Category: strangeness + randomness
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Polar Bear
After discussing the idea with Allen last week, I couldn’t resist pulling a ‘polar bear‘ on Saturday at the cottage. My version of a polar bear is: 30 minutes in…
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Trust the satellite view
Great art piece that fuses our trust of imagery and ‘events/places’ in religious history. As Geoff who works with me just said .. “… I honestly dont take any image…
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Viper or Boa
Viper or Boa We have a couple pictures of this crazy snake that was just outside the place we rented in Costa Rica (this is about as close as we…
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Grilled goodness
While I was traveling, this became the breakfast of choice at 5:30 AM before going out for the morning surf session. The Grilled PB+CHOCO+BANANA Sandwich Ingredients: Peanut butter (Crunchy) Whole…
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Burton offering poaching $
Burton has a great new contest, offering $20,000 total for the best “poaching” videos from each of the 4 resorts left in North America that still don’t allow snowboarding. For…
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STOKs
STOKS Brought these back from the states to show the crew at the office. They are “expresso” type shots that you’re supposed to add to your gas station coffee for…
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Pac-Txt
This is very funny. Someone took the time (wow) to create a text only version of Pac Man, like Mac games from 1986. The game starts off with this spooky…
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Leopard and Alex
One of my favorite new features of Leopard is the new professional voice they have included. “Alex”, is the new voice of Mac OS X. Before you read any further…
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Exhange of the $
Wow.. Warren just got back from the bank. In prep for his trip to Buenos Aires he had to exchange some Canadian $ for US $. The bank gave him…
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Police caught trying to start riot at SPP
This kind of thing makes me sick. The police have been, caught on video, trying to start/provoke a riot at SPP demonstration last Monday afternoon. “Organizers of the protests at…
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Stay away from Stadig in Wells
I was going to write this long post bemoaning the service we received at Stadig campground in Wells, Southern Maine last weekend, but I’ll keep it short and simple. We…
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Cloud surfing
Kinda a fun story, but it’s really the photos that make it spectacular! I’ve uploaded them here (700k large image) as I can’t find them from a public source. “Who’d…
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Roadkill on the outerspace super highway
We were all talking about this article that popped up on DIGG last night. Basically it states that we could be very close to contacting another intelligent civilization; and that…
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You snooze, you win
I’m a good napper. You might even say a great napper. My cottage naps are the stuff of legend. I can put myself to sleep very easily and wake up…
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The roof of the Belgo via Google maps
Update: Found this link to the art project on our roof. Love it. Google has finally updated the satellite imagery for Montréal. This morning I was looking through google maps…