Tag: Life

At 3am I thought staying awake was sleeping. I stayed awake thinking I was actually sleeping. Then at 8am I thought sleeping was staying awake. I layed in bed thinking I was awake, but I was actually sleeping.

Some day I want to take a vacation at Messier 36 of the Perseus Arm. It contains no red Giants, but the luminosity of the brightest member is about 360 times that of the Sun.

If you are voting for president using the new touch-screen computers, give yourself some extra time. The computers use a six-step process that take about three times as long to vote. 1) Registration via pen and paper 2) Confirmation via…

Here I try to give a nice optimistic quote on quotesdaddy.com; and then in the related quotes, Albert Einstein butts in with his juvenile quote. My quote: “Don’t get jealous, instead get vicarious.” Einstein’s quote: “If one studies too zealously,…

Looking to write something unique in a wedding card? Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. You see it so often. But what does it really mean? At work a card was being passed around for a former coworker who is getting married. “Congratulations”…

Richard Branson, Chairman of Virgin Group, says in his article, “Richard Branson on Office Ties and the Company Dress Code,” “It used to be that the one male in the room with an open neck (which was usually me) would…

Where do you keep your blog drafts? I have a single Google doc for blog drafts. It has 41,558 words. It takes about 30 seconds to save. I’m gonna try Evernote again. I’m gonna take that huge blog drafts doc…

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…

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…

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…

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…

word: weekstart definition: The start of the work week. Typically Monday. People say “have a happy weekend” on Fridays. On Mondays people greet each other with a happy weekstart. example: It’s Monday, happy weekstart! tags: monday, time, day, week, weekend,…

What makes you joyful? Not just happiness. But joy. The comfort and pleasure of joy. We set out to answer that question a couple years ago in my bible study group. We were to write about what brings us joy.…

In 2011, spudart.org hit a milestone. There was over one million visitors to the site! 🙂 That’s not total since the spudart.org has been up, that’s just for the year 2011. Thanks to everyone who visited. Here’s the totals for…

Deodorant aisles like Tron? Individual candy bag dispensers? Alcohol prediction machines? Yes, you have just stepped into the flagship store of Walgreens in Chicago. The energy was palatable. You could feel the excitement with everyone in the store. And the…

Things to do in 2012: Visit more coffeeshops. Whenever I see a bench I haven’t sat in, to sit in it for at least one minute. Always sit on the Giddings Park for one minute when I walk to work.…

The Spudart blog is moving to another platform! For the past month I’ve been spending most of my time converting my blog from a very old platform, pmachine over to a more robust one, drupal. Excuse me while there is…

One mattress photo. Three different websites. The comments that resulted.

I had the honor of meeting Amit Gupta, founder of Photojojo the most fun photo website. He was very intrigued by the public artwork that I do. Only a couple weeks later, he found out that he has acute lukeumia…

Ten years ago I wrote the first spudart blog post on September 28, 2011. In those ten years, we’ve had 22,755 comments! Here are the top ten most commented blog posts. In honor of all the people who commented, I…

Spread some fun at work. Take your coworkers tape dispensers and write something fun on it. Give some smiley faces. Write a message. It’s only tape. You can even say that you are making their normal boring tape into super…

My friend Lisa (a citygirl) is inheriting a pickup truck. If you have a pickup truck, what would you do with it? If i had a pickup truck I would carry around bricks and then stop at random places and…

I so want to memorize this song and then sing it when I’m at Walgreens, in the candy aisle… or anytime I see Reese’s candy! You can have a skittle, a mento or a sweet tart. It ain’t no riddle,…

Go to www.walgreenslistens.com with your Walgreens receipt and fill out a survey to win $3,000 cash. Fill out the form and tell about your experiences from your recent Walgreens visit. Great Walgreens cashiers are the best. I have a favorite cashier at…

Someone on Yahoo answers asked, “Is working at an ice cream shop fun?” He also asks a bunch more questions in the details. I answer each one of them below: I worked at an ice cream shop in Chicago for…

Walgreens opened up a geo-thermal store in Oak Park. TribLocal reports: The technology functions because of four close-looped, liquid-filled boreholes that extend 650 feet into the ground. The liquid is heated using the Earth’s natural temperature, about 55 degrees. Heat…

I changed my work twitter account from @tribunematt to @mattmaldre this past month. The tribune name was too corporatey. All the Twitter users in the Chicago Tribune don’t use “Tribune” in their name, and I felt kinda funny using it…

Urbandictionary.com is the alternative dictionary for slang, subculture words, phrases, and phenomena not found in standard dictionaries. I love the site, because users submit totally crazy definitions for words–both existing words and totally new words. All my submissions for new…

For July’s top tweets, I picked the one tweet from each account that I use regularly in the past month. @DepressedDarth who needs chopsticks? me eat with paws. or just dunk my face into the plate. http://twitter.com/EwokLumat/status/19670390993 When you roll…

Get your cherry-flavored H1N1 shots! Would you like your H1N1 shot to be flavored as blue raspberry, Coke or wild cherry? Walgreens has a bright yellow sign posted on their ICEE machine stating that people can get their H1N1 shots…

Here’s my favorite 20 tweets from May 2010 tweeted from spudart, mattmaldre, and fourspudart. How I miss the AIMbot, SmarterChildThu May 27 21:17:09   Just learned toilet paper is called bathroom tissue (@ Family Dollar) http://4sq.com/ajCj3kMon May 31 23:09:21  …