The Jeff R Project

I found this on the site: Cheated by Life and thought it was brilliant. So of course I stole it and offer it here. Shh.

The subject (and author) is a blogger, author and quite the humorist – you can check out his site at http://www.andrewmcdonald.net.au

Ringo Star & Justin Bieber

In the past, Canada has put forward a lot of great musicians like Celine Dion, David Foster, Alanis Morrissette, Bryan Adams, k.d. lang, Luba, Leonard Cohen, Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Tragically Hip, Neil Young, Ashley MacIsaac, Randy and Tal Bachman, and the list goes on and on. Click the link above to visit the Wikipedia list. It’s pretty amazing.

Today, we present the modern equivalent. Justin Bieber.

What’s a Justin Bieber? You ask? He’s a 16 year old kid from Stratford, Ontario (read: nowhere) and he taught himself how to play the piano, drums, guitar, and trumpet. In 2007 his mom started whoring him out posting videos on YouTube of him performing songs by Usher, Justin Timberlake and Stevie Wonder.

He’s a tiny little boy who’s talent will probably only last until he hits puberty, but for the time being he’s making teenage girls “swoon” (we’ll call it that for the sake of propriety) all over the place. Ok, I admit, I think he’s relatively adorable, but that swoop of hair across his face is annoyingly cutsie and I just find him generally annoying.

Sadly, this is the current state of Canadian musical talent export. Feel free to check him out at his official site if you wanna be “current” in Canadian “music.”

Dear America. Back-atcha. Canada.

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Nathan Sawaya is a Lego Artist – a job title that not many people can lay claim to. And man is he good.

Take a look at his latest creation over there —>

Nathan has created this Lego model of a BlackBerry for the BlackBerry developer conference coming up and this is just the latest example of his work.

Like I said, this is my kind of job. I’m sure it’s not easy and something like this one must be a technical challenge since it has to be vertical, support it’s own weight – oh, and contain a functioning television!

My brother, Brad, and I used to spend many, many hours in the basement playing building with Lego. We built entire cities, a fully functional and accurate football stadium and many abstract creations. The football stadium had concession stands on the outside and a store! It was huge and we were very proud of it. I won’t tell you how old we were at the time.

Unfortunately time moved on and we moved out of the house. Neither of us could afford to, nor had room to, take the Lego we had amassed with us and it was left behind. Eventually Brad managed to sell it but for a LOT less than it should have gone for. I miss it.

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This came across Twitter this morning and I don’t know who sent it anymore, but I thought it was pretty funny.

25 Hilarious WiFi Network Names (Not safe for work really – no nudity, just words)

For those of you who are not technical, your WiFi network needs a name. The default will be something like Router1234 but you can set it be whatever you want. Mine’s pretty generic and made up of initials. Yawn.

Some people get pretty creative. One of my neighbours has “FuckYouMooch” and another is “ILoveNucks” (Vancouver Canucks that is). The people in the list are WAY more creative and obviously had a lot of trouble with people accessing their network. Enjoy.

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For a long time, Chris and I have been talking about getting another dog. Getting a playmate for Rumble would make all of us happy a lot of the time, but also make my life (and commute with 2 dogs) a lot harder, so needless to say we are still a 1 dog family.

Anyway, now that I’ve finished my laughing fit, I need to relate what brought on that bought of happiness. Although I forget what started it, it basically involved my suggesting a name for the hypothetical new dog.

One of the qualities of a pet name, or given the odd names for children (Apple for example)  these days – kids,  is what I call the field test. Imagine yourself having to call for your dog (or child) across an open field full of families and children. How would it sound to innocent bystanders.

My suggested name for the new dog:

Bitches. But said with a slight ghetto twang to it. You know, like a peeimp (pimp ya know).

It goes downhill from there as I start running the field test on it and was entirely amused by the result.

• “Bitches, come bitches, come.”
• “Bitches want a cookie?”
• “High five Bitches.”
• “Shake Bitches.”
• “I slept with Bitches last night.”
• “Hi, ABC Dog Training? I’d like to register Bitches for puppy class… Hello?”
• “Don’t poop on the rug!!! Bad Bitches, bad!”

I know, about 1/2 of you are SO FURIOUS with me right now for something. I don’t care. For 10 minutes, Chris and I were in hysterics over it. It wasn’t malicious, it was just entertaining. It was even better than my 30 minutes of bad puns about the fastener store.

Fuck you, Ty Pennington.