Year: 2010

In addition to such stamp greats like 50s cars, Yoda, and Hawaii; the Maldre stamp store now has new stamps available. And there is also measuring scale available to weigh your letters. Letters: 0 – 1 ounce: $0.44 1.01 –…

Everyone should have an Amazon wish list. 1. It’s handy for yourself to keep track of things you want. 2. It helps keep you from making unneeded spontaneous buys. (When you see an item that interests you, put it on…

Over 500,000 people are gathered outside my window at the Tribune Tower for the Blackhawks parade. I will be posting updates on what’s happening in the comments section. Please feel free to jump in with your own comments at http://bit.ly/blackhawks-parade

People can now sync their flickr photos with their Facebook wall. Anytime you post something to flickr, it’ll also post to your Facebook account. Sounds great, right? But what if I already look at people’s photos on flickr? Now i’m…

I work in a company where everyone in meetings takes notes on paper. Whenever I go back to my desk, I have to type the notes for action items on my to-do list. Or for further conversation in email. It…

The Tribune Tower is getting a new tattoo. Performance artist Elliott From painted a Blackhawks logo on the WGN window at the Tribune Tower today. It was a cool live painting performance as Elliott was playing music and splashing paint…

————- Trying to help AT&T Normally I use around 100mb per month with my iPhone. Last month in May, it jumped up to 477mb. I haven’t changed the way I used my phone, so I was curious where the extra…

Ken Griffey Jr retired today. He was the biggest deal coming up in 1989 when I was in 8th grade. His ’89 Upper Deck was THE card everyone wanted. He lived up to all the hype and then-some (well, only…

Here’s my favorite 20 tweets from May 2010 tweeted from spudart, mattmaldre, and fourspudart. How I miss the AIMbot, SmarterChildThu May 27 21:17:09   Just learned toilet paper is called bathroom tissue (@ Family Dollar) http://4sq.com/ajCj3kMon May 31 23:09:21  …

It would be nice if ebay would archive the auction page of the auctions you win. I’ve started doing that now. I save both a screenshot PNG and a printable PDF. The PNG file is so I can see exactly…

Dear US Government, why not ask other oil companies for advice? Here’s a list of 188 to start http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_petroleum_companies

Someone made some wrong measurements, because the Chicago Blackhawks helmets don’t quite fit onto the heads of the lions in front of the Art Institute. The Art Institute of Chicago posted a very nice photo album online of the helmets…

I just thought this photo from the Star Wars Wikia looked cool. The Force Push, man. Look out.

Yelp is a great site to review restaurants, museums, and other destinations. They also allow you to bookmark places, so you can have a handy list of places you’d like to visit (here’s my to-do list). As your to-do list…

Imagine the unique engineering challenges involved in moving the U-505. How do you move a National Historic landmark that weighs as much as three Statues of Liberty and is nearly a city block long? Then, once it is moved, how…

Planning continues for the 1st Annual 47th Ward Outdoor Film Festival. As they finalize the schedule, they would love to hear from you! What classic movie do you want to see on the schedule? Here’s my list: — The Blues…

The May 17, 2010 #journchat twitter discussion covered such topics as: SEO vs. clever headlines, iPad readers, hiring someone who uses social media, emailing your resume. Here’s my responses to four of the questions. —————————————– Q6) Has SEO influenced a…

Someone asked the following question on the Linked N Chicago group. Fresh Grad Salary Expectations….What are they? You just graduated college… What are you looking for as far as Salary? Would you turn down a salary of 40K? How do…

There are only five different kinds of ewok LEGO mini-figs. They are sold buy hundreds of dealers on bricklink.com. I’m thinking of buying all the LEGO ewok mini-figs under $10 and start selling them for ten bucks each. People gotta…

You know you are dork when… you and a friend are the only two confirmed guests attending the 90th birthday bash for the Michigan Avenue bridge birthday bash on facebook. Date: Friday, May 14, 2010 Time: 10:00am – 2:00pm Location:…

I’m thinking about sponsoring the Domingo Ramos webpage on baseball-reference.com for $5 a year. What would my ad say? I already have an old webpage for Domingo Ramos on spudart.org. I could revamp the webpage to match the ad concept.…

Do you have any favorite lines from a song? Here’s one that I really like; from Ani DiFranco’s “Little Plastic Castle” ———— They say goldfish have no memory I guess their lives are much like mine And the little plastic…

What a great question! There are multiple areas of my life that I’d like to use to address this question. I have a hard time picking just one book. Artistically Trivia-wise Relationships Spiritually and overall approach to life: Society Love…

Whenever you add someone to your address book, write down the date and how you met the person. It comes in handy to remember how you know so-and-so. Anytime you meet people at an event or anything, just pop ’em…

Want to give something extra impact that upper case bold letters just won’t do? Try putting a smiley face emoticon between each letter. It’ll give your instant messages that super-duper-incredible impact you were looking for. Oh and if you want,…

The Apple Store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago has a 42-inch Panasonic display to show off their Apple TV product. Being curious how flickr photos show up on the Apple TV, I pulled up my Chicago HDR set. I stood…

These are my top ten favorite tweets from April 2010.

What’s your choice? Walking up a nice set of granite stairs or up an echoing metal staircase? You couldn’t have more a difference between the two new staircases installed in the Grand red line station. For the commuters from the…

The number of searches on google for puzzles have been steadily declining since 2004. Are people just not interested in simple puzzles anymore? My first thought was maybe people are playing more online games. But I think the decline in…

Hey, that’s not actually Kool-Aid in the Kool-Aid Man’s pitcher. That’s actually sangria. Yum!

Other than NASCAR, baseball is most like croquet. Both baseball and croquet has the main objective of the player to go in a circle by reaching certain stations along the way. Baseball you you go in a circle and touch…