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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. Ten things 2020 taught me. - LoveYou2.org How wonderful to text three things you are grateful for, every day! Stored on: January 13, 2021 Mount Rushmore 2020 Update, National League | the Hall of Miller and Eric As a recent subscriber to your blog, I'm new to your fascinating Mount Rushmore theme. As a Cubs fan, Charlie Hollocher certainly surprised me! Amazing that he's only got three cards in comc.(Of course, cards weren't around as much back in 1918-1924). Really fascinating to see that Hollocher's five strikeouts for the entire season of 1922 remains the National League record by a player with a minimum of 150 games. Stored on: January 9, 2021 The Story Behind 2013 Topps Archives Cubs Giveaway - One Million Cubs Project Thanks for sharing images of all these cards from the season ticket holder set. As I scrolled down the page of this post, with every card I was like, "man, that's a nice card. Man, that's a nice card." Over and over. The best has gotta be the Sandberg mustache, with gold chain, on wood grain. Stored on: January 5, 2021 Introducing Contemporary Similarity Scores for Batters | the Hall of Miller and Eric I'm looking to do some similarity score comparisons, so I googled: "similarity scores" "positional adjustment". Your post here came up in the results. Wow! This is so awesome how you generated a more accurate system over Bill James (and BBREF)'s system. Stored on: January 5, 2021 Special Consideration: Ron Cey | the Hall of Miller and Eric Any bonus points for having a fun nickname? I remember the Penguin with the Cubs. Stored on: January 5, 2021 Topps Archives: The Hidden Treasure (1968 Film) - One Million Cubs Project Funny how the movie emphasizes the gum over the cards. Stored on: January 4, 2021 CTA Belmont 8-27-90 2 | Morning rush hour at Belmont, Summer… | Flickr Not a cell phone in sight. Stored on: January 2, 2021 Nice wreath! This got me to look up "wreath" on etymonline: Old English wriða "fillet, bandage, band" (literally "that which is wound around") Stored on: December 31, 2020 Also, this use of freight car as canvas is very interesting. When automobiles are waiting for a freight to pass by, it's like a moving gallery. People sit and watch the artwork moving by. Stored on: December 7, 2020 Lettering badly and singing badly - Christian notebook I love how the "AND WE ARE HIS" is done in straight up capital big text. Here I am, doing all this scripty lettering business. Then I got tired of that and just wrote the "AND WE ARE HIS" in simple bold wide letters. It's like when I got to that verse, the reminder that we are God's really kicked in. BOOM. WE ARE HIS! I CAN MAKE BAD ART. IT'S OK! Also, a benefit to posting my work while my technique is still bad: Over time time as my technique improves, it can maybe inspire other people. Yes, you may start off bad, but if you continue to work at it, your technique can improve. Stored on: December 2, 2020 Yeah! So true! The days before a birthday are most sweet. I tended to enjoyed the day before my birthday, for the same reason. On the day before my 25th birthday I blogged the following: * * * * * On my last day as being age 25, I face a tradition that has eerily followed me since my senior year in college. On the day before my birthday, I become a lot more focused and productive with my artwork. Nov 19, 1996 (senior year) I produced the award winning photos of my head in a 10-gallon aquarium Nov 19, 2000 I developed the idea for the mail campaign. (yet to be launched) Nov 19, 2001 I’ve been planning my art-making vacation for the last week in november, and last week of december. * * * * * This post is still online! https://www.spudart.org/blog/last-day-age/ I should update it with all the stuff I did on every November 19th. Stored on: December 2, 2020 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For October 30 2020 IPFS! Neocities.org uses IPFS. A couple years ago I made a neocities site. Nothing fancy, just one of my webcomics, and a list of links to my other comics. https://spudart.neocities.org/ Stored on: November 4, 2020 I Was At This Game: Andre Dawson 1991 Bat-Throwing Incident « A Biscuit In The Sun I was at Wrigley for that Andre Dawson bat game too! I remember sitting in the upper deck, kinda behind home plate, but more on first base side, so we could totally see Dawson throwing bats out of the dugout. Stored on: October 29, 2020 Back to Blogging - One Million Cubs Project The collage of all the cards layered is really cool! I'd love to see more of these random collages. Stored on: October 26, 2020 Earliest artworks of fireworks - Spudart I just realized that my title has a wordplay. Artworks and fireworks. That works! Stored on: October 22, 2020 3 Ways I Encourage Delight & Curiosity in My Life - YouTube Amen to sharing things you find exciting! (Reminds me of a life goal I discovered when I graduated college: To always be learning; and share what I learn with others). Stored on: October 22, 2020 Fulfilling its destiny – L.T. Hanlon This is so fantastic! The sheer randomness of getting this letterhead as protection for stamps bought on eBay. What a wonderful surprise. If you wouldn't mind sharing, what is the eBay seller's username? I'd like to purchase stamps from this person. So great that you took your curiosity about the letterhead to look around the streets of Mapleton, Kansas to find the old mill. It certainly is a small town! (I looked it up on Google maps). And a population of 84! The Mayor of Mapleton will be so tickled to get your letter. AND TYPED OUT. Man. everything about this fits together so well. And you fulfilled this letterhead's destiny by mailing the letterhead back to its town of origin. So coooool! That letterhead was just waiting decades to be used. To fulfill it's purpose of being a letter of communication. (I feel the same way about unused stamps--they are just potent with possibility of being used) Stored on: October 21, 2020 Milestone Met: The 500,000th Chicago Cubs Baseball Card - One Million Cubs Project How awesome that the Andre Dawson 1990 Upper Deck Cubs checklist is number 500,000. For reasons you pointed out (the era when you started with baseball cards, the player), but also that it's a checklist! The checklist counts off cards. Stored on: October 21, 2020 Illinois Wesleyan Weekly Incident Report – The Argus 1997 alum here, I know the "quad", but what's the "mini quad"? Stored on: October 18, 2020 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For October 9 2020 Meliorism and monomania. Two very interesting concepts (and perhaps some overlap). I'm not a fan of monomania. In fact, I'm not a fan of when politicians say they will fight fight fight. I don't want a fighter for a politician. I want a politician who will be diplomatic and talk and compromise. I see sports carrying over too much into our culture. This obsession with winning. Side point: Heck, even in sports itself, there's too much emphasis on winning. Play the game well. Appreciate good play. Let the cards fall where they may. I wrote a little about this at https://christiannotebook.com/hate-in-sports/ For meliorism, I'm assuming we are talking about meliorism in politics. (as opposed to meliorism in religion, or meliorism in society). Instead of meliorism, I personally probably skew more over into the traditional field, but I do I think that we need to re-evaluate the laws. We humans aren't perfect, so we need to re-evaluate things. Not totally throw things out. (And also personally, I think we tend to put too much emphasis on culture improving over time. Yes, we should strive to be better. To enact better laws to protect and lift up everyone. However, we are all inherently sinful). This customizable music player written in PHP looks very enticing! However, I absolutely love the unlimited catalog of Spotify, and constantly discovering new songs. https://medium.com/@greenzeta/ampache-5bd2f5f3da26 Does the keyboard keys functional on that Tandy TRS-80 Model 1 Raspberry Pi case? Stored on: October 12, 2020 CBS All Access renamed to Paramount+; too many "plus" streaming service names? I'm waiting for a streaming service to be named A+ Stored on: September 28, 2020 Does the air circulation system on Metra cars pass the air from car to car? Or is each car outfitted with its own individual circulation system? Stored on: September 23, 2020 5 Ways to Clean Up Facebook Friends List Facebook doesn't allow users to short their "Friends List" by "most recent" anymore. Thus, I'm sad to say that your step 4 is out of date. I really liked that feature. I wish Facebook would allow me to sort my Friends Lists by most recent. Stored on: September 19, 2020 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For September 11 2020 Oh wow, name.com's domain renewals are much cheaper than Godaddy's! I'll put that on my to-do list to transfer all my domains from Godaddy to name.com. If individuals can generate referral codes, I'll be happy to use one from you! Stored on: September 13, 2020 Whoa! Florida has panthers in the wild?! Maybe Florida has alligator vs panther battles. Stored on: September 13, 2020 Blog status update (late August 2020): Moving from WordPress (and ClassicPress) to Ghost Hello, Ghost! I like hearing about your blog journeys across themes, hosts, and platforms. I remember the days when I was moving from pMachine to Wordpress. Oh that took a while to convert everything over. Disqus has always been an interesting platform. I like the notion of having a common notification system across sites. Stored on: August 30, 2020 Twitter launches new API as it tries to make amends with third-party developers The timing of this is quite funny for me personally. Just three weeks ago, I built a system that schedules tweets based on posts in an external RSS feed—using Twitter's API. And now they go ahead and announce a new v2 API. Greeaaaaaat. Hopefully their older API will continue working. #crossesfingers Stored on: August 20, 2020 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