Hyvää huomenta F1 fans, I am back once again to update you on what Heikki has been up to over the last four weeks. I'm also updating myself because first I was all about the tennis, I've been ignoring testing because if I can't watch live video I'm not staying up til 4am for it, and then I went on holiday to New Zealand for a week and missed almost everything everyone had to say on Twitter. Oops!
Heikki has been giving the fans on his Facebook page a say on his kit for the year. First he ran a poll asking people which design he should use on his racing shoes, and then he asked which helmet design we prefer. He has never actually said he'd go with the most popular result, but I'm assuming that's what'll happen. If I never have to see that graffiti helmet again, I'll be a happy girl.
I seem to remember Lotus doing some coin flipping between their drivers last year to choose who would give up their car in Friday practice, this year they flipped a coin to see who would drive first in testing. Heikki won. The luck of the Finnish?
After deciding that Murray would win the Australian Open, I promptly declared to the world that Heikki was dead to me. I got over it quickly, celebrated Novak's win, and bought Heikki back to life so thankfully I still have someone to cheer for this year.
His first day of testing in Valencia was ended early by a problem with the power steering. Even with this problem, Autosport declared him "delighted with new Lotus". Testing then moved to Jerez where Heikki was impressed with the car's pace. I know testing doesn't mean too much but I hope the team have a great 2011!
A quick trip to Finland was next, full of marketing, filming, and wearing suits.
Yesterday testing moved to Barcelona and Catherine has returned after a week at home with her family. It's impossible not to love any girlfriend who has that many lollipops in her possession.
Finally, Beaks has posted a look at the race garage for the year and I give it a thumbs up. It's only five short weeks until I'll be at Albert Park so I'm looking forward to seeing it in person. Hey Team Lotus, any chance of paddock tours for your fans this year? ;)
Now that I've filled us in I am off to have some brunch. It's always a struggle to choose between the eggs or the french toast so any help in the comments is much appreciated. Have a lovely Saturday!
Ah, Ernest BorgnineI know his great nephew. Went to Uni with my mate. He has Danish relatives, maybe Gavin knows him
legend
I'm not concentrating on this film
Maybe I need something more mindless
DRAGON?? :D
The Poseidon Adventure. Nuff said
I saw that already, trying Shrke 4 now. Hopes are low
You should watch it again!!
The backlog wouldn't allow it.
You know how heavy a TB is on your shoulders :)
no idea what that means.
Stll looks like Rooney
What on earth are you talking about??
You'e never seen The Poseidon Adventure. The disaster movie emperor?
You must rectify
It'd be an interesting FilmWatch study in then and now disaster movies
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069113/
#JustSaying
A Terrabyte Drive is actually quite light.
A terabyte of data-movie archive
Not on the conscience ;)
you obviously don't know me that well ;) (although my TB is mostly TV shows)
I have 2 others for tv stuff
720 HD takes up a lot of space
never.
*shakes head* ;)
I forgot about the German pigs. They remind me of Sutil
#Shrek4
I've mentally woken up after being dozy/dazy all day. Just tidied the living room storage, less clutter. :)
Bit dated now though, slow.
#NotHereAboutToWatchStarTrek
The reboot? Good choice
Cinema is a lot more into 'instant gratification' these days. Lack of suspense in some ways
#darnkids
:)
Didn't think it would be but Shrek 4 seems pretty good
Pluggety plug plug
I've finally finished doing my blog's background briefing on the Bahrain situation. Only taken me half a week. At this rate there's a slight chance I might have finished the second part before the powers-that-be make up their mind what they're going to do about it.
Yo might wanna wait until Monday night. Maybe, just maybe they will come to their senses
Given that the second part is about the rights and wrongs of various positions relating to Bahrain-related safety, ethics and politics, it might need to be out before then. Part 3 can wait until after Monday night though ;)
none of my business alia, but your tag cloud is huuuuge. search engines will think you're trying to spam them, i'd say.
Sounds good, I'll add it to the Instapaper list
They will? I had no idea, having had no previous experience of creating a tag cloud...
it's a bit of a black art, and i've no real experience, but generally long lists of works are not good. can you limit it to the top 50, maybe?
Unfortunately not. The nearest it can do is sort by frequency.
ahh boo. fair enough.
Currently setting by frequency and using tag frequency count - hopefully the search engines will at least realise that most of those tags only occur once...
Scarily, it looks like I talk about the FIA almost as often as I talk about F1...
:)
Just checked out tomorrow's lunch venue. Looks a bit nice
http://www.trafalgartavern.co.uk/
By the river, looks like it could be pub weather too :)
you must live comment from there.
On a date? Only if it's going badly and I turn it into a Bassano's Talk Radio episode
NOOOOOOO!!!
Maybe you will want to crowd source jokes :D
oh. i thought you meant the meetup with andy?
Noj, that was today at Tower Hill and something else came up :(
I reckon it would've been a proper geek fest though, nont sure I coulda handled it. Looking forward to this week's MacBreak Weekly for a report
I reckon I'll be ok
Alison knows
ahh shucks.
I can just see it now....
What are you doing?
Just talking about you to these people on the internet...
You are taking advice from someone who is refusing to tell Nick that he is meeting her mother until he walks into her? Like an ambush
Precisely.
You remember how I told you about those folk who watched me put up B&Q wares?
Not good
I'm not taking advice on live commenting this, Alison just agrees
Se knows not telling Nick is a bad but necessary idea
Ooooh I'll tell him. I'm sure he won't mind. I get dragged around his family.
In the tropics
:D It's a hard life.
:D
And where in rainy England are you introducing your mother to Nick?
Are you trying to create a grey cloud? :)
It'll be fiiiiiine...
Why is Eddie Murphy only funny when he plays Donkey?
Does he try harder when he's not on screen or is it just the writing?
Bassano Inc appointment
#JustSaying
I'm not sure if I dare mention this, but... ...who's doing the Daily today?
:)
i am. it's being done i promise.
Does Lou do Sundays?
OK. Thank you for reassuring me.
Late is fine, we like a matured piece of art ;)
Hi Lou. That saves anyone being volunteered
been out learning how to play pool and things at the pub tonight, getting it done now. sorry.
#WorthyPasttimes
Don't apologise. Students are meant to play pool.
currently missing out on learning how to play poker. lol
Poker comes much later. Believe me
Do you want me to do the daily for you?
no no, am already half way through it :) thanks though :)
I approve of the education you get at Farnham
that's crazy talk, yell if you need a break from daily posts lou, we don't mind. promise.
hehe!
After the pubs close if they have just set up
no it's cool. not in the mood to play tbh, still feeling a bit rough from last night, plus got to be up early to go to london tomorrow morning. am off to see russell howard.
Who starts a poker game before 3am
What craziness is this?
That should be good
They are only first years
You are? Cool.
i told you on the phone yesterday! lol
#minimrc
Oh yeah... now I remember
#memoryfail :(
:) completely. lol
tis okay, we spoke about more important things so no worries :) <3
I just learned what a chimichanga is
[apparently it 's a fried burrito]
I'm not convinced it's not an americanised version of a balti but whatever...
I have the memory of a goldfish.
I think. I can't remember if I do.
:lol:
How will you remember where each other is at the Manics gig?
Best bring some breadcrumbs
i bet he doesn't remember those either. test him.
#sorrylukeh xx
Lou phoned you about a goldfish?
:) :) :) :) :)
live comments.
I'M OVER BY THE MAN IN A DRESS
etc
:lol:
#IndieJokes
thank god for Nicky Wire otherwise...
i mentioned a goldfish?...
Antonio Banderas is the best Spanish Puss'n'Boots
#Shrek4
Isn't that an Orange tariff. This is getting confusing
26:47 in the Edison Festival 5K. Though I think my time was more about where I lined up rather than race pace
Goodf or you Joe
Well done Joe
Thank you, my brothers. Beat last years time by over a minute. We need SPC t-shirts for OUR races that we run
rocket red?
Ferrari or Toyota Red?
That is after you win. THat way you sell twice as many T shirts
Red and White kerbs, obviously
McLaren, After they win the whole team put on rocket red t shirts
Something that looks like the new HRT car
aah.
Space for stickers?
I do have a Vodofone orange shirt, so I don't get hit by a car on my morning runs...but that color is used
Anyway, you guys hash it out, I'm on the lanai with beer waiting for my pizza. Hope to chat tomorrow for the 500.
Farewell Christmas Vodka, you have served me well
Ciao Joe, enjoy
Bye Joe
That was a pleasant surprise
#Shrek4 [better than cars]
#controversial
I thought you were watching Gilliam's film
I couldn't concentrate, it needed better attention so I switched
Mr C has ruined my attention span :)
I would blame him too
I' m still think of Adrian Sutil when I see these guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ5FEOYYpNI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
:)
heard that.
oops
And you remembered?
Thatbwas at least 10 mins ago. Oh look, a snail >
:)
my daily is pathetically short. sorry peoples. really not in the best of moods tonight and couldn't find much to talk about. hopefully it'll be alright.
PING: http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-20th-february-2011
Lou,
It's YOUR daily. You can do what you want with it. If you want to write ten thousand words and put in half a dozen video clips that's OK. If you write something short that's OK too. Any daily you write is good.
Every Daily is a new joy of sunlight, we appreciate your effort Lou. Even when you are not on the top of your form
I have a new found respect after researching this week's effort
I [hearts] all the Daily producers, not to mention our gracious host's effforts
Yes, and it was. I've heard a lot of 'anti' from the die-hards but also some positives. I thought it was completely different yet with nice touches and homages.
The other way to do it is trawl the posts and reassign tags to reduce the ones you rarely use. But that's very time-consuming (and very boring - I did it a few weeks ago).
Weirdly, my media player is in 'next play' mode. Start Trek comes right after Shrek
[Opening sequence just ended]
Nice
I should also say: I approve. Unexpectedly.
true story.
*biiig hugs*
I
I had an epiphany
I really did
*bows*
*from the future*
G'night Lou
am totally with you. imagine too, christine writing the first 18 months worth every day all by herself.
I have no idea how it lasted so long. I'm also glad there is a community to share the love.
[cos it is love, not a load]
I still believe you're as Borg as Amy, 'cept you have a malfunctioning code that is prone to 404s [[Bassanos] ;)
hehehe.
Don't forget: SidepodPrage and the upcoming SidepodBoston [which has i's own Wiki]
that needs to be the sidepodcast 404 message - i'm sorry, you've been bassano'd.
for debrief, what day is the meetup, i think we're recording monday this week?
:lol:
:lol:
:lol:
Thursday or Friday
Tweet @bassanoclapper
Let's keep it simple
sorted.
Have ordered my unlocked mifi and researched Czech sims
I rarely use my phone for calls anyway
sounds far too organised :)