On this day
July 17
18 items, across every year
2025 1 year ago
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- Digging on musician Cheap Cuts
Hidden gem alert. Just discovered Cheap Cuts on Spotify—only 4,512 monthly listeners but their genre-blending sound is incredible. Neo soul meets UK grime meets southern gothic?…
2024 2 years ago
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- The actual frog that Grogu ate sold for over $2,000
Detailed close-up shots of the frog Grogu ate in "The Mandalorian"
2020 6 years ago
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- Canadian Stamp News used one of my photos for an article about the Christmas Philatelic Club
Do you love stamps? And do you love Christmas? Then you might enjoy how the Canadian Stamp News nabbed one of my photos for an article…
2017 9 years ago
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- Where would you live on Planet Pluto?
The Pluto flyby is incredible! NEW! Enjoy this #Pluto flyby video, made with data from our historic #PlutoFlyby. pic.twitter.com/viHjvnfXw6 — NASA New Horizons (@NASANewHorizons) July 14,…
2014 12 years ago
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- Doorstop public art
Art museum bathrooms. Clean, sharply designed, austere. Much like the white walls of a museum, most bathrooms within art museums have a modern, contemporary yet neutral…
2013 13 years ago
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- Transformers 4 filming returning to Chicago
A movie-filming helicopter floated above my head while walking home tonight. Memories of Transformers filming in Chicago rushed through my head. Having downtown Chicago taken over…
2012 14 years ago
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- Top 11 podcast recommendations
Looking for interesting podcasts? My girlfriend was asking for podcast recommendations. Here’s my list of podcasts that I listen to regularly. They are sorted by which…
2011 15 years ago
2 posts
- Andre Dawson, National Gummi Worm Appreciation Day
Can you yell at a Hall of Famer from the upper deck and have him wave back at you? How much info can you fit onto…
- Why did Mat Kearney use a photo of me on his album?
Somehow I ended up on Mat Kearney’s single, “Hey Mama.” I had to dig this particular photo of me out of my MySpace profile, so I’m…
2009 17 years ago
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- NEW WORD: OTR
photo courtesy dancoulter via creative commons license I just submitted a new definition to urbandictionary.com for OTR: Over Thecounter Robot. When someone starts a chat with…
2008 18 years ago
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- Perfect Strangers Balki’s “Dance of Joy” lyrics
Next time something happens that makes you really happy, copy the "Dance of Joy" lyrics, and paste them into your message.
2007 19 years ago
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- A wallet full of only two-dollar bills
A wallet full of two-dollar bills is like carrying around a wallet of joy. People get excited with unexpected encounters of two-dollar bills, and for some…
- Hot Wheels are selling like hotcakes!
Gross sales in the last quarter: +20%: Hot Wheels (worldwide) +12%: Fisher-Price pre-school toys (worldwide) +6%: Barbie (worldwide) -1% Mattels girl division (worldwide) -5%: Barbie (in…
2006 20 years ago
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- Wet window drawings
The rain soaked windows of the “That’s Our Bag” store in downtown Chicago left a great opportunity waiting for someone to draw something on the windows.…
2005 21 years ago
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- Six steps on how to enjoy a McDonalds hamburger
Yesterday I explained why the simple standard 57-year-old classic is so delicious. Now here’s a tutorial on dine a hamburger from McDonalds: 1) Do not order…
2003 23 years ago
3 posts
- zap2it illustrations in chicago paper
Chicagoans, grab a Red Eye newspaper next week to see some Zap2it.com advertisements I designed and illustrated. They are full-page color ads with lots of purple.Here’s…
- 0:50, half on the hour
It’s 4:50am right now. Don’t you sometimes wish that when it’s :50 on the hour, that the hour is only half way over?
- Friends’ blogs
The friends’ blogs list on the right column has been updated. Here’s a little diddy about each. Serious Danger: Interesting, smart guy, Matthew Shultz. Had the…