It was a big day in F1 news yesterday, as we saw both the Renault hearing done and dusted, plus the announcement of the 2010 calendar. I wonder if today will be any quieter? Meanwhile, here are some of the things we're talking about:
- The FIA have also agreed to an engine re-equalisation, although it looks like they're more in favour of de-tuning rather than letting speeds get even faster. The question is, how slow will they go if they try and match Cosworth?
- Meanwhile, Ollie had all the detail on the main news of the day yesterday, with Blog F1 getting there before Autosport half the time.
- So, in case we have forgotten, it's a race weekend this week, with teams turning up to Singapore for the second annual night race. Nakajima reckons he needs to improve his performance, whilst Force India are really happy they are scoring points on a regular basis now. McLaren are all set to bring their last big upgrade of the year, whilst lots of teams have already given up and are concentrating on 2010. What are we expecting to see this weekend?
That'll do it for now. I don't know about anyone else, but I am still recovering from the weekend. We are gradually getting replays and posts up about the extravaganza, and while we do that, I'll see you in the comments.
righto. i think all of the weekends replay videos are stitched and published:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/category/sidepodradio/
they're also duplicated on the drop.
hopefully all is well, it was like putting a gigantic video jigsaw puzzle together. enjoy!
goodnight internets.
Well done MrC, that was superfast, you deserve a few days off!
Night Mr C
Night!
Night sir!
Being completely sober at this time is weird.
Normally I have at least one little bottle. AND this is my week off. But I need to not drink every single day... plus tomorrow at 11am I am going here:
http://www.palmersbrewery.com/page.php?p=tour
According to Wikipedia, it's Car Free Day in Europe.
buenos dias. Somebody please kill me.
Somebody forgot to tell everyone.
Did we or did we not suggest that staying up until 4am is a really bad idea...
Errrrm? I can call Nelson, he'll come crash into you, make it look just like an accident....
*plans trip to brooklands
Softly?
Is it anything KFC couldnt solve....?
I like that - next 5 days in Singapore: thunderstorms :D
Hopefully it will drive away the smog. and we wont have another Losail,
Is Singapore lit differently to Losail? I can't remember. If it isn't, there could be problems..
stupid 4am, if i never see you again it would be too soon. The thought that i am at work for another 7 hours 38 minutes is enough to make me cry
Its lit overhead and not on pylons, but there is a lot of secondary light around the circuit which could add to the reflections.
I guess its a case of scale, but if the thunderstorms in the area are measured by Sepang i doubt they will race
Oh noes!
Think Spa happy thoughts. Think Heikki happy thoughts.
Just 3 more days after this then its FP1 with croftie, ant and boxed chicken ;)
Is it just me that thinks there's waaaay too much connective tissue in KFC for it to be enjoyable??
Shhhhhhh! Amy needs to be happy!
Its a burger anyways, the components are irrelevant to the YUM :P
Hehehe, just thinking about my Legard impression:
"...Can I just say I played the lottery last night and I actually went to the shop and then picked my number and then bought the ticket by handing over money and then went home and watched it on tv and DID I WIN THE LOTTERY?!? No."
Hehehe, you were awesome, well done!
Amy if you havent heard WSLIIA thats another reason not to die just yet.
And the shopping one :D :
"And here's my shopping list! It's milk from eggs from bread from cheese from sausages, oh hello what's this, it's a tomato!"
i am not having kfc this weekend i am having free pizza instead :D happy spa thoughts involved a trip to sta on my lunchbreak but i cant be bothered leaving the building
It is enjoyable from time to time..
Sleepy dozy time at lunch then.. Go tomorrow.
So I'm looking at trying this class called Bodycombat. It's a fitness program which utilises moves drawn from Karate, Tae-Kwon-Do, Kung-fu, kickboxing, Muay Thai and Tai-Chi, all choreographed to dance music. Looks awesome and I've been meaning to give it a try for ages. It's supposed to give you a really good workout. :P
Hide under your desk again?
hehe that did amuse me!
I have totaly forgotten to look into fencing classes!
Thank you for reminding me! That sounds good, but fencing is too awesome
I've done bodycombat classes before. It's ruddy hard work but it's one of the best classes I've been to I think.
Plus, while it's a unisex program, from what I've seen the classes are most made up for the female gender. Not that that's a bad thing in some ways ;)
I have to say I didn't see any boys there though! I don't know why boys don't tend to go to classes at the gym.
Hehehehe that was obviously my thought.... :P
Apparently you ache all over the next day. Is this true? And it must be a lot of fun too. :P
They tried to trick me into doing some mad cycling thing... Ha! dumbest thing i have ever heard of ever!
Fencing and combat classes where you get to hit people are exceptions though
You get to visualise hitting someone in Bodycombat. Does that count? :D
Erm depends how fit you are. I wouldn't say it's hugely muscle achy. It's a cardio thing mainly although I guess it does tone. I did it a while ago when I was in my fitness freak phase and doing proper toning classes and stuff, I think that aspect was a bit of welcome relief compared to those.....
i ge to visualise hitting people when i walk down the street, there is something inherently satisying about catching some one with a sword
See I wouldn't have said this though, maybe my class was different. You did a lot of punching and kicking and stuff but more as part of an aerobics style exercise programme.
might try sleeping on the couch today because i have a whole hour. I do have a roast dinner to eat though since i slept through tea last night.
Good lord.
Is this happening to you because I'm sleeping normally at the moment??
You are awake at 10:30pm!
1.30 even!
Errrr I was several hours ago :P
and Am!
Ah but my sleep has got so behind that I'm back in a normal cycle.... I don't need huuuge amounts to get by. I'm managing to get up for 9am in the morning. I'm not getting lag like I normally do.
Do you understand what I mean? Normally I'll stay up until 3 then sleep in then the next day it'll be 4 etc etc
i dont call those normal hours alison! If i am missing anytime before 10pm tonight my time please yell and wake me because i should not sleep before 10.
I obviously haven't explained! I'm gonna go to sleep soon. I'll get about 7 hours sleep from 2-9 what's up with that.....?
ow the person i am talking to has put me on hold and they have obnoxiously loud hold music. Not good for my headache!
Do they have internet iciss? :P
If you mean get up at 9 that's ok. Normally I try to go to bed at 1 or 1.15 and sleep to 7.45 (snooze again until 8). And that's not enough.
I'm off this week so I'm sleeping like crazy. I slept from 2 or 3am (can't even remember when I went to bed yesterday) until 10am, then dozed off for another hour.
I think that's 1pm our time. I probably won't be here..
I'm too busy watching a documentary about the economy to go to sleep at the moment though :P
I was just skimming through Google Reader, just the news stuff not the blog stuff. Bit bored. Sort of wasted the day which is not good. Well, it is good for a holiday day because you're not suppose to do stuff, I had planned some stuff which didn't get done though.
Lots of 'dead' time which could have been used to listen to more podcasts or something. I caught up with GoForOdd.com, meant to do more though. I did wander into town for a while, and wrote a blog post, and tidied the flat a bit.. so it wasn't too bad! Just feels it.
Surely that's exactly the sort of thing to send you to sleep :-)
I need a short thing to end the night with, so listening to the trial MFC podcast :-)
Hah. I likes it :P
hooray panadol has been purchased and i also bought some sort of "help you sleep" tablets even though i am not a supplementy person.
Hehe @ 'supplementry person' :D
I love it!
i like science! Herbs and stuff dont seen sciencey to me. But im so tired.
What! heheh you must be tired, that comment even confused me!
I meant supplementary person... like an additional person who isnt really necessary, sort of just there in reserve :P
Not to make you jealous, but I am going to bed. Goodnight!
oh my god they had better work because they smell AWFUL and are so large i probably cant swallow them
Oh dear... Do you have jelly/jello? always helps with medicine (it did when i was little)
i am down with any excuse to make jelly. I miss my old job in the hospital kitchen. All the jelly you could ever need
You know we have ibg cubes of jelly here rather than crystals?
The size of sugar lumps
I feel I need to prepare you for this shock
i do, i bought some once!
It's quiet here this morning.
Morning, Jackie and Amy.
Quiet this morning, indeed.
morning or afternoon
Afternoon, Wolf. Are you in SG already?
but hospital jelly... Really?
I keep buying boxes of crystals (Aeroplane is the only way to go) and not making them. Crazy!
Morning all :D
Still knackered, although less so.
Was the engine equalisation discussed much last night?
Not sure - but I remember it being discussed when we first saw it.
morning gavin, morning everyone
not yet, flying on Friday morning
ahh, i see. do you already have a singapore quiz?
nice photos from Singapore you posted on Facebook !
haven't made one, too busy last few days, a bit hectic time in work
Thanks - they're not mine of course - two mates from another F1 forum who are there. One of them is a marshal...
Sorry, how much are the tickets to Spa? FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY EUROS???
looks like rainy weekend ahead in Singapore ...
that price tag has a strong Monaco smell :-)
Ouch.
rain + smog = trouble
What do you think the track would be like with Rain? I guess quali & practice would be borderline useable, but on race day, virtually useless.
Those flashing red lights are dangerous anyway.
the smog or haze as they call it I had chance to experience at Sepang few years back. it came out of nowhere and in matter of minutes I could barely see the length of the start finish straight. I have no idea how that would go together with the night race and possible rain. well there is no rain in Singapore, there are only rainstorms :-)
exactly. those lights better be effective. or else, we could be seeing another rain-shortened race on the Malay Peninsula.
the party is still good in Singapore, rain or shine :-)
mr noble just tweeted this on JPM ... he did bring F1 manners to NASCAR :-)
http://www.fox40.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=027b811e-6268-4c76-b8eb-a0bfc822efd2&src=front
but it might be difficult to go to the party if it's storming outside... ;)
used to it from here :-)
out for late lunch
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78777
Boo! No NZ round for A1GP? Way to go, not visiting a country who have supported the series from the start (notwithstanding that the seat holder put money up to keep it afloat)!
US Media, you have no idea who you're dealing with. :D Just wait til they see what he did in Australia 2004 or Imola 2002...
That said, the Sacramento FOX affiliate got very unlucky. Had they been ahead of LA, I think JPM would've done both.
what happened? i cant watch the vid at the mo...
Nice to see NASCAR picking up tips from F1 PR... :D
That said, if NASCAR is getting dissed for that, what chance does F1 have of EVER becoming popular stateside?
JPM was set for 30 minutes of interviews with 9 FOX affiliates. He had only done 8 when the 30 minutes was up, so #9 didn't get anything from JPM. Cue obvious Tremayning from the #9 affiliate reporter.
Basically, NASCAR was begging with JPM to talk to Sacramento (#9). JPM insisted no, and he was off.
Um, what's wrong with that?
The Sacramento affiliate was saying that one of the reasons NASCAR is becoming unpopular is that the drivers were becoming inaccessible. He was implying JPM should've been more flexible with his schedule to talk to them, even if it meant going overtime.
OK I went and watched it... See, I understand Montoya not wanting to continue but the reporter is onto something for sure.
Having said that, why so many interviews for the same network? Why not just one and then send the tape around?
He also said JPM may be getting carried away with his popularity. But JPM was never really a guy who cared for his popularity, I think.
Good idea. I guess that's how it works Stateside. Local affiliates might like to ask their own questions.
I think JPM likes being the bad boy, tbh...
In fairness, modern drivers do a lot of media/PR work and it never seems enough. We don't know why he didn't want to extend the interview, maybe he had a plane to catch or something. Maybe he just wanted to set a limit, who knows?
Always has, in my opinion.
Indeed. It's always a difficult balance in working with the media.
so i take it you are keen to do 2 races in 3 weeks too?
Morning all... Very busy morning this morning!
:D
So that is the price for Spa tickets then?
for the most famous corner in f1, yes
FYI, the cost of those tickets easily covers the whole Le Mans trip - tickets, camping, food, drink, fuel, the whole lot!
that's the reason the grandstands are half empty in f1these days
That's insane. I can easily afford it - but I am wondering now if I really want to!
FYI two days grandstand tickekts for Macau gp are about 160 eur and that is for f3, wttc, gt cup and bikes. You do get to see lots of crashes
thats just for sunday tickets btw. Whole weekend is cheaper at the bargain price of €385 :D
IIRC, We looked at going to German GP 08 and the tickets were 200 Euros...
add 10% and 10% annual increase in Bernie fees + Eau Rouge surcharge and there you go :-)
you can get tickets for less than 200 at spa, just its called general admission :D cheapest grandstand is 250 or so
But aren't you guys doing the grandstand thing?
not everyone is, people are splitting up depending on the view they want and how much they want to spend.
Bronze sounds good right now... Access to most of the areas. Take a camping chair, sit at Stavelot near the big screen. All you need is radio commentary and you are sweet as!
just spoke to a friend down in Singapore - "it rains regularly here, the Southeast Asia showers, but if it showers, it won't be hazy"
I like the idea of a rainy night race... would be challenging!
Gosh the UK exchange rate is a killer.
In my mind I kind of guessed on around £100 per day for tickets on average (race day would be more others less but it would averge)... So £300 was my guess or 330 Euro ish. So 385 Euro doesn't seem that much more than I expected I guess.
Are most people going for Gold here?
I am if Henry Kelly has anything to do with it (this is a reference to a rubbish tv series).
I hadn't really thought about what I was going for. I need a roof and I need a seat and I'd rather be with others than alone.
My plan in my head was simply to guess how much I would pay for it and then go for a ticket level that was near that.
I am going to have to write a paper on greek philosopher Plutarch and his relation to the Sugababes now aren't I.
ah yes i hate exchange rates. I see €385 and think "oh yes i paid $415 for my aus gp tickets so that sounds right" but then i remember €385 is roughly $650.
Hehe I used to watch that show all the time.
Experience from Le Mans says that a camping chair and a big screen will suffice, but then it wasn't raining!
Look, I'll do the Grandstand if you guys are because I've realised I'm going for a Sidepodcast meetup ;)
i am going for gold but i dont need a roof and i like the view from uncovered more. Mr + Mrs C wanted a roof too though so they can keep giggles company.
Morning all.
Morning!
Morning... Just a quick question... Is it somehow Thursday today?
not really
Not yet!
I have no idea!
The number of small but annoying things going wrong is high just like a Thursday.. .for me.
maybe this means you are in line for the best thursday ever?
Amy, what are your thoughts on Andy Murray missing out on Davis Cup matches to concentrate on Grand Slams?
here's hoping :)
#MFC
Interesting discussion here on the issues relating to copyright infringement: http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-heroine-lilly-allen-is-a-copyright-hypocrite-090921/
cant knock muzz for that, most of the top players ditch the davis cup from time to time. The scheduling of it isnt the best either. Having ties the week after a slam is pretty much asking then not to show up.
She copied someone else's post?
#mfc
How ironic!
Maybe that's the idea - leave the Davis Cup as a talent farm?
haha, according to Mirror Kimi won the 2007 title with McLaren :-)
and THAT'S why i don't trust em rumors.
So he's staying at Ferrari then ;)
now which part is the rumour ? the Kimi to McLaren in 2010 or Kimi in McLaren in 2007 ? :-)
well, could be that if they left that Hamilton bit out of their story :-)
Idiots....
The Mirror or someone else?
Heh the mirror, but I'm flexible.....
:D
I hate Tuesdays. I've decided.
Tuesdays are OK, what's up?
Today is actually a Thursday - I am now convinced!
Amy do you play the bagpipes?
http://twitpic.com/ionmx
Proof that Goldilocks is not really Finnish (from AUTOSOPRT):
Clearly he has not lived in Scandinavia during winter then?
Hahaha! :D
Clearly. He's always been a Monaco man, hasn't he?
Nothing particularly. I just can't be bothered doing anything....
This goes under What The Fudge:
Just when you thought that anyone would make for a better host than THAT WOMAN:
Lindsay Lohan to host F1 Rocks
More Heikki-related tweets here.
Flavio is distraught - http://bit.ly/XanSE
Italian Press thinking he's going to launch GP1... Hmmm...
well. there's nothing to say the series has to be fia sanctioned. the breakaway series wasn't going to be was it?
if bernie decided to back him, it would be very possible. if only he and bernie were bff's.
But my thinking is it was hard enough to do then... Now it's going to be impossible. No big car company is going to want to associate themselves with him now are they?
Ahahahahahaha
Ahahahahahahahahahaha. ohh dear.
Uhh... morning.
well. adac aren't fans of max/fia. would they/could they back a series? as for big car companies... there aren't any in gp2 anyway are there?
Never mind that - he's suing the FIA. He REALLY thinks he's innocent.
This will get VERY messy.
GP1 with FOTA could've worked. This won't.
*wonders if he knows where max or todt buried any bodies?*
that's all good and well, but if he's to be successful, he needs a ferrari or a mclaren. he won't get either.
if you're trying to build an f1 from the off, agreed.
if you're trying to build a gp2...?
maybe, but can he prove it?
we're probably on different lines of thinking here. but why does flav need these things?
he needs an engine... he can do that.
he needs chassis... he can do that.
he need sponsorship...might be tricky, but that is what he does.
i think we are. but how can you compete with F1 using a glorified GP2 setup?
Considering he's a Max ally, Carlos Gracia confuses me:
Gracia says Briatore ban excessive
I think he does but his name is on the shovel handle too.
That's what I was thinking...
you can't to start with. but, he's been given the motivation and time on his hands.
what's interesting is everything yesterday said "briatore banned from motorsport". but fia does not equal motorsport. it just equals one sanctioning body and not necessarily the only sanctioning body.
if i were him, i'd make a point of showing everybody that.
Yeah and I think he might... It's an interesting question... Some people here do watch other motorsport series than F1 but not me. I wonder what it would take for me to watch his series?
but will anyone sanction him? even ari and his allies would probably stay away from him - he's just too toxic. todt and co can easily say that they're working with someone who has been proven guilty of fixing a race - and that would effectively kill ari's campaign.
i'm the same. i think a series featuring flavio and ron dennis might be enough to entice me.
only Renault as engine supplier
does flav still have options on mechachrome?
hasn't the mecachrome closed down ? I remember reading something about that without paying much attention at that time
probably not ari an certainly not before october.
i don't think flav is toxic either. and even nigel stepney has a job now.
don't know either. would be interested to see if it can be resurrected.
Just a thought: would anyone WANT to drive in a Flav-based series? if they do, they won't get an FIA superlicense. so Flav's series can't be a stepping stone to F1 (which is probably what most drivers would be thinking).
lots of Flavio on their site :-) http://www.mecachrome.com/us_index.php?p=us_entreprise_revue_presse
this is the freshest news on their finances I could find this quickly -
good point. but, if you offered jacques villeneuve would he consider it? i say yes he would. are there others like him, certainly.
the message is clear - don't mess with and stay clear of Piquets
I imagine his response would be 'a drive? a drive?! did you say a drive?! someone wants me?!!! yes! yes definitely!!'
just wondering. hasn't this ruined the phrase "a little bit piquet"?
now it must mean something completely different.
indeed. not good for Jr's hopes.
me too :)
good work sir! so not impossible at all then.
who owns mecachrome now? is that separate from the renault engine facility?
not sure, this is the last article on autosport mentioning them:
http://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/69976
but over a year old.
Paywall. Grrr. :(
ahh, sorry:
"Mecachrome France, a long-term technical partner of Renault, have dismissed rumours that they are set to pull out of Formula One in the near future."
"The agreement entered into by these two companies continues to run its course and Mecachrome is, at present, actively cooperating in the development of these high-performance components for Renault."
that's the most of it really.
I think Journeyer has hit the main point... No Superlicence.
However I reckon they would not be able to not provide superlicences to people who drive in Flav's series because that would be against the EU rules thing.
So partner, but not Renault-owned. They'll have to choose between Renault and Flav, then, I guess.
maybe flav will create a superdooperlicence?
:D :D
Williams planning to race KERS in 2010
No surprises there. Key thing to note, though, is that Williams is now a FOTA member (again). With McLaren and Ferrari recently using KERS to power them to race wins, does this spell the end of a 2010 KERS ban?
first he should come up with his version of the events in a form of proper statement or something. I think all we heard from him are bits and pieces of quotes attributed to him here an there
i'd choose flav. but if flav has any say on the board, he'll choose flav anyhow.
i think, if i were bernie, i'd be rubbing my hands together right now. he could use flavio to get one over max for creating f2.
but yeah... messy.
I don't think there ever was a ban
just an agreement from fota not to use it, right?
FOTA agreed not to use it (i.e. banning it amongst each other). But at this rate, such an agreement looks shaky at best.
yes but that never made it to the regulations. Now that Williams are back in it will be hard to push that through. And McLaren would gladly continue with KERS as well ...
Joe Saward: The Renault decision is not a cop out
A controversial opinion, perhaps, but one put together frankly and eloquently. But I agree with one of the last comments - Renault F1 Team may still have needed a sporting punishment.
Q. There's been a lot of speculation in the press about AT&T Williams' engine supply for 2010. What can you tell us about it?
Sam Michael: It's definitely going to be a 2.4-litre V8
That, I think was Max's hand... He wanted them to keep KERS.
:D Bye bye Toyota.
well the money has been spent, the KERS is here, why waste it. let each team decide if they want to run it or not. if they decide to run it, let them decide if they want to develop their own or buy it from someone else
hahaha... :D
the wonder of the English language, one word can mean many things?
Piquet (adj) 1- To be incompetent or substandard, 2- to follow orders blindly despite the conseqenses, 3- To take massive and disproportionate revenge
Have you managed to stay awake Amy?
I slept for 40 minutes, which is OK I think! I had dinner which is a first in about two weeks.
*applauds*
its 9.13pm and I'm starting to feel sleepy. It's almost normal person hours! Soon I shall take the Giant Tablet of Awfulness, as they say to take it an hour before bedtime.
Did you make jelly?
noo I didn't have any and I haven't been near a supermarket. I have the largest glass of water in the world though!
While watching telly on your belly in Welly?
Ah that reminds me of the Spike Milligan poem:
Today I saw a little worm. Wriggling on his belly.
Perhaps he'd like to come inside. And see whats on the telly.
gah! boo to being ill and off school for the second day in a row :(
morning/afternoon/hello everyone.
aww :(
how are you feeling? Still icky?
rubbish! :( i still have this awful headache and flu kinda feeling. being at home is making me feel all stressed cause i'm missing school. i've had emails from teachers but i just wanna get back and catch up!
Boo :(
anyways, what's everyone been up to today?
I haven't done anything today. I feel that my haircut has blatantly made me lazy. :P
Also wondering why on earth we haven't had any post for 2 or 3 days now. It's really annoying me to be honest!!
we've not had normal amounts of post for about a week so i know the feeling, tis very annoying.
I have been putting stufgf up in my loft... almost fell through!
Oh that reminds me, I did tidy up my room this morning. That was annoying. Grr mess grr. :P
Dunno if anyone's seen this but.... Montoya is still a grumpy dude
Yup, posted earlier. Some things never change. :D
Just watched it... I like him even more!
He probably went... Sacramento! WTF? nothankyou!
:D I was saying earlier, if Sacramento went before LA, he'd probably have done them both.
Oops, sorry sir. Just got showed it now.
He doesn't surprise me at all! maybe he just has a fear of TV cameras after the incident before... ;)
More F1 JazzPopRockFunkyRnBTunes or what ever it is called at AD http://www.gulfnews.com/tabloid/Entertainment/10350861.html
I'm pleased to see that F1 ticket holders all get to go, because the fact the Singapore was a separate event with stupidly overpriced tickets concerned me, because I love the concerts after the Aus GP but I ain't willing to pay anymore money to go to them!
Free entrance for F1 ticket holders? COOL! Why wasn't that around last year? Grrr.
Looks like Carlos Garcia is pressing for the title of Biggest Dumbo in F1
I want to see Aerosmith, but the only way i can get to the GP is to get my dad to shoehorn me in, so i dont think i will get to...
Also:
Beyoncé, Nelly Furtado, No Doubt and Aerosmith for Abu Dhabi? That's a better lineup than Singapore got!
Because the track wasnt even built!
because Abu Dhabi didn't have a race last year? :D
I mean Singapore. ;)
Singapore isn't free for ticket holders, its stupidly expensive.
Oh. Shame. Well, not my loss. :D And even so, Abu Dhabi's lineup is much better.
fourstar has just told me that he has been given a free ticket to the Abu Dhabi grand prix...
...
...curses.
CURSES!!!!! :D
Is he going? :P
(he's also got free accomodation and was already going to be in Dubai at the time)
So that's a yes then!
And if he is forced to take anymore and needs to get rid of them.... He will have less trouble than i did!
oooh I think you should tie him up in a cupboard and assume his identity
Ah cool... Is he coming along on thursday? I am going to be in dubai at the time....
:D
yippee. will he live comment from the race?
I am going to die if i cant go now
in I don't gamble anymore news, Heikki has better odds to win this weekend than Webber :D
what's Vettel's chances look like?
He said he'll do his damdist but is a bit worried about the roaming charges!
He's going with a guy called Nick... I'm guessing it's not you though :(
Seriously? That's just cruel.
Well if he is really worried, i have 2 working UAE SIM's :P I am sure i could take his place and comment for both of us!
ahh. can imagine. fingers crossed though, that would be brilliant.
See if you can find a picture of him... I have contacts ;)
fourstar says he's now nervous about coming on Thursday ;)
in odds order its Hamilton, Button + Barrichello tied, Kimi, then Vettel. Then Heikki, Mark and Sutil :D
Its nothing worth worrying about... he wont see them coming ;)
#MFC
Still on the subject of fourstar he's found this: http://twic.li/
twitter + picli rather than drop.io but... interesting!
I find it odd that Vettel has better chances than Webber, considering he might take an engine penalty.
Well he said he could text things to me and I could pass it on and text back... Or something...
Yes but would you put money on "Calamity Webber"?
especially considering its an Australian site and Webbers odds are always good!
And then he's pointed out why no tweet this on flickr?
that'll do. can we send him with a flag?
He'll take a sidepodcast flag and wear a t-shirt of our design within reason :)
You do flags?
Surprisingly, Italy was his 1st retirement of the season - and that wasn't a mechanical issue...
very good point. don't mention there isn't one on spc either though eh?
if i'm brutally honest. it looks like friendfeed for people who've left friendfeed in a sulk...
w00t!
we ought too.
Nick did you used to live in Dubai or am I remembering this wrong?
if I'm honest it looks like it's been thrown together!
But even when he won you could argue that he had bad luck!
Yes, born there, grew up there, called it home until family moved away 3 years ago :(
I know it better than the back of my hand *sigh*
Indeed he had. :)
When i do go there i will have to be carefull not to overwhelm you all with my love of some bits of the city.
I'd have a hard time choosing between my Finnish flag and an SPC one.
hehe. you need a very long pole :)
fourstar's wife is from there hence the connection.
Booby K isnt that tall ;)
Not sure he would appreciate people decorating him with strange flags :P
Ah, i might know her :P
You may do... We may be able to find out on Thursday!
She's not actually from there... I have said that wrong.. What I meant is she's lived there since she was young. But that doesn't mean you won't know her.
Good afternoon. I have been on a brewery tour.
free beer?
Hehe, i knew what you meant :)
Only a half :-( But it was free! :-)
perfect!
Guess thats another dubaian trait... It takes so long to explain to answer the question 'where are you from?' that you can read between the lines ;)
I have also proven I cannot drink a drop in daytime, on an empty stomach. I feel like I'm 3 or 4 pints in! It is strong though.
okay maybe not that many
If only I'd gone before Sidepodradio, I could have done a Travels section.
The 'short tour' at coors in colorado has to be one of the most awesome ideas ever....
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMT3
Disclaimer: I may also be on a high because the people I'm renting from are not here, so I can make as much noise as I like
Ahh but do they have a bar in the boardroom?
They didnt let me in :P
But they give you 3 beers a day, everyday if you want to for free!
free as in beer?
We so need SPC flags at Spa
I had a free half of Palmers 200. I like it.
Is that beer, lager, or tastes-like-water?
They do quite a few... including Blue Moon which is one of my favorite beers
I just accidentally found myself in Maplin and bought one of these:
http://www.i4u.com/full-review-551.html
It's an Ion universal charger. It charges itself on a USB port and has a cable for USB output and also comes with an iphone adapter and DC 5V adapter. (ooh and a little bag :)
On sale at Maplin for 15 quid. Allegedly and according to the review it has enough store to totally recharge your iphone.
First purchase for the Spa trip :)
That's for Gold 1 at the pit straight. Eau Rouge is three hundred and forty with the discount, or three eighty five if you want a roof.
That happens to me a lot.
I think I just woke up and I was there like those guys in the cube ;)
panda talk on radio2...
On my way back I was given a Kellogs Rice Krispies Squares totally Chocolately free by a person on the street. Perhaps today is looking up afterall ;)
I don't think a certain somebody is going to like it...
If this is Chris Packham (is that who it was? One of the guys from the really wild show) saying they should be left to die out.
I just saw it on the news and was about to mention it! What an odd statement for an animal dude to say.
Sadly it's a) JEREMY VINE and b) the "expert" is saying that pandas should be left to become exctinct. :(
Why is my laptop miaowing....
Looks good, that would come in handy for all sorts of devices.
Grr. Stupid adverts behind browser.
hehe. it's like having the daily mail read out loud to you.
absolutely no idea. i think the gist of the argument is we should all sponsor less cute animals.
WHAT?
And so it begins.
It just seems very expensive in comparison to Le Mans...
Its seems incredibly expensive compared to watching on TV :P
I'm not advocating this view there is a argument being made in some parts of the animal caring world saying that actually it is bad for "evolution" that we are intervening in the process by keeping weaker animals alive.
This of course makes mistake numero uno of misunderstanding evolution. We are part of the system, therefore what we do or don't do is part of evolution not something other than evolution.
drop.io doesn't like my phone, it has only received one pic of the four i sent.. will wait a bit and try again later
It is. But it also may be my only chance to sit at Eau Rouge for an F1 race.
Ah it was Chris Packham
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6844303.ece
precisely
also, Alex's day gets better as one of the legs falls of my bed and in my half asleep state I THINK I'M DYING.
stupid ikea bed.
So therefore should one species cause another to become extinct or cause it to be saved, either way it is evolution?
Nothing wrong with IKEA - you put it together wrong ;)
Hmm...
thats because on one of the corners there was no indentation in the wood for the leg to sit in so its always kind of just been balancing on there. Unlike my TV cabinet panel that I could take back when it was manufactured wrong, I couldn't take back a mattress base on a tram :D
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
There's no connection. Decide to kill or decide to save but don't say, "I did this because we shouldn't interfere with evolution".
Boo!
I agree with this. People should go with a) what they prefer and/or b) what they can afford.
indeed, as someone wise once said, the on track action is only a couple of hours a day, we have a lot of time to hang out elsewhere.
Alex, my head just asploded!
It's not often you get latin on a F1 website, but you know whatchagonnado :)
the only latin I know is those great economic principles 'caveat emptor' and 'ceteris parabis'...
....whaddya know, I do remember something from my degree!
i'm baffled what his argument is. if people want to donate, let them donate. why is he trying to dictate what other people do with their donations?
No matter how you go you're going to spend a lot of money, so you may as well do what you enjoy most and see who comes with you. Meet up with the rest before and after. Loads of time before and after.
Can I just say I love the Going For Gold reference from earlier
On that note, do you enjoy Sidepodcast? Then why note donate? ;)
All i know is
Veni Vidi Vici
If i go to monza i intend to shout it at the Italians!
His argument is based on the fact that they are bad at reproducing and they live on bamboo which is nutritionally rubbish.
He seems to have missed the bit where we ruined all their habitat and poached them to the point of endangerment. But there you go.
If I was a nature person like him, perhaps my argument would be, don't forget there are other animals out there as well as the cuddly ones. Rather than let's abandon the cuddly ones altogether.
What are you saying? Buy a cheap ticket and just meet at the pub afterwards?
GP2 chassis come from Dallara, I forget where GP3 are coming from, is that Dallara as well? If I'm Dallara, do I pick GP1 or Campos Meta?
He may as well said "Well, we stuck the knife in, so why not twist it and finish them off instead of spending money trying to save them in hospital?"
Also, he doesn't seem to have a preference where the donations go, just as long as they don't go on the panda.
Travel to track together. Eat meals together. Drink together. Watch race from wherever we want.
That's a good plan.
fair point.
hmm I appear to have fixed my bed incorrectly. Before I was lying downhill, now that I'm lying down again I appear to be lying uphill. Boo.
cave canem?
Beware of the dog.
You could put your pillows at the other end! ;)
and the WWFs argument is, "lets put a cuddly one up at the front so people donate and then we'll work out what we need to do with the money to protect the most species"
Canis canem edit?
My school motto was "Ut Prosim" - I never bothered asking what that meant!
is he thinking of pitching himself as an endangered species?
isn't christine's money going *only* to the panda?
Do the cuddly ones do flips through tables and hit each other with chairs and stuff though?
ipso pani nolo (i don't want the toaster!. i had an latin expression book which was a laugh but the latin was a stretch)
:D
mine was quaerere verum, which google tells me means 'seek the truth" but the school never bothered to tell us that.
Mine is, but you can donate generally.
Well yes... But he mentioned the WWF who have a panda as a logo
Our school motto was Learn to Listen Listen to Learn.
Rubbish.
Sounds like you went to military school :) It means sort of "so I may serve" or something like it.
A Mum made that up?
Hah! My school was the complete opposite - in fact I wished they did come down hard on some of us!
What's odd is that I was taught Latin at school but we didn't have a motto!
:D
Probably to be honest!
Sapere aude was my University one, apparently. I learnt that from Wikipedia just now.
Dinner! I'm impressed!
(I'm trying hard not to sound patronising, I know it isn't working)
get well soon..
It really is!
sleeping through meals is not fun!
to me that makes sense. sponsor what you like. it's your money.
!!!
It also makes sense because when I picked the panda, I was tempted by about seven other species. If I was only slightly richer, I would have sponsored some more things because of the panda.
Mine was Sapientia magis auro desideranda - or "Wisdom is more to be desired than gold"
Hehe, were we supposed to tell you to go to bed at 10 your time, or just keep you awake?
Mine was Duce Et Auspice Deo and I have no idea what that is
Our school motto was "Strait is the Way" which isn't Latin. It is also missing a g and an h.
By the way, I don't see why discussion of Latin should be so strange - we talk about Rubens all the time. He's Latin. :)
Dunces wear Old Spice deodorant?
Oh Giggles, the school I went to with the Motto "Ut Prosim" was named after a colonel - hence the miltary-type motto...
People who should be denied the Oxygen of publicity* allowed to express their views on the radio. Ugh.
*As opposed to the BNP who should be denied the Oxygen of Oxygen.
Reeked of it, it did
There is a certain degree of circular irony to that statement
Hello again.
Whats Flav planning to achive by suing the FIA?
Surely he would be better off politicing to get his ban lifted when a new administration comes in either this year or next time round?
Afternoon all look what I made!!!! http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/slvaarons-attepmt-at-red-bull-muffins-jpg I even follwed Sidepodradio hour 7 whilst doing it and trying not to laugh at Mr C!
Good Afternoooooooooon!
Afternoon
Indeed. Maybe if he thinks he has enough dirt on the FIA, he'll get them to settle out of court?
He's been taking lessons from Mohammed Al Fayed?
Hi
Hello from High Wycombe!!
Heh, do they taste nice?
Hi Jon
Cool tweet:
If it's the F1 team, what a way to come in!
I was hankering for some Red Bull Muffins!
It could make him look worse though, i think he would be best served by being very quiet for a few months, I cant see it happening, soi guess we should sit back and enjoy the show!
you were meant to keep me awake until 10 and I had to be in bed by midnight, so I am going now! Goodnight all :)
MMM i now want to try it myself!
Night Amy.
:D Night!
I took a photo of a really old cog at the brewery.
Night :-)
no way!!
Do you have the recipe?
JON!!
Why didn't he go to defend himself in court...... Presumably it's defamation he's suing for?
yes sir!
how goes it?
Hey dude!
How's Uni?
Oooooh yeah I forgot about that! Hope you're having a great time with it. Are the people on your course nice??
Good ta, my flats a bit low on numbers, but we've still got another 2 coming apparently, so hopefully that will liveen it up a bit.
My course mates are awesome and apart from a destinct lack of internet in my room at the moment (although i think i may have worked out what i have to do) all is well :)
How is everyone? Have missed y'all :D
:D He looks like he's done a pretty good job too. How do they taste?
Aaaaah uni internet. NIGHTMARE!
Is it on the Wiki?
Way, i havent tried them yet, im waiting for them to cool
Sure!
Very much so
Good thing is it gets you out doing other stuffs! Hope you're really enjoying it before the actual work really gets going :)
thanks very much
I don't think it is, but you can find it here (LPG's blog):
http://readingandrecipes.blogspot.com/
I am and i amn't (good grammer for you there). I don't use it a great deal and have a busy day anyway, so just want it to check my emails and get the stupid F2/GP2/World Series results, i've written saturdays race reports but cant do anything because i havent got sundays! BOO!! Hopefully should have it tonight though
well, f1's been pretty quiet...
Hehehe okay. We spent about 3 weeks ramming cables in all the sockets they would fit in and praying.....
ehehe yeah i saw. i only found out because i was wearing my FIA-sco t-shirt yesterday and someone on my course came up to me and said "which fiasco are you refering to?" i told him all of them and he told me the results of the hearing.
Ah cheers!
The network works fine, i just didnt have a username or password until today, so hopefully i can use it when i get home. Im in the library at the moment, its huge and so amazing. Plus you can book sound proof rooms, and seeing as halls are really noisy, i may book one for a couple of hours on a monday to record my podcast :)
how cool is that??
we want one!
its AWESOME, i may live in the library, and seeing as its open between 8.30am and 11.30pm, i may live here during the day and sleep in my room at night. It's brand new :)
i would love a sound proff room to record in!
I'm going to have to love you and leave you all, i'm going to go have an explore in the rest of the library. See if i can find anything, and also see if the soundproof rooms are actually sound proof!
Speak to you lovely people later!
Ciao!
P.S need to talk to someone about next Thursday and whats happening, but its a while off so can do it another time :)
best part of making Red Bull Muffins, Half a can of Red Bull left to wash them down with!
i wonder if it is like the one that Indiana Jones goes to in Venice (FYI, I've been past that building - it's not a library but a church)
stop stealing my line! Have a great time exploring the brave new world.
Bye Jon. Enjoy yourself!
Joe has some PK-Positivity! Whoop!
You can always make double the quantity and use a whole can. We made the amounts smaller because we thought it might freak Mr C out a little too much going from 1 (the Postman Pat one) straight to 12.
:)
to be fair I think that eight is enough to be getting on with
Let's be honest though, the fact that there were different sized spoons freaked Mr C out.
You say that now...
It was also quite funny how much an F1 fan can be freaked out by oil! :D
:D I love the "can't we just round it up?" when faced with putting in 3/4 of a teaspoon. "Sixteen minutes" was another bit I liked.
Shall we put more oil in?? Hehehehe
I am still struggling to think how one can better explain a heaped spoonful.
yeah its difficult
Hehehe I think it's safe to assume most people know what a heaped spoon is.... :P
LPG is wondering how Mr C managed to survive as a student.
Takeaway? I've no idea.... Has Mr C ever lived alone? :P
I can confirm that he has lived alone. The rest I do not know.
It HAS to be takeaways. There's no other way.
The truth... is out there...
*cue spooky music*
Perhaps he is one of those people that survives on air and sunshine and love....
Can he use a microwave?.. you can survive with one of those!
Microwave, nope.
And Previously Unnamed Energy Drink :D
Ahaha I have just listened to Stuart C's top 5!
It was Amazing!, It would be awesome to play it on the parade lap then play Gridwalk Bingo in singapore!
have you heard how loud those things ping? noooo chance.
takeaway yes.
interestingly, before i met christine i seemed to have considerably more disposable income so eating out wasn't a problem either.
we have to do that!
Are you sure he isnt just playing up!
I have been known to loose the ability to do the washing up properly when the oppertunity presents itself ;)
No Parade Lap this week, though.
He may be. It doesn't bother me, though, because I'd rather he was creating doohickeys, etc.
Mind you, I do remember reading a book about how you should pretend to be inept in the kitchen - dropping plates everywhere and so on. The idea is that you then never get asked to do any cooking or washing up.
The book also mentions that a good thing to say is "I boiled an egg for half an hour once and the damn thing was still hard."
ahh yeah. we can do it in the comment though.
:) I was noticing a distinct lack of nonnamedness earlier..
ummmm.... whoops.
i actually didn't read nick's comment at all did i? lemmie try again...
in the live comments, pre-race, we should totally keep an eye out for the people mentioned.
much better.
Oh yeah i forgot!
But i will remind everyone to have a listen!
love this tweet:
"People surprised by FIA 'sentence' = 0 - People who believe justice has been done = 0 - People who REALLY give a damn = 0"
That's my fault. I was supposed to bleep out the references to R** B*** by overlaying myself saying "unnamed energy drink", but by the time I'd finished the basic editing it was about half past 2 in the morning, so I just sent it.
that woulda been good too :)
:D
I think it worked pretty well anyway.
He also had:
hehe. like that one too.
Looks like Top Gear is gonna be back November 15th, and in HD too.
WTF. TG-HD FTW.
i think i know what that sentence means.
GMTV.
I felt the need... the need to abbreviate!!
:D They're relatively common acronyms. :)
:D
Why would anyone want to watch Clarkson in HD?
cool. not that I have an HD TV but anyway
great story! maybe you could fix it for the post post edit post season remix version?
It gets outweighed by watching them nice fast cars in HD.
I could but then Mr and Mrs C's refeerences won't make sense.
back later everyone, a small boy wants to play on my computer...
hehe.
could be dangerous. leave your credit card out to make it really easier.
unless you beep them out as well?
hehe, the iphone app has gone dark for singapore:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/f1-iphone-singapore
ooh spooky.
until tomorrow folks. going AWOL.
bye scott.
Ohhhmmyygoooddd at an image a friend just sent me. so lucky!!!!
Lucky b******! (of course I'd do it if I could)
Language, please.
If he has sone of those with Abu Dhabi on it could he please forward ;)
Singapore has always made some very nice tickets. :D
My apologies.
Oooh
What will the Spa ones be made of, crackers? :)
Mayo :D
:D Just to ask - what are the British GP tickets like? Are they IDs (like Singapore) or regular tickets (like Malaysia)? Also, does anyone know what the Abu Dhabi tickets look like?
Trappist cheeses :)
the latter.
i see.
I wonder if the 2009 lanyards look good? I love the 2008 lanyards - I use it at work, in fact. :D
I need to run an IE tab in chrome (well not need, but ya'know neeeeed)
unfortunalty it doest appear to be that easy
my dad has demanded I bring mine back home, and my 2009 Aus tickets because he has my 2008 Aus one in his 'family documents' folder. I find it kind of odd that my F1 tickets are important enough to be stored with all my grandads war stuff.
#notsleeping
I had no idea tickets were so exciting. I figured they just got you in the gate.
but its a night race! And they were black!
Perhaps #not-here would be more appropriate? ;)
But F1 is really a unique experience, whether past or present. Always worth cherishing. I display my 2008 Singapore tickets with pride in my room. :)
Whoo! Amy's back :P
A very cool black, at that. From the looks of it, the 2009 lanyards might be white.
Murray questions!
For those overseas
the 2009 ones are very nice. As far as Aus tickets, here are 2008 and 2009. 2008 is way nicer since they're actually personalised and the picture isn't so boring. My 2010 ones should be here by Christmas :D
niiice. :D
2009 ones are nice for Singapore, you mean? Yup, I like their ID more than ours. But I'd still pick ours over theirs if their lanyard is white - because when you reuse them, black looks cooler! :D
ooh if Alex is around and still wants tips on what to buy if he is ever in the NZ shop, here is what I purchased last time I went to the one here. All good suggestions if I say so myself.
Now I shall stop going through my photos and try go back to sleep. I'm too scared to in case my bed collapses.
What? I have a wall of tickets.
It won't - you'll be fine. :)
I am listening to the whose line thing... i think its the first time i have heard my voive recorded and not hated it massively, i hate it but only a little!
I don't think you're the only one who doesn't like the sound of their own voice. Had to take off headphones when my voice came on.
I really don't like that my cube is right next to one of the floors kitchen areas. Too many people talking during lunch!
I'm catching up on blog posts... just uploaded Spa. :-)
Popping out now, hopefully I'll do Monza later or tomorrow and then I'm all caught up!
btw was I the only one to promote Sidepodradio on their blog..?
Me three, actually.
I liked the way you said 'luxury'. Made me think of that sketch :-)
Just wait till you have to pretend you're a commentator or something ;)
Wolf did too, I think.
Ah right. I haven't caught up on my reading yet, just I didn't remember many plugs in the comments
what sketch? i am now curious :)
I think i have somehow gotten better at hearing myself...
But dont accuse me of liking the sound of my own voice! ;)
"When I were a lad we had to work 22 hours down pit, walk home, sleep on t'floor and walk back"
"22 hours? Luxury!"
Disclaimer: If you're not from Yorkshire I mean no offence, t'all sounds same t'us down'yer.
:D
Sometimes yer just don't realise how strong t'accent is.
Evnin all.
I just realised how similar the accent there and the accent here (Dorset) actually are when written down, even though they sound completely different..
Hi RG.
I'm going for a drive to drop off a few bits, back later.
hello RG
Hello peoples
Just got word of Saturday's events for my cousin's Stag Do
Karting at Sandown Park followed by an afternoon at the races at Ascot
Am really looking forward to it, w00t!
Is there a place on the internet to go to to listen to radio conversations during a race? Or do they encrypt or scramble it so that noone can listen in?
Good question
I don't imagine they broadcast them, FOM keep a tight reign on stuff like that but you never know
It's a weird thing...
After Christine came to visit Katherine said... "hold on Christine sounds exactly the same in real life as she does on the podcasts... That must mean I actually sound like I do on recordings... How can anyone stand the sound of my voice?"
Katherine has a perfectly lovely voice of course. It's just a normal reaction to people. I, and I imagine Christine have heard soooo many recordings of our own voices that now it sounds exactly like me.
I still get annoyed when I listen back to myself about what I'm saying and the number of "er"s I sometimes get into but other than that I'm fine with it.
On a side note to do with the "ers" I don't think there are any "ers" during the Dr Giggles segments of my shows. I must only "er" when I'm doing my own accent... odd!
Apparently it has something to do with the acoustics of listening to your own voice from inside your head, as opposed to others who are [quite naturally] out side of it ;)
I'm guessing we sound different to ourselves because the vibrations can get to our ears via our skull, sinuses, facial tissue, etc., and doesn't have to travel through the air.
Don't know if that's really the case or not. But I can't listening to my recorded voice either, definitely sounds different to me.
That's what I read too. But I do find it interesting that Alex, Christine, and maybe even Mr C now think that their voice sounds the same as the recording of their voice.
They are a lot more used to hearing recordings of their voice than most of us
I think the accent is my biggest problem, i never relly lived with people with the same accent growing up so i sort of have some crazy mutent thing going on.
Its a bit odd because depending on where i am my accent changes, i hear recordings of my self from diffferent ages and i sound completly different!
I have just listened to WSLIIA, all the contestants were so brilliant,we should see if we can send a link of the commentators thing to Jason Swales! :D
Influence of the environment, I guess.
I would note something - my accent of certain English words changes depending on who I talk to. At times I sound refined, other times I sound "barok" (local term meaning "heavily accented").
All I can hear in my head is:
MARTIN! MARTIN!
:lol:
I still very much dislike the sound of my own voice, but to do as much podcasting as we do, at some point you just have to get over it.
You say that it's natural that the other people are outside of your head.... Does that mean you are calling Dr Giggles unnatural?
No, that's called bipolar disorder ;)
I really do have a accent on me when I speak. In real life though, I really sound nothing like it. Always thought it was the phone, but maybe it isn't.
At least I'm recognisable with my voice. :)
It's probably just that I'm an egoist then ;)
I'm not saying I like the sound of my voice really, but that now it sounds like me when I hear it back.
Eddie Jordan loves the sound of his own voice! :D
I think thats the revelation i had this evening... Its so much nicer not having to cringe!
There's a reason I discourage everyone from the archives :)
i've never really had an issue with hearing my voice? i, like alex, have been recording my voice since forever. and i frequently listen to our stuff two or three times, with a critical ear. so it just is what it is.
my "umms" annoy me, but everybody's "umms" annoy me. if someone on leo's show does it a lot, i stop listening.
Must be difficult not being able to listen to any of the parade laps you are on with me ;)
I'm really not sure how Christine does talking without umming or erring. I'm starting to think she must be thinking about what she is going to say before she opens her mouth. Could that work? ;)
Joe Saward: Thoughts on the F1 Calendar
It became a bit of a rant about the costs of covering F1 (and how stay-at-home journalists are pushing them out with lower prices), but the article makes sense as a whole.
Thing is, when you have so many Asian races, it'll always be difficult for European journalists to travel out to cover all of them, back-to-back or not. It's the reality that is F1 today.
Also, the discussion in this article triggered the creation of a PayPal button on his blog.
The thing which really bugged me was my constant repition of one word.
Its not even a word I use regularly! I guess it was nerves because i havent ever done anything like that before really. Other than on Qik which doesnt really count!
Very good point. I know she has talking points, but I don't think she has a script - mightily impressive.
hehe. i don't like the production of the audio on any live show we do.
the outputted audio doesn't go through all of the post-production processing that non-live podcasts normally do. therefore the lack of coherence annoys me way before anything else does when listening back.
it did? cool. shall check it out and donate in a sec.
Nonsense. I can read aloud, I can't talk. People ask me about gearboxes and I just freeze up.
:D But you always seem to have a good discussion going with Mr C - that's no fluke. ;)
phew what a busy afternoon.. made the longish journey to Canterbury to take my driving theory, passed my driving theory, and made the longish journey back home, still with a headache.
how is everyone else? :)
Congraaaaaaaaaaaats ;)
:D
hey lou. surprisingly rough day, but i managed.
Woohoo about passing...
Maybe you should watch Derren Brown again that cured the headache last time
2nded.
Not bad - well done lou!
Can he cure viewers' headaches using magic on TV? ;)
Congrats!
Go LOU!
ah that's a good idea... although i don't have it recorded. tbh i've tried everything to shift it and it's been 2 days now :s
Thanks for all the congratulations guys :)
He can give me a headache using his less than magic (un)amazing tricks
:D
i just had a thought... did katherine not think that i too sounded like i do on podcasts?!?
there used to be. and i used to listen in, but i haven't looked this year. will have a poke around on friday and see what can be dug up.
hahahaha :lol:
She was just phreaked out you were just a disembodied voice floating around near Christine, but because you have no physical body she wasn't sure it wasn't just a podcast being played ;)
I'll stop that now... I *know* Christine doesn't like that...
Ummm she did but she hears more of Christine's podcasts because a) Christine does many more than you do and b) Christine's solo ones are shorter so they quite often get put on the loudspeaker!!! And I wonder if it was a girl thing too.
will she be featuring on goforodd soon?
I am just watching the challenge now :D
WIll you be wearing the hat on Thursday?
Who Christine? Absolutely if she wants in...
Katherine as I'm sure you remember was very briefly in the first episode of goforodd podcast: http://goforodd.com/2009/08/go-for-odd-podcast-episode-1/ talking about a snail... But it was very brief...
She will be back... oh yes... :)
ummm...
i demand more than that!
alex, have you tried gmail push for iphone?
I'm actually doing something for goforodd tomorrow night... but Katherine won't be present sadly... I'm not sure if it's going to be a podcast tomorrow or the set up for something even more complicated!
OOoh... hadn't seen... Will set up a bit later on...
It was awesome!
Will there be more tube challenges?
Charing cross to Covent garden could be interesting :D
or my own personal conundrum.... Charring cross/Leicester square to Waterloo at about 11pm :D
[hopes that is a "No"] :D
Absolutely... The current plan is to do the next one with a mate called Kris and my brother at the same time. And then after that get fourstar back but with Kat.
I really need to work out a better way of recording this though... Considering where I am starting from... Scratch... How should I go about recording 3 people at the same time and being able to isolate their voices?
Maybe Bassano can wear the hat :)
And I have a joke to submit to you on Thursday!
Excellent :)
AUTOSPORT have sourced a story from my local rag in Aus, the sunshine coast daily.
That is the most ridiculous/hilarious thing i have seen! :lol:
That wasn't what I was thinking but if you give it to me, I'll find somewhere suitable for it ;)
:D
And on that bombshell, am off to bed. Night, everyone. ;)
See ya Journeyer
Where are we meeting on thuirs? I am thinking of spending the afternoon in London if i can...
night
Night!
Woo hoo
So it's Jon, Lou or Scott to pass their test first
Battle to the first corner! :)
Either Waterloo or across the river, I quite fancied ending up in Covent Garden
Alex, which is easier for you?
Either of those is fine for me.
Hello all, just reading the discussion about hearing how you sound. I've never had a problem with it, I know how I sound to other people because people have always got me, my sister & my mother confused on the 'phone. I just have to listen to them speak to know what I'm like. Don't other people have the same with their family?
DO you guys know the chandos off charring cross raod?
Its very cheap... and quite a good meeting place
hehe Jon will probably beat me since he's had more experience. i'm just hoping to pass by christmas, which hopefully isn't too much to ask, i've had quiet a few lessons already :D
Will have a look, I was thinking if here as it's round the corner from Waterloo Bridge on The Strand
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/81/813/Coal_Hole/Strand
My folks have Irish accents so that doesn't work & I don't sound anything like my sister
You'll get there! Are you in your last year at school? I'm just so glad I passed my test while I was still at school even though I then didn't drive for years. I'd never have time to do it now.
i'll have to have an eye out for you lot if our class gets the day off to go to london and visit galleries and do first hand sketches of architecture. although we'll probably be on the train by the evening..
Looks nice :D
yeah am a few weeks into year 13 :)
Can you get out of the train home and come to the pub :P
Good luck with learning then :)
lou, when I was at school we had 1st year, 2nd year etc up to 6th form. What does year 13 mean?
hey janna. does your sister sound like how you hear yourself in your head?
Upper 6th
We plan on staying up till train services resume in the morning :)
Nearly, a bit higher, I think there's more treble in my voice than I hear from the inside
Maybe that's our slang as well thinking about it. It's the last year of school education. You could have left at age 16 at the end of year 11 but some people stay on to do yr 12+13 to get their A Levels.
Thanks Alison, sorry to be so old :)
For me it was Upper 6th & Lower 6th too
interesting. ta.
It is but I can understand it. We had 6 one and 6 two at my school
Also, it's even more so when I sing (& when I hear my sister/Mum singing). The tone is lighter than I hear inside. It's difficult to explain, I hear a more rounded sound than comes out on a recording.
Apparently we have to be at the pub at 17:59 (Guinness Mean Time) which is officially when Arthur's Day celebrations kick off
We Do (!) (?)
Mr C:
Any idea if Doohickey & LCLT wotk with the Stainless browser?
I'll let you know shortly
[Am loving the "Chrome" pun too]
could just be the microphone not quite having the range to pick up the lower end. are they studio mics?
Well, it's an option :)
Are you busy between midnight and 6am?
Thought not :D
I will be there for that although i will not be drinking the black stuff...
Marmite is awesome, Beer is awesome, but they need to be separated :P
ok :)
Nick, the black stuff is the best, not only is it alcoholic but it's good for you, just think of the iron!
Rubens needs something to keep him awake, is there a link which has all the sidepodradio content in it? :D
http://www.sidepodcast.com/category/sidepodradio/
I am sure it is....
But beer is too nice mmmmmmmmmm
Then i cant neglect cydor! mmmmmmmmmmm
No just tape recordings in school/church. Really bad sound quality
Stainless LCLT test
(looks very clean with no fussiness to distract)
cheers! If we hear him shout MARTIN! MARTIN! ....we know why!
...from Ye Olde Comments
[Renders like Safari, unsurprisingly, given it's webkit roots]
...And from Doohickey
ace. good to know.
alright, that's it. I'm forsaking all other podcasts to finally listen to sidepodradio...
And the 'snips' work too :D
yay! you won't regret it :)
See you in 12 hours
oh sorry we have 6th form too.. that's upper sixth. i just for some reason said year 13 :s
after a quick gmail push test. i conclude google's exchange interface is rather overloaded right now.
it's possible i do have school in the morning though, it will depend on work :)
It is funny how they change the naming though.... There's not really any reason for it!
yeah i know. we are called both upper sixth and year 13 students.. it's mainly year 13 on exam forms i think, very strange.
It's become Americanised! :(
Really? I've never heard anyone called a Senior or a 4th grader or however that works....
On the Stainless "bookmarks shelf" it's hard to distinguish your favourite sites when you only have 3 and they use the same icon :)
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/screen-shot-2009-09-22-at-19-01-21-jpg
hehehe!
Seniors are in College (Uni), like Freshman
Tis why we have Fresher's Week
Generally, in 1st - 8th grade, it's 1st grader, 2nd grader, etc. Then Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior for high school, and likewise for college (Freshman,e tc.)
In NZ we call that Orientation Week...
I thought that was for getting madly drunk and 'meeting' people? ;)
In the states, at least. Not sure how you guys do it in the UK :)
I do like Snowy's Icons that can be hugely magnified [no idea why though]
From this to this
Also, the screenshot are time stamped now, instead of being screenshot 1 or whatever
We start at reception at the age of 4/5 then it's year 1 all the way up to 13 (you're allowed to leave at 11) Then you'd go to uni. Some schools don't do the last 2 years and people go to a college to do them.
We have reception then year1, 2, 3... all the way to 13
I also had 3rd Form ,4th, 5th and then lower 6th and upper 6th
3rd form was year 9 ,4th year 10 e.t.c..
it's about resolution independence. but as yet i've not looked into what exactly that means.
That's how it works now. When I was in Primary/Junior school I don't remember them being called Year anything it was just Mrs So & So's class. We only got year numbers at Secondary School and then it started from 1st year etc.
I was there last night!
I like that place. The chandos has no guiness I don't think
:(
Actually sounds quite similar, except we go up to 12, and I guess your 13 would be our Freshman year in College. Not sure when folks are allowed to leave, though, but the full education is kindergarten + grades 1 - 12.
iPhone Apps don't have to be configured to a certain pixel size
There are other reasons but I remember that being a big one
To add another layer of confusion, it's different in Scotland, where you can start at a different age, everyone doesn't start at the same time of year and they start at 1 not reception. They also split the numbering in the middle in an odd way.
The address bar is also the search field
Is that the same as the awesome bar?
Lukeh will know
Evening all :)
Zooming doesn't end up in pixellated characters either
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/HiDPIOverview/HiDPIConcepts/HiDPIConcepts.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40003409-CH3-SW4
no it isn't. The awesome bar is like the way in Safari 3 it finds recent places you've visited in your history.
Chrome has the search bar as the address bar. Greatest feature in Chome.
Hey Scott
I knew someone else was doing it too
Supposedly, Stainless is faster (or as fast) as Chrome
I would use chrome a heck of a lot more if I could get it to use a SOCKS proxy without having my WHOLE system be using that proxy. (OS X)
The only thing that bothers me about Safari 4 is that none of the adblocking add-ons work yet :(
I have returned.
My Safari has stopped working, Windows keeps telling me it's got to close down :(
Mr C you are not let off my question about recording several people at the same time from earlier by the way.
It's jealous
TBH, Apple programs never work as well on PCs
Just spoken to some of my relatives... Got asked
"so have you been on the internet lately?"
I wasnt really sure how to respond!
umm... did i see it?
have you asked the question on superuser.com ?
A great site for tech user questions (from the people who brought you stackoverflow.com - programming and serverfault.com)
How was the tour, I figured they were your pics on the drop
If you put a Subject Line on your MMS, they appear on drop.io
[drop.io tips #1]
I don't know it was just after your question about Katherine being on goforodd.
heh, my answer to that one is easy, I work at a cable internet provider, it's my job to be on the internet all day at work!
Did they follow it up with
"I hear it's very nice this time of year"?
ahh. no i missed it. sorry, one sec.
No [not having heard of it]
But I'l look now, ta
tis okay. It was a bump from me.
hehe, i think i scared them when i told them i was now carrying it around with me and watching F1 at cricket matches :D
the only way to isolate voices is to provide each person with a microphone. either hand-held or tie mic. failing that you pass one around like we did at the party-in-the-park.
Congrats!
okay so I'm happy to go and buy some mics. Now what do I plug them in to?
Is there one available for the iPhone?
we have an alesis we can sell you if you want it?
;)
in short you need a mixing desk or some kind of audio device for a laptop that records as many sources as you need.
Otherwise, your 'puter?
Evening everyone!
It's my "sitting in front the tv all night" night today, I love the food shows on a tuesday!
you can't plug x4 seperate mics into a computer?
I have a MacBook non-pro btw. Please and thank you for the info. Forever in your debt etc.
How is Katherine anyways? Ankle better? :(
is that the with firewire model, or the without firewire model?
Do we?
(btw, I am hoping to come along too)
hey neil and pat.
Oh, of course
Hey me... oh that is confusing.
Welcome to team awesome!
Hey Neil
Mr C works better ;)
You have to have one. I can only manage a couple.
cider from Mordor?
:lol:
You don't remember the conversation on Fri?
Well, more of a suggestion really :)
she hasn't been to work today but is hoping to go in tomorrow.
I have a supply of dark chocolate with me.
please don't laugh at me. How do I tell?
It doesnt, it is samuel smiths... its a bit of a Marmite pub
We could have a live GoForOdd event!!!
Whoop!
On Arthur's Day, I'm not sure that place is on the shopping list then :)
Okay, glad it's improving :)
It's not USB
If it's over a year old, it will
hehe. forget i asked. go with usb :)
you need to buy a usb sound-box-thingy that's compatible with snow leopard. i can't advise you however, as i picked alesis and it's awful.
The symbol looks like this, and will be next to your USB ports
are you sure? there was a period when the non-pro's did not come with firewire?
I have just realised the pub you suggested isnt too far from...
THE PUB WE MUST NOT GO TOO!
I'm drinking guiness on Thursday. The Coal Hole sounds best to me. Although it does get rammo. It was Richard Harris's haunt before he passed on.
All the polycarbonates have it I think
Alex doesn't have the MacBook Alu
Which is?
Looks good to me!
Good thanks! Quite long, which worked up a nice thirst for our free beer.
Unfortunately only 2 of the 4 pics I sent have appeared. Last time this happened it took three days to appear.
I did put a subject on one of them..
ahh cool. i have no idea. i just know for a while they were to be avoided.
I'm aiming for 17:30/45 ready for the start whistle :)
I wonder if there's an App to count it down?
The NZ one
Just reinstalled Safari & it's now working again. PC was sulking
the problem is that I stopped owning macs just after FireWire came in and came back just after FireWire got kind of hidden. So it's a bit of a mystery to me.
'twas the Alu's when the first launched
One of the few Apple U-turns
Hi Neil
you probably don't need it. it's good when you get to 8 simultaneous inputs and above.
I purposely forgot that bit.
Oh yes, we won't be going there
Shall we say [#sorry Amy] now?
along with matt screens.
*matte
Instead of having two Alex's for a race, we can split up! Could be even funnier when drunk.
It's optional
Are you getting the train home?
okay. So I get my mics and a USB mixing thing and I record all this in garage band?
We are definatly not going there, we will be fine ;)
Anyone doing anything beforehand? Just wondering which train to get.
If you're talking about Firewire, then yes, all the plastic Macbooks have FW400
All the Macbook Pros have FW800, with older models like mine and Mr C's sporting both.
Only the aluminium 13" Macbook (not Pro) and Macbook Air have USB only.
Yup.
yup. got it one.
I might go and see inglorious at Leicester square or go to a museum of some sort
Isn't that 15 hours long?
Random Q:
If you are using 2 screens with windows Xp is there anyway to maximise a video on one screen and keep it maximised even if you are clicking on the other screen?
well in several but awesome. Thanks :)
It depends which program you are using. iPlayer can be a pain for that - VLC is very good. With VLC just drag it to the other screen and double-click
last bit of advice. work up to four mics! start with two, then add a third etc. tis obvious, but it's easy to get carried away :)
Its silverlight, the chrome update has stopped it working so i have to use IE which opens it in an unresizeable window
VLC is the best media player ever
Almost nothing foxes it
5live news. they're bringing in a realtime-doohickey-thing for interactive commenting during shows. doesn't mention if it'll apply to f1 or not though.
I can't imagine what mood I would be in if I felt like listening to a whole FIA hearing, but its nice that they are being open about things... I guess they can't afford not to be.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/09/were_closing_the_5_live_messag.html
Can we post links to the real realtime-doohickey? :)
okay will do. I'm thinking that if something goes wrong I can just mix it down to one track and pretend it didn't happen?
I know you won't recommend a USB thing. What about microphones?
interesting..
the more expensive the better, but the expensive ones need phantom power, which means your usb box must also provide phantom power. what's your whole budget?
Silverlight sucks.
Of course it does
Tell sky!
and ITV!
Are hangovers eased when sleeping under a Guinness duvet?
http://www.guinnesswebstore.co.uk/productdetail.php?master=1004&dept=1010&number=DOUBLEGD
Sends me to age-confirmation thing, after which it puts me in the main store
I don't know. I don't know what's sane for this?
the sane solution is to pass a single microphone around...
Found it :-)
Are ok, once you're in, try the link again
*Ah
can i get a good omnidirectional mic?
Thanks to whoever is dop.io'ing the judgement mp3
Does anyone have acrobat pro to get text out of the pdf's?
you mean one you put in the middle of a table? don't have any experience of that sadly.
Copy and paste
Macs should do it, is it from a doc?
I don't even know how they are doing it!
They are scans though, you cant extract text from the images with reader which is all i have
Unplug or DownloadHelper addons in Firefox?
You should be able to do this on a PC too. This is how the redacted portions of the Mclaren spy case got leaked out, because the text was still there under the black boxes.
Is it sensitive info?
If not, create a private drop and I will give it a go if you want
Mr C... for your hared of IE 6 ;)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/google-turns-internet-explorer-into-chrome-yes-seriously/
they're scanned faxes by the looks of it.
Its the FIA stuff above the audio!
Ah. Scans are harder. You will need something to do OCR on them.
:D
The one appearing on the drop now?
yup
164 pages of bad quality faxed paper. i'll just read it ta.
I can copy and paste that
the decision is text and only 20 pages long.
Doesnt regular acrobat just have abutton which does that?
I am sure thats all i was doing with faxes in my old job
The complete dossier is coming on now
It's a bit larger
They've learned from the McLaren debacle then.
not to worry, it was more to discover any mention of witness x in the evidence but i will read it anyways
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/wmsc-decision-pdf
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/wmsc-dossier-210909-pdf
it's how they've done everything since, yup.
I just think the answer is that flow of conversation is the most important thing... The sound quality can be worked on, but if people can't talk over each other when they think of something funny we're sunk. It shouldn't end up sounding like that all the time but the conversation has to progress. People need to loosen up to do the kind of show I'm doing.
And if people have to pass the microphone it will be a problem I think.
The thing was that with fourstar and I we had enough radio experience to be able to hear when we'd messed something up and go back and link and continue in a somewhat live way (pretty much undermined by the music in the background). None of my other currently lined up people have that so I need to be careful to get flow right or they'll freeze I think. It's not like I'm traditionally interviewing them I want it to totally seem like a "normal" conversation.
I have some OCR stuff I may be able to get to that in a bit.
Is it Alonso?
The guy on the tape seemed pretty keen to avoid calling him 'witness A'
Oh dear.... Crime agaisnt cars
I love Ari's finish to his interview on dropio.
We take one corner at a time in life but lets take it flat out and sideways
Go Ari !!!
Cosworth power?
Oh my gosh. They have apps for everything.... Why has someone invented a Rubik Cube solver??
Because they can?
There are some very sick people in the world and this one is trying to upset Christine.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090922/tuk-life-us-britain-pandas-fa6b408.html
am confused by the fia would choose a company called "groovy gecko" to host their audio files?
http://groovygecko.net/
One of Max's slimey pals?
hehe.
Just turned my R34 Nissan Skyline GTR into a Super GT racer with the Works package on Shift. Looks freakin' awesome! :D
Hello Peoples
Evening Sarah ;)
:P hmmmm
I'm trying to think of a blog name, any ideas?
Its a bit quiet tonight, i guess people are still recovering or listening to the FIA
http://fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pressreleases/wmsc/2009/Pages/wmsc_220909_docs.aspx
Whats the subject?
Its a random mix of geekiness, F1 and whatever pops into my head
Evening
f1geekheadpop?
headpop?
SaraNOTSarah?
evening :D
Evening Jackie
Did you all enjoy reading about X?
Hi Sara and Jackie.
whateverpopsintomyhead.com
is available.
ithinkiknowwhatsgoingon-ofcourseidoiamageek.com ?
rofl I <3 you guys
NIght Everybody!
Not so much read, as listen :-)
All in the Hearing Underway thread.
I swear you get earlier every night. Bye!
saraf1unplanned.com
night night Gavin
Night!
hehehe
goddidntallowmetohaveafunnydomainame-soinickedsomeoneelses.com
night gavin.
just... f1unplanned.com
i like that one.
iwenttosidepodcastandalligotwasthislousydomainname.com
;-)
:p
he's gone to watch the dancing.
:)
geekyrandomf1thoughtsandanyotherstuff.com
haha
He's probably been inspired to take lessons
last offer
youmaythinkimtryingtoannoyyoubutthisreallywasasuggestionfromsidepodcastblametheminstea-ohitsaboutf1aswellyoulikethat.com
That does look like a lot of letters jumbled (sp?) together.
LUKEH!!!
It is rather a lot of words
Huh?
I'm lurkeh tonight as I have no idea what's going on...
One for the bookmark bar.
Ah. I was hoping you could put Gavin's head on to the body of a dancer.
I'm so pleased I have no idea what's going on
ah well leave it for now :-)
I thought this was a good one
Thats the one I went with but in lower case
So again I <3 you guys lots
w00t! new bloggers :)
Well you say that now...
Welcome aboard :-)
Lurkey , that needs to go on the dictionary Lurkey, adjective, to lurk like Lukeh :)
hehe :)
except I can't spell :(
awesome!
I'm confused, what's the blog title you've picked Sara?
i think its saranotsarah
It is indeed that one
Nice, good luck with it
hello all
I'll need it :p
and hello :D
as jackie said in her show. just yell if you need anything.
and hi guille.
evening
Does anyone know anything about current graphics cards?
Howdey Guile if you are here ;)
at the moment I'm searching for a template I like.
depends how technical the question is?
ahh yes. christine's
wastedspent many an hour doing that.Good luck with templates. Picking the name was the easy bit! :-)
That's the fun part.
I wanna buy a new one for not too much money, that'll last me a while.
The other question is.. did you pick Wordpress or Blogger?
I am not certain but i belive there is a new generation of them coming out for the new directx in windows 7
I went with blogger
depending on your budget:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphics/review/2009/08/20/Asus-Bravo-9500/p1
or
http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphics/review/2009/07/17/HIS-HD-4770/p1
if you're using a pc, we always plug this: http://download.live.com/writer
*rubs eyes in disbelief*
Good choice for starting out - mine is on blogger
Unfortunately it doesn't produce formatted HTML so if you need to get into the bones of it for whatever reason, you are presented with a block of near-continuous text.
what you'll be using it for? For everyday use (some gaming, but not life consuming gaming) I got a GeForce 9600GT and works really well
christine and i heart wlw. we both miss it. i love the guy who's behind it too. a proper developers developer.
You mean you don't have it?!?!?!
It is mega useful, I totally agree. Just feels wierd you supporting something Microsoft related ;)
Ah, never mind. Carry on.
lol
technically they bought it, they didn't invent it. i do believe it's one of their best products though.
what does it actually do? am i missing anything that wordpress dashboard doesnt do?
*hands reigns over to lukeh and scott*
Agreed!
It's just useful as hell for writing, formatting, updating, keeping track. And it's a microsoft product that works.
I mean, if that's not enough just the second point alone...
Basically it lets you do blog posts in your chosen theme and add pics, videos, links, etc. It is REALLY, REALLY simple. and it's awesome :D
Thanks. Was just looking at a Nvidia 9600 for £60. I've used Nvidias for years.
I know I've been lurking, but night anyways.
Oh, live writer rocks.
:)
g'night.
Night
night RG
I've spent my evening explaining pie charts to my sister.... Who would have thought there was so much to not understand!
Sounds interesting, but i think i am fine with wordpress at the moment, i just want to write
wordpress is very slow by comparison. isn't wlw free? give it five mins.
It is indeed. Just try it. :)
EJ didnt invent wlw too, thats a good point
Give it a go. It's fine for straight writing. I only find it annoying on my regular 'features' where I have preformatted text I need to edit.
nick reminds of many a boss.
just wait. it'll be his idea next week then it'll be the best thing since alonso.
I just write in the box, add a tag if i feel like it, select a catogory and click publish...
I havent had any problems,WLW might be good if i want to do more maybe?
Are you sure EJ didn't invent it?
pre-forma... wha? surely a table would be better?
:D
#sidepodpubbing
A q while I think of it. Are we doing food or shall I fill up beforehand?
The preview posts are just a header and a bit of text. Copy/paste into a new post, edit as necessary.
Hahaha!
I should put that on my CV!
Yeah, if want to insert links, pictures, video, etc, it's dead easy.
I would.
I generally dont have time to eat druing a session! :P
;)
I just did my first random post :D
hehe, dont think i will,
but maybe if i go to a race
But best ask the others...
Righto :-)
I'm not here for a chunk of tomorrow evening so I'll check comments Thurs morning for final plans?
Link or it didn't happen
i will try and remember to mention it
Its all very fluid anyway...
Well plug it then
This plug is useless without a link! :D
The first thing you have to do when you get a blog is take Professor Giggles's plugology class
http://saranotsarah.blogspot.com/
I can't help being shy and retiring.
awww! have subscribed.
:)
"f1geekheadpop"
love it :-)
I had help. :D
ohhhhhhh no. mario and the suspenders. gah!
:D
Good news: my mobile connection now runs quickly enough for me to ascertain that Sidepodcast Mobile works on this PDA.
Bad news: it's 11:26 and I still have no idea what to post for my blog (which due to the MiNaBloPoMo challenge needs an entry published by midnight!)
yay. fab news alia.
well, we're talking about blogging, new blogs, blogging tool and practices. could you maybe talk about how you update your site? also, maybe what made you buy a domain name etc?
Gooooooooood Evening.
Excellent.
I have no idea what that means, but you could do something quickly on the FIA transparency.
How are you all?
hi ya aide.
Hi Adie.
oh. i'm gonna kill myself.
hi adie.
You did it again :-)
every.freaking.time.
Haha. :) Aide. Arf.
i can see it. always half a second too late. i am good thanks for asking. you
:p
I'm listening to a radio 2 programme and they are talking about men in heels...
All this blogging talk has got me editing my final set of catching-up notes so I can enjoy 48 hours of being on schedule before Singapore hits..
I'm planning to have my Skype headset plugged in tomorrow for my sister to call, so if its okay I may just leave an Interview voicemail...
of course. that'd be ace, thank you.
Well Done!
I have commented :D
BTW if you want to quote on doohickey... you can click on the text of the comment and it should appear in the reply box ;)
Cuban, not high heels i hope!
If they fail to mention Eddie Izzard I'll be disappointed.
morning.
I am not bad thanks. Just listening to a couple of the interview with bloggers podcasts, and coming to terms with the last two MENTAL days at work
Evening!
Did you get some sleep?
And getting to grips with Audacity....
are you suitably rested amy?
ooh. cool. how goes it?
Hey
oooo is that how you do it.
hehe, i wasnt sure if i should say anything or not...
...glad i did!
Alright actually - found a few video tutorials so that sped a few things up.
Going to have a play and see if I can knock something together by Sunday - race review / week's news round up and thoughts and see how I get on before I buy any expensive kit.
Got a VOIP headset for work (I should work at home most of the time, but it never ends up like that and my car tends to be my office!!!!) so we'll see!
Evening to you too!
They did mention him. And the French President.
Any feed back from you guys would be most welcome! :D
Haha - I was having a stoopid moment randomly clicking on stuff.
Cheers!!
You need to avoid feedback if at all possible :)
:)
I have done some brief research to answer Christine's question asked on the sidepodspace show.
The sky weighs 570,000,000,000 adult Indian elephants and Christine wanted to know how many pandas it weighed. Based on my calculations the sky weighs 15.200.000.000.000 adult pandas or 15,200,000,000,000,000 baby pandas. That is an awful lot of baby pandas. By a rough count that is one and a half million baby pandas per person.
that's very cool.
are you interested in submitting some answers to the f1 bloggers show once you get to grips with things?
:)
i don't want one. so she'll need 3 million.
Thanks - and yeah I'd love too if you don't mind.
Thanks for asking :)
I officially hate the AI in NFS Shift with a seething passion now. USE YOUR GODDAMN MIRRORS AND SOME FRIGGIN COMMON SENSE!
I think even Christine would find 3 million baby pandas less than adorable.
woah, what happened to the map?
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/The+Best+Sidepodsitemap...+in+the+World
Brilliant!
anytime. questions are here when you're ready:
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Interviews+with+Bloggers
I've got a few ideas how I'd like things to work, and I get bored listening to myself sometimes so I'd like to get guest bloggers on to chat about the sport / plug their blog and have a laugh with really.
Once I've got things going you'd be welcome to bless the 5 people who download it with opinions :D :D
Hehehe oops :P
That's the sidpodsitemap not the sidepodmap.
i am still a bit tired but i have a good feeling about tonight. I shall be not popping back in at 2am like last night!
i know. it used to be a list. everytime i look at pages on the wiki it's a different shape :)
Ah :-)
good to hear. do we need to threaten moderation again?
Good girl!
Wel if you are awake and lurking... it would be rude not to!
Blog entry inspiration problem solved: I moaned about Flavio (pretty reliable if predictable).
give us a link alia.
It's hard not to moan about him.
I wish ill-will on no one - but I'm not sorry to see the back of him.
Not. At. All.
Thanks. Bookmarked for a later date :)
I really wish he'd showed up at that hearing. It'd have been a right lark!!
You know his position at QPR's in jeopardy as well. Ah, it gets better :D
Ah...it doesn't seem to have included quotes. I blame me.
And Alison - yup. Would have gone to Paris myself. Armed with my best booing voice, and box of tomatos.
Just noticed reading through the comments that Lou passed her theory test today. Well done Lou.
Oooh is that why we were talking about driving? Well done Lou wherever you are!!
Yeah, saw that.
The league's 'Fit and proper test' is very subjective anyway. Won't go into it now, but you should look at AFC Bournemouth's track record for the 12 months post admin under the old regime, now very much thankfully gone.
LOOOOOUUUU!
Bornemouth are slightly less high profile than Flav though...
It's a school night
Why is someone posting brewery pictures on dropio?
oh. boo. i forget.
YAY, well done Lou!
I've got my theory test on October 10th and I'm at 5DAY all this week getting lessons on it. Today was all about the hazard perception test. Every mock exam I did I passed :D
Pat went on (a) tour
Surely risking failing the test is cheaper than your lessons? Has the world moved on?
Shh!!!! Haha, I mean the people who bought the club and ran it post Admin having passed the 'fit and proper test' if they stuck to that criteria he's got no worries.
I think Flab's sticking point is the clause that you fail the test if you have any unspent sporting convictions regardless of the sporting discipline. I guess the FIA's ban leaves him pretty much hecked.
I see he's planning on suing - give James Allen's blog post about an 'un-named' Renault insider dishing the dirt I do wonder if he should bother.
However, F1 does love dragging itself through the gutter, so I'm sure this isn't the end of it.
Another step on the road to being a driver. :)
In my day we just got asked some questions at the end of the test.
In my Grandfather's day there was no test.
:)
so you lot sit your theory test after youve been driving a while? So what test do you do to get your license in the first place?
I wish! Failed my theory first time - that's what you get for not learning it. 1 mark of a pass though - that's just mean!
I've totally gotta go to sleep now. Night all
None. You send off for a provisional license that means you can only drive with an experienced driver in the car with you. The experienced driver is responsible for your actions and their consequences.
You then sit the theory test and once you've passed that can sit the practical test, then you can drive alone.
Ah you see this is the best bit - because my aunt and uncle run 5DAY, I get to sit in on the theory lessons this week and take over driving lessons from pupils who have to cancel and pull out, and I don't have to pay anything! :D
Ahh, they are finally working!
I went on a tour earlier.
Not to mention that he declared he had no obligation to attend the hearing and didnt...
And continued to deny he wasnt involved depite the mountain of evidence to the contrary...
Joe blogged it
night sara. am gonna do the same.
see everyone tomorrow.
Plus my uncle booked my theory yesterday - again without having to pay anything :D
Night
There are theory lessons!??
What on earth can they teach you, its all common sense surely!
(it may be worth deleting the duplicates, sorry, I tried it a few times because nothing happened)
Night
I'd best go too - night all.
Nick we can bash Flabio more tomorrow!!
Laters all. *waves*
Night Sarah and MrC!
Some of the stuff you wouldn't just know. Like the difference between a pecan and a toucan crossing.....
hehe Night!
night :-)
For the record, I didn't take lessons. I just read my highway code....
It's an intensive driving course so they get you practicing on mock exams on computers so that you know what to expect when sitting your theory and out on your practical.
Thats obvious, pelicans are colourful so they have traffic lights!
I learned that in primary school!
So does a Puffin, which is the one with more sensors. I'm not sure what a Toucan is.
Night
There are pelican, toucan and pecan crossings that all involve traffic lights
Then there's a zebra crossing that doesn't.
It's a crossing for pedestrians and cyclists. How you remember this is Toucan can mean "two can" cross.
Night Mr C
Never heard of a different name for that. This is what happens when they invent new stuff after your test.
I am moving to the other daily.
ooops... hi i'm here... if a little late. i went to sleep, realised i was actually going to school tomorrow and that i had a presentation to write and complete and got up again... so hi :)
thank you :)
Congratulations :D
Exactly!
Zebra crossings have stripes!
I havent heard of a pecan crossing though so i would fail that
Mr C just went to bed. You literally missed him by a minute
school nights don't tend to make a difference, it's my stupid flipping headache that does :(
Lets all move to the new daily.
i never did any theory lessons, just learnt how to drive and had practical lessons, then spent a day doing the mock questions over and over again on the CD and practising hazard perception, then sat the test today. :)
hehe thank you :)
oh. night Mr C!