Tag: Calendars

I folded my Chicago-style hot dog flag using the same 13-fold triangular method as the American flag. Normally you end up with a field of stars. Here the protocol demands a perfect field of neon green relish, sports peppers, and…

Today is day 169 of 2025. That's 13² in the year of 45². There's something beautifully nerdy about living through a square year and marking all its square days. Most people stopped memorizing squares at 144, making 169 obscure.

Every year, I wish my brother a Happy Wheaton Day on his town’s anniversary. Now I’m thinking of doing this for all my friends’ towns—along with a fun question about trees. Would you reply?

Did you know 2025 is a square year? That’s right! 45 × 45 = 2025. The last one was 1936, and the next won't be until 2116.

Mark April 7, 2025 on your calendar. It will be the 97th day of the year, which is is the 25th prime number.

12/3/45 will occur on this day in 21 years. I put it on my Google Calendar, do you want it on yours? I'll send you an invite.

Welcome to Nevermber: where Black Friday sales, pumpkin spice, and endless gratitude make for the coziest kind of procrastination

How to make a bookmarklet that will automatically search what you tweeted on this day ten years ago.

I’d like to make a master calendar of all my goofy dates. I don’t want to clutter up my calendar. When there is a real event, like my daughter’s ice skating lesson, I don’t want 6 other random events blocking…

Ever thought of making 'How are you?' more interesting? I'm spending this year answering with National Holidays! 🎉

National Illinois Day falls on Dec 7th, and it's a reminder to transition from Thanksgiving to Christmas! 🌲 Discover more fun facts and festive musings.

Just what is a snailpaper anyways?

19 days to fly your flag; and an additional 46 days if you are really adventurous

I saw on National Day Calendar that today is National Mario Day. Now I know why it’s on March 10. Funny how National Day Calendar’s page doesn’t mention anything about how MAR 10 looks like MARIO. I love little word…

My thoughts on the humor in this comic This is a rather silly webcomic about palindromes. Not as clever as I’d like my webcomics to be. But the script resulted in a work Slack conversation where I was being goofy.…

Every day write one line summarizing that day. I call it the one-line diary. Easy to update. Easy to read. Easy to update Longer journals can be daunting to write. Bullet journals can be intense with all their code and…

If there’s any day of the year where you can show up half an hour late to work, it’s the day after Daylight Savings. Turning the clocks back one hour throws the rhythm off things. A friend of mine works…

I love it when dates fall into neat equations like this. Today is a wonderful multiplication day. ↓ TranscriptEtym: Today's date, February 8, 2016 is 2x8=16

Today is the 736,000th day since Jan 1, 0001! I went to timeanddate.com to double-check the math. On their homepage, they have a promo to print our 2016 calendar (archived screenshot). At first glance when I saw the image, I…

It seems everyone loves Fridays and hates Mondays. Certainly the mental association with Fridays and Mondays is tied in with their relation with the weekend. A study revealed that the stronger identities of Monday and Friday make Tuesday, Wednesday, and…

Why limit yourself to saying Happy New Year just once a year? Start your week off with a party and say Happy New Week to everyone. Also, welcome my new webcomic characters, Etym the mole, and the Worm to be…

There are two incredible art events happening in Chicago on Thursday, November 17, 2011. 1) A talk at the Cultural Center on Chicago’s bridges (i love Chicago’s Bridges) 2) A dance performance interpreting artwork at the Art Institute (art +…

Image from shutterstock.com Sporting events 2008: Summer Olympics 2009: The second World Baseball Classic, The Women’s Professional Soccer league will debut Winner: 2008. Nothing trumps the summer Olympics Politics 2008: Presidential election 2009: Nothing Winner: 2008. Obama! Chinese Year 2008:…

I hereby declare the day after Christmas to be called “Christmas Adam.” Christmas Eve is the day before Christmas, so it only makes sense to declare Christmas Adam for December 26. It’s really cool how Christmas is such an important…

Some thoughts on dates since January 1, 0001: October 1, 2007 would be day number 732,951 starting from the beginning of AD in January 1, 0001. It’s been 1,055,449,440 minutes. That’s just a tad over 1 billion minutes. (One billion…

Public calendars: Upcoming.org planyp.us eventful.com Social sites: 43things.com Facebook MySpace bulletins MySpace events Friendster Bulletin Board Local papers/websites: Metromix.com (must be three weeks in advance) Craigslist Centerstage Chicago (only music or theatre events) Gapersblock eventful.com Eventful.com will also post to…

From the list of my friends’ blogs, I looked up everyone’s first blog post. Here they are sorted by oldest to newest: 12/15/98: Hamblog 09/15/00: Supah 04/25/01: Jotsheet 09/28/01: spudart.org 05/13/02: Deep Fun 06/19/02: Confessions of a Foodie 01/07/03: Hello,…

I added six teams to the list. Now there are 21 teams listed. Now you can easily see who plays when. Just visit the calendar over at: Professional Independent and Minor League Sports in Chicago. Which are the busiest months…

Are there any daily devotional studies out there that also have a monthly calendar companion? It would be nice to have a calendar up with some bible verses that reinforce what the devotional is covering for that month.

(photo courtesy of tiseb) Estonian Independence day is a mere two weeks away. Let the celebrations begin! On February 24, 1918, the Republic of Estonia was declared free from Lenin and his monster Russia. It was actually the Germans who…

Mark May 6, July 7, and September 8 on your calendar this year! May 6 05/06/07 08:09 03:04 05/06/07 July 7 07/07/07 07:07 September 8 09/08/07 06:05 11:10 09/08/07 You can add these events to your calendar as an iCal…