Year: 2005

What song did you have to sing for grade school/junior high graduation? That song “Wind Beneath My Wings” made popular in 1989 by Bette Midler was the official graduation song for my 8th grade class. We had to vote on…

I’m so geeked out, spudart.org is now on a new server. Hopefully the site shouldn’t be down as much as it was in the past. Nothing was posted this past weekend, so my blogging streak has ended. I was thinking…

Stickers come in so handy and every loves getting a sticker on something… an envelope, at the end of a letter, on a memo, birthday cards, on a gift wrapping, on their nose! Stickers can go anywhere. Anytime you find…

In the past three months (April 21, 2005 to July 21, 2005), I have made 1,643 searches on google. That’s about 18 searches a day. You can tell google to save all your past searches. It comes in quite handy,…

Can you pay someone in coin wrappers? Amazon sells 1000 wraps for $4.18. Each wrap holds 50 pennies. So it’ll cost ya $4.18 to wrap $500 of pennies–the wraps will cost less than 1% of your money (0.836). Not bad.…

On July 19, 1999, spudart.org was reserved. Although I used the name spudartearlier than that when I first came up with it for my hotmail address back when I was graduating college in 1997. For the meaning on spudart, go…

I was talking with a friend about how I’ve been dating my girlfriend for one year now. She thought it was a long time. Which it is (and wonderful too). And it can seem like yesterday as I said, “One…

Yesterday I explained why the simple standard 57-year-old classic is so delicious. Now here’s a tutorial on dine a hamburger from McDonalds: 1) Do not order a cheeseburger Order a hamburger. Not only because it’s ten to twenty cents cheaper,…

The McDonalds hamburger is delicious. How is it so good? Here’s how: 1) It’s proven So many people have eaten a McDonalds hamburger so many many times. 2) Practice makes perfect McDonalds has made billions of these burgers. You try…

The alternating floor tile pattern looks like a weaving. I wonder if this was the intention when alternating tiles were first invented. To see what a I mean, look at the floor pattern and look at just one pair of…

Here’s some clips from an article Tom Saaristo wrote on Tart Cherries. “Additionally, cherries contain a compound called super oxide dismutase, or SOD, which is a “super scavenger” of dangerous free radicals in the body.” “t’s hard to find fresh…

On July 8, 2005 just three days before Major League Baseball hosted its Home Run Derby with 12 players from 12 different nations, the Olympic Committe voted to eliminate baseball and softball from the 2012 Olympics. Among the reasons cited,…

At about 8:30pm (CST) during the 2005 baseball all-star game FOX showed a “renegade” banner hung in the outfield that said hhrya.com. The broadcasters even pondered what it could mean. Joe Buck said something like, “Someone just unfurled a banner…

Apple just re-geared their iPod line. The iPod photo is now the standard iPod. So all standard iPods now have a color screen that can display photos. Why buy them from Apple, when you can get them cheaper from Amazon?…

This nutcracker figure speaking out nuts is a neat idea. How about this for an extension… Write out some words on a piece of paper, draw a word balloon around it, cut it out. And then photograph the figure as…

Want the inside scoop on baseball’s scoreboard challenge? I’ve taken all the box scores from every All-star game, compiled the data, entered them into a spreadsheet and database. There’s even seven graphs illustrating how to pick the right score. Click…

Does $1.25 in nickels equal the same weight as a soda pop? That handful of nickels sure has a nice hefty weight. It was fun putting all 25 nickels all into the soda machine as fast as I could. Next…

There’s a site called “The best brands of the world” and they have a ton of logos available for download including some cool Transformer and G.I.Joe logos from the 80s and today. G.I.Joe G.I.Joe G.I.Joe cartoons new logo G.I.Joe logo…

If anyone is looking for a custom-printed pen with your logo and/or phrase, here’s the place: Office Depot. For real. A couple of days ago someone in the Museum of Contemporary Art asked me for a pen. I let him…

Every year Chicago has their fireworks a day early on July 3rd. It gets millions of people gathering to the lakeshore resulting in a very packed event. Here’s six tips I realized this year: Don’t get there earlyYes, this is…

Estonians rule, this is our 8th year in a row winning the World Wife-Carrying Competition. I’m proud to be Estonian. Long live Estonia!!! This was the FOURTH victory for Margo Ussorg and the third in a row for his family.…

How about seeing a team in the area you haven’t seen before? Where tickets are cheap. Where the players aren’t paid millions. Here’s a list of professional indepedent and minor league teams in Chicago. Since these teams play at different…

Looking for a fun unusual sport to play or watch in Chicago? I’m not talking about the typical basketball, volleyball or football. How about archery, croquet, bocce and more? Here’s a list of links to calendars for less popular sports…

With Sandra Day O’Connor retiring, everyone is freaking out about how George W. Bush gets to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice. But c’mon people, it’s about time we get a new justice. The last one chosen was in 1994–nine…

The Chicago Tribune is offering this new subscription deal, called Employee Advantage, for all friends and family of Chicago-area Tribune employees. You can subscribe to the Chicago Tribune for 75% off the full price. $1.35 per week, 7-day home delivery…

Seeing that people are not allowed to photograph Chicago’s newest most provocative sculpture of a 110-ton reflective bean, I’m going to get my hands on a mini reflective bean and photograph that all around the city of Chicago. Problem is…

There are a lot of members on ebay that have a VERY similiar name to spudart. So similiar, it’s rather eery. sp.dart, spudat, spudhart, spudrt, scudart, spudar, spudark. A bunch of the names are from Germany. Which is where J‚Äìrg…

There’s no book or website dedicated to the piers of America. They have such a fascinating history as many of them were built in the early 20th century, fell into disrepair in the mid-20th century, then revitalized in the late…

Navy Pier is Chicago’s number one tourist destination with more than 8 million visitors annually. There are so many advantages to the pier structure. It’s by the lake where people can enjoy the water. Desintation for boat tours. Because how…

This Easter Island head is known to fall over easily.

Chicago was the first city to have a nationally recognized large-scale city-wide temporary public art exhibit with its cows in 1999. Other cities soon followed suit, while every year Chicago has come up with a new variation on the theme.…