Saturday has arrived and another daily for us to discuss is here!! I know, I know, I said I'd be back on my normal Friday's but my daily clock clearly is out of sync. Perhaps I need an iDaily to help sync with. Alas, today is Saturday because yesterday was Friday (Hulk Hogan confirms this) and the weekend is here! I do believe Saturday is the most Saturday day of the week, therefore, let us enjoy this Saturday with the various bullet points set out to direct you to the best things around today!
- Disappointment. Noun; a feeling of dissatisfaction when results don't realize your expectations; to be downhearted at the outcome of an event; the England football team. Let's get this out of the way - England were utterly rubbish last night against Algeria in the World Cup. I mean, did they even bother? Wayne Rooney had a big sulk and everything. Shocking times. Being Welsh, I am used to this frustration with your national football team so my advice to all the English is simple - pessimism is the way forward, embrace your failures and be shocked when you do well! Life is much easier that way with football, see. Remember to join us in today's World Cup thread for the 3 games on today - Ghana vs Australia, Holland vs Japan and Cameroon vs Denmark - and comment on games that surely can't be any worse than England were!
- Motorsport. This is a motorsport website for motorsport people, and it's absolutely appropriate that I head back to motosport, clearly! There's no race this weekend meaning no qualifying but there's plenty for you people to do still! Superleague Formula returns this weekend in Jarama, and I know one very keen fan of a very good French driver will be watching for sure. And maybe she'll be secretly hoping Bourdais fails like the French football team, ahem. In Formula 1 news, there was a lovely story from AUTOSPORT that told of Trulli's reluctancy to get an updated chassis to show Heikki there is equality in the team, but Heikki insisted he did! Very sweet and a great partnership there. Also, remember to go and read Janna's guest post regarding a fantastic little viral video for Vodafone featuring Jenson and Lewis -it's really fun! I'm just pleased Rubens wasn't there actually because he'd have it done in less than a minute. Yep.
- Chips. Or more accurately, AMY HAS WRITTEN A BLOG ENTRY. There, that got your attention didn't it? But it's true! And Amy rarely writes a blog entry so this is awesome. Amy is preparing for her megablastic super Euro Trip over the summer see, and here she talks about chips. I mean, she talks about crisps. Well she talks about chips but they are crisps. Goodness, Spa is going to be confusing. Even more confusing is that I love crisps, but I don't like chips very much yet in Amy's crazy reality known as 'Australia', it's a whole new dimension. Madness. But yes, go give it a read. Preferably before Spa. Talking of Spa, a load of commenters have been receiving their tickets, YAY!!! Not long to go now! And by that I mean 2 and a bit months. But still!! 2 and a bit!!!!
- Beards. We all love a good beard, right? Brian Blessed knows what I'm talking about. But this is going somewhere sane, I promise you, because Ross Brawn is growing his beard for charity which is awesome. The website even has a great name - Brawn's Beards. The fact it is plural makes it more wonderfully intruiging, as I am sure Ross only has the one beard. Although technically they are Mercedes Beards now but that's not the point. The Big Brawn Bear will be supporting the Royal National Lifeboat Institution with donations for a new lifeboat so that's a great little thing for he and the RNLI. Go Ross! Go beards! Or should that be grow beards?
Well that's all from me this week, I feel like I may have missed a lot so I am sorry if I've missed anything huge out. I'll be honest, I'm surprised you got this far after that completely surreal Hulk Hogan video at the top of the post. Bless you. The comments are just a few scrolls away below and thanks to Mr C aka The Brain you can comment and see what your comment looks like as you are typing when commenting in Ye Not So Olde Comments, as Lou called it the other day, so give it a go! Just as long as you promise to comment then all is good, yep yep. Also, Doctor Who tonight!!! I am quite excited as it's the beginning of the finale episodes, EEK! Oh the eeking, oh the excitement. See you in the comments, friends!
Errr I'm sorry what is with that video??? :S
I meant to go to bed but now I'm too annoyed with my landlord!! She drives me mad!!!
epic!
I love the caption in The Brain's pic.. :)
no backbone that lukeh :)
What the???!
10 minutes of Schwarzenegger noodle ads. Mind blowing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcfI0gf9oDc&feature=related
the beginning reminded me of sesame street. dunno why
this is what i always remember about sesame street though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDm0PqjAF78
ooh it works! i love you new operating system
classic
ubuntu?
jolicloud which the internet tells me is based on ubuntu. i just wanted to try it because it looked pretty. its easier to use so im keeing it :D
wow. all new to me. kathi will be impressed though.
keening?
The Ad Lukeh linked to has a website, it's a phenomenon called 'Japandering': http://www.japander.com/ - WARNING, you may see some of your favourite stars in a new light!
keeping ;) i feel very futuristic, computing in the cloud
oooh. now i feel behind :(
but you have an ipad which apparently makes my cloudy netbook redundant :D
i have a dented ipad :)
still don't want to fall behind on ubuntu though. i might have to upgrade the eee, just to keep up.
how on earth did you do that? don't tell me, I'll search the comments
not sure i said. it slipped off of some clothes and hit a chair leg and the floor. all fine except for a bump on the rear.
i am mad at thepower points at my desk which are right underneath the table surface and thus stop me plugging in my oddly shaped power cord. i need an extension cord :(
you've just added one more reason for me to not get an ipad. that would happen within the first couple of days with me.
but it's strong enough to survive. no?
Wonderful. The ACO have officially confirmed that they're still in the process of investigating the #77 and '89 GT2 cars and will be until early July. So I won't know whether Fisico and co have lost out on a podium or not until then.
This makes the FIA look efficient, though I gather from the sportscar fans out there that the low efficiency is not exactly a newsflash?
true, but like buttered toast, mine would land screen down.
:)
I love the poll at http://nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/ (haven't been there in ages).
Goodness me that concert was long... I was going to text lukeh for a chat but I figure he's sleeping now :(
he put together an awesome daily before sleeping though.
I am mad at mr c for dropping his ipad
you need to take better care of your ipad....
That's frustrating, this sort of thing seems to be becoming common in GT racing. The British GT title took ages to be decided IIRC.
(I think something is going wrong when you put a link in)
why? i've proved it's rock solid in clumsy hands.
i split wine on my laptop remember. apple's just run and run.
DId you have fun?
i can't have a conversation with his epic daily tho :( I haven't spoken to him much today and after a tiring evening I miss him...
*passes it to christine*
wake him up then. alison would.
Wooo!
if I had a MacBook and an ipad they wouldn't have pink keys or dents ;)
you have taken two ipods back though...
(I think something is going wrong when you put a link in) {Comment #33}
I spotted that but only after I hit "Submit" - it didn't show up on preview or anything :(
that's not entirely true. some one dropped a macbook at work, now it's an expensive door wedge
i guess there must be something different about the way comments are being sent from your machine. it's very odd, and i can't repeat it.
recommend you put them in as raw links and let the site do the rest in the short term. i shall look into it some more.
no, I couldn't... He has work tomorrow :(
Em has suggested I head ping him.
And in that topic she believes that each time you see us mr c, you install a new data chip with the latest headping software... :)
you would struggle to treat hardware worse than i do. i promise.
i guess there must be something different about the way comments are being sent from your machine. it's very odd, and i can't repeat it.
recommend you put them in as raw links and let the site do the rest in the short term. i shall look into it some more. {http://sidepodcast.com/2010/06/19/daily-19th-june-2010/#comment-815795}
Thank you for the advice.
busted
ill have you know this iPod is awesome... With not a scratch on it... It just doesn't play through both headphones ;)
ahh... possibly with brackets (very, very sorry!)
hehe!
:D
official verdict is aldi don't sell extension cords. has bassano been around tonght? i need a mail update :D
alia, can you comment from your ipaq? what happens to links there?
did you see his tweet?
:D
I told the Mrs. that after the netbook breaks in a couple of years I would buy her an iPad - she told me we have too many toys. She just doesn't get technology :(
ahh... possibly with brackets (very, very sorry!) {Comment #50}
Raw link + brackets is what I've been doing all along...
@AmyFulton @PatWotton Looks like I missed my FedEx delivery today. Will probably collect on person on Tuesday
it's ood that some links work. by raw link i mean something like this:
http://sidepodcast.com/realtime/
just a link with nothing around it. but i'm confused why most of your links works.
The Ood!
ahh ok thanks. i have not been on twitter today as left phone at home and haven't put it as a bookmark on alistair yet.
bugger
How's that preview working out for ya? ;)
i managed to convince my other half that we would be better off with an Apple TV. But an ipad, i'm struggling.
yeah. i have comments on the laptop screen 2ft away from me and joe on the big screen. unfortunately, i can't actually see what i'm typing so well :)
Forget it. I'm a forced luddite :(
Aww :( I have been really struggling to see the screen all day because I have a sore eye!
you going to hospital too?
Nah, it got better during the day..
She was fine with the PS3. Damn ipod still works fine, so no reason to upgrade to a 64gb touch, another device i want. *shakes fist at albert*
I need to see a hypnotist, so I ignore anything Steve Jobs releases.
Is the MARCA World Cup wheel based on Alan Partridge's 1994 World Cup Soccerometer? http://www.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2010/is-alan-partridge-working-for-marca-now.html
*buy more ipads*
about 53 secs in is my favourite bit. the acronym for your sidepodradio show (was i the only one who noticed this?)
alia, can you comment from your ipaq? what happens to links there? {Comment #54}
I can't comment from it in the way I'm accustomed to doing it - any attempt to put in the code for a link makes the browser jump backwards.
Sorry, there's some mild swearing in it - not too bad though ;)
Eh?
Oh good news! I can finally focus both eyes! I think I spent at least 2 hours with one eye closed looking through the viewfinder... My eye has been all fussy since... Being a photographer is hard work... Fun though...
it's ood that some links work. by raw link i mean something like this:
http://sidepodcast.com/realtime/ {Comment #60}
Now I'm getting completely confused :(
Can you not wear an eye patch?
ahh, shoot. okay. i shall keep testing.
i want to go hooooome. its not like im doing any work and i just put a hole in my stockings :(
i was tempted. Normally it's fine but the lighting was awful in the hall today!
(brings back early school memories)
Pirate Photograhs
awww :(
although mine was a plaster type patch, not a pirate-style one
in simple terms. if you copy a link directly from the url bar at the top of youy browser into the comments without amending it in any way. sidepodcast will see that it's a link and wrap it in the correct html for you.
it does that without you having to do anything and you should see it working inside the preview box. give it a try and let us know if it works for you. just a straight copy/paste.
in simple terms. if you copy a link directly from the url bar at the top of youy browser into the comments without amending it in any way. sidepodcast will see that it's a link and wrap it in the correct html for you.
it does that without you having to do anything and you should see it working inside the preview box. give it a try and let us know if it works for you. just a straight copy/paste.
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/06/19/daily-19th-june-2010/#comment-815839 {Comment #88}
It appears to work as a workaround on preview mode.
Okay, bed time for us, it's been a long day! I may not be around till Monday afternoon... I have a horrible psychology paper I need to pass first thing on Monday! Yuck. Anyways, night all!! Xxx
that's good to know. i'm guessing normally you add <a href=""></a> around links. 99% of the time it works a treat, but i can't figure out the odd issue when it fails :(
night lou
Okay, bed time for us, it's been a long day! I may not be around till Monday afternoon... I have a horrible psychology paper I need to pass first thing on Monday! Yuck. Anyways, night all!! Xxx
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/06/19/daily-19th-june-2010/#comment-815841 {Comment #90}
Goodnight, lou. Good luck on the psychology paper - you're way cleverer than the paper is :)
That's a good way of looking at it :)
good luck Lou
that's good to know. i'm guessing normally you add around links. 99% of the time it works a treat, but i can't figure out the odd issue when it fails :(
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/06/19/daily-19th-june-2010/#comment-815842 {Comment #91}
That's precisely what I do, except that I don't put in quotation marks. Should I be?
night lou. do you need someone to cover daily duties?
Night Lou
interesting. valid html does require use of quotation marks, so a link to doohickey would look like this:
<a href="http://sidepodcast.com/realtime/">doohickey still rules!</a>
I'm listening to 6Music, and The Wurzels have covered The Kaiser Chiefs. It is DREADFUL.
interesting. valid html does require use of quotation marks, so a link to doohickey would look like this:
doohickey still rules!
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/06/19/daily-19th-june-2010/#comment-815849 {Comment #98}
A-ha! Too tired to try it out tonight though. New quoting can start tomorrow... ...sorry, later today.
oh no, I need a break to write a non footy daily ;)
hehe, not a problem. also, would like your feedback on whether the new click to quote works on "ye olde comments", if you have time to help us tomorrow.
you don't have to use it, but am trying to make it more usable, if possible.
hehe, not a problem. also, would like your feedback on whether the new click to quote works on "ye olde comments", if you have time to help us tomorrow.
you don't have to use it, but am trying to make it more usable, if possible. {Comment #102}
As far as I can see, it doesn't work on "ye olde comments", at least not in Firefox 3.6 on this computer..
if you click on any comment. does a little [quote] link appear beneath a comment?
if you click on any comment. does a little [quote] link appear beneath a comment?
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/06/19/daily-19th-june-2010/#comment-815855 {Comment #104}
About 1 click in 4, a little [quote] mark appears. Occasionally it stays visible.
hmm, needs more work then. it disappears if you click it twice, but maybe there's a delay before it first appears?
For me in FF3.6.3 when you click a comment the quote/share box appears, but I think it could be more obvious that this is the case. I mean I didn't know to click..
that's true. it used to appear on mouse hover, which worked well. but some bloke made this ipad thing, that has no concept of hover.
that'll be in iOS7 probably
*blink once to comment, twice to quote*
oh you sneezed? well that's ruined everything.
the gyroscope from ipad2, combined with the heat sensors from ipad4, and the self cleaning screen in ipad6, will make this possible
And ipad10 will slow down all sneezes by users to a mandatory 10mph (rather than the natural 102mph), thus negating the requirement to blink when sneezing.
that would be awesome. sneezing whilst driving not fun.
scary. changing gear, sneezing, and trying to send a twitter post at the same time. not possible............
until ipad12
if we're still limited to 140 characters in 10 years time, i'm gonna be mad.
if we're still limited to 140 characters in 10 years time, i'm gonna be mad.
We're not. That's what Woofer is for.
woofer?
i've coped with 160 chars in sms for longer.
Sidepodcast Doohickey v6.0 will have taken over from twitter by then
and 160 chars is the limit twitter works to. so we need sms2 then.
woofer?
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/06/19/daily-19th-june-2010/#comment-815868 {Comment #117}
A service where all woofs (messages) must be at least 14000 characters long.
i like it.
Have 280 on me
http://www.marketingshift.com/2009/4/double-your-twitter-characters-280.cfm
:)
:)
http://woofertime.com/
it looks just like twitter!
Look at the About page :)
my cat looks interested
Sorry, "Is This Twitter?"
"On Fridays, we like to make parody websites."
yikes!
ah-ha :)
Yeah I messed up on which page to look at
Right, had the post-mortem podcast from World Cup Daily and now I'm off to bed. Goodnight!
night
you're up late chap?
Can't sleep! Going to try now!
night Gavin
gotya
i think they are keeping me here to spite me
I'm supposed to be going to my Sister's in the morning, to see my barely-a-week-old neice.
Her big brother (2 and a half) will see me, then go over to his toy box, and start to put his train set together, as he always does.
I have things to embarrass him when he gets older though, like this
http://drop.io/startledbunny/asset/video0002-3gp
If you can actually play it, then all you need to know, is that he can see what is being filmed.
hehe. i has no audio, but that's sweet :)
Ping - start times
http://toomuchracing.com/2010/06/19/start-times-19-20-june/
I hope I got them right
morning folks
'lo
morning Leigh
hi pat
what goes on?
morning sb
Not much. I just posted a blog post and now I'm chilling out with some tunes and wine before bed.
morning.
as you arrive, i now am leaving.
it's not you, it's me. i have family to visit in the morning.
good night all!
night
sweet
:D
before i go...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWv1l3zLjYg
#nowimgoingnoreally
Heheh, remixes of themes are brilliant.
sleep for me too, bye..
i am jealous of you sleeping folk. they wont let me leave so I can go sleep too!
no half day?
they are now considering it :D :D
I just saw that I got a daily plug. In bold! Thanks Lukeh!
bold and caps. outrageous.
home time! 2.25 hours early :D
w00t!
I know I said I would sleep but I'm having too much fun getting apps for my eee. Or as I have renamed it, Ameee.
You've become rather nocturnal recently Mr C?
(hearts) ameee!!!!!
am just finishing up joe. need to select a title, record the intro and then i'll sleep. will check in the morning and upload.
woohoo! This is the whole reason I have been playing around with the computer I never touch, I wanted to see if I could transcribe Joe on the little keyboard when I am out and about but I didn't like the audio player that came with it. Jolicloud let me install a VLC app which is what I like to use on my Vaio so I can slow Joe down to 50% :D
that is some kind of dedication. you must have dainty fingers though, the keys are really small.
I've spent a lot of time setting up the software but am yet to attempt the actual typing. I don't think it will go well.
title help amy (or anyone else who's around):
- he's more of a juggler than he is a chess player
- something is going on that isn't right
- let's be fair here, i don't think he's doing the job
i can't decide.
i like the first one
done. ta.
its my groupie contribution. Now I go nap :D
night amy
football ping: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/06/19/2010-fifa-world-cup-day-9/
Is there anybody.... Out there?
*nod*
morning
From Autosport this morning
The All Blacks beat Wales 42-9 #sorryLukeh
Good afternoon lovely people
hi Jon
Howdy, how are we all today?
None too bad - waiting for the F2 race to load up. Was watching "Barnyard" with my niece this morning - possibly one of the worst kids films I've ever seen
ahh but did she enjoy it? Clearly she needs to get into F2
so-so; she seemed a bit bored by the end of it
Good afternoon everyone.
I am back in the UK!
hooray!
What letter are we up to? It's been so long!
hi alex
The Letter R tomorrow from 4pm :)
oooh there could be some good ones in there.
If you play Rehab I may cry
Hey everybody
Aww, my letter and I'll miss it
Seconded
Moto GP Quali;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/7677201.stm
Morning ;)
Alonso
testingdoing promotional work at Fiorano:http://www.ferrari.com/English/Formula1/News/Headlines/Pages/100618_F1_day_on_rack_Alonso_Fiorano.aspx
also someone managed to capture is on camera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOZeeMZ6W4
ha, nice and slow
looks like they were testing the new red bull esque exhaust system:
http://f1around.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/ferrari-adota-escapamento-inovador-da-red-bull-foto/
Google Translate FTW:
Right, just seen this for the new F1 game: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-formula-1/700510?type=flv
7 minutes in length and pretty much a walkthrough by one of the main men behind it.
oooh.
Mr C!!! or Mrs C... would it be possible for someone to cover my daily duties? i was wrong last night when i said i would need a break from revision.. i just want to keep ploughing through it all. I hope it's not too late notice?
is it September yet?
no probs lou. can do.
Good afternoon. I've been for a drive around, hoovered out the car and bought a father's day present. How's things?
good here. just about to put the joe show up.
Good stuff. I'm thinking of doing ironing while catching up on last week's Dr Who if it is still there, may leave it until just before this week's is on.
Chandhok has a blog: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-in/2010/06/16/column-karun-chandhok-canadian-gp-a-mixed-bag/
Oooh nice :)
Woohooo!!! I am actually now home! Get in!
Missed you guys a lot... Hope all is well :)
Hey buddy, how was your holiday?
ping: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/06/19/an-aside-with-joe-hes-more-of-a-juggler-than-he-is-a-chess-player/
hey chap
It was good thanks. Having the iPad with me was a life saver. And I can honestly say that it is possible to read whole books on it.
Hello - good hols?
Very nice thanks... The weather wasn't that good but we kept our spirits up :)
I got home to find a letter from my bank kindly informing me that interest is only paid on balances up to £10 000 000
What a waste of paper....
That's good
I'd recommend disposing of the comment before Alex's on the video thread :D
wow. how did we miss that!
#blamefootball?
single thread fail :)
I can't LCLT, I just can't do it. Doohickey fo' life.
we need a t-shirt with that on :)
Hi everyone,
Just had a most amazing nap!!
:)
Gets iron out ;)
(joke)
:)
the problem with Joe being in France is he knows lots of French words and I have to do a lot of googling to work out how to spell them :D
:D
Listening to Joe now:
some good evening listening
:)
Mr C, unless you can tell me the spelling of the name of that French journalist Joe mentions, I am going to kill you for asking what his name was.
email sent to joe :)
For anyone paying attention, IndyCar practice this even will begin just after 7pm with the Qualifying session at 10.30pm.
Coverage for the race tomorrow begins at 7.15pm
People wanting to check out the IndyLights can see Qualifying at 8.25pm, with the race on tomorrow at 2.30am
:)
ooh, not sure if i have time. might try and catch some of it. how long does qually last?
thank you :D I think I have searched every single corner of the internet without finding anything :D I did find one of Joe's Globetrotter columns from 1997 that starts with "I am a great believer in journalists remaining anonymous figures" though. :D
about 75 minutes I think
I might miss the Qually session myself
:(
oops! although, go me.
Mr C,
Will you and Christine be recording Joe's shindig next Friday?
not next friday... i hope.
and no, probably not. unless we have better access to the pa system. editing room noise took way too much time and we still got grief.
Gahhh... double brain fade
Meant Silverstone Friday of course
;)
hiya everyone
hi lukeh
Just watched last week's Dr.. Corden wasn't actually that bad..
Evening.
He's actually pretty good when he's not being James Corden/Smithy
he was fine in teachers too.
still haven't seen last week's episode
Yup, no argument here.
No loud, obnoxious, annoying character = good
i'll be catching both last week's and tonight's episodes on monday evening
Although I watched last week's ep again in the week and it reminded me of Spaced even more than the first time I saw the p. Not a bad thing though ;)
I'd forgotten he was in that
An Aside was very good - now going to settle down to the Trackside podcast
:)
from @AlanBaldwinF1
Met quite a few friends at overcast Silverstone today, and Joey from Friends as well. Matt LeBlanc was hanging out in the Ducati motorhome.
joey trumps goose, right?
I should be able to squeeze in the Aside between the Doc and the Nationwide race at Road America, which I may just watch for curiosity (and Villeneuve is in it)
Might stick Nationwide on actually - the racing tends to be much better than the Sprint Cup
Adam Carroll sorted for Watkins Glen at least this year with possibly one or two other races - cue a whole bunch of folk thinking he's stealing Ryan Hunter-Reay's seat
(Gah!!)
:/
Tough call for sure, I mean Goose was also Dr Greene..
true. and joey went on to do some rubbish.
Marks off for Brains though so perhaps they are even
Completely unrelated of course..
Naturally and not naming names
damnit.
ooh, quarter to four. Time for sleeps. This is good Wimbledon practice for my two-shift sleeping plan.
night amy!
so, i wonder how next wednesday will work in... ehhh... work?
Mr C, have you ever tried mumble? http://mumble.sourceforge.net/
Shot of Jaq did a podcast about it.
http://shotofjaq.org/2010/05/lets-get-ready-to-mumble/
Night... morning.. whatever
ah, no i haven't. might be worth taking a peek at. what did they make of it?
They like it. The only thing is that you have to set up your own server #doesn'tknowwhatsheistalkingabout
ooh. wonder what that costs? will give it a listen in a sec, cheers.
IndyCar practice is on
:)
mr c, if you are around,
Can you get into the subscribers section of GP+ using goodreader?
erm, wouldn't have thought so. i download the pdf and then copy to good reader from my desktop. it'll be even easier with ios4. because ibooks can handle pdf's too.
ah, that's annoying,
ill give it a go tomorrow
IndyCar 2nd practice is done for this session. It reads as:
1) Briscoe 2) Dixon 3) Franchitti 4) Power 5) Wheldon 6) Kanaan
:)
Duno is a surprising 12th behind Sato (9th), while M Andretti is 16th, Patrick is 18th and de Silvestro is 21st
Scratch that - it's not done, just at the halfway
(blahhh)
ping: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/06/19/codemasters-showcase-formula-1-2010-weather-system-at-e3/
oooh awesome!! Will definitely give this a read after I've wibblywobbly'd
Evening all!
I have SPC back in my life again. Shiny new laptop to play with!!
*waves*
Oooh, yay for new toys!
hi Adie
you join us amidst the world cup and IndyCar practice
:)
And if your crazy, the speedway too... hey mate
Might switch over to Nationwide once practice is done here
Ooooh-err Mr C??
IndyCar:
:o
Ooo...is the indycar online?
I've missed this sillyness!
Windows 7 is better than Vista. That is my first conclusion of the day
Yep - t'is on indycar.com. It's only 2nd practice right now, so no major misses
:)
We have a winner!
wassup?
Thanking you!
I may have a surprising answer to my F1 coverage question from the other day
i have no recollection of any question :)
what was it, and what's the response?
What year did the BBC finally broadcast full live coverage of every race?
The answer: Apparently not until 1995
ahh. how did you find out?
Every year before that had generally:
All highlights: 78-79
Some European races shown light, with highlights of everything else: 80-to about 89/90
European races live with delayed showings of other races: 90/91-94
All races live: 95
It took some digging around and asking of a whole lot of folks
now I'm pooped
you should update wikipedia
Must blog first -t'is only a small part of a post I'm doing
It makes you realise how good we get it now....
I've watched F1 since around 1990ish - I was youung and I remember Mansell leaving Williams for Ferrari....and watching the highlights of races late in the evening on my black and white telly in my room when I should have been in bed!
Aye - I remember the highlights shows then too. It was a bi confusing because Murray and James commentated on feeds that were going out over the rest of the world live, yet the Beeb who had hired and paying them only broadcast the highlights for the most part - weird, eh?
IndyCar:
Meira thwacks the wall and brings out the yellow flag - with only five minutes left, that'll pretty much finish the session.
IndyCar Practice Top-6
1) Briscoe 2) Andretti 3) Power 4) Franchitti 5) Dixon 6) Meira
Ughhhh...
NASCAR - if you're going to get someone to sing the national anthem, could you please make they can sing first?
ktnxbye
*make sure the can sing
Some Dr Who pings:
Wibbly Wobbly: http://wp.me/pSMCG-18
Christine's thoughts: http://bit.ly/cDanHn
Jacques is starting the Nationwide race from 2nd position.
I hope the cheque is large
Elkhart Lake is such an awesome place - if anyone is in doubt, this is where Formula 1 should be at in the US
Hey everyone,
Finally a good reason to watch NASCAR. Nationwide is at Road America. Here is the link to the stream if your interested in watching. LINK: http://www.justin.tv/northamericanstig
Unfortunately I fear the changes necessary would ruin it.
Got it on
I love that one of the cars has "student driver" on the back.
Some truth there, sir
It would get ruined because of Bernie and the rest of the prawn sandwich brigade that runs F1. Not that they would ever consider it. It's really in the middle of beautiful nowhere.
If only a promoter could take on a race for the IRL there. Not a fan of Edmonton or Sonoma at RA would be a perfect replacement, but money, etc....
commentator says he doesn't like The Kink... nah nah nah... it's one of the best corners on the planet
Safety car?? Are they kidding??
Perfectly normal for NASCAR - they operate their oval rules on road courses too.
ooooooh, expect a Karun segment on the valencia bbc coverage
http://twitter.com/karunchandhok/statuses/16568546661
I know, but my exasperation has been piqued once again
I makes somewhat sense because it is on the exit of turn 5. NASCAR doesn't do sector yellows. It's track wide yellows only.
I'm very surprised they haven't cleared it already though, that truck driver is making a hash of it.
actually he may mean moto gp. I'm not quite sure!
Aye - but it should never, ever take that long to move that car. Ah well, as long as you have safety car periods for the ad breaks, everything will be fine
And extending them to see if anyone pits? Crazy.
I am trying Merry Down medium cider. It is rather nice.
I may ditch this for US2000 in a while
Oh boy...
I'm very confused. Things have appeared on my bank statement with a date in the future on them? Very odd....
Yeah, the Doctor's sorting that out.
#crackintime
The fraud is probably only in the planning stages
I guess it's because it's the weekend. It still seems mental though seeing as I'm sure it's just a computer that deals with it.
It's you isn't it!!!
Right, we are off to watch a film now. Looks very 80s. Back laterz :)
I'm abandoning the Nationwide Series race through utter boredom
and just as I'm moving to turn it off there's a big shunt, how can you have a 'Big One' on a road course...
Evening all - assuming anyone is around
Just settled down to watch Star Trek - The Motion Picture
Good evening!
That's a good film, Steven - I enjoyed it at the cinema :)
I have seen it before. Can't beat a bit of Star Trek
Momentarily had a brief bit of excitement when I saw someone on Twitter saying that Patrick Long had finished 3rd at Le Mans (implying the two cars currently under investigation had been thrown out). It was proven pointless when it transpired that the tweet was actually an expression of frustration at a clueless ESPN which didn't have a clue what it was talking about!
Nick made me watch it then complained when I needed all the backstory explaining.... :P
Evening. That's a classic, but a bit weird.
ESPN should be better than that.
It was on the NASCAR Nationwide Series coverage.... they try, but they get a lot wrong.
How can you not know about Star Trek?
Erm because I'm a girl and I don't have any brothers?
Star Trek primer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE
I know girlswho have Star Trek encyclopedias and explain how a warp engine works. They are bound to get banned for the damage they do to the fabric of space. Not green at all
It's not loading :( Is that a song because I did sing a very cool star trek themed song when I was at junior school....
Yeah. I'm really not that kind of girl.
:D :D :D :D
Yeah, something we had to put up with in our school disco quite a lot....
Point is lots of girls liked Star Trek.
There was a TNG episode where they put in speed limits for that reason..
Why don't I know any of these girls? Probably because I spent most of my teenage years watching TNG, DS9 and Voyager rather than developing social skills.. :D
I remember that episode. Beats me how Starfleet thought they would ever get away with warp engines in the first place. Far safer to have nuclear bombs detonating behind them and surf the shockwaves
:D
But then you'd leave radiation everywhere, that's not very green. Did you see the documentary where NASA scientists proposed it in the 60s/70s?
Yes.
Radiation eventually dissipates but if you have destroyed the fabric of space you are toast
Not another crack in your bedroom wall please....
What?
Plug: The analysis of the FOTA survey is finally complete! http://formula1home.com.au/forum/weblog_entry.php?e=978
I would like to point out that this joke IS funny, and very geeky.
#nothere
I have no idea why. Time Bandits?
Doctor Who.
I'm not a geek! I also have watched a sum total of 1 episode of Dr Who. This constant crack in the wall nonsense was very tedious...
Actually thinking about it, I was in the room when another episode was on the television at Nick's aunt's house if you think that counts too?
Never watch it
You have watched 1 episode of Dr Who and the 'constant' crack in the wall was tedious? You really shouldn't watch the rest of them then :D
PING: http://f1numbers.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/fantasy-racers-canada/
Fantasy Racers Analysis from Canada. The Top 10 teams in the Sidepodcast Legaue (Panda Racing 2010) are:
1) Team Button
2) myotherteam
3) Shatner's Bassoon
4) arona F1
5) Wednesday GP
6) Nascar_Rocks
7) MealybarRacers
8) Team OC GP
9) Atomic Blur
10) Huffin' Fumes
With the top 3 teams placed 57th, 58th and 78th overall...
I am quite easily irritated :P
Am going to avoid the obvious pun in that one ;) Have we all had a good day?
Anyone having trouble with the Autosport forums?
Yes yes :) I've been very productive. I'm still struggling to get the SLC to take my money though. I'm tempted to just give up.
Am sure you'll get them to sort out the problem very very quickly when they don't get your money for a while!
Can somebody who is logged into the AUTOSPORT forums please click on this link and tell me what it says about my profile?
Well they're supposed to take money direct from my pay which was supposed to start April 5th and also there's a direct debit to correct a separate overpayment. They've thus far failed to collect a penny....
I can't remember if I've even got a profile...
The error returned was:
We could not find this member in our database, it's possible that the member has been removed.
Has Gavin been naughty?
Huh? I can log in, but I don't have permission to see any forums...
hey lovely peoples. is anyone up for writing a (vaguely) football related post for sunday?
Thought I was?
you are? brilliant. ♥ gavin.
(just ignore me)
Never use them
"Today is Superleague Formula (at some circuit somewhere), Franck drives for a football team, at the moment is the world cup, welcome to Sunday's world cup post"
Simples :D