It's Free Practice day in Monaco today, and it's confusing me greatly, because I am not supposed to like Thursdays. Nevertheless, the action gets underway, and thank goodness for that! Here are some of the things we're talking about:
- Red Bull have confirmed they will be running a new diffuser in Monaco, meaning that Adrian Newey has either been downing buckets of the energy drink, or he overstated things when he said it was going to be really tough to get on the car. Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing what effect it has on them.
- Button has offered an insight into the differences between being at the front of the pack and the back, saying that now he's winning, it's all he thinks about and he's worried his girlfriend finds him boring. He says that when you're at the back, you want to get away from it all and do something interesting. I would have thought it was the other way round, so this fascinates me.
- Jake Humphrey has given us some snippets of what's going to happen at the beginning of the Monaco coverage in his latest blog entry. He also says that waiting for Monaco is like waiting for Christmas Day for him.
That's all for now. Don't forget live commenting today, and pay attention so you can alter your Fantasy Racers teams tomorrow. I'll see you in the comments (in whichever thread we happen to be on at the time).
i am in this thread because yesterdays is so big it takes about 5 minutes to load on my phone
I didn't know the new thread was up yet.
When I read that I did feel the same thing. I would call this MOTIVATION…
In fact, I´m fascinated by Jenson himself. He is a real nice guy, as I have never seen at F1.
If he wins this championship, would be something good to F1 in general. I can’t remember the last nice guy whom won a championship…
mika?
although i say that as a man with no actual memory of my own, and am judging him solely on that 2007 advert with lewis/alonso. any further back, has long gone.
:D I'd say Mika too, or Damon. Definitely not Schumacher.
I's say he was probably the nicest, although he wasn't the sort of guy who would strike you as being especially friendly like Jenson. Damon was similar, ive met him and he was relatively friendly
BTW, do I have to justify this?
Here? Nope.
Thought not :D
A road car design I helped out with for someone doing an automotive design course is being built!
8O
Personally - there is no way in hell you would get me in it. ;)
Well done! Thats great, are there any renderings of it?
The design was done 10 years ago - it was mainly done on paper. :D
The design brief was a modern take on a classic sports car. Most people did 911's or 356's or e-types... This was a based on the Morgan 3 wheeler. *less wheels = less complicated ;) *
Carbon fibre moncoque and panels, big sticky wheels all round, - prop shaft/chain driving the rear wheel - engine from a Yamaha R1 on the front, full f1 style suspension - reasonably simple. Estimated weight of about 350-400kg and power around 165bhp.
Only one is being made by Ben *chap I helped out* as a track toy - not exactly as designed - carbon fibre monocoque is being replaced with aluminium skinned paper honeycomb which will be glued and rivited- Lotus Elise style. Panels will be fibre glass instead of carbon as well. Engine has been changed to a Hayabusa engine at 200bhp....
I ain't getting in it!
Will be interesting to see it.
There is a pretty good history of the monaco GP in the media kit http://fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1_media/Documents/mon09_media_kit_2009_en.pdf for people who dont know it all that well. which is probably just me, but im getting into it!
and for your next challenge. mind uploading it to drop.io for us?
I think I worked it out. Although if it breaks its not my fault!
absolutely. that's what we have a steven for ;)
Oi!
*wasn't me*
So it is not just Chris's name that others are using
:P
i see a new pdf in drop.io, cheers nick :)
44 pages?? sugar.
You asked for it!
It also has all you will ever need to know about how the press are allowed to operate at the 2009 Monaco GP!
s'ppose :)
and with that, i'll bid you all goodnight.
Night, i should probably do the same since it all kicks off in 6 hours
So, my brother just heard the news about the FIA court hearing. This is his reaction (non F1 fan):
And Ferrari want’s to take their bat and ball and go home!!............LOL
Schuie-bashing in these here parts should give you valuible "Club Me" points for your next purchase of a Sidepodcast mug...
Crap, most of my fellow Canucks are still up as it is earilier in the day out west...
My eBay purchases have arrived! Now I know how to fill in the hours between sessions!
So - what's in store for us today, boys and girls? :)
ok, I am loving the blast-from-the-past of the 1999 Racing Line issues, from having a quick flick through two of them I have already seen 18 year old Jenson, 13 year old Lewis and 'up and coming' West F3000 star, 22 year old Nick Heidfeld.
The size of these magazines makes the 2009 issues appear painfully flimsy though.
Hmmm. Williams on top of the timesheets?
How about a statement from LDM?
yep thats why hes in it
from having a flick through a few more (my issues range from 1999 to 2004) Lewis is featured almost every month with an update about how he is doing. It really reinforces just how much they groomed him to get where he is now!
he might have won by now had he been at McLaren ;)
Aren't FOTA meeting today? Might hear something late in the day.
OK - now that's just creepy. :O
heck - he might have been champion by now if he were at McLaren!
I believe the meeting is tomorrow.
Ah yes. No "luck" of the Finnish to deal with
Oh right, it's not Friday is it? :-)
I think I have ruined any future edition of this magazine for myself. These old ones are amazing. Time to find more on ebay....
I like looking through my old copies of Autosport. I am currently trying to digitize the lot, to reduce the piles of paper
thats a great idea, sounds like a big job though!
I have just come across a whole page of Lewis in February 2004, including a picture of his brother who is tiny. The too-much-exposure-of-his-family started young :(
I really think that was a bad move by Ron. I know he's helped Lewis' career by leaps and bounds, but some of the stuff he let happen were either unneccessary or slightly harmful in the long run.
I guess you just have to look at Lewis and Ron now to see that this is sadly true
Greetings everyone :) Let's hope practice is spectacular. I saw some great highlights yesterday with accidents and incidents and certain people stopping on the track. But they missed off "Sutil's 4th" - one of the paddock's tragedies in my mind.
Any chance Autosport can sell you their digitized versions? just a thought, sometimes they do things like that.
Looking forward to it. Hope I can find a feed.
I'm getting an interesting impression of you Amy: ACDC, tennis, vaccinations and ebay. anything else we should know about? ;)
When logging on today to f1.com live timing i noticed the updates by emails that they offer.
has anybody done it?
Register with our email service and Formula1.com will email you the following:
* A Preview Mail for each day of the race weekend
* A Results Alert as soon as the final Qualifying results are available on Saturday
* A Results Alert as soon as the race results are available on Sunday
* An On-sale Alert when tickets for each Grand Prix become available
Righteo, i'm off to hand in this god forsaken assignment, I shall hopefully see you guys for fp2 :)
I'm watching European Election Party Election Broadcasts....
It's my first election...so i want to make it count....aaah, who to vote for :(
Button has offered an insight into the differences between being at the front of the pack and the back, saying that now he’s winning, it’s all he thinks about and he’s worried his girlfriend finds him boring. He says that when you’re at the back, you want to get away from it all and do something interesting. I would have thought it was the other way round, so this fascinates me. {Original entry}
The short version: Losing hurts, especially when you want to be a winner, so the mind instinctively looks for stuff to think about that doesn't hurt in that situation. A girlfriend fits the bill nicely.
Winning causes lots of happiness, causing winners to dwell on victory and perhaps neglecting less exciting stuff. It takes a good girlfriend - or a patient one - to get through such a scenario when the winner is thus distracted for a long time.
It’s my first election…so i want to make it count….aaah, who to vote for {Comment #50
Difficult. The only parties that have bothered to send me anything are UKIP and BNP and I refuse to vote for either on principle. The parties I might be interested in voting for haven't sent me anything!
We've had BNP and Labour so far, been watching party political broadcasts....hasn't helped really, the only thing i've learn is that David Cameron (or someone on his staff) has an amazing PR head, the advert was genius
I know very little about politics, but this is a good site for learning: http://www.politics.co.uk/
aaaah, thank you :)
This site is also good at matching your opinions with political parties for the eu elections http://www.votematch.co.uk/europe/
thanks!!!
Also, the Beeb has good "Political Guides" about halfway down the page in the middle.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/
That should keep you amused for a while :)
I'm still amused a tory MP spend 1.3k of taxpayer money on a duck island. I mean, it's annoying really all this expenses silliness, but the idea that a tory politician paid for a 'duck island' gives me the giggles.
I don't even know what a duck island is!
woot, procrastination here i come!! :D
ahaha, i'm taking this test to see which party i should vote for (i kinda know who im going to anyway, but this seems like some fun)
Statement 17:
The greenhouse gas emissions of cattle should be considered in all policies designed to tackle climate change.
LOL
Some of these people are totally detached from reality. I saw the guy who claimed to get his moat cleaned interviewed on TV. He started off saying that he had not claimed for it and ended up saying "well someone had to pay for it to be done". Don't think it ever occurred to him that he should pay.
did it occur to him that he doesnt need a moat of all things?
They do produce a lot of methane but what is the plan. Capture the methane and burn it. You will get a lot of carbon dioxide which is still a greenhouse gas but in effect you get the same level of greenhouse effect plus energy. Just need to find a way to capture it and feed it into a power station
He has to keep us plebs out
Cattle nappies?
Corinna Schumacher must be VERY, VERY patient then. :D
WOAH! Lewis beats Nico by 0.001. Amazing. :O
Oops. Wrong thread. Hahaha!
I've dropioed my comparitor (Openoffice format only for speed).
Qualifying predictions:
Lewis Hamilton-Rubens Barrichello
Sebastian Vettel-Fernando Alonso
Felipe Massa-Kimi Räikkönen
Jenson Button-Nico Rosberg
Heikki Kovalainen-Nelsinho Piquet
Jarno Trulli-Mark Webber
Sebastien Buemi-Sebastien Bourdais
Kazuki Nakajima-Nick Heidfeld
Timo Glock-Robert Kubica
Giancarlo Fisichella-Adrian Sutil
Race predictions:
Lewis Hamilton-Rubens Barrichello
Heikki Kovalainen-Felipe Massa
Sebastian Vettel-Nico Rosberg
Kimi Räikkönen-Jenson Button
Fernando Alonso-Kazuki Nakajima
Nelsinho Piquet-Mark Webber
Jarno Trulli-Sebastien Buemi
Sebastien Bourdais-Nick Heidfeld
Adrian Sutil-Timo Glock
Giancarlo Fisichella-Robert Kubica
I like that race result!
I knew Lewis would win this race.
I'll tell you my FR teams either when I return home or tomorrow, depending on how tired I feel.
Is it another bank holiday on Monday?
I think so, which means a mega busy day for me Saturday :(
yep :)
Didn't you just have one? That's it, I'm digging out the ancestry visa and moving to the UK :D
We seem to get them all at once over Easter and then again over Christmas and nothing for the rest of the year.
There aren't many it's just that there are two in May.
I guess I can't complain, I normally end up working public holidays anyway.
Waitwaitwait....
You spend all day on SPC, don't sleep AND hold down a job!?!?
Impressive!!
Hi all,
Just been to the zoo. Any revelations from FP1&2?
Kubica is powered by a Toyota
No-one crashed!!!
You what?
eh?
Any pandas?
Vettel had a nice gentle engine blow up in FP1 then Kibica had a good old fashioned flames and shrapnel blow up in FP2. Oh and apparently I am famous.
borg. i got told off for spc'ing on my phone at work today though.
Yeah, and Groundhogs ;)
We saw a goat giving birth in the petting area too :)
marmots?
otters?
penguins?
anything else Christine likes
Don't they understand?
Pictures of pandas???
From fakeKimi
@fakehamilton your helmet only has a 1 in diamonds, when I drove they gave me a whole Iceman in diamonds
Sorry, no, my camera is broken :( But here's an article for you ;)
one of my managers blames me for McLarens downturn, I think she understands. Well, she knows what F1 is at least, and who Lewis is. Thats a start.
All of the above!
Booo.
How do you know I like penguins? I didn't know we had discussed this.
Sorry :(
It's a lovely day outside.
Time to go for a walk with my diablo and clubs.
Hahaha, ive always wondered how they survive being black and white in a sea of green
Golf?
You are taking a Lambo for a walk?
You have mentioned penguins before
Ahh 637 articles to read - I leave my feed reader for 12 hours and it asplodes! Why am I always firefighting it?
Fair enough. Good memory!
Juggling. Going to try and adapt to 5 clubs.
no - not the lambo - the gyroscopic toy.
Penguins eh?
You'll like this :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4quM5UZg1M
I now need a pet penguin...
I want one with a pingu backpack
http://penguins.co.nz/
thats my home town. You quite often see the wee things on the main street. They're so little and cute :D
aha, i knew you'd turn up as soon as i linked that lol
It's a recession, haven't they heard? :P
I knew it was cold there but blue penguins?
but its so cuuuuuuuuuuute!
speaking of fake f1 twitters, fakeheikki is SO BAD. It saddens me. Out of all the drivers, its the worst.
make your own one
i'm not witty enough, but at least i know this :D
Tweet FakeHeikki and give him some grief. If he is not interesting or funny provoke him into it
Afternoon all.
How was practice?
There is something reassuring about tweetdeck's sonar pings. I am sure sooner or later I am going to get spooked when they are not there because I am away from my computer
It sees to be paying off.. they got faster, Rosberg wins
Kubica blew his car up with a bang, Vettel did his with a wheeeee
Kubica blew his engine into lots of little pieces with flames and stuff. Before that he sounded suicidal on the radio about how bad the car was.
Can I cry?
hey RG. You didn't tell us that Kubica had a toyota engine? :P
Everybody with Lurch on their FR team should be...
:D Good thing I disposed of him the moment his price went up ever so slightly. Kubica's 2009 is looking a lot like Capelli's 1992...
Phew.
Hows Heidfeld looking then?
He was not happy on the radio
Here comes the tears.
You know, you still have a day to change your lineup...
depends if you consider -17 in fp1 & fp2 good or not...
aww no one tell R.G where Glock finished....
I'm a BMW fan, I don't bloomin care about fantasy racers at this point.
p17... not -17
Awww. :( Well, BMW have been awesome since they started. That had to end sooner or later. I think they're very close to the point of giving up on 2009 and focusing on 2010. I'm not sure Kubica will be with them by then, though.
especially since they gave up 2008 to focus on 2009!
True. Wonder who would be with them then.
Have a seat while we discuss this. You don't have any sharp objects in your possession. Have you heard the story of the man who told his wife on the phone that her cat had died and she told him that he should have broken it gently to her by telling her that he was on the roof first and they were trying to get him down and he fell and was injured and then eventually that he died.
Well in that case Heidfeld's season is on the roof.
Don't think my McLaren supporting friend hasn't reminded me of that this year.
If they can't get Vettel, they'll have to bet on Rosberg.
Glock or Klien maybe? They have/had contracts with BMW
aw, I don't get joy out of others misery. Unless its someone rubbish. I'd like to see Heidfeld get a win :D
Not you McLaren supporting friend ;) Mate of mine I've had for a while, went to Britain 06 I think.
Glock is Toyota's future - they won't let go of him. Klien isn't good enough to lead BMW's charge.
If anyone's interested... here's my progress on Brawn GP car so far:
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q127/Lukehmuse/brawn1.jpg
You might think 'thats just a few shapes and letters; there's over 50 different objects on that one side alone, and a lot of little things all moulded together to ge the shapes right. Will be adding sponsors such as virgin, MIG and th rest of the car now :)
Nice looking car. Whats this for?
it looks good Lukeh
Forza 2 on the xbox 360. I previous made this
Wow, thats a nice looking car, must have took you some time on that
Faaaaaaaar too long :D
Cool Car Lukeh, i wish i could make stuff like that will you be making it white?
None of the classic F1 channels on JTV are on right now - are they all in hiding?
When it's all done yep, with the Virgin logo, MIG, Henri Loyd,driver name, flag, every little detail
ohhh Djokovic played in the charity football game. Tennis + F1 + Football = head exploding
That will be the pics in dropio
aye, had seen the f1 pictures but novak was on the other team. I wonder who won.
Press Release from Ferrari ;)
Maybe Joe knows.
Maybe I will set up a fake diResta and wind him up
you just wait until someone leaves it on all afternoon whilst you try and get some kip.
Who sleeps in the afternoon.
ah here we go. There's no Virgin logo in this game, is im gonna attempt making the logo from squares, circles, and allsorts of objects... will probably end up being 100's of little random bits making it up
*jumps into the deep end*
The virgin Galactic logos they ran with in Bahrain might be easier
:)
I looooove a challenge :)
Lou's logo is still on dropio
It would be immense to just drop stuff into the game and whatnot but you have to make everything from shapes and whatnot, otherwise i'd simply transfer it into the game. Partially why I enjoy doing it though, just the creative side of me that loves the challenge of it
I'm told that You should find something you can lift to work from on the virgin website, or on 2nd life.... or you could, um, ask them nicely....
Second Life ... do you mean "Zombie Sims"? :D
ATM I do!! And by accident not design (like today, when I don't drink coffee at lunch and come to at 17h20 to find a whole load of stuff on the screen in front of me and, thankfully, that the children haven't wrecked the house (in fact someone got a blanket and tucked me into it, turned off the DVD they were watching and they've all gone to play upstairs *quietly*....
a couple of pics of renault straightline testing at duxworth:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/renault-at-duxworth-jpg
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/renault-straighline-testing-at-duxworth-jpg
can't see any exciting changes to the car though?
[via]
Duxworth?
Where the hell is that?
umm....well....
oh yeah :)
duxford.
Can they paint the car in those plane colours?
They dont appear to be driving in a straight line.
I would blame PK, but i dont think thats him?
is the nose slightly lower? or is it just the angle?
I dunno - the second image is a definate improvement.
would understeer quite alot ;)
Might be trying to slice apart the opposisition.
Taildraggers traditionally oversteer. ;)
Although it may be wider than the regs allow.
who is the driver?
ahh, adam khan. apparently.
I'll google him then
haha http://www.f1pulse.com/UserFiles/Image/march2009/adam-khan-renault.jpg
Here's the logo made up of nearly a hundred different objects... cars nearly finished, not long to go :D
Not bad :-)
are they doing any sort of fashion show in monaco this year? I would like to see more of this.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/81333625-jpg
There's no piquet therefore it isn't in the barrier yet
Magnet free zone?
they have one every year
Evening folks :)
Evenin' Mr 'wiss
I remember Jenson oggling the models. :D
I trust FP was enjoyable and interesting?
excellent. As long as their is a Finnish audience, anyway.
did i miss the conversation about jenson having a black helmet?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/jenson-black-helmet-jpg
I ended up crying. So, judge for yourself
Why, because Kub's engine blew up? Or Timo was slow?
No-one crashed + 2 engine failures. was ok :)
No need to rub it in.
You also forgot to mention Nick.
fyi rg: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/3s-company-jpg
I wasn't trying to ;)
they have reenacted that scene at every grand prix so far. I smell a rat. This is what a happy couple looks like.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/81829506-jpg
I was not in Monaco today.
But those sunglasses are nice.
Has anyone seen that Ant is gonna be racing at Le Mans for Aston with Verstappen and Stuart Hall?! :D
You suggest that Heikki and Kimi are going out with each other?
THE Stuart Hall?
noooooo, as soon as I hit post I was like 'oops'
But they look like they at least like each other (in a friend way) which is more than you can say for Timo and whatserface!
that's just the one he uses for the bike they take to the circuits. see he's had it for at least a year i think..
Will he be able to stop laughing?
:D
Couldnt find out anything about the black helmet other than this about rubens 2 years ago
Q: In Monaco in 2007, Barrichello tried out a new helmet design but ended up regretting the decision? Why?
JB: No idea!
Incorrect - Rubens tried out a new helmet during qualifying. A special coating covered the helmet. Although black in colour, it was meant to reveal his usual livery as the temperature rose. But conditions were cool and it stayed black throughout almost the whole session.
ahh, got ya.
noooooo, I'm just sorting through my 'pictures of Finns' folder, and was looking for any possible excuse to post some :D
ooh I did well to post two reasons then. Stupid internet.
BUT!!! it has HANS clips on the back and a sticker saying that its FIA compliant....
I'm more concerened if there is a fuel leak
'Stuart, we have a problem, is there oil coming from the car'
'Oil is streaming from the car like a classic shakespeare text streaming from the early ages and the slipping of the glistening of the oil is distracting yet more cars as they plough on in the murderously tricky course'
Does he still cover football on 5Live?
for amy:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/eye-spy-jpg
that is a bit scary!
If he is riding the bike within the race complex, it needs to be FIA compliant. Don't ask me where I read it though, it was a while ago when my brain had had enough caffine...
that's a bit ott for a scooter.
you're making that up?
bike helmets don't need to be, and there are lots of pictures of drivers riding around on scooters without helmets
fine... i'll do some digging and i will see when he first got it etc...
Surely it would need to be FIM compliant not FIA?
yup lol, bike helmets dont need to be fireproof....or have HANS clips :D
ooh er, whats going on there?
have a happy kimi.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/74516273-jpg
see, the secret to making kimi smile = other finns.
What is in the drink bottles? ;)
You could be onto something with this Heikki loves Kimi thing
That's the real secret to the smiling
Nope. They can choose *not* to wear anything. But anything that is worn has to meet the regs..
Oh gord... I'm going to have to find an old laptop and find the link to the doc. now aren't I? (I think if was via ITVf1 but could have been elsewhere.)
sigh
Although I supose it could also have been another race series altogether, lol, given that brain is not working....
Ooooh. NASA videos in HD!
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/index.html
Oh, yes... could be FIM not FIA... going to wander away now and find large quantities of coffee....
LPG wonders if the expresso coffee pot will deign to work on the stove today...
I'd be surprised if they did, but you may be right.
However, for car racing helmets need to be FIA approved (or MSA depending on the series) which means fireproof lining. Bike racing helmets need to be FIM (or similar) approved, which dont have a fireproof lining or hans clips.
The latter is alot cheaper...generally
well you know what they say,
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/finns-jpg
:D i love that picture lol
how...unfortunate....
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/photolarge.php?photoID=126530&catID=1102-3706
Did Mika ever do that?
Mika tips his on losers
alternatively,
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/doing-it-wrong-jpg
Ah, but he's a big responsible drinking man...
Why can't we have HULU in the UK
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/denis-leary-hulu-wmv
OOOH!! i've just realised where Jens got the helmet from!! the reason it has HANS clips and everything is because he used it during the off season testing before the 2007 season, when honda had that lovely black testing livery. will find a pic in a sec.
once again, a mystery is solved by lou :P good work!
sounds right, and you'd be stupid not to wear a helmet on a scooter/bike/thing.
and shame to waste a perfectly good helmet, drivers get through alot of those things
link :) although he has obviously had the Honda 'H' taken off it.
Someone is a bit of a genius!
Lou's the genius. Chris Evans is the legend.
and by genius you mean slightly too obsessed with a certain driver and team for her own good, right? :P
gahhh, monaco is screwing me up. i keep thinking its friday :(
*claps happily* :D
it's done! getting photos now :D
I know. I'm looking forward to the weekend. But I have Science homework to do.
I'm guessing the smiley shouldn't be part of the Link
tomorrows not too bad, i just wnat it to be saturday. its leavers day for me tomorrow (even though we dont have study leave...go figure), i just want it to end!!
you're right, sorry didn't realise it was.
the year 11's leave tomorrow so its a cause of celebration at least.
and he needs to be a good role model for his children
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/567745-jpg-4
And now that I can't even load drop.io anymore after that picture failed to upload 4 times, I shall stop Finnspamming and go to bed.
ah yes, i remember end of year 11...cant believe that was 2 years ago!!!
me too... but then again it was a year ago. we had an awful lunch and were presented with record book things, and that was it really. sixth form leavers is a much bigger affair though, many lunches, a ball... champagne breakfast in the morning... very strange.
Time flies. I feel this year has gone over very quickly, can't believe it was 8 months ago I was thinking 'God help me, GCSE's, I'm doomed'
Just watching FP on the red button now :P
we got the whole breakfast thing for year 11 minus the ball bit.
aha, you have a few more years of the "im doomed" feeling ;)
i've almost got used to it.... kinda... not really actually, horrible feeling.
Ah damn.
yeah, I've finished my 4 years at uni and I still feel like that.
it generally gets worse, but you get used to it. you go from "oh no im not going to get XXX grades" to "im going to fail, this is just damage limitation" ;)
fixed and uploaded a pic of two more finns for ya ;)
You lot are really good at this motivation thing
It could be argued that it doesn't ever actually go away... just under...
Just seen that Hammy has the number 1 outlined in diamonds on the top of his helmet.
Completelty off topic again and sorry if it's annoying but I've spent too much time with it not to share, my Brawn GP Mercedes CLK car in Forza 2 :D
Pictures here, here, here aaaaand here.
Really, really pleased with that! :D
oops, quoted the wrong comment. that was in #ref to drop.io. i can't fix the education system, sadly.
yup ;)
next step is 'i've got my degree, why can't i find a job!'
Fake Kimi says:
@fakehamilton your helmet only has a 1 in diamonds, when I drove they gave me a whole Iceman in diamonds
:D
ooh goody. i'm dreading actually having to get a job, this education malarky is alot more fun
That looks amazing in game
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D:D
Hehehe, very good :D
wow well done lukeh!
darn
Go travelling, come back after the recession having seen the world. Sell a kidney if you have too, it won't be much use after THAT year anyway
how did you do the virgin logo so amazingly well?!
You can fix everything else?
:D
lots and lots and lots of little shapes and a stupid amount of patience ;) it was worth it though
only drop.io :(
Might go to Scandanavia.
Might stay there as well.
Mum's gone to Iceland ;)
I'd quite like to graduate again just because I loved the funny gown and hat.
Mr C you know you said there would be updates coming to lclt? when did you say they'd be ready i can't remember. all i remember is Christine saying we would really like them.... i could have dreamt that though...
Best thing I ever did post 9-11
Though I still have my kidneys
soon.
yay! :)
you could always buy a hat, just so you can throw it up in the air
But I want them noooooow. *wails like a baby* ;)
Woohoo! I like updates. Except windows ones.
They're automatic... and restarty. :(
hehe. all in good time. was working on new stuff last night. but it'll all be ready when it's ready.
I'll hold you word on it.
they had stickers inside them that politely asked us not to throw them in the air because thats how they get damaged, so I didn't get to throw it like in the movies.
And in my case, broke my computer. I'm never downloading SP3 for XP again!
If Mika goes to Japan and bumps into Kimi and Heiki, will they sing:
We three Finns of Orient are?
wow, thats quite boring. :(
Well thats a tad bit annoying, coud've got 10% off the brawn preorder merchandise as I was registered on their site... boo :(
Haha, we had those as well. Unfortunately we were less well behaved...
you're wasted here ;)
No, sober today ;)
To be fair the F1 comedy circuit is an expensive gig to get started on
so I lied about the picspamming because Kimi in McLaren gear excites me
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/f1-2006-mon-xp-0353-jpg
and I lied about bed because I'm still here. But now I really must go because its 4am. Thankfully I only have to hear that alarm one more time before 2 days of peace.
didnt see that one coming ;)
The BBC Mole thinks RB Toyota and Ferrari will push the other teams to form a breakaway series tomorrow http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/f1mole/2009/05/rebel-three-seek-breakaway-sup.html
Bad mole. Bad, bad mole.
If we get better circuits to go to, and less of the max and bernie show, it could be better. might also calm down the politics. FOM would probably go bust and they could by the name back in time for the start of next season
Am loving the Safari beta Top Sites feature
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/safari-beta-top-sites-jpg
Question, did you say that there would be a poll for the tremaynes we did on Sunday or have I missed something or are you leaving it?
I imagine that is waiting on me to pull out the clips.
Errrm:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/oh-dear-jpg-2
chrome does that, but in a nicer way :)
Oh sweet god put it away.
Not as bad as the Flav one.
Noooo, not that, oh god no
What is that?
okay ;)
When it's ready I'll try it out
By the way, I didn't upload that
I've come to the realisation that when I get an iPhone soon and have 24hr access to Twitter, drop.io & free practice, et al - I may end up being assimilated ;)
Anyone seen this pringles tax thing? they have to pay 10 million (if i remember correctly) in tax because they're not classed as crisps....
:D
I think the next lclt/doohickey mod should include SPC counselling
:D
That's a lotta taters
By Amy?
WTF?
Natch
Nearly, they have been collecting the VAT wanted it to be refunded as they argued they were not a crisp. the court said exhibit A is a crisp so they dont get the money.
And people say f1 is full of pointless legal suits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8060204.stm
Pringles owners Procter & Gamble reckoned they weren't crisps cos: Potatoes make up 42% of the Pringles' ingredients.
they think they make potatoes?
Damn! I want some pringles now. :(
So if even the makers didn't class them as crisps, why the hell did they try to get the VAT?!
They're actually made from dough.
No, I think someone said 'doh!' when they heard the verdict
VAT is only charged on snacks not on wholefoods, P&G argued they werent a snack as they didnt meet the definition of crisps being only 42% potato.
:D
:D
"Pringles are more like a cake or a biscuit, it claimed, because they are manufactured from dough. "
Wind farm 'kills Taiwanese goats'
A large number of goats in Taiwan may have died of exhaustion because of noise from a wind farm.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8060969.stm
Now that's WTF!
Indeed! Noise can exhaust you? How?!
A bit like the Jaffa Cake thing, taxman wanted to reclass them as chocolate biscuits so they could get tax from them, but it was proven that they were a cake so no additional tax. :D
aaaaand now I want Jaffa Cakes as well as pringles.. :(
They are cakes, something to do with the baking process, I remember that from Frank Skinner audience
Biscuits go soft when stale.
Cakes go hard when stake.
Jaffa's go hard so they are cakes. :D
Too many jokes, must resist
boo me too, wonder if morrisons is still open
Don't have either in the flat. I have Kettle Chips though. That'll have to do.
proper ones? i like the red ones, and the dark blue ones
yummmy
Yup. Sea salt and crushed black pepper.
There's a tweeting bird that's been outside my window for the past week or so, the things you hear when you don't have a gun!
ahh, so finest tesco's they are? tasty they are!
yoda am i, stolen from the muppet show i was
Proper Kettle Chips - not Tesco rip-offs.
He's not actually using twitter, though I wish he was
Is this how owl-gate started?
oooh, i am glad :D
Not even Sigur Ros are calming the rage, I may have to break out THE HULK
there's one outside our window that sounds like woody woodpecker.
i assumed warner brothers made that noise up?
Richard Cheese: Ice Ice Baby is helping though
Sorry if this has been mentioned already, but how amazing is Monaco? Or should I say, how fickle is Hamilton?
In Koh Tao, Thailand they have what can only be described as the F*** You bird. Really, it's hilarious.
Oh, and geckos actually say "Gecko" which is too funny also
For about an hour...
At least
Right, gonna go get some pringles and then get go watch the sun set!!
woot
I'll google it
Enjoy
We had one stuck between the 2 walls of the cabin we were staying in. I've never come so close to burning down a building!
I can do that while sitting on my chair. Who needs the outdoors?
sidepodspace update
The space shuttle has been stood down from STS-400 the rescue mission it Atlantis had gotten ito trouble at Hubble. It is now being kitted out for STS-127 to the ISS and is due to launch on Saturday June 13th.
ffs.
Did anyone here Davidsons comments during P1?
System of a Down's Chop Suey, sort of:
http://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Cheese/+videos/+1-mUgJlgShj8g
Hahahahahaa.
yup, but he talked for 90 minutes. anything in particular?
Perhaps its like being let out for exercise in the prison yard. Life doesn't seem so hard for an hour or 2
Well, he's doing a little better here. Maybe he's full of love for that woman
He was talking about Hamilton and how he had joined F1 a bit different.
He started in a fast car and now is in a slow car Davidson said. The normal thing apparently is starting in a slow car and then finishing your career in a fast car. He proved his theory by pointing out Jenson Button etc. He also mentioned himself. But he forgot he never actually got past being in a slow car.
or prozac.
language honky tonk. please.
What was Fisi up to?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8062257.stm
His career isnt exactly over yet, he could still get there if he gets a drive and does well next year
think it was massa's fault. he held up fissi whilst making a gap for a hot lap.
at least from the angles we saw.
Great space shuttle pic
and then massa did the team america secret signal and went across the bumps
OK, ta
Just going back to the Ferrari-FIA court thing (sorry), I see this as the FIA saying "No, we're not biased to Ferrari any more. These are the rules and if they don't want to play ball, tough." It's typical Ferrari - when things don't go the way they want them, they go off on one.
True, but they have a good point this time, who else could make a stand like they could? [that counts]
I don't think there's a team on the grid that has as close if not closer relations with the FIA than Ferrari.
Interesting commentary from Joe Saward, Ferrari exposing their [previously] favoured status to all and sundry which goes against an EU ruling on Sport, on purpose?
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/did-the-fia-really-win-the-court-case/
Speaking of Joe, are they talking to him tonight or tomorrow night?
I wonder if he is going to fakeflav's boat party...
Lee Mack will be, no doubt ;)
He's awesome :D
Quite possibly, Ms MacKenzie too ;)
[Going, not awesome - sorry Gavin]
Why didn't you say LeeMck then instead? I would have known who you meant straight away ;)
I wonder if Joe and the people of the real F1 world know about the fakef1 world?
Evening all. Has anything happened in the last four hours with F1. From a quick skim of news, I'm thinking no
Just Friday quotes really. :)
Kimi is BORG
yeah thanks. that's what I thought. we all wait for the boat party then.
Oops, I meant Thursday quotes ;)
Yeah we've all been doing that today. Really annoying not having a weekend tomorrow!
Can that be put to him at the next aSide?
Just something random - favourite song at the moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whCKZhPSJYQ&feature=related
Mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We-r4TuYWAg
That's excellent :D
Corky & the Juicy Pigs ROCK!
You are a zero out. It was 9 figures. They have already paid it and they wanted a rebate
This woman's a bit of an idiot but the 5 rules of twitter seem like sense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTu-zmirosc
Tis very quiet everywhere tonight. I don't know what's up with me but I can't seem to get enthisiastic about the Monaco GP
Watch the beeb FP highlights, they are quite short
Lewis getting the tail out makes me wanna see more
Massa was doing that all day
Is it wrong that I wanted him to smash into the wall?
I love it when drivers do that out of Anthony Noghes corner.
Wasn't as elegant though, his was more like Bambi's first steps
fairly interesting selections - worlds apart!
Going offline again. Just came in to get some work and get back to my non-internet life.
see you tomorrow for Yachtgate or whatever we call Flavio's Dance Party
I used to have one of those
I need that explained to me
Google it ;)
I've just seen Fisi and Massa giving hand gestures to each other in FP2. :D
Megan Fox with an iPhone in a Star Wars T-Shirt
Here
She just gets better everyday
And it's a Hoth Empire one!
I'm back from my cycle ride, kinda missed the sunset (don't ask) but have pringles and just had a cornetto, so all is good :)
Andy T, if you're around Dave Gorman's tweeting for help to migrate from 10.3.9 to new machine. Sounds like Alu MacBook sans Firewire
Grosjean on pole for GP2. Would someone please tell him he is hopeless and should not be there.
I see Autosport spelled Hüüüüüüülkenberg wrong.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75483
Just seen Leo's new addition to his set
Which Dave Gorman? ;)
Now that, is a good question
Evening all. If it's the Dave Gorman we all know and love, shouldn't he be able to use Google to find the answer?
The answer is Ethernet by the way.
Cheers, have passed on
No migration assistant on old machine
Waitwaitwait, is this a problem with a mac?
*gets excited*
http://twitter.com/DaveGorman
Plus, he's trying to transfer apps, is that possible?
:D
Well not a problem as such...but he's struggling, and thats enough for me ;)
The tweetfreaks have scared him off
Why is TV so rubbish? Ive just had it on for 4 hours and aside from the news cant say anything has even gotten near attracting my attention
?
Is this the ball that bursts?
You need one of those
I pretty much just watch Grand Prix on TV now
Thank heavens for Rapidshare
Question Time BBC1, its very good this evening
No. He now has a sign with him logging days since the last burst
i do, but, we don't know how long this one has lasted so far.
Must be in the comments somewhere
Its on early! and the worlds narrowest tie is being worn
You need to boot the old Mac from the new Mac's install disc. That has Migration Assistant on it.
Yes.
Yeah, started at 9 for some reason
we owned the ball pre-spc i think? christine...
Have you tried doing the same with Windows?
appears he's given up. twitter too full of mentalists.
*ahem*
her blog talks about it
*ahem*
Shoulda added that last bit to your tweet
My vista works perfectly ;)
They transferred from Facebook then?
I was trying not to be too obvious, my colleagues and managers are following me...
Did it let you migrate from Windows 2000?
Woo, go us then. First other person I've met that it works for.
hehe.
Wouldn't that have been a nice thing to help him out though?
agreed. no he just has sad-mac vibes.
Perhaps it does, but when you come to buy a new machine, will you be able to migrate your documents, photos and music to the new machine as well as all the applications without having to reinstall them?
Thought not.
what's the url for that again?
*hides*
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts125/news/landing.html
For anyone interested the ground tracks for the shuttle landing can be found here. Looks like the normal approach over the top of Mexico / Texas into the HAC(Heading Alignment Circle) where they do figures of 8 to drop the altitude.
:D
should be able too, the only problem can be going backwards, i.e vista to xp, but xp to vista has been great
You know, it's the one with the panda pictures on it.
Well, there you go. Was gonna answer your question but now you'll never know.
ahh right.
i don't think it says when we bought the ball though?
Hmmm, new windows for flat vs new car, macbook & iPhone
I fear the windows may lose :(
Evening.
Just watched Talladega Nights - very funny film!
Any F1 news or will all the Piquet be hitting the fan tomorrow?
Numbers Guys have trouble remembering URL's :)
because they're letters ;)
Just Friday quotes, bud :)
YES! exactly that :)
although, in that case i should probably remember the fixed ip.
XP to Vista on the same machine is easy. I'm talking about from one machine to another with no specialist knowledge. It's one of the things that I really like about Macs. Then there's Archive and Install - reinstall the OS without affecting your settings, applications and data.
Dave's still struggling, new disks no workie ;(
It came up earlier, can you ask Joe if he's aware of the Fake F1 phenomenon on twitter and what the paddock think of it
Weather forecast is currently "no go" for landing tomorrow due a chance of broken cloud at 4000ft and predicted thunderstorms within 30 miles of the landing site. At least Christine will be happy.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/
documents are fine, programs i have to install on the new machine, but that dosent bother me
hehe. yeah probs. we may need somewhere to keep all of these because i haven't written down a single question yet. is anyone keeping a list?
:D
Text Edit is your friend
GET IN!
one thing i will have to do soon though. is format the mac and reinstall everything anyway. machines that get gradually slower, affects apple and microsoft.
Does bother some though, it seems
See Christine, told you it wouldnt be on time :)
you're assuming that we see all the questions?
Another one was, was there anything in particular to cause the FIA-Ferrari rift other than the creation of FOTA and the medal system snub between the Belgian GP investigation and the 2010 rule fallout
If they don't land tomorrow they may clash with quali
Start a wiki thread and promote it
Nah, it'll never make Ste Devote
I'll update the...
hey, i'll let someone else do it this time.
belgium? i thought that was fia vs. mclaren? but can do.
we'll have to set up a wiki page, because i'm still going to loose these.
Shhhh!
:D
Yeah but the FIA and Ferrari seemed to be as cosy as ever at that point, we were speculating last night that someting might have happened behind the scenes to cause the shift
ahh, i see. got ya.
Right, I'm off to watch some HD Star Trek
G'night all
see ya bassano.
Night
A re-comment (RC?) before I go
night bassano and night from me as well
who is she?
Just as well that there is a run off
Bugger, link no workie
http://www.iphonespies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/m_fox_iphone1.jpg
I got my DVD's security tab removed by the people at Head this afternoon, as well as pick up the latest Jim Bamber cartoon book and do a practise exam for my Text Processing Level 3 Part 2 exam on June 11th.
What part of Megan Fox in a Star Wars T Shirt didn't you get?
Now I know how Christine feels ;)
:D
Just been to the zoo. Any revelations from FP1&2? {Comment #82}
Apparently Massa and Fisichella can have a serious fist-waving match round the final sector of Monaco without either crashing or holding anyone else up...
(Yes, Thursday practise was a bit short of revelations!)
?
Still stunned at Kubica's engine being a toyota tbh.
Now that was funny :D
*facepalm*
Transformers movie
Mindless fun
And THAT scene with the Camaro engine bay ;)
Or FHM.com
Don't make me come over there! ;)
I'm not here anyway
i am aware of it. but mostly cause the director couldn't stop bitching about hddvd.
why is the star wars t-shirt significant?
Facepalm: Because expressing how dumb that was in words just dosen't work.
Exactly :D
It's not, unless you're inside it and your name rhymes with Egg-On
:D
i'm guessing the zoomed iphone isn't important either?
carry on.
No, just Megan
[It was a Stars with iPhones thing]
"It's no surprise Paris Hilton has an iPhone, just that she knows how to use one" :D
I suppose you don't know who Olivia Munn is either?
I have the answer to Dave Gorman's problem - it's not possible to migrate directly from OS X 10.3.9 to 10.5.x via a network connection, you need to transfer it all to a USB drive or clone the disk.
Note that it is still possible though.
hot sauce shots
i do. you linked to her... months ago. she... umm... podcasts?
I do.
dave gorman reads spc?
w00t!
Hello Kitty
http://www.its4am.com/.a/6a00e553cc0e0d8834010535f04990970c-800wi
Attack of the Show on G4
I've seen 2 year old kids master the iPhone in seconds, so Paris should be able to use it a bit. :)
She was mentioned in the comments two days ago
I think I suggested Carbon Copy Cloner
isn't the G4 network a bit... piquet?
I don't think so, just thought you might be interested.
Its no tech tv
Yeah, i went on fakemarkwebbers twitter page at school and got some choice looks because of the background, so i was told to look at hers instead...
Greed. I have the same problem but with podcasts, Autosport mag, watching non-F1 racing, TV series, movies..
;)
i was really.
Never watched it, just see the odd funny clips like Hot Sauce shots and the fallout the next day on twitter
I watch some of the podcasts. It can be amusing.
I should think of the rest of the lyrics before christmas and phone that one in
ooooh!
Everybody with Lurch on their FR team should be… {Comment #127}
My LCM Barato team will not be happy then...
Speaking of FR teams, there's no FR thread so I'll write about it here.
LCM Dragons had a major shake-up. The Brawn team and Nakajima are still in, but Sutil and Glock were changed for the McLaren team. There is absolutely no change, for the first time for any of my teams since the game started.
LCM Fire Lizard was somewhat more stable, with Trulli being exchanged for Kovalainen. The Force India duo, Button and Hamilton remain as before (and as usual for that team). There is $0.8m change.
The other three teams were swapped about a week last Sunday, to be in the following states:
LCM Barato: Sutil/Fisichella/Nakajima/Piquet Jr/Heidfeld/Kubica/Bourdais ($1.5m change)
LCM Caro: Hamilton/Vettel ($8.8m change)
LCM Aléman: Sutil/Heidfeld/Rosberg/Vettel/Glock ($5.3m change)
Selection statistics:
3 - Sutil
2 - Button, Nakajima, Hamilton, Kovalainen, Fisichella, Heidfeld, Vettel
1 - Barrichello, Piquet Jr, Kubica, Bourdais, Rosberg, Glock
Second only to the balsamic vinegar type.
I can't believe I was sat in a tax lecture and you lot were talking about tax. Even if I'd missed it I wouldn't have missed it. No escape!
F1 link: Former Grand Prix driver Max Papis, now in NASCAR, dressed up as a gecko at Paul Tracy's Indy 500 press conference because they share a sponsor who's logo is a cartoon gecko.
Hmm. James Allen has started an Audio Diary. It's actually not bad.
Uh oh.... dare I say... link?
This is odd, i'm listening, but not outraged.
It's a new feeling
on his blog on the right hand side
It's.... acrually listenable. huh.
why couldnt he have commentated like that?!
morning all. Im tired. Kind of glad there is no track action today, i shall be aiming for an early night
He sounds like he's locked himself in a room by himself and is a little upset.
although content is really good
I know. I wasn't sure if I dare listen after the slideshow debacle, but I'm glad I did.
I'll believe that when i see it!
He'll get lots of praise for this, then next week, we'll get...
"Wading back and forth, Flavio hosts the leaders.... tarmac streets beam out Monaco heritage.... amrco everything, shiny and gleamy..."
my thoughts on James Allen's audio thing
- he seems much more calm and collected than he did on TV, but at the same time at the beginning he does almost sound a little upset or maybe even too calm, but it's something he will i'm sure get better at.
- he needs to sort out the audio a little but as a first attempt it's great!
- i'm actually looking forward to the next one i think, if there is a next one.
So go and tell him what a breath of fresh air this dairy entry is and that you are looking forward to more in this line :-)
JENSON BUTTON WINS!!!!
need i say more?
That is going to happen
Next thing he will be signing up to do a panel
OOOH!! i’ve just realised where Jens got the helmet from!! the reason it has HANS clips and everything is because he used it during the off season testing before the 2007 season, when honda had that lovely black testing livery. will find a pic in a sec. {Comment #245}
Now that's recycling for you ;)
I'd love to see him on the panel actuallty!
He does have a lot of very interesting insights, its just a shame it didnt come across when he was commentating. but i think that was more down to ITV's desire to take the show in that direction, which is a shame for him. who knows a couple of years off and he could come back as a great commentator. Although he will have a lot to prove to overcome how bad he was before
I know its GMM, but Frank Williams quote, look at the end of the article, i think they missed a t
http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/090521221122.shtml
:D
Nice one!
Legard is no better. Crofty on the other hand... well, the BBC need to swap them over or something!
Apparently Brundle refused to work with Croft for some unknown reason.
First I've heard of this..
Sauce?
Ooh, do tell.
not the most reliable source, but ive been following this thread, probably the best for info on the bbc coverage, and the beeb follow it as well.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=32557703
Dont ask me where it is though, its in there somewhere
Also from that thread, Ben Edwards was apparently one of the first choices, but he didnt want to sign an exclusive contract, so it didn't go any further
Perhaps he didn't like Hi-De-Hi
Oh dear
eh?
Haven't read the thread in ages but back in Feb or so, they were saying Ben Edwards was a back-up in London for a lot of ITV races, in case they lost the link..
Jimmy Perry - David Croft
Writers/Producers of Dads Army, Hi De Hi, and other BBC sit-coms of the 1970s and 80s
Evening all - is there a sensible place to download an audio recording of the official interviews? I know I can get the text at Formula1.com, and coupled with spreeder.com it doesn't take too long, but can I DL the audio anywhere?
Cheers,
Dave
Are you going to race it?
Works well for me. You just have to adjust the update periods in the settings and away you go. I use three columns (friends, replies, direct) but with the window dragged smaller to only show the first.
I still have very serious crashing problems with it even after I updated the other night when pat recommended redownloading it :(
Is there anyway to minimise it to the tray like skype?
Depends what version you are running. The one Lukeh downloaded can't do it because they thought that was what caused the crashing. I never "upgraded" to that one so I still have the functionality of just clicking minimize...
\i only downloaded it the morning... so i guess i will keep closing it in a vain attempt to keep my desktop tidy
I’d quite like to graduate again just because I loved the funny gown and hat. {Comment #293}
I have to say my graduation was pretty awful. Too many crowds, too much noise (even earplugs didn't help much), too much pointless queueing and too much getting poked. Basically it ended up so bad that I went into sensory overload and didn't technically graduate until about six weeks later.
If there's a next time, I'm having my degree posted and maybe hiring the gown and hat for photo opportunities.
Indeed! Noise can exhaust you? How?! {Comment #348}
Stress. Too much noise for too long causes stress and the physiological symptoms thereof. An increase in sweating and other chemical reactions, if sufficiently extreme and prolonged, can be exhausting. Most living beings get out of the area and/or protect their ears long before that happens, but if the animals were penned in, they wouldn't have had that option.
Rehydration also helps, which makes me wonder whether the farmer remembered to provide enough water for a stressed herd.