Year: 2005

On the postcard that tom sent to me, he put the stamp sideways which yielded an interesting pattern across this dude’s shirt. It almost looks like he is behind bars, or is wearing a striped shirt. And it’s really quite…

How to strike your opponent more consistently. The lookaway: Don’t look at the person you are throwing at. Either do the lookaway off to the side or ceiling. Or look at another player while throwing. Looking off court, might not…

Last April I posted a challenge to anyone to find a postcard where the primary subject matter is a beach in Chicago. Tom stepped up to the challenge and mailed me a postcard of a Chicago beach. It’s totally features…

Sometimes I wonder if people can hear my headphones, they are the bud kind that get embedded into my ears. I take them out of my ears and I can’t hear them, so I’m assuming that nobody else can hear…

Pepsi Lime is just regular Pepsi with a tad wee bit of lime. If I were to take a taste test, I would have just guessed it was regular Pepsi. I guess that’s why they put the word “Pepsi” first…

What stuff should you be bringing with you to your dodgeball match? Wear shoes with good treads, you don’t want to slip, that would be deadly. Wearing team uniforms does actually intimidate your opponents. If your team shows any signs…

Kramer adopts a four-lane highway and decides that the lanes are too narrow so he puts black paint over the lane-lines one and three and a four-lane highway becomes a two-lane comfort cruise. What if this actually happened? Would this…

The first ever ferris wheel was done for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. The previous worlds fair was in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower was the talk of fair. How brilliant the French were! How forward thinking. America could…

Here is a in-depth series of dodgeball strategies to improve your game and destroy the competition: 1) Pre-Game 2) Equipment 3) Throwing Techniques 4) Attack Strategies during the Game 5) Ball Control 6) Distractions 7) Catching (click any of these…

There’s a new dance song by DJ Otzi called “Burger Dance” Here’s the German: Oooooooooohhh…. The Pizza Hut, the Pizza Hut, Kentucky fried chicken in the Pizza Hut, the Pizza Hut, the Pizza Hut, Kentucky fried chicken in the Pizza…

I want to know when Monster Trucks are gonna come to Chicago. The United States Hot Rod Assocication calendar doesn’t have Chicago listed for the coming year! You gotta love this on their site: “Giving a new meaning to the…

The Olympic countdown is on! A shirt that says “292 more days” would be cool. Whenever you wear it, you could look up what would happen 292 days from now. Update April 9, 2022 — 6,193 days later: I like…

While riding in my work’s elevator at the Tribune Tower, I couldn’t think of any other elevators that had the same button design. Have you ever seen the same elevator button design in two different buildings?

1. Open up the lid, 2. Gently blow into the ant farm. 3. Watch ants go WILD. Often the ants in a little ant farm will get all lathargic and lazy. Doing this trick will breathe life back into them.…

These two look so much like twins that they would make for a fun sitcom where they switch places. TWIN SWAP! Coach becomes the pope, and the pope runs a bar. What shenanigans would happen?

(idea from erik, the unlikelymoose)

A 800 meter building called “Burj Dubai” is being built in the United Arab Emirates. That’s just HUGE. To compare, the Sears Tower is 443 meters. It’s to be completed in November 2008. This photo was taken by me in…

The Chicago Transit authority is going to do some major service cuts if they don’t get $55-million from the Illinois government. (background stories if you haven’t heard about it: Chicagoist, Chicagobusiness.com, CTA.) I’m going to mail a series of postcards…

Who’s gonna stay: GoLive or Dreamweaver? Adobe buys Macromedia: what will happen to GoLive and Dreamweaver? Here’s a boring stories on it: Marketwatch, Silicon Republic, Mac Daily News. They all say the same thing. “blah blah blah.” We want real…

The Olympic countdown is on! Here’s a stickie note cartoon based on an IM conversation with MrBilly. I will be posting more stickie note cartoons on this blog. They are just quick fun things that might develop into a comic…

Someone has an ad on craigstlist about a potential MOTORIZED COUCH. What could this motorized couch do? Here’s an email I wrote to this person: Motorized couch. Will it transform into a robot and shoot lasers out of its eyes?…

Here are photos from the (not-so) exclusive opening at the Chicago Supersize McDondalds at Clark, Ohio and Ontario Street today on April 15, 2005. The Giant McDonalds on Steriods in downtown Chicago The wait wasn’t too terribly long. The even…

The goal of Beat the Streak is to put together a hitting streak while making a run at baseball’s legendary hitting records. Choose one player every day who you think will get at least one base hit. If your player…

Here’s what I bring to every ballgame: Sunglasses Camera (with extra film/memory card) Pencils: for scorecard Sharpie pen: just in case for autographs Blank posterboard sign: just in case you get inspiration to write a message on it Thick marker:…

Here’s the list of my favorite cartoons as a kid. Not my favorite cartoons now. But this is what I remember being my favorite cartoons back then. (fyi, i was born in 1975) 1. G.I.Joe 2. Transformers 3. Gummi Bears…

As Len Kasper and Bob Brenly are the new Chicago Cubs announcers this year, they still don’t always refer to the Cubs as “us” or “we.” It’s always “The Chicago Cubs lineup…” “The Chicago Cubs batters did great yesterday. C’mon…

I’m looking for stats on umpires tossing out players and manangers, but I can’t seem to find any. Surely they keep track of this, but where?

For New Toy Friday at work, we got an Uncle Milton Ant Farm! (thanks to our creative director, Jill!) Updated photos of the ant farm at work will be posted at: http://antfarm.textamerica.com.

an email to Fox Sports Subject: Tire innovation for NASCAR ========= Dear people of Fox NASCAR, Half of the NASCAR broadcast on Fox is about tires. “he’s got clean tires.” “he needs new tires” “look at his right side tire!”…