On this day
March 19
15 items, across every year
2025 1 year ago
1 post
- Does the word ‘fascinating’ come from ‘facet’?
A diamond’s facets can be fascinating, but the words aren’t connected. Fascinate is about enchantment, facet is about surfaces.
2024 2 years ago
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- How do you spend your time waiting for Customer Service?
When I'm on hold with customer service chat, this is how I spend my time.
2021 5 years ago
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- Estonian 2 Kroon bills for fun
I paid $1.88 for a 2 Krooni from Estonia. The Kroon is—was—Estonian’s form of currency. The word “kroon” translates to “crown”. (Kroon is singular, Krooni is…
2020 6 years ago
1 post
- Making art on toilet paper from an art museum
What is the toilet paper like from various art museums? In 2018, I wrote a draft about making art with toilet paper. I never published it,…
2013 13 years ago
1 post
- Crazy artworks you’ve never seen by Wassily Kandinsky
We know Wassily Kandinsky for his fun shape and line paintings like this particular painting done in 1922. Wassily Kandinsky, “Ohne Titel” watercolour, pen and brush…
2012 14 years ago
1 post
- Crotch: the grossest word in the English language
What do you think is the grossest word in the English language? I’d say “crotch.” Just listen to that word. Crotch. Yuck. I’ll never forget when…
2010 16 years ago
1 post
- What not to tweet
It’s the Wednesday after St. Patricks day weekend, and I’m walking down Michigan Avenue to work and I see someone wearing green. I immediately thought, “wow,…
2009 17 years ago
1 post
- Nine fun books I found this week
I love the bookstore in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. They have such a great selection of books. I found nine books that I…
2008 18 years ago
1 post
- Facebook is not dumb
A columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Eric Zorn, doesn’t understand Facebook. People’s expectations are too high. They think it’s some sort of savior or fix-it-all website.…
2007 19 years ago
1 post
- 1550 chairs stacked between two city buildings, by Doris Salcedo
DesignSponge posted an interesting work of art by Doris Salcedo. The comments on this post are rather funny, because there are many people upset over this…
2006 20 years ago
1 post
- Wild Chicago Archives
WTTW Chicago has taken down the Wild Chicago Archives from their site. I have an archive of them, so I will post them here. —————————– ADVENTURES…
2005 21 years ago
1 post
- Chicago’s Walking Dude: Conversation Starters
One of my goals this summer is to talk to the infamous “Walking Dude” in Chicago. What would be some good opening lines? I’m sure others…
2004 22 years ago
1 post
- Talk like a trucker
Dropping truck driving terms in an office conversation is like an air-horn of fresh thinking. (From the April 2004 issue of Men’s Health) Bad Load: Cargo…
2002 24 years ago
2 posts
- Neat books at Harold Washington Library
Getting that neat book at the library gave me an idea to post a list of all the neat books that I find at the library.…
- Stormtroopers
Were the stormtroopers in Star Wars human or robots? I think they are humans.
