Credit: UKTV
Baby Penguins. Why? Why not!
Pinch, punch, first of the month! No returns! Can you believe it's April already? 2011 appears to be zooming through it's cycle really quite quickly. I'm sure that the years seems to feel quicker as you grow older. Nevertheless, it it once again a Friday so I'd better get you a few things to read for today's Daily. You do know what day today is right? April 1st? That's right, it is of course Edible Book Day, and I'm hungry for a new book so it makes excellent timing for such a day. Also, did you know that Apple was created today in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak? Some April Fool Edible Book that turned out to be, huh?
Paddock News
Mystic Meg Ain't Got Nothing On Genius Jenson - The former World Champion Jenson Button (still loving those last four words all in connection) reckons we'll get a three way battle for the championship this year between Red Bull, Ferrari and of course McLaren much like 2010 was. I have no problem with that as I enjoyed 2010 (needed more Brawn though funnily enough) but there seems to be a greater deal of optimism from the McLaren camp since their discovery that Kwik Fit had sold them a dodgy exhaust system and now they're rather handy. Even Gary Paffett seems pretty happy with the car and the result in Melbourne too. Good times!
Paddock News in Paddock News? It's all gone a bit Inception - The always entertaining Paddock Life is back over at the loudestly named F1 website and I couldn't help but laugh at the first sequence of photos as you scroll down - Mick Doohan and his partner, then Lewis and that woman, and then Vettel with... well, a load of sheep. Some would say not as glamorous but not me! Sheep are awesome. Lovely to hear the efforts in the paddock for Japan too during it's tough rebuilding period.
Run, Adrian, Run! - The biggest bit of news I saw yesterday was the brilliant story of Adrian Sutil becoming the face of Adidas' running shoes in Germany after some of his brilliant runs from the past. The man sure knows how to run in style I suppose but it's revealed he'll be running a half marathon in the future with these shoes as well as doing various adverts of his fabulous running style. The adverts will be in the style of Forrest Gump too, braces better be included.
I Bet You Danny Bahar will buy a CBE on eBay - That lovely lady who lives in the big house Buckingham Palace know as Helen Mirren has decided to give a CBE to a certain Mr Tony Fernandes for his good work with the links between the UK and Malaysia which is good stuff. In fact my University I went to is twinned with a Malaysian university and stuff is often done between them with lecturers and courses, probably through AirAsia! It's a great achievement though for Tony and I do admittedly like the guy despite the nonsense with other Lotus. We shall not mention that boredom, maybe his CBE is for not mentioning it too really.
Elsewhere...
Back In Moy Day, 'Dey Din't 'Ave no Red Bulls - James Moy does not seem like a happy chappy. Despite having the grand privilege of photographing the world's best sport he's already wondering whether 2011 is going to be a total write off and whether we should give the championship to Vettel now. I absolutely disagree with him here as I shall always remain positive on this fabulous sport no matter how genius Adrian Newey is. It was Lou who pointed out this photographer-related news of course, and did you know she updated her Tumblr yesterday with some rather impressive ghost shots? Some very cool effects coming out of her experimentation.
I Do Like a Good Invisible Palace, Me - Last year a few of us here at Sidepodcast went to the jolly good fun that was Motorsport at the Palace, the palace referring to Crystal Palace in London. It was a great little hill climb with a friendly, inviting atmosphere and a wonderful little diddy car included that I adored! Badger GP have written a little preview for this year's event over the May Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May as well as sharing the news that there's currently a discount on tickets, yay! You can actually find the rest of Lou's photos from the day out on Flickr. Incidentally upon leaving Giggles was explaining to me about Crystal Palace not being there anymore except for a pole, and I am still very impressed that a pole is still regarded as a whole palace. Bravo!
Gladiators was never this competitive! - In a follow up to Amy's post this week of getting as many fans to support her in the AirAsia uberfan competition for Korea, we have another guest post from Kate who wants you to go and support her as well for the competition! The competition has been so ridiculously competitive and it's really interesting to see where it's gonna go so make sure you give this pitch a read too! Also Amy has put together a huuuuuuuuuuuuge post of her Australian GP weekend with some awesome photos and a hell of a story to tell about her experiences! Yay! As well as these updates here on Sidepodcast, we have a brand spanking new Sidepodchat
that went up late last night from Manipe as he looks at the start of the new season and some of the drivers as well as the new rules. It's an excellent listen as you'd expect from Naoise.
More like a Mega-zine! It works in a lazy kind of way - Probably the one magazine I still read has finally made the jump it seems as it is now available via digital download. It is, of course, The Beano. Yes, for many years I ha... actually it's F1 Racing. But I love having F1 Racing on my lap for train journeys to read through or just happily finding it to read when bored. Now it's stuck in my laptop and various devices that are rather small like my phone? Ohh, ok then. At least the option is finally there if you really want an e-F1 Racing. Me? Ohh I'm happy to stick with that papery-business-thing for now.
And Finally
I really like these Galaxies, especially the Caramel ones - Space is awesome. There is simply no denying this. Whether you are Brian Cox on top of a mountain calling everything beautiful or a big massive observatory looking for a spare comet to name, it is just awesome and this link absolutely amazes me. So many interactive photos and pictures of stars, galaxes, universes, and other big things of that big spacey nature. They're just absolutely beautiful to look at and it always, always gobsmacks me seeing just how many stars make up even the smallest bits of sky. Man, space is awesome. So is Spaced, for that matter.
So, that's that done for another week. Still can't believe it's April though, what kind of world do we live in when April suddenly appears?! I didn't expect it yesterday. Nevertheless, let's go out on something really sweet with a stunning performance of Skinny Love by Bon Iver, who's new album comes out later this year and this song is one of my favourites from his enchantingly lovely album For Emma, Forever Ago. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, and I'll see you in the comments.
I wonder if Friday April Fools is anything like Friday 13th.
Now that would be scary
Youtube in 1911!
Great daily Lukeh. Can't beat ghosts, space and baby penguins.
no way? what great synergy :)
Mr C, did you not click the link? :D
Who wants to be the face of a shoe? :D
ahhh, bugger. 30 minutes.
just... 30 minutes.
♥
Good grief. I might have to sign off the internet for today.
April Fool's is evil.
In honour of Lukeh from now on I'm not going to go out for a run, I'm going to go out for a Sutil.
I wonder if Friday April Fools is anything like Friday 13th.
I remember a year when April Fool's was also Good Friday......
#sorrychristine
..........#blamesutil
i want sutil to be honoured for his running though :)
So are we planning an April Fool joke on the internet?
Not yours in particular. Mr C is laughing his head off :)
I just hate it.
Nice daily Lukeh
Right folks,
I need to sleep sometime - good night!!
:)
am scared to click the youtube link. will i get rickrolled?
Air New Zealands April Fool is an idea I can 100% get behind :D http://promos.airnz.co.nz/payweigh
Love that idea
Imagine all the places I could go with a $32 fare!
It's amazing! :D
I would love to know what difference age makes to weight
If anything else, I think the older you get, the more of a miracle it is your weight isn't higher! You deserve brownie points :D
Playing with the settings the closer you are to 60 the more you pay
You know maths is too hard when your computer just sits there flashing trying to calculate the answer....
How complex is the calculation?
Mixtures of sines of natural logs and things. I couldn't do it myself so I asked the computer and now I have all manner of CPU usage warnings.
I thought Force India were with Reebok? This is quite confusing...
That shouldn't overload your computer
Click the link.
It's not crashed, it's still trying.... Might leave it alone for a while and get on with something else.
It wouldn't load...
It says that it is an April Fool joke
Meanwhile, am currently finding overzealous security searches are good for page count - managed to do 9 pages using merely the opening scene and someone doing a security search on a parcel (said parcel isn't unwrapped yet, therefore I've had to split the scenes in which the unwrapping takes place , leading to even more page pount).
Ah, OK
I'm sure I used to be good at calculus #toooldforthinking :(
points for narain for tweeting alia way past his bedtime.
It's not way past Narain's bedtime - he woke up super-early (it's 5 am where he is). His humour is good considering the jetlag he must be suffering.
Right I give up. I've done 70% of it. Enough for a good pass. Write it out, pop it in envelope, sleep, post it in the morning.
Well done :)
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 1st April 2011
- Justice for Amy - How the Australian Grand Prix and Team Lotus fixed everything
- Sidepodchat - That was the tip of the iceberg
- Help Kate become an Uber Fan
- Daily: 31 March 2011
I've arrived and checked in, Bassano and Janna are on their way in a cab.
Yay!
omg, it's actually happening!
I know!
i have to sleep, but i don't want to now. how close are they?
Not sure. I'll ask.
5 more mins in cab, then check in. :)
awesome, i shall charge the rose´ one more time then.
*hugs*
rosé
I'm going to run down and meet them in the lobby.
We're heeeeere
*HIIIIIIII*
Bassano & Janna wave back :D
i love you all. i'm so happy!
The cab had tv!
And a live map
#MFC
Ooooh hello Boston people :)
I wish I could write faster!! This is very frustrating....
We're here, all together. Yay!
That was Bassano
has there been much hugging? can i get a virtual hug?
Hehehe I also think my comment was confusing.... I'm writing out n assignment to post first thing so I can then go to bed but it's taking FOREVER
can i recommend rosé?
Mmmmm wine....
There was much hugging and "Oh my god! Sidepodhugs!"in the lobby.
Sidepodhugs alll around!!! :)
it's a long shot, but can we get a picture?
Quick freshen up then gonna drag Kai down to the bar but consider it done
cool! if you do before i sleep, i'll make post :)
This is just like a regular night of commenting with Bassano, but you're across the hall!!!
heheheheheh
http://twitpic.com/4fi5dk
SidepodCrew United
leg.ends!
Done done and done :D
Sadly without any wine. Only have to get up in 3 hours for work eh.... :P
i best have a glass for you then ;)
Us too.
And on that note
hope this is okay: http://sidepodcast.com/post/sidepodcast-comes-to-boston
(i may have had a bit to drink)
i wonder what size ipad is appropriately Amy sized. Stupid gadget i want for mo reason.
stupid phone thinking i want to write mo more than no
64gb is big for all videos, tunes, pics. I'd say 32gb is ok if no video. 16gb will give you no room to grow
16gb is fine for me bur small for christine.
until the mornin, night.
Night from the other side of the water!
I like the price of 16gb but I feel 32gb might be safer. I know they won't be in stock when I go to Malaysia but I think I'll try get one duty free this year :)
G'nite Mr C :)
Just Testing
I should go to bed now. I have to get up at 6:00 am to go to work tomorrow.
G'night Jordan
what a deal, pity it is on today :-)
http://www.twangoo.com/jetsetter/en/deal-april,2241,jetsetter-virgin-galactic
"The biggest bit of news I saw yesterday was the brilliant story of Adrian Sutil becoming the face of Adidas' running shoes in Germany after some of his brilliant runs from the past."
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! I missed that news. There will be Adrian S. all over the city too!!! That's too much my heart can take ...
Erm... Isn't this an April Fools joke? :D not sure though.
hmm the 64GB in Malaysia is the same price as the 16GB in Australia and apparently is still in stock over there. Hmmmmmm.
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! I missed that news. There will be Adrian S. all over the city too!!! That's too much my heart can take ...
Erm... Isn't this an April Fools joke? :D not sure though."
hopefully!!!
If you click the link in the title it takes you to http://i55.tinypic.com/2cxszcx.jpg :)
"If you click the link in the title it takes you to http://i55.tinypic.com/2cxszcx.jpg :)"
hehe :-) However as you all know Adrian S. is unpredictable! :D
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Sidepodcast comes to Boston
- Daily: 1st April 2011
- Justice for Amy - How the Australian Grand Prix and Team Lotus fixed everything
- Sidepodchat - That was the tip of the iceberg
- Help Kate become an Uber Fan
Sidepodcast Update speaks!
Has this site become self aware?
Yeah Mr C has installed the SkyNet back end... is that a problem ;)
So how's Austin?
Steve Austin?
But Boston is snowy but not settling
Tomorrow could be a mall and pub day. First stop, Boylston St Apple store to assess the queues. ;)
Boston, Texas?
The men's wc in the lobby has 4 tv's!
Different channel at evey 'position'
Is that a Harry Dean Stanton film?
I think 7am is a respectable time to retire
Peace and love all
hope you're drumming up some likes for me over there in Boston. Well i don't really.
How's that going Amy?
so far so good but 10 days is a long time to hold on.
one of my friends who works in our call centre just told a colleague on the other side of the country that I've never spoken to to like it. Hehe! My friends are so dedicated to my cause.
Has anyone seen this weeks autosport and know which track this is?
#f1 Check out this week's AUTOSPORT magazine for all the details of an F1 track being changed to improve the racing this year
http://twitter.com/#!/eddstrawF1/statuses/53573161773572096
Hahaha!
PAMELLAAAAAA Apparently it's already time to think about planning the 2012 Australian Grand Prix.
'From 9am 4 April until 5pm 30 April you will have an opportunity to book the same seat as you had in 2011'
You in? We could win a trip for two to the Singapore Grand Prix!! oh wait...
I just got majorly april fool'd!
http://jalopnik.com/#!5787861
oooh Nick you have a foreign iPad, no? I have questions :)
Yes, but it is very well mannered and has excellent english skills
heheh my question is regardless of which country it comes from does it work with all iTunes stores?
Here's a couple more!
http://www.nicohulkenberg.net/en/news/hulk-tattoos-katjes-logo
http://www.express.co.uk/motorsport/view/237975/Rising-fuel-costs-threaten-British-Grant-Prix
Yes, mine is a US model but i use the UK itunes store even though i live in Dubai.
Its the credit card rather than the hardware which determins which store you get. The only real difference is the power plug shape, but i have a gazzilion adaptors
just need to keep an eye on it - you're up by 40+, so we should have enough time to react if anyone makes a move. :)
woot! Gosh I hope there are still some lurking around in Malaysia they're so cheeeeeap.
oh hang on the Malaysian store is still selling the first generation. Scratch that plan *grumble*
I still have a good 20 or so people that I can make like it if someone catches up, keeping a few spare cards up my sleeve ;)
Bahrain - they're not running it. It'll be a huge improvement to the racing. :-P
Wasn't there a story about Singapore being changed?
Well they're covering the Goodwood hillclimb with a million bricks but I doubt it's that
Whatever for?
they're celebrating the indy500 this year
gasp! Brian and Delta are over!
(nows your chance Mr C)
I cant find anything about any of the circuits i suspected on goognews
although I think it's probably a joke given the timing of the announcement
Madness, couldnt they have just put a strip at the start and finish?
aha
i just saw a tweet about it, probably should read the full story
Wikipedia says "In January 2010, it was reported that race organisers were considering changes to the circuit for the 2011 season.[13] These changes would see the extension of the long back straight so that the circuit goes around the outside of the War Memorial instead of inside it, and a complete re-design of the waterfront section to remove the sequence of chicanes near the site of Nelson Piquet's 2008 crash."
so if it is Singapore, thats news from a year ago :D
Perhaps this was an april fool too. Not a very creative one if it was though~!
a rubbish joke if you have to go out and buy - would be demanding a refund
This has to be a joke too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12930915
it's been reported elsewhere
sneaky... have several sources been acting together? or have the BBC been fooled by the Blackpool Gazette?
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/local/earthquake_hits_fylde_coast_1_3242222
Cooperman has a brilliant one! http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/04/01/lotus-rivals-agree-royal-plan-to-settle-name-case/
well, what do you know... it's on the British Geographical Survey website, so it's real
http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/recent_events/20110401023432.3.html
hi everyone
you'd hope so, after recent world events an april fools joke about an earthquake would be extremely poor taste!
morning Leigh
Very good point!
morning maverick,
how are you?
looking forward to a rare day to myself
yourself?
Morning!
right i need to stop stalling and move house, i shall drop in as i pass the laptop :)
not bad, just busy (again)
:/
Club Force have THE BEST April Fool: http://www.forceindiaf1.com/testdrive/
aww my hotel just sent me a reminder that my stay begins on Wednesday.
I was quite aware of that anyway :D
eheh the T&Cs are great
"All decisions will be final and binding and the decision taken by the URBNGFULD department." :D
http://twitpic.com/4flpfo - winner
Apparently this guy was really keen to win it
http://tinyurl.com/3qwnt74
Whoa! Look at F1 Badger! http://badgergp.com/
Nice prank but I am not sure if it is totally cool expanding their contact list by tricking people into providing their info ...
Ha!
:)
A lot of work went into that
well, the space trip on sale today with 99% off ...
just finished the Flying Lap on iTunes, bad luck, the post show talk that includes that infamous "Key" episode not in ...
I am wondering, was any part of this an April fool?
That's what I thought - I was certain it was broadcast after 7pm
I got bored of moving, so the move now has a twitter account: http://twitter.com/nicksmovingup
you should make the move a facebook page ;)
You still own a megadrive?
I miss my megadrive, I had to leave it behind when I moved to Australia :(
GMM: were every day is the 1st of april
:)
Fools rushing in, where the intelligent fear to tread
My sister nicked my SNES and PS1 :(
...where the intelligent sit on the sidelines laughing their heads off
Badger, take a bow! http://badgergp.com/2011/04/badgergp-and-f1-2012/
Bought a new one about a month ago!
New one???
I have NES Box for chrome but it's not the same..
2010 edition, i will tweet you a pic when i go back up :)
i appear to have started downloading free ipad apps that look interesting. its all downhill from here folks.
French Grand Prix to be resurrected?
Ping: http://www.vivaf1.com/blog/?p=6157
good luck finding one for sale
no hurry :)
http://www.lotusrenaultgp.com/4484-Golden-wings-for-LRGP-in-Malaysia.html
the only problem with this one is that a "James Allison Fired" rumour is bound to follow
:D
oooh i could get a black 32 gb tomorrow....tempting...then i could get the tax back at the airport...oooooooh....
how?
booo for me living in a country town.
through this
http://reserve.apple.com/WebObjects/ProductReservation.woa/wa/reserveProduct?lang=en&country=AU&prelaunch=MC770X_A
one of the Melbourne stores has no stock but the other one does. It's in a mall I've never been to but I'd be willing to find a way to get there :D
only issue now is it won't accept my apple password to log in and I know it's right because I literallly just logged into iTunes. Grr.
weird how it does that.
yep, that's apple for you
and when I try reset it it doesn't send the email, so if I try via the security questions it tells me my birthdate is wrong. Excuse you apple, I know when I was born.
"see, we've even got further than USF1 already - sorry Peter"
hehe.
sad face :-(
i have to make do with my sad old ipad 1
I guess Prince was right.
Sometimes it does indeed, Snow in April
yes you would think USF1 would have managed a drawing
I finally logged in. Then it told me my session had timed out. And now the one I wanted is no longer available :(
I HATE YOU APPLE.
somewhere in the world someone at Apple is watching your attempts with evil laughter
clearly they want me to buy that 64gb wifi + 3g thats still availble but i sooo don't have THAT much money to spend on a whim.
they did, plain blue wasn't it?
You're new to this Apple game, you'll learn :)
awwww. still it could be worse, you could be seconds away from buying when a laptop dies on you and then 7 days of your life just disappear.
you want a 3g. I'm getting a 32gb 3g (some day. maybe december)
I don't want a 3G. If I change my mind I'll get a mifi thingy.
Oh, and morning gang
#JelagSucks
hahahaha. perfect, i has a blog to write.
hullo boston!
You could play the "chase the ipad stock game" see here:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1666855
thankfully sidepodcomments never forget.
I find it odd that PW failed to reassure scarbs who was in the studio at the time
i'm way too lazy for that, I'd rather wait for 9pm tomorrow night and try again :)
Oh blah. no point listening then
Gooood morning from Baaahston!
The Guinness is surprisingly good here
The Bassano seal of approval :)
does everybody in the bar know your name though?
They should use that in their marketing, it doesn't come easily
I suppose this story goes a little too far: http://paddocktalk.com/news/html/story-157024.html
yeeesshhh!
problem is, you don't need to read beyond the title
He he, not yet. But they probably will
I'm already on nodding acquaintance with the doorman of 'The City Bar' in the lobby.
Passed him several times last night on the way to the gents [which has FOUR tvs]
um. i better not ask.....
sports, no doubt. red socks games.
Every urinal has it's own tv on the wall. Different channel
Nope. Mostly ads :(
now that makes sense
:-) yes of course they do
How long do these people spend in here? #TwitPict http://twitpic.com/4fmhny
Not knowing their target audience is bad though. I mean, do I look like I need hair products?
You could get shampoo for your goatee?
I probably could :)
Gonna attempt more sleep until sunrise. Til later
See ya Bassano
Eek. About to get my picture taken!
well thinking of the typical spam inbox, there are worse things you could be advertised while stood at a urinal
see ya bassano
Mini ping: http://mrschristine.posterous.com/installing-office
Hehehehe. A 5 year old attacked the dock
Ah-ha! Well timed as he may be going off Taylor too.
:)
ooooooh!
oooh I get to stay with Lotus!
@beaks_the_twitt another day another hotel. in the marriott putrajaya. one of the best hotels of our season... amazing rooms and just about everything else !
she's quite whiny.
Lift to the track !
I don't want to be that much of a Lotus stalker :(
its a bit late for that :-)
Went well - didn't giggle once!
plus, you need to get background for your Korea gig
I don't think any of them know me by sight yet so I'm still safe. A few too many know me by name though.
RubberGoat #notgiggles
you'll have to sign in as Mrs Smith
...yet
;)
F1 teams are very suspicious by nature, looking out for spies and all that
two races in a row... very dodgy
random iPads keep popping up, this time I got to the 'confirm' button before it told me it was no longer available :(
and now the white 64 3g is back up. Booo.
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/friday-fun-what-would-windsor-say
You need to live somewhere that you know there will be no stock for weeeeeks and weeks
the only two apple stores in melbourne are both more than an hour from my house, thats bad enough in this situation! means the only time I can go there is the weekend which counts out monday and tuesday in my get-before-malaysia plan :(
This will make Mr C's day... Go to google and search for Helvetica...
Brilliant!
Oh my..
Ooooooooo!
arrrrrrrgh!
What happens if you search for wingdings or comic sans?
at last, a quietish week is coming...
:)
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Friday Fun: What would Windsor say?
- Sidepodcast comes to Boston
- Daily: 1st April 2011
- Justice for Amy - How the Australian Grand Prix and Team Lotus fixed everything
- Sidepodchat - That was the tip of the iceberg
Yup I have read all of 'em :)
Does anyone have an iPad to hand. If so, could someone just check to see how http://theformulaoneandmotorsportsarchive.wordpress.com on it?
Thanks
:)
Like other wordpress blogs. All "swipe me" and interactive
I have taken a look... it works - I'm not a big fan of the wordpress theme but it is working.
I'm not sure about this flipboard style theme, but I guess it works
What does "swipe me" mean?
It isn't as good as flipboard and that's the problem...
about to get you some screen shots...
As long as it works at the minute. Grand job.
:)
Cheers
Oh. It's a bit hard to explain without seeing it. The front page has "swipe me" on it and you swipe onto a page with the first 4 posts
Maybe I will play the stock chasing game anyway, JB Hifi got a shipment of the ones I want in just before closing tonight. Might try my luck when they open tomorrow :)
Hehehe, sucker.
ooh. This is cool.
Good morning. :)
I'm so terrible, once I decide I want something I only think about it for about 12 hours then I'm on a mission like a horse with blinkers on.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5578908275/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5578908333/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5579494274/
just noticed the april fools on flickr... It's an entirely sweet one and very subtle...
the e? :)
Oooh Yay!
:)
woot!
Morning Neighbour, morning Sidepodcast [again]
Now I'm in that awkward to timeslip getting phase :(
Autocorrect fail
Oh never mind
If Boston was like London, I could probably go to a website of the appropriate CCTV or traffic cam to see if there was a queue outside of the Apple Store
Welcome to my timezone.
You may be able to get that.
Hello all. Hello snowy Boston :)
still snow? feels like the US has been having winter forever!
Just seems to be a light dusting. Hoping it will be gone by tomorrow.
good afternoon!
I thought you were on holiday... surely you don't want to be dusting on holiday!
'ello
most of my flatmates and friends are going home this weekend and i'm not.. i hope spc will keep me company this weekend!
Yeah, it's just for showing off for you guys.
Almost time to go meet you 10 feet away in the hall. :)
Later gators.
I'll be around 24/7, having a quiet weekend to prepare for Malaysia. Except for the iPad hunt, a Saturday afternoon tea and a Sunday dinner.
Ahhh pants.
ooh Hulus April Fools joke is a 1996 home page. I love the 90s.
you're getting an ipad?
it speaks to me!
what about Alistair?
they can live side by side in harmony, I still want to do most of my reading on him :)
ahh :)
Oooohh-errr... not entirely sure how to fix that yet
:/
is mr c about?
I hope you will be joining in on Giggles Radio!
In a while crocodile
i would love to, it does depend on my lovely internet connection though. most of the time when i try to tune in at uni it buffers so badly :(
I am trying to work out something about that... :)
i get a 1mb connection here.. so it's not the greatest thing for streaming tbh. :(
ah okay... I'll let you know if there is a good option...
aw the last of my flatmates just left. flat is now silent. may end up going crazy by the end of this weekend. Just 3 of us left.. but the others are going out tomorrow. May go to london...
thank you!
I love it when my flat is empty. Other people suck :)
Shall we play eye spy to pass the time?
i wouldn't mind it if i didn't spend so much time with them.. gonna miss them, we're a bit like a family meals together etc. I'm not usually here when they aren't tis strange..
If you do go into town, do give a shout if you are and i'll pop in for a coffee
:)
all weekend? :D
sounds like heaven
aw that'll be nice. I'm thinking i'll spend the day going to art exhibitions and things.. really miss having a local cafe nero so i may spend a day there! :o
sounds nice
:)
There should be some worryingly slow Ferraris to spy in about an hour if that helps...
uh oh, guess who has a mclaren paddock tour in malaysia
Would that be you?
indeed it would.
:D
#PaddockInsider :)
You need your own podcast to keep us all up to date!
I feel like I'm hogging all the paddock passes this year :D
Moving home is hard work!
#NotRecommended
All in a good cause :)
you need to do it more often.
...or just get christine to do it :)
I think your problem is that you've had to make three trips for beer.
how?
*2011's Alex Snell
:D
through their members program
psssh he got in with one team, over the last 12 months I've made it in with three :D
who needs to be fussy?
:)
hahaha! is that part of your mclaren club membership? best to show off your work and show that you'd be good at promoting a team. :D
might bump into tom too. :D
we're gonna need a name for your regular column. #amyontour
hehe, i can carry the beer in a bag with the crate!
Also its the heaviest thing, so i spread them out!
you didn't just drink them before moving?
indeed, they didn't select me for tours at my last four races so I guess I must have been due one but after last weekend it feels a little greedy! Not greedy enough to say no though :)
Bernie was talking about a possible female successor... it all makes sense now...
:D
mmm.....millions of dollars....
billions.
I don't need that much, you guys want the rest?
doh!
I think i shall use them up for a housewarming, there are plenty there!
If you want to keep up with the moving action and didnt see my comment earlier:
twitter.com/NicksMovingUp
just drop either valencia or barcelona and I'll be happy
billions? How about kazillions?!
cheers.
holy cow, are you moving next door?
i love idea that someone awards themselves a lunch break during their own house move.
a 3 hour lunch break no less
you can always send one to me if you feel bad :)
I am not sure a paddock pass for a country you're not in will be much help :)
true.. maybe you can apply for one for silverstone? they seem to like you? you could get me in the paddock! ;)
probably easier to get a mclaren membership and apply for your own :)
but it's so expensive! I shall see :)
its a bit cheaper now that they have their two tier thingy i assume
:D :D :D
From the 13th floor to the 27th
But because we have 4 unnumbered parking levels its effectively the 31st
OMG: http://mashable.com/2011/04/01/rebecca-black-funny-or-die/
So awesome!
Genius. Muchos respect
:)
Holy Crap.... This was a close one! http://cars.failblog.org/2011/03/30/funny-car-photos-well-the-engine-blew-up-it-cant-get-any-worse-right/
:o
Rob is the Spark next week! http://grandprixdiary.com/2011-calendar/10-april-malaysia/paddock-security-stepped-up-as-grand-prix-diary-heads-for-malaysia
Woah... Websense just blocked that site as "Adult Content"
Huh? Thought it was alright?
as predicted by AMY
Hehe
Phew... moving done for the day.
... so glad i have a desk job!
Analogue Tetris! http://vimeo.com/2419155
AMY!!!! Team Lotus gear on sale from tomorrow! https://twitter.com/#!/MyTeamLotus/status/53856609746685952
PING: Sauber’s Sizzling Speed Stuns Smiling Spectators!
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/saubers-sizzling-speed-stuns-smiling-spectators/
Hope you like it - I'm off to poker now ;)
Woo hoo, MiFi enabled. We are green for mobile commenting baby, yeah!
Evening all. Today was mostly about post-stocktake number crunching so no comment-lurking. I shall be crawling all over the site like a... crawly thing.. after I have made a cup of tea. Looking forward to hearing more of the Boston meetup (I saw the photo as I was setting up the tabs, glad you made it!) and Amy's post too.
You've probably mentioned this already but Kimi has his first NASCAR test next week with the team which is run by Kyle Busch and which has won the 3 races held so far this year, I feel calmer about his prospects now.
Hi Pat
Good evening!
I've managed to miss most of the Paul Ricard practising but it sounds like I'd have just been miserable if I'd stayed in (Fisi's car was down in 7th in the morning and broke down early in the afternoon)...
Tea at the ready, let the reading commence.
While I do that, as you know the Indy 500 has a celebrity pace car driver to bring the cars up to speed from the grid for the rolling start. The announcement will be made this Tuesday for who that will be... and it'll be at Trump Tower in NYC. Wigs at the ready.
Good evening :)
I'm happy to be home from work but mildly horrified by this http://twitter.com/nicksmovingup :P
i love it, he's like the laziest man in the world. can he be my boss please?
It would have worked just fine for me had a) it not started in March and b) Renault not got a scheme where anyone can pay to do 2 laps in a F1 car for €5500. Because of that, I thought the competition was genuine, albeit one for which there was no point in me applying (the form had "do you have a driving licence?" as one of the tick boxes... ...though the fact weight wasn't a tick-box option should have tipped me off).
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Friday Fun: What would Windsor say?
- Sidepodcast comes to Boston
- Daily: 1st April 2011
- Justice for Amy - How the Australian Grand Prix and Team Lotus fixed everything
- Sidepodchat - That was the tip of the iceberg
Genius. Something I wish I'd thought of. Bit disturbing but fascinating.
Hehehe surely the last thing in the world you want is a lazy boss!! My boss is pretty lazy and it's not good times....
Nick is very lazy though. I can't believe he was on twitter all day instead of moving :D
Ooh a new thing.
Really? I can :D
I swear he doesn't have an ironing board.... Also where did the whiteboard come from??
First Guinness of the day, am still digesting the breakfast burrito.
he was moving. it just took him one hour to move a shrubbery.
Yeah, Janna's asking for details. How often does it update, is it auto?
You'd be surprised at how easy it is to do that.
Yeah you do realise this is one pot plant we're talking about here!
every 6 hours at a quarter to the hour. we turned it on yesterday after people didn't read any of the posts we published :)
yup :)
Great idea
I also should probably have told him to leave the cleaning stuff to last. Then you can clean your flat once it's empty....
Still think the site has become sentient.
Been thinking of HAL all day.
"What are you doing Mr C? I cannot allow that"
that'll be one trip back down then.
if the only thing he moves all day is the cleaning stuff, it gets him out of cleaning :-)
That is fantastic!
I'm still baffled by this whiteboard..... I swear he doesn't own whiteboard. Why haven't I been allowed to play with it?
maybe he bought it to plan his day? after he moved it, he made the thirteenth trip twice, clearly he went rogue at that point and had to call it a day.
Hehehe!
I like the fact that 3 trips were necessary for the beer
Oooh, I spotted two of them. Three! :)
What's a floor squidge?
and he still went to the pub.
Mop. Made out of that foamy stuff though rather than a mop head.
Just wait for the 5 trips he has to make moving all my abandoned possessions :D
Righto. I think squidge is my new favourite word.
I'm not ruling out that he moved one bottle on each trip though
Good word :D
:)
evening everyone...
Alex! Ciao
Good evening! I'm half-packed for my gala tomorrow morning.
Does anyone have a moment to try another live broadcast test?
So I don't know if anyone is about... but can you test:
http://gigglesradio.com/live.html
and
http://gigglesradio.com/livelofi.html
Probablt can't from the iPad but is the Lofi audio only?
Hello folks
It's not unfortunately... but is low bit rate video
hey kai. alex, will be with you in two.
awesome :)
thanks
the lofi works for me!! :D
Ooh, that might be good for me at home
awesome :)
yaaaayyyyyyy!!!
No buffering at uni!
no! first time in aggesss (in halls that is)
This is good news... How is the quality?
i must go now though, gonna meet a friend for dinner. back later! :) xx
See you later. Thanks Lou!
not too bad.. you're a bit pixalated. but i can still see you clearly and everything :)
Lou has the most consistently bad buffering so that's good.
listening to 'ken bruce' and giggles at the same time.
Hi Giggles, we see you all the way in Boston. :D
:) Awesome :)
That's some mash-up
So the non-lo-fi version is still working?
alex, you're more squashed in the lo-fi version. but squashed in both.
Very good work that
both are playing for me. no buffering. i am confused that your picture top left doesn't move though :)
I'm going to try and change the aspect ratio... but I have to stop...
:)
This seems good to me, a bit quiet compared to the ad that played before it but no buffering.
I didn't have time to test lofi before it went off
I think I'm back but still squashed...
Right... Sorry for the splash and dash... I have to go and have dinner now...
correction, the video jumps now and then but the audio is fine. This might be something my computer does though because other videos do that for me.
Thanks for your help everyone :)
The good thing is that I can see the video is squashed so if it suddenly doesn't look squashed to me it's fixed :)
*byeeeee*
lofi doesn't seem to do it ;)
why is it different between versions?
No idea?!?!?!
But I guess that might give me the answer to the issue
Evening guys!
Hey Lukeh and hey everyone.
Ohhhhhhhh Wordpress is evil with their april fools!
It is pretty poor.
I got all excited when I went on my dashboard then they proudly dashed my hopes with that.
Evil.
oh I don't think I saw it...
Not as evil as Dad's work - the boss got an "emergency call" at silly o'clock in the morning and wasn't told it was an April Fool until the person responsible for the shift noticed the boss sign in...
check out the Stats ;)
Boo to not knowing about podcasts:
http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/04/01/lotus-rivals-agree-royal-plan-to-settle-name-case/#comment-13310
Ah... apparently there are two versions of it one where it shows loads and one where it shows none... I got none!
Hey everyone
Is Mr C or Christine about?
Even harsher!
Hi.
Would you be interested in a quick guest post in about 30 minutes?
You don't need to ask!
:)
i like the surprise of seeing the 'new post popup' the corner. lou and lukeh's post the other day made me sooo happy :)
aww :D
Well, it is your site, so I don't wish to break anything up or encroach too much. Makes me feel like a burglar.
Albeit a digital one.
Having played The Sims, I'm sure Christine knows very well how to deal with e-burglars
Trying to talk to my sister but having problems with it and Autocorrect :)
"You're not showing up on my skulduggery "
"Skype!"
ahh, boo. he's been on a podcast hasn't he? talk sport or something.
good name for a new web service
Yarrggh, me hearties!
Fasten the contacts list to the main brace
Man the instant messaging!
:D
She's so good she's stopped burgulars from visiting any of my Sims ever since I started commenting on this site!
faie enough, i couldn't do it either :)
:)
Ping: http://mrschristine.com/2011/04/01/the-first-of-april-a-day-of-fools/
Pluggety plug plug:
FIA: Serious About Young Female Talent
Hello all, commenting on iPad2 Apple store Boston woohoo!
Hi from the apple store Boston.
Also on iPad2
Nice one!
Woohoo!
The sun is coming out
That's good :)
Golf and more charity related ping: http://northernwaffler.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-i-love-ryo-ishikawa/
you guys have really ventured far from the hotel. Not!
Hi from a meeting. I'll contact you directly in a half hour.
New header time: http://mrschristine.com/2011/04/01/apr-2011-header-lens-flare/
ooh
Cap'n - Tha scurvy dog fasten thar contacts list to the main brace be three sheets to the wind! :p
never heard of the tripbase awards, but joe, viva and more have won one: http://www.tripbase.com/d/awards/2011/categories/winners/formula-one.htm
(via joe's sidebar)
the same people won one last year too... which doesn't say much about the qualifying criteria :-)
Oh.
hehe, not heard of them before. quite a prominent position on joe's site.
F1F has won it, so...
that's may be the best thing about the award then #F1mademethiscynical
although they claim the awards have been featured in CNBC, CBS and AOL News
Friday evening song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m03vpmiAhAg
:)
well I put up the award on the blog sidebar but I really didn't think it was worth making much fuss about - seems to be about getting links back to their website as much as anything. they have a ridiculous number of categories
yep
but if Joe is going to show off the award - I'm happy
top sea kayaking blogs: http://www.tripbase.com/d/awards/2011/categories/winners/sea-kayaking.htm
There are enough sea kayaking blogs to form a category?
We realise that some people will just want to paddle around off the coast of Norway...
As long as they are aware!
I feel bad only using the medium size design and putting it halfway down the page now
:)
it's not as if they can complain about stupid ideas to make the course artificially wet
Hahaa,
Just checked the YouTube 1911 shindig - very good
I advocate the use of Flummox in the future.
its 8.30 in the morning and I'm off on my ipad hunt. i can't believe i got up so early voluntarily on a saturday. wish me luck!
good luck amy!!
Just wanted to say how much I love the penguins today. They make the homepage so cute.
april needs more penguins and I felt it was necesseray :)
That being said, I just had a penguin as in the chocolate bar for the first time in aaaaaaaaaaages! Although for the sake of being fair, you can get various other brand chocolates for similar prices at your favourite supermarkets.
also, at iceland too. ;)
I'm leaving the office soon. I'll call Kai in a few minutes.
Seems a shame to replace them... although, has anyone heard from Pamela recently? I think it might be her turn for the daily.
spoke to her earlier today, but not about the daily i'm afraid.
Well we had international Vitaly day, there could be a Sidepodnational Penguin Month :)
Hehehe.
ahh I apologise, I can't believe I forgot the vital thing in this comment...
How does a penguin build its house ?
Igloos it together
Evening all.
Is it safe to come out now all the jokes are over for another year?
Evening sir :)
I've got mint penguins
Name a penguin who was an impressionist artist.
Peck-asso
Yes and thank you so much for volunteering to do another Daily. :)
heya!
hi steven
mint? penguins?!
:o
There's Danny De Vito as the penguin in Batman Returns......
nom nom nom
Speaking of artists. I bet Lukeh's favourite artist is Salvador Dali.
I think if I wrote it today it would be very short as I have not been on the net all day.
O.O
How did you know?
wibbly wobbly timey wimey
http://www.artscatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/the_persistence_of_memory_1931_salvador_dali.jpg
Tis no bother, am on it.
:D:D
Never ever thought of that. How awesome.
You mean he is?
Sometimes I am too good even for me to believe it ;)
Thanks Christine
yeah, when I did art at school I really looked up to his work. Our trip to barcelona cultivated in his museum being the main attraction of going.
I have no idea why but it popped into my head a few hours ago. I guess if enough stuff rattles around in there occasionally a couple of things collide and make sense
Unbelievable.
Somewhere in your subconscious you were thinkin wibbly wobbly timey wimey.
There is a Place Dali in Montmartre in Paris too where I think they have a museum dedicated to him
Sounds like science lessons.
It's like a slow small hadron collider.
Yeah I've always wanted to go but our Paris trip was to disneyland and parc asterix in school. Not quite as cultured :) although Asterix and Obelix are awesome.
except it doesn't break down
you went to paris without a passport too?!
My memory is a little dodgy. It is Espace Dali not Place Dali. They sound more or less the same
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espace_Dalí
:D
I stay away from seagulls with baguettes
they are showing a white one in stock but i want black! They are checking out the back :)
they found one! Yay!
Ahh that is awesome. Lou and I went to an exhibition in London about 2 years ago on his work and even that as a small exhibition I loved evverything in there. Just something about the whole surrealist nature of his work amazes me, if I still had my GCSE stuff I'd scan it and blog about it to show much much of an influence he was for me at the time.
I say we went, we we walking past it and I basically dragged lou in
#sorrylou :)
So one of each?
On the bus to rendezvous In Boston!
you threw your artwork away? :(
No, no. it's in the attic somewhere. I'll definitely get it down over the summer.
tis cool.. i got to see the red arrows afterwards.
plus.. i'm an art student.. gotta embrase all movements of art.
Best timing ever. :D
ehe you should get it down before summer.. #impatient.
I have never looked at his stuff in detail but his work is amazing
He was incredibly eccentric and this made his work just so incredible, it was the perfect combination. There was a lot of deeper meaning in his work from what I remember too and it was just the type of art and surrealist creation that I really enjoyed trying to understand and looking into. His museum was one of my favourite things about Barcelona though, some of the stuff in there could type up the mind of the most knowledgeable man :)
*tie up, even. There was no typing involved, he types.
apple are sneaky all the cheap smart covers are ugly colours so i felt i had to buy a dearer black one. Then in my haste to leave the store i walked into a wall made of plastic. Walls should not be that transparent.
the same can be said for every piece of art..
*shudders as i think back to some of my theory lectures*
Haha, that's definitely true. But I dunno, I just really took to his work I suppose more than other artists we studied.
did they all clap when you bought it?
(trying to take your mind off the walking into stuff thing)
Scott has met up! The gang is all here.
id be interested to know why. Am always fascinated to know what attracts people to draw inspiration from specific artists more than others..
can you tell i'm missing psychology a bit?
Woohoo!
can you tell I'm missing art a bit? :D
buy a sketchbook and start a project. i'd be lost if i didn't have my sketchbooks.
Going to have me a night of horrrrrrrrror...
Starting with "Nosferatu" in a few minutes
:)
Lou when I get all my stuff down
over the summerI'll find my barcelona sketchbook, it has essays I've written about dali and it'll probably explain why I was so drawn to him at the time moreawesome :)
oooh actually...
Off for dinner. We may have wifi there. :)
If it's called the Boston Coalhole, then... :)
have funn!
You mean you can't remember why?
:D
Lou was implying for a specific reason why in terms of psychology I was so drawn to him, I know why in terms of how much I admire his work and the nature of his surrealist creations but my thinking was that writing about him at the time would have stuff recorded of me explaining more about why he stood out so much when I was doing art at school. Just would be interested to see what I've recorded and written down because my memory is pretty terrible :)
have found one of my barcelona sketchbooks in my cupboard anyways, with some twitpics
http://twitpic.com/4ftss4
http://twitpic.com/4ftts5
Although the second link was the picasso stuff we did, for some reason that book has dali written in it and words written but the dali stuff is in another sketchbook... #confused
lol doesn't matter. will ask next time i speak to you ;)
I am now being followed by a British F3 driver I had never heard of. I guess this season I will pay special attention to Rupert Svendsen-Cook
One my title favourite
*s
It is a new name to me but he is driving for Carlin so unlikely to be a bad driver even if they have 6 this season
they only run 1/3rd of the field.....
I see he is retweeting something from Dennis Rushen. I thought he had given up racing years ago. I have barely heard of him since Senna drove for him in FF2000 in 1982
OMG
In 3 years it will be 30 years since Senna entered F1. HOW?????
Wow... :|
I think Rushden dropped out for a while, but is back
Early night for me tonight, got a busy day tomorrow. Night guys!
by then the grid will be full of people not born when he died, who all will cite Schumacher as their greatest influence. Bah.
night!!
night lukeh
Night Lukeh
woo :)
Pity
St Petersburg in Florida has a new Dali museum which happens to be within the infield of the IndyCar street track. Also this is Oriol Servia's helmet:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/2433474490_767dd92a0d.jpg
http://blog.indycar.com/2011/03/25/surrealism-servia-and-speed/ (with video of him at the museum)
What is he doing now?
Night Lukeh
I think he's back in the driver management game, but I could be wrong. I haven't seen him around yet.
That is the sad bit. The good thing is that the current generation behave better than Schumacher ever did on the track
Dali and racing. I can see Lukeh and Lou visiting St Pete
It always seems amazing that Senna drove for a private team rather than the factory team.
ooh i've even made it home for federer v nadal.
what an awesome saturday morning
hehe i'm not going back to Florida for a long time. I wanna go to new places.. not places i've been before :) need to explore Europe.. plus i now have a trip to Australia to save for!
#blameAmyandPamela
making people fly around the world is what I do best :)
How can it be Saturday already?
Australia isn't Europe
i do have 3 years to save.. but i'm deadly serious about wanting to go as soon as i can.. it just happens that that is 2014..
.. did nearly apply to move to Melbourne for Semester 2 next year.. but i didn't like the course enough :(
i know :)
(makes a note)
I'm a mystical time traveller
#sidepodspace
The ISS may need to be moved to avoid some debris heading toward it. The debris is from a collision between a couple of satellites.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/living/index.html
The STS-134 shuttle crew are doing their launch dress rehearsal. Hope no-one accidentally presses the big red button or we will miss the launch.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
Explains a lot
Does that make you a Highlander or a retired actor from Edinburgh trying to act like one Steven ? :P