It's Thursday once more, but it should be a better day for me as I'm off work and enjoying a week at home. We'll see though. Let me know how your Thursday goes, and check in with the comments often, so we know it's going okay. Some of the actual F1 topics we're talking about:
- Mr C has decided that yesterday's F1 Big Picture of a 2008 McLaren actually seems a little bit on the hideous side to him. I am not impressed. This year's cars are fugly and they will not grow on me. I fear I am the only one left that thinks so.
- I released the F1 Digest preview podcast for this weekend's race, and there are some interesting quotes in there. Badoer is simply hoping to finish the race,whilst Grosjean thinks that being the reserve driver has helped him ahead of getting behind the wheel in anger for the first time. Those new boys, eh?
- Finally, in non-plugtastic news, it was hyped up beyond belief yesterday, but the big reveal simply proved that YouTube will be involved in F1 next year, sponsoring USF1. It is good to get a big name on board, that can potentially bring big bucks and big awareness, but I'm not convinced YouTube are the right fit. It's just a little bit NASCAR for my tastes.
That'll do it for now, I reckon. There'll probably be more news out today, as we get nearer and nearer to our first Free Practice action in weeks. I'll see you in the comments.
Am I allowed to agree with Mr C in saying the old cars were ugly?
Poor Christine. I want to make her feel better and say that this years cars are ugly but nope. I love them. They're lovely! OK maybe not the rear wing but the rest rocks, and that Mclaren has about 15 balconies for the Mclaren team to watch from on the front wing!
#sorrymrsc
Don't forget its A-Level results day too. And it does appear the papers were right...there is alot less courses avaliable than usual
just in time for the new day! hi nice sidepodpeople :-)
Well that's a great start, ucas has crashed already....
I still think this years cars are ugly. They have improved as they have devloped over the season but they are still unnecessatily ugly.
Hi Guille
it's incredibly slow :(
I still find the wing a little bit strange? ugly? uncomfortable to the eyes?. But after seeing that 2008 McLaren I'm convinced more than ever of the beauty of the clean and slim bodywork off this year's cars.
Time for le sleep. Best of luck to Jon and anyone else getting results today :)
Night!!
Night sir.
Night Lukeh
ta, night
night lukeh
Hello everyone i am back from london and shall review what worked!
I still think when UCA & PCAS merged they missed the oppourtunity to name it PUCCA! ;)
Hey Nick
hi nick
Hey Nick. A bit quiet round here tonight
I've had a football night in. #sorry,well,everyone
It has been quiet all day
I havee been drinking on fleet street and in the old bank of england, no jobs but joviality
I disapointed people tonight by giving up foot ball.
But st pauls in the sun was stunning!
People have all forgotten about F1 after all those weeks off!! :)
has to take a break from commenting. i haven't actually achieved a single productive thing since about last thursday. i shall be lurking until fp1 friday methinks.
oooh no, they have CUKAS (Conservatoire UK Admissions service) however, if they'd called it the Musians UK admissions service...
MUCAS!!
:D
Sorry? F1, aint aware of that. Something you do when you need help is it?
Belated goodnight to the leavers, and hi Nick. You might be disappointed because not many things appear to have worked.
That doesnt help anyone! live comment what you are doing!
I may cry when they do their installation laps on Friday....
OK i wont, but you get the point :P
my email to dropio didnt work, but i have bad videos :P
http://www.qik.com/dubaish
aha, they weren't there a few hours ago!
I've not had a nice day at all. My boyf is flying back to India tomorrow and some family thing has come up and he's had to go see them and it's all a lot of a mess....
I really hope he gets it sorted before he has to fly out. His mum sounded really worried :(
I would have done more but the battery died!
Thats not good, will you get a chance to see him tomorrow?
Not a good end to his holiday then
:)
ok. i am considering how the header bar will work in spc 3.0 / mfc 1.0. e.g. the bit on the homepage that has webber in it.
this involves trawling as many different homepages as feasibly possible, across as many genres as possible, whilst taking the best bits of anything i find.
the homepage header is likely the first bit you see on any web page, therefore it has to have impact, provide some basic navigation and most importantly of all - load very fast.
once a basic template is completed, i'll discuss with christine and upload to the playground. probably sometime next week. all of this should've been done by monday last and i'm only just starting.
Sounds great, we'll certainly give you some feedback if that's what you need
Sounds... messy.
absolutely.
what i really need though is to get stuff done. livecommenting stole my life ;)
If its anty help, the forum i used to use had a different header every day, using user submissions as much as possible...
May I make a suggestion? Close the doohickey tab?
Then you'd best shut-up then ;)
You too?
No. I'm not annoyed about that. I've pretty much had a monopoly on his time the past fortnight. It'll totally ruin the next few months for him if something bad's happened at home though....
hehe. have been lurking, will keep lurking. was just explaining why i'm quiet.
It closes?
Is this a hobby or a career?
'cos if it is a hobby there is no deadline.
Ahh that place. Theres a thread on there I like to visit every few months if I have a few hours to kill.
Its never good to be worried about something, but one of the things i loved about india was it was so easy to be totally detached and out of the loop
hehe, really, which thread? I joined it about 5 years ago, its now one of the biggest forums on the web :D
This one here
Some of the stuff they create is just amazing.
there is self imposed deadline.
would like to get started on mfc podcasts but groundwork needs to be done first.
God yeah. I hardly hear from him when he's out there. I'm sure it'll be fine in the long run but it must be serious for her to ask him to go down there so late at night
I am not sure if the fact i have never seen that thread says more about my reluctance to leave my own little section or the shear size of the site!
Well it is right at the bottom of the main page to be fair. So yeah. Massive site though.
You're so disciplined! I've been meaning to finish unpacking my stuff here, tidy up for weeks now, I really can't make myself though.
I hate when someone says that I have to be somewhere but they won't tell me why
I remember it being so ikle ;)
might it be his parents want to see him before he leaves? Its quite an isolated place!
A mother's prerogative :)
I have a (2nd) friend of a friend who works at McLaren. apparently they cant get to Valencia because their passports are still being sorted for Singapore and Japan...
#IRL news: The entry list for Sonoma has been released.
From Indy Racing Revolution:
PDF of the entry list.
Yaay, Mario is racing!
Yeah. He missed the previous race, Mid-Ohio, because his father died.
No Paul Tracy though..
Hahaha you can travel without your passport if you have to. It's pretty unfortunate it's Spain they're going to, they're the most uptight european country about passports because of all the trouble they've had with ETA
I read about that somewhere. Dunno where.
Sleep for me, its gonna be a busy day!!
Night all
night jon
NIght Jon
G'night, hope its a good day for you tomorrow.
Night Jon, good luck
Thanks :) Im sure it shall
Night
i heard about summerton here:
http://willthef1journo.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/summerton-talking-to-usf1/
must've been linked in the comments at some point, it's the only place i've been all week.
this may be on the wrong thread. it was in reference to something discussed in yesterdays thread, today. i'm easily confused.
I wonder if USF1 will fight to hang on to their drivers or become an entry point for US drivers into F1?
I mentioned Jonathan to Christine about the time that USF1 was announced. I just had a feeling about the guy and I suspect it is coming to fuition
?
Ignore that
I had an idea earlier MrC
as my phone ran out of battery i wondered about an eco friendly battery saving version of doohickey in negative... (black background with white witting)
I have no idea how easy or difficult this would be though...
oooh. now that is thinking outside the box.
shall give it some thought.
'dark doohikey' ;-)
hehe or desperate thinking with 3% battery :P
I am sure you are quite busy, but i thought i would mention it ;)
no, that's good. i personally don't like white on black, but ollie said a while back he found a way to make it more bearable. i shall hassle him about it.
great idea, just wondering if it would be difficult to read? I read some blog with white-on-black and I get lost easily.
i find myself with dots in front of my eyes. however, this would be a temporary thing i'm guessing? a switch you hit when battery is desperately low.
grey on black is more comfortable to the eyes. when I'm writing long articles I always switch to that combination.
Speaking of blogs, I *finally* cut down my Google Reader queue!! Just 12 unread items remaining, and since those are longer ones I'll leave 'em until tomorrow. Makes a pleasant change from 600+ :-)
Clive's blog is white on black and I love that and find it very relaxing on the eyes.
http://madtv.me.uk/f1insight/contents.aspx
That's a good point. It isn't so harsh.
Depends if there's lots of text I think. I read Oilpressure and he's really wordy, easy to lose your place. http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/
I think a Doohickey with it would be easier to read because they are relatively short comments.
I know I just contradicted myself.
It's allowed
It would be even more power saving :D (and would also kiss a tree)
I think I'd be spending the saved electricity costs on opticians bills....
I think that you probably need a font face a little bit bigger to get the same readability, as the contrast is slightly decreased
Watching This...
A new game... Lewis and the receding hairline?
stressful year?
i thought it was friday when i woke up and the reality was crippling. Longest day at work of the week, no kfc for dinner, no pick-up-your-gamealainen to watch in valencia :(
You still have us though
I am betting on the Samuel L bald look by Melbourne next year :P
at the contrary, staying in front of a brilliant white screen all day harms more your eyes than a careful choice of dark colours (provided that you use the right contrast between them)
Hehe, nice new name...
But at least you have internet icesss, sidepodcast and your PS3 FAT! :D
hence why doohickey isn't pure white. more like off-white.
I was thinking more for mobiles and netbooks with limited battery ;)
I spent most of today convinced it was Thursday despite a mass of evidence to the contrary, such as the town market which is only on Weds and Sats..
off course, we all trust on you to keep us healthy :-)
How can you say that when he won't let us sleep?
there is no way it'll default to grey on charcoal. but as an option extra i likes the sound of it.
The plugging of Qik has encouraged people to go outside though ;)
sleeping is not necessary. I survived my grade studies at the university and I can assure it to you. in the worst case, we'll just evolve into some sidepodborgs like amy...
It's a sneaky ploy. One person goes outside but everyone else stays on the doohickey to discuss it.
Is Youtube actually going to sponsor USF1, or just it's founder?
Also, I really hope USF1 don't have some stars-and-stripes paint scheme.
DATA is on twitter *world implodes*
I thought it was the founder making an investment, rather than YouTube doing a sponsorship deal
OK. That's how I read it too. It never made sense to me for Youtube to sponsor anything.
Didnt he sell it all to google, if so i expect its just him, but the team will get a decent presence on YouTube
ahh yes i do have all of you (until you go to bed) and internet iccess (until my phone battery dies)
For some reason I'm expecting as Nascar-esque livery with big Youtube logos on it, and certainly a flag somewhere. I hope not...
This comment did massive damage to my street cred
Yep that is what I a fearing too. Maybe Peter Windsor has more taste.
Google own the whole company
He has nearly 900,000 followers.
Did you know LaForge is on too?
He's been on TWIT a few times as himself, if you are talking the Star Trek dude.
ok, add a big 'G' on that livery :-)
Hehe thats cool, but i just have an awesome image of data retweeting someone :lol:
I'm not sure I understand this investment. Neither of these companies exactly need to advertise. Is this guy just self-promoting, or just buying in for fun, a-la Paul Allen and his basketball team etc?
I assume you mean the actor and not the character :-)
Slightly related... my phone tells me @thefifthdriver is tweeting from an android phone! :D
oh, did you mean... https://twitter.com/_Data ..?
He popped up on a Leo show
:oops: ooops...
Did he jettison the warp core? That seemed his standard procedure... ;)
btw I have no street cred to damage so I have no shame in it :-)
https://twitter.com/levarburton
https://twitter.com/BrentSpiner
If you keep this up I will picture you as comic book guy.
ookaay.. following on from the Data Twitter, I discovered a whole host of other characters, and it is freaking me out a bit
https://twitter.com/Chief_OBrien
I think he is probably looking at it as an investment that he can lose without worrying about it.
That is too awesome...
why not? sure, a lot of people know about google and youtube, but that's not 'all' the people (and not all that know about them use them). if you have in front microsoft to fight with, F1 can give a you a massive opportunity to be everywhere in the world, for relatively small investment for TV standards.
https://twitter.com/USS_ENTERPRISE
Good news criminals...DNA evidence is no longer relevent
Seems like a strange choice to me. I would select something with a bigger audience - tennis maybe. Still, you may be right. I await the car livery with "bait like breath"
Yep, if you have your own biology lab, PCR machine, centrifuge....
Jake read "Autosport" (AUTOSPORT?) on his way to valencia... *awesome!*
on a wednesday... *fail*
You could argue that any case which uses DNA evidence against you could be fabricated though?
You could. But it's a bit like saying "it wasn't me downloading that music, someone could have broken into my house and done it"
It's about time some doubt was cast on DNA evidence though. People are a bit too easily convinced, what with all these CSI shows etc.
Someone used my unsecured wifi ;)
maybe. but this could also be a boost for cheaper/faster sequencing of the full genome of a person, which you can't falsify in that way
That's a different argument, and I am surprised nobody has used it in defense yet.
Very true, although I think that requires a little more than a few cells they sometimes use for evidence. Fast full sequencing will come, it's just a matter of processing power really.
probably because if you're downloading like a mad, you need all the bandwidth you can have and probably don't use an insecure wi-fi...
I'm gonna head, see ya later/tomorrow/the future.
True enough. The big problem is that with good digital forensics, those downloading cases are pretty obvious and straight forward.
bye pat
Going back to the original post, i love McLaren in the pic.
It just says F1 to me... add on everything you can to make the cars go faster.
this years cars are the worst i have seen since i started watching f1 in 92.
The fact that indy cars look reasonable and Formula Nippon cars look slick is testament to this
PeerGuardian
Night
in the traditional way, yes. you need a bigger sample to avoid replication errors. but there are some ideas of reading DNA strands directly with some nanotechnological device, one base at a time. they are nice shiny ideas that attract founding but nobody knows if they'll work for sure, but they are there...
What do you think of ground-effect cars, with almost no wing?
Yes and meanwhile everyone spends more on defense. Nano tech is an amazing branch of science
I love those
I won't contradict you, I believe in Enzo's words: 'a winning car is a beautiful car'. But still, it looks with too many wings and appendages and seems too 'dirty' compared to 2009 cars.
Me too, that's where I think F1 should go. Just wondering what the younger generation might think.
don't worry, much of the money for nanotech comes from defense. there are always creative ways to get some funding from DARPA or the DOD, and they know that without funding the basic science they won't get the final applications...
They were great too, but that mclaren just says 'fast' to me. I know a lot of people hated all the appendages and i understand that.
I loved them.
I love looking at last years cars. They look so low to the ground like they're all coiled up.
I love that Mclaren so much i am tempted to buy a scale model :D
Cue my display of McLaren F1 cars, except I don't have the photo with me. I should drop.io it.
If i could get into the MTC and get it started, i am pretty sure i could get the car into my garage before they could catch up with me :P
Found some pics of Lotus 86/88 without a nose wing.
http://www.jpslotus.org/88/88-1.jpg
http://www.jpslotus.org/88/88-2.jpg
http://www.jpslotus.org/86/86.htm
I know there are much better pics around but I can't find them just now. I would be curoius to know how they appear to people who have never seen them before.
Here they are: View mclaren1-43-jpg
I love the way they look but it is definitely the right thing to move to cars with less aero that produce a cleaner wake. The FIA just didn't go far enough
In all honesty... UGLY
But thats as much the shape of the body as it is anything else, i dont mind the lack of the wing, but the car looks so FAT with that nosecone and highsides with no sidepods
That is quite a collection. I am jealous of that but prepare for tears when Amy turns up.
Yep. Single plane wings, say 1000mm x 300mm, and flat bottom cars.
I want to play with them :P
It is an awesome collection though!
they look... strange... ;-)
hehe. So did my nephew blast him.
nice collection!
Exactly. The stepped bottom is ugly and such an inelegant solution. All they had to do was specify a curve for the underbody.
Anoyingly, there is no model of the MP4, and a few others around 1980.
Thanks. Updated now of course to the MP4/22. Still waiting on the Brazil version of the 23.
How old do they look though? Could you guess when they were raced?
I think I could, especially with Mansell's helmet there ;-)
without the year written in the third one, I would have said end of the 70's
I would love to see what a modern F1 car would look like based on ground effect...
It would have been far better to follow that path that the one the FIA chose but that's politicd for you.
The wings make such good places for Ads...
Exactly. Hence the huge side-plates on the rear
From memory they got quite worried about the dodgem-car racing that was going on.
That has always beeb the excuse for keepibg them vut politics was the reason ground effect was banned
Remember when they used to put numbers there?
What happened to that!
I challenge any non-fan to find a number on any F1 car. Even on the world champion's car.
Dont the engines have serial numbers :P
there aren't also some safety concerns? if some problem reduces the ground affect on the car (like a hole in the skirts) the driver won't notice it until he can't turn at the next corner
The excuse was safety because there were skirts at the bottom of the sidepod that seasled to the road and created massive downforce but sometimes they would stick and the driver would turn into a corner and discover he had a fraction of the grip he expected. The rules had to be modified to eiliminate that.
The real reason was that Bernie had set up FOCA and all the British teams sided with him while Balestre and the FIA had Ferrari, Renault etc who were all trying to develop turbos and regardless how much more power they developed they couldn't cope with the ground effect cars so the FIA banned grounf eggect and turbo was king.
That was true. I'm sure the problem would be well and truely overcome though. I think some road cars (McLaren F1?) were designed with ground effect.
sponsors
Yeah, sure. But playing with massive amounts of down-force that can suddenly disappear will be always a safety concern. I would rather prefer low down-force cars, with small wings and a flat bottom.
(that's on the safety side. As an F1 fan I'd love to see unrestricted aero/mechanical grip and engineers fighting to develop the fastest car)
It was quite clear at that time that they had to somehow limit performance. Drivers were nowhere near as fit as now and the performance gains were happening so fast that there bodies no longer had time to adjust to them. Imagine they had left some form of ground effect on the car and let the turbos develop too. There would be no way a driver could control them. When turbos were banned the best ofthem had 1500 bhp for qualifying. Imagine another 20 years worth of development on that and ground effect and all the other advances that have happened.
ooh nice collection but dont worry, no tears, i dont do model cars :)
Not even McLarens with Finns?
Smart. It becomes a yearly obsession
Not even Finn ones?
I dont either, but i still want a model of the Macca in the BigPic just to remind me of how good it got :D
What happened to the Marmot Pic! we are still waiting :P
That would make an awesome car (and also, sadly, a perfect killing machine)
If that had happened, we'd get rocket racing round the circuits, and the local councils might decide to ban them on safety grounds...
heh that is precisely why i dont do them, when i have a collection of something and i deem it "incomplete" i cant sleep at night. hence all the buying of old racing line issues :D
hi journeyer
:D i do that for certain stuff, like F1 Season Reviews and Ferrari team clothing. :D it can be unbelievably harsh on the pocket, though.
...and quite annoying when something is missing, and you can't get it! My obsessive-compulsive side is coming out.
Indeed. I remember digging up the Net for the F1 2001 Season Review DVD - I had to find the F1 2002 Sony game, and I had to sign up to eBay to find a copy! I was ecstatic when I got it, though. :D
specially the Ferrari part I guess... I once saw a Ferrari T-shirt at a store, and as I entered I walked away thinking that there were other (much cheaper) ways to support my team ;-)
F40?
:P
especially when i bought the F1 jacket - my goodness, that was crazy-expensive. but after that, i deemed my collection complete. :D well, there is still the post-retirement-spec Schumi cap, but that's impossible to buy - and with no Schumi comeback, it seems it'll stay that way.
:D
I'd rather prefer a Maranello or a Fiorano :P
although last year I saw in person a Maserati Quattroporte, in black, and it was love at first sight...
OK, it was dark grey. But anyway, I want one :D
i bought some grapes on my lunchbreak to make a fruit salad with tonight. Now almost all of them are eaten. Stupid tasty grapes.
:D Make a fruit salad in your tummy, then? ;)
smart thinking but all the other fruits need peeling and chopping and i am without a knife. Stupid convenient grapes.
Hello all.
I get the feeling that Google might be the one who is doing the advertising. I go into into a blog post.
Thanks Dan, that is a good summary. You might want to fix the first line of your blog post - I don't think Chad is a Google founder and CEO.
Goooooooood morning, guess who isn't sleeping this morning? Yes thats right me ;)
How are we all?
JON! Its very early for you. Go to bed! Try again!
You can talk :P
Tis results day today, i think 6am is a nice time to wake up ;)
Thanks. That what I get for writing this in the car.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21720.html
2 new teams ? would not that mean more than 26 cars that the regs published yesterday allow ?
Guys,
I don't know if you have discussed this already, but does this mean there will be lots more official F1 videos on YouTube like there are for MotoGP and NASCAR?
just seen it.
conufseed
Pre-Qualifying is back baby!!!
I know that this might get stones thrown at me, but if F1 started treating its' fans (and sponsors) like NASCAR does, then I say bring it.
Hear hear, all the best stuff from F1 is stolen from NASCAR!
Anyone else having trouble gettign on to drop.io?
its asking for a password for you too?
Yep
It must be nice to follow a motorsports series which the live timing actually works, that the tickets are affordable, that the sport and teams work together with their sponsors to reward the fans that follows them, that cares and embraces its' history, that gives sponsors incentives to say in the sport through thick and thin, that everyone in the sport is accessible, ect.
In the interest of balance since this is a open wheel blog... NASCAR smells.
That's exactly why I like NASCAR - problem is they ruined it with the Car of Tomorrow :(
Although I did see a race the other day where they turned right as well as left
The road races in NASCAR are fun - think BTCC but bigger and with fuel and tyre strategies...
as i reread The Pits i come across a bit that makes me want to set the book on fire (along with all the others). The idea that people in my part of the world like f1 because it makes them feel more european and thus more sophisticated than they actually are. Ugh. I hate you beverley turner.
Not as completely nutso as the last lap of - i think it was daytona 400? (one of those high-speed bowls, anyway) - about a month ago.
Surely you are not saying they we are not all sophisticated like? I mean, I watch F1 rather than football (mostly).
Absolutely agree. It's almost like how the Overtaking Working Group proved to be an oxymoron for Formula One. Big effort, little gained.
Actually its' funny, I traveling around the state the last week. A friend of mine who follows NASCAR were talking. He was ripping on Danica about being all show and no results. I countered "This is from a racing series where Dale Earnhardt Jr. has probably the best car on the field on name alone."
He about decked me.
They really need to bring more road races to NASCAR. NASCAR at Road Atlanta, Road America, and maybe Portland would be interesting. They need to bring Montreal into the Cup series. I can watch anything, even a snails race if its' on the Isle de Notre Dame.
You could make that argument about Association Football over here in America. Many snobby self-righteous parents put their kids into soccer because it is "a more sophisticated and violent free sport that teaches fair play and makes the kids more cosmopolitan towards the greater world" as my yuppie sister would say. (Apparently, she has never seen an Old Firm derby match.)
At least here in the states, most of the F1 fans I know fall into four groups.
- Old school CanAm and CART who migrated to F1 when those series went to shreds. (Like me, I hated the IRL and by the time 1999 came along, CART was junk, so I got back into F1.)
-People who remember when America actually had a decent race and racers in the series and have followed it since.
- Gearheads who love cars like Ferrari's and other super cars who get into it because of that.
- Extreme hard core racing fans who will watch everything on speed channel. (guilty.)
I doubt that is the case. with all the cost saving talk there is no way they will make teams travel to the races without knowing they could actually race ... and moreover, there is no mention of any pre-qualifying in the regs, and the regs only came out yesterday
Hey a fella like me and the entire F1 rejects listenership can dream. :)
if there were more cars though, they could do a support race made up of those who failed to qualify. some opportunity for the weaker ones to actually win something :-)
no wait, they could race the gp2 cars!!!! that would be amazing
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77775
NOOOOO I can't do my Qualy Fuel Analysis next year :(
In all seriousness, why two teams? Are they expecting another team to go by the end of the season?
well that has been clear since the moment they decided to ban refuelling :-)
But it's official now - and I am sad :(
I think the reason is hidden somewhere here:
I'm all up for change, i'll be interested to see if it changes it for the better (which would be a huuuuge shock), i'll give it a year (probably less) and see if they make it better, and when it turns out they dont, then i shall join the critic bandwaggon :D
hey, you can still predict those who will run out fuel before the race ends :-)
From the looks of things from this year, the Renaults and the Ferraris ;)
Nothing is official until the season starts - this year taught us that! However, not looking like you will.
tweet from James Allen:
huge delay on flight as Ryan Air has miscounted number of people onto plane - muppets! I love this sport but Idiot airlines get you down
:-)
The problem with Ryanair is they'll land just outside of Valencia, in Paris.
One would replace BMW. The other would... what? The only way anyone else can get in at this point is if they buy the spot belonging to another team.
This is gonna be very interesting...
Morning all.
morningg
exactly ... weird bit of news I must say
Apparently there is a rumour BMW want to buy Hinwil and convert it to environmental and hybrid tech...
Morning, Christine. Good day so far? ;)
I just woke up.
:D
Me too... at this hour, tis unheard off i tell ye
who broked drop.io?
That will help save the jobs of the folks at Hinwil, but I imagine that's not the kind of job some of the folks there signed up for.
If that's true, then any hope of seeing the Hinwil boys race under a different owner next year is close to nil.
That sounds good. :D
They can't have two more teams. If one replaces BMW and one is a new one, that makes 13 teams, and that would be a silly thing to do.
Hey, it's cutting edge engineering and R&D with plenty of windtunnel work - it's better than nothing!
Morning Christine,
How come? that's a grid of 26 cars - just like the good old days!
13 isn't very lucky.
Ah True.
Here's an interesting blog post on Franck's ride for AGR this weekend
Yea, I read that. I didn't realise he was seen as a pay driver, but there you go. That means he's super rich which makes me heart him even more.
they can skip the team number 13 and make it number 14 :-) over here we do not have floors numbers 13 or 4 or whatever numbers are considered unlucky :-)
who needs a tennis player when you have a super rich Franck?
I think there are a lot of pay drivers in Indycar TBH...
they already skip car number 13 so why not?
but the wallet in his hand looks sooo tiny ... :-)
plastic, baby. Only the poor use cash ;)
plastic = credit = no good - today cash is the king :-)
Wait - if there's an additional team, doesn't that make it 14 teams?
13.6 No more than 26 cars will be admitted to the Championship, two being entered by each competitor.
Ah, phew. They can carry on then.
VISA Debit and EFTPOS are the only way to roll
not if you are so rich to not worry about your credit card statements :D
So that means any new team would have to take over an existing team's spot, then.
I can't believe it's Thursday before the GP and there's no F1 news!
Good morning everyone :)
Still early though. Autosport doesn't wake up till mid-day.
Morning Lukeh.
evening :D
most of the journos are still on the way to Valencia :-)
:P
I read the "Now it's time to take US F1 seriously" article in the PLUS section of Autosport.com. What makes that post "PLUS" ? Nothing really special compared with the 3 posts on Chad Hurley from last night ...
Well fair enough then ;)
and those who are there already, like Mr Noble, have to navigate through 4 miles long paddock :-) will take a while before they get to some news :-)
lol @ tweet from sarahholtf1 Organisers here have Jenson B and Rubens B driving for a new team - their parking spaces were signed Brown GP. What would Ross say to that?
AWESOME!!! I knew they'd switch when I showed them my blog!
It's so nice of Nelson Piquet's site to have a countdown to the next race that he won't be racing in on it. Always thinking of the fans, that Nelson.
the site also says that he is Official Renault F1 driver ...
Morning everyone :)
in Portuguese "Offical Renault F1" translates to "Official Little Bit Piquet"
you're up late :P
I've been busy. Have been up since 5.
To make things simpler (6 hours)
good boy. I hope you're wearing a blue shirt.
Yes!
all is right in the world!
I am currently working from home for the first time since the weekend. This is giving me a good chance to test out Bassano's handiwork. And very good it is too!
My flat is super polished and my relatives are late.
I have a medium hangover so today will be interesting!
I did post some little cars - I didn't think they would break the thing
I am cleaning! It is so exciting in Sidepodcastworld, isn't it?
I agree with the ban, the skirts were dangerous. But you don't need them to have ground effect.
I'd like to see cars with small wings and a mandated underfloor design featuring twin tunnels as we saw in CART from about a decade ago.
(morning btw)
Woo! :)
I agree, there is no shame in F1 stealing good ideas from elsewhere if they will work well for it.
Sorry, but good. I hate race-fuel qualifying with a passion.
Ah, yeah, cleaning. *looks at flat* yeah. can I put it off any more...
I only just got up and I'm really dozy
I have accidentally starting moving furniture as well. Mr C may not recognise the place when he gets back.
Aren't you meant to be having a holiday? You aren't one of these people who enjoys cleaning are you?
Oh, a serious clean!
As I'm sure you now by now I am exceptionally good at procrastinating. It helps to have a massive backlog of other things to do, I think the first thing to do today is eat something and have a cup of tea. I need to go out later to find some number plate screws and a rubber grip for the brake pedal, which means going all the way to Yeovil...
HA! You must be joking.
I have put it off and off and am now doing my spring cleaning.
It's nearly autumn :D
:D just in time for Autumn
I don't think we were updated on Mr C's actual words when he first saw your new hairstyle... did he remember to mention it?
Erm, I don't remember, actually. It kinda loses it's edge when you've posted the new look to the entire interwebs :)
drop.io peeps are looking into the issue with the sidepoddrop. i'm not sure what they're doing awake mind you, isn't it early in the morning over there?
are you trying to get me shot?
:-)
just claim you run on southern hemisphere time :D
you can't tease a story and then deny us the outcome!
Sidepodtime, innit :)
I've just finished analysing the 2010 Sporting Regulations. IT's amazing how much extra secrecy there is now the new Concorde Agreement is in place.
Helloo :D
grey on black is more comfortable to the eyes. when I’m writing long articles I always switch to that combination. {Comment #87}
Funnily enough I tend to write in either black-on-sky-blue or dark-orange-on-lighter-orange. Nobody else I know can understand how I can see what I'm typing, but the low contrast seems to help me get ideas in a way that the high-contrast combos don't.
Helloo {Comment #344}
Hello, Jon!
How about that design that incorporated active ride height into a ground effect design? That would eliminate the problem of losing grip from a ride height change?
Howdy! How are you?
Hi Jon
Gotta keep those "special vetos" secret you know.
Jake read “Autosport” (AUTOSPORT?) on his way to valencia… *awesome!*
on a wednesday… *fail* {Comment #146}
I read F1 Racing magazines years after the month they're issued. Maybe Jake was reading it for a second time...
Why, thank you Sir
Roasting hot day in Valencia and F1 drivers and team bosses now arriving at the track. Time to go and get some news
(Mr Noble)
That's excellent, thanks! It is disappointing to see they have retreated into secrecy once again, hopefully it'll be worth it though.
Um.. not sure.
Yay. I have "cafe style" raisin toast for snack
Ugh raisins! Time I had some food too, back in a while.
Here's one for #mediafuturechange: Video appears in paper magazines
Me too. A visit to greggs is in order me thinks.
wow.
It's time that gregg fellow paid up I think
"It's believed the new technology will cost much more than normal print ads."
good research there, thanks!
I am now on a fast until KFC time. Apart from breakfast and lunch tomorrow of course :D
that is shocking ! :-)
I can't work out if I've found myself reading Harry Potter or the Onion....
:D
bbc news - stating the obvious, so you don't have to?
:)
Not quite the flexible LCD screen I was hoping to see
i so need one of those.
Me too. Its what the kindle should be
"Because humans don't spend enoung time in front of moving displays"
Not those who read Entertainment Weekly apparently
"our industry is so screwed, we'll try anything once"
Because some people still haven't heard of the internet
patronise say "Heikki needs to bring his skills to the fore(head)" and Amy falls out of bed with laughter.
Personally, I find it irritating enough when an online magazine has embedded video. It's the equivalent of the annoying smiley pop-under. Do you think they'll get the message if everyone rips it out and sends it back to the publisher?
Don't tell me those folk are glued to their TV
kinda makes giggle's display mug obsolete. he'll have to raise his game.
I'm busy that day! ;)
Unix is 40! Where's the cake?
I hope all my servers bring one in tomorrow
:)
Gavin how come you've added the GP to your name?
Have I missed the Memo?
See comment #305
:D
See Sarah Holt's tweet :)
Keith the Marshall tweeted that Lorenzo has signed for Ducati
Who's gonna be with Vale next year?
To celebrate, sausage rolls shall be eaten by myself.
I think I should visit Greggs Anonymous.
REALLY?
He isn't half as good and never deserved the money - Vale destroyed him at Brno!
Gotcha... I saw that comment... And still nothing!
Are they expecting Stoner will not return?
It's here:
ahh another caption for me to laugh at
#sorryamy
Need to go earn a living now
See ya folks
do you think McLaren will get rid of the other guy?
It's Done: Lorenzo Signs For Ducati - Probably
Read it - excellent article on an excellent site.
yes :(
If there is someone better - that is the question
Aww :(
I still say barry off eastenders should give him another route that doesnt involve pelican light crossings and mothers causing delays
Gotta keep those “special vetos” secret you know. {Comment #350}
It's not just the special vetoes though. It's stuff like under what circumstances the FIA is allowed to charge more to enter the championship. From next year, we won't know that any more.
Stoner out Lorenzo in? That's risky for everyone. Stoner is the only person who has come to grips with that bike
that damn lady and her pram! WALK FASTER.
Sorry I got it, I just meant I had see the comment earlier but hadn't put 2 and 2 together.
That’s a different argument, and I am surprised nobody has used it in defense yet. {Comment #151}
Someone has been prosecuted for using someone else's WIFI connection illegally, but it was a couple of years ago in Computer Weekly and I still haven't got to grips with their archive facility.
The true 2009 f1 scandal ;)
Right lads and lady's i now have a place on the Bucks Motorsport course, a place on the Bradford Digital Media and Technology course and may have a place on another (better) Digital Media course that looks uber awesome. As well as 3 uni's getting back to me for other courses...
argh, so much choice
Thing is, can Stoner even come back? There's some speculation on what his sickness is, and some are unsure as to whether he can come back.
That said, if Lorenzo did sign, Yamaha is now one rider short. Stoner to Yamaha, anyone?
Wow.
Stoner/Rossi? Talk about a Hamilton/Alonso type team
that seems like an amazing choice of things!
Your poor guy having such awesome choices ;)
Good to hear though!
I am done cleaning!
Woo!
Hurrah!
come do mine?
Sucks to be me eh? ;)
Now i just have to decide, i really havent got a clue what to do
I had a shower and ate some food (and had a cup of tea, of course).
Reminds me how much I spent in Waitrose yesterday for not very many things at all, purely because it was more convenient being in the middle of town than going to the out-of-town supermarkets.
The place should have a warning on it: Beware - may be hazardous to your bank balance.
Not a chance! :)
Great! Feels good dunnit.
Somrthing you enjoy. It's not your last choice in life
its only a wittle-bittle plane ride away! I'd even come get you from the airport :D
motogpmatters says:
Interesting. VERY interesting. Not to mention MotoGP finally gets Ben Spies.
But... can't they just send off Toseland to WSBK instead of Edwards? Colin is awesome!
Good Afternoon.
I take it you done well then :)
oh, congrats to Mr Woodwiss for making it into autosport.
And motogpmatters already answered my question before I even asked it. :D
Still confused?
huge delay on flight as Ryan Air has miscounted number of people onto plane {Comment #262}
How exactly does an airline lose count of how many people should be on a plane? It would have helped if they'd known it was going to a Grand Prix weekend and consequently that the drop-out rate would be relatively low...
did his letter get in?!
Is Ben Spies British, cos if JT goes it will be alright.
he did? where? how?
no i did aweful, hense clearing (that was sarcastic) but uni's looooove students (and get paid to fill their spaces...)
Hold on, I'll get a pic up.
Ben Spies is American.
They can’t have two more teams. If one replaces BMW and one is a new one, that makes 13 teams, and that would be a silly thing to do. {Comment #276}
The FIA hasn't outsourced basic mathematics to Ryanair by any chance?
Brilliant!
Organisers here have Jenson B and Rubens B driving for a new team – their parking spaces were signed Brown GP. {Comment #305
Wasn't the environmental initiative last year? Or are we about to learn that the British Prime Minister is personally funding the team next year?
No, they joined my secret F1 team!
Why does this update from Jake amuse me?
Williams kindly supplied lunch today. Force India have a MASSIVE upgrade and need to be fast, Brawn may have new parts arriving about 3ish..
Forca India, huge updates to car to be faster!
Brawn, more updates to the car!
Williams, supplying lunch!
They got their priorities right! I wonder what they had. Mm, lunch.
So THAT'S why Williams aren't winning? ;)
Um, trying to get into the drop but asking me for a password? Have I missed something?
Fair play to Sir Frank it seems; he's a dude that knows his food.
Sadly, this isn't a buffet making championship. It's motorsport. ;)
Drop.io is broken, but they're looking into it.
Okay.
seems like a common problem at the moment
Twitpic?
My drop works ok though?
if you can get into it
I can...
Should be there.
Do you have a link for us?
Sorry ;)
http://twitpic.com/ekw6z
Nice one!
With free glaucoma vision!
i cant :(
our drop.io is broken.
Ah OK I thought all drops were broken because some other people had problems too?
our other drops are fine. just the main one has gone awol.
and all the content from that drop is still there: http://weheartalex.tumblr.com/
we just can't get into it.
all you UK-dwellers who like to be up at strange hours, stay tuned around 8-8.30 tomorrow morning and I'll livestream my trip to KFC :D
8-8:30 AM your time?
Just before practise, you say? :P
nnooo its 5-5.30pm my time, aka after I finish work for the week :D
Over FP1?
But I can't get up that early?
FP1 starts at 9 doesn't it?
beforehand :D ideally I would gt home just in time for FP1 to start but alas I finish work slightly too early and I'm not keen on hanging around on a friday :D
Over FP1? {Comment #462}
No, that'll be the hour before FP1. Nice lead-in...
It's like Amy's own KFC practise parade lap!
ahh theres always the qik replay :D
although I sadly can't stream the whole thing because thats like a 10 minute walk to get there, a few minutes in the queue, then a 15 minute walk home and that would send my data charges through the roof :)
Yaaaaay.
Hah well in that case, I'm likely to be awake and am definitely up for participating in a KFC outing (from a wholly vegetarian viewpoint of course...)
I wish my phone didn't have a big red LED on it when it records, it could make filming the server dude kind of obvious :D
So i think i've decided on the Motorsport course (which looks amazing) unless i get another offer...(which may happen...that will complicate things), but for now... :D
What's everyone up to this afternoon?
I am about to do some cleaning because Christine is a meany and won't do it for me :D
I've discovered a wonderful new toy called Wordle, anyone familiar with it?
ooh, I had a Wordle made of my tweets, apparently the most common word I use is Heikki. Who woulda thunk it.
Here's a great letter about Jean Todt from Motorsport Magazine!
I think i may have just been offered a free Muse ticket...
what.
mmm, with transport and everything
I seem to go on about qualifying an awful lot:
http://drop.io/pitlanefanatic/asset/pitlanefanatic-wordle-png
This letter from Motorsport Magazine shows how just because you put your magazine's content on the web, it doesn't make it any better or more relevant.
When did Nigel Roebuck respond? Two weeks ago? It just appeared in the RSS feed for the website! #mediafuturechange
SidepodTV can't be too far away now. :D
we've done some in the past. bbc have even been spotted using it.
and Nelson Piquet?
I am wondering how long I can record in the F1 shop until they pick me up on their 100000 cameras and ask me to stop. I have never seen a shop with so much security.
Seem to have a heavy reliance on "although" too, need more neverthelesses and notwithstandings I think
I suppose I am going to have do something constructive.
Why is that the answers can be read on the RSS feed, but on the website you have to sign in?
From JA:
Piquet has the talent? Sure, he had it in GP2. But I've seen no evidence of it whatsoever in F1.
Someone didn't think that through...
Sssssh!!! Keep that quiet!
haah!
afternoon.
lou! How is Spain? I would kill to be in Spain.
lou!!!
hey lou.
holiday is going well... exam results not so much. i miss you all lots, plus having internet access. how is everyone? i need some cheering up...
you have 2 times to resist those modules, dont worry about it :) plus, you cant have done worse than mee :D
yeah i'll be retaking both history and psychology, no need to retake textiles and i don't really care about ict... from what i've gathered, pretty much everyone got lower marks than they had been predicted.
ummm... jenson and rubens are driving for gavin now?
plus the temperature has risen to 40 degrees today. it's so hot... thursdays suck!
Makes me scared about next week now. I really hope I've done well in maths.
Unlucky I suppose lou, but you can retake so its not the end of the world. But at least your enjoying your hols.
erm... what?...
i suppose i should ask if you guys have created a new religion or something?
how is the humidity? 40 is only doable if its dry heat.
it's not too humid. it's just pure heat, i'm not really used to it. when we got off the plane it was awfully humid though.... i mean... it was like being hit in the face with hot humid air...
nothing that exciting, we've been good honest. lukeh rode up a hill and livestreamed a field though.
This is probably mega old but still, Windows actually can be useful!
;)
oh.my
i feel like i need some live streaming in my life... but my phone doesn't have qik..
sounds like i have alot of catching up to do when i get back then.
You get used to it ... it's coming back that's worse!
you could say I really really want some bacon and courgette pasta now.
when do you return?
What Mr C really needs to sort is something to do with teleportation. Then we could get the pasta to you pretty easily :)
Bacon and courgette pasta? That's a bit too posh for me - Grandma is from the south so it's spag bol and tomato sauce-based pasta for me :D
friday 28th, so i'll be back for Spa (thank god).
but Giggles made it look so easy. Yet, so un-instructional at the same time.
If you're holidaying at a spa that would make it a lot funnier ;)
Its alright for some.
Not complaining, I miss Valencia, but would like BBC for Spa.
So you get to enjoy the misery that is F1 coverage outside the UK?
aha we have a pool just outside the door which is nice. but that's all we have in terms of spa like things :P
First time with Greek TV. Should be, entertaining.
I enjoyed RAI a few years back but RTL was advert, advert, advert.
Tell me about it. RTL is just German ITV!
Cept much worse.
Kai Ebel's shirts! AAAAAARGH!
phew, BBCF1 is very orange today
i'll probably be watching bbc 1 in the villa this time if we can't find the f1 club bar thing... we keep looking but it's no where to be seen.
rocket red!
ron doesn't do orange.
Ron got tango'd and noone told him about it, obviously
ever ron would know when he'd ben tango'd...?
wow. sentence fail.
I'm sure he would ronspeak his way out of such a predicament :)
I would pay good money to see it, though.
hehehe :)
Relatives = Gone
Nick = Shattered
Flat = very tidy and clean
has every one seen jake and lewis?
Fist he wants a le mans car, now he wants an f1 car, then it will be a p11. Most people are satisfied with their salary :P
man needs hobby?
Maybe a scalectrix track?
A podcast?
clearly needs to speak to James May
Apparently Hekki is smaller than lewis... i didnt know that...
Is it still there? maybe i should head down there tomorrow
heikki is itty-bitty :D
have you never seen how big beavis' head is?!
:D
Itty-bitty-hokey-kokey-linen...
#sorryamy
Also lewis appears to be the new ron, going into the wind tunnel to moan at people, i can see him becoming a team boss one day
Husband bag?
If I'm singing, oohh so are you.
hehe :) aww i've missed you guys! hehe
I like that the video is not geo-locked :D
dontcha know it :D
Apparently you can watch f1 at Mercedes benz world land theme place in brooklands
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/heikis-jpg
#sorryamy
ahahaha!
right time for me to head out into the sun! bye everyone!! x
See ya lou, have a lovely time back out in that rather warm sun :P
have fun
I have found the digital readout thingy... Phew! I thought I had gone mad!
for a minute on that Heikki was headless. Scary times were had.
so wrong but so right
Bye!
ah man, i cant stop singing
Itty-bitty-hokey-kokey-linen...
aarrgh, it wont go away
Bye lou and have fun.
If your not watching the cricket, the midorder is just about to go kaput.
there are many words in that sentance i dont understand..
one of them being...cricket
I'm more scared at that HD advert for sky with no players playing football but the ball was being kicked about!
Damn technology and it's tehcnologyness
It leads to me into my favourite joke at the moment
'You know things are going wrong at Arsenal when they can't even beat air'
ooh, drop.io came back?
seems that way sir, I had no issues then.
Jake and lewis genuinely seem to get on really well
w00t!
They are quite nice together :D a nice chat
what i like most is that he seems to really take a genuine interest in the car and how its build and the process it takes to get put together
He seems to be Mr development.
I wonder if whitmarsh asks him how the car is progressing :P
I skirted around the heikki issue like bambi on ice though
he not i ;)
i thought i ought back up the drop, in case it ever goes away and doesn't come back:
34.34 GB
4768 files
maybe not then.
and and and with their latest promotion Lewis got the girl and Heikki got the dude.
http://twitpic.com/ekrjz
BLATANT NUMBER TWO. heheh.
Not even 0.1% though.
I have dropped a whooooole lotta crap in my day. I'd say 90% of what I have put in there can easily be deleted :D
1% even.
nope :(
we'll keep trying.
:D
Better number 2 than 3 though (soz)
Maybe our first donation totaliser should be for a external drive specifically for the drop :)
better number 2 than force india driver?
and being old and useless.
and he may not have her name on the helmet but he can still look at the girl?
#sorrycatherine
drobo?
unnamed mfc harddrive supplier?
Mr C, i have a question thats been bugging me all of today....
Have you changed what goes in the tag on the doohickey....???
i don't understand the question?
In the title bar? Ahead of the 1 New bit?
oh man it disspeared....
the tag in question was the title tag, currently its "Real-Time Doohickey | Sidepodcast : All for F1...."
have you changed it?
test
test (again)
ah yes. this morning. removed the (beta) tag. sorry, haven't updated the changelog yet.
oh yeah! That does look different!
how did you figure that out from the original question?
no beta? :(
aaah ok, it was bugging me but i wasnt sure why :D
well, the playground is for beta stuff, and it basically works...
:)
Can we have a google thing to put beta back if we want? Hehe.
:D
apologies, i did the same to lclt about a week ago. am reusing the same header code across the site so it'll match what's on the homepage.
:D
nah tis cool, i wouldnt have checked the change log for it anyway because i was sure it was my eye sight!!
I know im meant to be doing homework, but shush. Monsieur C can I make a suggestion for mobile doohickey?
Just like can it say which thread the comment is coming from, makes it easier to post comments in the right place say if there is a convo going on in say a different place to the daily.
someone asked for that the other day, am looking into it :)
I think it was me, I just didn't know if you got it.
yup. it'll likely be a couple of weeks though.
Noooo, iplayer "server is busy" and it crashed just at the place where the Doctor was going to tell Rose how he felt :( :( EPIC EPIC EPIC BBC FAIL
now THAT is a modern twist on storytelling
:D
When I was out in London with qik the other night I wasn't sure if this got recorded so I recorded it on the iPhone too... Just remembered about it.
It was very surprising after the all sidepodcast action to see this:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/img-3040-mov
So I recorded it for Christine.
Aww he looks lonely :(
she can have that one.
Oooh, panda! Do you think it works out the Chinese exchanges?
I like that you say Hello at the end rather than the start.
Montoya posted this http://twitpic.com/elalb and i thought it might be editable if anyone has the inclination ;)
Oh Nick. Oh nick nick nick.
Thats my evening sorted.
I just had a senior moment and thought "how can amy see that video..is it not geolocked.."
whoops
The photo is funny enough :)
It was a really strange thing.
I think that must be why he's there.
I read that as 'edible' and I thought 'well, that Montoya, he'd eat anything'
and then I realised I should go to bed.
It's best that way - It was only then that I remembered my manors!
:)
No worries :P cant wait! :D
hehehe
KFC on the brain?
only 15 hours to go!
do you know what you are getting?
Mr Andronov...do you feel like your days are alot longer than everyone elses? I woke up at 5.30am and just realised its nearly 5pm but it feels like it should be 7/8pm.
I woke up at 8:30 and it feel like midnight!
but of course, the same thing I always get
thats a lie, sometimes I get a twister. But for F1, thats what I always get.
what on earth is in that white pot ...
I think they may be... But it's hard to tell because I work this way so often...
Are they genuinely longer or just time shifted?
Normal awake time for me is: 5:30 to 23:30 that's hardly Amyesque
also, whats ht epoint in having a lid for hte box if it wont shut....clearly...
http://kfc.com.au/menu/index.asp#PotatoGravy
nom nom nom
Alls i know is that i get more done when i wake up earlier
yesterday I fell asleep at 5.15pm, woke up at 8.45pm, went back to sleep at 9pm, woke at 4am, back to sleep at 5am, then up finally at 8am. It was kind of epic. Probably why its now 2am and I'm wide awake.
It's official, all australasians are wierd
I love these, but they only seem to do them in dubai
you dont have potato and gravy? and no mountain dew? WHAT IS THE POINT IN UK KFC?
That's what I get too ... or something with popcorn chicken
CHICKEN CHASER!!!
ooh that looks really good. In Singapore I was pretty keen to have one of these because I heart KFC and I heart mushrooms, but the reality was rather disappointing.
Is this like the pre-dinner whopper?
that box is deceptive, here is a real-life box, as spotted on my floor during the last grand prix.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc06917-jpg
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc06918-jpg
doesn't look as appetising as their advertising.
its huuuuuuge
I also found a real-life picture of that mushroom burger. I didn't put anything in the picture for scale, but I ate the whole thing in about two bites, and there is clearly a distinctive lack of mushrooms.
That reminds me of a burger they used to do at hardees which was Like this, but with swiss cheese and mushrooms on top YUM!
I. Would. Eat. That. Mmmm roast beef.
I heart this burger talk, it is keeping me from sleep and making me hungry though!
Me too.. i will have to resist tonight, the new burger king drive though is mighty tempting right now...
Mmmmm KFC. You've made me want chicken now.... I don't ever get meaty cravings and I'm majorly unimpressed :(
Is there anything you wouldn't eat? :)
baked beans and licorice :D
That sounds like a really bad combo...
Ah, I agree with both of those!
if you are ever near Australia, this place does the best vegetarian burgers IN THE WORLD. Plus their name is brilliant.
http://lordofthefries.com.au
Is it true people in new zealand eat the skin of a kiwi fruit?
I do and i was accused of being one once...
Are you sure you want to come to Finland?
some people do, some people don't. I don't 99% of the time, I only do the 1% of the time when I know I'm too lazy to go to a rubbish bin. That sounds so bad. I must have such a bad reputation around here :D
Ooooh. It is a long way to go for a burger though....
as long as they have meat, I'll be OK :D
They eat reindeer. i have had long drunken conversations about this...
Ugh, it's all hairy though!
I could go for a couple of mini burgers right now. Quite possibly the only vegetarian food in the world I actually dream about :D
Its just a short stroll down the road from darwin, hang a left when you see the sea
the chips are good too, I like the canadian sauce :D
Its yummy :D
I tried it once when i didnt have a spoon/knife and it was really good, i have never looked back
Good afternoon everybody.
Sorry I've been away from the comments lately, I been out and about putting stories together our chamber magazine the last few weeks. On Friday, I was at PACCAR (who make the Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF line of heavy trucks) taking a look through the R&D department where I saw my first CFD computer and a demostration of it (really freaking awesome.) Also, we talked about their different applications of green technologies on the various trucks they have.
That in contrast with Tuseday where I nearly got stuck in a mud flat in Puget Sound while trying to take photos of oyster and clam beds.
All and all, I am happy F1 is back... even if it is Valencia.
I eat apple cores so my opinion can't be trusted.
You scare me.
I used to do that and my mum would always tell me off :(
You can't do that... An apple tree will grow out of your head!
Because an apple tree would grow out of your head.
Try it, its furry and tangy, makes the fruit taste really sweet ;)
Well, that would be a nice way to cover a bald spot.
I was about to say that... i am amazed it doesnt happen more often
gosh I'm now thinking my trip to the F1 shop for live streaming will also have to include a trip to lord of the fries.
And now, I'm actually going to sleep. As those at the race would say, Hasta mañana
Have some Juan pablo photoshoppery
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/bernie-jpg
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/ralf-jpg
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/max-jpg
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/hotdog-jpg
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/damn-jpg
(and Abba would say that too)
Night amy
teeehee
Night Amy
Haha, awesome.
Night Amy.
You need one with a cameraman
Does anyone know what i did with my birthday cards? i still need to post a pic of the finnish one...
Good idea!
Awesome!
Can Juan eat all the pies? Yes he can!!!
IDEA if you rotate jpms head a couple of degrees he could be a vampire on obama's/max's/Bernies necks :D
Ari has released his manifesto for the election:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77797
changes coming to 5live online.
doesn't look like it'll affect f1 that much though.
it seems less... glossy.
Here's an extended version but no booklet pdf type thingy to read.
no stock photos? :(
Mr C... Do you have stanza on your itouch?
not even the same one used twice!
yup. why?
he ain't gonna win nothing like that :)
I hadn't really realised that non-guttenburg books were on there now.
erm... me neither. i'll be honest, i haven't used it that much because the itouch screen is too small. i shared a transcript pdf, and went - "oooh cool" and then closed it again.
shall investigate further.
Awww I love the athletics!! I feel so sorry for this man who fell over :(
Evening guys. Seen anything of note in Autosport? ;)
Of course.
Lovely picture at the front.
Of course.
Lovely picture at the front.
Ooops, sorry! And hey Scott.
Just read the letters page ;)
I'd also check drop.io
cool beans :P
something for 3gs users to test?
I dont know if we had this conversation before.
But i would have given the drive to Badoer, and i am not nuts
I hope
We have already established you are. Kiwi fruits with skins on, I ask you.
:P
But I woulda given him the seat and i aint nuts.
hehe :P
You have to try it!
Crazybonks
I really don't think that is going to happen :)
awesomeness. if they bring out new nano's next month that can also play HD, and enable that. we can up the resolution of our videos.
the ipod is the thing holding everything back.
You dont know what you're missing! :D
Will they still be available at lower resolutions?
HD kills my bandwidth allowence
Mr. and Mrs. C. I have found my blog, thank you
Hehe, well done Joe :)
Where was it?
Nothing like being needled on a podcast in front of billions of listeners
they're not in HD. the footage teams put out is only SD.
the ipod's maximum quality isn't even SD though, i just want them to up it a little. HD is a bonus
ooooops.
What footage is that then? I ain't seen nothin' for ages.
It's cool, I was honored to be mentioned. I sent you guys an e-mail with my initial reactions
All received. Made me laugh :)
hehehe. well yeah.
but even the older shows are put out in sub-optimal quality, re-processing them wouldn't take forever.
ah no worries then. just dont go doing anything drastic like putting it colour or nothing ;)
nevah!
Why dont BBC sport tell you their stories were published? does anyone know if this came out today or yesterday? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8205359.stm
It says at the top?
Page last updated at 09:42 GMT, Thursday, 20 August 2009 10:42 UK
I'm pretty sure it was published this morning
Ah thanks
But that doesnt say when it was put up though...
But they edit them sometimes for minor grammatical issues or whatever and that changes. It is really annoying when you're looking through the news archives sometimes and things aren't dated properly
Ahh, fair enough.
Just got back from my run ... ran 3km down a different route but it was much harder because it's about 27 degrees outside!
The bald guy from Aqua (Rene Dif) is doing the Danish version of Strictly Come Dancing!
dumb question of the day. but was it not at valencia that all the teams motohomes were parked inside a massive, covered shed?
if so, who nicked the roof?
ooh, that was me. what happened there?
It was some kind of Fish Market wasn't it?
have they moved the pitlane then?
Did the Fish rebel and threaten a breakaway market if it happened again?
That Schumacher fella sure doesn't look how I remember
:D
my lord, how old is that man?
Thats really steep!
They have done something to the pitlane apparently?
Maybe Kimi's just had a really rough/fun summer?
Only the exit, i guess they might have demolished the building, if its just a big shed their seems no reason to have it. I think it was used for the americas cup teams, but that race isnt going back there
Just to the exit, I think.
:)
:( Poor Luca! He's been waiting forever....
It looks like the building is further down, though. Maybe Ferrari's motorhome just didn't fit?
Ahh the America's Cup - the only racing series with more politics than the F1 :)
it was the length of the pitlane and higher than the motorhomes. that's a heck of a thing to remove.
Just the exit http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77763
I have just blogged it
brawn too though
The lack of any rules does tend to cause problems
If its in the way though....
It wasnt especialy attractive and probably ruined peoples views of the ugly harbour
But the fish, you don't want to mess with the fish, you saw what happens in The Simpsons. (Well, it was dolphins, but, they both live in the sea, connections, i think so too)
Based on the reports last year. It wasn't removed but stolen.
haha. true.
I'm so hungry :(:(:(
eat?
I'm cooking my dinner but it's gonna be another half hour or so. I can't really justify a snack so close to my tea. I'd rather not be a fatty
Drink a litre of water quickly
oooh drink Milk
Mmmmmm milk.
Based on the reports last year. It wasn’t removed but stolen. {Comment #766}
Trust criminals to find the most efficient removal method possible :(
I have soya milk? I'm not sure you'll be quite so enthusiastic about that....
Question for Joe: Have you been robbed/assulted/conned/muggedyet?
Rosberg appears to be trying to apply for hekki's job with some vigour
(SorryAmy)
My money is still on PK to get the nod...
If the other guy HAS to go, then I want Glock to get a seat at Mclaren dagnabbit!
awesome. please put that in the questions page :)
you would be correc in your assumption
Have doneSomeone has...http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Questions+for+Joe
Anyone else?
Is Scott around? he might wanna see this video of... of...
actual damage in a gran turismo game!
I must say that's quite cosmetic and light considering the amount and force of the collisions?
It says to me the game is at least 12 months away...
Right, im off out for a curry to celebrate never having to do exams and get results ever again until next yea...oh wait. :D
It is very very soft. Least stuff actually fals off but the impacts are disappointing consdering how much theyve hypd it up.
Rubens posts some fantastic twitpics. Love it!
I've seen it. To be honest after all the hype they've given it I was expecting better.
Another one, looks like Virgin have another thing to advertise on the Brawn
So you should. That's TOCA Touring Cars damage that is.
I particularly like this one. Just saying.
Grid and by the looks of things even Shift and Forza 3 have better damage at the moment.
It's their first generation attempt. I get the feeling that the final version will be a lot better.
But it was good enough to show to the public though?
Good point. The damage on the trailer looked a lot more comprehensive.
Seems like the E3 trailer let on more than we were led to believe. It's always too good to be true with Gran Turismo to be honest.
None of that is gameplayt hough, it's all CG. Polyphony themselves said it I believe.
Second Run Diary of the week
I did OK, but it's so hot tonight so it was really difficult...
It wont be released like that, it gives them an excuse to delay release by a year -18 months
Speaking of which I'm probably gonna hit the treadmill in a bit.
It's more effective if you run on it mate ;)
There's the very high possibility that it's coming out this year.
LMAO! :D
Hehehe.
You know if they didn't concentrate on having so many cars in it they might be able to do stuff like model the damage better?
Very good point. Forza 3 won't have that many but they've improved the graphics, physics and damage model greatly. Can't wait for it.
Imagine what Polyphony Digital could do with the F1 license... way to blow it Sony.
If this is a game that does damage really badly, it sounds like I might do quite well at it.
Surely the damage model isn't everything? Its all down to gameplay innit?
Before this, GT never even did damage. Perfect. ;)
The claim "The Real Driving Simulator" can't really be justified if the cars don't actually break. So far it's just been dodgems.
Very true, but GT5 is going for realism too isn't it? The driving physics are good but it's useless if you can just pingpong off the walls without penalty...
You should check out the next Forza. It has a mode where you just need to hold one button to do everything for you, and just steer. Genius! ;)
That's my game!
SidepodXBOXLive? ;) :D
Oooh, ooh, its like Madden NFL 09 where you just pressed 'x' for anything.
Evening sidepodpeeps.
If there are any U2 fans Radio Clyde is playing tonight's gig from the Don Valley stadium. I have no idea why a Glasgow radio station is covering a gig in Sheffield when U2 were in Glasgow on Tuesday night. It starts at 9pm but they are doing interviews and the like first. Unfortunately it is geolocked so you have to be in the UK.
http://listen.clyde1.com/Clyde1/listenlive.html It took forever to start for me.
Oh wait, you need a TV...
I am so there.
They were offered it and didn't want it. Sony gave it to Studio Liverpool instead
And... presumably... an XBox?
Erm...yeah... :P
You think a man of Mr C's abilities can't make a TV feed go into a monitor?
I doubt it. Even if it was ready i dont think sony would canibalise its sales of gt psp in the run up to the holidays.
The release of the PS3 Slim will make it very unlikely it will come out soon as that will boost sales on its own and they will want to use GT for another sales boost in the future.
Any F1 news today?
Lots!
Am I reading this correctly in seeing Mr Flanders is teaming up with Mr Sauber to save the future of the BMW team in whatever form it may take?
I hope they do both stay in F1. Ned is awesome, he shouldn't leave F1, Although isn't he a motorsport boss for BMW rather than just F1?
to avoid posting a lot of links i would just check autosport ;)
Grrrrrrrrr....
That almost tops Bernie selecting Phoenix over Laguna Seca in the late eighties.
Hold on while I go all giddyish.
I dont know why they said no, it wasnt every explained. I guess the guys there just didnt want to loose their focus
This just might be me, but I was the head of Sony, I would of give them a blank check and put a gun to their head till they said yes.
About to attempt the 35 lap enduro at Sebring in Forza 2. Weapon of choice - Audi R10 TDI :P
If grandprix.com are right BMW are not going to sell cheap.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21720.html
Rosberg wants to go to McLaren now? He was offered loads of money to go there in 2008 and didn't fancy the challenge.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77802
Oh great, we are doing a 'Mike Ashley' approach now.
I have read 7 or 8 times and i still don't get what's going on...
Expect Sauber to get relegated to GP2 next season then?
I dont understand.. 2 new teams?
Better to go there with more experience then go there too young and get fired after 2 years
BMW is absolutely crazy.
Another team leaving?
The years may go on but Frank Williams' cheapness with drivers will always remain the same.
Who knows?
Despite the regs limiting it to 26 cars, no one else reporting this, and the lack of a formal process for the 2 spots.
Very weird
It has to be a possibility
#
Perhaps it's Brown GP
Like I said earlier, bring back pre-qualifying! Make mine and F1 Rejects dreams come true.
Shush you, I haven't leaked it out enough to make it official yet!
Seconded!
I am all for opening things up. If someone can build a car to the regs let them race. Why should the likes of Force India be guaranteed to race at every GP until they decide to leave? Make people compete for their place on the grid.
The cars at the moment is really close. I suspect if teams werent guarenteed their place on the grid they would get less cash from sponsors, have less to spend and therefore we would see a huge gap between the top 3-4 teams and everyone else
Really?
The cars are close in terms of lap time
wow!
Thats a fantastic sentence. :D
Clearly there are a lot of new teams who want to come in though so they should be given the chance to put up or shut up. A place on an F1 grid should be earned not bought.
Hehehe. I knew that Mr C was a bad influence.
Maybe have teams qualify before the season starts and give them a place for the season then?
I cant see how teams can survive if they dont know they are on the grid. To use a foot ball example it would be like kicking the team which lost by the most goals out of the premiership each week, and replacing it with the championship team who won by the most
I am getting worse.... :P
It used to happen. There were times in the 80s where 39 cars entered for a race where only 30 were allowed to run in qualifying and 26 to race. What happened was something like 22 places went to the top 11 teams. The other 17 cars ran in one prequalifying session at supid o'clock on a Friday morning. The fastest 8 went into qualifying and the rest went home. At the halfway point in the season the top 11 teams in the points got the automatic slots and those below had to go through the pre-qualifying. I am sure the numbers are not right but the procedure is.
That is how Jordan got in. For the first half of the first season they had to pre-qualify to be allowed into qualifying even though they were scoring points. At the halfway re-shuffle they got an automatic slot for the second half of the season.
Arent the teams to big now? the costs must be much higher if you want to compete, and the tightness in employment law would make it very difficult to opperate.
Its a good principle, but i cant see it working in modern F1
The costs are higher and the teams are bigger but if big established teams can't compete with new smaller teams that is their problem. I get really fed up watching teams race for year after year with no progress and in some cases with no intention of trying to make the front of the grid. There are serious teams like Prodtive and Epsilon Euskadi who want to come in and compete but their path is blocked by the old boys club that is happy to have Force India prop up the back of the grid in perpetuity and have Toyota blow billions going nowhere. F1 is supposed to be about being the best so lets make people prove they deserve to race.
I don't know why this picture makes me feel sorry for him.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/badoer595getty.jpg
Ricky Bobby is driving for Ferrari!
That needs to be a caption competition photo.
If you don't let me drive this time I am gonna fet my dad on you.
Not him, The other guy
:D
I couldn't help myself
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/kimioops-jpg
For anyone interested AUTOSPORT today announced the extent of Schumacher's injuries from his motor bike accident that stopped his comeback. They were
A serious injury to the 7th verterbra of the neck
A fracture of the 1st left rib
A fracture at the base of the skull the size of a thumbnail - but in the place that supports the whole weight of the skull
A hairline fracture to the left side of the skull.
Some damage to one of the two main arteries to the brain
All in all a lot more serious than was ever admitted.
Looks like max was originally serious about standing as president before decided not to based on this leaked campaign poster that got scrapped
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/maxfia-jpg
not really a "slight neck injury" was it?
evening all btw
Just done the first run of a new thing I'm trying on the treadmill - F1 circuit runs. Basically: "run" a different circuit on the F1 calendar from Albert Park to Abu Dhabi. So I've started with Australia and here's my results:
Albert Park
Circuit Length. 3.3 miles
Time run: 48 minutes 5 seconds
Calories burned: 396
Treadmill Speed: between 4 and 4.2mph
Average speed: 3.744mph
Next up - Sepang :P
Here comes a tramayning session in 3...2...1....
GGGRRRRRRR......
With all that and this man still wanted to race. Some will call it brave. Some will call it "a true sign of a heart of a champion."
I call it absolutely and totally idiotic. Frankly, if he was hiding that stuff and attempting to drive, he was putting the other drivers on the gird at risk of injury and himself at risk of death.
Michael go back, play on your bikes and never be heard from again. Also, for the sake of all us that can see, have someone proper buy your cloths for yourself. You have to be either blind or have the fashion sense of a retiree in Florida to wear some of things you do.
... grrrrrrr....
Nice idea!
I hope they do both stay in F1. Ned is awesome, he shouldn’t leave F1, Although isn’t he a motorsport boss for BMW rather than just F1? {Comment #827}
He is - but F1 was his pet project and maybe the BMW board's decision to withdraw from F1 cheesed him off too much...
If your treadmill allows it, do the gradient of the track as well. If you can, good luck with Spa.
Gradient is killer.
I am still afraid of my gym becuase of it...
:D
Snazzy.
I feel the need to get fit(ter) but the original ideas have been nicked. And I ain't going on that bike.
If you can run at 42 mph you should be in the Olympics. Usain Bolt can't run at 42mph
You can't change it while running but there's a lever you can pull at the front which lets you change the elevation.
There should be a program which you can hook up to a treadmill that simulates running race tracks actively changes the gradient and speed depending on where you are on the map.
SIn the same way Steven can't read decimals
;)
I think he must be deranged. He has way more money than he could ever have imagined and a young family.
Ahem it's 4.2?
Scott if you can run at 42 mph, then you need to stop taking the "supplements."
That is cruel. The uphill run from Eau Rouge could kill someone.
I fear I may have taken too much...
And cycling it doesn't?
Do it backwards and roll down it.
Thats given me an idea actually, hmm, i'll let them install a lift first.
OOPS
Some say he runs at 42 miles per hour and still has time to comment. All we know is, he's called the Woodwiss.
;)
:D
Bikes and big hill don't go together
"..."
;) :P :D
His may or may not be on the Mitchell report and he will have his gold metal at the 2012 Olympics taken away after he tried to pay a friend to go into a bathroom with a cup for him. All we know is that he's Roidin' Woodwiss.
:D
Mr C has been out and he called me from outside the house saying "come and meet me in the car."
I was like WTF?
Turns out he's listening to the U2 concert really loud, and doesn't want to upset the neighbours.
Now he has kidnapped me and is driving me round listening to Bono!
Help!
Uh oh.
He can't be that desperate to listen to U2 that badly, surely?!
NO!! NOT BONO!!!
There is nothing wrong with listening to U2, reallly loud.
I''m doing it like right now.
Kidnap AND torture? That's not good...
The best thing to do in an abduction is to fight you attacker and make as much noise as possible to scare him and alert the people around him...
Be strong Christine..
Oh noes!
Mr C - don't make me come running after you at 42mph!
He was an uber fan back when they were good. And he does like live stuff. Being with me has probably deprived him of gig opportunities.
Phew, thats OK then,. Go Mr C!!
...what?
;)
Hehehehehehe.
I like this Mr C.
It is an awesome concert. I have it on my PC but at a considerate volume. Remember his tinitus
It isn't crazy loud but got the bass turned up.
You have to do that.
All the way up to 11?
Is Mr C trying to get down with the kids again? Wiv his bangin stereo for his choons?
U2 have been on for nearly 2 hours so I am sure he can't use that an excuse to keep Christine outside for much longer.
Has MrC cracked?
Try changing the music and see what happens ;)
Sounds like they have Desmond Tutu on with them
I suspect he's driving. With a car.
Won't end pretty.
Woohoo! A song I know!
Qik?
What song?
Everyone knows a lot of U2 sogs
You sure he's not driving round shouting "BLACK!" like that guy out of the Fast Show? :D
You'll be singing it in about 50 seconds.
songs
U2 are on http://listen.clyde1.com/Clyde1/listenlive.html for anyone interested. It is geolocked though
In that case I will hum to myself.
Actually, I just found an old Undertones concert from 1980 on YouTube. Close enough.
Bono did say it was going all round the world on the internet but I have no idea who is covering it elsewhere
Hehe. You wouldn't want to hear Mr C singing, trust me.
It was One now its mysterious ways. I know this one too. Who knew I knew so many U2 songs?
It used to happen. There were times in the 80s where 39 cars entered for a race where only 30 were allowed to run in qualifying and 26 to race. What happened was something like 22 places went to the top 11 teams. The other 17 cars ran in one prequalifying session at supid o’clock on a Friday morning. The fastest 8 went into qualifying and the rest went home. At the halfway point in the season the top 11 teams in the points got the automatic slots and those below had to go through the pre-qualifying. I am sure the numbers are not right but the procedure is. {Comment #859}
Steven, your numbers are correct. That is indeed how pre-qualifying/qualifying used to run.
That worked brilliantly back in the 1980s when a team cost about £10m a year to run competitively. However, the funding needed to get the £50m that the cheapest current team needs to run is so much that only very large, very corporate companies can justify the expense. They need the guarantees and conservatism - that's part of the reason Jordan no longer exists in its original form. As such, if that system was implemented in its old form, there probably wouldn't be enough money to run more than four teams any more.
However, a pre-season pre-qualifying session, covering a whole season, would probably work while retaining the meritocratic principle pre-qualifying was meant to achieve.
hehe, go for it, sneak in a little audio recording... You could use it on sidepodradio ;)
The costs are higher and the teams are bigger but if big established teams can’t compete with new smaller teams that is their problem. {Comment #861}
Ironically it's the biggest teams that are most likely to hold onto their funding - 1980s-style pre-qualifying would pose a bigger problem the smaller the entity, which would hit the very teams trying to get in worst. They can't prove a track record, so getting enough money in to even make the first attempt - or even half of the first attempt a la Jordan - would be an almost insuperable barrier.
I like your thinking
For anyone interested AUTOSPORT today announced the extent of Schumacher’s injuries from his motor bike accident that stopped his comeback. {Comment #867}
The mind boggles as to how Michael ever thought he'd manage to come back to any form of professional-level motorsport - and how injuries of that extent were kept so quiet. Rarely has the phrase, "The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak" so apt...
That is cruel. The uphill run from Eau Rouge could kill someone. {Comment #884}
If they're anything like the treadmills in the gym I used to frequent, it could kill the treadmill first...
Perhaps a very elaborate bluff to make him look willing but really never realistically meant he'd have to compete and risk his reputation.....
Apparently he is still training and AUTOSPORT are saying that the thing that stopped his comeback was his strength and not the injuries.
I <3 Luca
I'm back, I think I'm getting somewhere near caught up on what I'd hoped to do today..
If Pizzonia likes them, you should too
http://twitpic.com/emzzi
That is an insane set even for them
U2... RUN.... don't let the thing from War of Worlds get you!!!
OK, Mr Peter T Lee has a secret business deal for us on drop.io. Everyone else leave it - this deal is mine!!!!
have already mailed him and just sorting out my cash to be wired as a deposit :P
Grrrr. How am I ever going to make $25million???
1TB drives don't cost much these days, apparently...
I have returned safely. Phew.
i saw bon jovi at don valley. it sure didn't look like that!
You survived outside again?
Two days in a row!
i brought her back in one piece.
I have no idea how they sounded so good. They were interviewed earlier and said at some points the band could be separated by 100 metres
Something's not right here...
You shouldn't be taking risks this week with Franck day being on Sunday.
i wanted to find a justin stream and then remembered the world doesn't work like that... yet/
That never even occurred to me. How could I not have thought of that?
It doesn't? I thought that's what you were building in that playroom
I really want to go on Dragon's Den.... I really wish I had some good ideas and my own business :(
:)
http://listen.clyde1.com/Clyde1/listenlive.htm who carried the concert live are going to 1 am with U2 stuff. We are nw on to Angel of Harleml
That was a realy fun entry to write, just did a bit of writing about pink Floyd :)
i think christine might think that obsessive. are they talking about the gig?
Surely during your medical training you have the odd idea to make things better. I have stacks of ideas for inventions but I just don't have the money to make them happen and you can't go one the show until you are up and running.
They did the gig now they are playing some U2 songs and interviewing peeople
ah man, I want that! do ours sell them? the nearest one is miles away...
I dont know why anyone would. It has a pretty poor success rate, and you have to wonder about the quality of the credentials of the 'dragons' as one of the original ones saw her business go bust a year or 2 after staring on the show
They are discussing tonight's gig and the one they did in Glasgow on Tuesday. They seem to think the Sheffield crowd was very quiet in comparison to thousands of Glaswegians. Are people anywhere noisier? Is it possible?
I'm not so much an ideas person, I'm a natural evaluator.... I'm pretty good at critiquing other people's ideas, and developing things.
hehe. don valley only has one side to trap the noise. where did they play in glasgow?
My normal awake time Mon-Fri is 7.30am to 1.30am but that's only 'cos I'm up commenting when I should be in bed an hour earlier...
Lots of people have businesses go bust. It is very rare for an an entrpreneur never to have to take a backward step
Hampden Park.
The only product I've ever seen off the show actually in shops was one that the dragons rejected!
I just really like the idea of going on Dragon's Den. I'm sure I'd do a better job than some of the losers that do get on there....
You will probably evolve into an ideas person. You should try some time just finding somewhere cam to sit down, clear your mind and decide you have an hour where the only thing you are going to think about any ideas that pop into your mind. You never know
I want to propose my idea of a toaster that has hands to catch your toast in case it pops out too much. I want 50million for a 5% share of my business.
Win win idea.
Hampden, the national football stadium which has a reputation for being an atmosphere drain since it was modified.
There are a lot of good ideas and products rejected because the owners of them are incompetent or think they can spend percentages in the shops
I'm sorry Lukeh but I'm out...
I can't believe how many people go on and can't speak
Try the guy on dropio
I'll go ask that theo profiterole chap, he seems a nice enough bloke
They are discussing tonight’s gig and the one they did in Glasgow on Tuesday. They seem to think the Sheffield crowd was very quiet in comparison to thousands of Glaswegians. Are people anywhere noisier? Is it possible? {Comment #962}
Chatsworth Park was noisier than Sheffield (Hallam FM Arena) even though it was for the same artist (Meat Loaf) and Chatsworth had about half the crowd size of Sheffield. There were probably thousands of Sheffield people in the U2 crowd but apart from the drunken singers they probably weren't making much/any noise...
Now, I'm intrested, but I'm willing to give you 25million for 99% of your company.
That's mine!
I'm gonna have to take a second to think about it if thats OK with you
Phew... finished writing, now a chance to get up to speed with the posts here and maybe listen to the debrief i missed!
No thanks RG.
:P
Well, you have lost someone who is pretty much an expert on the cooking market. I'm out.
I don't get how some people reckon they're able to make money with some ideas! This woman seems to be pitching some sort of online recipe book.... I really can't see how that makes money.
has she seen giggles live?
Any other takers on the Catch-a-toast?
no-ones life is complete without seeing it!
just thought i'd stick my head in before i turn in, hope you're all doing good :)
Your web exploits have obviously made you a rich man!
By the way, it's @jayegan's last day as an intern at Force India today (since it's now past midnight here). He's been working with the R&D department and at the moment I'm having a good conversation on Twitter with him.
Found anything you fancy today?
ummm....
You can brand it the 'Nick catch a toast' if you give me 10% of the profits.
Thi would work like George foreman grills... people will see the name and have to buy it
They were saying that during one song at Hampden everyone bar the drummer stopped playing and just let the crowd sing it.
mmmm. i have a place on the motorsport course at Bucks New uni which i've always had a bit of a thing for, i have another place on a Digital Media course at Bradford which looks good but would be #2 to the motorsport and i have York St John, Wales and Cumbria uni's phoning me back tomorrow to let me know if i've got any offers from them for primary teaching (which is what im planning to do long term anyway)
Well you can back his toaster
That's just lazy. I would ask for my money back.
We get beans instead of potatogravything.
http://www.kfc.co.uk - knock yourself out!
not that you'll see this as you'll be reading the new thread..
oooh and im going to see Muse....
pretty good day in all :D
Haha yeah, I know. One of my friends works for an online newspaper. It's so hard to make websites viable....
What Uni of Wales instituion is it?
You are watching now? That sounds like one from the last series.
umm....
http://www3.newport.ac.uk this one
It's good that you can have a conversation with someone inside your team
ooh thats my uni!
It's on iplayer. I don't know why I'm watching it, it just makes me frustrated.
in fairness, we're not really trying.
if i could bottle giggles though, i'd be a very rich man.
oooh, thats cool. :D
i havent decided what im going to do yet, and i havent got a firm offer from them yet...but if i do then i shall give you a buzz because i want to know lots about it :D
Just give him a camera, the man can't help himself.
yeah, i've heard the laughter bottling business is quite lukeh-rative (see what i did there...no-one would guess that i cant spelll)
Sounds good. I wasn;t good enough for the same course when I applied for it 2 years ago. :(
It may trigger an idea and if it frustrates you enough it could work for you.
Not sure if this is what you meant...
Lukeh!!!!!!!!
Hahaha, I really don't want to run my own business! If I had a really really good idea, I'd sell the rights to it to someone.
They were saying that during one song at Hampden everyone bar the drummer stopped playing and just let the crowd sing it. {Comment #994}
Wow. Just. Wow...
Sounds like the sort of thing that happened with Queen when had Freddie Mercury as their singer.
i have a place on the motorsport course at Bucks New uni which i’ve always had a bit of a thing for, i have another place on a Digital Media course at Bradford which looks good but would be #2 to the motorsport and i have York St John, Wales and Cumbria uni’s phoning me back tomorrow to let me know if i’ve got any offers from them for primary teaching (which is what im planning to do long term anyway) {Comment #995}
Sounds like you have a good deal of choices. Well done, Jon, and good luck with whichever path you choose to pursue.
Thank you :)
I'm leaning towards the Motorsport one at the moment as it looks more fun and would be an easier start into uni life, but we shall see :)
Uni is too much fun these days. Do applied Maths, or maybe Physics.
There are so many words floating round my head right now, all of which i can't write here....so i shall just say the following...
AS Physics - E
A2 Maths - E
Your honour, the defense rests
See - here's your chance to improve yourself ;-)
I really really hated maths and physics at uni......
uumm...well....
You hated it at uni, i hate it at A-Level, we are 2 parts of a very big hate filled jigsaw
I'm just jealous you have a Motorsport option......
Apparently we have something similar called the Fully Loaded Box Meal
http://www.kfc.co.uk/our-menu/burgers-and-box-meals/fully-loaded-box/
AS Physics – E
A2 Maths – E
Your honour, the defense rests {Comment #1020}
You got the same grade at Maths as me. Physics I never even attempted.
Mind you, I never attempted to do a degree in either subject...
It is THE most amazing course in the world,
it has enginnering bits, plus they train me to be a marshall, time keeper, scruiteneer, aand i get to take my ARDS test...mmm
And thus when i originally was looking at motorsport courses and discovered that 95% are CAD/Maths/Physics based....i ran away....
ugh beans. Do not want.
You have a uni course preparing you for all the non-paying jobs in motorsport. Still you get in a race car so it's all good.
Not even liquorish flavour beans?
Morning!
You make a very good point Mr Roy aha, never thought of it like that
Morning Amy.
Do KFC still do barbecued beans?
I assume there are some paying jobs resulting from the rest of the course and all the other stuff is good ecperience and gives you the chance to meet people on the inside before you go job hunting.
You can't not like baked beans. I refuse to countenance the idea.
Baked Beans make me wanna be sick!
Literally...
"Countenance". Pat wins biggest word of the day prize.
I always thought Leo was facing the door to his studio. I never realised it was there.
WHAT? That can't be possible
They do. Even the smell of them makes me want to throw up.
There is something wrong with you.
Yay :-)
How can you invent a toaster when you don't like beans. Beans go on toast. It is what they were designed for.
There are other bits of it too, the engineering stuff is great apparently and you learn biology stuff too about driver fitness aswell, so its an all round thing. I'm not sure it's what i want to go into, infact i know i want to teaching long term, but its a great course and is something i love :)
I got at the end of my first year of A-levels 2 Es and U in Maths, Economics and Biology. But at the end of my second year I got 2 As and B. First year doesn't really work so good for a lot of people.
I would love to have had the chance to do a course like that. it is the kind of course where you are going to learn a lot of different things and I assume get into lots of different situations.
I'm not here...
...well I'm here to say goodnight! Night all!
Ah see you, i reckon you're the type of person that will go "i didnt do well at AS so i cant have done well at A2" and the pop out 2 A's and a B.
I shall take my 200 ucas points and go have a paddy
christine loves stanza btw. i hadn't shown it to her.
Ah see you, i reckon you're the type of person that will go "i didnt do well at AS so i cant have done well at A2" and the pop out 2 A's and a B.
Night ;)
Good noght to anyone who isn't here
Can't you do a graduate(second) degree in teaching later? Teachers need a bit of real-world first anyway.
Ah cool!
I can do a PGCE afterwards, thats a graduate course, 1 year, i think i may do that, it depends what other offers i get!
i love green beans. Just hate baked beans. And chilli beans. Any bean that is roundish instead of long and thin. I have been at work less than an hour. Too early to go get dinner? I might go visit the new daily
This is what I'm planning to do in a years time :)
apparently "twilight" is on there. have no idea what that means...
You can’t not like baked beans. I refuse to countenance the idea. {Comment #1034}
I detest baked beans as well. They taste like little clay balls to me.
That is very true. I remember someone a few years ahead of me left school then before I left he was back at the same school teaching. Utterly ridiculous.
Primary/Secondary/What subject?
There was an article on TUAW about all the iphone readers. Apparently stanza has been bought by Amazon? or was it Borders? One of those big chains anyway.
*eye twitches*
How can you invent a toaster when you don’t like beans. Beans go on toast. It is what they were designed for. {Comment #1042}
And there I was thinking it was cheese that was invented to go there...
amazon. i was only using it to read pdf's. apparently it does more!
Woo! :D
Ask a girl aged 12 to 16 (apparently)
I always assumes they were one of the food items that eveyone liked. My illusions have been shattered
I was just talking to someone on Twitter about that, and the discovery of how Marmite aids the cheese-on-toast experience.
Indeedy. It's one of the few apps that has lasted on my iphone.
Mind = blown
I hate cheese apart from mozzarell on pizza
I won't have it. Everyone likes a good cheddar.
What manner of evil is this? I have never seen our KFC do Baked Beans and while it wouldn't make be boycott, they would certainly drop a notch in my estimation.
Ah see you, i reckon you’re the type of person that will go “i didnt do well at AS so i cant have done well at A2? and the pop out 2 A’s and a B. {Comment #1047}
I currently have ABCDEE at UCAS-eligible qualifications, with the B being AS Ethics and the second E being an AS Spanish course taken last year (the other stuff was taken several years ago).
noted... wait, how does... never mind.
Found my tweet to Bash:
@SpeedFreakBash Toast the bread, layer of butter, layer of Marmite, slices of cheese, grill! to perfection!
Problem is, that you guys don't have "tasty" ;-)
or as Alex wanted to call it, "yummy"
Time for sleepies. Must get some rest before Amy's KFC Adventure and FP1 ;)
Night all!
WOW, thats amazing Alia!! :D
Half my family hate cheese, The smell of most cheese makes me feel like throwing up
Night!!
As someone who works for a cheesemaking company, I refute that wholeheartedly! Our cheese is awesomely tasty.
Ask a girl aged 12 to 16 (apparently) {Comment #1065}
It's a fantasy book about vampires. My first aid instructor (who was a man aged at least 30) last week suggested I should read it, but I haven't done so yet.
I only mention it, because I got a very dirty look from said young 'uns when I was groaning about that "twilight" business at my brothers house the other day.
Night Lukeh
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I thought it was a film or tv show
The drinks section is mighty confusing - you have a red KFC cup for the pepsi. Red is coke! Pepsi is blue. There, I said it...
night
Oh it is - trust me, don't bother.
Night all... i am off to bed. Cant wait for actual F1 tomorrow!
I was just talking to someone on Twitter about that, and the discovery of how Marmite aids the cheese-on-toast experience. {Comment #1067}
I don't dare try that because it appears to be Mum's exclusive property at my house...
Night Nick
We all seem to have drifted back to Thursday.
Righto, I'll skip that then :-)
vegemite and non-bitey cheese sandwiches = yum
It was a better day than usual, we are rejoicing in the thursday happiness...even though its friday
WOW, thats amazing Alia!! :D {Comment #1078}
Shall we say it made it quite easy to remember what I'd done when loads of people asked me because the first time round, I reeled off every letter in the A-level pass grade alphabet...
To be fair, my school has to take a lot of credit for having good teachers and a good academic ethos.
Ironically even with that lot the head of sixth form had to put in a good word for me to get onto my first choice of course because I'd (slightly) missed the grades...
I thought it was a film or tv show {Comment #1085}
Those came later. And be warned - there are at least four sequels in print...
The school can be as good as it wants but you still have to put in the effort!!
The school can be as good as it wants but you still have to put in the effort!! {Comment #1098}
Point taken...