Category: Notepad

Years ago, I loved Mike Caulfield’s explanation of how many internet platforms today are streams, not gardens. This concept re-emerged in this tweet today. This is inspiring me to make my own digital garden. As I said in my twitter…

What if we read lyrics before hearing the song? You have no idea what the music will sound like. Or even the genre. All you have are the lyrics in words. Some songs might sound more poetic than their audio/music…

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Arcade fun and simultaneous turn based strategy in the 2000s

Quidd’s new marketplace looks like it could be a place to make some money. So far what seems to really sell for high prices on Quidd are cards serialized as #1. Makes sense, the count #1 card is always the…

For about six months I actively collected digital cards on the Quidd iOS app. I spent a couple dollars inside the app. I eventually gave it up, because the app was getting more and more geared leveraged for people who…

Leave a browser window open with an entry from thesaurus.com. After about 30 seconds, this giant ad will automatically appear. I’m working on two monitors, so one of my monitors all of the sudden made me feel like I was…

We have a porch light that we used to keep on all the time. We would just forget to turn it off. Now that I have a smart bulb in there, it’s running a schedule (5pm to 5am), so I’m…

The problem of special characters appearing as horizontal lines or blank boxes Sometimes people will use cute unicode characters as their Twitter name or Linkedin name. But then the text appears as a bunch of horizontal lines. Here’s a Linkedin…

Under five minutes:• Biz in 60 seconds• WSJ minute briefing• LensWork• Little Happier• 60-second science• 2-minute jazz Conversational style:• The BeanCast (marketing)• Circulating Ideas (librarians)• Happier with Gretchen Rubin (life hacks)• MBMBaM (comedy)• ReCode Media (tech/business)• Something You Should Know• Hidden Brain• Hidden…

The “.acb” file is actually an xml file. If you open the .acb file inside a text editor, you’ll see something like this: You’ll see the color values are stored in RGB format. We want them in hex. Steps to…

A new section on Spudart.org for ideas I’m building a place on spudart.org for my quick thoughts and beginning ideas. This will be public place on the site for anyone to see. I have so many unpublished ideas that never…

Seekatesew made a fun map out of scrap fabrics. photo courtsey of seekatesew It would be fun to make a map from of postcards. Especially postcards mailed to you from people! Postcrossing would be perfect for this. Instead of doing…

Me to my brother @unlikelymoose, “You need to ride a bus. You don’t even have to drive the bus. You just get on and sit.” Spudart readers, when was the last time you were on a bus?

(if you cannot view the above video, you can view it on my flickr account, “Talking ferret scoozie stuffed animal plush.”) Sometime during the late 90s, I bought this plush ferret from a grocery store. He has a voice box…

After reading “Why Climb a Tree?,” I’m on a quest to find a tree to climb. A year ago I was walking around my neighborhood trying to find a tree to climb. I didn’t find any climbable trees in my…

It would be really cool to have a cake that has the map of the world on it. When you cut up the cake, it’s like you took over the world, and now you are dividing the spoils amoung everyone.…

It’s like Illinois is one big sponge. Illinois: the sponge state.

Here’s a map of America with JUST the capitals. No state lines. It would be fun to number these stars and make them into a connect-the-dots game.

(photo from Bright Star under creative commons license) Every year in October we carve pumpkins. There should be a summer ritual where everyone carves a watermelon! Check out the amazing watermelon carvings on flickr.

It costs about $98,157.89 to build/renovate one mile of bicycle path in Illinois. (There’s a total of 26.98 miles of trail to be built/renovated for a total cost of $2,648,300). Wow. $98,000 bucks per mile. Imagine lining up a row…

Every Friday at work we have New Toy Friday. Yesterday’s toy was the Animal Cracker (thanks to Lisa Radke). How many Animal Crackers can you eat in 60 seconds? I was able to down 10 Animal Crackers in 55 seconds.…

The most rad Xevox figure has to be: Xevoz Infil-Traitor – Biomecha. This IS the coolest Xevox toy. Check out the rest of the Xevoz figure and tell me if you think there is a cooler one.

Got some boring business cards? Here’s an idea to spice ’em up. Buy an animal hole punch at a hobby/art store. Punch the animal into your business card. Look up some trivia or jokes related to that animal for fun,…

This photo from wikipedia’s entry on sweet potatoes is really cute. It’s like a big potato party! All the attendees are like people, some skinny, some fat, some average.

On July 19, 1999, spudart.org was reserved. Although I used the name spudartearlier than that when I first came up with it for my hotmail address back when I was graduating college in 1997. For the meaning on spudart, go…

The 2004 most dangerous toys list is now released. It’s funny how the advertiser links on this “Top Ten Dangerous Toys” list has links to other toys not on the danger list. Having this little call out box makes it…

Here is a comic strip from 10/19/2004: Send your Candy Corn Flavored Pumpkins to: 2202 S. Figueroa St. Box #123 Los Angeles, CA 90007

New feature on spudart.org! On left hand side of the homepage at www.spudart.org is the growth progress of a sweet potato in my dining room. About every day or so I’ll take a photo of it and post it on…

Anyone know where I can buy some fake plastic cicadas?

From Cooking Master Tom How a chef thinks: Roses only last like a couple weeks, and that’s if you leave them in water. And they really only exist to be pretty, so that’s like saying, “My love for you is…