Routine Breaker – Interesting Finds

This guy tried to walk the whole of China. He didn’t make it the whole way but his video journal is almost as awesome.

A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha

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that is all I need. happiness…

Hiking and the outdoors are some of the joys of life. Whenever you spend a long time in the wilderness with your gear you end up thinking of it in a different way. I try to think of ways that it might be useful in other circumstances or how it originated or how it might get better. Just the inquisitive nature that my family instilled upon me, I guess. Anyways, the wonderful site, core77, put together this article about industrial design and camping gear. Enjoy.

17 days and 201 miles of walking later, the Big Walk I described last month has come to a close. For the backcountry inclined, I can highly recommend the John Muir Trail as a true scenic masterpiece; for those more interested in product design, there’s plenty to tell also.

For starters, my stance on electronics in the backcountry is mostly unchanged — they are to be avoided whenever possible. The two electrically-powered objects in my pack, a headlamp and a camera, both performed well, but batteries are dense little things, and add noticeably to the weight of anything requiring them. The charge remaining in the camera, moreover, became a subject of constant concern: things just get more and more scenic as you head south down the JMT, and the worry that a photo snapped on day 14 would prevent us from shooting one on day 17 superseded concerns about hypothermia and twisted ankles, and that just ain’t right.

Many of the other technological wonders that I carried turned out to be well worth their designers’ efforts, though — here’s a review of five of them:  Read more.

California should try this out. They might get out of their debt.

A Sicilian mayor has come up with a novel plan to resolve his town’s cash-flow problems – by betting local officials’ salaries on the lottery.

Italy’s SuperEnalotto has not been won in weeks, and its jackpot has climbed to an unprecedented 116m euros (£98m).

Ficarra Mayor Basilio Ridolfo and his colleagues have stumped up 115 euros from their pay packet to buy tickets.

The chances of winning Tuesday’s draw were higher than those of receiving funds pledged by the state, he said.

Neat commercial from London. Riding the Chicago “L” .

Click link for video.  Budweiser Commercial

I almost always love what they have on. If it’s Adult Swim or Flapjack. the craft in Flap is great and knuckles and flap ain’t bad neither.

For your viewing pleasure.

The beginning is a great bit of work. and the lead-ins are always well made. The watercolor art is what first turned me on to this cartoon but the hilarity and random craziness is always great for 15 bursts of smiles.

mmmmmmmmmm beer.

it’s mesmerizing.

I want to think this isn’t true but so far as I know it’s pretty close.

It’s quite a feat paying a fee for one player that could buy an entire club, newcastle united and c. ronaldo. It’s quite another when you get 80,000 people to show up to unveil him for a glorified press conference. could you image having this happen when Shaq transferred (was traded) to Cleveland. Did 1,000 people show to watch Diesel, or whatever his nickname is now, flaunt his dunking skills? I don’t even know. But for C. Ronaldo. It’s crazy-amazing. a full stadium.

Everyone wonders how they got 300 million euros to spend on players. Well, they’ll probably get half Ronaldo’s transfer fee back and then some at the end of the month with shirt sales and images rights.

With this crazy press conference, it’s 80 million pounds well spent; even if he never wins another Champions League title or World player of the year.

Images curiosity of BBC website and getty images.

I come from a semi-scientific background and for the first 20+ years of my life I used some pretty crazy words almost everyday to describe things. A far flung reality from– brand, icon, pixel, that I use so often now. How I miss you great words of mine. it’s really kind of funny when spell checkers don’t even recognize them because they are so uncommonly used. Love it.

erlenmeyer flask. -  great sounding, always loved putting those together.

mitochondria. – yep.

riboflavin.  – another yes.

xylem. figure that one out.

chloroplasyts. – how lovely they are.

covalent. — bonds were the death of science andrew.

endothermic.

gamete.

half-life. – not the game. though that was a great one. crowbar to the face!

joule. tropism. meiosis. phloem. stomata. vacuole. zygote.

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more to come.

PS. — Beakman’s World was scary but Nova is always a must watch.