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. 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 Do subject lines matter anymore? — CJ Chilvers So true. People want email from people, not faceless companies. Stored on: March 21, 2021 The Ferris Bueller vest challenge - Spudart I'd just like to point out that the Ferris Bueller costume with the most accurate vest replica is currently ranked #2,248 in Men's Costumes on Amazon. No reason, just capturing this slice of time. Stored on: March 21, 2021 Phthursday Musings: More About More - META-SPIEL It's amazing how you thread a theme throughout each of these issues. In the spirit of "more", sometime I'd love to see what ideas end up being clipped out, because they didn't fit within the week's theme. Stored on: March 18, 2021 Maybe every day while you walk through the trail, pick up one stick/branch, carry it to a specific spot along the path, and put it into a pile. As the days pass, more and more branches will be cleaned up. The results from your daily routine will become visible as the pile grows larger. Others might be inspired when they see what is possible with just a small amount of effort spread across many days. Stored on: March 17, 2021 My writing about money has disappeared - Spudart You know what's bizarre? Looking at this post again (a few days after I wrote it) makes me want to buy some money on eBay. Like, buy some dollar bills from another country or something. Although, what's really the fun in that if I can't spend them? It would be fun to have some dollar bills from Estonia. Maybe I'll buy a 2 Kroon bill. That would be fun to show to my four-year-old. Stored on: March 17, 2021 Gamification of Google Arts & Culture - Spudart The only @googlearts badge I'm missing is the Chromecast badge. Stored on: March 17, 2021 Unusual Little People sets - Spudart I haven't bought any of these unusual Little People sets yet. I can't decide which ones. The Office, WWE, or Masters of the Universe. Maybe I should let my four-year-old daughter decide. Stored on: March 17, 2021 Enhanced weekly electricity reports - Spudart I love how surreal and painterly the fireworks look as a backdrop. The image came from user Actionvance on Unsplash. Stored on: March 17, 2021 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For March 12 2021 The JBuds sound intriguing. I wonder what the audio quality on those is like. Stored on: March 15, 2021