Yummy Wakame

“Have you ever wanted a Windows CD that would install Windows by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? And have it merged with the latest Service Pack to save time? Followed by silently installing all your favourite applications along with DirectX 9.0c, .Net Framework 1.1 and then all the required hotfixes, updated drivers, registry tweaks, and a readily patched UXTheme.dll without any user interaction whatsoever? Then this guide will show you how you can do just that!

Through the course of this guide, you will create a CD that does all the installing for you. The CD will be fully updated with the latest hotfixes, and install all your programs for you.”

Customise your Insomnia experience

Lejo DJ

Cuuuute man!

Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)

Credit: Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd, Korea and Seoul National University, Korea

“This circular-type portable concept printer responds to a real need for business travelers and challenges engineers to make it a reality. Using rotational, instead of linear, movement to obtain a truly portable design, printer size is reduced by one-third.

• Light and compact.
• Slim, rounded lines impart an image of durability and portability.

“This is a fresh and novel design solution to the long standing pursuit of printing anywhere, anytime. Focusing on making the printer compact and portable also broadens the possibilities for where printer technology can or should be pushed. This truly provokes, challenges, and sparks the imagination; a revolutionary design…literally. Samsung…please build this!”
~ Christopher Alviar, IDSA, Principal, CG/A

(Thanks Tins!)

My other favourites:

• HP ScanJet 4670
• Kestrel Airfoil Pro Triathlon Bicycle
• Disintegrator Plus Needle Destruction System
• Genotropin Pen
• UnBathroom
• AMUN — The Pulse of the House
• Equinox
• Audiopad
• Artist’s BrushMate

“For the most part it was a Heavenly Blue experience! Very intense at times, with thoughts of code and loops. I met up with a Deity and he led me to my room and told me to sit for awhile. Modest Mouse told me that Deities live on hills, and I for one believe them. At one point the floor was moving like the ocean and the little blue swirls on the wall were spinning very fast, that was when I knew I was in for a helluva ride. This being to much to comprehend I closed my eyes but that was even worse, the visions of swirling colours in my head was to much to handle. I couldn’t understand or speak English someone called and I tried to listen but it was to much work so I just hung up. I kept walking down stairs to talk to Harrold but he tweaked me out so I stopped doing that. Lacking the skill to speak English I learned very quickly to speak chickadee, and had conversations with many birds (or so I thought). All-n-all it was a very fun time, but I’ll never eat 400 hundred seeds again.” ~ Bobby St0nes

Today, on the last day of my trip i really felt it for the first time. Ive always suspected that my home wouldnt have an address but I guess I had to be alone this last day to really feel it. It hit me as I was standing along the River Tyne, knee deep in tall grass and nature in a foreign country. I was in a completely unfamiliar place, there wasn’t a soul around and I had no idea where the path ahead would take me next. I now know that whatever happens I can wing. I feel at home standing in a muddy dribbling shower, sweaty sleeping between polyester sheets and walking for 10 hours a day ’till I find a friendly face who’ll let me put up my swollen feet.

I finally feel at home in any situation because my home is in my belly. Sometimes it rumbles hungrily. I keep a real live gypsy cowboy in there I once ate, straw hat and all.

Missing Quiddity

It’s even more confusing when you’re going in the wrong direction!
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I’ve just received word that Ms. Quiddity, after suffering a terrible sprain to her leg, was forced to head home via bus.

Ohlivia has chosen to brave on, solo.

But first, she was kind enough to bless us with:

Day Five: The Audioblog

For those of you who hate reading, Olivia has left you an audioblog. It begins here and, due to time constraints, continues here. I particularly love the chipper perk that rolls of her tongue, even while describing some pretty daunting and desperate situations.

Early morning

I once lived here…
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Endless hills

An ancient well

Bunny

Where we’ve been
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Birdoswald YHA

Our first proper siting of the wall

Trailing along

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This was a very hectic 20 mile walk over all kinds of terrain and beautiful countryside. We started out at 11am and only got to the YHA by 9 in the evening! Our feet were killing us, our backs in spasm from carrying rucksacks. We’d had very little food that day and ran out of water so we were absolutely exhausted! I limped around the kitchen preparing packet pasta sauce for supper before we shovelled it down and went to bed.

I had to lift my legs into the bed because I couldnt move them. We were in so much pain.

There were many moments during the day when I looked back on my 10 hour bus ride in airconditioned luxury, and wished I was in it instead of walking.

Cumbria

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Today I caught the National Express bus to Carlisle and met the Great Quiddity for the first time! I knew the moment she hopped out the taxi at the YHA that she’d be the perfect person to do a trip like this with. Funny how things work out that way.

The trip up on the bus took 10 hours and I slept through most of it. I remember feeling insanely bored and wishing I was on my feet walking already.

View from the window of the English countryside

Stop off at Victoria Coach Station to catch a connecting bus. It’s super organised here - people waiting at gates and terminals just like its heathrow.

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As I’ve been receiving regular updates from the starch barren trenches of Olivia and Quiddity’s walk, I thought I’d fill you all in on a bit of the inside scoop.

Allegedly, they did about 1/3rd of the walk on their very first day.

Also, it seems that, contrary to what modern medicine has thought in the past, it is possible to grow blisters on blisters. A close inspection of Olivia’s pinkiest toe reveals that as fact.

Apparently they’ve been passing loads of people on their walk, which is normal, I suppose, as there are a ton of people who do this, typically not the entire wall but some just go out for a stroll for a day and do a small section or whatever. Anyway, it finally occurred to O&Q after chatting with a bunch of people that they’re going at it somewhat backwards. It seems that you typically walk West to East, as it’s downhill if you go that direction. HAH! As if they’d let a pesky little thing like constant uphill hiking deter them.

Well, I’ve received word that pictures will be coming soon, so hold your fingers and cross your horses!

Mark Ryden’s paintings instantly trigger a warped deja vu. His works recall a parallel universe of 1950s Golden Books and the whimsy of Lewis Carroll. His cheery bunnies, rendered in the glowing hues of children’s books, are more likely to be carving slabs of meat rather than frolicking in the forest.

Some sweet ass tattoo ideas!

Well, its around 3am and I’m sitting here surrounded by new hiking gear in a very messy room, literally a couple of hours away from the Great Adventure. So much to pack and do still before I have to catch my bus up to Carlisle. From there me and Quiddity are walking from coast to coast along Hadrian’s Wall to Newcastle. It’ll take us about 5 days of walking and a day either side to get there and back.

We’ll be doing something like 20 miles a day. Ive been sort of preparing for this by doing the occasional 7 mile stroll to and from the Brighton Marina during which I eat ice-cream and watch a movie as a reward. I need rewards for everything just like a dog. Yesterday as my reward for working my ass off the last few weeks I bought some super sexy leather mountain boots I can’t afford and was repremanded by the sales assistant for not having bought them “at least” 6 months ago to wear them in. What kind of spontaneous adventurer plans 6 months in advance so they can wear their boots in? Phah. I always pack at the very last possible minute and of course I only had today to wear them in while walking around town, so tough. I bought blister plasters. Thats the sort of ahead planning endorsed by the Adventurer On The Go Society and the sort I’ll stick to. I just need to remember to pack them… maybe I should make a list.

And yeah, along the way I’ll be posting photo updates to yummy via my celly, like this one!

So all you lazy asses are coming along with me! Even those of you under house arrest.