Author: Matt Maldre

Here I try to give a nice optimistic quote on quotesdaddy.com; and then in the related quotes, Albert Einstein butts in with his juvenile quote. My quote: “Don’t get jealous, instead get vicarious.” Einstein’s quote: “If one studies too zealously,…

Social Media Week is in Chicago (and 13 other cities worldwide) on September 24-28, 2012. It’s full of great talks. Here’s the ones I’m signed up for: Tue, Sep 25 8am-10am

Mars Pathfinder has a $3 stamp. How cool would that be to peel that rover off Mars and then mail it to someone? It would be like you are controlling the destination of the Mars rover.

I’d like there to be a website that collects images of all the artwork being shown in Chicago art museums and galleries. Here’s the next best thing. A google image search for each of the gallery districts in Chicago. I…

If you could add one letter to the end of your last name, what would it be? Here’s how my last name would look: Maldrea: Sounds like a continent! Maldreb: An ameboa? Maldrec: The rec center! Maldred: Painting the town…

That one panel where calvin throws the water balloon is brilliant. All the action summed up in one panel. Other comic strip artists would have put the “HEY SUSIE!!” in another panel. But here Watterson takes both actions–the before and…

Have you needed to use duct tape, but there’s none on hand? Yeah. Local libraries should provide duct tape for people to use. Libraries are resourceful places with such great things. It only makes sense that libraries should have duct…

I want to make a baseball card collection of every season’s Least Valuable Player. This list comes from High Heat Stats Lowest Non-Pitcher WAR (Baseball-Reference Version) By Season: 2011 Adam Dunn -3.0 2010 Nate McLouth -2.8 2009 Yuniesky Betancourt -2.4…

Take a look at this contact form by chocolate maker Askinosie. It’s so cool. And when you submit your letter, it stamps “DELIVERED” on it.

Imagine your country celebrating their Independence day while the Olympics are happening. And then what if a country won a gold medal on their Independence day and had their flag raised with their national anthem playing? Here’s how the countries…

How do should “parathases” be corrected? Chrome’s spellcheck gave one suggestion: protheses. That is not the correct spelling. Google.com correctly suggested: parentheses. Chrome is is made by Google. Shouldn’t Chrome and google.com have the same spellcheck?

Columnist Kristyn Schiavone has a fun article about grown-up school bags. You should give it a read. She touches on some good issues: — Admitting when you overstuff your bag with too many things — If you buy a backpack…

I’d like to see a blog where every post features the ten best baseball cards of a single player. Or maybe nine, so the blog can show them as a grid of 3×3. Baseball card pages also show nine cards…

Last week I made a tweet that started with “dear spellcheck.” Dear spellcheck, can we just make up our minds if it’s cancelled or canceled? — Matt Maldre (@mattmaldre) August 1, 2012 This made me wonder how many tweets started…

It would be really cool to name every single Pantone color. All 1,677 of them. Better yet, why not have a website where people can submit their own names? Colorhexa has 746 color names. Colourlovers.com blows them out of the…

Earlier in the day I tweeted about thinking of trying to get a receipt with 8/10/12 14:16. But who has receipts with 24-hour time? I should try to get a receipt timestamped 8/10/12 14:16 — Matt Maldre (@spudart) August 10,…

(photo from bikesoup) Let’s say a country had a tradition during the Olympics where all their citizens wore gold medals to support their Olympic athletes. People wear baseball caps and tshirts of their favorite teams. Everyone should wear a gold…

Artontrack and Sandy Caribou blogged about this hilarious letter mailed to the Art Institute of Chicago. Arthur needs to check out my Art Institute Collection, “Stolen Artworks“

Make your own Lichtenstein using the DotBot generator at roy.artic.edu. If you post your photo on the Art Institute of Chicago’s Facebook timeline, they will put your photo into their DotBot Self-Portraits album. Most people just shoot themselves making a…

Playskool Mr. Potato Head Spudbob Squarepants. The name is clever. Spudbob. But who in the world designed this mashup? They should have just simply kept the same Mr. Potato Head mold and just painted it yellow with some dots. The…

I’m going to miss the Olympics when they are over. There should be a two-week competition in something happening all the time. And there should be a channel dedicated to it all the time. Ideas: Two weeks of art competition Two…

Imagine displaying your entire physical baseball card collection online. But how? Manually searching and typing each baseball card? Too much work. Scanning in each baseball card? That’s even more work! Googling each card to find an image? There needs to…

An accidental release of alien characters in a captcha field show that aliens have already invaded our planet. They are among us and are getting ready to make themselves known and force their alien language upon us. This captcha form…

1,637 players have appeared in the MLB All-Star Game. 680 players were picked for just one game. Here’s some highlights: Kiki Cuyler: 1934 Randy Hundley: 1969 Lou Piniella: 1972 Manny Mota: 1973 Gary Matthews: 1979 Don Baylor: 1979 Steve Stone:…

Cherry Blossoms, choreographs, and bicycling joins the great selection of stamps that the Maldre post office offers. Need a unique stamp for a unique situation? I have over 30 different stamps at my desk.

A vegetarian unknowingly eats an Angus burger because an order gets flipped at the table. Read Leigh Hanlon tell his humorous story, Amtrak made me love veggie burgers or you can even listen to him tell the story. It’s under…

Twitter is currently down. Here’s what is on their homepage: Twitter is currently down for . We expect to be back in . I want to write my work emails like that. I plan to have this report done by…

For a few months i’ve had an RSS feed for ebay auctions of rifleman autograph and rifleman signature, and i’ve had no results come from it. (the 1990 score rifleman cards)

It’s amazing to me how people think graphic design is done with just one layout, and it’s done. That’s not true. Good graphic design will try different options. Graphic designers will always try different options to come to the best…

I love the Goodreader app. I use it read PDFs and to take notes on PDFs. I’ve tried other PDF reader apps, and this is by far the best one. You can hand-write notes directly onto the PDF. You can…

Caitlin of wanderlustings.com posted a wonderful list of creative stimulation exercises. One of the things i find that helps me is to simply create. I spend so much time consuming, not enough time creating. I often make excuses for my…