um, what?

"If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating if you're lucky! It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see."

CLICK HERE.

karate versus krazy.

so much for karate. krazy wins.















the frog was a peacemaker.
what a bad career move.
they never had a chance.









meet krazy (aka axle). the silent assassin.

more procrastination, but with a german twischt.

what a coincedence. same day, different game. check out vw trying to be the samorost flash game.

vw gti game

nice try. not as good but procrastination none the less.

an internet leader for procrastinators

i've already posted this a waaay long time ago back in the days of spymac/spycrap. BUT, it's still great if you have nothing else to do or you want to procrastinate for a bit. beware, it's addicting. VERY addicting. too bad it isn't longer. well...... maybe "it's a good thing" that it isn't longer.

samorost flash game

ps if you're already lost, click on the well-looking thing/observation tower at the top of the "planet" to get started.

no smoking!!!!!

California forces smokers into their homes
Secondhand smoke declared public nuisance
Mar. 19, 2006. 10:32 AM

CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — No more smoking in the park. Lighting up on the sidewalk could bring a fine. Dining on the restaurant patio? Don’t bother asking for matches.
One of the strictest tobacco bans in the United States went into effect in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas last week, making smoking off limits in public places where someone else might be exposed to secondhand smoke: indoor businesses, outdoor businesses, parks, outdoor cafes, apartment building common areas.

“We just don’t want anyone blowing smoke in someone’s face,” said Mayor Pro Tem Dennis Washburn. “Unfortunately, what smokers do is harmful to everybody else. People should have the right to breathe clean air.”

California air-quality regulators declared secondhand smoke a toxic air pollutant earlier this year.

The city took it a step farther, declaring secondhand smoke to be a public nuisance and approving an ordinance banning smoking in all public places — indoors and out — where people might congregate.

Hotels can still allow smoking in up to 20 per cent of their rooms, and smoking can be allowed in approved designated areas at shopping malls and work places in the upscale city of 23,000 residents.

But if a nonsmoker asks a smoker to stop, the smoker must snuff it or face a possible fine in the hundreds of dollars or even a lawsuit.

“We salute Calabasas for raising the bar,” said Jim Knox, a legislative advocate for the American Cancer Society in Sacramento. ``Smoke regulations can play a very important role in reducing public exposure to harmful secondhand smoke.”

Nationally, hundreds of U.S. cities and several states restrict smoking.

In California, where communities have been at the forefront of smoking bans, San Francisco banned smoking in parks and stadiums last year, and oceanfront communities’ smoking bans have inspired others in Florida and Delaware to designate smoke-free beaches.

Among the states, Colorado legislators approved a statewide ban on smoking in most public building last week, and New Jersey’s Smoke-Free Air Act, under fire from bar owners because it exempts casino gambling floors, goes into effect April 15.

stay puff sleeping bag man

so i guess you could say this is like a toe-sock for your body.
interesting.

www.musuchouse.com

scooters, evolved

everyone's seen them. those ratty little kids on scooters doing there thing, trying to be "extreme" and do "tailwhips" and such. you have seen adults on scooters, in business suits, rolling downtown with their jackets and ties flapping in the breeze, legs squeezed together with some strange, awkward posture. you might have even seen a kid at a skatepark rolling over ramps, throwing that thing around trying to do tricks. you look at them, you laugh and think to yourself

"how ridiculous. why doesn't that kid just get a skateboard or a bike?"

"that'll never catch on. no one will ever take that seriously and be 'good' at that."

"scooters.... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..............................HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."

well then, check this out.

scooter action

just goes to show that there is always someone REALLY GOOD at something.

tokyo plans to outdo toronto

Mar. 14, 2006. 10:02 AM
ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOKYO - Japan's major broadcast networks are nearing completion on plans to build the world's tallest tower in Tokyo, a Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday.
The tower — to be 600 metres tall — will be used for terrestrial digital broadcasting at a cost of some $420 million (U.S.), the national newspaper, Yomiuri, reported. It is scheduled for completion in 2011.
Officials from Japan's public broadcaster NHK and five Tokyo-based commercial broadcasting companies are involved in the project.
Kinji Terada, a spokesman of NHK, said officials are now "in a final stage of co-ordination" in picking the location for the tower in Tokyo's old entertainment area in Sumida ward.
The tallest free-standing structure in the world currently is the CN Tower in Toronto, which was built almost 30 years ago and soars just over 553 metres.

now playing....

grab the gun - the organ

i guess you could say it resembles a more upbeat, female version of joy division.... maybe.

OH, and have a listen to - clap your hands say yeah. has super grown on me. good, fun beats!

check them out here.

subconscious binger

have you ever eaten a lot of something in a really short time and didn't realize it because you were busy working?

example: pack of yogurt, 15 minutes

i have this problem. i once finished an entire box of 12 granola bars in 20 minutes. i know the simple solution would be to not have a load of anything around me while i'm working, but it doesn't occur to me until it's too late. oh well. keeps me regular.

t dot o dot com

"Toronto Hydro Corp. will announce Tuesday that it plans to turn Canada's largest city into one giant wireless hotspot, directly challenging the country's major mobile phone carriers for a chunk of the $8 billion a year wireless market."

article here.

damn natalie, you a crazy chick!

Natalie Portman SNL skit. click here.

if it's not there, just type in natalie portman in the search options. should be one there somewhere, along with others.

OR

you can right click, or whatever you do, and download it here.

CALL FOR HEL.......... nevermind.

this public phone is in some rough shape. i guess someone needed a receiver..... pretty bad.
Some will call it junk. Some will call it art. I call it artsy junk.

welcome to the 50's!!!!

so, remember chris rock was in a movie where he played a comedian nicknamed "Booey," and comes back to life after being killed briefly as an old, white millionaire? i can't remember what it's called right now. but anyway, at the beginning of the movie he arrives at hotel, i think, and the bellman tells him "Deliveries are in the back!" so chris rock goes off on the bellman asking him why does he have to be a delivery guy (cause he's black), he can't have a room in the hotel? he makes the bellman feel horrible, then it turns out he IS a delivery guy. well, that sort of happened to me today.

i showed up at an agency and approached the secretary. immediately, she says:
"oh, are you here for the pick-up?"

"um, no. i'm not,"

(at this point she puts her head back down and continues to write out a packing slip.)
"Deliveries are over there."

"OK."
(so now i'm thinking, are you kidding me? seriously!)

so she looks up, completely confused, and says "You're not from Fed-Ex or Purolator?"

in my dark GREEN jacket, scarf, and green etc. camo hat, i respond. "No. No I'm not."

she says, again completely puzzled "Then whhhhhyyyyyyyy are you here?"

"ACTUALLY..........."

Even after I explained to her that i was an art director and was there to see the creative director, she still seemed puzzled like there was no possible way i could have been there for any other reason then to deliver or pick-up a package. what year is it again?


well, i'm sure if i get a job there, she'll quit or her head will explode.... if it hasn't already.

canada, the "untouchable"........... please!

i don't know about you but i'm getting pretty sick and tired of hearing about this canadian-hockey-team-loss fiasco. i know hockey is canada's unofficial national sport (poor lacrosse) but c'mon. give the other countries and teams some credit. canada went, they lost, big whoop. it's not the end of the world. people talk like canada was guaranteed the gold medal. like it was absolutely unfeasible for them to lose or anyone else to win. nothing in this life is guaranteed. why don't people stop and think for two seconds. isn't it quite possible that russia or any of the other teams that beat canada could have actually played better? whoops, i'm sorry. that's impossible. hmmmm.

how about all the other athletes that did well? is that not worth talking about? hockey wasn't the only sport at the olympics and hockey isn't the only sport in canada. it's over kids. not only is the mens hockey teams loss over-shoadowing all the medals won by canadians at the olympics, but they are even over-shadowing the womens team who breezed through the tournament and WON gold with a for-and-against of 46-2 not to mention a gold-repeat AND cindy klassen, who won 5 MEDALS. whoops, sorry again..... hockey is more important. so back to that....

news flash canadians: there are other hockey teams on this earth that can contend in an international tournament. there is talent in other countries, believe it or not. don't you think it's a tremendous slap in the face to think that there is not another team that can match the skills of canada? gimme a break. it's fine to think you're team is great. i'm not saying not to do that. but don't trash them if they lose and make it seem like someone just found a 10 legged shark walking in a grocery store shopping for vegetables because it was vegetarian.

i think its pretty disgusting how society treats athletes by the way. and it happens all the time, not only with this past olympics, with everything.... except curling. it's the bandwagon. and the bandwagon sucks. jump on and support your team when they are winning. abandon them and talk shit when they're losing. what kind of fans are those? i think it's disgusting and personally, i would not want fans like that. fans that hop on your back and are there with you to celebrate when you're on top of the world. jump off, leave you to die and spit on you when you lose. i think it would be amazing to be able to go to the olympics and represent yourself, not a country. yes, i know the olympics are there to bring nations together and blah blah blah but you know what i mean.

"my grandmother plays better hockey!" i'd like to see that critical 110 pound chap in the business suit on the street tell that to todd bertuzzi, face to face, in a room, with no witnesses.

attack of the flying tomato

"Meet the Coolest Kid in America" click here for the article.

do you think this kid is going to be bigger than tony hawk?

klub karaoke

complete with external washrooms. buffalo, ny.

introducing........ the incredible..........

the vegestaple. delicious! imagine the nutrients!!!!!!!!

check your produce when shopping, kids.

amazing!

check it out.

hoop hero

get your geek on!

so today i went to a two part seminar on adobe cs2, and the moving from quark and advantages of adobe indesign and boy, was it worth it! 7 hours well spent. adobe definitely has its shit together and they are doing a pretty fantastic job showing how pathetic and useless quark is. quark, is what it is, an "80's" program, becoming outdated and hopefully soon to be obsolete. they can take as much time as they want becoming more modern. meanwhile adobe is 50 steps ahead. in a few years, i don't think anyones going to care or remember quark. kinda like cds tapes. you know, before iPods, mp3 players and CDs? i seriously couldn't believe what i was seeing and i can totally believe the stories sebastian, the adobe rep, told about bringing some people to tears after his presentation. TWICE. one lady because she just realized how much time she was wasting and how much easier and less stressfull her life could be, being a graphic designer, and another chap who literally had a breakdown now seeing with his boss, how his job was now absolutely worthless (basically to organize files in a certain way that quark couldn't do on it's own before giving them to the designers). don't worry, his employer found another role for him. he didn't get fired.

printing companies are forcing us to use quark because they are too cheap to change over and disinterested in learning the new program. well, eventually they aren't going to have a choice! suck it up, printers. deal with it! welcome to the future.

"isn't that nasty?!"
sebastian distefano

but yeah, i definitely recommend going to any seminars you can, on anything. i'm pretty sure apple has regular seminars on how to use OSX etc. so i would check that out if i were you. it can only make life of using programs easier and the easy life a apple computers even easier. even if you think you know everything, trust me, there's always something. it also helps to have an amazing presentor like i had. beware though. if you go to a specialized seminar like the one i went to, don't be startled at the amount of zealots in the audience ooooooooooooooing, awwwwwwwwwwwwwing, giggling, and applauding and kissing the feet of the presentor. you'd almost think you were in somekind of orgy! maybe that's what it really was? but to get in you have to have a laptop, glasses, calculator and pocket protector. a slight snort in your laugh and the ability speak a television sudo-language is recommended. it's a weird scene. needless to say, i got in.

in other unrelated news, george clooney is taking over toronto.

oh, and i dodged a punch from a drunk.

hmmmm

when did email become snail-mail?

just curious.

review photos> delete

i think photographers have a silent obligation to put some sense and release photographs that do not have any demeaning or embarassing qualities.... unless that is it's purpose. i was perusing around looking for photos from torino/turin and came across this one.

i think this is one fo those photos you look at, kinda chuckle, then delete.

in case you haven't heard...

"scientists find 'Lost World' in jungle"
article here and here.

can you hear me knocking........... on the door? with my cane?

so, the rolling stones.

what can i say? i watched them perform at halftime of the superbowl and was blown away. those are the most energetic old men i have ever seen. well, old man. mick jagger was moving around like they surgically attached his head onto a body of a young adult. not bad for a SIXTY THREE YEAR OLD. pretty amazing i think. man, that guy can move.

"who would have thought they would have been around this long?"
my mom

as for the other members, it was kinda weird to watch them "rock out." charlie, the drummer, looked like he was litterally suffering from alzhemeirs and the only thing he knew how to do was drum, so straight-faced and comatosed, that's what he did. i guess you could say he is the only one who has accepted his age, with his short, white haircut and his purple t-shirt; though that might have been his style before, i don't know. keith richards and brian jones looked like their faces were about to peel off and their bodies about to collapse and as they hit the ground, limbs would break and dust would rise from the impact and that would remain would be leather, jewelry and ash. they weren't as energetic as mr. jagger but they tried and still put on a show. at times it looked like they were struggling and stiff but i suppose that's just normal and mr. jagger is the anomaly. and to think, these guys do this all the time. they don't hang-out at home, play scrabble, and talk to furniture. they are a legimate rock band and i find that so amazing. LOOK AT THAT PICTURE! THEY ARE OLD MEN!!!!! amazing.

i wonder how much longer they are going to go for.

decisions, decisions.

i sponged this from my girlfriend.

The United States has discovered a planet, Futura, in another galaxy whose environment is very similar to the Earth's. There is every indication that the planet will be able to support human life, although no human life has been detected on Futura. The US has just completed a spaceship that will be able to travel to Futura. The spaceship was built on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean and will only hold seven people. Your subgroup has been appointed by the government to select the first seven people to go to Futura. Your subgroup is in frequent contact with the chief scientist for this project. The spaceship is remarkable in that it has a new computer system that has already been programmed to automatically guide the ship to Futura without requiring a pilot.

Suddenly, a nuclear war breaks out among the world powers. It is New Year's Eve. Russia, China, The U.S. and Israel are already launching their nuclear warheads. It looks like the nuclear destruction may eliminate human civilization on this planet. The chief scientist frantically calls. The spaceship must take off in fifteen minutes to Futura or it will be destroyed. She and your subgroup believe that the seven people that go may be the only people left to start the human race again.

There are thirteen people at the spaceship. You must decide who will be selected. You have only fifteen minutes to make a decision. If a decision is not made in fifteen minutes, a nuclear warhead is apt to hit the island and destroy the spaceship. All you know about the thirteen people is the following:

1. Chief scientist, female, 47 years old
2. Hispanic peasant, female, 4 months pregnant
3. Black male, 3rd year medical student
4. White female, prostitute, 27 years old, Communist
5. While male, homosexual, Olympic athlete, 24 years old
6. White biology professor, 67 years old
7. Rabbi, 27 years old
8. White female, on general relief, 28 years old, arrested for several felonies, never been employed
9. Female home economist, 24 years old, white, has cerebral palsy
10. Korean child, male, 8 years old
11. White male, moderately retarded due to lack of oxygen at birth
12. White female elementary schoolteacher, 27 years old, has genital herpes
13. 28-year old white farmer who has a vasectomy

Who do you choose?