Year: 2009

Super-cool tech community in a cabin: Video interview with Leo Laporte of TWiT

Check out this super-cool hi-tech community in a cabin. Leo Laporte talks about: * Keeping our open internet * Net neutrality * Starting your own business * Bootstrapping * Niche marketing * Broadcasting * Podcasts If you like ANY of those topics, you’ll like this video interview eGuiders did with TWiT’s Leo Laporte. (If you …

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Make someone’s name insane

Insert person’s name into the word insane to call them insane. spudart + insane = inspudane matt + insane = inmattane Dude, you are so inmoosane!

The key command to create lightning in your text

Would you like the ability to include some lightning bolts in your txts? Could your tweets use some extra magnificent flash? I would love to have a lightning bolt character. And you know what? Unicode has a lightning bolt! Here it is: That’s no lightning bolt! That’s a confused arrow! What is unicode trying to …

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What are you most passionate about?

Online personals have some interesting questions, especially eHarmony. They have 13 questions, and I’ve been meaning to share some of my responses, cuz there are some thought-provoking questions. I’ve posted the question What are the THREE things for which you are MOST thankful? Now here’s another one: What are you most passionate about? Here’s my …

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Musical cars, measuring days, M&M’s, etymology, and hot coals (My 5 favorite tweets from Oct/Nov 2009)

My top five favorite tweets I made in October and November 2009 via @spudart: For one week I’d like each car on CTA trains to play a different genre of music. Just to see if people pick a particular car to sit in. Sun Nov 29 16:32:40 I open Psalms up to a random page, …

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Thanksgiving day has a new name: “Thank You Day”

This year I’m going to call Thanksgiving to be “Thank You Day.” The term thanksgiving often loses its meaning, because we don’t think about word actually is: Thanks giving. We are to give thanks. One method is to thank other people by simply saying, “thank you.” I realized this in a response I was writing …

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I have a weird diet: Pineapple wine and Jalapeno-stuffed olives

My tummy hurts today. What could it be? Here’s what I had today: * Boing! Tamarind juice (I don’t even know what a tamarind is) * Jalapeno-stuffed olives * Almond-stuffed olives * Nutrition digestive health mix * Coca-Cola from a glass bottle * Silk chocolate soy milk * Pineapple wine * Cholesterol tea * Chai …

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I like deep lakes and rivers

(polar bear cannonball anyone?) The fact that rivers and lakes have a bottom oddly unsettles me. Is that strange? I want to be able to safely cannonball into the Chicago River from the Michigan Avenue bridge. Third grade. Family trip to Canada. When my dad would drop the anchor in the lake for us to …

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