Author: Matt Maldre

The Cubs are 5.5 games out of the wild card with 19 games left. The White Sox lost their 4th in a row leaving a 5.5 game lead ahead of the Indians. Wouldn’t it be funny if the Cubs made…

There is certainly a lot of them: OD hypothetical force of natural power OE Faroean wind OF coming from OH to exclaim “oh” OM mantra used in meditation ON side of wicket where cricket batsman stands OP style of abstract…

awesome is something great, but awful is something bad. Yet they both have “awe” root at the beginning. weird.

So many people in the United States are so against wearing sandals with socks. Well, I like to think that I wear socks, but then i wear sandals with it. Better explanation: * Sandals with socks: The decision is to…

The G.I.Joe cartoon series aired from 1985-1987, but what time period did it take place in? The present? The future? I had always pictured it taking place in present time, but someone told me that he thought it was in…

KRT Campus provides top-notch news, sports and entertainment content to college newspapers. When this project was first handed to us the copywriter, Maureen Quinlan, and I brainstormed different formats. Last year we did a traditional 3-fold brochure. We played around…

The 2005 Graphic Design USA annual has accepted two of my pieces for their 2005 American Graphic Design Awards! Here’s the two works: Brewster Rockit Sales Kit KRT Campus brochure/mailer Pretty good, considering these are the only two pieces that…

There’s this ultra cool LED watch at toykoflash.com called the B Version by Twelve 5-9. I’m trying to decide which color to get. Blue, Green, or Red? I want the funk!

There should be some utility that can look through all your bookmarks to see if any of those sites have a RSS feed. Or at the very least there should be some site where you can submit like 100 different…

I don’t get why they play loud music in bars. Um, hello. I’m there to talk with my friends. I don’t want your music so loud that I cannot hear my friends. Last night the music was at an acceptable…

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AOL Journals allows you to post to your blog via Instant Messenger. I’ve been playing around with it at: http://journals.aol.com/spudart/blog/. It’s one of those boring what I’m doing lately blogs. Nothing exciting about new interesting thoughts. The blog here on…

AAAAAAAA OOOOOO AAAAAAAAAA! Funny how we can call stuff “that’s so early 2000s” now. What else is from the era of the early 2000s?

Riding along in a car on a vacation sipping on an old soda that has been resting for a couple hours… that’s what drinking a warm soda reminds me of.

I like how threadless says your age in decimals: My threadless profile. It’s fascinating how that number changes every day. If someone asks me how old I am today, I can say 29.78.

This is a vegetable tray that Lisa and I made for a tiki party.

The weather forecast for the South Pole today is a high of 17°, but tomorrow’s high is -61°. That is a difference of 78 degrees!

Google has now released their own instant messaging service called Google Talk. It’s available for PC and Mac. There is a program for the PC users to download, while there is none for the Macintosh. However, Google Talk does work…

there should be an thesaurus that you can look up a word and it will give you ‚Ä¢ tv shows ‚Ä¢ movies ‚Ä¢ actors ‚Ä¢ fictional characters i.e. look up “architect” and it will give you every pop culture reference…

It would be fun to become an elevator cheerleader. While riding in the elevator with someone do loud obnoxious cheers for that person. “YOU CAN DO IT BOB! MAKE THAT SPREADSHEET! BOB-BEE! BOB-BEE!” And clap for that person as they…

Why do cashiers hand you the paper bills first and then try to precariously hand you the change on top of that? It makes no sense, because the coins end up sliding all over the place. PLEASE ALL CASHIERS OF…

At the end of 2003, Chicago lost all its toy stores downtown. Now there are no hardware stores downtown. I just found out that the Ace Hardware at 26 North Wabash is now a eye glass store. In 2000-2004 there…

Underscorebleach.net makes an interesting observation: Today is August 19, 2005, quite far into the 2005 MLB season. I think it’s rather remarkable that every single team in the National League East has a better record than every single team in…

Whenever I see someone buying hair products, I check out their hair. “oh they have beautiful hair, I’ll try their product.” or “oh boy, I’m sure not gonna buy what they are using if their hair looks like that.” But…

1) normal 2) lots of yawning, stretching. 3) inattentiveness 4) sloth. slow moving. 5) complete exhaustion. unfocused eyes. too tired to yawn. too tired to stretch.

It’s kinda funny how spiders like to sit right in the very middle of their web. It’s like taking a lawn chair and sitting right in the very middle of your backyard. I wonder if there is some sort of…

In America we drive on the right side of the road, and pedestrians tend to walk on the right side of the sidewalk. What about in other countries where they drive on the left side of the road. Do they…

From time to time we all tend to eat too fast. Ever finish a sandwich and wonder where it all went? What if you could order a sandwich that came cut up in individual bite-sized pieces? Much like how candy…

The phrase “how are you?” is said more as a greeting instead of an actual question. It always surprises me how many people ask a question and then just keep on walking and don’t even bother to hear your response.…

Does anyone out there use Macintosh’s iCal program? Or even one of the following ‚Ä¢ .ics format ‚Ä¢ Thunderbird ‚Ä¢ Firefox Calendar ‚Ä¢ Mozilla Calendar I’m thinking of publishing a bunch of calendars with the ics format, but wanted to…

To look like a efficient corporate worker while standing in the elevator, do not lean on the walls. Instead stand up straight. It’s so easy to lean on the walls in the elevator, I do it all the time. But…