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The 40 most recent articles where I left a comment
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. What a funny line, "I didn’t have a chance and ended up spending something like $500 on things that I do not understand. I like the things I bought, but I don’t know exactly why!" LOLOLOL. Everyone needs a fun acrylic trophy on their desk! Since your Racing Miku is an acrylic shape, try putting it on top of a light. The edges will illuminate! To get a little bit of an idea google this: acrylic light up statue Happy glowing! Stored on: February 20, 2020 ¡Try these helpful characters! – L.T. Hanlon “¿What do you think?” certainly caught me off guard. ¡Very effective! Stored on: February 20, 2020 Sketchbook Confessional: January 2020 — Becky Jewell Oh wow! Today I discovered your blog, and it's so wonderful! Such a great idea to capture every month's activities in a blog post. I might start doing that too. The reason to start journaling more is so inspiring! I have a friend who journals about his family every day, because he loved how his dad captured the every day activities. That inspired me to start writing something every day about my family too. So far this year I've journaled every day. Yaaaaay! Ok, so you now have a new subscriber to your blog. I found it via your like on my Linkedin post about drawing and thinking at the Art Institute of Chicago. Stored on: February 19, 2020 Wipeout on the Picasso - Spudart I think I've found myself a new annual tradition. Walking on the Picasso sculpture when it's covered in a blanket of snow. Stored on: February 5, 2020 Doesn’t Paris have a sort of cream off-white color? I googled it and found an article this this line: “London is sepia-to-gray. Paris is sepia-to-absinthe. New York is sepia-to-Coca-Cola.” https://www.curbed.com/2017/11/8/16615202/color-cities-psychology-architecture Stored on: February 2, 2020 Art Institute's Art Tab highlights from January 2020 - Spudart If anyone wants my hacked version of the add-on, let me know. I'll gladly share. Stored on: January 31, 2020 The 25th Year of Honor | The Andersen Library Blog Do you have an art loan program? Is this sculpture available for loan? During my high school and college years, my local library had sculpture loan program. My brother and I loved it! We would often take out sculptures about the size of this Martin Luther King bust. What a kick we got from having the sculpture sit in our room. I'm certain the sculpture itself also got a kick from being able to see different rooms and interiors. Stored on: January 22, 2020 Responding to every tweet for one day - Spudart I’m in day two of my Twitter nap, where I don’t post any tweets, unless if they are a reply. Thus, to get my Twitter itch satisfied, I find myself replying to more tweets today. Stored on: January 16, 2020 Giving up tweeting for one week - Spudart Quitting Twitter for a week might also mean that we might start to see some very short blog posts here. Which, I have to get used to that idea again. Back in the early 2000s, (before Twitter existed), I used to make very very short blog posts. I hope to warm up to that blogging style again. Stored on: January 14, 2020 Why You Should Set New Year's Goals vs. Resolutions Spin Sucks Oh wow, I always thought resolution was not a goal, but a change in habit. But it seems you are correct, a resolution is permanent--at least if you look at it in a legal/government view of the word. Hmmm, well instead of goals or resolutions, I'm sticking to my approach of adopting new habits. Stored on: January 8, 2020 Finding phrases that match the syllable stress pattern of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Spudart There are two subreddits dedicated to xkcd. I thought they would have a huge long list of names can be sung to the tune of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But there was only one name. Stored on: January 7, 2020 That’s a Big Pocket – Chris Thilk You are going to make me want to hop off the Instapaper bandwagon and onto Pocket. Stored on: January 6, 2020 What stops you from achieving your resolutions? - Spudart I love how I achieved two of my resolutions with this updated list: 1) Use pencils more 2) Use ALL CAPS more Stored on: January 6, 2020 Recording children singing in stereo - Spudart Some of my recent audio recordings are on Soundcloud, under the username mattmaldre. Stored on: January 4, 2020 Artforum loves ALL CAPS - Spudart By the way, it's one of my 12 New Year resolutions to use more all caps. https://www.spudart.org/blog/2020-new-year-resolutions/ Stored on: January 4, 2020 Using Machine Learning techniques on babies - Spudart I might set out to learn python, so I could do some of this stuff. Stored on: January 4, 2020 Do you keep a diary? Or a life log? - Spudart That's so awesome that you capture more in your Moleskine. Sometimes you could just take a photo of a page in your Moleskine and post that on your blog. I have a friend who does something kinda like that—but with a typewriter. https://lthanlon.com I do miss having a physical copy of my blog on the shelf. I've thought about making an annual book of my blog posts, but that doesn't feel the same as a physical handwritten notebook. But alas, one of these days I'll make these annual books. Heck, that's part of the reason why I'm keeping a daily diary—to help explain the photos in my annual photo album. Now for your blog—feel free to revamp it into anything you like. I personally am a fan of the general blog that catches everything. Really truly the originally meaning of the word blog, coming from weblog. That is, a log on the web. I've tried to write more focused blogs: christiannotebook and 57hits.com, and I found that I couldn't come up with enough material (well, there's enough material, it's just the amount of time to keep it up). But the focused blog is still a great thing to do. I personally am wrestling with how and where to present that focused content. In my main blog, and just use categories? On a separate page? On a separate site? Back to paper. I do need to print out more of the custom notepad sheets that I use. Just to have my notepad on hand for moments of writing out ideas. That handwriting action really does encourage more continued thought. This year I've been wanting to read all the articles I save into Instapaper. Last year, I left some 200 articles unread. Now I'm printing out all the articles (4 pages on each side of paper), and I've already found that I am thinking more about what I'm reading. And I came across some interesting insight into being an introvert and social anxiety. All from writing marginalia with a pencil on the printout. At some point I'll be blogging about that. Stored on: January 2, 2020 The Ramblings of a Chicagoan: Finding Fred Excellent. I shall listen to this entire series. Stored on: December 25, 2019 Chicago Cubs - Jon Lester - LEGO Art | Jon Lester is a baseb… | Flickr Jon Lester is in your kitchen! Stored on: November 8, 2019 Here's What Social Media Was Like In 2009 Vs. 2019 My Flair board from 2009 is now famous. @Buzzfeed used the image from my blog post at https://www.spudart.org/blog/facebook-flair/ Stored on: November 3, 2019 The Ramblings of a Chicagoan: My Next Audio Essay And because doing the right thing can be super! Ok, so that sounded sarcastic. I didn't mean it to be sarcastic. Stored on: October 28, 2019 Idea: a script to find Flickr photos being used online - Matt Maldre And now do I leave another comment on Jonathan's Flickr photo page to let me know I used his image in a blog post about the article using his image? So meta! Stored on: October 27, 2019 Artists Hijack MoMA with AR Art Exhibition — Artnome Reading about art like this makes me want to get back into learning how to do AR, and then apply it to my local art museum, the Art Institute of Chicago. Stored on: October 27, 2019 Photographing with a five-year-old iPhone - Spudart Only recently did I discover the dehaze setting. It’s buried waaaay at the very bottom of all the Develop options. Stored on: October 25, 2019 When a site has so many buttons, you don't know what to do. - Matt Maldre I'm a little afraid what will happen when I open the zip file. 😉 Stored on: October 23, 2019 Most times these days the first time we see a particular work of art is with the reproduction, not the original. In this case of the Warhol Wall, I saw the reproduction first. When I saw the actual show, I was so excited to see the actual piece. I immediately felt connected with the artwork on the wall in the exhibit. Stored on: October 23, 2019 Greeting cards as art - Spudart The lace details on this card looks really nice when magnified on screen. Stored on: October 23, 2019 What if Quark's auto-growing text boxes grew too big? - Spudart Oh, and speaking of hyphens, should I have used one in “performance-enhancing drugs”? Stored on: October 17, 2019 GardenLady.com | I Love Weigela florida ‘Variegata’ I like how you are supposed to keep the Weigela florida 'Variegata' wild and asymetrical. Stored on: October 14, 2019 My Twitter basic usage tips | Diverse Tech Geek Lists and Tweetdeck, absolutely! For everyone who complains about all the noise on Twitter, I always recommend this combination of lists and Tweetdeck. I couldn't use Twitter without them. Stored on: October 14, 2019 Scoring Godzilla by Imaginary Worlds I'm so glad that albums of Akira Ifukube's music is on Spotify. Stored on: October 9, 2019 Idea: photoshop 50 flags onto one pole - Spudart If I had a movie budget, I'd attach a camera to each of the 50 poles, and record them all at once! Stored on: September 30, 2019 Sometimes Architecture’s a Picnic (Literally) – Susie Trexler This building makes humans into picnic ants. Stored on: September 26, 2019 Florence Guild - Michael J Biercuk by Florence Guild | Free Listening on SoundCloud Great clarification on the false cartoon representation of Quantum computing. Stored on: September 25, 2019 Thoughts on 2019’s Apple iPhone keynote | Diverse Tech Geek Ut oh. My iPhone 5s is about to be no longer supported. I thought for sure the hardware would die before the software support would end. My physical iPhone 5s is still running just fine, it's the software that going to force me into a new phone. I was considering getting an Android phone. And now that Apple has pushed me out of my iPhone 5s, I'm leaning even harder into getting an Android. Stored on: September 22, 2019 Adorable painting of puppy and kitten in Google Arts & Culture - Spudart It's kinda embarrassing at work—every time I open a new Chrome browser, this adorable painting of a kitten and puppy appears. Stored on: September 19, 2019 Your sports rival is a good team to root for - Christian notebook A loosely related article, "This drawing explains a surprising amount about your political views" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/16/20856316/poll-yougov-painting-ideology-trump This article touches on "a well-known finding in political psychology that people who score high in a personality attribute known as 'openness to experience' tend to have more left-wing political opinions." and "People with artistic temperaments are prototypically 'high openness,'" This openness reminds me of being open to not hating your sports rival. That is, being willing to listen to fans of other teams, and what they have to say. I'm guessing most sports fans don't express a high openness to their rivals. That's a bit sad. Stored on: September 15, 2019 The Ramblings of a Chicagoan: Favorite Books 21 - 25 I love Animal Farm too Stored on: September 1, 2019 Automating Listen posts | Jeremy Cherfas Oh interesting, you are using a script to monitor a folder on your Mac to see what podcast episodes you have listened to. I'll take a look to see where the Downcast podcast app stores it's logs. *a few moments later* Ah, it's at Library/Containers/com.jamawkinaw.downcast.mac/Data/Library/Application Support/Downcast/Logs. Interesting. However, there is a ton of information in here. I'm going to have to park this idea for now. Stored on: August 28, 2019 It's nice that you can shave with just cold water. Everyone must have a different levels of ability to do this. Sometimes I'm in a rush, so I'll shave with just cold water, and my face totally doesn't like it. lol. Oh well. Stored on: August 28, 2019