joshwaller (baboba)

I travelled to London and Hamburg yesturday. It was raining. A lot. Lufthansa prefer it if you don't walk on the aeroplane's wings! In Hamburg only men wearing hats can use the pedestrian crossings. The plane we boarded was called a Wupper, which is short for "Wupper-Sieg AG Leverkusen (Wupsi)" - Thankfully they didn't have any "Wupsi"'s on the flight - just tiny sandwiches about 1/3rd the size of normal sandwiches.

Nestle Caramacs , they're (in my opinion) like butter and dust mixed together and flattened into a milkybar sized shape, wrapped inside some plastic and sold in corner shops all over Britain in the chocolate bars section, they've been developed so that they don't melt, as general confusion means they are left next to chocolate bars, and sold as some kind of "Chocolate" bar when in fact they are made from (in my opinion) old melted butter and dust from local wood factories. Originally released as an easy way to serve and store butter without having to own a fridge, critics screamed foul at the hideous dusty taste and difficulty in spreading the hard substance on bread.

View it here - the picture above / left shows the mini floating Great Britain that was used on the Good Morning (Richard and Judy) show with Weatherman Fred? - He would run around on it telling us the weather. It's not there anymore but Google Maps is slightly out of date by several years so you can still see it. Hooray!

There was a Vietnam film type soundtrack that featured: Jennifer Juniper (Donovan), and Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones, as well as a number of other excellent songs. Unfortunately I can't find the album anymore, nor do I remember all the songs on the album. An internet search has proved fruitless. Does anybody have any ideas? All I can find are "Tour of Duty" but it's not got the right songs on it...? Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf Paint it Black - Rolling Stone Jennifer Juniper - Donovan Update: Thanks to an anonymous comment - the full track listing can be found in the comments! It looks like it was Tour of Duty Volume 2!! :)

March of the Penguins - it's flipping awesome. Not awesome like the Matrix, but like a David Attenborough documentary on steroids, with Morgan Freeman as the voiceover. The DVD contains two extra documentaries about how they filmed it, both very interesting / entertaining. I managed to watch the film a second time and still really enjoyed watching it. It's fairly short for a film at 1hour 15minutes but slightly longer than the average animal documentary. Some of the extra documentaries contain footage of the pengiuns from different colonies, and you wonder why they didn't contain it in the film. A Cock and Bull Story Starring Steve Coogan - has some very funny moments where they take the mickey out of Alan Partridge. Most of the people I was watching it with didn't really get the parallels between the film inside the film, and the "real world" modern day version of it, but did after explaining it. I think it's one of those films where a brief familiarity...

We went to Brighton this week to visit Vanessa and Paul - it was a long way to drive taking well over 5 hours on the way down. Pictures are in the gallery . PS - Visit Health Unlimited.org - they provide health care for people for free. They also employ door-to-door canvassers who try and get you to give them money. One thing I find confusing is that these door-to-door people aren't volunteers, but they get paid (presumably by the charity) to go door-to-door... hmmm...

Email sent to Bic : "You could invent a Bic biro with sellotape wrapped around the pen, this way it is a sellotape dispenser as well as a pen, and then by the time the pen has run out, the sellotape would run out at the same time. You would always have handy sellotape with you, plus everytime you took the sellotape off the pen you would have a clean pen again." Related Bic Pen Articles: Bendy Bic Pen Invented

The Break Up is "alright", some people even said that it's "good" (the majority of people I was with). It is somewhat of the opposite to the general feel good romantic comedy in that it's about the break up of a couple instead of the joining of a couple. It makes for generally unpleasant watching while they have domestic arguments with guests, and a lot of the jokes are already on the trailer. There were some laugh out loud moments, but not enough in my opinion. Ladies in Lavender is so boring. It feels like it isn't about anything at all. It is fairly short compared to overly long films like Superman, and Pirates of the Carribean 2, but it still had the female contingent checking how much time was left on the DVD display. It is slightly more appealing to women, but the majority of them thought it was awful.

What's with Cadbury's "The big bite Moro" in the UK (Made in Ireland), it's exactly the same as a "Boost charged with Glucose". In other countries a Cadbury's Moro is the same as a Mars bar. Contents and ingredients of a Moro and a Boost: 60.5g, Milk Chocolate with Caramel and Biscuit Filling, 310kcal per bar, 17.8g fat, ingredientsL glucose solids 23%, veg oil, skimmed milk, biscuits (5%), sugar, cocoa, glycerol, whey, e471, e442, milk chocolate, etc. Perhaps the flavouring is slightly different, but the ingredients are identical. I want answers! Cadburys say that it's made in Ireland with a different choclate recipe. Update: I contacted Cadburys, who said that the Moro bar is sold in Ireland, and they have no plans of introducing it into the UK, as the UK have the Boost bar. I spoke to a friend who worked in the industry, and he says that distribution warehouses simply buy from the cheapest suppliers available and often that means buying from...

"Great Coke Taste Zero Sugar" - You can't make this stuff up, it's Coca Cola's new zero fat / zero sugar coke for men who think drinking Diet Coke makes them a girl. Each 330ml can contains 2 calories - which is great if you normally drink water - I mean what is the point in even drinking it if it doesn't offer you any kind of food or nutritional value? It's full of Aspartame and Acesulfame K as alternatives to sugar, which Coca Cola promise won't give you cancer. Anyway, if you're keen on rotting your teeth, giving yourself cancer, and wasting money then Coca Cola Zero certainly tastes quite nice, contains caffiene, and the can looks pretty cool.

...according to my mobile phone digital camera. I've had the Samsung E800 for over a year now, and it's finally time to send it off to the ebay pie in the sky . The Samsung E800 was a pretty great phone apart from the stupid-ness of it, such as have no means of sending a phone number to another phone (The feature was completely missing), and have no means of sending your photos to other phones or computers without and optional and expensive data cable (it doesn't let you send photos via bluetooth for example, the only way was to pay stupid amounts to send it as an email). Well I've finally got a working data cable - an old-style COM port cable. So basically I thought I'd share with you some of the cake photos (and other photos) from the phone, taken over the last year... the first one, an awesome cream banoffee pie from coffee n nosh. the second is fairly self-explanatory - featured in a mobile phone shop - the chaps from the fast show possibly the oldest novell se...

So I've installed Windows Vista Beta * (Peter) 2 - Build 5384 - The system has a C3 / Nehemiah CPU at 1.2ghz, 512mb ram (DDR, Laptop RAM), 120gb Maxtor Drive and Pioneer 16x DVDRW. Updating the VGA driver seems to have found the correct VIA graphics driver from Microsoft. * Please bear in mind that all that I post is related to the beta version, so Vista could be drastically different (better?) when finalised. It's almost like running some alien or Linux operating system because it looks so strange compared to Windows, they've lost the Start button, and replaced it with the windows logo in a circle, which will be great (not) for tech. support, instead of saying, "Click the Start button...", they can now say "Click symbol formerly known as the start button", or "Click the round blob with the windows logo in the bottom left corner..." "... no, not that one." "...no bottom left "... ad infinitum. Stupid basically. The Start but...

Boiler Room (2000) DVD. Really good, really entertaining, gripping, slightly disappointing end, but I wont go into details other than to say it would be nice if there was an extra couple of minutes tying loose ends. And how do they manage to copy the C: drive onto 1 floppy disk? When they are running Windows 95? Well worth watching though!

We've been in Portugal for a week! It was all very last minute, but it was amazing! Now we have over 500 photos to sort through to find the best ones to share! I've put some of the best one's that stood out the most in the gallery . These ones were taken with the new Canon Powershot A700. It's always slightly annoying when I go places with H with a camera, as she always tends to take the better photo! :) Update: A second set of photos has been added! Wahey!

We've been travelling a lot recently, last weekend was spent in Cornwall, 2 days there, two days travelling. The weather has been amazing. This Wednesday we travelled down to London, stayed over and then came back Thursday evening. The car has been doing an excellent job. There's some photos in the gallery however, I haven't got round to uploading any cornwall ones yet. Other photo highlights: World's Largest Crisp

I've just won an auction for Street Fighter II (Champion Edition) for the Sega Megadrive! Street Fighter II was awesome! I don't know what Champion Edition is, but I guess they just re-released it a number of times to make more money. I even remember playing Street Fighter 1 numerous times, you'd complete the game and pretty much nothing would happen, so you play the game all the way through again just to see if anything happens, only to find out nothing happens again... BeggarPrince is a new game that's just been released for the Sega MegaDrive - the last new game for the Sega Mega Drive was released in 1998! At £29 I don't think I'll be buying it just yet... maybe when it's old skool... :)

Aeon Flux - Awesome - really good concept - seems like a fresh idea (although the island is fairly similar) - seems lowly rated, and under-hyped. Interesting how a lot of the fight scenes are during the day - most other films seem to be in dark alleyways. The Thirteenth Floor - Ok - interesting twists but quite far fetched sci-fi. Basically it's like the holodeck in Star Trek. It's sort of like the Matrix, but in a more Tron kind of way, seems dated in comparison to the Matrix. Along Came a Spider - In the first 5 minutes there's a stunt that looks completely fake. This put me off the rest of the film. Unfortunate but true. Quite entertaining though as far as thrillers go. Stupid use of computers though, ooh click here and now we see a 50 megapixel image of the kidnappers home, how handy. Seems dated for a film released in 2001.

Involving relocating offices. Moving to an office using Amigas as workstations and an old Apple Mac as a server - the keyboards were covered in rubbery waterproof covers, presumably that's why they lasted so long. One of them had a multi memory card reader that was about the size of a modern computer. The new office was located next to the sea and the glass windows were specially coated so that there were two sunsets. Someone I worked with bought a new digital camera, the lens swivelled round to the left for sneaky shots.

Mission Impossible III, Confetti, Ice Age II, are all films I would like to watch. Mission Impossible III : Saw it Wed night, £3.50 at Fact, with Orange Wednesdays it works out at 1.75 each! It's very action packed, quite hollywood-ish, has some comedy moments thanks to Shaun out of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced. Entertaining edge of the seat stuff without much brain thought. Good. And in other news, you know how people say you shouldn't eat sweets because they make your teeth fall out, well that's literally what's happened to me, on Saturday, a Fox's Glacier took out one quarter of my tooth, then yesturday, a Dime bar took out the filling (that was making up about half of my tooth). Update: I'm booked in for Friday, so it could be death for my tooth or it might be saved? I'll have to wait and see...

Friday Eve? Dunno. Saturday: Limo-ride to ball, champagne, wine, lots of food, no ill feeling. Limo ride home. Sunday chilled out sleeping, then 3pm Extreme Monster Truck Show! This involved: Motorbikes jumping, Quad bikes jumping, Off-road thing jumping, a rollover of a Fiat Punto, people driving through fire, 4x4 on 2 wheels, setting fire to a person, you know like it's a normal and entertaining thing to do(!), a vauxhall crashing into a renault clio and rolling over, and then a big chuff off monster truck driving over cars! Followed by church, and then Madagascar - an entertaining (and funny) film that's slightly short (78 minutes).