Mike Pictor

This is a bit longish, but a very powerful clip. A group of protestors, do reverse graffiti, by cleaning away the grime from exhaust and oil in a car tunnel as a demonstration about the buildup effect of pollution.

I picked up a kneeling chair today.

I desperately needed a new chair at my computer desk. The old one was never a very super quality one, and the structure had …. sagged somehow, such that sitting upright was still sort of reclining back a ways, and it made my back hurt. With all the love […]

Been a while since I answered the altfriday5…but they did look interesting
From the altfriday5:

This week’s questions are inspired by parts of Passionate Marriage, by David Schnarch, a book I highly recommend for anyone interested in the mechanics of (or improving one’s) intimate, long-term relationships.
1. Do you usually kiss with your eyes open or closed? Why?
Usually, […]

This blows my mind. Is this normal in the US? Watch Texas legislators vote more than once, by casting votes for any of their absent buddies…over and over and over. How are these people not up on charges…like most of the legislature?

Opera Browser 9.5 Alpha release
Anyone use Opera as their main browser. It’s one of those ones I keep hearing about, and then I poke it a couple of times, and back track back to what I was using before. Just wondering what people’s experience with it may be. The new synching features in 9.5 may […]

They do care!
Bell just called me. “We understand you recently switched services. Was it something we did?”
I actually started feeling my adrenalin pump, and started getting angry. I told him to look up my call history, and hung up on him.
I am leaving for a pleasant weekend in Kingston in a couple of hours…I just […]

Saw Helen’s new nice 22″ monitor today.
Fighting real hard against splurging on a new 24″ iMac….my 17″ works just fine….except it’s 7″ smaller than it could be. I think I can still get work to cover 25% of the tag too.
Also, why are the new iPods in stores, except the (Product)red branded iPods…which are *only* […]

I need new headphones.
I have had enough of having to cup my hands over my ears to hear my iPod while walking beside traffic even though the volume is at max. The sounds just bleeds out, and also lets too much sound in.
I think I have to treat myself to a nicer pair of […]

Something I am not clear on.
If my cell phone is a 613 Ottawa number, and I am in Toronto let’s say…is it still long distance to call a Toronto number? Is it still a local call for someone in Ottawa to call my number, or for me to call an Ottawa number?
I have found information […]

Not a busy weekend particularly. Saturday, I got into bodypump class at Goodlife, and now that I am back in the habit of that a little bit, I no longer feel broken afterwards. I stayed home most of the day after that, since the Rogers internet guy was coming again to sort out why my […]