Year: 2009

Grapes. Grape tomatoes. They should go together, right? Both are cute sizes. Both are great to pop in your mouth. One is sweet, the other acidic. Both are pretty colors. I just ate some grapes and followed it with a…

My brother owns a blue and white PowerMac G3. I own the same computer. This model is basically useless now. Mine sits in my closet. Erik’s sits in his basement (which is basically a big closet). It would be great…

Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art has a fantastic selection in its book store. Going to their bookstore is just as fun as seeing their galleries. Here are six books that stood out on my recent visit. Amazon.com Widgets For those…

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Here’s a funny domain swiping technique. I was wondering if faceback.com was taken (a play on facebook). But it is. What about other domains where you take the second word and keep the first and last letter? Available: facebask.com facebaulk.com…

UPDATE: Several people have found the Facebook version of the Myers-Briggs test to be inaccurate. Please read the following with a grain of salt. If you want to take a REAL Myers-Briggs test, head over to www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp. I’ve taken many…

The full moon makes people crazy? But what about when the moon isn’t out yet? The sun is out now. That’s what makes people crazy during the day. The full sun. Wait. The sun is full all the time? Oh…

Without looking at the dictionary, I think the origin of the word “thousands” is when someone said, “Thou give me as many cookies as there are grains of sand.” Eventually it got shortened down to thousands.

I’d really like a four-mile long Slip-n-Slide to work. However Chicago has no hills to create Slip-n-Slides, so let’s leverage the height of the great Chicago skyscrapers. All Slip-n-Slides can start from the Sears Tower (oops I mean, Willis Tower).…

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alongwhile def: When awhile takes a long while example: I have some instant iced tea stuff in my drawer. I haven’t used it in alongwhile. this isn’t in urbandictionary.com yet, but don’t worry, it will be soon. I just submitted…

Water spills all over the keyboard on my laptop at work. YEEEEEP! What’s the best thing to do when you spill water on your laptop? Thankfully one of my coworkers told me to turn off the computer, take out the…

Funny thing happened this morning. There’s a sign on the main door to my apartment building saying that the water today would be turned off today from 8am to 4pm. I was all ready for work, except I didn’t put…

Hang up frames on various things in the public, and call it art. A crack on the wall in a train station. A tree trunk in Pioneer Court. All art. Print out captions with title and your name. Post the…

photo courtesy dancoulter via creative commons license I just submitted a new definition to urbandictionary.com for OTR: Over Thecounter Robot. When someone starts a chat with you and it says, “Encrypted OTR chat initiated.” It doesn’t really mean “off the…

A friend recently posted on her facebook status, “Goodnight moon… please children, scootch closer.” That’s really neat. I like thoughtful, short, simple poetic quotes. It would be cool if there was a twitter account that posted just one interesting poetic…

Need to spice up your question? Try using two question marks back-to-back. Papergirl covers the double question mark issue with her blog post “Questionable Punctuation.” She totally hits the nail on the head with the tone differences between using one…

I often wonder what I should have for lunch. Sometimes I ask people what they had and then I’ll have the same thing. There should be a website where you can look up what people are having for lunch today,…

If I was a celebrity and people asked for my autograph, I’d give it and always ask the person for their autograph too. Wouldn’t that be fun to make a collection of people’s autographs? I think so.

The first year card for a baseball player tends to be his most valuable. But you have barely any stats on that card. What’s the fun in that? Oh yay. One season of stats. That says barely anything. But the…

. I encourage everyone to write MLB.com customer service: There’s a graphic on the homepage of mlb.com for the All-Star Game Final Vote. It features buttons of 10 final players on the voting card. The graphics on these buttons are…

Happy 123456789 day! In honor of this great day, I tried to get a receipt with this historic timestamp. Here’s the adventure tweeted live at @spudart on twitter 10:17:58 07/08/09 I’m gonna buy a donut at Dunkin Donuts today and…

It’s interesting to hear some younger people complain about hearing so much about Michael Jackson the past few weeks. (to be fair, I also hear it from older people too, but bear with me for a second). I don’t mind…

Even as a big Cubs fan, I’m glad only one Cub made it to the All-Star team. I’d even be happy having no Cubs on the team this year. If your team sucks, you don’t deserve to have an All-Star.…

A few years ago I was walking up the sidewalk to my parents’ house, and there was one clover growing out of a sidewalk crack. That one clover just happened to be a four-leaf clover! Since then I always look…

Every time a new capacity hard drive comes out, the prices drop. In January 2008 a 1 TB drive was introduced, prices drop. In August 2008 1.5 TB drives came out, prices went down. When 2 TB drives got their…

Fuzzy Wuzzy, Outer Space, and Bittersweet are just a few of the standard Crayola crayon colors released over the years. These 133 names are considered to be a “core color” by Crayola. Hard to believe that Razzmatazz is considered a…

Here’s a funny story that happened to me yesterday. I live tweeted a cookie run to Walgreens. Making a cookie run to the walgreens. Chips Ahoy cookies are 4 boxes for $5. #walgreens #deal Okay, so I bought FOUR boxes…

Here’s a growing collection of the funniest Facebook status messages I have seen. Feel free to add to this list by leaving a comment with hilarious facebook status messages you have read. — Erik M. Transformers 2 comes out Wednesday.…

I copied 161gb of files from one external USB drive to another. The process took three hours. I figured that once it was done copying, my computer should behave normally, right? No. The computer actually went slower AFTER the copying…

I want to go around and shake people’s hand at work and say, “Congratulations, today is National Handshake Day.” Actually what would be more fun is to go around with a hand buzzer and do that. A selected sampling of…