Author: Matt Maldre

photo courtesy dancoulter via creative commons license I just submitted a new definition to urbandictionary.com for OTR: Over Thecounter Robot. When someone starts a chat with you and it says, “Encrypted OTR chat initiated.” It doesn’t really mean “off the…

A friend recently posted on her facebook status, “Goodnight moon… please children, scootch closer.” That’s really neat. I like thoughtful, short, simple poetic quotes. It would be cool if there was a twitter account that posted just one interesting poetic…

Need to spice up your question? Try using two question marks back-to-back. Papergirl covers the double question mark issue with her blog post “Questionable Punctuation.” She totally hits the nail on the head with the tone differences between using one…

I often wonder what I should have for lunch. Sometimes I ask people what they had and then I’ll have the same thing. There should be a website where you can look up what people are having for lunch today,…

If I was a celebrity and people asked for my autograph, I’d give it and always ask the person for their autograph too. Wouldn’t that be fun to make a collection of people’s autographs? I think so.

The first year card for a baseball player tends to be his most valuable. But you have barely any stats on that card. What’s the fun in that? Oh yay. One season of stats. That says barely anything. But the…

. I encourage everyone to write MLB.com customer service: There’s a graphic on the homepage of mlb.com for the All-Star Game Final Vote. It features buttons of 10 final players on the voting card. The graphics on these buttons are…

Happy 123456789 day! In honor of this great day, I tried to get a receipt with this historic timestamp. Here’s the adventure tweeted live at @spudart on twitter 10:17:58 07/08/09 I’m gonna buy a donut at Dunkin Donuts today and…

It’s interesting to hear some younger people complain about hearing so much about Michael Jackson the past few weeks. (to be fair, I also hear it from older people too, but bear with me for a second). I don’t mind…

Even as a big Cubs fan, I’m glad only one Cub made it to the All-Star team. I’d even be happy having no Cubs on the team this year. If your team sucks, you don’t deserve to have an All-Star.…

A few years ago I was walking up the sidewalk to my parents’ house, and there was one clover growing out of a sidewalk crack. That one clover just happened to be a four-leaf clover! Since then I always look…

Every time a new capacity hard drive comes out, the prices drop. In January 2008 a 1 TB drive was introduced, prices drop. In August 2008 1.5 TB drives came out, prices went down. When 2 TB drives got their…

Fuzzy Wuzzy, Outer Space, and Bittersweet are just a few of the standard Crayola crayon colors released over the years. These 133 names are considered to be a “core color” by Crayola. Hard to believe that Razzmatazz is considered a…

Here’s a funny story that happened to me yesterday. I live tweeted a cookie run to Walgreens. Making a cookie run to the walgreens. Chips Ahoy cookies are 4 boxes for $5. #walgreens #deal Okay, so I bought FOUR boxes…

Here’s a growing collection of the funniest Facebook status messages I have seen. Feel free to add to this list by leaving a comment with hilarious facebook status messages you have read. — Erik M. Transformers 2 comes out Wednesday.…

I copied 161gb of files from one external USB drive to another. The process took three hours. I figured that once it was done copying, my computer should behave normally, right? No. The computer actually went slower AFTER the copying…

I want to go around and shake people’s hand at work and say, “Congratulations, today is National Handshake Day.” Actually what would be more fun is to go around with a hand buzzer and do that. A selected sampling of…

What do the following 15 items have in common? * Eastern Tiger Salamander * Northern Cardinal * Monarch Butterfly * Square dance * Bluegill * Violet flower * Popcorn * Gold Rush Apple * Tully Monster * Big Bluestem *…

You just accidentally sent invites to EVERYONE in your address book to a book cataloging service. What do you do? 1) Laugh it off. “People get these every day.” 2) Freak out and immediately send an email to everyone in…

if you got a goodreads invite from me, you can ignore it. That was a total mistake on my part. I thought I was adding friends that were on goodreads already. I didn’t mean to send it out to my…

Take advantage of the day with the most sunlight, Summer Solstice on June 21. Some suggestions: Pull an all-nighter: I once did this when I locked myself out of my apartment on Summer Solstice a couple years ago. It was…

amehzing Definition: Combination of “meh” and “amazing.” The situation where one person finds something amazing and the other person finds it meh. In order to come to a conclusion about the situation, both parties can agree to call it amehzing.…

Let’s delete all the 50 states and use counties instead. We could have 3,033 states. Here’s what the map would look like. (take a look at the full hi-res version) There would be a problem that many of the states…

The U.S. Census Bureau offers free pdf map downloads. Fantastic! I downloaded the county map with the intention of making the county lines thicker than the state lines just to see what would happen if instead of states, we had…

We have two holes in the front of our head filled with goop. They are for seeing. These holes with goop are called eyes. We have two holes in the side of our head for hearing. They are called ears.…

Based in Chicago Half Letter Press publishes and distributes booklets about collaborative and experimental artwork. I recently discovered their shop at halfletterpress.com and ordered a bunch of books–for cheap! Here’s the message I wrote in part of my online order:…

Matt’s resume tip #34: Spice up the text version of your resume on Careerbuilder with some FIREWORKS: .·: * :·. Everyone loves fireworks. Tell me someone who does not like fireworks. Therefore, you should put fireworks into your text-version of…

I’d love to have a penny from every currency on planet Earth. I’d pay $10 for that. Someone should sell a collection that has every possible type of current penny. That would just be so cool. If someone sells the…

Last year I subscribed to all the U.S. presidential candidates to see what types of email I would get. Now I am unsubscribing. Here’s my message to Ron Paul. ========================== To: [email protected] Your unsubscribe link is broken. Please fix and…

Whenever I sign up to get something in the mail for free, I like make up a middle name that is related to the product. For instance, Oscar Meyer is giving away coupons for free hot dogs. I used the…

A selection of photos from various flickr groups on LEGO steampunk, tanks, and war. Some of these creations are just so COOOOOOOOL.