On this day
February 21
17 items, across every year
2025 1 year ago
1 post
- My mail carrier and the local bunny follow the same path
My mail carrier and the neighborhood bunny take the exact same path across our yard. Efficiency knows no species.
2024 2 years ago
2 posts
- ASCII art mouse ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ
It’s fascinating how different cultures can come together to form cute ASCII art.
- Keeping a physical notebook for gardening records
Do you keep a gardening notebook?
2021 5 years ago
1 post
- Estonian man makes an ice carousel
A man in Estonia spends hours cutting a circle in the bay ice, inserts a boat motor into a hole to make the circle spin.
2020 6 years ago
1 post
- Maximum size for emoji in Outlook email body
Just in case you were wondering, if you tried to make an emoji really big in Outlook, the maximum size is 466 point. If you set…
2019 7 years ago
1 post
- Sewing as Kintsugi
You know what I like to do when I’m on the Metra? I like to sew. I repair gloves. I’ve had these gloves since college, making…
2011 15 years ago
1 post
- How close are you to the Comcast monthly 250GB data limit?
Comcast limits your data usage to 250GB per month. Are you near your limit? You can find how much data you use at your Comcast High-Speed…
2008 18 years ago
1 post
- Monster Trucks at Soldier Field?
Monster trucks. They are great. Monster trucks in a small arena. Not so great. Currently the Monster Trucks come to the bandbox AllState Arena every year…
2007 19 years ago
1 post
- Traditions in your workspace
Tribune Media Services (my employer) occupies four floors in the Tribune Tower: 13, 14, 15, and 16. I work and spend 99.5% of my time on…
2006 20 years ago
2 posts
- Monkey Tea: Tea leaves picked by real monkeys!
These well cared for monkeys are famous in their native China and are specially trained by their owners to pick rare, wild tea plants in inaccessible…
- It’s 3:00am, let’s listen to 3am Eternal by KLF
It’s 3:00am right now and I just happen to be listening to “3 a.m. Eternal” by KLF.
2004 22 years ago
3 posts
- jumping off a bridge into ice
If one were to jump off a bridge (say 40 feet high) into a frozen body of water (say under 0.5 inch thick), when the ice…
- Potatoes are more romantic than roses
From Cooking Master Tom How a chef thinks: Roses only last like a couple weeks, and that’s if you leave them in water. And they really…
- Monkeys invades Tribune cubicle
It was the birthday of Dave Rothkopf, Tribune Media Services copywriter. We both have a love of monkey humor. So his desk got invaded with hundreds…
2003 23 years ago
1 post
- friday
After work, went home to pick up clothes and my powerbook for the weekend. Took the Metra train out to Lisa’s. The train ride was good,…
2002 24 years ago
2 posts
- more thoughts on inbetweenedness
i was just thinking more about that inbetweenedness stuff while i was playing around with a rubber band. It kinda relates to when you stretch a…
- inbetweenedness
you do anything crazy for 200220022002? y’know as much as i’m a fan of this unique number and appreciate it’s palendromic and balanced nature, I think…