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Fall colors in Chicago. I did video recording this morning, then my cousin's radio show just happened came on air and got captured in the video.

The art gallery I visit the most often is the cake section in my local grocery store (Jewel-Osco). I never miss their shows #GroceryStoreCakeGallery The current exhibit features a cake masterpiece inspired by Van Gogh or maybe Winslow Homer.

Lately I've been making art with aluminum foil, fallen leaves, fast-food bags, and worn-out baseball cards. Also: building a searchable archive of 25 years of writing, reviving a webcomic, and figuring out how to save snowballs for ten years.

My dream is shattered.

I went to McDonald’s for Monopoly. I ended up sitting outside, chair-dancing to INXS, folding a McDouble wrapper into an origami crane, watching the wind make the crane look alive, and biking home with a cup of hot tea in…

If you fold a baseball card into an origami crane, this is what it looks like. The origami is quite tiny. Using an X-Acto blade, I peeled a baseball card into two parts. I folded the front of the card…

Updated September 19, 2026, from Glen Ellyn, IL USA Website Here’s a screenshot of part of the gallery: Family Penciling Reading Baseball Online stuff Pondering Playing with ideas This now page gets updated monthly

The night I met Joseph Jachna, and the photo I didn't understand until this week.

Oh the days when I owned squirearchy.com. Now the domain is available for anyone.

I was searching my photos for: Mark Rothko. I was hoping to find that I photographed some close-up shots of his paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. But instead, Google Photos served me up a 2011 photo from my…

I am looking for a globe that spins exactly once every 23 hours and 56 minutes. I believe this is the only globe in the world that does this. And it's discontinued. #savetheearth

Commenting works again on spudart.org. Leave comments, lots of comments. I love comments.

Seven flags on my wish list: Macedonia, France, Chicago, Village of Glen Ellyn, Ireland, the EU, Finland. I own none of them. But I do own a printer.

For years I used Evernote to capture my ideas. But the cost got way too high $250/year! Wow. I moved all my Evernote notes to markdown format (a tutorial that I need to write). I keep control of my files,…

Last time, it was about my 2016 Cubs World Series scorecards on Uni-Watch. His post “The Art of Keeping Score — Literally” is on archive.org This time, it’s for my official coin used to settle family disputes. His post “Your…

I’ve been grabbing two random toys from the closet each morning to study their similarities. Dinobot Snarl and Fuecoco. Ancient armored robot vs. modern fire-type monster.

The Kodak Charmera keychain camera's real superpower isn't the retro look—it's shooting so low to the ground you get proper worm's-eye-view shots. Case in point: Destro, a hard drive, and a library short story as backdrop.

Instagram, the app that forced everyone vertical with Reels, Stories, and the grid, is now testing horizontal video. Here's hoping the horizontal movement wins.

Last year, Kodak released a tiny keychain camera that went viral. It sold for $30. People questioned if a toy camera is worth thirty dollars. Well, now people will have to question if a toy camera is worth $35. Kodak…

I could have 100 pennies, or I could have 64 paper circles. This sheet of metallic paper was $1. I managed to punch out 64 circles. Paper is expensive! I might as well use real pennies!

My goodness, that was a long title.

A limited-edition travel passport for Illinois to celebrate the 250th birthday of America.

It's never too late to dream about being an Olympian. If I was an Olympic athlete, I would roast marshmallows over the Olympic cauldron. Here's 15 more things I would do.

Loved it! Absolutely loved it! True to the original. Relevant to our times. Big score. I hope there's more.

Algorithm. No archive. Can’t search properly. No real links. Designed to keep people anxious.

My work laptop is 10+ years old. For the monitor cable to work, it has to be lifted up higher. Otherwise, the screen turns off.

I found another jazz album that fits into the 1% of just right: "Dial S for Sonny" 1957 by Sonny Clark

The sun is so amazing. It was -24° Real Feel outside, but our enclosed front porch was basically a solar oven. Also, I​  realized I can take a panoramic selfie. The panoramic selfie is not done in selfie mode. Rather, it’s…

Tried to leave a simple comment on an Instagram story today but got hit with a "Get the App" wall. It’s a classic move to prioritize data over user convenience. I’ll stick to my browser.

I bought a pair of Columbia Bugaboot III winter boots in March 2016. Eight winters later, after years of 2–5 miles of daily walking, they’re still going. Minor cracks only now. That’s real durability.