Year: 2008

Image courtesy dewo via creative commons license It’s overtime in a NFL football game. Your opponent is pinned all the way down to their one-yard line. Your defense goes in and sacks the quarterback! Safety! Two points! Your team wins!…

Print something mysterious on the printer at work. Let the printout sit there, so someone else discovers it. It’s fun to make aliens come out of the printer. Here’s what my alien said: GREETINGS EARTHLINGS. THE HP LASERJET 4200 IS…

Chicago was hit with record rainfall this past weekend. My family and I did a bunch of vacuuming to hold back the floodwaters in the basement. It can get pretty monotonous, so here’s a couple things that I did to…

This was a crazy weekend in Chicago with record rainfall hitting our city. Most rain in one day: “O’Hare International Airport recorded 6.64 inches of rain Saturday — breaking the all-time record of 6.49 inches set in 1987, according to…

Image courtesy kmccaul via creative commons license There are only four google results for “hopscotch world championship“–probably because hopscotch is really quite simple. How about making the sport MORE EXTREME‽ Place the squares farther apart, so you really have to…

America ranks low in average vacation time compared to other countries. To make up for this, let’s declare every Monday in September to be Labor Day.

It’s totally weird that every time I go to type Sarah Palin’s name, I accidentally type Sarah Pain.

Dark Chocolate Peanut M&Ms Dark Chocolate Peanut M&Ms would be great for currency. I love dark chocolate peanut M&Ms. Vocalo.org recently asked what is the best way to fund public schools? My response? Dark Chocolate Peanut M&Ms. Although if they…

Here’s a letter of praise I just wrote to Walgreens: Hi there, I am a HUGE fan of Walgreens. The rebates, the employees, and the general Walgreens love. My comments here touch on these points, and I even offer some…

Why is Labor Day called “Labor Day?” It should be called “No Labor Day.” Or maybe “Relax Day.” And then the day after Relax Day would be known as Labor Day. Since it would be too confusing to change the…

What you know “hooray” is in german? It’s HURRA! HURRA! HURRA! Although I still like the standard “hooray”, cuz it sounds more silly. HURRA is more of a gut sound, making it sound more serious. HURRA! Germans are serious speakers!…

While instant messaging someone, I said: spudart: WHOA IS ME spudart: how do you spell whoa? spudart: woe spudart: WOE IS ME spudart: i don’t think i’ve EVER typed out that word in my entire life (By the way, I…

A couple of days ago Vocalo.org asked, “If you invented an Olympic sport from one of your daily activities what would it be?” My response: CTA stair races. Both up and down the stairs. I will defeat ANYONE. BRING IT…

300,000 Lego bricks were used to create a 10ft by 26ft miniature city of the 2008 Beijing Olympics including the Bird Nest Stadium and the Water Cube swimming center. How much would this cost? I have a general rule when…

I’ve been into the idea of photographing LEGOs, so I did some research on flickr to see what was possible. Here are photos by other flickr members: These are all in my flickr favorites

I’m wondering who of the regular spudart.org readers can speak a little bit of German? No reason. Just curious. Danke. If you ever took any classes in German or learned it at some point, just please drop a comment on…

photo courtesy of raincitystudios via creative commons I really enjoyed watching fencing. What summer olympic sport do you really enjoy watching?

My niece took her first steps yesterday! Here’s a poem I wrote for her to commemorate this event: During the 2008 Olympics Livvy started her walking kicks Olivia so full of pep, took three small steps! With those three paces,…

You know what would be cool? In the Olympics when they have the athletes on the medal stand, they should let the winner pick a pop song from their country. And then everyone will dance to the song. Right now…

Since Estonia’s independence in 1991, they have only gotten two summer golds. Erki Nool’s decathlon in 2000 and Erika Salumae’s 1992 Cycling. And only one silver, Juri Jaason’s 2004 silver in single sculls rowing. (he’s estonia’s oldest competitor this Olympics…

Mr. cocky fencer Jerome Jeannet of France (currently ranked 2nd in the world) won the gold medal in 2004. He clashed sabers against underdog 57-ranked Estonian Nikolai Novosjolov in the second round of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Let me…

Estonia male cyclists a bit pokey Estonia’s male cyclists didn’t fare too well in the Bicycle Road Race of the 2008 Olympics. Tanel Kangert finished 69th, 13 minutes behind the leader. Rein Taaramae landed 48th, 7 minutes behind. Whoa! 69th?…

I love the name of Estonia’s female badminton player, Kati. It’s like a merging of my parents names: My dad Mati (who is Estonian) and my mom Kathy (German). This Estonian woman badminton player had better chances to win than…

Underdog Estonian Raul Must started off his first round against Poland’s Przemysław Wacha. Raul is ranked 74th in the world badminton rankings with Przemysław currently at 15. Przemysław also won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships. The…

The question on everybody’s mind. Who will carry the flag for Estonia in the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics? It will be the great super heavyweight Judo champion, Martin Padar. At 6’4″ 300lbs, he rules the heaviest weight division…

Imagine if someone counted the number of mustaches in every year Topps made a baseball card set. Then there could be a line chart to display the mustache trends in baseball through the years. What year do you think was…

The 2008 edition of the Maldre dictionary points out that the phrase “space cadet” is more accurate to be “space tourist.” Instead of saying, “I’m such a space cadet today,” you should now say, “I’m such a space tourist today.”…

When posting a status update on MySpace, there 132 options for what your emotion is. ONE HUNDRED THIRTY TWO! That’s just insane. Even more insane is myspace cramping them all into one drop-down menu that only allows you to view…

While filling out this registratiom form for veer.com, I was getting a little cRaZy. I ate lots of chocolate today. 8^D I love how it makes my Veer profile look: I’d love to see someone try to snail mail me…

Facebook retooled their website and totally changed the user experience. Now users have to click through to several pages to read what used to be on one page. You know why? To increase pageviews. The formula for why facebook did…

I’d love to see all the words that have origins in the 20th century. All the entries would be sorted by year. Random House’s little online section is cute, New Words: Sixty years of new words. It lists a handful…