outside the pyramid. I can see content-wise that it’s nice…

This photo from wikipedia’s entry on sweet potatoes is really cute. It’s like a big potato party! All the attendees are like people, some skinny, some fat, some average.

Here’s some notes I took from the Bloggers & Books talk last week: People are vaults of entertainment (iTunes playlist, RSS, Netflix queue, current books reading) This list of entertainment for each person becomes a way of defining this identity.…

Are there any cultures that eat bees? I’m afraid of bees so I was just wondering what it would be like to consume them. Here’s a site that mentions this: “people eating bees, which is more common in Asia than…

The Chicago Cubs play 55 home games during the day in the 2005 season. The rest of baseball has an average of about 27 day home games. It’s really rather special that the Chicago Cubs play a majority of their…