Jay Em Gee

2007-02-11T17:48:00.000-04:00

Goodbye Blogger (again)! Facebook killed you this time

2006-12-13T20:57:00.000-04:00

I have a confession to make.

I once, at a previous job, looked at porn at work. Not to get off, or for anything sexual, but I feel better now that it's off my chest. Speaking of chests, the site I was at... AnimatedBoobs.com.

What an odd site.

Enjoy

2006-12-11T16:00:00.000-04:00

Jon Defined.

I did a short Personality test for computer programmers to see if they are in the right field today at work, but not for work. Here is my result

ISTP (Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving)
Cool onlookers Quiet, reserved, observing and analysing life with detached curiosity and unexpected flashes of original humor. Usually interested in cause and effect, how and why mechanical things work, and in organizing facts using logical principles.

Ideal Jobs:
ISTP - Police, detectives, forensic pathologists, computer programmers, system analysts, computer specialists, engineers, carpenters, mechanics, pilots, drivers, athletes, entrepreneurs, firefighters, paramedics, construction workers, dental hygienists, electrical engineers, farmers, military, probation officers, steelworkers, transportation operatives, hitmen. With the ability to stay calm under pressure, they excel in any job which requires immediate action.

I should have gone to hitman school instead.

2006-12-05T22:49:00.000-04:00

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2006-12-03T20:32:00.000-04:00

Bottled Music

Some people's kids!

2006-11-19T15:31:00.000-04:00

Hockey

This year, I have really tried to follow Hockey. I've been reading the rumor site (www.HockeyTradeRumors.com), the online magazines (www.theFourthPeriod.com) and the NHL, TSN, and SportsNet sites daily.

Watching hockey you come across some wacky names. No other sport is as European or Russian based, so the last names are often new and exciting. The other day we tried to design a line that'd we'd love the announcers to have to call. Here is what we came up with.

Janne Niinimaa, Joe Nieuwendyk, Scott Niedermayer, Rob Niedermayer, and Teppo Numminen.

Just imagine a good passing play. Ninnimaa to Neidermayer, Neidermayer skates past the line, up to Numminen who dumps it in. Nueidermayer races behind the net and steals the puck. Circles around and throws it out front to Nieuwendyk, who hits the post.

Also their goalie will be Antero Niittymaki

To end, I have a complaint. I don't like the Leafs (or Laffs cause they suck), yet that's all I can watch on TV. It sucks. TSN carries 10 or so Habs games, and CBC some too. But I want more. I want RDS (French TSN). They play all 82 games this year, and all the playoff games. Even the TSN show is called TSN Molson Canadian Leafs Hockey. The Beer than the habs are named after (according to my grade 10 geography teacher) sponsors a show about the Leafs. CBC plays mostly leafs games. TSN does too, and for some reason, we are in Senators country for Sportsnet. Granted that's better than Leafs, but gimme the Tri-Color any day.

Enjoy

2006-05-23T16:32:00.000-03:00

May 30 - Drive to Hali
May 31 - Training In Hali
May 31 - Fly To Toronto
June 1 - June 9 Work in Toronto
June 9 - Fly To PEI (get in at 11:53pm)
June 10 - Fly to Montreal (leave at 6:00am)
June 11 - Fly to PEI
June 17 - Drive to Restigouche River
June 20 - Drive to PEI

2006-05-18T18:21:00.000-03:00

What the internet is for

Since my last post made fun of ugly people using the internet for free, I thought I should show you what the internet was actually made for. This has to be the best use of it in years.

While logging in to Blogger I noticed that DirtyDozen.blogspot.com has 1938 posts on it. Do you know what happened in 1938?? Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

The more you know

2006-05-17T16:27:00.000-03:00

Why do you visit Island CAP Sites?
Internet Access
Job Searches
Online Government Services
Research
Online Banking
Instant Messaging
Combination of above
None of the above

If you have ever been to a cap site, you know that "none of the above" means either
a) Watching wrestling entrance videos day after day after day
b) Playing online pool
3) Skipping school and growing a dirt 'stash
iv) Completely abusing the 30 minute rule and wearing bad baggy pants.

That's all for now.

2006-04-30T15:09:00.000-03:00

I was going to the bathroom, and a girl asked me if there was a condom machine in the guys bathroom.

I looked and said "yes." She gave me a twoonie, so I went in. It only took loonies, so I went back to tell her this. She said, we don't have any. I looked in my pocket, had one, so she gave me back the twoonie, said "keep the change, I don't want my friend getting pregnant again."

The guys in the bathroom cheered when I bought it.

2006-04-29T13:57:00.000-03:00

Oh Happy Day

Bacon Mushroom Melts Are Back!

2006-04-23T12:53:00.000-03:00

Music Awards

Top 5 Played Songs (& ties) (from iTunes)
1 - Eric Clapton - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
2 - KISS - Strutter
3 - The Allman Brother Band - It's Not My Cross To Bear
3 - The Rolling Stones - Hide Your Love
5 - CCR - Run Through The Jungle
5 - CCR - Good Golly Miss Molly
5 - Judas Preist - Turbo Lover

Top 5 Played Songs (& ties) (from iPod)
1 - Greatful Dead - New Speedway Boogie
2 - Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
3 - Dire Sraits - Walk Of Life
3 - Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
5 - The Beatles - Birthday
5 - Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
5 - Van Halen - You Really Got Me

Best Song Intro
Hells Bells - ACDC

Best Lyrics
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac - Second Hand News

Top 5 Album
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Pink Floyd - The Wall
ACDC - High Voltage
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls For Rock and Roll(not really an album, but it's my awards show)

Best Instrumental
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover

Song that sounds like a ZZ Top song - Superman by The Kinks

Song That Sounds Most Like a Rod Stewart Song
Kiss - Hard Luck Woman

Newest Band I've Started Listening To
The Cure

Most Songs By One Band
261 The Rolling Stones

Top 5 Songs That Could Stop All Wars (if everyone was stoned and sang along)
The Beatles - Hey Jude
Kiss - God Gave Rock and Roll To You II
War - Why Can't We Be Friends
Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry (live)

Oddest Ending To A Song
The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler

Wackiest Band (with examples)
Pink Floyd - Set The Controls To The Heart Of The Sun
Pink Floyd - One Of These Days
Pink Floyd - Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict (I am not fooling! That's the name of the song. Email me if you wanna hear it. Also, the name accurately describes the song)

Best Song About Food
Weird Al - Fat
Weird Al - Eat It
Eric Clapton - They're Red Hot

Songs I Think Others Should Listen To
Pink Floyd - Fearless
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
Blues Brothers - Green Onions
The Rolling Stones - Hide Your Love
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

2006-04-13T18:25:00.000-03:00

By now, everyone should be using Firefox for browsing the world wide web. If you do not, here is a video that should convince you otherwise. Or at least make you laugh a bit.

2006-04-04T16:33:00.000-03:00

For the first time since Feb 2nd, 1998, I am without a job.

Odd.

2006-03-27T18:08:00.000-04:00

What a fight! The end is insane!

2006-03-25T16:25:00.000-04:00

Finally!!

2006-02-01T13:46:00.000-04:00

Dr Feelgood

Wouldn't it be fun if the whole gang got together and did something good? Why not call 892-3700 and make an appontment to give blood on Tuesday, March 21. Say around 6 or so. It was pretty easy, I got some raisin bread, chocolate milk, and a juice box. They will treat you like you are the most important person they know, and love first time donors. Why not give it a shot?

2006-01-24T00:39:00.000-04:00

A promise from Jon:

Next election I promise to check out all the parties platforms then make a decision.

2006-01-21T14:48:00.000-04:00

No Time For A Real Post

Instead here is a really great blond joke. Might not be very politically correct, but that makes it even better.

2005-12-31T12:58:00.000-04:00

To the 25 people and 1 cop who made it to my birthday party, thanks.

Christmas was good this year. Full of friends, family, and food, as all good christmases should be.

This has also been a good year. Seems ages ago that we all gathered at 531E to ring in 2006. Lots has happened, new people around, old people gone, and Mario Kart and WC3 still enjoyed. I feel lucky to have all these people around, and wouldn't trade it for the world.

Wishing you all a great 2006,

Jon

2005-12-23T04:07:00.000-04:00

See you on the 26th

2005-12-12T20:34:00.000-04:00

Post 25

The old quarter century of posting. Even if most are 1 liners, it's still an accomplishment.

Has anyone else noticed that Gmail's Spam folder has links to recipies using Spam. I found that today and was quite ammused.

OK. General update time.

Job is going well. They offered me a full time position after only half my contract was up. It's nice to have security and have my taxes done. My independent contractor days are over for now.

Trip to Ottawa was fun. Got to see Carley and her friends, as they were at the U2 concert. I have seen more of her this year, (grad, thanksgiving, Ottawa twice and soon Christmas) than any in the last few, so that's nice. I spend most of my time doing nothing, but still got some records and some Christmas shopping done.

I also got to see the last Question Period of this House sitting, as well as the actual vote of no confidence, thanks to Mom and her connections at Parliment Hill. Question Period was quite the spectacle.

Also, as an early Birthday gift, Mom, Dad, and I went to the Ottawa Senators v Montreal Canadiens game. It is always good to see the Habs, but they got slaughtered that night. In their defence, they were without 3 of their 5 best players, and had 2 rookie defence, including one who was in his first game. Also, Ottawa is way too good.

Mom got called down to PEI for work, so she got booked on my flights. It was fun to have a travel friend. She helped me rearange my furniture in the fanily room. I really like it now. She should have a decoratting show.

We got word the other day that we have Dec 24th to Jan 3rd off from work, and I will be in Halifax from the 23rd to the 26th. Hopefully we'll be back early enough that all my friends can come celebrate my being born that night. Plans will be made sometime.

This update went on longer than I thought.

Now I can begin putting off the next one.

2005-12-06T19:54:00.000-04:00

Dental Plan

2005-11-25T18:48:00.000-04:00

Check out Sportsnet (ch. 59) on Tuesday. You might get a glipse of yours truly cheering on his Habs against Ottawa.

2005-11-12T11:34:00.000-04:00

What is free time?

2005-10-03T11:38:00.000-03:00

I got a job. I will be coding for Lotus Media starting tomorrow.

2005-09-26T12:42:00.000-03:00

I know nobody reads this anymore, but if anyone knows someone who is looking for a roomate, I am too. Chris and Mo are leaving because Chris got a job in Oleary. Email me or something if you want a giant room, or know someone who does.

Thanks.

2005-08-30T11:47:00.000-03:00

Bacon Mushroom Melts are back. Oh happy day.

2005-08-25T01:51:00.000-03:00

Recently I have been thinking about my grandfather. During a recent episode of the Daily Show, Jon Stweart had a guest whose father was in the CIA, and had done all sorts of interesting, but classified things. He couldn't tell his own son what he did. Years later this kid grows up to be an investigative journalist, and decides to research his dad. His book, My Father The Spy, is the result of that research. Seeing this really got me thinking.

I have never met him, nor will I have the chance. He died well before I was born, and my grandmother had remarried before I was around. I have, through my life, gotten some stories about him. He seemed like an incredible man. He was a doctor in Eldon, PEI and Halifax. If any of you faithful readers have family from Pownal to Wood Islands, they might remember him. He was the man who taught my dad. He was lots of things to lots of people. And to me, he is stories.

I want to know more about him. Even after hearing some stories 20 times, I don't remember them. I don't remember them, because I don't have a full picture of what he was like. I have many questions that I now want answered. Next time I see my father, I am going to ask him about Dr John(I also have the same name as him, Jo(h)n M Gillis). Next time I see my Grammy, I will ask her about him. I don't want to get a sugar coated version either. I want to know it all.

Are there any others out there who feel a strong desire to know about family they never met. I have much less desire to learn my Mom's parents history. I think this is cause they were around in my childhood, so I have memories of them. I knew them, and miss them. With John, it is not about missing him, it is about getting to know him.

2005-08-07T23:31:00.000-03:00

Silence Restored

I finally found the source of the god damn squeaking. The record player was spinning, but the record (Fleetwood Mac's Rumors) was not spinning. Took me 3 days to find this. Thank Go

2005-08-06T13:44:00.000-03:00

Happy Wedding Guys.

Enjoy your special day.

2005-07-28T08:36:00.000-03:00

Top 10 Rolling Stones Songs You Have Never Heard.

in no order

Star Star - I actually like this song for the guitar, but I do find the lyrics funny amusing.

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) - My personal fave Stones song of the moment.

Carol - "Tribute" to Chuck Berry

Can I Get A Witness - Fun Cover of a gospel song.

Midnight Rambler - The horns in this song do it for me. I mean really. Also, great build up.

One More Try - My personal fave Stones song of the moment.

Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Bad ass rock song.

Sweet Virginia - Sounds like they had a great time recording it.

Rip This Joint - Fun time rock and roll

Tumbling Dice - If I ever make a movie about myself driving to Vegas in a cadillac convertable, this would be the opening credits song.

2005-07-27T01:16:00.000-03:00

The Post With a Title.

While reading The Chronicles of Narnia last night (a book which I only am really reading because I saw a movie trailer) the characters have had to often eat only bread and cheese with some water. Sometimes they have venison or smoked meats, and maybe a little bit of wine, while sometimes the bread is stale and the cheese mouldy, it can go either way. But they always have some form of cheese and bread with a meal. I at first thought this to be terrible, eating the same meal of cheese and bread every day, then realized I had made the statement that I would love to eat bread and cheese every day earlier that same day.

Dinner rolls and a processed cheese slice just might be my favourite "snack" food ever. They are the Bacon Mushroom Melts of foods I can make at home. I have them so rarely, but I love them so. My parents, vacationning from Ottawa, left some here and I have been endulging. I really thought I 'd be able to talk about rolls and cheese more, but I guess that it is not a good enough subject to make a full solid post about.

abort post

2005-07-20T13:42:00.000-03:00

Peter Griffin Lives

2005-07-20T10:55:00.000-03:00

Trivia was the event of last night. Bob, Brent, Carolyn, Tyler and I got there a few minutes late, and had to sit in the alley. This is important later. After the heat of yesterday, the cool alley was beautiful. We got caught up with the questions, picked a team name, and enjoyed the beer. After a pretty disappointing first round (4.5/11) we got a great comment from inside. Laughter erupted from the inside croud and cheers from our table, as trivia guy yells out, "Are you guys Goblin Nuts out on the deck?" This was preceded by Bob getting a new entendre(sp) for Goblin Nuts, making it an unprecedented "Quadruple Entendre". Since we had no chance to win, we decided to get some joke answers such as Goat's Mom, and the like. Unfortunatly, we made one mistake. When asked What scientist was offered the prime misters office of Israel in the 50's. Einstein was the only 50's scientist we could think of, so we put it down. This seemed too odd an answer so we thought of other scientist, and all we could come up with is "Batman's a scientist!!!" Well, the right answer is Einstein, but trivia got a good laugh.

That concludes this little story.

2005-07-18T17:44:00.000-03:00

In grade 4, on a really hot and sunny day, probably one like today, Dorian Locke wore pants to school for some reason. It was really hot(still) and just as we were going outside for recess, Evan Charles and I saw that Dorian was cutting the legs off his sweatpants to make them into totally sweet shorts. We, being smart guys, waited til he had one leg fully cut before asking, "Que faites-vous?", so that the teacher would hear. She looked at him, a known troublemaker, and made him stop right then and there. He then had to spend the rest of the day in one leg short and one regular gym pants.

I am still proud of that to this day.

2005-07-09T15:50:00.000-03:00

Ottawa Bluesfest, Day 2 review.

Day 2 gets no review. Algerian chanting poetry, Brooklyn Rap, Inuit Bjork like folk music and the Black Eyed Peas do not belong at a Bluesfest, especially on the first official night of it. Oh wait. Let's not forget the alternative country band either. All in all, a terrible day.

Today looks promising though.

Stay Tuned Sports Fans

2005-07-08T12:25:00.000-03:00

Ottawa Bluesfest, Day 1 review.

Today marks the first day of the 11 day Ottawa Blues Fest. After reading the list of the headlining bands, you would find it odd they called it a blues show. k-os, Black Eyed Peas, Kid Rock, WAR, and ZZ Top aren't exactly who I imagined would be here, but that is out of my control and beyond the point.

After a late afternoon flight to Montreal, and a rush back home to get to the concert on time, we got our passes, a nice rubber green bracelet I have to wear for the next 4 days, and 10 day yellow ones for Mom and Sis. WAR was the only band we had time to see tonight, but I am really glad we got to see them. I knew a few WAR songs, Lowrider, Cisco Kid, Spill the Wine, but not many so this was a pretty new experience. We had already missed the first few songs by the time we got there, but as we got close they were getting a little political, covering Edwin Starr's War. As we found a good spot on the pavement, the band was moving through it's catalogue, going from all out funk, to slow love songs "dedicated to all the ladies" to some unexpected guitar solos. The crowd was split around 50-50 between young and old, with the older people seeming to know all the words to most songs. As the night went on, the energy grew and so did the hits. Starting with Gypsy Man, they pumped out their hits, and had the crowd in the palm of their hands. Why Can't We Be Friends? got the whole lot of us singing along, followed by a 25 minute version of Lowrider complete with band introductions and each band members own song to showcase themselves. The drummer playing 30 seconds of Iron Man, much to my delight, the bassist playing some Cream, the ultra bluesy harmonica solo and the "sex-aphone" solo were the highlights of that. This was followed by a encore of 2 songs I didn't know.

All in all, the general consensus from the departing crowd was that it was better than expected, and I agree. The whole band played very well. They took the most of the opportunity to open a long festival like this, and made a new fan out of me at least.

On the lineup today.

Black Eyed Peas
Talib Kweli
Tinariwen
Neko Case

Never heard of most of the other people, but who cares. Free(to me) music is always good. Plus I can go try and meet some Ottawa ladies at the Black Eyed Peas. Just gotta practice liking that music.

Check back for more later.

2005-07-01T17:23:00.000-03:00

Happy Canada Day To All.

2005-06-25T20:41:00.000-03:00

And people wonder why I left the old site. Well it really didn't have anything to do with this, but it did give me a chuckle. This is not an update, so don't worry. I am still getting used to doing this all by myself. I miss em.

2005-06-25T00:05:00.000-03:00

Today was an off day. Hope tomorrow goes better.

2005-06-17T14:59:00.000-03:00

It begins tomorrow.

Back on tuesday

2005-06-13T15:08:00.000-03:00

The recent announcement that the provincial government is going to build a new wind farm in Eastern PEI and a private company will be building more turbines near North Cape has really pleased me. For no real reason, I love wind power. I know it is clean and renewable and all that jazz, but I think that I really just like the look of windmills. They remind me of the hot tub at the CARI pool. But that is another story.

Seeing the windmill at the IWMC complex on the bypass made me wonder of how much it would cost to get a personal turbine for a house. I tried looking at how much power it can create at different wind speeds and at different sizes. This quickly got boring, so I googled to see how much it would cost to just buy a windmill, and not care about the amount of energy it can produce. Small, a relative term, turbines can easily make enough juice to run a house, with the proper amount of wind. If you kept your connection to Maritime Electric or even better, got a giant battery/generator, you could do your small part to help the world. In some places in North America the local gevernments give tax breaks to companies and individuals who use wind power. It would be neat to see the Island do this, but I don't expect it will happen.

All of my research is purely for my own enjoyment, since I
a) have no house to get a windmill for
b) would never be allowed to build one because they are loud
c) cannot think of a c at this point.

Sadly, even if the whole Island went to green power(windmills, water, solar, giant hamster in wheel farms) we would still get enough polution from Quebec and Ontario to keep us from feeling too good. This is an unfortunate circumstance of living just up the breeze from polution alley(northeastern US/QC/ON). This paragraph sucks, and I have gotten bored with it.

In closing, the Earth is great. Don't fuck it up.

2005-06-05T01:10:00.000-03:00

As some one who has been drunk and skydiving, not at the same time, I can honesyly say that this video is by fr the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Also, this is my fist drunk post to Jay Em Gee. Get used to it.

Laters

2005-06-04T14:04:00.000-03:00

Hope you all had a fun day at the beach, bitches. While I did miss the beach, I did get my new bike. I haven't ridden in about a month, and haven't played near enough frisbee, so my legs and lungs were not used to it. I need a shower after going from Smooth Cylce to the apt.

I really am working on a real post, but something of it's beauty and thought needs more time to brew in the old noggin.

Laters

Welcome

2005-05-17T21:10:00.000-03:00

Welcome