I am always feeling peaceful when I see robins hanging out in my neighbourhood. They are quite friendly actually …
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My friend Rochelle sent this to me via email and I thought it was an awesome way to get the word out and have people get involved in helping endangered wildlife in gradually shrinking natural habitat, in this case, tigers in China which are also being speed bred in anticipation of government permitted sales of tiger-related products. I can understand the demand for these products but at the same time there has to be some way to stop the massive consumption–at the very least moderate it.
I think WWF was quite innovative here and made use of one of my favourite hobbies–photography! But really the WWF got people involved by simply sending in their own photograph to join the thousands of other people to come together and make a photo mosaic of a tiger. It is very impressive when I see all the different people around the world coming together in this act of visual activism (for lack of a better word).
Well that time of year has hit. I think I have said that before but this one would be in reference to exam time! So for the rest of this week I will be hitting the books after I jet out of the office. So that’s the bad news …
The good news is that the trip to New Hampshire has begun. We look toward hiking towards the summit, if not to the summit itself. Why? Because tourism is taking over the wilderness. *phooey*
Looking out from Mt. Washington, NH
Another side of Mt. Washington, NH
I had traveled there with my family a couple of years ago, but we did not really get to hike up as my family isn’t really the hiking type, so this time a couple of friends and I are making the journey down to hike the White Mountains Region of New Hampshire. This time I intend on enjoying the spectacular views of New Hampshire thoroughly!
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The Globe and Mail has an article by Cathryn Atkinson about the possibility of website hosting service providers being charged for libel. The case involves the Green Party’s former campaign Wayne Crookes against Blogspot (Google), Wikipedia, and Openpolitics.ca.
Personally, I don’t think the website hosting service provider should be the one held responsible for free speech. It simply does not make any sense to hold the service provider accountable to screen content that they merely provide the infrastructure behind. If anything, the actions of the website hosting service provider would be to take down or suspend the user’s account pending the details. This is typically something they do most of the time anyways based on their terms and conditions when users sign up. To force website hosting service providers to screen content actively is pretty much like an act of “big brother” and a little too authoritative in style from my perspective. I’m sure others would say otherwise.
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For those who have long speculated that Inkjet printer companies are upping prices of ink while lowering the price of printers … well, here’s a very detailed report with tests and results that you’ll likely find quite fascinating. Thanks TrustedReviews!
Sometimes I wonder if heading out of the house 2 hours in advance really does me any good. No matter what I seem to do, the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission for those who don’t know about Toronto) appears to be some sort of great equalizer that somehow eliminates as much time as possible between me getting out of the house up till the point I get out of Union Station. Today I managed to get delayed twice while sleeping on the subway. Normally I don’t notice this since I’m dozing off on the subway but today was different. We had to stop at Davisville because someone had pressed the emergency alarm. Automatically people began to panick as the train was delayed and started flocking out of the train as if the world was about to end. The funny thing is that after about 5 minutes, the subway operator announced our train would be ready to leave as soon as the paramedics took the ill person off the train. Of course people began flocking back into the train only to have the operator announce yet again that we would not be departing until the train behind us went first. This of course, led to people flocking back out like there was no tomorrow. I could not help but smile at the silliness.
This has made me decide to start yet another a new blog about the TTC, the people who ride the TTC and have a few people join me in discussing ideas and whining (some prefer the word critiquing…) about daily life on the TTC. I guess technically Spacing Magazine does a pretty good job of discussing the TTC, but I don’t read magazines very often (no time) and Spacing Magazine really is much more activist-like than I am, so this blog will just be for the average person. So … let me know if you’d like to join in on the ruckus.
So aside from my rather silly TTC story, I was studying for my midterm today and I happened across of old goggles. Not just any pair of old goggles, but this pair is classic just because it really illustrates graphic design back in 1995. Not that this relates to graphic design at all, but ask yourself, what were you doing back in 1995? Here’s a shot of it below:
I can’t remember if this was for Chemistry or Industrial Arts…
So you’re probably wondering why I have a pair of these goggles? Actually I don’t, I was looking for Goggles for a photo shoot that I will probably work on tomorrow at Dundurn and I figured it’d make a good prop? Maybe I’ll post them later.
And while I was pondering about life back in 1995 … I recalled a discussion over the weekend about The Littlest Hobo and I figured what better way to honour the past with the intro to one of the best tv shows ever to come out of the Golden Age of Canadian television … well almost. I have a couple of episodes still on VHS although the quality is dying, sadly enough and I have photograph of London. In case you didn’t know, London was the name of the dog in the show. It’s amazing how many people on YouTube still fondly remember the show so well.
I enjoy snow. Very much so. I wish we got more. In fact, I wouldn’t mind a snow day now and then. Although, that’d be good only if it didn’t count as a sick day. It was nice when Toronto almost shutdown due to the snow. I wonder if it will happen again. Would be nice for a change wouldn’t it? ha!
Just a imagine…
Here are some snow-filled-fun photographs:
The Trees were covered with nice nice snow. But that lasted only an hour.
Only time, I have ever seen and heard, lightning, thunder and snow?
Even the people at the Hockey Hall of Fame were covered…
You can really see the snow fly by… look, it’s the two mailboxes that we stuff full all the time! The street is really deserted at this point.
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