An instant message conversation between me (spudart) and my brother (unlikelymoose) today: Spudart: Adium has been giving me the beach ball frequently the past two days. Unlikelymoose: when life gives you a beach ball, go to the beach.
(image from pcadvisor.co.uk) I like plain text editors. TextWrangler is my favorite. Big bloated text editors like Microsoft Word, I try to avoid using. But my workplace uses Microsoft Word to exchange text documents. I only open up Word for these documents. And I reluctantly use Word to open the documents. I need to change …
Photos from Chicago’s third largest snow storm ever. I walked around Lincoln Square the day the blizzard ended and took these photographs of the neighborhood.
It’s funny whenever you do a search for something and your own site comes up. I’m searching for a tool that will tell me the twitterversaries of all the people i follow. I googled: following twitterversary, and the fourth result is my own site. UPDATE: Six years later My blog post is now #1 for: …
I think it’s funny how we ask who won debates. Is there ever truly a winner in a debate? Not saying that debates are bad, they are very very good. I tend to see debates as more of a discussion. Imagine at th end of a discussion with someone, you declare, “you know, i think …
Take the 20 musicians you listen to the most. How different are they? You can compute your electic score with the eclectic test. Oh, and you have to use last.fm. My eclectic score is currently 93/100, meaning my musical preferences are very diverse. Here’s my friends who regularly use last.fm and their scores: 98: rlindquist …
Jawaese is the language that Jawas speak in Star Wars. They are desert scavengers. Selling what they find. Thus numbers are very important to them. Here’s how to count to ten in Jawaese: 1 Po 2 Ko 3 Kyo 4 Yo 5 Dyo 6 Lyo 7 Does not exist in Jawa arithmetic 8 Ho 9 …
I came across this verse in Isaiah 55:12 and immediately thought of this video I shot last fall: You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. —Isaiah 55:12 Here’s a …
When the Chicago River freezes over, usually the police boat comes and breaks up the ice. I’m not sure if it’s for security reasons (people thinking they can walk on the ice?) or if it’s to help the embankments from cracking (ice expanding), or maybe the police just like to have fun and break ice. …
I have a new blog dedicated to exploring the intersection of being an artist and a Christian. I plan on making one blog post per week at ChristianNotebook.com. This week I explore that we are God’s artwork made to do good things. Read more at christiannotebook.com/content/we-are-god’s-artwork.
Time Out or some publication did coverage on which candidate supports the arts the most. (excuse me as I forget the link, if anyone has it, please leave it in the comments) They looked at if anyone in their family is in the arts. What memberships the candidate owns. They also asked each candidate what …
Which 2011 Chicago mayor candidate supports the arts the most? Read More »
