Kyle MacDonald

The World's Longest Receipt™ is for sale for $18,871.93 on Etsy

2011-12-22T19:43:00.000-05:00

What happens when you walk into a store and buy every single item? On May 20th, 2011, a group of artists walked into Hercules Fancy Grocery in New York City with a briefcase filled with $20,000 in cash and bought every single item for sale in the store. The total purchase price of everything in the store was $18,871.93

The sale price of the receipt is the exact total cost of all items in the store: $18,871.93

For sale now on Etsy, click here to read more.

One Red Paperclip Inc. Etsy Store

2011-12-22T19:40:00.002-05:00

The Original Store Buyout receipt

2011-10-19T11:23:00.003-04:00

DDP PROMO VIDEO!!!!!!

2011-10-05T01:42:00.001-04:00

GO TO THE KICKSTARTER AND DONATE IF YOU WANT THIS PARTY SAFARI TO HAPPEN!!!

DDP EASTERN CANADA PARTY SAFARI ANNOUNCED!!!! Please donate / buy merch to make these parties happen!

2011-09-26T18:10:00.002-04:00

DDP Party Safari 2011 Stop #1 = Vancouver + Bikes

2011-09-06T23:14:00.001-04:00

Help make the Decentralized Dance Party Safari a reality!

2011-09-06T05:16:00.002-04:00

Times Square Slip 'n Slide during Hurricane Irene

2011-08-31T15:11:00.002-04:00

99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall LIVE.

2011-08-03T04:12:00.002-04:00

We walked into a store and bought EVERYTHING.

2011-06-07T20:59:00.000-04:00

StoreBuyout.com

What colors do you mix to make the color burgundy?

2011-05-11T18:33:00.000-04:00

Either:

1. two parts red to 1 part green

2. two parts red to 1 part navy blue

3. red with a tinge of purple

4. red and brown

5. orange and brown

This is the JAM

2011-05-07T13:20:00.000-04:00

This is how you do it.

2011-05-03T13:01:00.001-04:00

What is a good idea?, a photo by kylemac on Flickr.

Follow Fewer People

2011-04-26T11:25:00.000-04:00

It costs nothing to follow 1 million people on twitter. But what's the cost of distraction? Following even 1000 people on twitter is ridiculous. There's no possible way you can keep track of who's doing what. Trim the people who no longer inspire you. Trim the dude who tweets whenever he buys a sandwich. Trim the COMPLAINERS. It's tough, because it feels like you're going to lose something, but you'll gain so much more. Ditch people for the sake of your own clarity. Drop the 'under performing' folks for new beginnings. And please, if you don't dig my tweets, please drop me!

What if Google is just some insane religion?

2011-04-22T13:10:00.000-04:00

This is the Google Doodle today:

It looks startlingly similar to one of those amazing Jehovah's Witness drawings:

It's Good Friday AND Earth Day today. A coincidence. Or is it? Google's motto is 'Don't be evil' and their mission statement is to organize all the world's information. Those fit in line with pretty much all the major religions. Be good to others, question nothing. God knows everything. So does Google. Or at least Google is trying to know everything.

Most people I know scoff at the idea of organized religion. They see it as a throwback to primitive times. A time when the uneducated masses believed everything that was told to them. To them, organized religion has no place in our world. We're better than that, they say. But to all you folks that will never pray at the altar of some organized religion, how many of you will ask the almighty Google a question today? And how many of you will blindly click on the first link that's served to you?

Will we one day look back on Google as some sort of insane cult? Will we shake our heads in disbelief that the masses were so unilaterally led? Will Sergey Brin and Larry Page be seen by our offspring as extremely influential nutjobs like Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard. Google's underlying technology is called Pagerank, after all. I talked to Sergey at a conference last week and he was wearing a backpack...that's always a sign somebody's up to something, right?

Anywho....

To all you sinners out there, go forth in your quest for knowledge, but be wary of the single voice who promises paradise and absolute truth.

This is the signature at the bottom of all Air Canada emails.

2011-04-18T13:02:00.000-04:00

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Dom Dom !

2011-03-17T13:43:00.001-04:00

Dom has a cookbook!

2011-03-07T17:08:00.002-05:00

Cooking With Dom by Dominique Dupuis
Brand New! More than 30 recipes. 70 pages.
larmoireduhaut.com

Dominique is a great teacher and the atmosphere of he school is amazing!

-Annabelle Marquis, Artist

We were completely elated after Dominique's cooking class.

She helped instill a desire to take care of ourselves - no small feat in itself!

-Eve Dumas, Journalist, La Presse

Buy it today! (Prices INCLUDE all taxes and shipping. That's right, FREE shipping!

Cooking With Dom - cookbook by Dominique Dupuis - L'Armoire du Haut

Think nobody wants to take a flyer from somebody in the streets? Try giving away money.

2011-03-02T22:22:00.002-05:00

Keep a Healthy Fringe

2011-02-26T13:21:00.002-05:00

The awesome thing about the internet is we surround ourselves with all our favorite things. We follow our friends on facebook and twitter. We check the news we want to read, when we want to read it. Our favorite things are always there for us. It's all very neat. But that's the problem:

It's too neat.

If you don't challenge yourself, you don't grow.

I was lucky enough to see an amazing talk by Lenny Ratchitsky at TEDxConcordia last week about serendipity. He talked about how often the most important events in life come unplanned and unforeseen. Chance encounters we seemingly have no control over often result in the most life altering things. By surrounding ourselves in digital life with only the things we love, our chance for life-changing events and realizations diminishes greatly. If we follow the advice of others too much, our experiences become generic. We share the same experiences. Instead of reading restaurant reviews, why not just go outside and eat at a restaurant you've never heard of? Why not turn off GPS and find your way by your intuition? Sure, you might eat some horrible meals and get lost every now and then, but being lost can be pretty fun sometimes.

So that's my idea for the day: Turn off the GPS on your digital life and do things on the internet that don't make perfect sense.

Keep a fringe.

Follow people you don't know. Go to websites you've never been before. Click on links that don't interest you at all. Try new things. Sure, most of the time these links will be complete duds, and some of the folks you follow will be so completely boring/annoying it hurts. But keep it up for a bit before you cut them off. The most surprising things always come from the most unexpected places.

I am a Fan of @jessedee and this revenue model!

2011-02-21T17:10:00.001-05:00

The World's Greatest Opportunity

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Kyle MacDonald at Ignite Montreal Feb 2011

2011-02-11T01:11:00.002-05:00

How to Trade a Red Paperclip for a House - Part 2

2011-02-10T05:13:00.001-05:00

How to Trade a Red Paperclip for a House - Part 2

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The DDP Party Safari 2011

2011-02-06T18:37:00.001-05:00

Pure as the driven snow

2011-02-05T00:16:00.002-05:00

Make gif

Cycle Killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?

2011-02-04T04:33:00.002-05:00

Cycle Killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?

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CLICK ON THIS SLIDESHOW

2011-02-04T01:28:00.002-05:00

CLICK ON THIS SLIDESHOW

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Pictures of People Taking Pictures at the GRAND CANYON

2011-02-03T21:09:00.001-05:00

Pictures of People Taking Pictures at the GRAND CANYON

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How to trade a red paperclip for a house. Part 1

2011-02-03T03:15:00.002-05:00

How to trade a red paperclip for a house part 1

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2011-01-25T04:31:00.000-05:00

Writing blog posts is harder than reading them.

2011-01-24T01:11:00.001-05:00

Dominique Dupuis from L'Armoire du Haut - Montreal's best healthy cooking classes

2010-10-13T00:23:00.004-04:00

Dominique Dupuis de L'Armoire du Haut vous offre les meilleurs cours de cuisine santé a Montréal:

www.larmoireduhaut.com

514-678-4075

Dominique Dupuis of L'Armoire du Haut offers the best healthy cooking classes in Montreal:

Que la vie est belle! Je suis une passionnée et c’est un bonheur de
pouvoir faire ce que j'aime le plus au monde et de partager avec vous
une cuisine innovante, colorée, harmonieuse et surtout santé! Diplômée
en technique de diététique je me suis, par goût et par conviction, tout
naturellement dirigée vers la cuisine végétarienne et les cuisines du
monde. Lors de mes nombreux voyages partout sur la planète, j’ai
poursuivi ma formation en prenant des cours de cuisine. Conférencière
sur des thèmes aussi variés que «J'pars en appart» ou «Comment avoir un
garde-manger en santé» ou professeure de cuisine au Centre communautaire
de HoMa avec «La cuisine santé économique», j’apprécie le contact
direct avec les gens. Très versatile et pas du tout dogmatique dans ma
vision de l’alimentation je prends plaisir à échanger et suis persuadée
qu’il y a toujours place à l’amélioration et la nouveauté.
La santé de la planète passe par l’alimentation de ses habitants.
- Dominique Dupuis

*****

Cooking class, Montreal healthy eating, learn to cook healthy foods, vegetarian, vegan, raw vegan, Indian, Thai, Sri Lankan, Asian. Cours de cuisine, cours de cuisine santé Montréal, végétarien, végétalien, cru, Indienne, Tahilandaise, Sri Lanka, Asiatique.

2010-10-12T01:57:00.002-04:00

Kyle MacDonald Facebook

2010-09-19T20:46:00.003-04:00

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An observation of a Montreal scene in 2005

2009-12-16T22:00:00.003-05:00

At the corner of Ste Catherine and Creescent sits an Energie Cardio ‘Select’ and a Burger King. They are on the South side of Ste Catherine, separated by Crescent. Both have entrances on the ground floor. Both have large windows facing each other. Burger eaters can watch cardio raisers and sweating exercisers see cigarettes enjoyed with large cups of coffee. The street is reality, the upper floor an escape. The upstairs of the Burger King is filled with smokers eating hamburgers and drinking coffee financed by the generous spare-change offerings of passerby on the street. The upstairs is a refuge from the tough face of the reality of –20 degree weather waiting outside. Stories are traded, alliances are made and warmth is savoured. These people are going nowhere, except back out to the street in search of more spare change.

“What are you doing tonight?”
“Getting stoned.”
“That girl come up to me and tells me she’s pregnant! (big laugh) She wanna have my baby…I can just see it now. That baby, when it comes out, a big smile with my big tooth missing.”

Across the street, a nubile young woman strikes an enticing pose on her workout ball. Her tight underwear visible through her tight yoga-style pants.

Fit.
Serious.
Sweating.
Muscular.
New shoes.

Inside the Burger King, a hand slaps the table as a bearded wheezing man laughs heartily and coughs loudly, emitting a cloud of smoke from the deepest depth of his lungs.

Laughing.
Unkempt.
Scruffy.
Toothless.
Bad shoes.

Each world is oblivious to the other, yet for each, this is an escape.

Through the smoke and din of rowdy stories I see the folks at Energie Cardio stare blankly into up-to-the-minute headline news and stock quotes on TV screens suspended over the front of their treadmills. It’s like a carrot suspended over the head of a rabbit. The rabbit never gets the carrot but continues to run forward in hopes of a tasty treat. Intermittently, a highlight from an NBA game is celebrated with two guys giving each other a big high five. A fist punches the air as a game winning three-pointer hits its mark. A fit woman steps of the stairmaster and slams a specially-formulated electrolyte-replacing drink. The coordinated exercise class stares themselves intently in the mirror as they complete a maneuver using large rubber balls in unison. A heart-rate is checked, a towel wipes down a stationary bike.

“She ain’t pregnant, she just going through menopause.”
“She ain’t pregnant, you shooting blanks!”
The men coffee-drinkers high five each other.
“Yeah, blanks all right: blank bullets.”

Revello Equipped by DJ Dancefloor

2009-12-16T20:20:00.002-05:00

This video is pretty self explanatory. We don't know who these guys are, and it's really awesome to be Revello Equipped.

Beat Generation by DJ Dancefloor

2009-12-16T20:19:00.002-05:00

This is near Pense Saskatchewan. I made the song on my laptop somewhere. Probably over a bowl of cereal at our place in Montreal. Don't miss the truck!

Snow Fence by DJ Dancefloor

2009-12-16T20:16:00.001-05:00

I find snow removal to be utterly fascinating. Maybe because I grew up in a place where snow removal meant turning on the garden hose and washing the snow away, but maybe not. Montreal gets rocked with snow, and then these magical snow removal elves come out in their flashing disco light trucks and whisk it all away, at night.

1991 by DJ Dancefloor

2009-12-16T20:15:00.002-05:00

This song goes out to all overweight glasses-clad Japanese men in overalls who've ever fallen off a fence because they were so excited about the prospect of a bowl of steaming hot noodles, from Hokkaido! A staple of my diet for most of the 90s, and you'd be hard pressed to find a kid who lived in Vancouver in 1991 who doesn't know this commercial by heart. When I was a kid our neighbor Mitch's mom was Japanese and she said she remembered this ad from her childhood in Japan. So safe bet it's been playing i some form or another for about 40 years now. Being only 15 seconds long, the commercial always played twice in a row to make sure you'd never miss out on all the good parts. The original is in the previous blog post here. Thanks Japan!

The Sapporo Ichiban Commercial!

2009-12-14T00:57:00.001-05:00

Our New Approach

2009-12-14T00:11:00.004-05:00

Facts:
1. Smoking kills 10,000 Quebecers every year.
2. du Maurier updated their packaging to help reduce its impact on the environment.
3. Our small steps make the difference.

My first impression:
So by smoking du Maurier cigarettes, I'll be making a difference? Right. Anyone who's stupid enough to think they're doing the planet a service consuming cancerous products wrapped in recycled paper deserves to, in my opinion, well, die.

Upon further consideration:
I wholeheartedly believe that the only way we can possibly "save the environment" is if billions of humans, well, die. Or aren't born in the first place. Whatever works.

Any family with five kids who claims to be making the "conscious choice" by filling the trunk of their flex fuel truck with reusable cloth bags filled with organic locally-produced family owned hand picked vegetables is completely delusional. You have five kids. The damage is done. You might as well buy a monster truck and crush baby seals for profit as far as the planet is concerned. Those five kids are going to use more planetary resources than you can ever offset by planting a tree or by installing low flow toilets. Sure, one of those five kids might turn out to be the climate Einstein and invent something that will improve the planet in ways we can only imagine, but let's get real here. They probably won't. Now, I've personally got nothing against anyone who was five children, hell, I've got nothing against anyone who has five hundred children. But please stop cranking out kids and then claim to be 'environmentally conscious'. In my school of though, the less humans on the planet, the better the established biological processes of nearly every other species will fare. Well, except maybe Pomeranians. Sans humans, the wolves will take care of 'em in hours. But I guess they're the same species. Which is pretty weird. So less people = happier and more successful all other life forms....which is kinda what people want to describe when they refer "the environment" though those rose colored glasses that leave out what makes up the real environment, or our surroundings. Forget virgin alpine peaks and pristine jungles. We're surrounded mostly by packed used car lots, porno theatres, nut and bolt factories, air freshener distributors, abandoned drive in theatres, and commission salespeople in airports who coax us into signing up for credit cards by offering us a free hat.

So back to the smokes. Here's my logic. I set out to ridicule this newspaper's obvious mixed-messaging greenwashed advertising cash grab. Then I though about it for a second. Less people = pretty much blanket improvement in all ecosystems of the planet. (Pocket dog variety excepted.) If a cigarette company wants people to believe smoking their product will help the rose-colored-glasses version of the "environment", then they're 100% right. You smoke, you die, you leave more room for other species. Everybody wins! Well, except for anyone who smokes these cigarettes. They just die. But consider these newly-dead smokers as an eco-sacrifice for the rest of us. If we're really serious about climate change, we need to make big changes in each of our lives. Smoking kills 10,000 Quebecers every year. This is a good start.

Kyle

PS
Important recession notes: Smoking and dying will create jobs in tobacco farming, manufacturing, trucking, convenience store retail, marketing, medical, mortuary services, funeral homes, cemetery maintenance, but will likely hurt companies that produce rose colored glasses.

The Ingredients of Champions

2009-12-13T23:14:00.001-05:00

Attention TEENAGERS! Basement party make out sessions are resevered for vaccinated individuals.

2009-12-13T23:05:00.002-05:00

Get vaccinated kids. You so don't want to be green shirt guy.

Get Vaccinated for The Holiday Season

2009-12-10T16:33:00.000-05:00

The Mistletoe thanks you.

Escalator Bra thanks you for your support.

2009-12-06T17:29:00.002-05:00

Ticket to the Limit

2009-11-23T15:05:00.008-05:00

I met Randy Cohen at a conference called Gathering of Titans at MIT last spring. He's the CEO (Chief Energizing Officer) of TicketCity, a ticket brokerage based out of Austin TX. Randy's an awesome guy. And he just wrote a book called Ticket to the Limit. I promptly bought a copy of Ticket to the Limit and inhaled the whole thing in less than 5 hours of binge reading, partially while drinking tea and dancing to Shakira remixes in our kitchen. Yes, it's that good!

And I won't lie, I'm feeling really, really good right about now. In the secondary ticket market, Randy lives in the exciting world of extreme supply and demand, something that I experienced in many forms while trading from a red paperclip to a house. It's a pretty thrilling world, and I understand fully why Randy can approach his work with such enthusiasm. He's also a big believer in a liberal sprinkling of exclamation marks to convey excitement, something I'm on board with! Randy has the kind of infectious energy that's addictive to the point of being scary. Well, maybe not scary, but if there is a limit to how much somebody can energize others, Randy's right on the razor's edge of the limit. Definitely not past the point of no return, but we're talking about rocking to the break-of-dawn, live your life to the fullest optimism in a way few are able to pull off. Also, he can get you great tickets to the Superbowl. Here's a except that made an impression:

Sometimes when you chance what you are doing, you do not enjoy immediate success. Maybe you've made more than your share of mistakes. That's good! Mistakes are how we learn and grow. I remember I used to watch Superman when I was a young kid, about five years old. I thought it would be great if I could don a cape and fly, too. So I got a big beach towel, tied it around my neck, and went up to a second-storey window. I opened the window and climbed up on the ledge. I jumped - and plummeted to the ground! It was a very valuable lesson about gravity. I learned the hard way that you can't fly. But guess what? I never jumped out of a second-storey window again!

So I obviously recommend reading Ticket to the Limit. Doing so while dancing in your kitchen to Shakira is optional, but also something I endorse fully. Because after all, is there anything better than a ticket to the limit?

Hanging in there.

2009-10-27T22:11:00.001-04:00

Montreal Flag Geneology Check

2009-10-06T18:04:00.003-04:00

Married to French Canadian: Check.
Mother with English ancestors: Check.
Dad with Scottish ancestors: Check.
Clover = I need to go buy Guinness.

Overheard at NASCAR

2009-10-06T13:35:00.001-04:00

"Talladega Superspeedway wants to remind you that Band-Aid brand band aids are the official band-aid of NASCAR. If you have a small cut or scratch, don't forget to turn to Band-Aid brand band aids, the official band aid brand of NASCAR."

I am DJ Dancefloor

2009-10-05T01:35:00.002-04:00

Yes, it's true. I know, I know. The rumors, there were many. I had an exceedingly large amount of free time in September and decided to hack away at an album of low budget electronic music. The album is called Club Thumping Beats and can be downloaded for free here: http://www.mediafire.com/?3zimn2xttwd I even set up myspace page for passive computer listening. www.myspace.com/iamdjdancefloor I hope you enjoy it. No word yet on imminent world touring to support the record. But I might go to Laval this week to pick up a BBQ, so that's pretty cool.

This is my kind of Bizz Nizz

2009-09-23T19:07:00.001-04:00

DJ Dancefloor makes huge club hits

2009-09-11T02:35:00.002-04:00

Download his club thumping beats to become a dancefloor bandit: www.myspace.com/iamdjdancefloor

The Yellow Pages by DJ Dancefloor

My autobiography up to 1990 - written in 1990

2009-08-19T06:44:00.001-04:00

Vanishing Point

2009-08-03T01:49:00.000-04:00

Space Saving Breakthrough

2009-06-26T14:29:00.000-04:00

Laval

2009-06-26T14:28:00.001-04:00

Cal

2009-06-15T02:18:00.001-04:00

The happiest strawberry in the world

2009-05-29T15:07:00.000-04:00

I like Bixi bikes

2009-05-12T17:53:00.001-04:00

Politics

2009-05-07T18:46:00.001-04:00

Cabane a Sucre

2009-03-30T19:38:00.002-04:00

Bikes

2009-03-20T16:23:00.001-04:00

Kano

2009-03-17T03:01:00.001-04:00

March

2009-03-01T18:12:00.001-05:00

The best kind

2009-02-27T17:01:00.001-05:00

Accuracy

2009-02-27T16:55:00.000-05:00

Infrastructure

2009-02-27T16:50:00.001-05:00

Trains in Tokyo.

B.C.

2009-02-27T16:45:00.000-05:00

Counterfeit coffee

2009-02-27T09:48:00.000-05:00

Earthquakes can be good for the economy

2009-02-22T05:15:00.001-05:00

Kite Skiing Makes People Smile

2009-02-08T17:28:00.000-05:00

High Quality Reference Literature

2009-02-04T10:47:00.003-05:00

Your email address? Oh, no. Please, don't bother to write it down or email it to me. That'll be far to much effort on both our parts. I'll simply go to the library and look it up in the National E-Mail and Fax Directory. It'll save tons of trouble for both of us.

2009-01-26T01:46:00.001-05:00

Vote Chat

2008-12-23T17:46:00.000-05:00

The head office of FedEx is a P.O. Box

2008-12-23T17:45:00.001-05:00

Chocolate Chip Cookie

2008-12-07T18:09:00.000-05:00

I've seen the future

2008-11-24T09:06:00.003-05:00

And this is what it looks like:

The following quote is very apt:

"Ever wake up one morning and think to yourself: I want to see cheesy, low-budget early 90s Québécois rap video that goes on for nine minutes about how awesome public transit is and how cool you can be if you follow all the rules and respect your fellow passengers?" from this guy.

Save the planet! And also, change the world. And also also, the 90s are back.

Thanks,

kyle

LED Hula Hoops

2008-11-11T11:42:00.001-05:00

Hi Gang. I'm using some spare time to put LED Hula Hoops together. They're nice:

Looking Up

2008-11-09T16:23:00.001-05:00

Rhubarb!

2008-10-20T18:24:00.001-04:00

California is DANGEROUS

2008-09-01T00:18:00.001-04:00

Best Graffiti Example Ever

2008-08-25T11:15:00.001-04:00

I'll take the green one.

2008-07-14T17:55:00.001-04:00

We're having big fun

2008-07-09T13:49:00.001-04:00

Mattress Graffiti

2008-07-08T15:32:00.000-04:00

How good would it be to live here?

2008-07-08T15:25:00.003-04:00

This reminds me of LEGO garage doors. All backyards should have a garage door.

She should probably be wearing a helmet

2008-07-08T15:25:00.001-04:00

Pleased to meet you Sam.

2008-06-23T01:45:00.000-04:00

Summer

2008-06-23T01:27:00.002-04:00

BREAKING News

2008-06-17T08:35:00.002-04:00

Who Are These Guys?

Bunnies need to be careful on the Paris Metro

2008-06-10T19:46:00.000-04:00

Paris is full of stereotypes

2008-06-10T19:05:00.006-04:00

Thanks Paris!

Winipeg is building a new airport terminal

2008-06-10T19:04:00.001-04:00

Thanks Winnipeg!

Samson Likes Bananas

2008-06-10T19:00:00.000-04:00

PODuct placement

2008-05-20T20:54:00.003-04:00

And a great place to use a pun too. POD stands for Portable Oxygen Device. The nice woman behind POD, Kelsey, sent me a can of oxygen last week after I mentioned to her that her product was intriguing. So I wound up with a can of oxygen. Its the sort of thing that happens, from time to time, and I'm not getting paid to write this, but I am about to get high on oxygen right now...for free. I've used twice now, and here's what's happened so far:

Time 1:(last week)
I was sleeping when the doorbell rang. I went to the door, said hi to the UPS guy and signed for the package. I went back inside and opened it up. When I saw it was a can of oxygen I took a quick hit. I couldn't fall back asleep after that.

Time 2: (Just now)
I just took a hit of POD. Nothing so far, but high hopes on feeling real good soon. I went for a big run today, and then ate fresh bagels and fruit juice, so I'm feeling pretty good already. I notice POD is based in Breckenridge CO, a town situated at 9600 feet above sea level. I'm in Montreal right now, a town situated at about 100 feet above sea level. I'm assuming POD's extra oxygen would be more noticeable in Breckenridge than here. Nothing yet. Wait, a little tingle feeling in my finger maybe? I'm not sure. To be completely honest, I can't be for sure that POD and it's extra oxygen promise isn't some elaborate placebo. But then again, I'm not doing extreme mountain activities at high altitude. I'm sitting on my couch thinking about toasting a bagel. Remember when bagels were health food? Ah, the 80s. In Vancouver. Even muffins were health food back then. Yep, the 80s for me was all about muffins, bagels, and circular windows. I'm going to try another puff of that oxygen. Apparently it's the good stuff. I just did. The POD container says: 40 breaths. I'd be up for doing all 40 right now. Why not, right? Then maybe I could go swimming and hold my breath for a long time. Maybe rack up another world record. I'd have to call Oprah first though. So, anyhow. POD is good. Oxygen is the gas of life. It helps us live. From the looks of it, it helps with rambly blog posts. My mind is pretty clear, I think. If you're into living, and everything that goes along with it, then POD might be just the thing for you!

have fun,

Kyle

Quebec is full of interesting things

2008-05-11T19:08:00.000-04:00

Rebels.

2008-05-11T18:49:00.001-04:00

Thanks Ed.

2008-05-11T18:42:00.002-04:00

This guy just doesn't age.

2008-04-27T21:29:00.002-04:00

Boston has informative manhole covers

2008-04-27T21:28:00.002-04:00