Saw a bunch of stressed-looking university students earlier today and thought to myself:

Saw a bunch of stressed-looking university students earlier today and thought to myself:

Chris from Toronto is working on an interesting little stress-relieving project called Squeeze Ford — a Rob Ford-shaped stress toy! He’d like to make this come true, but manufacturing costs money, and unlike the mayor, he doesn’t have thug friends who live with their parents who can extort people. So instead, he’s set up an Indiegogo campaign with a modest $3,000 goal. If you’d like to have a Rob Ford that you can crush in your hand any time, you should get behind this project!
Here’s the video explaining the project:

I think we’re about to find out.
Some Christmas-themed photos, now that Christmas Eve’s three weeks away…

Santa, I wanted an iPad Air, not a Mini!

“My lucky sweater always brings in the ladies.”

“I’ll have you know that all the bronies love my sweater!”

Keepin’ it festive, even in the mosh pit.

Every nurses’ station needs to do this.

I am so making this my tree next year.

This may be Sesame Street’s best parody since Spider-Monster the Musical and Mad Men: The Hungry Games: Catching Fur, with Cookie Monster playing the part of “Cookieness Evereat”. I saw the parody last week, but after seeing Catching Fire last night, it’s even better.

“And may the cookies ever be in your flavour.”
They do a killer job referencing even the tiniest design elements from the movie.

“Cookies?! Me volunteer!”
Cookie Monster is high-larious in a brunette wig, especially when he says “Being strong heroine of entire franchise hard work!”.

“Pita”.
The only thing better would be to get Hunger Games Jennifer Lawrence to perform this skit, complete with Cookie Monster’s lines, in a blue furry outfit. I’m sure an internet petition for this has already started.

Ah, yes: the fog.
Here’s the video — enjoy!

It’s my first day on the job at Trainerbox! I’m the in the middle of leading a five-hour-long remote training session called “Intermediate .NET Programming with C#” (we’re on a 20-minute break as I type this) with 10 employees of a large American telco via Live Meeting. So far, so good!

I didn’t bother typing in the URL to see what it was. If any of you do, could you let us know in the comments?