On this day
February 7
13 items, across every year
2025 1 year ago
1 post
- Public art board on Pinterest
Reviving my interest in public spaces art (street art / guerilla art). I’ve been posting some ideas to a Pinterest board, Public Art Ideas. On the…
2024 2 years ago
1 post
- Transforming my computer monitor into a LEGO monitor
20 years ago I made a LEGO frame for my computer monitor. Should I do that again?
2020 6 years ago
1 post
- My first sketch at an art museum
Sketching artwork in person at a museum is more of an experience than I imagined it to be. The enhanced observation, the nervousness. What to sketch?…
2013 13 years ago
1 post
- Everyblock shut down because it doesn’t fit in the NBC portfolio
The wonderful community news website, Everyblock was shut down by NBC News today. Everyblock was the epitome of community reporting and discussion. You want to talk about…
2011 15 years ago
1 post
- I tend to avoid Microsoft Word
(image from pcadvisor.co.uk) I like plain text editors. TextWrangler is my favorite. Big bloated text editors like Microsoft Word, I try to avoid using. But my…
2008 18 years ago
1 post
- The first haiku I wrote in my entire life
The Chicago Tribune published an article about the public art haikus appearing in CTA train stations. I was pleased that people’s comments for this online article…
2007 19 years ago
1 post
- Curating color coordinated collections
It would be really cool if museums would organize their permanent collections by color. Right now all art museums organize their permanent collection by style which…
2006 20 years ago
1 post
- The difference between one million and one billion
When a baby turns 11 days old, it will be ONE MILLION seconds old. 1,000,000 seconds sounds like a lot for a newborn. But you turn…
2005 21 years ago
2 posts
- Ranking animal strength and other abilities
Is there a website that ranks all the animals in certain areas of ability? i.e.: √Ø Strength √Ø Intelligence √Ø Speed Of course, animals are different…
- Find your obscure interests in your area on craigslist
Craigslist has been around for quite awhile, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized its power as a online classifieds bulletin board. I’m a member…
2004 22 years ago
1 post
- eating popcorn with a fork
Spearing popcorn with a fork is rather difficult. After getting the first kernel on the fork, the rest just don’t go on leaving you with a…
2002 24 years ago
2 posts
- Solar flares are attacking my computer
Okay, now this is really creepy. Today I had this sequence of events. 7:57am A warning was given to the world by my blog post, Expect…
- Expect computer problems today, because of solar flares
We are under a current solar flare attack from our sun. A rather large coronal hole on the sun is shooting magnetic rays towards the earth…