Category: Notepad

Olympic Committee claims breaking isn't 'American enough' for LA 2028. Excuse me? It literally originated here! Time for the IOC to break out of their outdated mindset.

The WeatherBug radar map was a bit of a surprise to me. It has no state borders. No city markers. No roads or highways. Just land, rivers, and lakes. Thankfully, there is a very identifying feature to help me locate…

Tomorrow is the day Idaho became a US state. If I had an Idaho flag, I would fly it. Especially since it’s the land of potatoes. But it’s the day before July 4th, so I would have to take down…

I was only scrolling on my homepage of Facebook. Then I got a message saying: You’re Temporarily BlockedIt looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been temporarily blocked from using it. If you think this…

Did you hear how the Empire State Building’s Twitter (X) account is picking fights with the Chicago Bean? Someone tweeted about the Chicago Bean reopening. The Empire State Building tweeted with a video saying sarcastically, “Clap if you care” Here…

We almost have a Full Moon and the Summer Solstice on the same day! The tricky part of matching up a Summer Solstice and a Full Moon is that the Summer Solstice changes days every year. 6/20 or 6/21 or…

These two items appeared in my eBay “Keep shopping for” section. I did indeed look at both of these auctions previously. Cool how they visually look a bit similar.

Atlas Obscura has published a list of potato places to visit. 10 Places That Will Take You to Potato Paradise: take a global tuber tour. Place City Country Potato Shed Memorial Boston, Massachusetts USA Frietmuseum Bruges Belgium Big Idaho Potato…

I totally missed out on Yarn Bombing Day. It’s on June 5th. “Yarn Bombing Day: Adding Color and Joy to Public Spaces” by Dean LaBerge, Grizzly Gazette. I love how this small town in Canada is covering Yarn Bombing Day.…

Have you seen this tool where you can figure out the location of a photo based on the shadow? It’s amazing. (video explainer) Although for it to work, you also need to know the exact time the photo was taken.…

Maybe Jasper Johns’ crosshatch paintings from 1973-1983 were inspired by this photograph in a 1973 National Geographic. Read more about this research from greg.org.

Today via my blog, someone found out that their dad installed the giant broadcasting antennae on the Tribune Tower in the 1930s. My post about the Tribune Tower observation deck included those who inscribed their names on the wall below…

Instagram will use your art, because you use their app. It’s time to drop Instagram. Is Cara the solution? The artwork on there is really high-level. I signed up for Cara, but I don’t think I’ll really be using it.…

This is a pretty funny action figure of Anakin Skywalker. It would be frightening to pair that up with a Darth Vader figure.

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I bought a year’s subscription to Peacock just so I could watch the Olympics. I watched the first three minutes of ping-pong qualifications. It’s pretty cool how they check the height of the table…

Today I bought a one-year subscription to Peacock for $20. 100% of the reason is for the upcoming Summer Olympics. One of the tech blogs I follow mentioned this discount, and the price will soon go up.  I figure I’d…

The loud sound from cicadas comes from their body part call the tymbal. No wonder cicadas can make all that sound, it looks like some sort of speaker!

Updated April 30, 2024, from Glen Ellyn, IL USA Family Make annual family photo albumsPrint photo albums are so great, but they also take so much time selecting the images and laying them out. I would still like to work…

Via marca However, he does argue that in the near future there will only be three jobs that will be “immune” to AI, stating that the only ones that will ‘resist’ this new wave of technology will be energy-related jobs,…

I love my sparkle tape. It adds extra pizzazz to wrapping presents. It also looks really nice sitting on my tape reel in the basement.

It’s already a bit obvious that the character in the background of this painting is painted by someone else. But now AI has confirmed it by analyzing the microscopic patterns of the brushstrokes, along with the color palette and shading.…

This scrap of writing/drawing by Michelangelo was expected to sell for between $6,000 and $8,000. It sold for $201,600. The small work depicts a block of marble, with the word “simile,” or “similar” in English. It is believed to have…

Wow. That’s a price hike. My Evernote subscription jumped from $63.99/year to $113.99/year. Last year people have been complaining about the price hike, I was getting prepared to leave Evernote, but then I checked my subscription price, and saw it…

If you keep your gmail filters under 1,469 characters, you'll be ok.

When chocolate Easter bunnies are on 80% discount.

In the year 2000, I bought a homemade Cabbage Patch Mr. T doll from a new-ish site called eBay. Now, he sits as the bodyguard to the bedroom of my 4-year-old and 7-year-old daughters.

4/2/24 is the first palindrome day of 2024. It's also National Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Day. You can make a PBJ into a palindrome sandwich. It's all about the order of how you apply the peanut butter and jelly.

Ever find yourself hitting the brakes on your social media scroll the second you are tricked? You’re not alone. April Fools Day transforms my usual social media dive into a no-fly zone. It sets me on edge questioning the validity…

I can’t stop thinking about this image of a Black Hole. It very much looks like some sort of logo, but I can’t figure out which logo. Chat GPT tells me it looks like the Firefox logo. But no, it…

Ever wonder about the connection between creativity and chocolate? 🍫 My latest blog post dives into how a year without chocolate might have impacted my blogging and creativity.

Ending the car-free magic on Clark Street feels like a step back. When streets prioritize people over cars, everyone wins.