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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. 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 Growing Up In a Junk Wax World - One Million Cubs Project I was born in 1975, we started collecting with the 1985 Topps set. Then we moved onto the Topps baseball sticker albums for a few years. We returned back to the cards for the 1989 Topps set. This 89 set is the main set we collected most as kids. Stored on: June 3, 2020 Another In-Person Twitter Trade - One Million Cubs Project That Lee Smith rookie card is nice. And the Dunston! What a great card! I collect Shawon; and I have never seen this error. Stored on: June 3, 2020 How to keep track of books you'd like to borrow from your local library - Matt Maldre When I take out a book from my library, I take it off the wish list, and move the book onto the list called “Borrowed from Glen Ellyn Library”: Stored on: June 1, 2020 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 30, 2020 Random Yard Photo - avoision.com | avoision.com This would be a fine yard for croquet. Stored on: April 29, 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 27, 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