Author: Matt Maldre

The Summer Olympics come every four years. The cicadas come every 17 years. That makes them the Olympics TO THE EXTREME. Here are some cicada postcards for you to collect: The cicada high jump The cicada 100 meter sprint The…

Here’s the photo I submitted to “24 Hours of Flickr.” Please view the image on flickr and add it to your favs. I would like to get a high interestingness ranking, so you clicks and favs will help! Thank you!

I nearly got ran over by a Doritos truck this morning while walking to work (well, kinda nearly). And it got me to thinking, whatever happened to Doritos? I remember them 15 years ago being much cooler. Is this just…

Outside every subway and L station should be some sort of compass/directional device that points out which way is north. So often people come out of train stations all confused about directions. A simple item embedded in the sidewalk would…

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Flickr.com wants you to chronicle your day on 05/05/2007, and then you can submit one photo to: http://www.flickr.com/groups/24flickr. And you might just get published in the book! Oh yeah! From the 24 hour flickr page: The event will be commemorated…

(image under creative commons usage from Laineys Repertoire) Here’s a few observations about the word “copywriter.” 1) Copywriter is a weird word. Actually, it’s the “copy” part that is weird. In the marketing/advertising biz, the text is called “copy.” But…

Thanks to Gapersblock.com for featuring this photo in the April 27, 2007 Rearview! More details about this photo available on its flickr page. And a high-resolution prints are available at: www.deviantart.com/print/923690/

It’s really cool how a soaking wet umbrella will get dry in like, an hour. What did they use 100 years ago for umbrellas? Cloth? Man, that would su-uck.

If you carry more than five bucks in coins out of the country, you could get fined $10,000 per incident. The U.S. government doesn’t want people melting pennies and nickels into raw material. (source: coins blog.) What about when people…

In Superman, Kryptonite is called sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. And that’s what was found in this Serbian mine. From the BBC: The mineral cannot be called kryptonite under international nomenclature rules because it has nothing to do with krypton…

You’ve heard of website addresses with “.com”, “.org”, “.edu”, “.net”. But now get ready for “.snap” I can’t wait to say, “Hey check out my website at spudart dot SNAP” Of course, this is not real. When visitors to my…

Chicago Outdoor Film Festival-Grant Park Butler Field, Grant Park 100 S. Lake Shore Drive July 17, 2007, 8:56pm, Young Frankenstein July 24, 2007, 8:50pm, Double Indemnity July 31, 2007, 8:42pm, Written on the Wind Aug. 8, 2007, 8:34pm, The Awful…

I have never been stuck in an elevator. I like elevators. I want to experience this. Please share your elevator stuckedness stories in the comments. A search on flickr for elevator stuck results in some interesting photos, such as the…

Trader Joes Coloring Contest! Color the Chicago bean and get your drawing on display in the downtown Chicago’s Trader Joes grocery store. At the front door of the store they have sheets of paper with an illustration of the Chicago…

I like to keep very detailed scorecards. I’ll jot down lots of extra information. View the series in high-res in my flickr “Baseball Scorecard” set (or just click each image below to see the hi-res version). You can also hear…

How you answer this question is the real reason for this question.

One of my coworkers got me some vintage puffy stickers of Mr. T. They are so classic. Thank you kristi! Here’s one of my favorites:

I want to do video tape a series called “Feats of Amazement in Chicago.” Somersault the length of Tribune Tower If I had me a video camera, I would have someone tape me doing somersaults across the entire length of…

Everyone seems to be buying in Chicago. It’s THE thing to do. The New York Times released one of the coolest web apps ever called “Is It Better to Rent or Buy?” Just plug in your numbers and POW, it…

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7

Ironic sans had a funny post that if he were the leader of a foreign nation, he would develop a bomb and call it the f-bomb. Then, “Then I‚Äôd get a little giggle every time it was reported in the…

“Muhahahahaha!” Typically only villians would laugh like that. Are there any superheros that have a maniacal crazy streak? The Mask was really crazy, yet a good guy. Sabretooth and Batman are kinda crazy, but not quite maniacal. They are just…

When: Weekend of April 27-29, 2007 Where: Chicago, USA (see Itinerary) Cost: Free! Why: Because it’s fun to get together. Let’s go! I’m signed up. All you have to do is enter your name at: http://northamerica.photobloggers.org/ And you can get…

(view the entire gallery of 8 photos) A week after ArchitectureChicago Plus posted about the ducks returning to the fountain at the AMA building in Chicago, I run across these same ducks. Celebrity ducks! I felt like the paparazzi shooting…

The idea of living in a micro compact home sounds appealing. Extreme efficiency. Just what you need. People laugh when I say this, because they think I could never do this with all the stuff I have. But in eighth…

While at work on the 14th floor of the Tribune Tower our copywriter spotted a woodpecker outside our windows! The little birdie was just hanging onto the outside of the wall. So I carefully walked over and snapped some photos.…

Here’s some ideas of projects I’d like to take in my next ceramics class: 1) Funny trophies There are absolutely no trophies in the world with a statue of a croquet player. That must be fixed. 2) Chicago molds It…

If Chicago gets the 2016 Olympics, it would be very interesting to see the olympics in another city first. That way you know what to expect when the games come to Chicago. Plus then we could meet that weird block-shaped…

Dove very much needs to offer some sort of rewards points program. Please email Dove¬Æ and tell them to offer one. Here’s what I wrote. Feel free to copy or modify to your pleasure: =========== My dearest Dove, Your dark…

–none = n + one –one = one – n –subtract N from none and you actually get something –one is kinda like none, without the N –add “n” onto “one” and you get none –one is nothing with n…