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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Insert person’s name into the word insane to call them insane. spudart + insane = inspudane matt + insane = inmattane Dude, you are so inmoosane!
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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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 …
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, …
Fun crafts! By cool hip people! The DIY Trunk show was held on November 21, 2009 in the Pulaski Park Fieldhouse. It was a nice show with good variety from lots of vendors. The location is in a great old multi-roomed building. Although the Renegade Craft Fair has their December show there, and it’s much …
PaperGirl had a nice post about her twitter usage, so I’m making one too. I’ve been tweeting for almost two years now as @spudart. My tweets tend to be about fun ideas and interesting observations. My most-used word is Chicago. So many fun things happening in Chicago, especially when I work at the Tribune Tower. …
One of the fun things about frozen pizzas is that you get to slice it in any way you choose. Want pie slices? No prob. Squares are your thing? Totally. But the coolest thing of all is to do wacky cuts. Pictured above is a half of a pizza that I was planning on saving …
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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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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(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 …
