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Photos in the genre of Grant Hutchinson’s Splorp.com

   (2006.01.06)

When did it become OK for consumer-grade pharmaceuticals like moisturizers to list the ingredient water (eau) bilingually, monolingually, or interlingually as aqua?

Brass plate with steel border reads WATER, with WADE CANADA inside a maple leaf

Presumably rather a long time after this grating was forged.

   (2006.01.05)

You need that much visibility when dappled with slush.

Orange plastic tread has debossed traction patterns and a pictogram of a person slipping headfirst on a flat surface

By the way, I know an Australian who almost walked right into a lake of slush in Boston, so unaccustomed to the substance was he.

   (2005.12.21)

Dirt bike or snow bike?

Yellow motorcycle sits in profile at end of snow-covered driveway between two houses
   (2005.12.17)
Entire side of Ford van behind the front door is emblazoned with a lifelike illustratino of an angled BMW sedan driving down an open road
   (2005.12.15)

Memo to Microsoft employees: Don’t scatter your business cards through Chinatown like so much confetti.

Red suede shoe steps on business card for Jason Anderson, Chief Rabble Rouser, AKA Head of Marketing, Xbox Canada
   (2005.12.09)

The following THRILL-CAM shot depicts what is clearly not a dog but is possibly a fox, wolf, or coyote standing around the supermarket parking lot nosing up morsels of food.

Grainy nighttime photo shows orangey canine figure standing alone in a parking lot

It is of course known that I ride my bike year-round and coined the word icebike. Separate annual icebike races are held around the Leslie St. Spit and the Toronto Islands, and, according to what I have read but cannot now find, like clockwork every year, at a pause in the racing someone looks over and spots a wolf or coyote casually walking across the ice.

Now they have debit cards and shop at Loblaws.

   (2005.12.04)

(furniture typography; type memorabilia; Sunbeam study).

Chandelier resembles a set of white antlers
   (2005.12.01)
Skid of red-capped Parlour ice cream tubs sits imperfectly cocooned in plastic
   (2005.11.29)
Chalk drawing on sidewalk has peach background and shows a dialogue box reading ‘Want to double your salary?’ with two buttons, No and Monster.ca

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