Monza, Monza, Monza. A mini Le Mans, where 80% of the lap is spent with your feet up, doing the crossword and the other 20% is spend absolutely terrified because your car isn't set up for corners. Full power straights lead to tight chicanes, with every breaking zone an opportunity to attack... and to make a terrible mistake.
To understand Monza's terrifying nature, you can try simulating the experience the following ways:
- Go sky diving with a velociraptor
- Ride in the front carriage of a rollercoaster, but attempt to make your way to the rear carriage before the ride is over
- Ride around your bathroom on a bicycle. A rocket-powered bicycle.
- Tell Arnold Schwarzenegger that you didn't much care for his performance in Junior
- Fly in a plane piloted by Kobayashi and designed by Nick Wirth
- Read Katie Price's new magazine
Speaking of Katie Price's magazine, I have to share with you a scan of her 'Recipes' page:
Amazing, amazing stuff. She cooks the way HRT design cars (in fact, they the HRT and Katie are both built in the same factory, I believe).
Tragically, I won't be able to watch qualifying or the race live this weekend, so I guess I'll call this a test run of 2012. I'll see you on the other side, guys!
That's the best Recipes page I have ever seen
I don't understand. Isn't that the way everyone cooks?
Exactly. None of this 'method' nonsense and ingredients you've never heard of.
I never cook with cans of stuff I've never heard of
A mini Le Mans, where 80% of the lap is spent with your feet up, doing the crossword and the other 20% is spend absolutely terrified because your car isn't set up for corners.
Stuart, you are hilarious. :D
Wow, you can tell I spend entire days at keyboards both at work and home, my fingertips have gone all soft, it actually hurts to type.
Sadly golf plans on Saturday may be off due to heavy wind and rain.
4 rugby games today.. I like watching Scotland but I don't care they are playing Namibia (no idea they had a team) in a few minutes time. Then it was two other countries I've immediately forgotten about. Then France v Japan at 7am, bet the French put in a huge score if their good team has showed up. Then the one I'm interested in, England v Argentina at 9.30am. Should probably have not stayed up to 2am after a busy work week... shall put mobile devices by bed and watch there...
I got that wrong. Scotland v Romania. Fiji v Namibia. Maybe the early rounds are skippable.
Those hurricanes(ish) eh. Ruin everything.
And Castleford v Hull KR in the massive battle for the last playoff place in the Super League... just me?
And Stuart, it does concern me you appear to have actually picked up a copy of Katie Price's new magazine, and I'm worried for you if I'm honest...
Makes me wonder how he would have described the old Hockenheim
I just about manage with trying different jars of stir in sauces.
Ah just a little storm by the time it gets here, can't play golf in it though. Hoping Silverstone won't be drenched through..
I'm a Southerner and therefore don't understand League. It sounds like a Sky thing anyway.
Mind you I barely understand Union, but at least I can watch that and care about the teams :)
sleep then..
As a northerner, it was my duty just to get Sky to watch League (not exactly true (its also on the BBC as well))
... i'd rather do this than have ready made cauliflower cheese reheated by Katie Price... :-/
If England could please stop losing..
How well do you know your Formula 1 history?
The book That'll be the Day: 365 F1 Stories takes a look at significant moments or quirky happenings on this day in Grand Prix history. Can you guess what event the following describes?
Results ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/italy-2011-free-practice-3-results
Sounds like England haven't been doing too well. Close score with 10 minutes to go..
ok, i'll be back for quali :) must do housework.
Love the Daily, Stuart :)
That's some excellent cooking advice from Ms Jordan. Very inspired and ambitious.
Live thread for qualifying: http://sidepodcast.com/post/live-italy-2011-qualifying
2.5 hours til the tennis starts, I shall curl up with a book and some earplugs since theres currently 8 loud girls and a stereo in my bathroom and this flat has very thin walls.
That's me, rocking out on a Saturday night like a 60 year old :D
Silverstone LMP1: Pagenaud (Peugeot), McNish (Audi), Sarrazin (Peugeot), Bernhard (Audi), Prost (Rebellion), Moreau (Oak), Premat (Oak), Boullion (Rebellion)
Pagenaud has never been to Silverstone before.
Well, I heard some loud cars down the road from me today and it turns out part of my road was turned into a temporary drag strip.
The idea was that they would race a petrol hot rod against and electric one. Fine, the electric dragster looked great and was quick, but the problem was that it was completely silent. This was made worse by the fact that it's rival Mustang was ear-splittingly loud.
Plus the fact that there were 3 or four hot rods parked there meant that the idea of a cool electric car was really badly sold!
Ping: http://www.f1minute.com/news/fia-enforce-camber-limit-monza
And another: http://www.f1minute.com/news/sebastian-vettel-secures-pole-position-italian-grand-prix
Windows 8 boots reeeeally quickly.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/windows-8-boot-time-to-be-drastically-reduced-shown-off-in-vide/
And yet, I'm still sceptical...
jt's raining in New York again. Kill me now.
Although I like the fact the metro UI isn't compulsory, didn't know you could choose between the look MS is pushing for and traditional windows desktop.
You think they'd get the idea after a few years of pushing the us open to monday in a row. Although more rain is reeaallly going to squeeze getting everything done in time surely?
If they can't be bothered to build a roof, build a giant mac to cover flushing meadows. Easy :)
How long until this is actually out and about? I am mad at my laptop :D
September 2012 I think so about a year to go
this tournament is a joke every year and this year is the worst it's been in a long time. The way they're treating the womens semifinals is pathetic.
ah, very nice.
not totally true. windows 8 resumes from hibernation quickly, yes. but windows 7 kinda does already.
i'd like to see a start -> reboot video.
James La Rosa has summed up the rain
""If Sam Stosur and Angelique Kerber can't play on Ashe, no one can." - God"
I was just reading the underneath description and you're right. But they don't really address this in the video, grrr. I hate being deceived!
They expect us to read after blowing minds falsley!
there was a whole detailed post about it the other day: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx
mind-numbingly boring to read, but it explains how the laptop in the video uses something other than bios on startup.
bios must be about 30 years old now, so that's a good thing. however... you will require a brand new machine that isn't even available to buy yet, just to get that speed.
I very much approve of the fact they've finally moved on from a bios but I suppose the sceptical side of me that doesn't know a huge amount about Win8 yet wonders how on earth it managed to load up correctly like that when you have security, start up programs, even stuff like drivers being loaded too.. it just made me wonder when it just popped on but then again I was sucked into the assumption it was being booted up. *shakes fist at microsoft*
Also the ui is annoying me. They're bringing the metro UI onto the 360 in November and as pretty as it is, it looks fabulous for touch screen use like windows mobile but a pain in the bum for navigating on something like an xbox. But we'll see. Not sure how I feel about it being used as a fully fledged OS UI but again, you can swap to a desktop so that's good.
didn't know that, if it's good i might be interested in getting one. is it like windows phone on an xbox?
it appears to be very very very much more orientated to the media side of things more to the gaming side of things.
Here's a bit more showing it mr c: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/09/xbox-live-fall-dashboard-preview-from-nonsense-to-metro/
oooh. designed for kinect?
they need an xbox app store. i'd get one if i could say "xbox f1 minute".
that would be awesome :)
Yeah it's heavily designed for kinect too, which like a touch screen would be a great way to navigate it through. Although I would find it a bit odd if late at night you're shouting at your tele "Xbox, open facebook! Open facebook! OPEN FACEB.. oh i give up"
(and then it would open, of course)
Although it's still lacking a fully fledged web browser it seems.
Whatever they do, they need to stop Windows (or progams people install) from all trying to load at the same time on startup. Let the OS get up and running first.
macs do the same. they fixed it with the ipad though. no background-nothing ever.
the rain has stopped in New York but the USTA don't like court covers so now it'll take ages to dry the courts. Boooo.
Enjoy a little something from the Sidepodcast back catalogue.
- Live: 2011 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final
Originally published 14 May 2011.
phew, men are warming up. I am all set for my all nighter as I want to watch all four matches :D
this match is going to go forever
speed sporting is the future. two serves then straight to a tie-break ought to do it.
That reminds me... couldn't find a single stream for the speedway tonight. Guess Sky chucking it on the red button doesn't help...
ouch. just wait till they do that to free practice.
Just a tiebreak!
I hope they'd cut the prize money accordingly. Maybe then I could take Roger seriously when he complains about the cost of travelling to Australia :D
i don't know who to support..!! its so close!
I always want Roger to win of course, especially as this is his first year slamless since 2002, but if he loses today he has that extra couple of days to get on a plane to come see me #selfish
Hello world
How are you?
This happened 30 years ago in Monza... A very sad close to a saturday: http://t.co/I3F43w3
hehe thats enough for me, gooo Fed!!
Djokovic has won enough this year anyways :)
5.38am and I've just put on a load of washing. Oh early morning tennis, you make me so productive :D
Bet your housemates will enjoy the noise of the machine :)
one of them woke me up at 7am this morning with their music and the other just came home at 3.30am and did a load then (which would have annoyed me if I was asleep), we'll call it payback :D
are you still at uni?!
:)
sometimes it feels like it. In this house I'm one of those people who even puts all my stuff back with the labels facing specific ways so I can tell if people are using them (which they are, boooo). I haven't had to do that since uni in 07 when I was the only person in my flat with a job :D
Eurgh! Don't.... I've bought literally a caddy so I can take my things specifically to the bathroom. I'm not leaving my stuff in there....
Heheh :)
I used to have to pour my milk out into a soya milk carton. That tends to put people off :P
The great thing is I live with an architect and an accountant and they both earn twice what I do, yet I seem to heavily unintentionally subsidise their lives :D
oh wow.. i've never had a bad experience like that..
#sponsoredbyamy
That has to be highly annoying!
it really is, but what can you do? I've spoken to them about it a few times but nothing changed and I don't want to constantly nag as I don't like too much tension in the house.
hmm starting to look like Roger will be on a plane to Sydney tonight :D
Not sure, the only time I shared outside of uni halls we all mostly ignored each other.
Seal the lids down with F1 minute stickers?
the longest I've gone without seeing either of my 3 flatmates was 3 weeks. We mostly ignore each other too, sadly I can still hear them most of the time :D
2 flatmates I mean. Not sharing is my dream, but I can't live alone and pay the same rent I pay now, and if I pay more rent I can't afford to do any of the things I like to do :D
I hear you.... If I win the lottery, I'll share it with you :D
If you're paying for things could you put up a rota in the kitchen or a list of what's to be paid and when? After talking about it..
do you not have any friends who are in the same position or looking to share with people? I can't imagine what it'd be like to live with people but not speak to them/see them. There was one flatmate last year who didn't really like any of us or talk to us and that was awkward. Can't imagine what it would have been like if it'd just been us to in the flat
Yep this is why I can't hardly afford to do anything, but after living alone in a place I could afford then having to move, I could either choose somewhere I could barely afford or start sharing, and I'd learned to love the independence of my own space (even if it isn't really mine).
i used to do a weekly shop for things like washing up liquid etc and then put on the notice board how much people owed me. It worked pretty well.
technically we don't share anything though, it can't be a case of 'I buy this this week, you buy it next week' because we should have three of everything. We had a cleaning roster, it didn't last long. It shames me that adults should need to be told when to do things.
My accountant flatmate even transfers money into my account each month so I can pay her share of the bills for her because otherwise she never pays them. Needless to say I certainly wouldn't hire her as my accountant.
That's terrible! Maybe after dealing with figures as a job she can't stand them at home.
after my flatmate lost his keys I got new ones cut for him and it then took him 6 weeks and 8 reminders to pay me back. It really wouldn't work with these people, they're so resistant to ever open their wallets :D
*runs*
its different when you're married, or so my mum tells me when she's whining about dad :D
oh my goodness! How have you not gone crazy at them before now? I'd have lost patience with them if it were me..
also.. Amy what's going on with Fed??
Make him pay up front. No money - no keys
My housemate got drunk one night and unplugged the freezer for lols... It took me quite a while to persuade him to give me money to replace my food. People can be really annoying.
There's no AC/DC on iTunes? I'm off to a tribute concert next Saturday and wanted to get primed as I only own For Those About To Rock (they are a band which has been on the 'buy more stuff of theirs' list for ages).
Then you get called all the time... Where are you? Let me in? Can you come home? Wake up?
I thought about that but the pain of having to get up to let him in every single day was much worse. He sent me a text one Saturday morning at 7.58am saying 'are you up? can you let me in?
Um, I'm not even up at 7.58am on a weekday. Why on earth would I be up then on a Saturday.
Loads on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ac+dc&aq=0&oq=ac/dc
I keep saying I need to trap a boyfriend to live with me because with two incomes a one bedroom place is actually affordable. I'm told that using the word 'trap' is not a good start.
Hahahahahah so funny.
All of which can be dealt with by uttering "Sod off or open your wallet"
Was going to put it in the car tomorrow
still backwards then. did metallica ever wake up to this century?
That makes it a little more complicated
You do all have to live together though....
lars ulrich says hi from 1989
Yep. I'll let you in if you've been to the ATM.
say what?!?
Ohh my flatmates learnt last year that it's not a good idea to upset me too much.. seeing as i was the one cooking for them and looking after them if they were ill :) one bought me flowers once when he came home drunk and forgot i had a migrane and put loud music on at 2am and woke me up. So when i woke up in the morning he gave me a huge load of flowers as an apology
Love my flatmates :)
I did enjoy that "Why don't you go and sue Napster" was used as an insult in Get Him To The Greek. No ones ever going to forget that.
no wonder you like travelling so much.
Who wouldn't ♥
hehe! i need a clip of that.
:D
travelling is dangerous when you're the only person in the house who clears the mailbox. Last year I did specifically ask them to bring the mail in while I was away but by not asking them to open it all the bills were overdue by the time I got back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYYqRefhuM :D
omg!! class :)
oh my god. honestly Amy you have the patience of a saint.
That is still sharing though Amy. Boys can be quite annoying sometimes!
:) Yes I could use a girlfriend who preferably has more money than me.
Hah :)
So you two are getting together then?
Commute's a nightmare....
yes, Nick really can be.
ohh really wanted them to finish that match this set. im staying up to see as much as i can but i don't want to be up all night!
oh deary me
my dad told me never to date a man with less money than me :)
I just want it to be over now, I don't care who wins :D
Stan's already here http://twitter.com/#!/stanwawrinka/status/112430458532405248 I wonder if he's watching.
:) :)
#confidentialfromchristine
Bit late now isn't it!
phew
Mr C i have a new photographer on twitter for you list - http://twitter.com/#!/PeteJFox
erm... i deleted it because i only liked PHC and a list of one isn't much of a list. #oops
Awwww poor Nick ♥
oh that's cool :) i hadn't realised as i have my own list. :)
you should go on peter windsor's show with the other guest as a photographer just to see who drives you mad first :)
The Flying Punch
good plan. if you could make it to f1, i'd have a list of two and that would be nice :)
heh, someone already did his legs in and that didn't put him off. f1 celebrity death match could be fun though.
okay, i'll try my best ... if you insist ;) hehe i'll be the nicest photog in the paddock :)
oooh that show was awesome #nostalgia
ohh i'm not a fan of the roaring Nole.. :(
I've just started watching Limitless and I already like it because the producer's surname is Burger. #fickle
Hope this is good though :)
mmm burgers. I have gotten into 'bridesmaid dress' mode so burgers are off my menu for a few weeks :(
top 5 film of the year. enjoy.
wow Flo is in a rubbish advert? ohh dear.. she goes out with Jenson... and prince Harry, and now she's in a rubbish advert.. didn't predict that.
on this occasion I will excuse the crowd for cheering that double fault.
wohoooo for Fed!!
NOW DON'T SCREW IT UP ROGER.
:D
he's very good at breaking then getting broken back straight away.
oh no :( silly Fed.
two more points! two more points!
double match points!
Nole is getting a bit arrogant this year :(
NO!
nooooo
hes nowhere near as bad as he used to be.
we've added facebook comments to blog posts this evening, you can see them in action here:
http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-10th-september
we're testing how they work and they're kind of tucked out of the way at the bottom for the moment, feel free to try them out. you have the option of posting to your profile or not.
feedback as ever is welcomed.
ohh? at least he;s getting better :)
Surely if he gets beaten and out of the tournament he can get to Melbourne faster
he's not coming to Melbourne ;)
But yes, I have been torn on that since the 4th round :D
oh for gods sake
ohh myyyy
Silly boy
:)
its like last year all over again. stupid match points.
aww least you're not watching this with my dad.. who is acting like he's a grandslam winner 'oh goodness this is awful, i wouldn't have hit that like that...' and he's always so negative about whoever i'm supporting for example 'there is no way Federer can win this'
can i come watch the tennis with you Amy? :)
So, that isn't the way your meant to watch a sport?
of course. I'm pretty calm these days, I reached a point at some stage this year where Rogers loses don't really upset me. I know all these people who flail and whine and LITERALLY CRY then don't get over it for about a month and I'm just like '....really?'
it would be okay if he was shouting at the tv like normal people. but he's just tuting.. like he's better than Federer?!?!?! shush dad..
Oh right, I thought what you meant was basically he was shouting at the TV.
oh wow. I think with Murray i get a bit disappointed if he goes out earlier than the Semi's but he rarely wins the Semis so for me that's like a final of it's own :D
I think i could happily watch Tennis with you as you wouldn't be so mean as you are about Jenson ;)
oh no. sadly not :( hehe :)
heheh thats true :D
:) which is probably a good thing, i cant think of something tennis wise you'd have to do for me.. Am all registered in the Wimbles ballot for next year so unless you can rig that? ;)
ohhh roger, everything was looking so good :(
this really is a freaky replay of last year
:(
now get over it Rog and get on a plane.
:D
come on Muzza, on court please, straight sets against Nadal... (i wish)
i miss Mr Castle's coverage :(
the girl I'm going to Sydney with says
"I can't even feel happy even if I see him. This is gut-wrenchingly, excruciatingly painful."
I don't feel like that at all.
ohhh dear... but he lost to the number 1 in the world? I know it was an amazing match and so so close.. but.. they're both amazing players?
exactly. And she likes Nole! I used to get sad because I expected him to win slams. But I stopped expecting that last year and now life is all good, hes still doing better than 124 others in the draw.
sauber enjoyed the tennis: http://yfrog.com/hsjemyxj
(sorta)
just point her in the direction of Murray's career.. Fed is a tiny bit better than him ;)
as I tweeted to her "don't worry when he loses like that to the #1. Worry when he loses like that to the #50."
what a good attitude! :)
im so zen.
oh sky have a touch screen!
OH NO!! bad Murray!! What did i tell you.. the BLACK looks so much better than the red! tut tut
my commentators talking about breakfast tennis. sudden urge to scramble some eggs.
how many blisters does Nadal have?!
ohh red hot chili peppers. am taking this as a good sign for Murray's match.
in other news, i am considering using tumblr instead of posterous for my random photos i want to share. pros/cons?
these chaps need to get started so i can watch some before i change the channel and watch stosur.
tumblr is so so easy to use and people can follow you on there so they wont miss anything?.. i know nothing about posterous.
indeed, i'm already using a secondary tumblr for stuff i dont want to share but i'm not using my 'primary' one so I figured I might as well.
christine just went to bed, but she's using both:
tumblr: http://www.christineblachford.com/
posterous: http://mrschristine.posterous.com/
in his presser Roger said "I'll be extremely hungry going to Australia"
I hope he means hungry for a win, not hungry because he's going on a hunger strike like I apparently am :D
plus, if that means hes coming, woot.
woot i'm now following her. who else has a tumblr here?
technically yes, although i truly have no use for it: http://sidepodcast.tumblr.com/
anyone else?
I know lou does but I don't know her link :)
http://loujohnson.tumblr.com/ :)
wohoo!
woot!
My old url expires tomorrow and I am now trying to choose between amy-fulton.com and amyfulton.co.nz. Stupid someone having my name.com and not using it.
anyone using amyfulton.co ?
more pricey though.
that is available, its cheaper than a .co.nz, but I don't know if I like it.
oh boo, journo only tweeted half the quote. Full quote was " "i guess i will be exteremely hungry going into australia next year."
twitter are making it more popular with t.co but i hear ya.
ohhh :(
really I'm just sad I can't be a .org. I've always wanted to be an org.
:D
some people use .me or .net
:)
both taken
wha?
QPR actively pursuing Beckham, says Fernandes - http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/10/soccer-england-qpr-beckham-idUKL5E7KA0P720110910
he'll be signing schumacher next.
I'm pretty sure thats effectively tapping up. But hey, if Manchester United can get away with it.
Fed: "It hurts, but it's fine. Could be worse. It could be a final."
He's as zen as I am. Take not, hysterical fans ;)
Hehehe, limitless was fun :)
:D
Also, I have now gone from Bradley Cooper, that guy from hangover to Bradley Cooper, actor. This can only be a good thing.
no murray, don't get broken.. please
oh dear.
ooooh i like murrays top.
ooh
http://www.nerdydaytrips.com/
no no no! It's the worst of all the colours he wears. The black shirt he wore the other day was nice :(.. and the blue suits him too... and the white.. but really not the red.
what a great idea!
if you want I'll take it off his hands, so he's back in something that suits him :)
no, its not a nice shirt.. it's red with a green neck seem... eeewww
I like it a lot, shall have to make use of it!
I did not see the green on my stream. I'm afraid the deal is off.
lacking in the wales department at the moment, may have to make a few submissions me thinks.
ohh that green sticks out like a sore thumb when you realise it..
set point to rafa.
it looks horrible!! the green looks fine with the black/white/blue but really not with the red. ew ew ew ew ewwww.
oh wow, Serena is wearing an outfit and a half O.O
that's three times what she normally wears
:D
is... is mr rafa (I assume) sitting with rory from dr who?!
haha no. it's Rafa's manager i think?
I'm amazed anyone can keep up with nadal or djokovic. Not that I know loads about tennis but they just seem so, so good.
third time lucky hopefully with breaking rafa's serve.. come on andy.
im going to be quiet and not jinx it for him :D
bbc sport's homepage doesn't feature very flattering pictures of either andy or rafa at the moment
it's obvious what's wrong with Andy's photo - the green stripe. Although it's nice to see it's found a new sport to disturb since it left F1's tyres.
woooohhoooooooooooooo!!!
That was pretty awesome.
oooh I have an f1 advert on my stream, yay. Hello unexpected timo :)
Andy is very talkative today.
Is he just talking to himself? Maybe he has an invisible doubles partner out there with him.
#confidentialfromrafa
*screams* I thought this summer had been too good to be true spider wise... MASSIVE SPIDER IN MY ROOM :(
talking to his team i think.. sometimes he comments here or there, but today he appears to be talking them through the match :D
he's losing it I think
the match or his marbles? ;)
you've barely had any this year as well, they just wanted to say bye before you headed back to uni see ;)
it's cause the field next door to ours caught light today, we've had 2 today. massive ones :( Stupid farmer...
*shakes fist at farmer*
the latter... the match will swiftly fall over on them though
seen loads this week - breeding season!
We're getting loads and loads of daddy long legs here, every night we seem to get at least 2 or 3 at the moment!
not seen any of those yet oddly - they always came out first week back at school
I always said when I was young the best way to fight off daddy long legs was by squirting them with Daddies brown sauce, although this method has not been tested.
I do not recommend this wild method 9 year old Lukeh created.
bah, 2 sets down now. :(
worst time of year. ever. Loads of people near my house at uni have been getting the biggest ones i've ever seen.. not looking forward to going back. thinking of just hiding in a swimming pool for a week or so. Spiders can't swim.. can they?
I don't think there were any swimming scenes in the Spiderman films so I'm going to say no
Although this daddy long legs is putting up a bloody good fight in my room... determined little fella..
try ketchup instead?
i am trying ketchup - as in I'm trying to 'ketchup' with it as it flies about!
#groan
i saw some spiderman swimming goggles a few weeks ago, so I presume they can
oooh. they're smart.
Excellent way to break serve :D
i'm better with flying crane flys like that than i am the ones that have webs and just baaaahhhhhhh. Although the big field spiders we get make me want to hide a very long way away.
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-11th-september-2011
Yeah, you are bound to get far bigger ones than we would here. Although the screams mum shouts out at what turns up in our bath you'd think there was a tarantula in there!