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  • Graphic designers’ keyboard is like a musical instrument March 16, 2024
    When working on a computer, and you are doing repetitive work like saving a bunch of files in a particular rhythm, do you sometimes feel like your keyboard is a sort of musical instrument?
  • Dollar Tree is on the stock market? March 15, 2024
    How many of the shoppers at Dollar Tree have any stock, period?
  • Collecting links in bios from Twitter March 14, 2024
    Is there a tool that will compile a list of all the websites from the Twitter profiles of everyone I follow?
  • Happy 312 day! — how Chicago got the 312 area code March 13, 2024
    Why Chicago has the digits 3, 1, 2 in their area code
  • Convert abandoned malls to pickleball courts March 12, 2024
    Macon Mall, once the largest shopping mall in the Southeast, is now home to pickleball courts.
  • I love it when websites write about street art that is not graffiti March 11, 2024
    Amen. I'm all for making public art that does not damage the public property.
  • Now page (for March 2024) March 10, 2024
    Penciling is a new category in my Now page
  • Overall themes of spudart.org March 9, 2024
    I gave Chat GPT my 125 most recent blog posts dating back three years. I asked it for overall trends from my blog posts.
  • Sidewalks communicate what type of town you have March 8, 2024
    “The Symbols in the City” by Tiffany Owens Reed of Strong Towns Or, let’s take sidewalks. So many of ours here in Waco are extremely skinny, overgrown with grass, often existing only in disconnected segments or, in some parts of…
  • Remembering an owl in New York City March 7, 2024
    “Artists Mourn Death of Flaco, the Owl Who Inspired Millions” by ET Rodriguez of Hyperallergic. This article has some nice photos of items left behind, memorializing an owl who lived in NYC’s Central Park. I kinda wish someone would photograph…
  • Is there a difference between nostrils and nose holes? March 6, 2024
    Would there be an animal that has a nose hole, but not a nostril?
  • Cool beards March 5, 2024
    Almost every day I load up around 100 tabs in my browser. One of the tabs is a search on Twitter for the phrase “Art Institute of Chicago“. Today this search showed this fun tweet of a couple sculptures with…
  • Write as much as you want in a blog post March 4, 2024
    When you write a blog post, you can say as much or as little as you want. “Blogging is the medium of incomplete stories” by James G Indeed. I work for a company that syndicates columnists and newspaper articles. I…
  • iCloud class-action lawsuit March 3, 2024
    If you paid for a subscription to Apple’s iCloud anytime in the past four years, you could be part of lawsuit against Apple regarding iCloud (and potentially get some money if the lawsuit prevails). Why? With your iPhone, you can…
  • Using tumblr again, yes in 2024 March 2, 2024
    Today I figured I'd start posting on tumblr again.
  • Swine Sucker Madball from 1980s March 1, 2024
    In the mid-80s, I unexpectedly enjoyed playing with Swine Sucker, a Madball. Despite its gross appearance, throwing it around became a surprisingly amusing pastime.
  • The giant yellow “petals” on a sunflower are actually giant yellow leaves March 1, 2024
    And the middle part of a sunflower is actually hundreds of tiny flowers
  • Falling falling falling February 29, 2024
    Kerry Skarbakka photographs himself falling from trees, jumping off bridges and in the midst of fires – all in the name of art. Inspired by the helplessness he felt after the 9/11 attacks, Kerry's work captures him frozen in a…
  • Flying the Estonian flag on Arvo Pärt’s birthday February 29, 2024
    To celebrate the greatest living contemporary composer, I'd like to fly an Estonian flag on his birthday. But it falls on a day when I should be flying an American flag instead.
  • Introducing the pizza sandwich February 27, 2024
    When making lunch, do you ever have a hard time deciding between leftover pizza or a sandwich? Why not combine them? Make a pizza sandwich.
  • Basketball cards from the 1970s February 25, 2024
    Did you know there were basketball cards from the 1970s—and they certainly look like hey are from the 70s
  • Best of Chicago 2023, available through Issuu February 24, 2024
    Searching a newspaper can be a lot easier through a PDF than their website.
  • Best exhibition pop-up in a thrift store February 23, 2024
    Camille Casemier curates weekly pop-up art exhibitions in the Mount Sinai Resale Shop's fitting rooms. It reminds me of when I had a gallery in the Tribune Tower.
  • Let’s color some Rothko paintings purple February 22, 2024
    Sir Elton John owns colorized Rothko prints that are all purple.
  • ASCII art mouse  ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ February 21, 2024
    It’s fascinating how different cultures can come together to form cute ASCII art.
  • LEGO blocks as budding flower February 20, 2024
    What a wonderful idea! The “growing” of the LEGO piece, but also the notion of having a Sunday Sketch series, looking at a familiar object and reinterpreting it.
  • Croquet posts on BlueSky February 19, 2024
    BlueSky is the new Twitter alternative social media platform. It currently has 4.9 million users. Tired of the algorithm on Twitter? Wish you can create your own feeds? One of the cool things about BlueSky is that lets users create…
  • Art schools that teach laser cutting, wood engraving, 3d printing, and plotter drawing February 18, 2024
    How many art schools teach things like laser cutting, wood engraving, 3d printing, and plotter drawing? Basically, any computer-driven printing/plotting/etching. If I were in art school again, I’d be all over this stuff. Right now, I haven’t been able to…
  • What is implied when you follow nobody on Instagram February 16, 2024
    Some people are on Instagram ONLY to post things. And that's ok.
  • Master calendar for fun holidays and trivia February 15, 2024
    I’d like to make a master calendar of all my goofy dates. I don’t want to clutter up my calendar. When there is a real event, like my daughter’s ice skating lesson, I don’t want 6 other random events blocking…
  • NBA court is a giant flat-screen TV February 14, 2024
    The NBA All-Star events this weekend are going to take place on a court that’s a giant flat-screen TV. Youtube preview. Whut. Wow. Mark this as a landmark moment. Years from now, we’ll look back at it like, “Yo, it…

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