Year: 2011

In case you’re wondering how much baseball cards cost nowadays. If you buy a box of packs, here’s how much they’ll cost: 2011 Topps Baseball Cards Series 1 Blaster Box 10 packs per box, 8 cards per pack 80 cards…

Is there a service where you can get alerts when a new comic book is out featuring your favorite characters? For instance, I’m a huge Transformers fan. There are many many different Transformers series. There are at least 76 different…

Flickr is a-jumpin with photos of people jumping over puddles. Here’s 56 leap-tastic photos of puddle leapers. In honor of April Showers month in 2010, I found images of puddle jumpers on flickr and hung them up in the 1400…

My most listened-to song for February 2011 is Girl Talk’s “Steady Shock.” Really, the top song should be the entire Girl Talk album. As the cityforward blog says, “more specifically its style of hyper-mashup: it‚Äôs not so much music, a…

There is a National Peanut Butter Lovers Day (March 1), but where’s the love for Jelly? Foodie expert Tom Saaristo pointed out to me via txt that there is no National Jelly Day. Let’s declare a National Jelly Lovers Day.…

Oh wow. I want to live in that bouncy ball land forever and ever! Say, I wonder how they released the balls. They just didn’t pour them out of a dump truck, because they would just roll down the street.…

Comcast limits your data usage to 250GB per month. Are you near your limit? You can find how much data you use at your Comcast High-Speed Internet Data Usage How much data have you used?

If I ever threw my office computer out the window, I would attach a parachute to it, so it wouldn’t get damaged. 11:53 AM Jan 25th tweeted by @mattmaldre (my twitter account for design, marketing, web and tech things) I…

(Photo courtesy lahp) What if garden hoses sprayed snow instead of water? During summertime, you can quickly cool off. But then the snow melts. The real value of the snowhose is during the winter. Missing the snow? Spray some on…

Maybe your car desire might reveal your inner desire. Alex Garcia writes: If I felt a deep need for sheer power, I’d be all over the bulky 4X4 trucks. A desire to be validated as a cool cat? Maybe a…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Seahorse week on my flickr account is now over! Come meet all 12 featured seahorses! George, John, Thomas, James, James, John Quincy, Andrew, Martin, John, James K, and Zachary. George the seahorseGeorge devotes much time to farming and other business…

How did the great Walter Payton run? I’m curious to see this great running back play in one full regular game. I was in 5th grade when the Bears won the Super Bowl in 1986, so I don’t really remember…

wird def: Weird and wild example: The bears play tonight? That’s wird.

Alex Garcia wrote a very thought-provoking blog post about the new forms of story telling on Youtube, “YouTube Doesn’t Care About Your Beginning, Middle, End.” He reveals the Youtube secrets to viral success. — It resembles a daily experience. In…

It’s seahorse week on flickr.com/spudart. Every day this week I’ll post a seahorse photo in the morning, and one in the evening. In total there will be 12 seahorses. Every seahorse has a name and a short biography. The first…

You have the chance to talk with an intergalactic space captain! Every day Brewster Rockit tweets hilarious stuff about his journeys and observations on life. One day he gave insight into how life is like a vending machine. Here’s a…

It always shocks me how many people have such a love affair with their cars in the city. The Chicago Tribune reported that my street Lawrence Avenue will have wider sidewalks and less lanes. Many people complained about the move.…

Do you know what would make for a great music-listening service? If they allowed you to embed playable clips on your own website. So if I blog about a song, people can play it right on my site. If someone…

A big thanks to all the people who commented and faved my photos on flickr in the past year. In 2010, I posted 373 photos to flickr. 154 people wrote 613 comments. 533 people made 1,706 faves. Here’s the top…

In 2010, I listened to 10,450 songs. Here’s a playlist with the top ten artists. I picked one song for each artist. You can click the widget, and it’ll play 30-second clips of all 10 songs. (Note, if you cannot…