Author: Matt Maldre

The celebrated homerun As the previous post mentioned, the main point of baseball is one of avoidance. You hit the ball where it escapes your oppoents to you have enough time to run around in a circle. Whereas other sports…

Baseball is a game of avoidance The main idea behind baseball is that you hit the ball where the opponent isn’t, so you have time to run around in a large circle. All other sports have the goal to get…

Someone should steal the letter “m” from Myspace to name it Yspace, cuz y would anyone still use yspace?

I’ve been posting of all my comments on delicious since March 2009. Just today I hit my 1,000th comment. It was on vivagirlco’s photo, Rock Hard Gym. Here’s the top 15 places where I have left comments in the past…

Leave bouncy balls in public areas for people to have fun. Really push the message across by attaching a note. Here’s some ideas what the note could say: — Have some fun today — — Carry this ball around with…

The most popular letter for any transformer Autobot or Decepticon is one that starts with the letter S. You know you are an Autobot if your name starts with the letter — C — F — H — P You…

My number one most listened-to song in March 2010 was Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Fire.” As I tweeted last month: “Franz Joseph Haydn’s ‘Fire’ could easily be named “Jack it up.” Apparently, I liked the song enough that it was the…

Three years ago today I signed up for twitter. My first tweet was very grand: Signing up for twitter, duh. — 4:07 AM Apr 9th, 2007 Here’s my eight favorite tweets from the past month: Vending machines should have anti-gravity…

Since March 3, 2010 spudart.org was unreachable for people who use Comcast cable internet. The nice support people at the company that hosts spudart.org found that there was a loop in the DNS setup. Huh? Good news is that spudart.org…

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West Side Grounds where the Cubs last won the World Series in 1908 is still a park. Or at least on Google Maps it looks like a park. It’s only a couple blocks from the Polk stop on the CTA…

The same artist who did the Chicago Bean (Cloudgate) is designing this super huge sculpture for London and their Olympics in 2012. (via the Guardian) The structure will officially be called the ArcelorMittal Orbit, after steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, the…

Did the people on planet Mercury sent a rover to planet Venus yet? We know Venus has sent probes to Earth. We Earthlings sent rovers to Mars. You KNOW Jupiter sent a rover to Saturn. Just look at Jupiter. They…

I love how appshopper.com has a wish list feature. It makes me be more wise with my app purchashing decisions. Here’s what I have in my wish list now. What apps should I get? ToonPAINT $1.99: ToonPAINT allows you to…

Andre Dawson is promoting the World Fishing Network. Oh Andre. Andre. Andre. This perplexes me.

Your first name. It’s yours. But it also belongs to millions of other people. Who is the most famous person with your first name? Here’s how to find out. You could just google your name, but then you get a…

The first CD I ever owned is Bobby Brown’s “Don’t Be Cruel.” Classic. What’s your first CD you ever owned? Feel free to leave it in the comments below or tweet it with the hashtag #firstcd Here’s the first 14…

It’s the Wednesday after St. Patricks day weekend, and I’m walking down Michigan Avenue to work and I see someone wearing green. I immediately thought, “wow, that person has been wearing that shirt since Saturday!” So I tweeted about how…

“Finger tattoos” has been the my most viewed photo every day on flickr. But yesterday “Chicago’s Moving Bridges over the Chicago River” finally grabbed the top spot. Number of views on March 17, 2010: 73 Chicago’s Moving Bridges over the…

I was just wondering if monkeys drink water. I never saw a monkey drink water. Maybe monkeys don’t drink water. But then a friend happily shared this video with me, Youtube – Monkey Drinking and Playing with Water. I want…

2018 Winter Olympics bids were due yesterday. Only three cities put their hat into the ring: * Munich, Germany * PyeongChang, South Korea * Annecy, France How about Chicago, USA? Next to my apartment building is an empty lot. I…

It’s really cool how blueletterbible.org has audio pronunciations for Greek words. Give a listen to the Greek word anapauō (meaning rest). I wish when the guy read anapauō, that he would have said it in a more restful manner. Instead…

There is no song titled “Jackin it up” on iTunes or Amazon MP3. Quick! This song is just waiting to become a top 40 hit. The jackhammas are a-poundin’ I say The jackhammas are a-poundin’ outside the Tribune Towerin’ I’m…

alforque tweeted: WTF is Gen Z?! RT @ChicagoGirl1: There is a Generation Z now? When did this happen? http://bit.ly/ciOPp1 What would come after Generation Z? Is there a letter that comes after Z? In the Greek alphabet, the last letter…

A smoker walks in your direction on the sidewalk. You pass each other by and hold your breath, because of the stinky smoke. 15 feet after the smoker, you are able to breath again because the smoke has dissipated into…

Next time someone tells you, “I’m tootin like a ballotin,” you can respond with, “Yes, I appreciate your flatulence metaphorical reference to a deep decorative rectangular cardboard box with overhanging edges used for packaging chocolate candies.” “How about we get…

On the 14th floor of the Tribune Tower there is a gray garbage can in the kitchen area. We throw away so much stuff in the kitchen that can be recycled. To help solve this, a few weeks ago I…

A friend of mine is trying to exchange her broken hair dryer. Today she IM’ed me, “whoa, this hair dryer thing is becoming a pain in my arse!” To which I responded with the following hair dryer puns: — this…

My twin brother is going to start spelling the word “gray” as “grey.” I disagree. I’m just not a fan of the spelling of “grey.” Grey eliminates the simplicity of gray. Grey makes gray complicated and stuffy. Gray is simple.…

Quiet Metra train The platform is completely empty at the 103rd street Metra station at 10:17pm on a Tuesday night. As the train arrives, I’m the only one to board the only open car on the train. While looking for…

The following is a letter I sent to the Balance Bar Company: Greetings dear people of Balance, I am a fine consumer of your delightful Balance bar products. I enjoy having one before or after a workout. From time to…