Year: 2024

This year’s Christmas tradition: a 10-hour playlist with 158 versions of Last Christmas! Next year? Maybe Marshmallow World. What’s your holiday anthem?

Our Art Institute of Chicago lion is out and ready to guard the holidays on our porch! Feels like we’re living in an art museum.

Is that candy corn video REALLY hiding a secret? Sparklines (aka engagement graphs) on YouTube can be quirky. Dive into the psychology behind them.

Stacking 245 pennies is efficient…right? Found this blast from 2004 in my Google Photos. What comes up when YOU search “efficient”? Post with #WordoftheDayEfficient!

A ceramic hippo looking despondent. A tiny figure side-eyeing centuries of art. These are the museum treasures we need to see. Little Guys Tour: coming soon to an exhibit near you.

EGO snowblower guide: plastic vs steel auger

Is Santa and Spotify in cahoots together to hide the Christmas metadata?

Does sublimate happen in your photos? It does in mine.

I was stumped by this sculpture until AI shed light on its symbolism. Learn how AI can enhance your art appreciation.

Do you have an artificial Christmas tree? If you do, you might have done some comparison shopping before purchasing your tree. This is our first time buying a fake Christmas tree, so we are new to the variety of fake…

12/3/45 will occur on this day in 21 years. I put it on my Google Calendar, do you want it on yours? I'll send you an invite.

A timeless desk perfect for modern tech

First to one million on each network —Twitter: Ashton Kutcher, YouTube: Lucas Cruikshank, Instagram: Justin Bieber, Threads: MrBeast, Bluesky: Alexandria Osasio-Cortez

There’s a slight change to the format of my monthly newsletter. Starting now, the emails will also include my notepad posts from spudart.org. What are notepad posts?Notepad posts are quick ideas or observations that I share. They’re not as fully…

Frost grows in cold, cacti thrive in heat—but both share a stunning fractal symmetry.

I'm focusing on my blog, Bluesky, and Facebook.

The literal translation for 'Happy Birthday' in 80 languages. For instance, Indonesian 'Congratulations on your year repetition!'

Tired of going back to your inbox after every time you delete an email in Gmail? Try turning on “Auto-advance” to skip straight to the next email instead. Game-changer!

Neighborhood site Patch is asking readers to answer the question, “What are you thankful for?“ Here’s my response: I’m thankful for the small, unexpected moments that make life fascinating—the giant Illinois pumpkin grown in the town next to me, or…

People are deleting Twitter from their phones and moving to the upstart social network Bluesky. Here's why.

Welcome to Nevermber: where Black Friday sales, pumpkin spice, and endless gratitude make for the coziest kind of procrastination

“Limpid” is today’s Vocabulary.com Word of the Day.The adjective limpid describes something (often liquid) that is clear, serene and bright. Do a search in your Google Photos for “limpid”.Mine captured an interesting range of images (View Google Photos limpid album).…

Want to download ALL your ChatGPT chats? It's easier than you think! I walk you through the steps to get your entire ChatGPT history in one place—HTML & JSON formats included. Handy for searching, saving, or data fun!

When Hot Wheels makes a tank, you know I’m testing it with a LEGO minifig! Enter Janice, the Muppet guitarist, and Kaya, the Hot Dog Stand Girl!

“Encumbered” is today’s Word of the Day from The New York Times.I searched my Google Photos for “encumbered”. The results are interesting. Art project: “Parking meter talk” — 2008I placed word bubbles on parking meters that say, “Your time here…

Bought a Hot Wheels Sandcrawler and a family-size bag of M&M’s. Turns out, they’ve got more in common than I thought! Both carry cargo… just one holds candy, and the other? Trash.

This giant pumpkin in Wheaton, IL is almost as tall as me. Grown in a regular backyard, not a farm.

Oh wow. I haven’t heard this song since college. “Who Dat Up Dere?” by Woody Herman. My Spotify DJ played this song for me today. If you pay for Spotify, you get a DJ that plays you songs. Sometimes when…

Tried improving my backyard croquet game by mowing a shorter 'pro strip.' Ended up with a yellow runway that screams 'amateur landscaper lives here.'

Clicking an “X” to close a window? That’s no regular X—it’s a multiplication symbol! A strange but stylish choice for ending something, or maybe multiplying your digital productivity?

Did you know you could search Wikipedia for symbols? What is the actual name of the ÷ symbol? Wikipedia tells us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/÷ The name for the division symbol is obelus. Wikipedia says about obelus: The word “obelus” comes from ὀβελός,…