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If you’d like to get updates to this list via twitter, follow my @mattscomments Twitter account. @mattscomments is focused solely on the comments on that I leave on articles across the internet. This is adorable! My 4-year-old daughter was asking about robin eggs, so I googled it, and your page appeared in the Google Image results. Thank you for sharing such an adorable photo. We love it. Stored on: August 5, 2020 The Hot Iron - 5 Ways I Wish Business Was More Like Sports I wonder how much MLB front and backend offices implement ideas like this. Say, the Chicago Cubs. Do they have less experienced people working for their minor league clubs, and then eventually they work up to joining the MLB team? Stored on: July 30, 2020 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For July 24 2020 I hope to get the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential $1 Coin. He's got a MONSTER beard on that coin. Stored on: July 28, 2020 Happy 10th anniversary to Diverse Tech Geek! | Diverse Tech Geek I've always enjoyed the variety of topics you cover. Looking back, one of my first comments on your blog was from May 2012. Wow, so I've been following along for eight of your ten years! Stored on: July 28, 2020 After Lengthy Wait, Divvy Bike Service Finds Its Way To Beverly | Beverly, IL Patch Eleven stations is not nearly enough to get the program running in Beverly. But I should be happy they are at least installing some bikes in Beverly, right? Well, I lived in Oak Park when they launched in 2016 with 13 stations. That was 2.8 stations per square mile. The point of Divvy is being able to ride a bike conveniently from one station to another station. If you don't have enough stations to make an end-to-end trip, it won't succeed. The program failed in Oak Park, because there weren't enough stations for people to make trips to a variety of locations in the area. How many stations make for a successful launch? • Oak Park's failed program had 2.8 stations per square mile. • Beverly's launch will have 3.4 stations per square mile. • Chicago's launch in 2013 had 6.8 stations per square mile. • By 2015 Chicago had 8 stations per square mile. It looks like 7 stations per square mile is a good number to aim for. With 3.4 stations per square mile, Beverly's launch will fail. Beverly needs 22 stations, not 11. Stored on: July 26, 2020 Make Mine Marvel! - Fredrick Royster Did you ever get the web/rope glide back? Also, do you still have the 12-inch Spider Man doll by Mego? If so, post a pic, please! Stored on: July 23, 2020 Default assignee - Product Feedback - Asana Community Forum 90% of the tasks I create in Asana are for me. When I’m adding a task, it seems crazy that I have to manually assign the task to myself. Adding a task should be quick and simple. Not a laborious task. Please, Asana, make your service easier to use. Right now it’s cumbersome to add tasks. I just want my tasks to automatically be assigned to me. Stored on: July 9, 2020 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For July 3 2020 That Broken Link Checker Tools is great! I thought it was going to be some plug-in you have to install on your site, but nope! Just enter your website domain, and boom! I crawls and finds all the dead links. I was surprised that it only found 6 dead links on my 19-year-old site. Stored on: July 3, 2020 WordPress Security – Crowdcast I would love to hear Siteground's tips on how to keep server resources low while using a security plugin like Wordfence. As Siteground users we are all keenly aware of trying to build our Wordpress sites so they don't use much processing power. Security plugins like Wordfence can use A LOT of server resources if the plugin is set up in certain ways. Stored on: June 26, 2020 300 people tested for COVID-19 at new drive-through site in Wheaton Does the COVID-19 testing site at the DuPage County Fairgrounds in Wheaton also test for antibodies to see if you previously had COVID-19? Stored on: June 16, 2020 Backyard Mulch - avoision.com | avoision.com I clicked through to check out your 2014 post about how your backyard looked. Wow! You did amazing work. I would love to see side-by-side photos of the old with the new. Stored on: June 14, 2020 Laurelhurst Craftsman Bungalow: It's Been 10 Years! Bringing back all that natural wood just feels right! Stored on: June 11, 2020 Vintage Chicago Cubs Autographs - One Million Cubs Project I love it when the autograph includes “Best wishes”. Makes the autograph come to life. Stored on: June 10, 2020 Growing Up In a Junk Wax World - One Million Cubs Project I was born in 1975, we started collecting with the 1985 Topps set. Then we moved onto the Topps baseball sticker albums for a few years. We returned back to the cards for the 1989 Topps set. This 89 set is the main set we collected most as kids. Stored on: June 3, 2020 Another In-Person Twitter Trade - One Million Cubs Project That Lee Smith rookie card is nice. And the Dunston! What a great card! I collect Shawon; and I have never seen this error. Stored on: June 3, 2020 How to keep track of books you'd like to borrow from your local library - Matt Maldre When I take out a book from my library, I take it off the wish list, and move the book onto the list called “Borrowed from Glen Ellyn Library”: Stored on: June 1, 2020 One Million Cubs Project Fan Favorites - One Million Cubs Project Seeing all these Les Lancaster cards for some reason reminds me when I got Bob Scanlan's autograph at Wrigley. Stored on: May 14, 2020 PWE Sellers Beware: Shipping Topps Coins - One Million Cubs Project I love PWE auctions! Nice and simple—just like how baseball cards are. Stored on: May 14, 2020 The Workplace May Change, But By Whom? – Chris Thilk Sitting in a plexiglass cube all day long doesn't sound very pleasant. Yipes. Stored on: May 11, 2020 Staying Positive As a Creative Person During COVID-19 — Becky Jewell Blogging = Creating Stored on: May 7, 2020 I just put whip cream on my Coca-Cola because quarantine - Spudart The two brands of Reddi Whip and Coca-Cola go together, because they both boldly use red. Stored on: April 30, 2020 Random Yard Photo - avoision.com | avoision.com This would be a fine yard for croquet. Stored on: April 29, 2020 An analysis of Superman’s famous introduction | Diverse Tech Geek A super-leaping man sounds like a lot of fun. Say, where did that quote "bench pressing the Sears Tower" come from? I tried googling it, but the only results was this post and some unrelated forum post. Stored on: April 27, 2020 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For April 17 2020 Just yesterday I was chatting with my brother about the 50-day Easter season. Since the church recognizes every Sunday after Easter as "First Sunday of Easter", "Second Sunday of Easter", etc, all the way until Pentecost, that means we can have Easter decorations up for 50 days after Easter! I know this, because I keep a Lutheran & Catholic lectionary bookmarks in my bible. On these bookmarks, I mark the church's name for each Sunday (along with the color). My blog post: https://christiannotebook.com/lectionary-bookmarks/ Stored on: April 16, 2020 The Hot Iron - Low Budget Green Screen for Zoom Meetings Nice to see that both shades of green work easily well for a green screen background. Stored on: April 16, 2020 Blog status update (April 2020): Thoughts on a year with ClassicPress | Diverse Tech Geek I access your site through desktop, specifically from Feedly. I've gone full-in for Wordpress blocks. Awkward at first, but I'm getting used to it. Although I'll admit, I never write the full blog post in Wordpress. I always compose the majority of the text in BBEdit or Evernote. And then copy the text into Wordpress. From there, I add all the various styling I need. I have to admit, I do like the ability to move blocks around. And I'm a fan of the atomization of a blog post. All blog posts should have the ability to have every single paragraph be its own entity. It's my dream to have a blog where any paragraph can be commented directly upon. Stored on: April 10, 2020 Make a faux taxidermy butterfly shadow box - Magical Daydream Jackie, I love your comment! At first I was just going to comment on how this is a neat idea. And then I read your comment about not killing the butterflies. I'm ashamed to admit, but I never thought about how this idea saves butterflies! That makes this even more awesome! Stored on: April 8, 2020 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For April 3 2020 I gotta get my Soda Sense out of the cabinet. And long live RSS! Stored on: April 5, 2020 A Short Walk through the Backyard - avoision.com | avoision.com Yard work as luxury. Interesting positive spin on that. I've never been a fan of yard work, but maybe yeah, it will be nice. Hey, I found your blog by revisiting the past by going through the gapersblock archives. I found your site through their link to your post about Millennium Station's leaks http://gapersblock.com/merge/archives/2014/10/16/bucket-thinker/ Kudos to you for keeping up a daily blog. I'm subscribing to your RSS feed now. Stored on: April 4, 2020 Sketchbook Confessional: March 2020 — Becky Jewell I rarely post to Instagram, because I just don't like posting through my phone. But with this Later, I'll give that a shot. Thank you for that tip! Stored on: April 2, 2020 Daily Post: April 1 2020: How my art changed in school — Becky Jewell What a great topic! Looking back at those formative years, this is fun to see how you developed. And how you describe your technique, "see how far I could carry a single line". OH wow, I totally see that in your work now. At some point I'd like to do this same retrospect. I'll find my art went from baseball player portraits in high school to much darker art in college. But there are themes I used in college that still pique my interest today. Like the power of rhythm and dance. And the biggest influence discovering the quote by Jorg Immendorf, "art must assume the function of the potato." Stored on: March 31, 2020 Daily post: March 29 2020 - Why Making Art Seems Psychic — Becky Jewell I've found this also with looking at art. Wandering through the Art Institute of Chicago, I'll be more attune to certain works of art. And then realize a little bit later--oh, that's why that artwork was speaking to me! Stored on: March 29, 2020 Five bad DC Comics retcons | Diverse Tech Geek These DC comics retcons are really amusing. I'd love to see you do a list for Star Wars comics retcons. They have some woozies! Stored on: March 29, 2020 Quarantine and geometry | Reflections on Technology, Media & Culture Interesting, maritime flag for quarantine is four squares. Stored on: March 28, 2020 Idea: Auto-tweeting your blog archive - Matt Maldre Maybe it's possible to tweet your blog archives with Google Sheets. Here’s a tutorial from 2015—hopefully it still works. http://kylefinley.net/schedule-tweets-with-images-from-google-sheets Stored on: March 26, 2020 T3: Annotating PDFs and Word Documents Online | The Andersen Library Blog I love commenting. Stored on: March 25, 2020 The Ramblings of a Chicagoan: Audio Journaling During COVID-19 Nice idea! As I've been doing a family diary has been very productive, I'm thinking of doing the Morning Pages, a la Julia Cameron. I don't know anything about Morning Pages other than you are supposed to hand write something completely free from every morning. I think it's three pages? I'm thinking I would just type stuff. Anything at all. If something comes from it that is worth copying into the family diary. I'll copy it into there. If anything comes from it that I want to blog, then I'll copy it into my blog. Maybe you'll find your recordings about this covid-19 era will be used elsewhere too! Stored on: March 25, 2020 Canon PowerShot S110 from 2001 had some decent specs - Spudart it was always wonderful having meetings in that room. Often the window blinds were drawn down, blocking the view. I would always rise up the blinds. Let that view shine! Stored on: March 24, 2020 Nice last line! "home is where the art is." Stored on: March 24, 2020 Imagination Captured – Rebecca Rose Thering This is wonderful! Please continue to share more little snippets like this! Stored on: March 18, 2020