Year: 2024

How to use BlueSky to discover wacky artworks in a museum's collection

4/2/24 is the first palindrome day of 2024. It's also National Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Day. You can make a PBJ into a palindrome sandwich. It's all about the order of how you apply the peanut butter and jelly.

Ever find yourself hitting the brakes on your social media scroll the second you are tricked? You’re not alone. April Fools Day transforms my usual social media dive into a no-fly zone. It sets me on edge questioning the validity…

I can’t stop thinking about this image of a Black Hole. It very much looks like some sort of logo, but I can’t figure out which logo. Chat GPT tells me it looks like the Firefox logo. But no, it…

Ever wonder about the connection between creativity and chocolate? 🍫 My latest blog post dives into how a year without chocolate might have impacted my blogging and creativity.

Ending the car-free magic on Clark Street feels like a step back. When streets prioritize people over cars, everyone wins.

Imagine having a bullet list of your favorite artworks at the Art Institute, ready for your next visit. Plus, get alerts on display changes. I might actually be able to write a program that does this.

Lollapalooza just announced their 2024 lineup. What towns searched for Lollapalooza the most?

Why I'm putting a blogroll back on my homepage.

When I'm on hold with customer service chat, this is how I spend my time.

Observing the fluctuations in soil temperature can be intriguing, as the soil acts as a record keeper of recent climatic events. Which makes sense, the soil absorbs the rain. The soil absorbs the cold. It absorbs the heat.

Who knew the Eiffel Tower could wear so many different hats? Each day, a creative prompt reshapes its familiar lines into something new.

When working on a computer, and you are doing repetitive work like saving a bunch of files in a particular rhythm, do you sometimes feel like your keyboard is a sort of musical instrument?

How many of the shoppers at Dollar Tree have any stock, period?

Is there a tool that will compile a list of all the websites from the Twitter profiles of everyone I follow?

Why Chicago has the digits 3, 1, 2 in their area code

A poem I submitted for a zine about a beloved local grocery store.

Macon Mall, once the largest shopping mall in the Southeast, is now home to pickleball courts.

Amen. I'm all for making public art that does not damage the public property.

Penciling is a new category in my Now page

I gave Chat GPT my 125 most recent blog posts dating back three years. I asked it for overall trends from my blog posts.

Cicadas come out when the soil temperature is 65 degrees at 8 inches deep. A handful of tools will tell you the current soil temperature and forecast the upcoming soil temperature.

“The Symbols in the City” by Tiffany Owens Reed of Strong Towns Or, let’s take sidewalks. So many of ours here in Waco are extremely skinny, overgrown with grass, often existing only in disconnected segments or, in some parts of…

“Artists Mourn Death of Flaco, the Owl Who Inspired Millions” by ET Rodriguez of Hyperallergic. This article has some nice photos of items left behind, memorializing an owl who lived in NYC’s Central Park. I kinda wish someone would photograph…

Would there be an animal that has a nose hole, but not a nostril?

Can you think of any other companies with an unnecessary double-vowel?

Almost every day I load up around 100 tabs in my browser. One of the tabs is a search on Twitter for the phrase “Art Institute of Chicago“. Today this search showed this fun tweet of a couple sculptures with…

When you write a blog post, you can say as much or as little as you want. “Blogging is the medium of incomplete stories” by James G Indeed. I work for a company that syndicates columnists and newspaper articles. I…

If you paid for a subscription to Apple’s iCloud anytime in the past four years, you could be part of lawsuit against Apple regarding iCloud (and potentially get some money if the lawsuit prevails). Why? With your iPhone, you can…

Today I figured I'd start posting on tumblr again.

In the mid-80s, I unexpectedly enjoyed playing with Swine Sucker, a Madball. Despite its gross appearance, throwing it around became a surprisingly amusing pastime.