On this day
November 6
13 items, across every year
2024 2 years ago
1 post
- M&M’s family size bag looks like Jawa Sandcrawler
Bought a Hot Wheels Sandcrawler and a family-size bag of M&M’s. Turns out, they’ve got more in common than I thought! Both carry cargo… just one…
2023 3 years ago
1 post
- YouTube’s experimental ‘play something’ button
The Verge reports YouTube tests a ‘play something’ button for when you don’t know what to watch I can’t tell if I love or hate this…
2018 8 years ago
1 post
- Gingerbread Men Peeps: both cute and unappetizing
Is it possible to be both cute AND unappetizing? Peeps accomplished that with their Gingerbread Men Peeps. They are quite possibly the most dramatic possible combination…
2010 16 years ago
1 post
- Chicago Comic Shop Crawl
I love this idea! Two of these shops have been on my “to visit” for way too long, and now this is just the incentive to…
2008 18 years ago
1 post
- Forget gold, invest in pennies
Image courtesy hto2008 via creative commons license Can you believe a 32-ounce gold bar costs about $24,000?! I’m gonna put my money into the cubic foot…
2007 19 years ago
1 post
- 2008 Presidential candidate email analysis
You want a president that will keep communication lines open. Of all the 2008 Presidential candidates, Dennis Kucinich and John McCain both sent out the most…
2006 20 years ago
1 post
- Top five greatest words to describe great
Using Google trends here’s the five best words to describe something as cool: great, fun, cool, hip, interesting honorable mentions: funky, incredible, awesome, excellent Oh, I…
2003 23 years ago
2 posts
- Using the roof of your mouth when speaking
When saying letters our mouth, tongue, teeth and lips do different things. I’m amazed how much we use the roof of our mouth when talking (14…
- New nickels unveiled
U.S. Mint to unveil new nickel designs. It’s interesting they chose to release two different designs. Perhaps to go with the phrase “rubbing two nickels together.”…
2002 24 years ago
4 posts
- IKEA Holiday 2002 Catalog
I just found the IKEA christmas catalog in the garbage at work today. Score!
- Goooooo
When you want to emphasis something by writing “Go” with extra o’s, it ends up looking like goo, as in gooey, goopy slimey stuff. And slime…
- First Sign of Christmas
The Christmas lights are being put up on the trees on Michigan Ave in front of the Tribune Tower, Chicago.
- Sign Strategy
When there’s a big cluster of candidate signs, I wonder if the sign placer person is considering where to put their sign within the context of…
