Year: 2005

I was looking for a new team name for my fantasy league team. Maulers was both my croquet alias and my baseball team name. And that’s just brand confusion. I like how “Maulers” started with “Ma” just like my first…

Every year I get MLB’s Gameday Audio, but I heard that XM Radio offers all the broadcasts as well. Which is the better plan? Here’s a comparison: mlb.com XM radio subscription cost $14.95/season($2.49/month) $12.95/month($77.70/season) hardware cost none $99: non-portable radio$299:…

Are there still any elevator operators in existence? Y’know, that dude that would be in the elevator and upon entering you say, “14th floor please.” When did those guys start losing their jobs? It’s like the caboose on trains. The…

It’s kinda silly that when I’m hungry I like to chew on two pieces of gum instead of one.

I’m looking for a postcard of a beach in Chicago. All the Chicago postcards that have a beach in it are primarily skyline or building shots. I would like a postcard where the primary subject matter is the beach in…

Two-team fantasy league baseball Being in a baseball fantasy league with just two teams is fun. Everyone on your team is an all-star. No looking up no-name players. While you’re at it, don’t include pitchers. It’s too much work to…

Funny scratching your chin is considered pondering, but scratching the top of your head is confusion.

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Awhile ago I posted about if you can mail a crumbled sheet of paper through the postal mail. https://www.spudart.org/blog/can-crumbled-sheet-paper-be-mailed/ They have all arrived on the same day, just a few days after I dropped them in the mail (It just…

LTD Commodities sell items for every down-home American. Some of the stuff is cool, most of it is odd cheesey stuff. My friend updates their weekly “new and exciting” section. It’s always got a few noteworthy items. But this week…

There’s a group of people that want to make “jigga” be the 11th letter in the alphabet. Not a word, but an actual letter. ======================= To: [email protected] Subject: jigga in the dictionary I want jiggabuns to the a letter in…

Have some kid ralf all over the sidewalk in front of your booth. I saw it happen last week in front of the Staples sidewalk giveaway.

Last week Staples was giving out 128mb USB memory storage devices on Michigan Ave in Chicago. How nice of Staples. At first they tried giving us just some lame Staples stickie notes. The mini-stapler was ok. Michigan Ave of Chicago…

Everyone is familiar with the image of Jesus on a cross that we tend to forget the pain and humility involved. Imagine someone taking their pet dog and duct taping his paws to the wall and letting him die there.…

A friend of mine, Andy Matznick, had a contest at his work to build a scene using Peeps as the focus. His Peeply Field scene won.

Punching out the last piece of gum from the 12-piece gum foil package gives me much satisfation. Looking back at all twelve empty pods in the gum blister pack gives me a sense of of accomplishment.

This month the American Indian Center opened up the Trickster Gallery in Schaumberg–the one and only Native-run contemporary fine arts institution run in the State of Illinois. It will showcase contemporary Native American artists while shattering deconstructive images that result…

I know of two who sell stuff on deviant.com: dan-yell and spudart (me).

Neenah has some great prices on 8.5×11″ paper. For 500 sheets, it costs between $17.95 and $24.95http://www.neenahpaper.com/OnlineProductList/ProductListResults.asp?ft=Designer You can order swatchbooks to see what the paper looks like at:http://www.neenahpaper.com/ItemListing/index.asp?b=00&s=opp&ft=Designer I couldn’t believe they were charging $5.95 for each swatchbook. At…

We’ve all heard of contintental shift where supposedly all the contintents were one big mass called Eurasia or something. What if we were to use Adobe Illustrator to align all the countries. Here’s the starting map of the world: Here’s…

As Gapers Block pointed out, the Democratic National Party still has not updated their website to reflect that Barak Obama is one of Illinois’s senators, not Peter Fitzgerald. It’s been four months since Obama was elected in. Gapers Block is…

Don’t get me wrong, I love argyle. But it’s a sad fact that when Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig wears argyle, it can no longer be cool. Selig is the antithesis of all things cool. If he was cool,…

Don’t ever write your name and address on a fifty dollar bill. It looks like someone was going to write their name and address on the back of a 50-dollar bill. This person was perhaps imagining that MAYBE someone might…

One of my goals this summer is to talk to the infamous “Walking Dude” in Chicago. What would be some good opening lines? I’m sure others have tried talking to him. Like that Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times, and…

This AP photo of a pilot cleaning the windshield to an airplane asks the question, do all pilots fly the same plane all the time? He’s taking such nice care of his window it seems like this is his baby…

Pocket bikes or mini motos are being banned in communities across America. It’s evident how they are dangerous, because they are so low to the ground, motorists may not see them. It shows how big our traveling has got in…

Upon seeing this photo of the 2005 American Idol contestants, I immediately thought that the dude with the long hair in front (Bo Bice) and the girl wearing orange (Vonzell Solomon) were a couple. It’s one thing when all the…

A color question someone asked me recently: What color are tennis balls? I replied “yellow green.” But some people reply “green yellow.” The debate is… when you describe a color using two words, where do you put the major color?…

8300 feet was the elevation of the cabin we stayed at just outside Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Before leaving there, I put an empty plastic bottle with the cap screwed on tight inside my bag. Upon arriving at…

While I’m in Colorado right now, here’s a little moutain trivia. It gets 5∆ícelsius colder for every 1000 feet you go up (called the lapse rate). Actually we don’t directly get warm by the suns rays. The earth absorbs the…

Here’s an example: Hi there Bob, I hope all is well. When do you think I could get my yellow matter transmuter back? -matt It’s kinda funny when people put hypens before their name when signing an email. Why is…