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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. One Million Cubs Project Fan Favorites - One Million Cubs Project Seeing all these Les Lancaster cards for some reason reminds me when I got Bob Scanlan's autograph at Wrigley. Stored on: May 14, 2020 PWE Sellers Beware: Shipping Topps Coins - One Million Cubs Project I love PWE auctions! Nice and simple—just like how baseball cards are. Stored on: May 14, 2020 The Workplace May Change, But By Whom? – Chris Thilk Sitting in a plexiglass cube all day long doesn't sound very pleasant. Yipes. Stored on: May 11, 2020 Staying Positive As a Creative Person During COVID-19 — Becky Jewell Blogging = Creating Stored on: May 7, 2020 I just put whip cream on my Coca-Cola because quarantine - Spudart The two brands of Reddi Whip and Coca-Cola go together, because they both boldly use red. Stored on: April 29, 2020 Random Yard Photo - avoision.com | avoision.com This would be a fine yard for croquet. Stored on: April 28, 2020 An analysis of Superman’s famous introduction | Diverse Tech Geek A super-leaping man sounds like a lot of fun. Say, where did that quote "bench pressing the Sears Tower" come from? I tried googling it, but the only results was this post and some unrelated forum post. Stored on: April 26, 2020 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For April 17 2020 Just yesterday I was chatting with my brother about the 50-day Easter season. Since the church recognizes every Sunday after Easter as "First Sunday of Easter", "Second Sunday of Easter", etc, all the way until Pentecost, that means we can have Easter decorations up for 50 days after Easter! I know this, because I keep a Lutheran & Catholic lectionary bookmarks in my bible. On these bookmarks, I mark the church's name for each Sunday (along with the color). My blog post: https://christiannotebook.com/lectionary-bookmarks/ Stored on: April 16, 2020 The Hot Iron - Low Budget Green Screen for Zoom Meetings Nice to see that both shades of green work easily well for a green screen background. Stored on: April 16, 2020 Blog status update (April 2020): Thoughts on a year with ClassicPress | Diverse Tech Geek I access your site through desktop, specifically from Feedly. I've gone full-in for Wordpress blocks. Awkward at first, but I'm getting used to it. Although I'll admit, I never write the full blog post in Wordpress. I always compose the majority of the text in BBEdit or Evernote. And then copy the text into Wordpress. From there, I add all the various styling I need. I have to admit, I do like the ability to move blocks around. And I'm a fan of the atomization of a blog post. All blog posts should have the ability to have every single paragraph be its own entity. It's my dream to have a blog where any paragraph can be commented directly upon. Stored on: April 10, 2020 Make a faux taxidermy butterfly shadow box - Magical Daydream Jackie, I love your comment! At first I was just going to comment on how this is a neat idea. And then I read your comment about not killing the butterflies. I'm ashamed to admit, but I never thought about how this idea saves butterflies! That makes this even more awesome! Stored on: April 8, 2020 The Hot Iron - What I Learned This Week For April 3 2020 I gotta get my Soda Sense out of the cabinet. And long live RSS! Stored on: April 5, 2020 A Short Walk through the Backyard - avoision.com | avoision.com Yard work as luxury. Interesting positive spin on that. I've never been a fan of yard work, but maybe yeah, it will be nice. Hey, I found your blog by revisiting the past by going through the gapersblock archives. I found your site through their link to your post about Millennium Station's leaks http://gapersblock.com/merge/archives/2014/10/16/bucket-thinker/ Kudos to you for keeping up a daily blog. I'm subscribing to your RSS feed now. Stored on: April 4, 2020 Sketchbook Confessional: March 2020 — Becky Jewell I rarely post to Instagram, because I just don't like posting through my phone. But with this Later, I'll give that a shot. Thank you for that tip! Stored on: April 2, 2020 Daily Post: April 1 2020: How my art changed in school — Becky Jewell What a great topic! Looking back at those formative years, this is fun to see how you developed. And how you describe your technique, "see how far I could carry a single line". OH wow, I totally see that in your work now. At some point I'd like to do this same retrospect. I'll find my art went from baseball player portraits in high school to much darker art in college. But there are themes I used in college that still pique my interest today. Like the power of rhythm and dance. And the biggest influence discovering the quote by Jorg Immendorf, "art must assume the function of the potato." Stored on: March 31, 2020 Daily post: March 29 2020 - Why Making Art Seems Psychic — Becky Jewell I've found this also with looking at art. Wandering through the Art Institute of Chicago, I'll be more attune to certain works of art. And then realize a little bit later--oh, that's why that artwork was speaking to me! Stored on: March 29, 2020 Five bad DC Comics retcons | Diverse Tech Geek These DC comics retcons are really amusing. I'd love to see you do a list for Star Wars comics retcons. They have some woozies! Stored on: March 29, 2020 Quarantine and geometry | Reflections on Technology, Media & Culture Interesting, maritime flag for quarantine is four squares. Stored on: March 28, 2020 Idea: Auto-tweeting your blog archive - Matt Maldre Maybe it's possible to tweet your blog archives with Google Sheets. Here’s a tutorial from 2015—hopefully it still works. http://kylefinley.net/schedule-tweets-with-images-from-google-sheets Stored on: March 26, 2020 T3: Annotating PDFs and Word Documents Online | The Andersen Library Blog I love commenting. Stored on: March 25, 2020 The Ramblings of a Chicagoan: Audio Journaling During COVID-19 Nice idea! As I've been doing a family diary has been very productive, I'm thinking of doing the Morning Pages, a la Julia Cameron. I don't know anything about Morning Pages other than you are supposed to hand write something completely free from every morning. I think it's three pages? I'm thinking I would just type stuff. Anything at all. If something comes from it that is worth copying into the family diary. I'll copy it into there. If anything comes from it that I want to blog, then I'll copy it into my blog. Maybe you'll find your recordings about this covid-19 era will be used elsewhere too! Stored on: March 25, 2020 Canon PowerShot S110 from 2001 had some decent specs - Spudart it was always wonderful having meetings in that room. Often the window blinds were drawn down, blocking the view. I would always rise up the blinds. Let that view shine! Stored on: March 24, 2020 Nice last line! "home is where the art is." Stored on: March 24, 2020 Imagination Captured – Rebecca Rose Thering This is wonderful! Please continue to share more little snippets like this! Stored on: March 18, 2020 I love this little guy! The color. The look on his face. Stored on: March 18, 2020 Bits of tid that make life interesting – L.T. Hanlon I love how the typewriter cleaner letter to the customer is actually typed out. And I didn't know you could clean the strikers with fabric. It would be funny to bring that typewriter to that New Jersey Bell building, and say "anyone recognize this?!" Maybe they have a couple more of that model laying around. Actually... back in the day, did people have to purchase their own typewriter? Or did companies supply the typewriter? Stored on: March 18, 2020 And I'm certain that I have a positive spin on death, because I know that God has defeated death. And those that believe will continue to live. Stored on: March 8, 2020 Streaming made up 79% of US music revenue in 2019 | Diverse Tech Geek I love how ringtones is a sliver of revenue between 2002 and 2012. Stored on: March 8, 2020 Sketchbook Confessional: February 2020 — Becky Jewell Nice to see props to gouache. I've also ignored this medium, so it's nice to see the positive sides of it. There's a fair amount of works in the Art Institute's collection made with gouache https://www.artic.edu/collection?q=Gouache Stored on: February 29, 2020 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