I’ve been busy at MEC today. I bought a stove, a 1l fuel bottle, fuel, a pot / pan set, and two dry bags, a 20l one for my laptop and a 5l one for the stove.
The stove is in two parts, a fuel pump and a burner. The burner fits very nicely inside the [...]
Category Archives: Videos
Gearing up, leaving Quebec City
Also posted in Travels Tagged GSI Pinnacle Soloist, MEC, Omnifuel, Primus, Primus Himalaya Omnifuel, Quebec 2 Comments
Beautiful
This is a beautiful video, pass it on.
Thank you Marie for sharing it with me.
Amazing video for Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while. Check it.
Sony onion hilarity
This is absolutely hilarious! Thanks Victor.
Please be advised, this video contains adult language.
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work
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Guatemalan photo catch up
Catching up on a few unposted photos. I’ll start vaguely in chronological order…
Caught a Chivas football game in Guadalajara. They are the only team in Mexico to have a team of only Mexican players. The game was interesting, 3-3 the final score. The crowd went absolutely nutso!
Sam and I stayed on Lake Atitlan in San [...]
Also posted in Photos, Travels Tagged Chivas, football, Guadalajara, Guatemala, Lake Atitlan, mangroves, Monterrico, soccer 2 Comments
Teenage Mexican party
We ended up at an underage Mexican party tonight. Here’s a little clip for your viewing pleasure!
Mexican Madness
A few snaps that have been building up on my cameras over the last few weeks, in no particular order.
Mexico City Subway
The Mexico City subway costs only 2 pesos (15c USD / 10p GBP). It’s subsidised by the government I’m told. So at peak times, it gets just a little crowded!
Here’s a couple of videos [...]
Early adventures with Ubuntu
I’ve been thinking about switching from Fedora to Ubuntu. I downloaded the latest Ubuntu version a few weeks ago. Today I took the plunge and booted it up.
First thing I noticed, no wireless networks. It detected my card and it seemed to work, but no networks were listed by NetworkManager. I unplugged the power and [...]
Also posted in Open Source, Techy Tagged Fedora, Linux, livna, Open-Source, truecrypt, ubuntu, ubuntu versus fedora 4 Comments
Ismael Lo at Kirstenbosch
Last Sunday I was at Kirstenbosch gardens for their weekly sunset concert. Last week McCully Workshop were playing. They’re a popular South African ’70s band and the concert was excellent.
Yesterday, Ismael Lo was playing. The concert set a new Kirstenbosch record selling out all 6′000 tickets in 6 hours. Ismael Lo is a Senegalese singer, [...]
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A trip to Guguletu
Guguletu is a township outside Cape Town. Answers.com defines a township as “A racially segregated area in South Africa established by the government as a residence for people of color.” Another word might be a ghetto.
I was told there’s always a good feast on a Sunday in the townships and some friends invited me to [...]
Also posted in Photos, Travels Tagged Guguletu, kilts, South Africa, Sunday meat, townships 6 Comments
Miro: TV On Demand
Miro is an awesome program. It’s a very simple concept. You download the player and subscribe to “channels”. Those channels are simply RSS feeds which include videos. The videos are downloaded automatically for you, and the program tracks what you’ve watched and what you haven’t. So it tells you when you’ve got new stuff to [...]
Also posted in Fun, Photos Tagged comedy, comedy news, miro, news satire, onion news newtork, online video 2 Comments
I can no longer bear CSI Miami
I tried to watch a recent episode of CSI Miami last night. It was too much for me. I barely made it through twenty minutes, while doing other things, before I had to turn it off. Personally, I hold Jim Carrey responsible. Every since seeing this little gem on YouTube I can no longer take [...]
Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode Part 1
This is quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. I realise that statement doesn’t make much sense, but this is funny. Click through to YouTube to see the other episodes. Thanks for the tip Tom.
Awesome Autism
This is a pretty amazing video. Stephen Wiltshire, Kunst Savant Aus London (damned unfortunate title that one!) spends three days drawing a five foot aerial portrait of Rome having spent only 45 minutes in a helicopter viewing the city. The document is near perfect, his rendition of the Colosseum is practically identical when overlaid on [...]
Birthdays in Bangkok
I celebrated my second consecutive birthday in Bangkok yesterday. As is my usual custom, I took the day off work and instead attended to a few personal administration issues. First on the agenda, it was getting very out of control…
Then I wandered by Lumpini Park for a little jaunt in the swan shaped pedal boats. [...]
Grand Prix Tickets
Two free tickets for the Melbourne Grand Prix were at stake. All Ross had to do was walk like a supermodel, he’s the tall lad that went first. The kid who went third ended up winning in the dance off, but sadly I didn’t catch that on video! Check it out…
Upgrade to Fedora Core 6
Yesterday I upgraded to Fedora Core 6. All in all, a smooth process. Took a few hours on Sunday, couple of hours today recovering stuff as I needed it, and everything seems to be working like a charm.
I also upgraded to Firefox 2.0, lovely, major improvement on the previous version. It includes spell checking in [...]
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The Musical Saw
I had my first musical sword recital yesterday from my latest couch surfing guests…
Now there’s something you don’t see every day!
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The Easter Bunny
It’s that time of year again, but do you know what the Easter Bunny is doing for the other 364 days of the year? I’ll show you…
Many thanks to Dr Jamesonian Kendallosis for this contribution…
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Back to Khao San
Having been in Bangkok for almost 3 months now, I went back to Khao San Road for the first time in weeks. It’s where we first arrived, and the only place in Bangkok most backpackers ever see. Ahh, it was nice to be back amongst so many farrang faces in a way. To spare the [...]
New Apartment
I signed a 6 month lease on an apartment today. I’m going to be in Bangkok for a while! Check out this walk through of my new palace…
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Awesome Video on Revver.com
I just discovered this great site, a bit like YouTube videos, but with some awesome stuff. Check out this jumps video courtesy of revver.com (new window). These guys are insane…
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Bangkok from Above
We looked at a new apartment today with a roof garden, the view is superb. Check out this little video of the view…
I’ve also added a selection of snaps taken around Bangkok today. See what a good investment that camera was! Click on the picture below for the gallery.
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