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. Free Font: Relax | put out into the deep Hi there! I used your font "Relax" in a personal project where I illuminated some of Winslow Homer's paintings with descriptive words. One of Homer's 1899 paintings titled "The Gulf Stream" depicts a man either relaxed or resigned on a boat. I searched dafont for "relax" and found your font, so I used it to typeset the word "Relax" over the painting. Through this discovery of your font, I came to your site, and now have discovered your Soundcloud too—I really like your Psalm 98 track. Stored on: March 7, 2021 Winslow Homer | Issued in Gloucester, MA on 15 Dec 1962. | Insomnia Cured Here | Flickr I love how the cancellation marks looks like waves of the sea. Stored on: March 6, 2021 Lent Day Thirteen: Two Months – Stepping Back I love that photo at the end of the blog post. In the past couple days I've been catching up on some of your blog posts. My mom passed away last year, so in a way I can relate to your loss. Reading about your thoughts and emotions is helping me to process mine too. Say, completely unrelated, but since you mentioned podcasts at the beginning of this post, what are some podcasts you listen to? Three of my favs: Bible Project, LensWork, Something You Should Know Stored on: March 3, 2021 Winslow Homer Dualities - Spudart In my graphic, the word "dualities" is set in the font named "Violation" from the 1995 book "A Blip in the Continuum". The book came with a floppy disc with 19 fonts, including Violation. At some point I'll make a blog post about these 19 fun fonts. Stored on: March 1, 2021 Lent Day One: Dust – Stepping Back What a wonderful perspective. To not give up. Stored on: February 28, 2021 Crocheting is such a fascinating activity. The rhythm of intersecting patterns, ultimately forming a unified object. Stored on: February 25, 2021 23: Wheels Down on YouTube - Ironic Sans Oh wow, years ago I remember watching your one-minute videos. They inspired me to do my own videos like that, but of my town Chicago. Looking back at your videos, they are so much more interesting than mine. You found fun quirky things like recording at an angle of the escalator, so the people are angled. Or the funky shadows on the Apple stairs. Stored on: February 25, 2021 Phthursday Musings: Hanging Out in the Margins - META-SPIEL And then there's marginalia. The realm for critique and feedback. Today the comments section functions as the margins. Stored on: February 25, 2021 Phthursday Musings: There's Snow Place Like Home - META-SPIEL Speaking of candy memories, I will always associate Mike and Ike candy with my high school bowling league. Whenever my game was down, I'd grab some Mike and Ikes from the coin machine. Boom, instant better bowling. TIL: Mike & Ike is made by the company "Just Born" I never heard of them, but they are ranked as the 10th largest candy company in the United States, as of 2013. Their slogan: "a great candy isn't made... it's Just Born". They also make Hot Tamales and Peeps. Stored on: February 18, 2021 Snow Hoops | Edgewater, Chicago, February 2021 © Andy Marfia… | Flickr Looks like we are playing snowball! Stored on: February 18, 2021 Edgewater | Clark Street, Chicago, February 2021 This is Edg… | Flickr I love the typography of grocery store sale signs. Stored on: February 18, 2021 Lunar ExoCam - Demo V1 prototype - YouTube I absolutely love this idea. How does the camera keep pointing at the same direction even when it rolls? Stored on: February 17, 2021 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For February 12 2021 The "Work With a Suite View" is a fantastic idea! I hope anyone renting a suite for the day will sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at 7/9ths of the way through the work day. (Doing the math for a 9-5 day, that would be at 3:13pm) Stored on: February 13, 2021 Sorry, These 2021 Topps Baseball Cards Aren't Actual Autographs As we used to say in the 90s, PSYCHE! Stored on: February 11, 2021 The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #340: Bringing The Hammer Down by Beachwood Radio Network Hank Aaron batted cross-handed up to 18/19 years old?! Whoa. Stored on: February 4, 2021 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For January 22 2021 That article about the very first podcast feed is fascinating on how it started. I knew Dave Winer created RSS; and I love his blog to this day. But I don't think I knew he's the one that added the audio enclosure ability in RSS. Makes sense, since he's the one who made RSS in the first place. Years ago when I was in my first few years at Tribune Company (circa 2001), one of my coworkers, Mike Fioritto introduced me to the work of Dave Winer. I was so fascinated by RSS and its ability to standardize the transmission of blogs (and XML's ability to communicate so much more). I'm bragging a little bit here that I knew about this stuff right near the start. But all this... "making systems open, democratic, and easily accessible" yes yes yes! Stored on: January 28, 2021 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For January 22 2021 That Clubhouse app sounds really interesting. I'll be joining in a little bit. Lately I've been recording some baseball podcasts. Maybe I'll use Clubhouse somehow to do the podcast. Although that might be tricky with how the audio is not recorded. *thinking* Stored on: January 28, 2021 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