Tag: Life

Three years ago today I signed up for twitter. My first tweet was very grand: Signing up for twitter, duh. — 4:07 AM Apr 9th, 2007 Here’s my eight favorite tweets from the past month: Vending machines should have anti-gravity…

Online personals have some interesting questions, especially eHarmony. They have 13 questions, and I’ve been meaning to share some of my responses, cuz there are some thought-provoking questions. I’ve posted the question What are the THREE things for which you…

PaperGirl had a nice post about her twitter usage, so I’m making one too. I’ve been tweeting for almost two years now as @spudart. My tweets tend to be about fun ideas and interesting observations. My most-used word is Chicago.…

After making the last blog post, “A humidifier with water fills my heart with joy,” I was thinking that maybe it was too cheesey. But then the next day I across these verses in Psalms 65. It’s cool how even…

What did the doctor say to me on Monday regarding my potential H1N1 flu? Here’s how it went down. My normal doctor couldn’t see me for another couple days, and i wanted to know if I had H1N1 now. It’s…

eHarmony has 13 interesting questions for their online profiles. They are interesting not only for these profiles, but for conversation questions in general for everyone. I’m making these questions into a series of blog posts on spudart.org where I’ll share…

Here’s a funny story that happened to me yesterday. I live tweeted a cookie run to Walgreens. Making a cookie run to the walgreens. Chips Ahoy cookies are 4 boxes for $5. #walgreens #deal Okay, so I bought FOUR boxes…

Carlos Zambrano is sixth all time for are the leaders in a season for home runs without a double. In 2006 he had six homeruns with no doubles.Stat of the Day – Homering Without Doubling

A bucket list going around on facebook has a line item “Have you ever shot a gun?” My brother and I both checked “yes” to it. Which caused curiousity among our friends, “When did you shoot a gun?!” Matt: Erik and…

======================== February 14 a thankful homeless person It√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s gotta be really hard to be homeless and have to constantly ask for money or food all day long, only to have people reject you all the time. That√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s one of the…

Matt is wondering how the mysterious cut got on the top of his head. Brain growing too big? Aliens inserting special chip? That was a status update on my facebook profile last year. The responses were funny, so I saved…

OH HOW I LOVE WALKING IN THE SNOW! The cashier at Walgreens doesn’t think so, “All that cold makes me wanna die, y’know?” I encouraged her, “you need some good boots to go. They empower you to be oh so…

Print something mysterious on the printer at work. Let the printout sit there, so someone else discovers it. It’s fun to make aliens come out of the printer. Here’s what my alien said: GREETINGS EARTHLINGS. THE HP LASERJET 4200 IS…

Here’s a letter of praise I just wrote to Walgreens: Hi there, I am a HUGE fan of Walgreens. The rebates, the employees, and the general Walgreens love. My comments here touch on these points, and I even offer some…

A couple of days ago Vocalo.org asked, “If you invented an Olympic sport from one of your daily activities what would it be?” My response: CTA stair races. Both up and down the stairs. I will defeat ANYONE. BRING IT…

Please visit the new quotes page with more quotes. spudart.org/quotes Everyone should have their own collection of insightful quotes they have said. Thanks to the age of the internet, I’m able to go back to previous blog posts and comments…

Gamasutra Podcast on GDC Radio by Tom Pubcast from The Brit and Yankee by Phil Clark and Lingo “I’m USBrit, and my co-host Lingo, are producing a magazine-style pubcast, creating a ‘virtual’ pub called The Brit and Yankee. At present,…

Print out cute photos from the internet and include them with your mail. Paying your credit card? Stick a hedgehog in with it. Submitting your student load payment? Slide a squirrel in the envelope. Sending in a rebate? That certainly…

eBible.com lists the top five bookmarked Bible verses. Within the past year, there is a new verse to appear on the top five list with 21 notes. It’s Ephesians 2:8. The top five verses for 2007 are: 49 notes: John…

My snowball fort. Just try to break through it!

100 Things I√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve Learned About Photography 53. No image is better than a bad one 54. Everyone has to start little 55. Your opinion about photography is important! 56. Leave a funny but thoughtful comment 57. Speak about your experiences…

I am a twin. My name is Matt. My twin’s name is Erik. My parents are smart. They gave us names that sound different. It allows us to be individuals. Again, let me stress how smart my parents are. Then…

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7

Is there a book with a compilation of the Bazooka Joe comics? In high school I collected Bazooka Joe comics and covered my entire locker door with those comics! (see photo above). The only thing that comes close to a…

Goal: In the winter put snowballs in my freezer for the summer. Done! This is so much fun, everyone in Chicago should do this while we still have the last of our snow left. It’s really cool to be kneeling…

My twin brother, Erik, showed me his avatar on Yahoo Games. Boy howdy it is menacing–especially compared to mine!

At first I felt kinda bad for city trees when they would shovel snow off the sidewalks and up against the tree. “Oh no! The trees are being buried!” But actually this must help the trees. The water underneath would…

Walgreens no longer has a toy section in its downtown Chicago stores. With the redesign of Walgreens floor layout last summer, they completely eliminated their toy section. So now other than the Lego Store on Michigan Avenue, there is a…

Garrison Keillor wrote an interesting article entitled, “Newspapers give us style all our own.” It’s an excellent piece which I greatly enjoyed. Newspapers are classic. They do portray certain cool style when you are reading one in a cafe. Newspapers…

I couldn’t pick a favorite post from 2006, so here’s my top 25 with notes: Seeing earth for the first time An interesting view of earth we normally don’t see The difference between one million and one billion A baby…