In case you missed it, yesterday I posted about how other companies should have an experts bar. A few ideas come to mind: Disneyland and Wrigley Field. Read more about how this would play out at “Disney should have a…
The Museum of Contemporary Art’s twitter account pointed me in the direction of a “Time Out Chicago” article about their new identity, “We are here at the Museum of Contemporary Art.” The commenting is closed on the article, so I’m…
There needs to be an easier way of selling on etsy. Their posting form is way too long. There’s a total of 14 fields to fill out. — Who made it? — Categories — Photos — Item Title — Description…
Looking for a teapot in the Prairie School Style? Good luck. I was looking to buy my girlfriend a teapot for her birthday. She lives in Oak Park the Prairie School center, and she likes that style. I looked high…
We consume a lot. But what do we do with it? I explore these thoughts in a post, “3 keys to doing something with what we consume” on my blog about syndication.
Last week I met someone online that will be attending a conference with me on May 1 for Eloqua. We exchanged contact info via email, and it got me thinking about how when I meet him in person and I’ll…
Do you tell any online services where you are currently are? Foursquare, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook Places? What happens when a service aggregates all the locations of your friends into one service? Find out at “Where are your friends?” on…
The Art Institute of Chicago has this thing on their website where you can browse all their artwork. You can even make collections of their artworks to show to other people! (Read more about “My Collections”) Last week a chicago…
Did you know the great third baseman Luis Salazar of the 1989-1992 Chicago Cubs also played for the 1984 Padres? The despised 1984 Padres that beat the beloved Cubs in the 1984 playoffs. Luis Salazar even played three games in…
On the Grand Moff wookieepedia page, there is an ad for Huggies diapers. I love seeing Huggies diapers next to the Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin of the Death Star.
If you want to buy a bunch of baseball cards from one seller online, where do you go? Checkoutmycards.com has lots of great sellers of cards. But you probably don’t want to pay shipping from multiple sellers. You want one…
The clouds were moving very fast yesterday. I took eight shots–normal exposures, each about 30 seconds apart. Then I brought each photo into one photoshop file as a layer. Each layer got its own hue. And then each layer was…
Base stealers in baseball are the best. Sports highlights should show ballplayers stealing bases instead of hitting home runs. The greatest base-stealer of all time, Rickey Henderson has his own autobiography from 1993, “Off Base: Confessions of a Thief.” Given…
I’ve been thinking a lot about how much I consume and how much I actually produce. I think my consuming-to-creating ratio is leaning too much on the consuming side and not enough on the creating side. Over on my blog…
Walgreens writes some unrelevant posts on their wall. I am starting a project where I write silly responses on their wall. What sort of silly stuff am I writing? Find out on my Google Plus post, “Unrelevant Facebook posts?” (if…
Three dance critics got together to talk about “The art of the critic” at the Chicago Cultural Center. — Zachary Whittenburg, Time Out Chicago — Laura Molzhan, Chicago Reader — Sharon Hoyer, New City The three critics were all very…
Did you know your friends can pin stuff to your boards? Yeah! You can add contributors to specific boards on your pinterest. Ideas on how to use collaborative boards on pinterest: 1) Research at work Does your company want to…
I bought “Orange Happy Tree” from the artist Todd Webb. I really like Todd’s work, it’s very optimistic. Here’s my message to Todd when I bought “Orange Happy Tree” on etsy. Wooo! I saw your tweet about the goose, and…
Artsy.net has 15,000 works of art from over 3,000 artists represented by over 200 of the world’s most respected galleries and museums. (AUG 4, 2016 UPDATE: now 350,000 images by 50,000 artists). They describe their site: The people behind art.sy…
I like at-replying. You ever get someone completely unrelated following you on Twitter or Facebook? I’ll at-reply a ridiculous question to these people. Lately, a car dealership started following me on Twitter. Yes. A car dealership. Why a car dealer…
word: pinbombed definition: When someone pins many many pins of the same topic/theme to Pinterest, so it takes over the screen when someone looks through their feed. example: I just pinbombed 30 different photos of potatoes! All my followers will…
Marco posted a great article on his Google Plus, Why Don’t Young Americans Buy Cars? Great stats: It’s true. Our youth is seeing that we all don’t need to own cars. less than half of potential drivers age 19 or…
I should memorize my credit card number, but I’m afraid of doing so in case I get kidnapped and they try to torture the number out of me. I think about it almost every time I enter in my credit…
word: gomo definition: When you are too tired to say the full “good morning.” example: gomo. i need my coffee tags: good morning, greeting, morning, short, bonjour, buenos dias, good morrow, greetings
Birds have cars. Flying cars. They are invisible flying cars. We just can’t see their cars. but that’s how birds can fly. Yup. Birds leave their invisible cars parked around everywhere. They just hop into one and fly off. They…
On your next birthday, you should walk around your house/apartment/condo the number of years old you are. On my birthday I will walk around my apartment building 37 times. The gates will make it a little challenging, but that’s part…
Donuts? Bring them on. Hot dogs. More please. I just took my cholesterol test, so now I feel like I can cheat a little and have some bad cholesterol food. I’m in that magic moment where I took the test,…
Changing your book format preference from hardcover/paperback to Kindle Amazon wish lists are great. See something you like? Just add it to your wish list. It’s not only a handy list for yourself, but your friends and family will appreciate…
word: np definition: Short for “nip it in the bud” example: person 1: This is totally getting out of hand, I can’t stop eating bags and bags of chocolates. person 2: np tags: no problem, abbreviation, acronym, problem, help, control
What do you think is the grossest word in the English language? I’d say “crotch.” Just listen to that word. Crotch. Yuck. I’ll never forget when we were playing floor hockey in fifth grade, and someone whipped their stick up…
