Year: 2008

After seeing the photos in this post and this post, I want to visit Amsterdam. I love Chicago’s river. Amsterdam’s river here has such neat little boats all along the sides. It’s so naturally part of a community with the…

I have added over one thousand photos of other flickr users to my favorites on flickr. You can see all 1,038 in one big image file. Or if you would like to see the individual images, download this zip file…

Oh wow, this proposed Eco-Bridge off Chicago’s lakeshore is just fantastic! One of Chicago’s true jewels is the lakefront. Yet, it seems that many people outside Chicago aren’t aware of how great our lakeshore is. Dude, the Chicago Ecobridge will…

It would be really cool if people could leave public comments on ebay auctions. I’d love to leave a comment on a goofy auction. Or better yet, I could release my angst when someone outbids me. I recently I was…

It would be great if there was some way to easily export the information for your flickr photos. I want to back up all my captions and tags. I’m alright with doing it manually since I only have about 100…

If I owned a car, I would totally drive it to some scenic location, and then photograph myself with my foot perched on the bumper. Classic photograph. Every car owner needs to have one of these. Then you can have…

Can you guess how much money is in this bag? Our copywriter at work Lisa was exchanging her change and we agreed this would be a fun game. How much money ya think is in here? My original guess was…

John McCain has a rather odd way of asking people to volunteer for him. I got an email from his campaign asking me to put my life on hold for a few months. There’s gotta be a better way to…

The Chicago Olympic Committee is asking you to complete this sentence: Chicago is _________. Tell the world what Chicago means to you at www.chicago2016.org. Here’s a few things I submitted to this form: ‚Ä¢ Chicago is loving the Olympics ‚Ä¢…

New word: Kamino definition: to disappear Ok. Not so much a new word, as a new definition for an existing word. Kamino is the planet in Star Wars that was erased from the official library records. The planet virtually disappeared!…

Major Leauge Baseball’s website doesn’t allow you to have a password over 10 characters. They used to allow you to go beyond 10 characters, but now, for some odd reason, they limit it to ten. Maybe they want someone to…

What letters come out when you clean your keyboard? Here’s what I just got: 4l,mkn, vm,nbvcvbbvbc Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler,zaz˛ Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler,bnmbgnjmghfdsghjkhgfyghjkkkikl;oikjuikloghqaQa1A6455555ERazSaqsasdadssdq e12qew341232wwwwwwwq1qqqqqqqq23wq1w`1 12[p’;L=\ 77ioum,=.3012-9.310.2 xcv bnm/=.0312/.3012*/.3=/.012*=/.34dfg687 n,m.cnbvnm,bvcbnbvc Scott Speedman and…

What? There was a dude that sat inside R2-D2 and operated him? What? I always thought R2-D2 was radio controlled. Three-foot eight-inch actor Kenny Baker says on his website, “What do you do inside R2D2? I sit inside and listen…

When you see “spudart,” how do you read it? spu-dart? spud-art? I’m shocked whenever someone seriously reads it, “spu-dart.” It’s as though this person does not understand the english language. spu dart? What is a “spu?” And why would you…

We all know that D.O.R.K. means Dynamite Outtasight Radical Kid. But what’s the acronymal comeback for D.U.M.B.? Acronymfinder only lists three items: ‚Ä¢ Duke University Marching Band ‚Ä¢ Deep Underground Military Base ‚Ä¢ Disasters Usually Motivate Backups (BTW, D.O.R.K is…

The pointy top of the Prudential 2 building in chicago is much like a pencil. Stellaroxy recently fav’ed one of my photos on deviantart, and this pencil photo was sitting next to it. They make a nice pair. The photos…

I’m about to reach 1,000 cheers given on 43things.com. (43 things is a website where you post goals, and help others achieve their goals). Recently I also got 4,000 webpages bookmarked on delicious, so that got me thinking about all…

The 80th floor of the AON Center has fantastic views. As of now, it’s the 3rd tallest building in America. (Sears Tower, Empire State Building, AON Center). The 80th floor is not open to the public, instead, it’s leased to…

The predicted high today: 61. High tomorrow: 61. High day after tomorrow: 61. Looks like the weatherman is getting lazy, But wait! high day after that. 62. WHOA. 62!?

Here’s a fun little video shot with my $20 Vistaquest VQ1005. Look for more videos to be posted here soon. I’ve been shooting more with this little guy. Riding around Chicago’s loop on a brown line train. I set the…

There are so many different baseball card sets, it’s interesting to see the different designs from all the years. The cards from the 80s are soooo 80s design (check out the 87 fleer design pictured above). So are the 90s…

According to McDonalds nutrition chart, their grilled chicken has more cholesterol than their crispy chicken. How can this be? It just doesn’t make any sense that the grilled chicken would have more cholesterol than the crispy chicken. Did McDonalds totally…

Give your smiley faces a number hat! It’s great fun. 1:-) flattop or a confederate hat 2:-) 3:-) viking horns 4:-) 5:-) flattop with bangs 6:-) comb-over 7:-) parted 8:-) princess leia buns 9:-) I couldn’t think of names for…

Whenever it comes time to do karaoke, I never know what songs to pick. I need to find some good dependable songs to do. Anybody have any favorite songs they like to karaoke?

Ever bookmark a site and then have a hard time finding it in your long list of favorites? You can organize your favorite sites with the website del.ico.us. By using tags, you can bookmark a webpage in multiple categories. Plus,…

Here’s a fun question to think about. If you had a fight tournament in your office, who would win? Think of the arena as your workspace. I’m not saying who would win in my office, I’m just saying it’s fun…

Chicago’s IBM building. It’s a classic. Very simple black box. And now he has a good buddy across the street from him, Trump Tower. Of course IBM traditionally stands for International Business Machines. But here we are talking about two…

Are you on a PC and have problems when Mac people send you fonts? One of my co-workers on Windows was having problems with Macintosh fonts that would get sent to her for ad layouts. Here’s part of an email…

17 award-winning innovations for your home were recently featured on MSN. Here’s my favorite three.

Last week the brown line had delays. I can understand delays, they happen. Things can break. A train might hit someone. Whatever. Crap happens. But when crap happens, they need to improve how they react. Here’s my email to the…