This is a cool photo of Henry Blanco. It’s too bad the design of the card is covering up an essential part of the photo, home plate. It makes you wonder what the photographer thinks of this card. 2011 Topps Update #74 Henry Blanco Diamondbacks. It makes you wonder if the runner was safe or …
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Precisely it would take 105,714,892,800 sticky notes to cover every square inch of Chicago. How did I come with that? 3 inch x 3 inch sticky note 63,360 inches per mile 63,360/3= It takes 21,120 stickies lined up to cover one linear mile. 21,120*21,120= 446,054,400 stickies cover one square mile. Chicago is 237 square miles …
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I played the word POOD in Words with Friends. I always thought the past tense of poo would be spelled POOED. My second-grade humor was greatly pleased when Words with Friends accepted POOD. What a great Scrabble potty word to play. When you play POOD, make sure to toss out the real definition: “a Russian …
I’m glad he got the tube off his head. This Youtube video reminds me of the time when Unlikelymoose and I were at an art museum in San Francisco and we saw someone walking around looking at the artwork through a rolled up map. It might have even been a paper towel tube the person …
I saw these two pins on the same day. Somehow they belong together. Here’s the links: First one: Face protector thing Second one: Baby face thing I like how the caption on the first one talks about how ridiculous it is, but then the equally ridiculous second pin talks about how it’s so smart!
Sparxmind pointed out to me that the USS Enterprise on wikipedia seems to be depicted as an aircraft carrier. Last time I checked it was a spaceship in Star Trek. Maybe it actually is the Star Trek spaceship in that illustration, it’s just one of those things where it’s a weird angle.
It seems like my Scrabble / Words with Friends rack always ends up multiple i’s. Does the letter i like to group together in herds? If you have the double-i syndrome like me, here’s some words that might come in handy for you. alibiing filariid retiarii aalii aaliis bacchii congii coniine denarii genii medii nauplii …
One mattress photo. Three different websites. The comments that resulted: Instagram: Foursquare: Flickr:
Everyone on twitter has the urge to tweet about what they eat. Or how their knee hurts. It’s the typical stupid twitter joke that comedians tell. I avoid tweeting about such uninteresting things on my main twitter accounts. That’s why I tweet them on my not-so-great twitter account devoted to my health, @mattshealth. Totally boring, …
I’ve always wanted a gun that shoots out strings of Christmas lights. I would hold the Christmaslightstring Machine Gun in the G.I.Joe Roadblock style and yell out in an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice, “MERRY CHRISTMAS AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!” +chugga chugga chugga+ (that’s the sound of the machine gun shooting out christmas string lights) …
I would like to make a goal to always have pre-stamped postcards with me at all times. If i come across a cool-looking mail drop-off box, I can use that box. And then I could take a photo of that drop-off box with my phone, and immediately mail a photo of the mailbox to the …
