View of Mount-Royal through my balcony door

View of Mount-Royal through my balcony door
Originally uploaded by gabrielrobichaud.

As part of my resolutions for 2007, I will be posting pictures on my blog, or at least trying to do so, every day. So plan on seeing many more photos on here.

This one i took this morning. I thought it was an interesting play with the shadows and the mountain. Waddaya think?

My Flicker Page

Ok, I dont know if you guys have heard about Flickr. But... in case you have not, or even if you have, you MUST check it out, or even better, check out my flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/acadieman/

TOP TEN WEBSITES OF 2006

Read the links carefully!!

1. A site called 'Who Represents'where you can find the name of theagent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name... waits for it...http://www.whorepresents.com

2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchangeadvice and views at http://www.expertsexchange.com/

3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island athttp://www.penisland.net/

4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at www.therapistfinder.com

5. Then of course, there's the Italian Power Generator company...http://www.powergenitalia.com/

6. And now, we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New SouthWales: www.molestationnursery.com

7. If you're looking for computer software, there's always:http://www.ipanywhere.com/

8. Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church. Their website ishttp://www.cummingfirst.com/

9. Then, of course, there are these brainless art designers, and theirwacky website: http://www.speedofart.com/

10. Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website at http://gotahoe.com/

2006 GABRIELROBICHAUD.COM MERDE AWARD

As the year draws to a close, I decided I would compile my own list, for prosperity, of course. So without further ado, here are the nominees for the 2006 GABRIELROBICHAUD.COM MERDE Awards. Let me know in the comments section of this posting who you think is most deserving. I will post the winners later.

Top acchiever for Merde in Politics. The nominees are:

1. George W. Bush, American President. For that mess in the middle east.
2. Stephen Harper. Candian Prime Minister. George Bush Wanna be.
3. André Boiclaire. Leader of the Parti Québecois. I'm nominating him because he spends most of day full of merde.
4. Ken Dryden. Liberal Leadership Candidate. Really. Stick to hockey buddy.
5. Gilles Duceppe. We are a nation. Oh, no we are not. Oh yes we are. Oh wait, but you can't say that. Damn it!

Best Environmental Merde Meltdown The nominees are:

1. George W. Bush, American President. And I quote "Global warming! Those people up north should be happy its warmer in the winter!"
2. Stephen Harper. Candian Prime Minister. Environmental Plan... What plan?
3. Canada. The entire country. For destroying native canadians water supply and then doing nothing about it. Drink up the merde water. hmmm hmm
4. Canada. Again. Doing nothing about the environment, tearing up the Kyoto accord, and well, generally sucking about the envronment.

Special Merde Achievement in Music (And the competition is specially fierce in this one) The nominees are:

1. Kevin Federline
2. Britney Spears
3. Celine Dion
4. Avril Lavigne. (I just hate her, so she's on the list, she doesn't even know who David Bowie is. Idiot!
5. The entire cast and crew of Star Academie. These guys are something else. No talent.
6. The entire cast and crew of Canadian Idol and American Idol. Ditto.

Overachievement in Merde Sports. The nominees are:

1. Terrell Owens for spitting in the face of Atlanta cornerback DeAngelo Hall.
2. Zidane for that famous head butt at the World Cup.
3. Nate Robinson and J.R. Smith for starting a brawl during a basketball game. Morons.
   

Merdiest Consutruction in major infrastructures The nominees are:

1. Transport Quebec for its efforts, petitioning to have the song changed to "Laval Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling"
2. Transport Quebec its wonderful highway maintenance programme. Just take a ride on any highway in Québec. Garranteed to damage your car in less than 10km.
3. City of Montréal. The aqueduc and sewere system is 100 years old. Pipes are bursting, streets are caving in from the water damage. This resulted in a 3 month longordeal on my street, which was closed to traffic and had a huge 100 feet long, 20 feet wide 16 feet deep hole, filled with sewage water, in ftont of my building.Mayor Tremblay. Don`t be expecting my vote. THREE months to change a pipe. Really. Was the 3 week study really necessary? CHANGE THE PIPE!
4. My Landlord. Mr Englander, you have been turning off the water in the building, every friday from 8am to 5pm for the last 6 months. Do you really need to do so on saturday as well? I appreciate your effortsto maintain the building, but can i have just 1 weekend without having my water cut off!

Ok folks, there you have it. May the voting begin!

Pee Shy

Last night, I watched a very interesting episode of Degrassi, The Next Generation. This is, of course, a Canadian show, which addresses issues faced by everyday teenagers and Canadian youth. This latest episode pitted a wheelchair bound guy and his girlfriend against the grim reality that he would never have an erection. Of course, in true TV style, they determined that they could overcome this *ahem* shortcoming, by finding other ways to have sex.

This got me thinking long and hard about sex and what constitutes sex. Obviously, if there is some kind of penetration, vaginal, anal, oral, it is sex. But what if one of the two partners cannot achieve orgasm? Like in the case of our paraplegic friend: is he actually having sex? Or what if he cannot penetrate his partner? I suppose he could do lots of things to her/him but what about the reverse? Would he still be considered a virgin?

What if you don't actually touch someone else, but you achieve orgasm in the vicinity of others? Is that sex? This is a question that has been on my mind a lot recently. I keep running into someone I know, a dear friend of mine actually. The trouble is, I run into him in the most compromising situation! I have caught this person whacking off at urinals on 4 different occasions. Two occasions I managed to leave without him seeing me, and two others, we were forced into very unpleasant conversation while I was washing my hands trying desperately to erase the picture from my mind.

I will not go into a tirade about public sex right now. Some people are into it, that's their business. Whacking off at a urinal at the mall... It is a whole new level of perversion.

This got me thinking some more. What if this person had a partner? Would he be cheating on his spouse by jerking off with a bunch of people of at a urinal? (There were 4 of them going at it. An eye opening experience, to say the least!) There was no actually physical contact. So is it any different than watching porn or downloading some hot pics online? Or going to a nudie bar? But the line has to be drawn somewhere right?

So I asked my friend Charles (Not the guy at the urinal) if he would want to know if his partner was whacking off at urinals. And like me, he did not really know. He couldn't determine if that consisted cheating or not. I understand his indecision, but, the line needs to be drawn somewhere.

Now I want to address this whole, whacking off in public thing. I feel I have lived a relatively innocent life. But about 2 years ago, a friend of mine told me about a website: Cruising for sex dot com. This site is one of many that provides lists upon lists of areas to play in public, such as the situation I described above. I had no idea this was such a popular activity. Well, curiosity got the best of me, and I have to say, I checked out some known spots in Montreal, to see if this was true. And oh my gosh!

Montreal is full of perverts. Pick any men's washroom in this city, and if you sit around long enough, some pervert will walk in looking for action. Really, it's insane. This also explains why there are so many security cameras and security guards constantly flowing in out of public washrooms.

The moral of the story, is beware of the guy standing next to you at the urinals. If you think he's been standing there too long, odds are he's not peeing.