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. 40: A Biography in Buttons - by David Friedman - Ironic Sans I was also a kid in the 80s, I have smaller collection of buttons that I need to dig up so I can make a post like this. Seeing your wide collection of buttons makes me want to start collecting buttons for my daughter, so 40 years from now she can make also make a post like this. Stored on: July 19, 2021 Visualizing The Catholic Lectionary - Part 1 Thank you so much for doing all this work to visualize how much of the Bible is in the lectionary. I was just wondering the same thing. The past few years I've been reading the weekly lectionary to my kids (now ages 2 & 5). I love being in God's Word with them on a frequent basis. But I also wonder how much of the lectionary doesn't cover parts of the Bible. Now I can see with your graphs! Prior to discovering your post today, I was thinking about doing the data work to unpeel this. You did such a great job. I'm more of of a hobbyist with data analysis, so it was really great to read your explanation of how you unpacked the data. Stored on: July 5, 2021 Phthursday Musings: Should We Talk About The Weather? - by Phil Huckelberry - META-SPIEL Whenever it rains, I tell my 5-year-old and 2-year-old, "the trees, plants, bushes, and grass are all happy today. They love the rain. I love the rain." Once the rain is over, the next day we observe how green everything is, and the birds. "The birds love the rain too". Stored on: July 1, 2021 The Hot Iron - What I Learned The Weeks Of June 18 and 25 2021 That 88x31 banner collection is fantastic. I just spent way too much time trying to track down PHP-Nuke and Postnuke banners. (A couple CMS systems I used to organize an alumni group back in the early 2000s). I did find a few; and passed them along to the webmaster of that page. Stored on: June 27, 2021 Those rainbow cards that you get with the prize tickets - are they really only 1.5x? : ToppsBUNT It's nice to hear people appreciating the Topps Bunt cards for their looks. I love all the designs that Bunt puts out. It's the primary reason why I use the app. I love seeing what they come up with next. And then tweeting or blogging about the designs. Stored on: June 14, 2021 hintspace: BBEdit/TextWrangler Codeless Language Module for IDL Looks like the plist file is no longer available for download. Clicking on the download link results in a "site not found" error. I'm really curious how you got the code folding to work. Stored on: June 10, 2021 The Worst Offensive Runs Ending A Career | the Hall of Miller and Eric Koyie Hill. The forgotten backup to Geovany Soto. The Cubs focus was on their RoY catcher. Hill just filled a slot for backup. Although in 1999, Hill played as the second baseman for Team USA. In the games, he totaled a .284 batting average, 3 home runs, and 21 RBI. He never played second base in the Majors. Baseball-Reference has Bob Uecker listed has Hill's sixth most similar batter. Stored on: May 25, 2021 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For May 21 2021 The gas pump secret mute button reminds me of the Wired report this year on the secret code for the McDonald's ice cream machine: 1. Press the cone icon on the screen 2. Tap the buttons that show a snowflake and a milkshake 3. set the digits on the screen to 5, then 2, then 3, then 1. 4. A menu magically unlocks. "Only with this cheat code can you access the machine’s vital signs: everything from the volume of its milk and sugar ingredients to the temperature of the glycol flowing through its heating element to the meanings of its many sphinxlike error messages." All of McDonald's restaurants use the same ice cream machine model--The Taylor C602 digital ice cream machine. "No one at McDonald’s or Taylor will explain why there’s a secret, undisclosed menu" Stored on: May 25, 2021 Make your LinkedIn profile SHINE – FinTech over coffee Great tips! I need to implement some of these. Here's another one: make sure your paragraphs aren't too long. Going with your point using conversational English for your accomplishments, long paragraphs are a bit like someone rambling on and on. Break up the long paragraphs into shorter ones to make them more digestable. Stored on: May 25, 2021 Noël (@ok_mogwai) • Instagram photos and videos That tree has grown up to have a view. Stored on: May 10, 2021 What a great invention toasters are. TIL: the electric toaster was invented in 1893 by Alan MacMasters in Scotland. It toasted only one side of the bread, so you had to flip the bread over manually. By 1913 the Copeman Electric Stove Company introduced the “toaster that turns toast,” a device that eliminated the need for the bread to be turned manually halfway through cooking. In 1921, Minnesota mechanic named Charles Strite received his patent for the automatic pop-up toaster. On July 7, 1928, the first loaf of commercially sliced bread was sold. All this from hagley.org [Funny how sliced bread was sold AFTER the toaster. We only have commercially sliced bread, because of the toaster!] FYI National Toast Day is the last Thursday of February. MARK YOUR CALENDARS. Raise a toast to your toast. Stored on: May 10, 2021 Maybe a squirrel wrote this sign? Stored on: May 10, 2021 Andrew Huff (@me3dia) • Instagram photos and videos How wonderfully aged this sign is. I've long wanted to hang up baseball cards in the window of my desk at Tribune Tower (it faced the southern sun). I never did. And now I regret never having done so. Stored on: May 10, 2021 Andrew Huff (@me3dia) • Instagram photos and videos We might have learned this at some point in school, but I wonder why flowers come out before berries. Is there some sort of scientific reason?... Ok, so I just googled it. "Flowering plants produce seeds within a fruit." Stored on: May 10, 2021 With your work in Wheels4Water, you might be interested in the ESV version of this version... "Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered." Different type of "water" here, but rather interesting connection, nonetheless. 🙂 Stored on: May 10, 2021 The Architect's Office (1 of 2) | RIP Helmut Jahn: www.chica… | Flickr My goodness, Helmut Jahn had a lot of trinkets on his desk. But considering these were probably all buildings he designed, I would have those trinkets on my desk too! Stored on: May 9, 2021 Metra monthly ticket: October 2003 | Nicholas Rougeux | Flickr Wow. from 2001 up to 2016, there were some pretty bad Metra designs. Funny how I rode the Metra from 1997 to 2000, and then 2017 to now. I totally skipped over all those bad years of monthly passes! Stored on: May 4, 2021 Metra monthly ticket: September 1997 | Nicholas Rougeux | Flickr Oh man. I remember these Metra tickets. It was cool how they featured individual stations. I had these back for my first job out of college. Stored on: May 4, 2021 Why Anthony Rizzo has a chance to be this generation's Mr. Cub - 57 hits I’m not so sure Rizzo can have the title “Mr. Cub”. Maybe my standards are too high. Maybe I’m romanticizing the past of Sandberg and Banks too much. He should already lay claim to that title. But I feel like he’s not in that elite category of Sandberg and Banks yet. If Rizzo is already Mr. Cub of the 2010s, then would Derek Lee be Mr. Cub of the 2000s? Or Kerry Wood? The key to Rizzo becoming Mr. Cub is how he ends his career. Both Sandberg and Banks ended their career with the Cubs. I don’t think a player can go play another 5-8 years with another team, and be called a Mr. Cub—that would be like Harold Baines with the White Sox. Stored on: May 4, 2021 34: Fun With Celebrities Holding Signs - Ironic Sans Paper is so ubiquitous. If this was done 2,000 years ago, what would people hold up? Clay tablets? And then what would they take their photo with? Stored on: May 3, 2021 Tulips and Trains | State Street, Chicago, April 2021 © Andy… | Flickr Ah yeah, I miss those tulips in downtown Chicago. Stored on: May 3, 2021 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For April 30 2021 In spirit of the QR code section in this blog post... https://www.spudart.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/comment-as-qr-code.png Stored on: May 2, 2021 An Absence of Creation - avoision.com | avoision.com Yeah, create! Stored on: April 24, 2021 Chrome Music Lab - avoision.com | avoision.com I feel the same way about Arts & Culture Experiments. Stored on: April 24, 2021 Great metaphors with the unchanging wall. Stored on: April 22, 2021 Andrew Huff (@me3dia) • Instagram photos and videos looks like these bluebells are actually ringing! Ok, that totally warrants a Spotify search for: bluebell ringing. One of the top results is a Doris Day song "The Blue Bells of Broadway (Are Ringing Tonight)"... which it sounds like she is trying to sing with an Irish accent? Stored on: April 21, 2021 Andrew Huff (@me3dia) • Instagram photos and videos bonsai thirsty Stored on: April 21, 2021 Andrew Huff (@me3dia) • Instagram photos and videos Now we just need a water balloon. Stored on: April 21, 2021 Andrew Huff (@me3dia) • Instagram photos and videos The lines are like a zen garden. The imprint... just googled: zen garden sand imprint. Looks like there are zen gardens sold with little imprint stamps. I'm curious what Buddhists would think of that... embrace the stamp or thing it's too quick of a way of creating a shape in the sand. Although in this case, since the imprint was done with a real leaf, maybe that's cool. Stored on: April 21, 2021 Doug Ferguson (@dferg627) • Instagram photos and videos The texture in the water is really nice. Stored on: April 21, 2021 Noël (@ok_mogwai) • Instagram photos and videos White water falling from the sky. White water falling from the cliff. Stored on: April 21, 2021 Noël (@ok_mogwai) • Instagram photos and videos These are cool displays. I always imagined the HOF would just have these sterile cases with objects inside them. Stored on: April 21, 2021 QUOTES: dance-dance-a-dancey-dance-dance! - Spudart Watching this video again 14 years later is so refreshing and fun. Stored on: April 14, 2021 Learning to accept Comic Sans - Spudart While making the Comic Sans ASCII art heart, I initially thought I shouldn’t include the spaces between the words. I thought that would help to make it look more solid. But now that I’m done, the spaces actually create “white space rivers” that almost give the hard some dimension. I could have tried to fine to the rivers a bit more to really give the heart volume, but meh. It’s just a silly illustration, because I wanted to assign a “featured image” for this blog post. Stored on: April 12, 2021 Idea: an AI tool that recommends tweets based on your recent blog posts - Matt Maldre Searching Twitter for "peeps" has shown me that lots of my friends love to use the word "peeps" when talking about people. I'd say 95% of the tweets are people using "peeps" in that way. Stored on: April 6, 2021 snowblown | Marco Buscaglia | Flickr Whoa. That is some snowblower perfection. Stored on: April 5, 2021 The Best Way to Fry an Egg | Kitchn Why put the egg into a ramekin or mug? Why wouldn't you just put the egg directly into the skillet? Stored on: April 4, 2021 The Sight of Trees - avoision.com | avoision.com Yeah, how true that is on the wandering less. Working from home has cut out my daily commute that would make for easy wander time. Stored on: April 3, 2021 Ink Streams, Glitch Aesthetics and Generative Typography - Generative Arts Collective That's so cool to see an authentic plotter art from the 1960s, done in hommage to Paul Klee! Stored on: March 23, 2021 How does it make you feel? — CJ Chilvers Maya Angelou once said, “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Stored on: March 21, 2021