Year: 2010

A leaf was under the under, and the under was under a bus.

Watching the elections results come in on election night is like watching fantasy football about halfway through Sunday. During election night they say, “22102 of the 88209 of the precincts are in. It looks like so-and-so is in the lead…

I might sound elitist saying this. But I really don’t want you voting if you are just going into the booth and guessing. I love that we can vote. Voting is important. Shaping our democracy is important. Having the voice…

Chicagoist rips on Oprah’s new logo. Making fun of it because it has serifs and bold colors. If you ask me, sometimes people are too negative. Anything that’s is bright and positive, has to get a snarky negative response. Here’s…

Me to my brother @unlikelymoose, “You need to ride a bus. You don’t even have to drive the bus. You just get on and sit.” Spudart readers, when was the last time you were on a bus?

The plaza outside the new Apple Store in Chicago is aluminumly fantastic. It actually outshines the Apple Store itself. The store is essentially one long hallway. The simplicity inside the store is nice, but was very crowded. Perhaps I should…

For an extra touch of fun, use people’s middle names in emails. Whenever I find someone’s middle name, I like to put it in my address book. Then whenever I email that person, the “to” field shows their full name.…

A question about the “Pump up the Volume” lryics by M.A.R.R.S. Pump up the volume Pump up the volume Pump up the volume Dance dance Put the needle on the record Put the needle on the record When the drum…

A Ukrainian woman yelled at me while I photographed the word “forgive” on the sidewalk. Walking down Chicago Avenue in the Ukrainian Village on a bright Sunday, I was looking for small things that I like to photograph for the…

Does anyone know of any fantastic websites that sell stickers for super duper cheap? My sticker file at work is getting quite low. I want to rebolster this library to pure sticker delight. I usually pay about $1 for a…

Crain’s Small Business Forum had a panel of four social media experts for “Mapping Social Marketing Strategies” today on the 80th floor of the AON Center in Chicago. It was an excellent forum, I walked away with a good list…

Let me ask you a question: If there are bagels offered in the office. You want half. Do you take the top of the bagel? Answer: You never take just the top and leave the bottom. Instead you cut the…

Faving photos on flickr is fun. Giving appreciation to other people’s photos. Making a collection of your favorite photos. I recently faved my 3,000th photo on flickr. In 2008, I made an image of my first 1,000 favorites. Here’s the…

I’ve been posting of all my comments on delicious since March 2009. A couple days ago I hit my 1,500th comment. It was on srhbth’s photo, 201009endofsept0060a (pictured above). On April 17, 2010 I covered my first 1000 comments. Now…

For September’s top tweets, three hand-picked tweets from @spudart. Imagine elevators as the tubes in Super Mario Brothers. They warp you to another level. 28-Sep IDEA: they should make liquor jelly bellys and call them “Jelly Oh Nelly Bellys” 9-Sep…

If you send a message with the subject line as a smiley face, then in the browser tab it looks like the smiley face is wearing a gmail hat. Gmail – 🙂

Isn’t it cool how the words “do” and “doodling” sound very similar? Doodling is doing. For the longest time I’ve wanted to make a webcomic. I have lots of random ideas. They get posted here as blog posts. cool cool.…

My setup I have nine hard drives running. Three are main external hard drives: Each of these drives has a backup drive sitting next to it. And I have a second backup sitting at another location just in case something…

Yesterday, we covered my recommendations for external hard drives, Vantec NexStar CX NST-300S2-BK for the case. And a good hard drive is a Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Green WD20EARS. Now let’s cover the details of why I picked these…

If you are looking for more hard drive space, buy an external case and the hard drive separately. Many times when a hard drive fails, it’s just the case that fails. You want to be able to easily take the…

What if you took a rope that is 30,000 feet long and attached it to the jet? Better hang on tight, cuz they fly around 500 mph. For some reason i picture the rope dangling down all the time, but…

A bunch of professional bicyclists from around the world race through Beverly Hills neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. The race is mere blocks from where I grew up! The race track through the neighborhood is a little over…

(If you cannot see the above video, please view it on youtube) What should be done with the space left behind from Chicago’s Pearl Art & Craft supply store on Chicago Avenue? One idea is to make it into an…

Japanese airport officials would not allow Steve Jobs to bring ninja stars onto his private airplane. In turn Steve Jobs vows to never return to Japan. According to iPhone App Review: “Jobs said it wouldn‚Äôt make sense for a person…

It’s rather amazing how many of the single-letter domains have no websites behind them. The only ones with domains are q.com which goes to qwest.com, and x.com Paypal’s Developer Network. a.com nothing b.com nothing c.com nothing d.com nothing e.com nothing…

qdobbing When you go to qdoba multiple times a week to milk their coupon offers. “Oh man, I am totally qdobbing their offers this week. I know they probably only want you to go once a week, but I’m qdobbing…

The Museum of Contemporary Art recently asked on twitter, “Who are your top 5 favorite artists of all time, and why?” Great question. Immediate thoughts came to mine was Joseph Beuys, Edward Hopper, Paul Cezanne, Jackson Pollock. Pretty standard art…

Every month I make a gallery of photos taken by others of my neighborhood. Here’s August 2010. Yeah, a bunch of fountain photos. But I like the Blago graffiti. And the word mobile.

For August’s top tweets, here’s one hand-picked tweet from each account that I use regularly in the past month.

50cent recently tweeted this nonsense: Tweetin with my gunnar glasses on trick! u aint got these suckas. get ur money right ima get like 50 new hoes wit Mon Aug 30 21:38:50 via Twitpic

I love Andy Rooney for his straightforward honest opinions. In this Youtube video Andy critiques modern art for being “pretentious nonsense.” However, the thing Andy has to understand about modern art is that it’s meant to be simple. Don’t overthink…