On this day
November 3
15 items, across every year
2023 3 years ago
1 post
- 2023 November podcast episodes
Every day, I go through my 98 podcast subscriptions and hand-select episodes to listen to. You can see (and listen to) my daily playlist on Spotify.…
2021 5 years ago
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- Cat lovers will love the feline art from the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection
Searching for 'feline' instead of cat yields more ancient results.
2020 6 years ago
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- Marcus Aurelius on getting out of bed to create order in the world
The Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius writes on how to begin each day for optimal sanity and the key to living fully. Brainpickings.org hand-picked…
2015 11 years ago
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- New word: skelbow
It’s been a while since I’ve submitted a word definition to Urban Dictionary. I’m digging way back to a word I learned as a child, skelbow.…
2011 15 years ago
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- What should the puppy have in his circle?
Tell me what to put in the puppy’s circle, and I will draw it! Here’s what people have suggested to me so far: A bone (@personalgenius…
2010 16 years ago
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- Election results are like fantasy football
Watching the elections results come in on election night is like watching fantasy football about halfway through Sunday. During election night they say, “22102 of the…
2009 17 years ago
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- The spooky stolen bike mystery on Halloween in Chicago
The following is what I submitted for the “Incident Description” field on chicago.stolenbike.org. They ask, “Describe in your own words what you think happened to your…
2008 18 years ago
1 post
- The alphabetical destiny of stamps and stickers
Stamps. Stickers. It’s just meant to be that these two files sit next to each other alphabetically. Whenever I mail my bills, I pull out the…
2006 20 years ago
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- Ninjas! Train yourself on an interactive mat!
Every self-respecting ninja will find this challenge mat very challenging! Karate Chop Challenge The flashing karate mat (38″ x 31-1/2″) includes cool sound effects and a…
2004 22 years ago
3 posts
- Speed of the earth spinning?
There’re many things we don’t really know. It’s an illusion that we know anything at all. If a group of aliens were to stop me and…
- Which muppet is George W. Bush most like?
A lot of people voted for Bush, because they like who he is. Straightforward. But his administration runs the show. He just gets up there all…
- warm days in chicago
“a typical November hosts 5 days with highs at or above 60∆í” -Tom Skilling
2003 23 years ago
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- hard candy sucks
Who likes hard candy? It sucks. (a bit of a pun there, cuz you have to suck on hard candy to eat it)
2002 24 years ago
2 posts
- Over 1,000 letter endings and salutations
A compiled list of letter endings from over one thousand people.
- sky lines
Why do planes leave lines in the sky. Not “how?”, but “why?”.