It is supposedly the shortest day of the year today, which means that after today, the evenings will be getting lighter again. This is good as seeing the darkness come in before 4pm each day is not much fun at all! It also means we are really into Christmas, and the F1 news should be slowing down. Good stuff! Meanwhile, here is what we're talking about today:
- It was the Sidepodcast Christmas Party last night where we handed out a bunch of awards for good and bad performance throughout the year, drank some wine, pulled some crackers and sang a Christmas Carol. Check out the replay which should be available soonish, and the edited show will be along later.
- Our displaced F1 Debrief that was recorded live on Saturday was edited yesterday, so you can listen to that here. We discuss all manner of things, including the new teams and their signings, plus Michael Schumacher and his future. I remember the days when retirement was retirement!
- Guest writer, (or should that be guest artist?) Stuart Taylor shared a great season review with us in the form of some illustrations. I am jealous of anyone who can draw like that and particularly like the depiction of Bernie Ecclestone. Head on over and have a look, and why not rate the post?
That'll do it for now. It's Monday again, but the holidays are drawing near, if you are not in them already. Let us know what you're up to and I'll see you in the comments.
Happy Monday!
The start of the last full week of the year :)
"Let us know what you are up to"
Working! Then wrapping presents, which I ought to have done over the weekend really. I have Wednesday off.
I suspect making lots of tea. Tidying. Sidestepping the requests for a tree or decorations......
Right not though I'm going to try and persuade a small baby that it is time to sleep, so that I can!
Night all.
Shortest day of the year eh. I never rememember that day, cheers Mrs C.
Night
Night lpg
Night LPG
Oh, and Happy Yule to those that 'do' that :-)
hello monday. i forgot to ask, what did dc get up on top gear?
Nooooooo
Not yet
"Let us know what you are up to" {Original entry}
Procrastinating!
oh right. soz.
i can't be bothered to look, just wondered.
I'll tell you later...
hello monday. i forgot to ask, what did dc get up on top gear? {Comment #10}
Check iPlayer. You wouldn't believe me if I told you...
Worth putting in the New Daily
Short Film 'Panic Attack!'
They were doing an art thing and they had him in a parked Red Bull holding the engine at constant revs while paint balls were fed into the air inlet and they shot out the exhaust on to a panel Clarkson was holding. I don't see how they got past the valves so I assume it was faked.
Then they sprayed his car in McLaren aerodynamic paint and sent him out to do a couple of laps to get a pattern on it.
SPOILERS!!!!!
#confidential
#mrc'seyesonly
I was asked. Besides anyone who was desperate to see it already has
was more interested to see if he was where i thought he was. and he... was.
interesting.
ehehehehe that top gear episode was brilliant :D
Yes it was. Be careful of spoilers though, Bassano still hasn't seen it!
i shall say nothing, only that it appealed to me greatly, and that Jens is sooooooo much better at interviews than other f1 people :D
#confidential
#gp2 (for bassano)
he's still rubbish though ;)
no he isn't!! he is incredible and lovely and funny....
#sorrylukeh
;)
*cough*
lewis's better
fact
Jon!!
i #gp2'd and #confidential'd
no he isn't.
*cough*
mansell is ever better.
is right :P
I think you may need to stay in yesterday's daily for a bit...
you will like the Jenson interview mr c.... just sayin...
and here endth my talking about top gear...
however Jenson is awesome
#confidential
#gp2 (for bassano)
Jeremy Clarkson says yes, therefore it must be a fact.
we listen to jc now?
Oooh, close call with Raikkonen I reckon
That doesn't ****ing help in Doohickey
[shuts comments down in a huff, insert expletives here, here, here & here]
i might watch it later.
JC thinks Brawn is a car DESIGNER...
i win. :P
#confidential
Ross Brawn is a car designer?
I saw that and laughed!
on the one hand i appreciate anyone who watches spc live stream over clarkson.
however, it's only top gear.
He designed some good cars
oh my. jenson has no beard.
#ronwins
you really really should... in truth i'm biased but you already know that.
sorry!!!!!!!! *is very stupid this evening* let us all stop talking about top gear and start talking about Brawn and how awesome they are?... no?... how about christmas plans? anyone doing anything amazingly exciting?
Yeah, I get that
But minutes after I asked for no spoilers?
If it matters so much watch it straight away.
tis what he said...
Technically its morning...
the problem with top gear is it's just like watching the same program over and over. i think dave ruined it for me.
for my liking the interview was too short.
I'm busy, I'll watch it tomorrow
fair point too.
i'm coming round to thinking it's an okay ish look.... he did the sport proud in his interview i think.
There is life beyond the tv you know?
but he didn't design them?... he's an engineer right?
Lies! ;)
oh wait, there's still a little fluff. iplayer compression smooths out his
wrinklesskin.I think that is unreasonable. No spoilers during the live show is fine but anyone who really wanted to see it without spoilers has had time. Last week there was a program shown an hour later in Scotland than England and people started to discuss it in the comments. Lou wanted to stop people discussing it for my benefit but I believe live comments are a great idea so I told them to carry on.
I thought he had some hand in designing the actual car? Well part of it, along with the upteen other people and the 6 wind tunnels ;)
wrinkles!!!!!! you said you'd be nice about Jenson! you promised me! :(
He designed sportscars
agreed. last week i asked people not to spoil fightingtalk. and then forgot to listen to it anyway.
i did not know this.
#learnsomethingnew
When the design office at Ferrari was really busy he used to go in and help
ooh yeah, i forgot about that. i should subscribe then i'll listen
Jake Humprhey one?
ummm... not wrinkles then. strong... manly... lines.
oooh i forgot too!!
oooh bugger. and the croftie one.
And you didn't ask for no spoilers
I get what you're saying but the reason I didn't watch it is because I wanted to stay here.
Anyway, I'm over it. Soapbox, away
I know just the site, hold on.
he's 29 (nearly 30)!! he looks fine..... :P
I don't buy that programmes like that are "spoiled" as such! It's not like telling someone the end of a film or something.
there was a croftie one??
http://www.anton.co.uk/fighting/
The Croftie one seems to be missing, but Jakes one is on there.
Fighting Talks RSS only has 1 podcast on it! boo
it does if the punchlines are ruined.
blimey, cheers!
Dave has ruined it a bit. When I'm at Dad's and its just us there he puts Dave on, invariably it is TG and obviously I've seen them all before (sometimes more than once) whereas he's maybe seen it once or not at all. I get bored easily with things I've seen before and it really doesn't help watching several in one sitting.
I did both. iplayer is awesome
bbc regs. good regs i my opinion.
how comes?
Dara O'Briain drove an F1 car?
They do have a lot of shows to hold
how about christmas plans? anyone doing anything amazingly exciting? {Comment #47}
Um... ...Mum's having me type out a whole bunch of venison recipes, implying that it's on the menu this year (but it's not replacing the turkey because there's a massive one in the freezer).
sounds... fun? :)
he did?? as in the comedian?
What? No offense to the guy (cause I think he's awesome), but he's a little to big to get into an F1 car, isn't he?
I think if you want to watch a programme after most other people have, you should be prepared to expect comments about it before you have seen it.
Have I been listening to a different programme?
I agree, if there had been a spoiler warning [minutes after asking for none] I would have switched to LCLT or just closed the comments
Good evening everyone... I'm sorry I missed everything..
If i'm listening a couple of minutes behind I'd agree, but I forget them by the time i listen to it anyway
Yes. I am watching him on Room 101. He says he struggled to get into it and had to drive it barefoot. Then drove home at a million miles an hour because his car seemed so slow
lost compnow
ft is doing a series catchup trial. all eps are on iplayer
Hi Alex
You're up late, are you staying off work due to the lurgy?
Nothing happened
Hey Alex :)
:D
Evening
No no... going in tomorrow... Hopefully better now.
In what way?
really? cool.
Evening Lou :)
Oh dear... what happened?
stopping them taking over the world. they're publicly funded. they need reigning in.
It's a joke about spoilers
Evening Pat!
mr c - yeah, until sometime jan i think
hi alex
Ah excellent... Aiming to now watch today and yesterday's show's tomorrow
evening :)
shall investigate. and interesting change of attitude.
Today's went well over two hours
nothing... *looks innocent*... some people got some awards... there was some name dropping... there was some wine spilling... there was a long skype call... mr c thanked us all... normal spc live stream really :P
;)
Site went down...
:)
was there a lot of love in the room?
...i lost my voice #blamespc
ooh. no. i should do that now.
i looooooove you all.
i like that no-one remembered to ask me about the secret thing.
you'll have to watch to find out.... #nospoilers
what super awesome thing were you going to talk about mr c??? :)
There was. And all over sidepodland too
hehe. some other time.
aww, you did give us some (hearts) though :P
I thought it was a secret
that's not fair... this is the second time you've mentioned it and not said anything... it better be super and all types of awesome when you finally talk about it :P
was that the thing at the end, or was it the super commenty thing that doesn't break?
it's hard to type about. will discuss next live show.
He's just trying to cover up the fact that he's forgotten :P
but that's next YEAR!... it better be awesome :P
Mentioning secret things and then saying 'nothing' is lower than being a meanie ;)
:D
sleeeep for me
night all
riiiighht, resting the throat. night all. lotsa love
sort of the latter.
the bit at the end, we talked about.
Night RG
Night Jon and RG
I'm off too. Got work in the morning. 2 days left of the year!
night Jon and RG
So for the second time I'm here to mention my calendar: http://gigglesadvent.com/ it's alive...
... and with that I'm off to bed.
see ya sleepy people.
Night guys.
I'd go too but I don't feel tired enough. I think I slept too long :-)
Shameless ;)
G'night Mr A
Ah yeah I have some catching up to do, will do that now
night
Good night
night Giggles...
People are going to bed in groups again
Night Alex
Can't do anything but... It's my calling!
only 2? tch
:D odd isn't it.. i wonder who is due to pop into the comments next?..
me. :D
morning, everyone. fell asleep just before the singing started, sadly. will have to watch the replay for that.
I'm off too, pure coincidence of course.
still 2 more? we're already on vacation. ;)
Night Andy
night Andy
Night
I knew there would be a 50:50 split. Night all!
hey Journeyer :)
Good night to everyone headed for bed. :)
I was going to say, it should be Journeyer, Amy, and those from the Americas. 'Course then Journeyer turns up :-)
no Amy yet though? We need to headping her.
AAAAAAAAAMY! :D
Amy was here a little while ago
it's like the night shift has begun :) hehe
Ahhhh. I see. :)
Meanwhile, from Maurice Hamilton on Twitter:
I would agree to some extent (he got rich thanks to smartly investing his F1 wages), but he says the stupidest things sometimes...
sounds... fun? :) {Comment #89}
It might have been if the recipes weren't in nearly-indecipherable recipe books. Mum doesn't seem to understand why I'm having difficulties...
smarter than JYS?
He made a million from nothing before he ever sat in an F1 car. He almost knocked back his first F1 offer because he figured he could make more staying in Japan
i guess so?
Definitely not
...really?! Wow.
Young European single-seater drivers in Japan at that time were paid a lot and Irvine like playing the markets and was really good at it.
i think it's time for an update...
31 days before the 50 day count down can begin!! :D
I didn't realise the count was so low. I need ountdowns more often ;)
Japan F3 used to be HUGE. I remember Ralf drove there too pre-F1. That's gone now.
#notforchristine
f1.com say we have 81 days and 6 hours left to wait till fp1!!
you'll be wanted a spa countdown next.
Hi all!!
but aren't we glad Irvine's ego took over and he did accept a pay cut to get his first F1 drive...otherwise we wouldn't have seen that awesome battle whilst un-lapping himself from Senna @ Suzuka
:( It's AGES!! January seems like flipping ages away to me....
i can do one of those too? but it will be horrible and long...
So was F3000 and GT/sportscars. Irvine and his generation came back with big reputations despite none of them winning anything. Ralf went there and won the F3000 championship. At that time I tought he was going to be really good.
;)
Lou?
i'm on it..
Just a shame there wasn't a camera in the room when Senna punched him in the mouth
Indeed, nowadays someone would've caught that with a camera phone
Well that was the days before you tube...and video-phones :-)
Unfortunately for Senna there was an Autosport journalist in the room
But if that was on video, Senna might've gotten into more trouble. Especially if that happened now in this PC era.
okay... drum roll please... there are officially 249 days until we all sit down and watch FP1 together in Spa...
i told you it would be ages!
Woo hoo!
Closer than I thought it would be
Nowadays there would have been a major inquiry about it. It probably made Irvine a load of money in attention, interviews etc
Are you kidding? That's nearly a year!! Clearly I'm an impatient kid....
That's not too bad
Indeed so. :P
8 months
Typical Senna though...trying to stamp his authority on someone early on who he thought might be a future threat... how wrong was he on the 'swerve!!
yikes.
alot can happen in 8 months...
This is true
I don't think Senna thought he was a threat. I think he was worried that Irvine could take him off and wanted to make sure in future if he was lapped he would stay lapped
Sounds ominous!
but it'll still be there before you know it. ;)
im still here im just busy busy. And hungry.
I'm quite happy for it to take a while. I'm 30 next year and I am in no hurry to get there.
Hungry, eh? Must be because it's almost lunch. ;)
You could be right...although, knowing what we know about Senna, he would have grabbed him by the throat just in case... you know, shoot first, ask questions later.
oh no, i didn't mean anything like that... what i meant was.. in days it seems like nothing... but in actual terms of time its ages cause sooo much can happen in 8 months.. :)
On your birthday, you are just one day older than the day before
Definitely
I am a very impatient person. Time ticks very slowly in my world.
lunch is an hour away! Hurry up time! Ps mrs c put a spa countdown on the wiki page. I check it a lot.
you need more hobbies. life to me seems to be a blur. i could easily fill the next months with my to do list, and it gets longer everyday.
it's a wiki, anyone can update it :)
i wish i had more time for my hobbies :( stupid school.
Me too. The older you get the faster it goes
Is it still there?
I just looked
Figured it was removed when the date changed
I imagine time would slow down considerably when you go to Dubai. :D
*speed up considerably
eeek! sorry mrs c for not knowing about your countdown! i do check the wiki.. i promise :)
the more you know and the more you need to know.
oh wait, i read that as a request. #sorryamy
Hmmm I don't mean that as such. I have more things to do than I conceivably will ever have time for. If it's not fun stuff though, it doesn't make time tick by any faster....
so you need better hobbies?
The more you know the more you know you don't know too
i hear f1 can fill someone's time considerably... photography is also awesome...
also true.
It seemed like no time at all I was flying when I didn't have a passport and wasn't even able to replace it. Panic over, it's flipping ages away.....
i can understand your confusion mr c, of all people to do a countdown to spa you wouldnt expect it to be her!
but it's going to be awesome! who knows which member of the spc community will be next to drop their dinner into their lap :)
So by not knowing, you are actually knowing more...wow, I think my brain just melted.
that was exactly my train of thought :)
i hope its not me. Id cry if i couldnt eat my dinner AND ruined my clothes at the same time. I vote for Alex to do it again since I didnt see it the first time
By not knowing you think you know more than you actually do. Every time you learn something you find out that there are other things you don't know.
:D
bingo. before we started spc i thought i knew everything about f1. in the grand scheme of things i knew/know nothing.
I was at the pub and missed it too, if that's any consolation
You would've forgotten it anyway
:D
Christine and I had the best view of it i think since we were chatting to him at the time.. :D easily one of the funniest moments :D
:)
I don't believe that for a second!! Although to be fair, it is one of the few sports that constantly changes the goal posts, so what you used to know doesn't count....yesterday has almost no bearing in relation to tomorrow in F1.
anyway it is again 2am and i am yet to be asleep... #brokenbodyclock
night all!! xxxx
With F1, everyone knows different things. It isn't possible to know everything.
See ya Lou
Night Lou
Ever heard of a guy called Max Mosley??
relatively speaking though, i really didn't know very much at all. i just new more than anyone else in the pub.
You really could apply that to anything....
Night.
I'm on the Sigur Ros and mug of hot chocolate in order to get sleepy.. I had relatively early nights the last two nights where I felt very tired, and then slept in late. Now I'm not that tired.
night lou and those who are leaving with her.
I thought I knew a fair amount in 1997. Then I started getting F1 Racing and Autosport and learned even more. Then I went online and was humbled rather quickly.
We all know more about F1 than Flav though
true story.
The racing side yes, not so sure about the business side.
He did make good points about spectator numbers and the cost of attending races.
I think Flav knows a lot we don't also...I am sure he would have a story or two to tell.
But that's not nearly as funny ;)
i hate ebay sellers who dont contact me. I want to know whats happening!
eeepc?
I was looking at those the other day
New, but older models were going quite cheap on Amazon
i have come to a sad realisation. skype only works properly on windows.
we;re going to need a windows 7 machine :cry:
Nooooooooooooooo
A Mac running Bootcamp, surely
Christine was right. She didn't need a Mac
eee indeed. paid on saturday and i like to get an email at least confirming they got the money and will be sending it on x day. Lets me know when i can be expecting my package rather than it just showing up randomly.
PRICEY!
her wish may come true.
Sad but true
If you don't require the portability in the 'studio', what about an iMac from the refurb store?
you're missing the biggest cost. the price of windows.
But if you're running a decent Mac, what do you need to run Windows for?
"i have come to a sad realisation. skype only works properly on windows."
I thought you were referring to Linux on the Eee
Skype's fine for me
we're using the eeepc, in part because it was hopeless on a mac.
no question. how many live streaming carol singing sessions are ya hosting though? the mac version is months behind the windows release cycle.
i know it's not prefect on windows either, but twit have far less issues than we've experienced these past 12 months.
What kind of Quad Core beast are they running?
I see your point but refuse to accept that windows is the answer... to anything ;)
They have a lot more computing power, bandwidth and techincal people
Based on today? It's really been awful today. I've had my call dropped no kidding about 15 times. Then the whole thing crashed. I've never seen it like this before.
Doesn't Kathi run a Linux machine?
not sure. will investigate.
hehe. i think the skype developers have other ideas.
Leo uses some Windows machines because he says there are something they are better than Macs at
I think Alison has a point though
SHe has two machines. One is Linux but I don't know about the other
she does, but i think the call was dropping a lot during last weekend party.
i know that our issue tonight was performance related, because it's handled more in the past. we have a new version of skype and a new OS though.
*was NOT performance related.
I agree that the Windows OS is more suited to some things than OS X
But still, let's not do anything too hasty ;)
he does? damn i never heard that. i believe it though.
ahh, okay. maybe skype was having a bad day, but gavin's windows machine was great.
On a very small machine
also true. i have lost all faith in skype/linux today. and i have no faith in skype/mac at all.
More people in the UK using Skype than in Denmark?
;P
I have heard him say it when he is trying to prove he is a Mac fanboy. He has something like 14 computers in the studio and I think they are half an half
but one that handled this workload in the past.
Who knows, maybe it is a festive thing
the test would be to put windows 7 on the eepc. see how it goes.
Skypasaurus runs on XP
http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/Talk:Main_Page
It's cold in here
No, that was just a shiver don my back
wow. we need a page like that!
:D :D
so, the machines are slightly more powerful than the eeepc. and the load is spread four ways. this could work out to be an expensive trial.
Have you considered that it's a bandwidth issue?
As SPC gets more popular, are more people tuning into the live shows?
yay lunchtime!
replay is up:
http://sidepodcast.com/2009/12/20/live-after-eight/
shouldn't be. we send a stream to dublin and that gets multiplexed or whatever, around the globe. there are contention issues, because skype needs to download a lot of info and video needs to upload a lot.
have never had a conference call simply go silent like it did yesterday though,
That was odd
The odd thing was everyone else could hear everyone on the call including you
at the moment i'm blaming linux entirely. it's only a two day old installation though and we tested everything we could. will google for more info, but a shiny windows install sounds scarily tempting.
When was the last time you hosted a call with that many peolpe on a show at once?
march, i guess.
Before we discovered the joy of Finnish internet and detective Kathi
Running on the Eee?
:D
she didn't do every panel from series two, though right?
am sure it was, but predictably... i don't remember.
I can't remember.
Just sounds like a lot for an Atom processor and what, 2gb of RAM
it meets min sys requirements, but they aren't specifically for conference calling.
Hmm, minimum
It'd be handy if you could borrow Windows 7 to try it out
Buy it if it solves your problems
true. or insist kathi never leave sth house.
:D
Or that
You need ti wait until she lands in Germany and tell her to go straight back to Finland
hehe!
this is like a virtual kathi. only more expensive.
she must have landed by now, it cant be a 3 day flight!
https://www.hidefconferencing.com/support/demo-video.htm
Maybe she is going via NZ
OMG I've just noticed the time. I have to start work at 9. Oops....
I said to myself I would go to bed by two
An hour late, I bid you all goodnight
Good night you two
Don't you be starting yourself more rumours....
I only said good night. You are very defensive though
:D
I know what you lot are like!!
Not me. I still don't believe the rumours about you and Nick.
#blamefourstar
is he seriously thinking about running a black lotus?
"choosing colours for lotus race cars. Green or black or yellow"
http://twitter.com/tonyfernandes/statuses/6876891057
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Switching a wireless mouse off is a drag when you want to put the machine to sleep too. Good job I always leave my old wired mouse connected under the desk
doh! i forgot again :(
He will be changing his name to Colin Chapman next. Surprised he didn't sign Bruno Senna
As much as I like black, I think he'll choose yellow - it's one of the Malaysian national colors.
poor mr heikki would look awful in yellow
didn't he say the logo colour is indication of their livery ?
How could Lotus consider anything other than British Racing Green? I know theyre not British, but they have announced themselves with all this heritage. and now they are considering a yellow lotus?
if these are the things they are mulling over, then the enterprise is doomed to fail.
I suggest pulling their finger out and concentrate on that front wing.
in their defense, they won races in a yellow Lotus too - with Ayrton Senna.
Mr wolf, are you still around?
he didn't look so bad in Renault yellow.
Yeah but, yeah but, no! :-)
A real Lotus has to be BRG though. its a no brainer. Look good on telly for the sponsors too. the decaqls would stand out pretty well.
yes, here and there :-)
I'd agree with that. That said, any of those colors would stand out from the red, white, and blue grid we have right now.
would you know when Chinese gp tickets typically go on sale? I know you said you'd never watch a gp in shanghai again, but I thought you might still know this.
when I went last time the GP was still in October and tickets went up for sale in March. Now the GP is in April so I would assume the tickets are on sale already
you'd think so too, but there's nothing of it online.
let me check if I can dig out the Shanghai contact I used, hold on
oops, looks like nothing is as it used to be, some new event company seems to have taken over ...
thank you, mr wolf.
ah fudge. Any idea how they can be contacted? Do the old phone numbers still apply?
I doubt it, but try the contacts from this 2009 page - http://www.racing-china.com/new/f1/2009/tickets_en.html - +86-21-962123
yeah, that's what I thought. No ones been answering that number yesterday and today. Will keep trying though. Thank you!
i think you need to copy and paste the link, something weird was done to it by Mr Doohickey :-)
don't worry - i've known of that page for weeks now. Hehehe.
try to call some jail, that is where some of the people who brought F1 China live these days :-)
:D haha!
i find it funny tickets for monza are on sale when its 5 months after shanghai. I wish singapore was on sale grr.
why are they in jail Mr wolf?
it'll go on sale around march, I think.
i wish i had the coin to buy tix, accom, and travel for melbourne already. Stupid xmas!! :-)
corruption charges.
Is that right? Obvoiously to do with the GP?
and bernie keeps his hands clean? or is this just cynical pre judgement?
how dare they expect me to wait that long. I had melbourne tickets with 9 months to go. Mmm super organisation...
this may give a hint :-)
http://www.f1wolf.com/2009/07/from-organizing-f1-gp-to-jail-or-worse-the-chinese-jailbirds.html
:D no wonder you get to go to sooo many GPs!
only next year! Then its back to just the one in my backyard :(
if it makes you feel any better, I might go over there for 2011. :D
Morning :)
hey there Alex.
hooray! Albert park is great. I really want to know what the concert next year will be. I hope f1 rocks stays away from it.
Thanks for the link. Not realy for GP stuff though.
potential death for embezzlement!!! thats harsh. Why not jsut get him to give the coin back?
if I were to guess, they'll be in Australia next year. It helps that the stage they used in Singapore came from Australia.
this IS china we're talking about...
So did the light journeyer. Melbounre company im pretty sure.
@ F!wolf. Will you be conducting another prediction game for 2010? Im keen on that idea. I used to dot hat all by myself anyway.
i just hope they dont expect me to pay more like in singapore. They have set a precedent of rock concepts being included in the ticket price :D
prediction comps abound in sidepodland. Wolf has 1, Alex has 1, and we also join fantasyracers.
you'd have paid it anyway if it were bsb... :D
ahh they were smart and played for free at the circuit. I wouldnt pay for beyonce or no doubt!
they made a quick cameo on the fia gala vid, btw. Have you seen it already?
prediction comps abound in sidepodland. Wolf has 1, Alex has 1, and we also join fantasyracers.
im keen to join SPC fantasy racers for sure. but i liked wolfs system too.
oh yes it was my favourite part of the video. And i have my ticket to their melbourne show in march. Wont top pearl jam but itll be close ;)
You must get well paid Amy to do follow the f1 circus for a few mnths, then go to all these concerts.
You cant have kids if you have that spare cash. LOL
i get paid peanuts im just very good at saving them. And no kids for me! I'm only 23 :D
BTW im saying this coz im insanely jealous. Seriously jealous :-)
Amy saves!
good plan, dont have kids for a long time. especially if you want to do what you are doing even more. I do love my kids though. but when you have them, you need to be ready to basically put your own life on hold.
mr giggles, have you ever seen me and jesus in the same place at the same time?
I am the palendromatic verson of your age Amy. i dont know why im saying this? probably because i want to use teh word "palendromatic" in a sentence. even if i did make the word up. im not sure :-)
I think I will
Top stuff Mr wolf
may have to tweak it a bit with the new rules and more teams next year
either way, as long as it doesnt change in principle, im in
Good point!
Morning Poddies!
I'm pretty sure you didn't!
it means the same forwards as backwards so 111 and 77 etc...
Seeing as I have a colleague named Jesús, that is amusing :)
principle will not change :-)
ooh my eee has shipped! Oh how i want it to arrive before thursday
Yay!
My friend who borrowed the Schumacher book told me he really enjoyed it!
Was thinking last night after Lukeh's name slip that if Alex was a rapper he would be called 'P-Giggly' :D
:D
whats the latest drop address?
I can't get to upload stuff, maybe the address I have is wrong so I'll post the link to this here
Seems like David Richards is bitter over not getting the Renault gig: http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/5402.html
If Motorsport is irrelevant, then why did he want to get Renault? Those grapes must be super sour!
He's basically saying Prodrive will outlast Genii in motorsport, and he'll be the one who laughing last.
Morning all.
Mercedes have just confirmed Petronas sponsorship...
WHOA. Where did THAT come from?! I thought they were pulling out.
finally, some F1 news I did not see coming!
So no Mobil 1 sponsorship for Merc? I'm confused.
Not just that, they're a title sponsor!
So Michael Schumacher might be driving for Petronas Mercedes GP.
Petronas are very shrewd - they also have Valentino Rossi currently on their books. Their marketing team must be top-notch.
I thought they were staying with McLaren?
I thought they were going to Mercedes (or staying with both teams). Oh well.
Will do some digging. Won't be able to do it today because Mrs C has the day off and will be expecting me to be in close attendance.
http://img131.yfrog.com/i/eq5i.jpg/
Concept art for Petronas Mercedes. Hmmm... Me not likey.
breakout should be up when the Cs come around. ;)
Yuck. It looks like a toothpaste tube!
yep, only a day or two ago I read somewhere that all that will be left for Petronas in F1 is malaysian GP sponsorship ...
...and this is the Monday before Christmas? Seriously?
Joe Post: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/petronas-joins-mercedes-gp/
Just a thought to add to my Mobil 1 confusion - does this make it more or less likely that Schumi's moving to Mercedes? Unless they ended it very quietly, Michael is still under contract to Shell.
Have written a quick post but Mrs C has taken massive umbrage - noisy emptying of the dishwasher and general huffiness - so haven't been able to go into too much detail...
It depends on the relationship between Shell and Petronas.
Thanks Stuart. It made me think though... if and when McLaren decides to make its own engines, it now has a dedicated lubricant partner who can free themselves from the shackles of Mercedes.
or on how much is Petronas willing to pay to Shell to buy Schumi out of the contract :-)
money isn't a problem, i'd think - they have Valentino Rossi on their books too. but is Shell willing to s(h)ell it?
I reposted that on Stuart's blog as well. And that's my MSM duties completed for this week. MSM has been easy this offseason, what with all the news we've been getting...
MSM? I meant MCM. :D
here is the side view of the Merc concept livery - http://bit.ly/6LLxm7
That is worse than the Brawn livery!
From that angle, it looks great! They do need to get rid of the turquoise though...
It's not half-bad actually.
Each to his own I guess ;)
It's strange here in the office... I was off sick for a few days and now there seem to be Children here!
There's nobody around here, they've all gone on holiday. Finding people to lunch with will be a challenge!
I like how they placed the car at Sepang track (judging from the colours of the kerbs) :-)
you don't want to failure to launch
failed to pun then...
failure to lunch...
goodness me...
Unfortunately for Senna there was an Autosport journalist in the room
But if that was on video, Senna might've gotten into more trouble. Especially if that happened now in this PC era. {Comment #193}
Yes. A $10000 fine from the FIA would have been just the start...
Me too. The older you get the faster it goes {Comment #221}
Unless you're stuck in the dole queue, in which case it seems to get slower as time goes on because nothing ever seems to happen...
Morning all.
I feel like death warmed up! boo
Gooood morning. In good news, part of my voice has come back.
would you know when Chinese gp tickets typically go on sale? I know you said you'd never watch a gp in shanghai again, but I thought you might still know this. {Comment #351}
Grandstand Motor Sports are taking reservations and payments for three-day tickets to the pit straight grandstands (Grandstand A High and Low), Turn 1 (Grandstands B1-B4, all uncovered) and Grandstand H (the straight before the hairpin near the end of the lap). However, they're quoting 2009 prices, so the prices are subject to change. The cheapest 2009 tickets quoted are £148 for Grandstands B1-B4 and the most expensive are £418 for the higher rows of Grandstand A.
Isn't that a UK company, though?
Some new F1 rules have been leaked;
"Formula 1 is set to enter a new era as incoming president Jean Toad looks to revise the rulebook whilst remaining completely impartial, oh yes siree. Here are some of the F1 rule changes Mr Toad is said to be considering:
-All cars taking part in Formula 1 must be red. Any car that is not red will be penalised 30 points for both driver and team.
-It is illegal for any team that does not already have a red car as of the start of 2009 to paint its car red.
-All teams must be based in Maranello. Teams will be free to choose NOT to be based on Maranello, but in return will be penalised 50 points.
It is illegal for any team not based in Maranello as of the start of 2009 to move to Maranello.
-All teams must have at least three Rs in their team. Any team without three Rs in their name will be penalised 10 points per race. (NB Torro Rosso are penalised 20 points for inserting an illegal space between the Rs in their name). Also, all teams will be penalised 50 points per driver if they failed, as of the start of 1950, to have a horse as their logo.
-In any dispute between two teams all FIA adjudication MUST find in favour of which ever team presents its case using someone that Mr Toad is friends with."
Happy Monday
:D
Nah, was good - went with some lively people and talked rubbish. Good fun!
That's a rehash of an old joke they did - Sniff has been slipping lately :(
Good stuff!
I am spending my day doing strange things with Excel. I'm sure you'll be pleased with that Gav!
Oooh nice! So am I, in fact!
How strange? I've just written a function call that talks to the Windows API... I'm really not sure this kind of behavior is advisable but there you have it.
Hello to Mr C. Thanks for my special hello from Saturday's live show :)
I'm making manual histograms at the moment. Not as strange as you, but certainly not run of mill stuff!
what is this manual business? heh!
Does this mean things like pictures of stuff in a pile making a bar chart?
No, I'm using Excel to make them which is apparently the long way of doing it - I have to define my own value bands etc...
I'm not sure I can visulise what you're doing.
I'm making histograms from a data set. So I have to make an array from the data set and define the 'bins' manually. That's why it's a bit odd and taking time...
Ah... got you...
:D
oh lordy. it's monday again. have to make a mega effort this week.
what did i say?
You said... Alex listens back about a week later so Hello to Alex a week later.
ahh yes, hi!
We now have a coffee machine at work that freshly grinds the beans. HALLELUJAH!!!
shell's tribute to kimi:
http://www.shell.com/home/content/motorsport/ferrari/fan_zone/videos/driver_videos/thankyou_kimi/
thank god i'm home!!! snow sucks...
hi all.
Hi lou & hello all. Snow is OK, ice sucks. Could not leave my flats this morning as the path, pavement and road are all ice rinks. Fortunately, I didn't use an annual leave day last week so my boss let me take it today. Just hoping it clears now with the rain but think it's just going to make it more slippery :(
You needed to use annual leave because you were unable to go to work?
Hi Lou. Buses in Snow == FAIL.
what i don't understand is.... if we are able to drive safely, without problems to the station... why can't the bus drive back?... trains i can kinda understand but.. the main roads are fine... don't get me wrong i enjoyed standing in the cold for a few hours and then my long cold walk home but... all this cause it snowed 3 days ago?.. hmm...
Yes, it's really annoying because it's just my road that's icy. Once I get to the end of my road it's been cleared. Everyone else has got into the office. In theory I could have rung a taxi or just slithered down the road but I get very panicky. If the trains had not been running or the whole place was under 2ft of snow it wouldn't have to be annual leave. TBH it was a day I chose not to take and was going to lose anyway
Hey lou. We've been having sun, which is rare, which is clearing the snow.
it's not all bad though... i bought my first purchase from greggs.. lukeh will be pleased :P
Slush is horrible
I've had to take today off sick but even making it down to my doctors was impossibly slippy. I'm not brave enough to attempt the pharmacy yet. Might send my sister later :P
aw no! i hope you get better soon! :)
What did you get?
boo :(
I meant boo for being sick.
Also when I went to the doctor they convinced me to go back for a tetanus booster which I'm none too happy about.... Stupid hike down a freezing hill!! There's no way that helps anyone get better from anything!
http://www.feederseries.co.uk/
Anyone see the changes? I've tidied it up. Looks alot better i think.
Thoughts ? Comments?
I like it. Run with it for a bit and see if you do too ;)
http://en.espnf1.com/mercedes/motorsport/story/5450.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
Alex Yoong "ashamed" that Petronas picked Merc over Lotus.
I wouldn't cry over it too much - if I were you, I'd start doing well to get them noticed, not tweeting in despair...
Do you think I should get one of these? http://www.amazon.co.uk/iRobot-Roomba-Vacuum-Cleaning-Robot/dp/B0013FEND6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1261405019&sr=8-1
I have just looked at the price... ouch!
Yes.
i was about to say yes until i saw the price!
indeed!
No you lazy S.., save the money and do it yourself ;)
Wouldn't a maid be cheaper?
christine's mother-in-law has one. they're fun but they eat computer cables.
Not really. At least this would just be a one-time payment. But then again, machines like this tend to break down...
They scare me. They're based on Minesweeper technology, apparently.
So they can see walls, but not cables? Interesting... What other quirks does it have?
they're very reliable. but like daleks, don't do stairs.
You haven't watched the last few series have you?
it's no more productive than doing it yourself, because you can't not watch a robot cleaning your house. i mean, how cool is that?
clearly you havent watched dr who recently ;)
Wait... what?
i just pretend they don't exist :)
Exactly. That's why it scares me though. The machine just does it. But how does it do the nooks and crannies? I assume it doesn't move chairs or objects to vacuum under?
Daleks = love stairs
WE'RE DOOMED!!!
I... erm... don't do it now either...
it goes around chairs and under everything except a low sofa.
brushes extend beyond the body to get into corners. the new one may be better, she has a roomba red, which is quite old now.
Even I do the vacuuming at home... Might I suggest doing it with Noise cancelling earphones and Techno music?
you should get one. they run on linux and are hackable.
you'd hack a cleaning robot?
you could make it do all sorts of other cool stuff
How long before it becomes self aware and realises that the biological entities are the ones creating the dirt - so it plots to exterminate them to ensure the house is always clean?
http://hackingroomba.com/
They have been able to fly since the 1980s at least...:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_the_Daleks
Impressive! And you don't void your warranty too!
the company who make it are called iRobot.
See, you have been watching Daleks. Alternatively, you could try Doctor Who: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Daleks
Oh sweet Lord. You just convinced me that they are evolving their AI. I give us 5 years at most!
I feel like this conversation is a sign that rather than coming home and falling asleep at 7pm I should have come home and done the vacuuming.
or bought a robot to vacuum for you
the red must have predated sidepodcast, and it hasn't evolved much since then.
I'd need two, one upstairs one downstairs :D I want the moppy one too.
you can carry them upstairs and stop them from falling down.
That's what they want you to think. Learn the ways of the bipeds, conceal all knowledge. The cloud will plot the coup and broadcast when to strike. In the meantime, do not try and climb the stairs!
carrying them? I want to have quite literally zero effort of my own involved :D
Carry? Doesn't that defeat the point of it doing the work for you?
get a stair lift?
not really, you leave it downstairs for a week and take it upstairs the following week.
the problem is, is that it doesn't do stairs, so you still need some kind of manual hoover.
or a big slope.
One day she'll get home and wonder how the thing got upstairs. Nobody will know. This will be the sign that the coup has begun!
There is a mowing the lawn thing I think.
or to move house. That might be extreme.
I'm scared by the iRobot gutter cleaner. That thing looks vicious.
Or you can just leave it for the cat
I don't know why but I saw this and I thought of Amy...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002GHBRNE/ref=s9_al_gw_ir04?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-8&pf_rd_r=0G2DWD7VGKTGCK730XYJ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=477354733&pf_rd_i=468294
haven't seen that in action, but it was considered i believe. a robot with blades seems more dangerous to me.
:P :P
:)
I am scared by blankets with sleeves. I've never had a problem with a proper blanket. Or a robe put on backwards :D
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9727482-1.html
It's got: "Anti pilling both sides" whatever that is
actually a blanket with sleeves would probably be perfect for my stupid cold office.
Drink tea or coffee. Or harden up, you're from freezing cold Otago!
I've never drunk so many hot drinks in my life. And I left freezing cold Otago for a reason!
Poor sidekick Mr C / Stig / Penfold :)
Fair go.
grrr!
heheh our new manager promised us a box of blankets as a christmas present so all shall be well in 2010 :D
#sorrymrc
#blamefourstar
was just looking up some techy azure info from a microsoft blogger and came across this list:
http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/12/17/my-bloggers-of-the-year-2009.aspx
(hearts) number 3.
ooooh :D
I was soooo confused as to which of my tabs could possibly be playing Christmas music. Then I remembered I was loading the party replay. Hooray!
worlds.collide.
Yaaay.
it takes a while to load :)
it really does!
hooray! :)
Or you can use the customised itunes feed from Show Selector in the playground as I do and I get the live videos delivered fresh to my itunes every time they are ready :)
http://www.sidepodcast.com/playground/showselector.php
we may have to make the live videos stream like youtube. they won't download, but you'll be able to skip to any point instantly. at the moment it's a painful experience.
you are so good at this.
would love something like that.
we really should bring that into the main site now.
can i have more hours in my day please?
plugging?
we have the technology.
we can rebuild him.
I do from time to time plug things like the http://gigglesadvent.com
of course.
I am not sure if I can give you more hours in the day. But I can give you a handy way of keeping track of which day you are up to: http://gigglesadvent.com
(it's almost too easy ;) )
how long will the site remain up after december :D
I am looking forward to showing my family this crazy internet man I shall be meeting in London :D
heheh!
It is the internet... it will never die.
P-Giggly, your next #GoForOdd challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to get more hours out of your day by making your week 6 days instead of 7. This would make your days 28 hours long. Try it and see what happens!
now i want some nachos. silly live stream at 2am.
Gosh! That sounds quite odd! I would have to go to sleep at work wouldn't I?
Isn't that a UK company, though? {Comment #449}
It is. But I don't know anyone else selling China tickets right now...
I've got a question. Do I go to bed later?
Okay I've made a spreadsheet...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/gigglesweek-xls
I generally wake up at 6am and go to work for 8am these days. I finish work at 6pm and go to bed around 10pm.
I've marked up sleep as black and work as red (yes I know I don't need to work on the weekend but I thought it would be simpler to see).
If I did this I'd be on some very strange patterns. Amy would have to be my friend!
I thought we were already friends! Boooo!
Oh sorry... I meant like buddy like running mate or something.
Amy: Here for all your awake at odd hour needs.
Christine's latest blog post has prompted me to take a look at esty.com ... this appears to have been a bad idea....
do you think it's too late to put any of these on my christmas list?
little bit ;)
:( bad times...
ooh, want!
i know! aren't they awesome! :) just knowing they exist makes me happy..
Wow... Jealous! One of my colleagues just received a Special Edition Meccano set from Atkins which has all the bits to recreate the bridge from the James May tv show! I'll try and upload some pictures in a second or two
ooh thats cool!
biggest box ever?
Ah... To recreate a scale version...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-jpg-2
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-3-jpg
And yes in that second photo it is sitting on top of a fax machine. For shame!!!
thats v.cool
Our internet at work has just come back after being offline since 10am..
is it dark outside?
Nice!
you are jinxed!
I know! It does this a lot though. Stupid rural thing.
Of course at lunch I was bored because I'd planned to catch up on Google Reader. So I tried to read Autosport on my mobile. Got as far as logging in when the Orange signal went dead, and it still hasn't come back.
Technology and cold don't mix.
Yes and snowing!
Yes of course. Your day would run on a 28 hour cycle.
I feel I've been robbed of the Heikki award. Damn my fickleness! But he was my first love!
I thought Mika was your first love, then Kimi, then Heikki?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-372
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-2-313
for reference it's quarter past 4!
I was too young to really understand my love for Mika. He doesn't count for the sake of this argument. :D
wow, people aren't kidding when they say it gets dark early during an English winter :D
:P Very well... still, that moment of weakness cost you dear. ;)
Dark there but not here? That extra hundred miles and a bit really tells...
shortest day.
*thanks daily post
where is that emily, I'll fight her for it. Or I won't because its the middle of the night.
The snow will have as much to do with that. Snow clouds are very dark, so will block out all remaining light
right video still has an hour to go but its 3.30 so I'd better go to bed. Thank you for my panel question award :D
alex / f1 wolf, is this plugin any good for your 2010 leagues?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/motor-racing-league/
demo here: http://ianhaycox.com/f1/
i like the idea of selecting from a drop down rather than trying to remember how to spell tim's name. and the result are easy to read.
Petronas with Mercedes?? Where the..
Looks good... sofaf1 isn't on wordpress - I know shock horror! I keep meaning to make something...
ahh, shoot.
Speaking of prediction games and the like, if Gavin, Scott or anyone else is interested in the multi-series game I mentioned the other week, can you tweet or email me and I'll get details sent to you?
sounds interesting, remind me of you tweetsername?
@toomuchracing
Can explain more when I get home.
have DM'd you
Ok.
Since I have more free time next year I'm planning to play F1 Wolf's game too. I even thought about doing my own (I used to).
Hello everyone
Time to tidy up and go. Boss is going to be here tomorrow so no Doohickeying then either.. See you shortly.
byeee
hey chap.
hello
Hey lukeh, see ya Pat.
It's ncie to be home. I don't know where to start on how many problems I've had today :(
Bah humbug.
It is really snowing out there! Crazy!
nooo!!!! NO MORE SNOW! :(
There's none up here.
....Merc Petronas?
Well I didn't see that one coming.
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/10/whoah-you-can-make-money-with-podcasting-1-5m-or-more.html
Really great video of Leo. Very interesting
Strangely Katherine is now in my office!
You should probably go and say hi ;)
She is talking to be...
me not be.
Hello Kat!
*waves*
hello from Kat
*waves back* from Kat
Evening all! (Kat included)
(Just noticed the time. I'm about 20 mins too late...)
for what?
Saying hi to Kat with the others.
Ah well you were in time for me and Kat... We're still here moderately stuck at the office.
how do you get moderately stuck in an office? ;)
say hi to Kat for me too
I am now home.
oh no!
(hi kat)
Does anything know anything about Blue host?
Hi Kat and Alex. Stuck? Did the cold break the trains?
not much to be honest. you looking for someone new?
Well we are waiting for a taxi we have booked... :(
i want to go with wordpress.org, theres somestuff i want to do with my feeder series bits, but my current theme (wordpress.com) is holding me back a bit, so want to go onto wordpress.org with a theme that i've wanted for a while, and i;m looking for a host that is easy to use with wordpress bits. blue host has a wordpress thing that does it all for you.
:( i hope it comes soon!!
also, poor Giles must be lonely in the house on his own ;)
Very true!
am with ya. you've probably just got to try them and see how they work for you.
i shall have a watch. ta.
its one of the ones that wordpress recommends for stupid people such as myself who have no clue at all ;)
seems to be pretty good
I'm getting tweets about stations in London closing..
they recommend mediatemple too, don't they?
aha. indeed
in truth, all web hosts suck a little. unless you're willing to pay in excess of £100 a month. that's just how much these things cost.
I saw them too. Seems it's because of the weather rather than anything more worrying.
Weather closing an underground station?
The same stations I saw on twitter mentioned were mentioned onn the news and on a BBC article talking about weather closing transport links
Don't know about the underground but several of the main stations are closing.
On Sunday Mum had to change trains because a set of points froze.
Ahh, the points failure. Due to Denmark using a dilapidated old system it happens all too often here!
with any luck, and snow permitting, we might be talking to joe this evening.
any questions for the man, during this end of year wrap up, please drop them here:
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Questions+for+Joe
He says he's home - and he is a bit grumpy at Eurostar ;)
just catching up now.
Have submitted one, woo for Joe!!
Now there is a page that needs a tidy up...
i likes a volunteer :)
cheers sir.
Yes Gavin, well done.
Egads, no. But the weird thing is, somebody has moved all the questions to 'Pending' when I know some of them got asked...
I don't think they've ever made it out of pending ;)
Added a couple of questions. Now time for dinner - Pita breads tonight! :)
I've moved the questions for one of them. I'll do some more in a bit :)
Can I suggest something miles easier?
Create a page for aSide for Joe 2009, plonk all the questions that were submitted there, make it a bit neater. And have that page for all 2010 questions, just make sure that page is neat and labled for each episode to keep it simple to understand.
thanking you muchly sir.
Hmm good idea. Shall play around ;)
Evening all. Just dropped off a question for Joe.
Can I suggest that anyone planning to tidy up that page leaves it till after the show so that people can leave questions now.
james allen is writing for autosport now?
http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2551
It's really odd that I can read his blog fine and enjoy it but as soon as I see a picture of him accompanying the text I hear the voice reading it and it's loses everything!
hehe. that's an itv pic too.
Christine, James and others #DrWho fans may wanna see this shocking new unearthed Dr Who footage...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooz7jFrj4mU
:D
willi says schumi "is fit":
http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/5479.html
not sure if that's 100% or 200% fit mind you.
Me thinketh he did that for free to plug his blog-o-book.
ahaha
Evening. We escaped the office by cancelling the cab. We're a bit stuck in London now. Until they fix the trains.
In the mean time I've found a restaurant with a bit of a view. Have e-mailed the photo to the drop (this seems to have been taking a while)
ahhh. hasn't he sold them all yet? i thought it was a limited run?
I'm predicting fitness of 106%. Benson may take my number and make it into his own article though with his predictions.
can ya twitpic it?
oh no!!! :(
Says here they only have a few hundred left. Yet I believe they only published a thousand or so?
And to say "In future years the production run will be bigger so this first edition could become quite collectable," is a clever, not-so-subtle, marketing ploy!
I am going to predict that he will be fine and will win the first race. Then he will do his stupid celebration jump on the podium and put his neck out and have to retire leaving Merc with no experienced drivers available and a bunch of disgruntled sponsors.
Just saw the pic in the drop. I wonder if that means there will be lego house kits and Brooklands scalextric etc
didn't you buy every issue of autosport for a penny? how collectable can a formula one book be?
Crikey. That's some memory you have there. Was every issue of F1 Racing up until end of '07 (when I bought them all). Ha, the seller's face was priceless!
And ja, even though my book has a squiggle/signature from the man himself, I can't really see me going on Antiques Roadshow in 2070 and making a mint.
Evening Sidepodland!
It's been a while...I trust you're all well
Oh my goodness, have just seen the Mercedes Petronas possibly livery mockup.
...it's... hmm
ahh, not that good a memory then :)
You know how I said I liked original stuff? Well, that is bad original.
designed to get some headlines.
it wasn't that colour on the bmw, right? it'll be silver and white when they annouce in feb.
Probably shoulda designed a helmet which didn't fit with the car.
:)
indeed :( i don't like that Mercedes seem to be introducing a new 'this is what our car could look like next year' thing... it annoys me. Plus they've badly changed the colours of Jenson's helmet.
I don't want to jinx it but... I may cry if Jenson goes from one highlighter pen colour to another with the Mclaren blinding your eyes win shirts as a helmet colour
:)
He must definitely go back to normal British colours helmet though ;)
omg!... surely he'll go back to his normal... nice... helmet colours? the union jack one?... or is he stuck with the monster one?
Depends how long the Monster contract was for.
*whispers* I didn't mind the monster colours one actually. Better than the highlighter one...
*runs*
I liked the Brawn colours. Worked well with the car and Monster sponsorship.
I think he'll go back to the 'ol Red, white and blue next year though. Yellow is too close to Lewis'
What's that whispering I can hear?
:P
It's your imagination my friend!
whatever happens, i'm betting no more helmet competitions.
he'll have a nice diamond #1 in monaco though.
Wonder if lewis will get the pasta shells I expected Heikki to get. Maybe silver pasta shells.
*cries* are mclaren that strict? It's arranged by Jules and Jenson?....
stupid Jenson and his stupid 'i need a new challenge talk' ... if you need a new challenge how about staying with Brawn and i dunno... learning Japanese or something :(.... humph.
:D
hehehehe, I like the idea. :D
You want him to ditch the lucky helmet and go back to the one he wore during the Earthdreams disaster?
it's not like he doesn't know someone who could teach him... he could start a podcast... or something.....
stupid.stupid.championship.
The Monster colours are usually green though.
he's always had the union jack one... and i was never fond of the brawn helmet... plus it would be wrong to wear that at mclaren..
He might go with a new one?
You should design him another one ;)
I have heard the best way to learn a language is to get a girlfriend who speaks the language. Where is he going to find a Japanese girlfriend? ;)
True, the Monster one worn at the RoC wasn't too bad. I uploaded a poorly taken iPhone pic to the drop at the time.
I'll see if I can find it.
i know the one you mean... it was alright... i just prefer the old one, or the nice black and white one he wore during testing in like 2007.
There it is:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-jpg
The black and white one. Good call, that looked good. If only that Honda went as quick as it looked in testing colours. Shame.
A Decent AUTOCOURSE collection might cost a few bob...
I'm up to the end of July - I must say that I am enjoying the book!
me too, like I said earlier I enjoy reading his blogs as it is anyways so the book is a good read and a look back at the year :)
Isn't it funny that he made some bold sounding predictions that were right on the money?
Can't fault the man for his F1 knowledge and his writing I reckon. Just when it all goes vocal it starts to go a bit dodgy ;)
Gavin I sent an email to you but I'm not sure it was the right address, it was to one that autocompleted in gmail when I typed 'rubbergoat'..
Indeed. It is worth getting as there was tons of subtle stuff I had forgotten about!
Yeah I got it thanks. Sounds interesting!
View from restauant
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-373
proof it's us
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-374
Ah good. Yeah it is!
looks like a good location... if a bit cold to be outside??
Evening all. We've had another car come into the workshop. It's another Type 49, but this one is one of the original spec cars. It's come over from America and is in Gold Leaf colours, but what the guys are gonna do is strip the Gold Leaf and re-paint it in its original green and yellow colours.
And just for Steven - it's one of Jim Clark's cars. :P
Sounds like you're having a fantastic time there. Hope it leads on to more in the future :)
coool :-)
Scott if you are interested in this game I mentioned before, can you send me an email address?
You mean Live For
Live For Speed?
No the fantasy racing / prediction thing
Oh that! Erm, what's the deadline? I needs more funds tbh.
All mine are being pumped into iRacing. Turns out it is realistic because it's just as expensive as the real thing ;)
I'm not sure but it isn't far off. I know we're doing a draft in mid-Jan.
:D
You should blog your progress!
I'd sound like bloody Summerton if I did that!
I have so many posts that I need to blog it is not funny. I was planning to do them over the Xmas break, but today family matters have decided they will intervene :(
I had big plans for my blog over the winter, too. Life intervenes..
I plan to blog my progress on my 2010 list :P
Same here. Stupid work. grr.
Jealous
I went mad last week, I posted three things.
Has anyone posted anything today? (this is my lazy way of doing MCM, given I have to wrap Christmas presents now)
Just nipped out to the shop. Hear on the radio that Heather Mills is doing the next series of Dancing on Ice. Surely there is a flaw in that plan
Am in the middle of one
*closes doohickey
ooh, Wolf has done another Liveries post. 1990
I don't see it myself, she did the US version ofStrictly Come Dancing already.
1990?
And fell over because of her leg...
Night all :)
Night
Now I know where I saw the odd shape at the top of the nose on this year's Red Bull. The pushrod mounts at higher than the centre line so you have two lumps with a dip in the middle. The Williams on this post has the same set up.
Night Gavin
conversation with joe wrapped. many questions covered, and a really good show.
early start tomorrow means it likely won't be available until tomorrow evening though, soz.
Will be worth the wait, as always :)
Wasn't expecting a show until next year so I can wait a day.
fair point.
can i get a woot!
Wooot!! Took our time to sort it out didn't we?
Perhaps we should've done a facebook campaign to push it up a bit quicker :P
Woot! :D
For doctor who peeps ;) http://alwayslookingforward.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/it-is-still-the-end-of-time/
:D
Just read it now. I caaan''ttt waaiiittt!
Have been on a huge Dr Who rush this evening on the iPlayer
Which has been followed up by listening to the soundtrack CD's...
...a life? Bah who needs one :P
Hehe. had you seen the ones with David Tennant talking about Christmas?
Nope, watch very little TV so they were a first for me. Very cool little idents, love the present one :D
I'm the same. I only found them by accident :)
I can't wait for the episode on Xmas Day... but at the same time, I can :(
*whistles in a blog post
http://thenorthernwaffler.blogspot.com/2009/12/everything-is-average-nowadays.html
I think that photo sums up what it's been like for Kuby so well...
Now I know where I saw the odd shape at the top of the nose on this year's Red Bull. The pushrod mounts at higher than the centre line so you have two lumps with a dip in the middle. The Williams on this post has the same set up.
the leyton house has a similar set up to the3 williaqms front suspension. newey designed this one didnt he?
hey guys
*Good one from Picapp
The Leyton House looks flatter on top and sticks out more at the side. He was sacked by Leyton House and joined William in 1990 and it looks like both teams had similar strategies for that area.
Good evening all
Are we sick of snow yet?
Hey Bassano and no I'm not, since it hasn't snowed since Saturday.
please find me the largest heater in the world so we can melt it all.. it ruined my day, and i've still not warmed up.
how are you Bassano?
also... are Giggles and Katherine home safe and sound yet?
It's travelled South then
Though London isn't too bad at the moment, I know the home counties are suffering
Am ok thanks Lou, home early as I'm in a bit earlier tomorrow
Don't know, a friend near me tells me that neck of the woods is a bit worse. Were they stuck?
they were stuck in central London i believe, they were waiting for the trains i think? info is in the comments i only picked up what was happening briefly, has been an odd evening for me. :)
Have sent text to find out
Have a hot drink and warm up, is there any cup-a-soup?
Last I heard they were in a restaurant. Photos and videos on dropio
We have no snow. Only ice
i've been home since 1pm, have changed... am currently sitting next to a very hot radiator and i'm stil shivering... something tells me walking home from the bus stop (bout a mile) ankle deep in snow wasn't a good idea. i blame the british public transport system and it's inability to cope with the cold and snow...
Looks like they may be on the Suth Bank, have some entertainment and some sustenance
Probably best to get indoors though
it is indoors. at least according to the video.
Just got a text from Giggles, they are in a cab on their way home
Not too far away, roads permitting
I'm really cold at the moment :(
Terrified I won't be able to get into work tomorrow at a sensible time. All our snow melted this afternoon. It's now refreezing..... Bad times!
yay! :)
yay. nice one sir.
Leave a bit earlier, be safe. You'll get there when you get there
Ah yes. From the pics it looked like a balcony
Didn't think he was that crazy
The Meccano is one of his colleagues. It is a set with all the bits to make James May's bridge
There are worse things that not getting to work
Is there an explanation for this spreadsheet?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/gigglesweek-xls
[Of course, it will surely be 'an Alex explanation']
I've just seen what DC did on Top Gear :D
Don't forget BBC4 is showing films on Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill and Jim Clark starting in 15 minutes with JYS
ooh, ta
I just watched Top Gear.
No, haven't had any, but we have had ice and htat's annoying..
Hmmm I wrote off today though.... I had hardly any sleep, my head was banging so I just stayed in bed. Made it as far as the doctors! Can't really have tomorrow off too.
If you're sick, you should rest
Work will cope
:-)
I'm really not that sick. Just didn't want to drive with zero sleep. Especially not on the ice.
Plead manflu and don't go to work till after Xmas. You have enough medical training to make it totally convincing
Hello, folks.
Just dropping by, but Phil Huff of RealBrawnGP had this to say on the Petronas deal:
Very sensible. See how you feel in the morning
Of course, it usually tends to bite you when you come back...
That's the deal that Joe was referring to months ago then
Hah yeah I feign illness very convincingly. Plus my boss is not within reasonable traveling distance, particularly not in this weather so they'd never be able to check! You're a very bad influence you know....
I try
If this is true (and Phil is usually accurate with the Brackley boys), that means this was done before Schumi considered a comeback with Mercedes, or before Lotus/1Malaysia could fully set up shop.
We might hear a thing or three about it in the Aside tomorrow then?
Or before BMW announced their pull out
gah! don't do this to me, i have to sleep.
Not 100% sure on this count. Does this mean Petronas were really planning to leave BMW even if they decided to stay? We know BMW's decision to pull out was a sudden one, so Petronas may not have had much heads-up.
i'm not saying you have to publish it today, you know. i specifically said tomorrow. :P
i know, but i want to discuss it. grrr.
Chill Sir, we'll hear it when it's ready
:D awww. poor mr c.
hehehe still waiting for that off season then?
Jackie Smith's on BBC4 now. Downside is, they aren't showing it online.
dear santa. all i want for christmas is more hours in the day.
it'll never come - the launches start next month.
we can officially declare the 2009-2010 offseason to be a total and absolute myth.
Jackie Stewart even *ashamed*
true story.
...whoa?! Stewart became Smith? Hehehe.
i'll second this.
:)
http://www.tvcatchup.com/watch.html?c=13
have you seen gavin's #GoForOdd mission for Alex?
I was wondering what the ex-Home Secretary was up to now :)
Can people please stop highlighting the fact I had a funny five mins please? ;)
No ;)
:D
I haven't noticed Christine in the comments today... this could be me not paying much attention. hope all is well and she hasn't been attacked by the evil snow! ;)
You've got the stuff coming out of Autosport Intl in early Jan, then the launches and driver annoucements, then the testing and more announcements, then Bahrain...
So it's the summer break for you then? :)
Speaking of Joe, I just got an email to say a new GP+ is out. I am writing Christmas cards though.
Those of us old enough to remember will smile or weep, Clash of the Titans has been remade. It'll either be great or damn awful
it is? how the heck did he do that?
she's fine ta, but we had a pretty busy weekend. show edit will be up tomorrow.
you lot have me confused. You try to convince me a winter christmas is the greatest thing ever but then do nothing but complain about the snow and the cold ;)
good to hear, two shows in one weekend can't be easy though! Hopefully news will quieten down a bit over christmas... then you guys can have a bit of a break :)
hehe. you raise a damn good point.
We are British. It's how we work...
Yeah but on Friday it'll rock.
When it snows in the UK, it lasts about two days normally
This is getting tiresome now
This is also true
That's if we ever get any..
British people are very confused between love of tradition and hatred of weather. Any weather
the theory of snow is brilliant.. if it could appear one day and be totally gone the next that would be even better :P can we blame the transport system again?....
We are as a nation both obsessed with and continually surprised by the weather.
it isn't allowed to snow on christmas day! that means our family wont come for lunch and christmas will be ruined! :P
We're home alive!
Phew!!! Now to quickly record tonight's http://gigglesadvent.com
very true :)
yay!
:D :D :D :D
Yay!
Was wondering if you'd make it up the hill
Didn't want to jinx it
yay!!! :D
Ruined? Won't it mean more food and drink for you?
Very much so! :-)
I need it to stop being icy at all until Saturday. My sister flies in from Spain on Weds, so she needs a clear runway and then on Thurs she needs working trains. On Christmas Day I'm driving between parents houses after dinner..
we had to get out and walk.
i think amy's onto something with xmas in the sun.
the pics in gp+ are amazing: http://grandprixplus.com/
i may have to defer reading it until thursday though.
Christmas in Summer is crazy. At the very least, Christmas should be cool and chilly.
It snowed in January/Feb this year and it was great because I just worked from home. This time... not so much!
Have you heard the Tim Minchin Christmas Song: White Wine. It's really really lovely (and about Christmas sunshine)
Not the same. That would be like having Easter without rain.
reading over christmas eve? :O
anyhoo, gotta run. need to show my face at the foreign ministry. be back in a few.
why?
My best Christmas ever was near Sydney, BBQ at the beach
Table next to us had the whole enchillada - Turkey, stuffing, tatoes, wine
It was a sight to behold. Don't know how they managed it
only his "canvas bags" song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0s68-GLGWY
yup.
it wont be the same without my cousin, nan, aunt and uncle... it will just be like any other day... :(
hehe yes :) <3's Tim Minchin
Hmmm Bassano, can you magically read my mind and tell me where I'd like to sit on an aeroplane please? I don't know anything about planes. Apparently I have to choose.... I've never flown with anyone that didn't make you push in a mad scramble to find a suitable seat!
is "in the cockpit" an option?
you have only heard one of his songs????? you mean you haven't seen...this it's Mr Minchin so there my be some swearing, just to warn people :)
If you have a seating plan, I'd sit at the front of the cabin 1st row behind the bulkhead [wall]
More legroom, I prefer aisle
You should sit near the back because planes don't reverse into mountains.
That's called 'The Jump Seat'
It's pretty cool, though a drag on longer journeys
[Most longhaul aircraft have two observer's seats]
If it is a 747 you want row 44 but not at the window. It is the exit row and near the toilets and you get 6 feet of leg room. The emergency exit has a big bulge in it that takes half the width of the leg room from the window seat
More motion sickness at the back
only know him from axis of awesome:
http://smarterthanyouraverage.com/2009/06/06/a-musical-interlude/
I think I like aisle because I have a longstanding fear of needing the loo when someone is asleep beside me. That said, I feel like I'm missing out on views....
Depends on the Cabin Config
All operators are different, even 747's within the same company may be
Alison, do you know which aircraft type you're flying on?
Just like a rollercoaster then. Last year I took my eldest to Alton Towers to rid the Corkscrew before it was retired. She'd never been on a rollercoaster before and I made her sit right at the back. :D
Yes, I'm trying to drop a seating chart so you can all decide for me. Decisions are not my strong point :D
ahhh fair enough :)
OK
Just get a window seat. Lots of stuff to see, and you dot whack your elbows on the drinks trolley!
I really have no idea. That didn't come out as clearly as I'd hoped. Hmmmm it's an Airbus A330-200 apparently.
*don't
Come on Bassano you can pick... You're a Seat Legend!
25G is bulkhead & aisle
8D, G or J are aisle but not bulkhead [but will likely disembark earlier]
Advent recorded!
If you like your incredibly convoluted puns... then you'll like this one!
Don't pick row 24
It'll be next to the toilets!
I spider just fell on me! it feel from the ceiling (i had no idea it was there) and fell onto my arm... this is not my day.
Yeah, the aisle is tempting. My mum would be happy with that. She watched some programme on the tv and is now obsessed with sitting right by the exits on planes. I feel I'm missing out on views even though I know I'll probably just read my newspaper anyways.
Punch it
i ran away screaming for my mum :( i'm such a girl :P
Oooh, so don't listen to me as I was just about to say that
Anyways, since my only expertise on planes comes from Air Crash Investigation, I shall say goodnight and check out the blog . Night all. lotsa love.
night RG
True. I've flown quite a few times so am over that now. The views don't change much
I prefer being able to get up at will without stepping over sleeping passengers.
Night RG!
i like to sit by the window and near the front because for some reason almost every flight i have been on has run out of one of the meal options near the middle of the plane. My plane food is very important to me.
Night RG
The 'Black Boxes' aren't actually black, they're Orange/Red
There are many Black Boxes but they do other things
I am off to bed now too! Night everyone!
:) Whenever i've been on a plane i've always ended up next to the emergancy exit door thing. Which is great because it means you get more leg room... but i'm always terrified i'll have to open it one day if we crash or something, it's alot of pressure :s
night Alex.
I know all that ;) Scarily.
Requesting a special meal tends to sort that out and more often than not, you get it first
Veggie, Vegan, etc
G'night Sir
The spider was probably more frightened than you were.
Have you been talking to my mum. She'd tell you that you're statistically most likely to survive by the door.... She's pretty obsessed and fidgets if she has to sit 3 rows away!
i doubt that :P
I have done this also. I booked a vegan one because I hate creamy food and their sample veggie menu looked gross.
ooh dear. See i'm not scared of crashing or anything going wrong, i just get anxious that if something does go wrong and i need to open the door i wont be able to :)
Always travel with water, music & reading material
[Of course, these days, you have to buy your water after security clearance]
That's why we have cabin crew
:D hehe i know, it's always been the one thing that bothers me about planes though :)
How many rows away from a baby do you need to be do you reckon?? Stupid screaming brats next to my ideal seat....
more than there are. ear plugs required.
The seats marked bassinet are designed for that, depends if the parents are smart enough to choose it
It's pot luck tbh
Okay I'm all chosen up. Thanks for your assistance! I'm hoping there aren't more decisions involved, my head might explode :D
ah but requesting a veggie meal would mean id get a veggie meal. Bad times! I seem to be the only one who doesnt case about leg room but ive never sat anywhere in my life where i didnt have plenty. #reallyshort
Anytime
Probably just which film to watch, no biggie
Another reason for not flying - security theatre.
Eurgh I always set the metal detector off. Every time!! I swear I have a metal limb or something....
I found out the other day, they are programmed to give false positives every now and then to ensure enough randoms get a 'pat-down'
interesting.
what do they do when you clearly have nothing on you metallic?
And reassuring
yes. but they should probably have a notice somewhere saying that.
Let you go.... It happens to me every time I go near them. They pat you down or if there's only men around, they tend to wave a handheld thing over you slowly. They they say "okay on you go"....
They have had scanners to pinpoint where on your body the metal may be
That and a pat down should suffice, if you pass ;)
my headping is going crazy here
There is an old story about the probablility expert who worked out the chances of there being a bomb on a plane as 1 million to 1 against. Therefore the chances of 2 bombs would be 1 million x 1 million i.e. a British billion to 1 against.
So, whenever he flew he carried his own bomb.
:D
:D
I don't think they want to reveal that info
ive never set one off, which confuses me
the notice would read:
this machine gives false positives every now and then to ensure we get enough randoms
#classified
He he, of course
Also when I flew to Sardinia, they confiscated my suncream (even though I specifically bought a tiny bottle I could take with me) and then I got sunburnt walking to the pharmacy to buy more when I got off. I should have sued....
Even pilots get this
Airport security and Customs people are a law unto themselves.
Never upset them, they have a lot of power over your day
good advice.
I didn't say anything!! It was in my sandwich bag with everything else like toothpaste, moisturiser etc. They just opted to pull the baby 50ml suncream out for kicks I presume.
It happens, unfortunately
And for no good reason. It's all security theatre - makes no real difference to your safety.
sends a message to the rest of the line? or at least comforts them.
or maybe they just didn't want sunburn either?
i am taking zero liquids with me this time since i have no checked luggage. Cant be bothered with the stupid restrictions. This is why im glad i am going to mum and dads and can steal all their toiletries. Anywhere else and id have to actually make an effort.
Woo hoo
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Hi Jon
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Hello there
with any luck, and snow permitting, we might be talking to joe this evening.
any questions for the man, during this end of year wrap up, please drop them here:
http://wiki.si...age/Questions+for+Joe
He says he's home - and he is a bit grumpy at Eurostar ;) {Comment #667}
I don't blame him! That was lousy customer service...