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Well, you know my name is Kevin, and the things I draw come true...
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Winer Notes:
Full Name: Sydney Grant Winer
Anagram of Full Name: Dysentry Warning
Age: 39
Home: Adelaide
Suburb: Joslin
Street: Werrina
Job: Photographer
Other Job: Writer
Mags: Velovision, Outdoor Australia
Hobbies:
Photography, Cycling, Painting, Comic Books
Claim to Fame:
In the movie "Julie Moon" Liza Minelli once said: "It's that horrible Sydney Winer next door!"
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meet syd winer
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This is Syd. Sure, he may look like a sociopath, but... well, let's find out more about
him, shall we?
How did we end up at your place? I read about you guys in Australian Cyclist, and I've pretty much been following you ever since. Good thing, or else you might be sleeping on someone else's lounge room floor and I wouldn't be able to pick your feeble brain.
I notice you don't have a car, or much stuff for that matter. I like to live, ahem, Spartanly. You know, be ready to up and move at any moment.
But, I mean, you don't even have any chairs. Or spoons. I have one chair, at my desk. And I rarely entertain. How many spoons do you have?
One. Well, there you go. I like to think I could hop on the bike and go whenever I want.
Where've you been? I spent a year in Chile and Argentina, going nowhere in particular. I said to myself I'd go south until the end of summer, then north until the end of winter, then back down to my starting point. Other than that, I've pedalled around Europe, all around NSW and Victoria, and up the Murray River on a kayak.
The guts of Syd's pedal kayak.
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Don't you mean "paddled?" Nope, pedalled. I have a pedal kayak.
What's a pedal kayak? It's a gadget that sticks out the bottom of the kayak that swishes back and forth like swim fins. It's actually faster than paddling.
One last question: Who's the first girl you ever kissed? Man, I don't even know the first girl I ever slept with. I mean, I remember her, just, not her name.
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Hey losers. This is Mr. Skinnylegs. You met me last week, but you probably don't even remember because
you're so stupid. Anyhow, I joined this trip on Monday, and Kevin and Aimee wanted me to help out on the
site. So, I'm going to be filling you in on all the reasons why Australia sucks.
Don't like my idea? Like I give a snot. Why don't you go lick a fencepost with your boyfriend Wally.
Anyway, I'll be around. Later, dorks.
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Keep those eyes open for Mr. Skinnylegs, and his new column,
I Reckon That's Crap.
Debuts next week, only on Beimers.com!
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these are the people in our neighbourhood...
Heidi
The Gawler newspaper, the Bunyip, is hot on the trail of local news stories. Heidi pulled her car over on
a busy Adelaide-bound road to schedule a quick interview. Lucky for her, we needed an excuse to get out of the
morning rush! Thanks Heidi! You were nice!
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Cameron
Our second drive-by interview in one day! Cameron left his car parked on the side of Bridge road to intercept
us on the bike path, thus giving us another excuse to take a much needed traffic break. Looking forward to our
spread in the Salisbury Messenger!
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we get picky 'bout dickie's bikkies...
Australia's favourite knock-off artist, Dick Smith, has just tackled Arnott's Tim Tams with a vengeance.
Dick's brand of Tim Tams, cleverly named TempTins, just reached the shelves at Wooleys, and profess
to be cheaper and better than the original.
So... WE PUT THEM TO THE TEST! A blind taste test (okay, we just closed our eyes) asked two questions...
Which one is the real Tim Tam, and which one do you like better? Here's what happened:
Aimee:
The Tim Tam cookie was much flakier, but the TempTin chocolate was much spicier. I had the
TempTin first, and if I didn't have the Tim Tam to compare, I would have been fooled. In fact, I was.
Guess: Incorrect
Preference: Dick Smith
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Syd:
On first taste I thought the genuine article may be a fake, but one bite of the TempTins and I
realized they weren't the real Tim Tams, though I must say that I did enjoy the subtlety of their flavour.
Guess: Correct
Preference: Dick Smith
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Kevin:
Pitting one against the other really hit me with the distinctive flavours. Dick Tams seemed
harsher, with more biting cocoa flavour. The Timmy was... softer somehow. Both tasty though.
Guess: Correct
Preference: Arnott's
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A final note for the untrained eye, and mouth...
How can you tell if your host is serving you the real
deal? If you take the time to compare, you'll notice a few idiosyncracies of each. First, the colour.
Tim Tams have a warm brown chocolatey colour, and held up next to a TempTin, Dick's looks rather pale,
almost grey. (The packaging also is a little less appealing. Should have brought out the Pantone Colour
Matcher before greenlighting the Dick pack.)
Like Aimee says, the Arnott's was flakier, and as a result, seems a little bigger when held up to each
other. And as for price, the savings are pretty paltry. You're better off getting Home Brand Triple Croc
if all you care about is price. Otherwise, the choice is yours!
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wally's amazin' facts!
Vegemite is Australia's favourite spread, next to Nicole Kidman in Woman's Day. Sure, it's a
great source of Vitamin B, but did you also know that it's a byproduct of beer? Vegemite
is a yeast extract, which means it's pretty much made of the stuff that they scrape out of the
beer vat when the fermentation process is complete. Yummers!
This Week's Amazin' Fact: Glenelg is a palindrome! Neat!
Next week, I'll tell you all about Australia's oldest marsupial! I've even got a picture of the big
lug!
Don't forget to look for Wally this week!
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| Distance this week: 141km | Distance since Day 1: 12238km |
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What is Bikeabout? Click here to find out!
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Day 305: FLASH!
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 what'll they think of next?
Man! These polaroids are fun! It's like, holy frickin' frack!, you can just point the camera at your subject, click the button and kaBAM - out pops a picture!
You get to look at it right away! And guess WHAT?! If you don't like that photo, you can just toss it in the bin! Just like our digital! Except each photo costs two dollars, instead of free!
Incredible, the technology these days. Just incredible.
Syd's Diary, Day 3: What, you're still here? "Yes we are, and excuse us, we have work to do."
"You get back to work and I'll get back to Tin Tin in the Land of the Soviets."
- Kevin.
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Day 307: Paint by Numbers
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 you won't see this on vh1
We get a lot of emails from people asking us how we do the cartoons on each page. Okay, so we've had one guy write in and ask. Thanks for caring, Ben Wright. This one's for you.
Today is special. Today, we give you a never-seen-before, behind-the-scenes look at how we do the artwork on beimers.com. Today, we give away the secret recipe.
A lot of you may have thought that we create the 'graphics' you see on a computer. This just isn't a feasible option on a bike. To do the graphics digitally, we'd have to carry around a computer on the bikes, and as you know, it will still be a number of years until a computer is smaller than an entire room.
In fact, no part of this site is originally created on a computer. We have much more humble roots here at beimers.com. We like to get our hands a bit dirty. We've found that a combination of foam core board, acrylic paint and a few cheap brushes bring out the best in us.
The process is deceptively simple:
Step One: Pick yourself up a nice big piece of foam core board, a tube of black acrylic paint and a few crummy brushes. We usually carry a few 3' x 5' pieces along on the bikes with us just to be prepared. They're light and they make great sails when we've got a tailwind.
Step Two: Assemble the props and build the set. Take a look at Week 41. You see how we're all fifties-style? Well, we had to build that entire set before we began putting paint to paper. More to it than you thought, isn't there?
Step Three: Here's where our artistic genius (and patience) comes in... we take turns posing on the set while the other person does a rough sketch on the foam core board.
Step Four: Once the image is sketched, it's that time to get our hands dirty. In a time-consuming process, we paint each character, background and bike. After hours of sweat and tears, voila! A finished painting.
Next time on the Discovery Channel's Internet Magic: How do the paintings get onto the computer? See you next time!
Syd's Diary, Day 5: What, you're still here? "Yes we can't leave, it's still raining and our clothes are frozen to the line"...
"Can you make me look like that girl in the calendar?"
- Kevin.
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texta:
(n.) marker, usually part of a set, used for colouring. Originally a brand name for a type of marker,
the noun and proper noun have become synonymous. Like "Kleenex", or "Koolaid".
no skin off my back
syd says...
fume highway
getting a rise
ready for my close-up
