We have reached Friday at long last, and it is, of course, FIA elections day. I have no doubt it will be impossible to avoid it, and we may even have another breakout thread at long last! Still, I would like to reserve the daily as my F1 Happy Place, thank you.
- The first most important thing to mention is in answer to a question Adie asked yesterday. If, as is looking very likely right now, Mr Todt becomes FIA President, Sidepodcast will continue. You have nothing to fear.
- It appears that Lucas di Grassis is intent on getting a seat next year, and not content with talking to his current employers Renault for a 2010 drive, he's also been in deep discussions with new team Manor. This news will make Amy and myself very happy, I'm sure.
- RG has written about the decision Toyota have to make regarding Timo Glock driving for them in Abu Dhabi. He's missed two races already and as yet there's no word on whether he'll be fit and back in the car for the final race of the season.
That'll do it for now. Mr C will have an Aside with Joe show up at some point in the early hours, no doubt, so keep an eye out for that. I'll see you in the comments.
Am watching some program where a woman is at Brands i think in a FPA-esq car, but she didnt do the belts up!!!
ummmm
Morning, everyone.
Looks like we don't need to wait for the sunrise to get major news. Donington's fate has been sealed, it seems. From JA on Twitter:
And it needs someone to buy it TODAY.
I've got £2 in my wallet?
That might not be enough... :D
Hellooooo sleepy sleepy!
hey alison. ;)
9 hours and 27 minutes later, the computer is defeated.
And thank god, I missed a whole afternoon on potential things to do.
Hiiiiiii!
Hi
You seem to be giddy. :D
IndyCar pit reporter Lindy Thackston (LindyCar) dropped her iPhone, it now looks like this.
via
No casing? Tsk tsk. :P But seriously, that screen almost looks scary.
Another new day. We have too many days now. We need to stop making them
We do recommend not dropping them.
Indeed so.
As long as its only a recommendation
It is here! And even though the browser is disabled (no doohickey boo) wikipedia still works! I will be entertained for hours with wiki
No doohickey? Where are you commenting from? ;)
have created an fia-president-breakout-thread: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/10/23/the-fia-presidency-jean-todt-v-ari-vatanen/
if only to keep christine's happy place free from corruption!
will you create one for donington? i posted some bits of news earlier from JA and Noble.
You found something entertaining on wikipedia?
certainly can do. gimmie two.
Commenting from phone that loads one line of text at a time. Not easy.
Good plan, ta.
The GB rally starts tomorrow - well today - so that should provide some entertainment
And we'll have a WRC champion by Sunday.
MotoGP weekend at Sepang too - Rossi might be champion by Sunday as well.
I just found Max's profile on the FIA site. How can you become a barrister three years after getting a physics degree?
http://www.fia.com/EN-GB/THE-FIA/ABOUT-FIA/Pages/FIAPresident.aspx
It's not what you know, it's who you know. ;)
Clearly it is the old boys network but there is no law qualification mentioned in his biog which seems odd even given Max's family connections
Bedtime, all too soon.
May drop in tomorrow depending how busy things are, given the lack of post I'm betting 'not very'. Not around in the evening though, and I'm going back to Ikea on Saturday to actually buy a bed and not just look at them, so hopefully see you after that..
apologies for the delay. am rubbish at multitasking:
donny thread: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/10/23/doningtons-final-deadline/
I watched a really interesting program abut training pilots and what the trainers said is multi-tasking is a myth. No-one can do it.
i certainly can't. why it is a myth?
They said that pilots don't actually do lots of things at once but they idetify which of several tasks need their attention and deal with that before moving on. Every time they give them tasks that require two things to be done at once even the best of them fails.
male pilots?
All pilots and every other person they tested pilot or not
i feel better now.
in other news, i hate logic. it just crashed on me. logic 8 never crashed in 18 months. logic 9 crashed during my first edit, and now i lost 15 mins of work :(
:(
could be snowy, or it could be logic 9. just went bang when it hit play :(
am saving every 5 seconds now.
Bah. You have the latest release? I'd check the forums too.
Good night all, by the way.
yup. christine hated 8, so we upgraded.
the good news is 9 appears to have fixed all of her issues. the bad news is it's created new ones for me.
Evening all.
On my way home in a cab.
where's ya bin?
ooooh lordy. logic fail.
this edit is going to take all night and all day.
A work do. Ooooh by the by, you see the iPhone edited video on the drop from earlier?
nope, i'll check it now...
that does not sound good :(
major crashing. it feels like vista.
well it isn't that exciting as a movie; and I did pick the cheeziest transition.
Evening Alex
Very impressive
ouch. Can't you use version 8 and let Christine have 9?
you're on the move, you shoot a film, you need a window-blind transition.
of course it makes sense...?!
with both upgraded to 9 for compatibility between us.
oh dear. I actually went back to the office tonight in some part just so I could take my Windows 7 with me. I know it isn't the same, but I feel your pain.
Eeek. Jenson overload
Evening Steven.
i'm blaming snow leopard i think.
if it crashed this much editing debrief... we all woulda heard about it. christine still has leopard.
A Mac crash? Surely not. You won't hear the end of this my friend.
not a single crash.
multiple crashes.
Stupid Macs, they crash all the time.
Upgrade to Windows :D
*ducks*
poor Fourstar was a bit startled. But then, he is off playing snooker with Sienna Miller.
Right must be bed time. Night all.
bye!
NIght Alex
Is anyone still awake? A question for the night owls. What is the white/red 'Z' or 'N' that is painted on each car near the cockpit/air intake? I suspect it is a safety standard, but can someone fill me in please?
It is a button that lets the driver or marshals select a neutral gear so it is an N. There is a similar button with an E on it which triggers fire exitinguishers in the cockpit and the engine bay
Fantastic. Thanks.
Happy to help
I'm off to bed now.
Don't stay up all night fighting logic Mr C
night sir. am calling it a night shortly. will fight it out tomorrow.
Well done. Don't let the computer win!
oops. wrong thread.
night all.
Morning, everyone.
Is anyone still looking for the music score used behind the "Jenson, Master of the Universe" montage?
Hello weekend!
I guess I should do some more Joe-transcribing, I am falling behind!
Hehe. Who's chasing you? ;) But your Joe transcriptions are excellent stuff - if anyone's word is worth looking for, it's Joe. :D
That pesky Mr C keeps putting out new Joe shows. But I am sitting in my courtyard and I am doing some BBQing so what better way to wait for my kebabs than by listening to Mr Saward.
Hehehe. I'm guessing there will only be 1 or 2 more shows for the year. That should give more than enough time to catch up. :D
"This news will make Amy and myself very happy, I’m sure."
Yes! I would more than enjoy catching a glimpse of him in Melbourne.
I'm sure I didn't click the link button. Oops.
Morning!
That's brilliant! Amy, you have made my rubbish morning so much better :D
aww, rubbish morning? Just remember that its Friday!
Train was late... but at least I have croissants today ;)
Anyway... I thought the big news of the day was what name Christine decided to call her new polar bear?
Morning everyone :)
The Guardian says Macca talking to Jenson...
They better not be!... they have to have Kimi...
Apparently the Daily Mail is stirring up rumours of Jenson at McLaren with Lewis. While, of course, it fails the two drivers of the same nationality test, I think it might be actually a good fit for McLaren.
Obviously not what the fans want to see. We want to see Lewis pushed by Kimi.
I guess I won't be voting for Jenson as SPOTY then....
And it passes the Vodafone test, apparently.
Indeed. I think this is just the media trying to mess things up, or perhaps Button trying to get a bit of leverage on Brawn. But ultimately, it won't happen. Even Heidfeld is more likely than Button at McLaren, I'd think.
But has Kimi indeed priced himself out of F1, or is he just too interested to go rallying?
Vote for Jenson anyway. Even if Kimi doesn't end up at McLaren, it doubt it'll be Jenson replacing him. ;)
This is exactly what I was referring to last night - the media publish a flimsy rumour at best and we all pounce on it. We don't even know if it's even half true yet!
I guess no one wants to talk about Todt today - and who can blame them?
There's really no point!
DC didn't think so after having a private chat with Kimi the other week...
I can't wait to hear some positive news... I spend all day checking the various sites just to see if there is any news...
It's driving me mad...
My very minor consolation is that if Abu is his last race I will be there.... but then what will I do all next summer?....
Keep the faith... he will be in F1 next year - RObertson is just holding out for more cash...
To my mind Kimi's management will have signed with McLaren before being released from Ferrari (or a rally team if he's really off). There's no way he's scrabbling around for a deal. Not his style.
But after signing with McLaren and Kubica signing with Renault, Toyota finally got approval for its 2010 program and decided to replace Trulli. Too late everyone has deals.
Toyota try to throw megabucks at the deal, but unless they paid Kimi $100 million he wouldn't race at Toyota (and even then I'd doubt it). And he'd have to break with McLaren.
Now aside from all this the Jenson deal is still ongoing, and I think his management are simply using the lack of Kimi being announced at McLaren to get more money from Brawn. Because Brawn are in the enviable position of having a World Champion who is a) out of contract and b) nobody else has a drive for him.
Exactly. I do think there is a twist in store here, though. We shall see.
Thank you Mr RG I do so pray that you are correct... and that Roertson doesn't hold out too long...
An announcement (and a win) at Abu would be good so I have a reason to drink lots of bubbly.....
When do we expect to hear about the Presi vote?....
So is the only reason McLaren haven't announced it is that Heikki has no deal yet?
How corporate of Toyota. That'll hurt. Now they might have to end up paying more than they wanted for Glock or Kovalainen.
Exactly.
You'll have to make the effort to find bubbly, though. ;)
I am looking forward to seeing Kimi win at Spa in a McLaren :D :D
I suspect late afternoon. Could be earlier, though.
!!!
I think Ferrari had a gag clause in the deal. I mean everyone knew Alonso was going to Ferrari but they didn't for sure because it wasn't anounceable until some point.
Ferrari wanted everyone to talk about them getting Alonso. Not about Kimi at McLaren.
party in the mobile home? :D
But no one's talking about Alonso anymore - everyone had been talking about it BEFORE it was announced. By announcing it, Ferrari had effectively ended any discussion, because it became old news. Everyone was now speculating on the next domino, so to speak - Kimi.
hehe
Wouldn't that be amazing? :P A Button-Brawn win at Spa would be something too.
No
Unacceptable. I have already seen Button win once. 3 races, 3 winners. 3 races next year, 3 new winners please. (2 Finns and one Barrichello please)
But they got the official press. I think this will probably hark back to the Alonso to McLaren announcement which upset Ferrari massively because of some timing thing. I can't quite remember the details.
Weren't you around when Kimi won in 07?
I predict your three new winners will be:
Australia: Massa
Belgium: Raikkonen
Italy: Alonso
Ferrari? I thought it upset Renault?
nope, I was still at Uni then, 08 was my first.
Already seen Alonso "win" (no Singapore debates please ;) )
Yes it was Renault - you're right. Hmmm... I can't quite remember but there was something in my mind pointing me in this direction... Hmmm..
Honda boss: ‘No regrets’ about Formula One pullout
No matter how many times they say, most people will find it hard to believe them. ;)
:D Good point. Scratch Alonso - make it Vettel (assuming they suddenly don't run Cosworths).
At Monza, will you run to the podium?
Closest I can think of is when Kimi replaced Schumi upon his retirement. But they controlled that situation pretty well.
I don't run. ;)
BOO! :P But that's one of the traditions of Monza - the podium run!
I might walk down, at a reasonable and comfortable pace :D
I still have this idea in my head that the 'ceremonial swords' have had to have been removed from the Honda boardoom though!
I did it at Le Mans. You have to, it's so worthwhile!
Do that, and they might be done by the time you get there. :P
Hehehe. Lest someone get any ideas... :D I mean, BBC's Ashes Montage intro was Honda trying to sell their team. That's awful PR for miles on end.
heheh it's a long time away, maybe I should do a Gavin and start running training (note: it's not going to happen)
Agreed. :)
Morning all.
Morning Christine. :) Big day ahead, no?
Not in this thread it isn't.
And getting the WDC Macca admit they owe him... (Actually Ron said he was owed two...)
Then you will get nowhere near the podium unless you can get paddock access....
The Alonso to Macca upset Flav tons as it happened before the 2006 season started and he wanted it announced late in 2006 as he felt it would demotivate Renault... It didn't because the Macca was truly awful in 2006....
:D Hehe. Cmon, Friday's a big enough day in itself! ;)
Happy place much? :D
I always see the podium in Melbourne, that'll do me ;)
but then I'd have to go to whichever race it is that he gets crowned at. Cannot afford more!
It wasn't really THAT awful - considering it's scored more points that year than McLaren has this year. I guess it's a solid car, but it had little potential to develop to become a race-winner.
But this is different - the podium is right near the track! :D
It might be at Monza, for all you know. ;)
Oh it is... Because in this thread we will be discussing things like:
1) Isn't Friday really the third best day of the week?
2) Buttercups or Rainbows - which is better?
3) The smell of freshly mown grass is good, but not inside, so is fresh baked bread the answer?
All of the hot button issues :)
Beg, borrow and steal.... it's got to be justified....
Behind Sundays and Saturdays? :D
Gotta be rainbows - they're so much cooler. :D
YES!
Maybe in 2011 ;)
How many circuits have you been to over the years? Sounds like lots!
Only been travelling recently but...
Of this year's circuits I will (after Abu) have been to 17...
And I have been to two others...
I like it!
As long as it is not just the smell of fresh bread and that there actually is some bread to eat as well. Otherwise it would just make you hungry, whereas grass does not do that (hopefully).
wow! I need to find a job that pays for this/gives me enough time off. Being based in Australia makes European circuits a little expensive/time consuming to get to :D
Good point. Very good point.
So say you were just going to put in a smell but you couldn't have the thing. What would you go for inside? Bread and coffee both being out by this reckoning.
purple!
Does purple have a smell?
I really like the smell of all my purple cleaning things. I think they are lavender :D
That is really tricky...
You need to make sure that when you do a European race you arrange to do two in one holiday...
But you'll rack up tons of airmiles... I hope you are in a frequent flyer programme as the miles add up and you end up getting some free travel...
Ah yes lavender is good. And might be the answer here. I do not want to eat lavender.
:D
Have you named the polar bear yet?
Well coffee does work for me, as I don't drink it but like the smell of it.
The only other thing I can think of is flowers, but that's just bringing the outside in, so you might as well get the lawnmower.
Don't choose purple it's Lewis's favourite colour....
Today he looks like a Harry, but Harry the Polar Bear just sounds stoopid.
It's also my favourite colour.
On that note, choose wisely, as some are not very flexible!
and mine! #sameperson
There is nothing to stop you, I suppose, having a bit in the center of your living room which looks like a rug but is actually grass. You could then mow that when you wanted the smell.
Nikki from Canada has an alarm clock that slowly lights up and releases a coffee aroma - cool!
:)
like in Help!
Actually I like it... although it's not a 'P' name!
Help?
Morning all.
I'd prefer if it released coffee!
Morning
Ahh well...
Such is life...
His is probably pink but he doesn't dare say...
Aww leave poor Lewis alone :(
Nothing wrong with pink. Franck wears a pink helmet.
Sorry RG just a bit of fun...
PS I hear he's not actually poor though...
I have a 'thing' for pink racing cars - although it might be because they are quite rare...
No, he's very rich in fact :D
This is a good idea. We should put it on the inventions list. Also, if we could create a rug that baked bread as well, that would be perfect.
How about an alarm clock that had a little lawn that was mowed each morning while baking bread and brewing coffee? That would be MEGA ;)
Help!
Hmmm....
I think I will decline to comment as I will only make an inappropriate remark...
Made me smile though... naughty me....
Harry the Potter Bear. :D
Nothing wrong with it though, is there?
Oh Help! Yes!
Have you heard about Alex Lloyd, the Indycar driver? His nickname this year has been "Pink Lloyd" because he has had a pink car and overalls. The sponsor (Her Energy Drink) has got loads of mileage out of it :)
Nope.
Clever!
speaking of Help, John's bed is something I have always been jealous of. I have wanted one since I was a little girl and first saw the movie. When I am all grown up with my own house, would it be acceptable to build one like this?
I'm very happy at the moment. I'm on the bus to work and my copy of Forza 3 is sat on my lap. :D :D :D
Planes are scary! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8321748.stm
planes aren't scary, incompetent pilots are!
Bloody hell! I'd loved to have been a fly on the wall in that cockpit!
More the pilots than the planes, actually...
Looks expensive!! I'd end up hitting my head off the sides.
#mfc Has this been brought up?
Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone
Sour much?
Look on the bright side - you can't fall off your bed. :D
Okay, I rephrase:
Air travel is scary.
my favourite pilots are the ones who get on the announcementy machine (thats a word) and tell us what we are flying over and what we can see out the windows. I also like the ones who tell us not to worry in turbulence rather than flying through it violently and all the people around me freaking out and thinking they are about to die (I always get put next to nervous flyers it seems :( )
the legs will never collapse!
Hehe. :D Maybe you handle them well?
NOTE: Announcementy machine = PA System ;)
Definitely going in the dictionary.
:D :D
Oh of course, the FIA elections! Let's just hope we get the result we're all hoping for. Getting Forza 3 and Ari elected as FIA president would mean that for me, it's been a good day :D
This is a common problem? :P
What legs? That bed has no legs. :D
turbulence only bothers me when I am trying to drink :D I will not panic until the oxygen masks drop :D
So will we get the result today?
my bed has legs that fall off all the time. If only my bed was a hole in the floor instead. I hate you so much right now, John Lennon!
I had this happen to me while the plane was still on the tarmac. It took the attendants aaaaaages trying to stuff them back in....
Technically, there is another thread for FIA talk, but I do like that the presidency and Forza 3 are in the same sentence :)
I've had a birdstrike, but it's too long a story and only works in person!
Or the actual floor, I suppose.
I've always said if I was a pilot I would make them drop on purpose just to freak people out. Probably a good thing I'm not a pilot.
I've always been a GT5/PS3 guy, but I'd sure love to have a go on Forza 3. :D
:D
I store way too much stuff under my bed to ever sleep on the floor. This probably rules out the hole in the floor too. Boo.
If you were a grown up with your own house maybe you'd have enough other storage space?
Does Aussie have the same dampness problems as NZ?
This is a good point. I quite liked my parents house, I told them I look forward to owning it when they die. I should point out that my family says horribly offensive things to each other quite often because our humour is twisted :D
no one here seems to know what a dehumidifier is, so I assume not. It might be because it doesn't get so cold outside though so theres not so much moisture inside in winter.
Spam on drop.io. The icky kind. :(
I can now imagine you and Mr C both playing Forza 3, both with one-button driving, and Mr C tries to distract you by going "Look, it's Franck!" You turn round going "Where?!", he tries to ram your car but the autobrake kicks in and he misses and has a big crash. You turn back and find you're winning and Mr C sit there swearing to himself :D
Ta.
We have a marketplace in the hallway at work today - food, TV's, computers, furniture... crazy!
I got an email back from the iplayer people. I'm sure you'll all be thrilled to know that the 2nd quali programme has now made it onto the iplayer....
Did they say what the problem was?
No. It wasn't a very satisfactory email tbh.
Does Christine need a 2010 calendar?
Aww, that's very cool!
that site has ridiculous amounts of panda things. I go to look at the dresses, I swear!
Okay, here's a game.
If you were setting up an F1 theme park, what rides and attractions would you have?
I reckon the Trulliometron would be a good ride, that just goes from really high to really low. No loop the loops or nothin, just up and down.
#f1themepark
I'd complain, to make quali available 5 days afterwards, and even after the race is finished isn't really acceptable.
Oh my god, I have to have this: http://www.modcloth.com/store/ModCloth/Apartment/Decor/Kitchen+Bath/Frying+Pan+da
I actually used to make rides just like that on Roller Coaster Tycoon :D
The Badoer train. Y'know the one that is for little kids and goes really slowly?
Hey all.
that beats my Ikea frying pan :D
Christine Blachford: Avoiding all FIA talk today. Feel the same? Join the daily thread for talk about fresh bread, polar bears and pilots. http://bit.ly/4ENrMq
I'm here to talk about fresh bread :)
And about time twitter had some way of sorting who you are following into different categories
Qik stream?
Yay!
I assume that they've just put my reconstruction up.
Merry go round - for the drivers market
Tea cups - for a spinning Piquet
I find you cant go wrong with a chunky white loaf.
Mmmm
Key question... How do you cut it? There seems to be some debate.
I'm thinking maybe Sutil Bumper Cars, but that might be more a fair than a theme park.
my favourite fresh bread is bread rolls to be sliced in half with lots of butter, and eaten with a bowl of soup.
I think you just have to accept that its not going to be perfect unless you get someone else to cut it, so you just have to cut massive slices. Its the only way
Crunchy rolls or soft rolls?
Hmm, I say, with a knife.
fresh crusty rolls are the best :) bit of butter, cheese and some tomato soup and im there!
I once help cut a gateaux with a bar stool if that helps?
super soft inside but crusty on the outside. And white please.
This morning I stirred a cup of hot chocolate with a pen (oh the shame, the SHAME)
Wow! That sounds like quite a tough thing to do.
yeeeeeeeeeeey
But well done.The first step is admitting you have a problem
The physics christmas party, too much food, blackadder, and no knife
ahh fun times
the problem is someone keeps stealing the spoons in our office. I used to have a bag of plastic ones in my desk but I must have used them all.
Depends, if you want to make toast it is more time saving (and neater) to use a laser cutter
A tad more expensive though.
You sound like Mosley now :-(
:)
:) :) :)
Harsh ;)
We had one at my old school, good fun they were.
Clean cut but it has more of a squashing motion than a cutting
Laser cutters. Ahhh, love em. Though my teacher did once use the wrong settings to cut wood.
Surely you had a scalpel?
Presumably a little less than hygenic as well!
Fiiiiiiiiiiire
Umm. Nope. Not sure i ever used a scalpel in Physics actually. We were more about fire and pendulums and ting
:D
After 10 hours or so of Kindle use, my first thought is that the flash on page turning is nowhere near as annoying as I thought it would be.
You would think a bunch of physicists could come up with a better solution than using a bar stool wouldn't you?
How about splitting the gateaux at the atomic level? What is the critical mass of gateaux anyway?
Tis debatable ;)
You use a scalpel in biology dont you?
I use a scalpel for opening anything delivered in a box - it must be multidisciplinary at that level
Well, I did once use a scalpel to cut a potato. So maybe I was wrong.
Ah I can see there are some physics fans around... Which is perfect because it means I can do my smallest audience in the world joke...
Why did the cat fall off of the roof?
Because it lost its ?
(? is pronounced mew or Mu, and in physics it is the coefficient of friction).
I kill at Physics parties :)
Boo... Silly character encoding: Mu = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)
losing your greek alphabet didn't help it :-)
Not really... I should have just written Mu! Grrr!
I like to think of it as my Geek alphabet ;)
hehehe I was thinking "it's a long time since I was top of the class in high school physics but I'm sure mu wasn't a question mark"
I was good at physics but I hated it.
I'm just sat here wondering how a cat could lose its viscosity is the problem! ;-)
Damn then using the same symbol for different things.
I think if a cat lost its dynamic viscosity it would probably fall off of the roof too though ;)
if you buttered it would it land on its legs?
My friend doing an Astrophysics degree applauds your joke!
It might pour off the roof, into the gutter and down in to the sewers - I think you'd start losing your audience at this point ;-)
:D
See ;)
What if it was Schrodinger's cat? Did it fall or didn't it?
aha, dont get me started on Schrodingers cat!
Many many many days and nights i spent debating that stupid cat
Baaaah! I have to go to work :(
my brother has been house sitting so he can feed a cat that looks like Hitler.
While we're doing incredibly involved jokes here I must mention that on the Adam and Joe podcast they have a feature called "Made up joke party". Where listeners send in jokes that they have definitely made up themselves. Some are very good, and lots of people claim some of them. I have sent in a joke. And I wonder if people here get it... (I did send the explanation in my e-mail)
What company do they use at Hogwarts to deliver all the snakes they need?
Parsleforce.
Take Schrodingers cat with you, he'll be lots of fun, or none at all, we cant tell
My mother-in-law's cat looks like Hitler too
Hehehe! I get that one!
Both and neither :)
Phew :)
I don't get it #boycottingharryforlife
http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com
?
I feel very bad that I didn't understand the science talk, but talk about Harry Potter and I'm right with ya.
me too!!
#notthesameperson
Well the language that they use to talk to snakes in Harry Potter is called parsletounge. And Parcel Force is a delivery company, other delivery companies are available.
gosh I didn't realise it was so common! Here is my submission.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc07065-jpg
Don't worry not many people get Physics / Maths jokes.
Obviously a lot of people know the most famous one...
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
And of course there is the computer nerds version of that joke which is...
There are 1 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who think they understand encoding two states in binary but don't.
haha love it.
Good morning :D
luuuuuuuukeh gooooodmoooorning,
little song for ya there
Morning!
I enjoyed that song
Morning, Lukeh. :D
as I look at my photos, I am reminded I have not posted these. Inspired by Alex's journey to Paris, I took photos of plane food.
Verdict = train food > plane food.
For my trans-tasman breakfast I was given hot cakes with bacon, fresh fruit salad and a muffin.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc07002-jpg
The hot cakes were very rubbery. Bad decision. Next time I shall go for the cereal because its impossible to overcook that.
For my late afternoon North Island to South Island flight I was given a selection of crackers (3) and cheese (2), and 3 grapes.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc07066-jpg
They also had a selection of wines but I don't like wine so I had the non-alcoholic choice of L&P.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc07067-jpg
World famous in New Zealand.
I did not photograph my meal on the way back to Melbourne, but it was a venison pie and it was delicious but very small.
Lou said she wanted to see some photos of NZ, this is the only one I took. This was as I was sitting on the couch having my breakfast one morning.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc07069-jpg
It's more interesting when there is boats.
Today will be a good day, I have a good feeling about it :D
Later!
What is a hot cake? It looks nice.
its a fancy name for a pancake I think. The only other place I know that calls them hot cakes is McDonalds.
It looks like a scotch pancake
I have just learned that UK McDonalds call them pancakes. Smart.
UK McDonalds call a lot of things something that they're not ;-)
Hehehe!
Yay! L&P, oh how I miss thee...
May I ask where that is?
Otago Peninsula. Or to be more precise, allow my arrow to demonstrate
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/youarehere-jpg
Don't tell anyone... Shhhh...
But I think I am going to have Pizza for lunch...
Shhhh!!!
Swapsies for a sandwhich?
shhhh I had a bag of maltesers
You mean a sammich, of course.
KATHERI...
;)
shhh
#ihadamuffin
:D
Oh of course!
Nosireebob (or Lukeh)
phew...
I had roast beef and potatoes with Bearnaise Sauce :)
woohoo. x1 joe show edited. i hate logic/apple right now.
Oh nice. I've been out there!
noooooo
I get carsick every time unless I'm driving :(
I still blame Logic.
i really, really do. a diabolical shambles. very reminiscent of the windows/audition trouble we had that pushed as to use macs only in the first place.
it didn't write itself though. someone at apple signed it off and put their name to it.
i mean nooooo it seems like the last one just came out and I'm not ready! I don't care if you hate apple ;)
oh.
...
...
...
:D
So logic is illogical?
Mind = blown
anyways this is the happy place, no grr's and argh's allowed here ;)
i prefer cr**.
oh yeah. well joe is ace as always.
Is it talk like Pirate day again?
I like to call it hateful. It hates us.
I like garageband :)
For Twitterers, Jake has a question: How are we all coping with no F1 this weekend...?
:)
I liked Garageband until they changed all the defaults. Every time I start a new project I have to clear out all the effects it's put on there for no reason. Weirdness.
apple call it being "helpful".
Is it like Jon's bus driver yesterday?
On that note, I forgot to tell you about my train ride yesterday. I sat next to a guy who had all his stuff sprawled over two seats. It was the only seat left, but he still made a point of taking aaages to move his stuff. When I finally sat down, he kept elbowing me.
No bother, I got comfy and ignored it. But we were sitting in the silent compartment - which in Denmark, is pretty strict... you must be silent!
Near the end of the journey (when everyone is waking up anyway), a middle aged woman across the aisle from him had her phone discreetly beep twice. Do you know what Mr. Nasty did? He punched her in the arm and then pointed to the silent sign!
Couldn't believe it! :O
That bus driver was horrible, and to add to it, the later bus i got on turned out to be one that a) took longer and b) stopped outside a school which clearly the whole school got on. To say it was cramped was an understatement
No way! thats terrible
My quiet carrige on Monday had someone talking on the phone....not so quiet
i've found another flaw in snow leopard (sorry happy place).
the file size dialog no longer reports the correct file size (apparently intentionally), which means i can't fill in the little box on each post with the correct information. now have to upload to ftp and get the file size once done.
kill me now.
Intentionally because?
you remember when we were talking about installing Linux on a mac? (Although that won't help with the video/audio editing probably)
dumbest intentional feature ever?
*focuses totally on the happy place* :P
freshbreadfreshbreadfreshbreadfreshbreadfreshbreadfreshbreadfreshbread
:D
"In Snow Leopard, Apple has changed this convention and redefined "kilo", "mega", and "giga" in the system software to be their English definitions. As such, drive and file sizes will be calculated to be a slightly larger number than what they currently are."
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10330509-263.html
I'm not keen on the removal of the Creator tags. Why...
People think they want default applications based on file types if it's a pdf open it in preview or whatever.
But actually if I'm working with pictures I want a picture I created in my camera to open in my camera roll and a picture I created in photoshop to open in photoshop.
Today I truly appreciate the awesomeness of fresh bread
Also, when you walk into a bakery (I'm sure there's one on the tip of my tongue but the name escapes me) it smells mega awesome
they've redifined them?!!
hahah, thats the most rediculous thing ive ever heard
Its the best bit :)
Damn you English peoples!!!
see, i disagree. i want all audio in quicktime, all pics in preview etc.
am happy with that change.
Right but you could, and presumably did, override that in Leopard.
Now I don't have the choice.
fair point.
It is very un-mfc to take away choices.
I may have to visit unnamed bakery today, in the spirit of the happy place.
Especially a choice that had been in since the beginning of time. I remember choosing my own creator code back in the day ALEX :)
A proud nation salutes you
good thinking.
however did you choose that? :D
I know! It has to be 4 letters, it was fate :)
Are you gonna gets you a sammich
I am gonna gets me a chicken sammich :)
I would be sooooo stuck.
As the unnoficial Unnamed Bakery ambassasasador for Sidepodcast, I wholeheartedly support this plan
What.
In that article:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10330509-263.html
it makes reference to the supposedly bizarre programmer practice of starting counting with 0. (Which one of the geek jokes earlier made a thing about) That's not a bizzare thing it's just smaller. Empty is a state, 0 is a state, 1 is a state. So we start counting a 0 because it saves leaving a gap. We are just being neat.
That is officially the best word ever
Bassano challenging?
Aime?
;)
I was just thinking that, bassano has clearly snuck into my spelling fail
Am-bassano-bassador!
Just watch out if you start spelling your name LukOrangeDrilleh
what i object to most. is that this should be an industry thing, where everyone agrees.
apple shouldn't just redefine stuff cause they have no new features in their OS.
I'll be calling myself Gregg long before that happens I reckon
so according to the ftp server, the aside show is 49MB and according to snow leopard it's 57MB.
how do i know the whole file uploaded ok? this is beyond useless.
Yes... To be clear redefining kilo needs to be industry wide or it's cheating because the same hard drive they were selling yesterday is no mystically bigger.
I was only defending the 0 thing for the "Another bizarre computer convention" not the main article.
Happy pandas are happy :D
Get a mac... FTP server.
(sorry I'm not helping)
The one on the right looks too happy ;)
yipes. i suspect the upload got cut somewhere. try playing the file from the FTP server?
"what are you doing now mr.c?"
"glad you asked. i'm just downloading the file i uploaded ten seconds ago, and already have on my desktop... in order to ensure the end of the file is actually there."
*explodes*
To be fair, when I was younger I had hours of fun on those on those awesome swingy things
nope. it is ALL there.
apple are a bunch of muppets.
why don't you just check the duration of the MP3 file? wouldn't that come out if you open it?
wow. you said THAT? wow. :D
yeah. i can check the byte count as well, that figure hasn't changed.
it's just a waste of time, when file sizes have been calculated the same way since as far back as i can remember.
Mr C... While I accept no responsibility for anyone who does this...
You can change it back:
http://www.codez4mac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=42625&sid=12230a6075756ab8e6403d9e9cb35b45
i'm having a bad apple day.
people joking about that given today's events, perhaps button would be better served at brawn. :D
Can we all run into our nearest Apple shop shouting "HOW DARE YOU REDEFINE THE ESSENCE OF COMPUTING!" and then run out again?
A new Apple Store opened in cardiff yesterday so I may do that soon, and shake my fist at them vehemently, before complimenting them on their new store then storming out in a fit of anger on behald of Mr C
A plan worthy of a movie I'd say
Apple must have really bought into this 'our users are a cult and will do what we say' thing.
Do it :D
against all odds:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/10/23/an-aside-with-joe-he-should-be-growing-out-of-it-by-now/
No!! Why did you have to upload the aside just before i was going for a bike ride, now i have to listen to it before i go out, just in case apple magic makes it disapear ;)
bags the transcription!
if we release it at 4am, steven shouts. do we need a countdown to the next show?
It would always be wrong.
oh yeah.
hmmm, maybe, just maybe, i'll trust that it will still be here when i get back.
:D
Not to make you explode or anything but the file that is coming at me in iTunes is being reported by iTunes as 49.4Mb
:D
just wait until it's finished.
it'll magically expand.
Free iPhone car racing app as advert for new Volkswagen #MFC
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/10/22/volkswagen-launches-free-version-of-real-racing-to-promote-2010/
So are you going to change the setting?
Hmm.
I don't think this worked.
i can't? rss feeds require the file size in the traditional format.
49.4MB is the size of the file.
if apple haven't altered itunes to account for that fact, what can i do?
#massiveapplefail
I meant this that I mentioned earlier:
Pre-reqs failed to install? That's odd.
oh i see. yeah, probably. not now though, am going to boot linux and cheer myself up.
Could it be Windows 7 fail? I hope not... that worries me...
jackie, there's a separate thread for the election. keeping the daily happy and all that. ;)
Thanks
It is now clear to me just how rediculous i look in this
http://www.swimwearonline.co.uk/store/merchant.ihtml?pid=128&lastcatid=15&step=4
:(
Ah it appears to be working now. Phew!
Worth a try - it's a good game!
Dear Mr C, I'd like to put my hand up right now and say "no ta" to Snow Leopard.
i agree.
i now have lost all faith in logic's ability to export correctly, audio is fine in the edit window, but simply misses bits on export.
Whoops.
you'll revert to your previous system then?
I find it amusing that Mac users are throwing stones at the windows people when there are problems with the snow leopard *runs and hides...*
Gavin this tweet might raise a smile for you...
...with damage off.
We're more than happy to throw stones at anything that doesn't work the way it should.
Ooh he's my BFF now ;)
I can tell you that Abu Dhabi was made ages ago so it won't be very accurate ;)
Fair 'nuff ;)
Neither is his driving
:P
Yeeeeeeouch
This might be Grosjean's last GP, so let's savour it.
Keep your eyes open or you might miss him ;)
Guess the corner he crashes on? The problem being that they all look the same...
Tunnel!
I'll be disappointed if no-one messed up at the tunnel
We all know how much Mr Hamilton loves his pitlanes.
Happy birthday to Zanardi, by the way.
I'm convinced Tilke didn't design the pitlane. An elevation change of that degree is a sheer absurdity to the man ;)
Ooh awesome! Happy birthday Mr Z :D
I didn't realise it was his birthday today. Happy birthday Alex
Add to the fact that the corner looks interesting ;)
Happy birthday, Alex! :D
It's actually the most challenging corner on the whole circuit. Can't they change the start-finish straight into the pitlane and use the pitlane for the main circuit?
*images turn 1 on lap 1 in the pitlane*
...oh my
I hate that at the end of the long straight, there's that weird kink before the hairpin. WHY??? What's the point? Why not have just a long straight and a hairpin???
boo at my ISP doing "Emergency Internal Work" and what good is a service status page that you can't access if the internet isn't working.
Kinda like Magny-Cours - Nurburgring chicane leads into the 180 Degree corner.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8321967.stm
As i want to be a teacher, not wanting to move to Germany, and teachers get paid pitance....i like this story :D good on 'em
That's stupid on a LOT of levels...
It does seem a waste of a hairpin doesn't it? That circuit looks like it was designed to be run clockwise but someone other than Tilke insisted otherwise.
The group say they have more money than they need
I must find these people.
Rich liberals. Wow. I know this is Europe, but still, you don't see that everyday.
right when I was googling to find out where on earth this 'saxon ring' is and finding out its the 'sachsenring' :D
"Hi, im Lukeh. You have more money than you need, i want some. Problem solved"
aha :D its in germany i believe.
you're not that far behind me
Ahh the Sachsenring - what a wicked circuit!
Get out of my mind :P
Isn't that what the Master wore in Dr Who?
:D
Did you get the rest of the circuit names?
apparently it hosts MotoGP. I learn so much from Joe :D
I did so far! If I need more help I will yell :D
he's such an awesome guy!! i love that he's not singluallly focused!
That's good because the only ones I remember are Nogaro, Castle Combe, Cadwell Park and Snetterton
Excellent circuit, used for MotoGP. :)
there was Zandvoort as well :D
The circuit with one of the best corner names ever. Tarzan. Much better than calling it turn 12
Come over to the land of happy Gavin where the aroma of fresh bread lingers through the thread and many pandas keep their respective thread creators happy ;)
Yes... and where Donington lives on in rFactor and countless other video games :D
I have Cheese on a Toasted Roll :)
I wonder if pandas would eat fresh bread.
its certainly more plentiful than bamboo
I have never seen a panda in Greggs
I have seen a dog though, and a ferret
I love it when people take ferrets for walks!!
Donington circa 1993 at that!
Mmm... Cheese on a toasted roll... :D
Good point.
People take ferrets for walks???
Have you never seen it? They have leads like dogs and they have a little body strap or a normal lead. It's so oddly cute/ utterly bizarre
For Amy
His name is Philippe Alliot
Yes
We'll always have Donny 93!
But they only have little legs! That must be waddle-tastic.
I am not up to there because I have not attempted to redownload since my 12 minute failure, so I proofread that instead. But I shall remember this for tomorrow! Because Saturday is 'finish those 3' day.
like a sausage dog?
They only have little legs but they move them quickly
:D they do waddle about. It's very cool.
But again, very odd when you see someone with a lead, then realise it's a ferret. Initially I thought they had a very small dog the first time I saw it.
Ah yes, the craptastic frenchman with a helmet design modelled on Chris Amon ;)
Why a ferret?
I want to see it now!
What a surprise. Youtube is full of videos of people taing their ferret for a drag/walk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8TAUcC2kJQ&feature=related
Ferret's are popular pets and they like to go for a walk I guess. I haven't seen a bunny go for a walk though. or a hamster. Now that would be kinda terrifying I reckon for the poor thing....
I am always amazed when a driver models his helmet on another driver's. It is almost without exceptionthe sign of a bad driver
Ooooh, I hearts the interwebs.
Alboreto? (on Peterson)
Davidson? (on Cheever)
Ralf Schumacher.
:D
*looks up to see his Ralf Schumacher poster but soon realises he's at home*
Alesi on DeAngelis
Irvine on Senna
I just went to close Word and it has given me a list of words it wants to send to Microsoft to help them improve their proofing tools. The list is Maranello, Tremayne, Euskadi, Sauber and Barrichello :D
Japanese Marshall on Senna?
You are doing a great cause :)
I worry about Word 2007, it doesn't know that im = I'm which I'm sure Word 2000 did.
I liked it when Alesi's helmet went silver towards the end of his career
You would think it would have come across those by now
right, I have sheets to buy tomorrow so I actually have to wake up before shops close so its bedtime for me! Night all :)
Night Amy!
night!!
Indeed. I had to teach Windows Live Writer all the F1 words!
Night Amy
I am tired. Please fast forward an hour.
And now for something completely different
Adrian Sutil playing the piano
that answers the question about who they were photographing in oxford.
thats very cool
http://twitter.com/JRobertsF1/status/4014173293
thats very near where my brother lives!
Interesting item on Net an Night. They are talking to the guy who owns woopra. Amongst the wonderful info it gives you it can send you a notification in real time if a particular is reading the site before they even comment. Could be useful for tracking nuisance visitors.
It also gives real time info on how many people are on site and what country they are from etc and it is free
http://www.twit.tv/natn160
we're using it right now. have been for a while. it's very ropey though, most times i log in their server is unresponsive. they have twitter levels of scalability problems.
should also add that it's only free if you're site is tiny.
even f1 minute requires the paid version.
What do you mean 'even F1 Minute'? How rude. ;)
apologies...
should also add that it's only free if you're site is tiny.
for example: f1 minute is far toobig, updated far too regularly and is far, far too popular for the free version... spc is a magnitude more popular again.
That's bad because they were giving it a big build up
That is ridiculous
Better.
as an example, it was dead yesterday when i checked about 10pm. maybe though it was NaN that killed it?
phew!
They killed the guy's personal blog. NaN records on Tuesday but I guess when people start downloading it they kill sites all over again
it is great when it works. and the pricing isn't outrageous. but we use google stats as well, and that hasn't gone down once in nearly 3 years.
(and google is completely free)
just found this old comment from me: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/08/26/episode-74-youre-not-supposed-to-be-here-i-havent-changed-alonso/#comment-97169
it was once so bad we gave up for a bit. and previously: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/06/21/f1-digest-france-qualifying/#comment-79498
i didn't relaise we'd been running it for that long actually.
Afternoon all how are we today?
I have just doena mountain of housework (why do we feel the need to do it before we go away so we have a spotless house to come back to when we just live with it normally?)
So i am completly knackered!
Have you looked at Mint? http://haveamint.com/
(As opposed to the personal accounting mint I was recommending for Christine yesterday)
I'm thinking out loud here, so i want your comments.
Am thinking of changing the title of my podcast to "The Feeder Series
Your Guide to the Stars of the Future
– GP2, Formula 2, Renault 3.5" and making it about all sorts of formula's, tin tops, gt's, f1 etc.Thoughts?
I like the feeder series ;) It says what it does on the tin. Your guide to stars of the future could be about anything from x-factor to astronomy!
Motorstars In Their Eyes ;)
Thats true, the second bits more of a subtitle, clearly missed a - out there
"Tonight Jon i'm going to be.....better than Badoer"
Keep it as the Feeder Series!
it doesn't do real-time does it? which makes it a competitor to google, rather than woopra.
Ok ok, i need to rephrase this..
At the moment, on itunes it says "The Feeder Series - Your guide to GP2, Renault 3.5 and Formula 2 News"
I want to get rid of the second bit, meaning that its not just about those series, but other ones to do with M'sport aswell
You could just maybe add an "and more" at the end. I like it having GP2 etc in there, because it does help clarify what it's about, I think.
Your Guide to the Stars of the Future – GP2, Formula 2, Renault 3.5 and More
i might add something in the place of it, but im asking more about the concept than the name ;)
it doesn't? it says:
"The Feeder Series (mp3)"
in the description bit
of each episode
shouldn't it say it in the title? if i search itunes for gp2, you're nowhere to be found.
you raise a good point.
Annnnyway.
My question was; what does anyone think about me doing more of a general feeder series podcast, so looking at lots of feeder series, rather than just the f1 ones?
How about "Your Guide to the Future Stars Of Motorsport"?
Or have I barked up the wrong tree? (I'm quite good at that)
i'll be honest... i thought that was what you were doing.
so, it gets my vote.
Exactly. Guess who didn't subscribe to Fi... for a few months because he thought it was a podcast about boxing? :(
Brace yourselves, i have just read the daily and my next post may be mega...
oh :)
thats fine then haha
Mega post.. sorry!
hehe, you cant really call it Abu, it means father or dad in arabic!
Its not too bad... its like a coach journey with more to do :D
I love it!
Awesome game! how about the Jamie Algu-slidey (a big slide) The Glock-em cars (dogems) And to steal the truli idea, there should really be a trulli train to help get between all the rides ;)
Nooooo you stole my ideas 6 hours before i had them. I will offer up Kimi's icecream stand as a replacement ;)
Just thought i would bring it up again ;) ... did you?
The north haripin and the bit which goes under the hotel should be recogniseable ;)
I belive it is so they could have a much smaller run off area and have the fans more 'on top' of the track. I expect for UAE touring cars and the like they will avoid the kink
Yes, but then you are looking at more time spent making podcasts, and less time pulling Red cords in the evening :;)
why would you do that to yourself?
IIIIIIIIIIIII never pulled said red chord!!! twas my mate who was staying over
ignore my comment. i though you said you read the dailyMAIL.
as you were.
I feared i was missing out on the sidepodgossip!
I might have missed out on people's curtains malfunctioning, physics jokes i dont understand or fun games like the the f1 theme park!
hehehe, im not quite that desperate to not know what is going on!
we approve of comment catchups :)
i'm sleep deprived and stupid. just pretend i'm not here.
I think as it is it works but if you diversify too much you are not only giving yourself a lot more work but losing focus
hehe I am kindo of glad i didnt stay up for the traditional release of the aside last night ;)
#f1themepark
Last time I started up Rollercoaster Tycoon 1, I started an F1 themed park there.
It was rubbish though :( Too many shuttle loops.
In my head the problems i see are
1) You don't learn anything from it that you wouldn't from a press release
2) There's no discussion or anything like that, its all fact not opinion.
3) It's very short
I was taking my girlfriend to the person who's house she was staying at, its not my fault my friend is incapable of telling the difference between a white and red light switch ;) and the fact that its clearly a disabled room because theres a huuge button outside and in which when you push it opens the door!
Anyway *breathes* the extra work really dosen't bother me at all.
talking of extra work...
You Mr Bunny havent released a podcast this month....
*shakes head* tut tut
I said that when I was doing 4 different music podcasts, the height of which was 2 a week.
I eventually got fed up, and scaled down, to one massive cast every so often.
woah, thats a huge amount! thats almost SPC amounts ;)
I have one half done. Perhaps tonight I will finish it. ;)
(I probably won't :( )
That makes sense. I like that
am only messing ;) i just realy enjoy them,
1) i don't read gp2 press releases.
2) that is purely you choice though? extra subject matter won't solve that.
3) it's longer than f1 minute.
I have just finished my tasks for the day, now i have to get ready to go to london in half an hour...
I need to run my life on sidepodtime ;)
If you want discussion, best way to do it is getting another guy in with ya. Obviously someone who also knows what they are talking about and you can have some good convos about the subject?
it is my choice, but its all part of a slow change that im making/thinking about making, which makes it less formal, i'm also going to bring other people in to talk with, more interviews, talking about subjects etc etc.
Bingo! am slowly getting there, but the only physical people i know (i.e can sit next to me whilst recording) are ones that dont really know anything about anything about from F1, and even some of that knowledge is flawed, but am getting there
*apart
Do you have Skype? There are freeware apps that let you record Skype conversations. Or you can do a 2 or 3 way recording, where everyone on the Skype convo records their own voice with Audacity or some other app, and then mix the 3 audio streams together later.
i love a volunteer...
How many people ever saw the press releases though?
The opinion will come. First you learn about it and speak to people and soon you will form opinions that you will include. When I first took a serious interest in F1 I ate up and spat out facts and didn't have an opinion. Now I probably have more opinions than facts which is why I am rubbish at quizzes
I would love to offer assistance, but i am afraid my knowlege of the lower formulee is comparable to Phill tuffnal's knowledge of loans.
(other than Brendon Hartley should blatently be in F1 ;) )
And John Prescott's knowledge of British F1 drivers.
Oh and that my local team is clearly the best, not so different to F1 then ;)
Really really really random question:
Define the word Book
Extended pice of text divided into chapters whic are subsequently subdivided further. It is usualy longer than an article, however it may be shorter depending on the context of the book, for example a childrens book may only have 10-20 lines of text.
The text is commonly, but not alwyas printed and bound with a cover. Several books may be published together to form a bible or digest.
Hello all, What is the topic?
define the word book
- arrested
I'm not here, but yes, do that.
aha, thought you may like that
Anyone know a Chris Thompson from Pitlane Marketing Ltd
?
You'll need to be careful how you define it.
I'm not sure anybody would care about the SEAT Eurocup (feeder to WTCC), but they probably would care about Indy Lights especially since a lot of GP2 / WSR / F2 drivers end up there.
I won't report on series like that, but if i get the chance then i might interview people from those series potentially
I have bever heard of him or it
I havent had enough time to write a proper post in the more races thread...
I will write a ptropper comment, just havent had enough titme this afternnon.
Right i am off!
he added me on facebook as i hadnt either, turns out he dosent know me either!
delete!
adios Nick
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79704
:D
I once heard about a motorsport related podcast which was started by two people one of whom had been following the sport for ages and the other of whom was just getting into it ;) Worked really well :)
You raise a good point Prof
It might be interesting to look at some of the American drivers USF1 are backing in the junior formulae
Oh.my.goodness
I've just seen the most rediculous Windows 7 advert...
It's main point was, windows 7 shows you what programs you have (shows a view of them when you go over them in the task bar)
But vista does that too?!?!
I popped my Windows 7 Cherry today at wok - it's cooool!
no. or at least not as well.
windows are now grouped on the taskbar. the preview shows all document windows.
i guess the advert sucked :)
it does it as my computer is currently doing it ;)
totally did, in every where
im going to go and find this to see the difference!
I love the new taskbar. Makes a lot of things so much more easier and organised to get around, especially when I have a stupid amount of windows open. Plus shaking your current window makes everything else minimize if the amount of windows gets out of hand. so cool!
I'm easily impressed :P
just seen it, it now makes sense. the difference for vista is that when items are grouped on the task bar, if you click on it so it shows the options and you can hover over the different documents and see the preview there.
to me, its a bit pointless, but am sure someone somewhere might use it
Do you reckon i can convince the Forza 3 people to make it on PS2? I'll tell them that i really like the advert....that'll convince them!
Yeah I'm sure Microsoft will happily fund a game for a Sony console ;)
Awesome ;)
I'm sure it can't be that hard to do, you just change the export format on Games101 surely?
Maybe if you clean the disk reeeeeeeaallly hard itll work.
On a similar subject I now suddenly await the OS that Apple has been making for Windows, as well as Ron Dennis' plans when he takes over at Ferrari. :P
I'll try it!
By the way, classic you tube you linked to on your facebook
It's definitely what actually happened ;)
Plug for lots of championship-deciding goodness.
I wrote it in a hurry 'cos I'm off now, food + a beer then going to Dad's, he's 'borrowed' a van from work and we're heading to buy me a bed tomorrow (unfortunately I am paying). No idea when I'm back, have fun.
oops. thanks jon!!
Happy place!!
aww poo, appologee's :(
That went off the side of my doohickey
Impressive but naughty! Tut tut.
:(
thanks mr c
hehe.
I know no-one really cares, but i'm going to spout my idiocy anyway.
18 minute race, last lap ive got into the lead, 3 corners from the end i get cocky and miss my breaking point, gravel trap + bang = rolling
end up in 5th. boo
whoever said Catalunya races were boring ;)
Alia, it seems that Autosport Award ballots are available in the latest issue? So says LeeMcK.
I played Kimster from pitlanefanatic earlier this evening on Forza 3 at Catalunya with both of us driving this years Audi Le Mans car
I have never known a lap at Catalunya to last 2:30. S'all I'm saying. We both invented many new corners for that track :D
They are
vaugley f1 related post from becken: http://f1around.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/u2-ao-vivo-via-youtube-assista-bernie/
and the translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://f1around.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/u2-ao-vivo-via-youtube-assista-bernie/&ei=vPThSojYDeKfjAeToq2yAQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://f1around.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/u2-ao-vivo-via-youtube-assista-bernie/%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den
Has this been brought up? From Mr Noble:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjgAikcHAGc
Listen from 1:38 onwards. Nothing too obvious, but even so...
Hey everyone, taking a break for lunch, wrote an article about the election today on my blog. It took me 20 minutes to write and post.
Thanks for the plug Mr. C.
"@MauriceHamilton: Todt is likely to give the F1 commisioner's job to Schumacher. Now there's a surprise. Not."
Great, it isn't "Ferrari International Assistance" anymore... the FIA is not the Ferrari french division headquarters.
(*Trying to finding my happy place.*)
*journeyer*
aww :(
ahahahaah :D
... and I've found it...
Which game were ya playing?
personally i prefer,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvsAqkOhI48
Toca 3 :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQvmCzILBfE&feature=related
a better quality version for all you o'jays fans
Ahhh. I have not played that in ages.
I wonder if I've still got it.
oooh no i lie!!
Toca 2 :D
its so retro i love it
you and dan have both picked excellent songs. :)
Gotta love the Toca games!
Toca 2 is so retro, its a proper old school race sim. Its just awesome.
Seat Cupra Eurocup :D woop
From F1Minute:
Perhaps that explains why Mr C's Mac went off the hook today. :D
Funny we're talking about videogames, I just found out via facebook that one of my friends' band is going to be on the new Forza Motorsport 3 game.
suddenly everything makes sense
thats pretty cool!!
Oops.
... *trying to resist computer virus joke here*...
too true. and on that bombshell, i'm off to bed. Night, everyone. ;)
I don't know if it is going to be on the European copies, but the song is 100% by 99Men.
:D :D
Niiiiight! have a good sleepage!
Wordpress update:
It's not going well. Every time I try to post a new entry, the text disappears. I managed to get a post up yesterday but this rather important element of a blog platform appears to have thrown a tantrum on me :(
Why does it do that? Are you using an odd OS?
Alia, it seems that Autosport Award ballots are available in the latest issue? {Comment #638}
They are. What about them do you need to know about?
Well I'm home, Forza 3 is in the 360 and I'm installing the disc 2 content :D
Why does it do that? Are you using an odd OS?
I'm using Windows XP SP2. I heard it was old by OS standards, but I didn't think it was that old... {Comment #667}
Yes the game's that big. You need to install content from a 2nd disc onto your 360's hard drive (provided you have one) which provides additional cars, tracks and environments.
Content has finished installing and disc 1 is back in. Now it begins :D
Now running the intro race with the Audi R8 V10.
damn, it looks good too. how did you get the first entry up?
Just browsing the Storefront and there's some cool paintjobs already. There's a Martini Lancia Delta, a Ken Block Subaru, a Mclaren Merc SL65 and a BMW M5 police car to name what I've seen so far.
Lucas di Grassi has been in a F1 car by the sounds of it
When he says F1, is that an old Renault or something?
*it looks good.
First you're Amy, now you look good.
may i dictate all comments in future?
must be. good find.
i can see all teams having a go at this.
The Ken Block Subaru seems to be a popular car to make. I think I've seen about 8 seperate ones on the Storefront already. No kidding.
Ah, in my good portugese, I think he has just said the R28 on slicks.
You may want to go here http://www.macspeech.co.uk/pages.php?pID=143
what? was he just running down the straight?
was hoping christine would offer :)
This is all I've got from him
Isso com o R28 e pneus slicks!
will he be in the car next weekend?
oh wait. is it from wsr or something?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4035778322/
how did you get the first entry up? {Comment #674}
It was working fine yesterday...
Might be, but he did say F1?
the do f1 demo runs between races?
damn. hopes = dashed :(
what? was he just running down the straight? {Comment #683}
If it was last year's car, he didn't need to be...
It was last years car so.
Or, Aragon is a new track isn't it? So he might have been testing the track out, not for himself?
hopes = dashed :( {Comment #691}
Does this mean you don't know how to fix the problem? You know lots more about Wordpress than me...
thought they had to be 2 years old?
well, i don't know if we've even experienced that before.
you enter text and then save as a draft, and the text just vanishes?
opened in february.
This weekend Motorland Aragon is having a World Series by renault weekend. looking at the schedule, they've got some Renault F1 Team exhibitions. The schedule is here
Apologies for the incorrect use of capitals & lower case. You'll also need to tell the site you are from the UK to get the translation
am amazed he was allowed to use slicks and not demo tyres?
thought they had to be 2 years old? {Comment #695}
Last year's model is fine - Ferrari were simply using the 2007 car because that's what their partner organisation had on them (for a team itself to test with an old car would be against the regulations, so it has to be a third party).
Timo news
well, i don’t know if we’ve even experienced that before.
you enter text and then save as a draft, and the text just vanishes? {Comment #696}
The effect happens whether I hit "Save as Draft" or "Publish".
am amazed he was allowed to use slicks and not demo tyres? {Comment #700}
As it's a third party doing the test, the normal F1 restrictions do not apply.
we've never had that. very annoying, i'll google and see what i can find.
Just drove the Peugeot 905B Le Mans car at Le Mans. MY. GOD! :D
we’ve never had that. very annoying, i’ll google and see what i can find. {Comment #705}
Thank you for trying to help.
Hmm, think it's time to check out that awesome new Fujimi Kaido layout.
Weapon of choice - Aston Martin DBR9 :D
Also, looking at the schedule, they're doing a 15 minute shakedown today and a 10 minute exhibition on Sat & Sun so I don't think they'll get loads of data from it, it seems more for PR than anything else
:)
Hmm... have spent a bit of time with my blog this evening and now it's being annoying. Have got a new template working after a bit of work but now I have a mystery image popping up that's causing a giant gap :(
Argh!
daft question. but are you entering a post title first?
also. are you copying text from another window, for example Word?
Yup, in the DBR9 it's more drifting that driving. The thing wheelspins up to 3rd gear, so I'm gonna have to break out the traction control!
I was kind of baffled when I found out the Prius has traction control, considering my STi doesn't :)
Evening everyone :) how are you all? all well and happy i hope
Hi lou :)
hey lou! really good. yourself?
Sore cheek but fine.
hullo :)
And hi :)
Very happy now I have Forza 3 :D
Oh, I forgot to say earlier #MFC
Facebook on the 360: Actually quite good
Twitter on the Xbox 360: RUBBISH.
last.fm on the 360: Fantastic... apart from the adverts
Thats my epic review of the big Xbox 360 update. ;)
OK it was my last lecture for the year and a great relief - still the horror of marking exams and setting practicals.
good :) yeah i'm great! i love Cambridge! it's so beautiful and oddly i just felt safe there :) my feet hurt from all the walking we've done over the last few days, but a sketchbook of drawings and 800photos later and i'm home and back to the world of the internet and photophop! :)
Hi Lou
Don't worry as it probably isn't true
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/23102009/58/button-join-hamilton-mclaren.html
ahahah XD it's not true. and Hi :) loving that the first link i see about Button :)
what's up with twitter integration?
That's the way it should be ;)
Have you seen all the pics on dropio from yesterday?
i've only just got in...
Darn, didn't get my Timo link in time ;)
OMG! <3 hehe
yay!!! Jules!!!
You know, if this were Google wave, we could probably write a bot so that whenever Lou logs in, it spits out a random link about Button
daft question. but are you entering a post title first? {Comment #713}
Yes. (It's "Welcome to La Canta Magnfico Blog", if that affects anything).
also. are you copying text from another window, for example Word? {Comment #714}
Yes. Specifically Openoffice. But I am editing it in the window offered by Wordpress before pressing either "Save as Draft" or "Publish".
The 360 works like this; you have your main dashboard, where you can see your friends, look through the marketplace, etc. The main hub if you will, then you put a game in and it loads up the game. On the 360 controller you have the Buide button, which brings up a little menu whilst the game/film/whatever you're doing carries on in the background. So, you can still look at your friends on the Guide or send messages and whatnot without quitting your game.
For some reason, Microsoft have deemed it sensible to build Twitter into the dashboard and make it completely unnaccessbile via the Guide button. So, if you want to tweet during a game, you quite the game, find it on the Dashboard, tweet, go back off Twitter, then load the game back up.
If you can message, chat, view friends and do almost anything else on the guide, then how obvious is it that Twitter should be accessible in the same way? Seems a real missed opportunity to me...
there is already a published post called that. could you try something like TEST?
could you try typing plain text directly into a fresh post please?
agreed. but it would give twitter a lot of prominence. and you might not message/chat as much.
anyone else here have a google wave account?
as if :(
wait... anyone ELSE?
Can I have an invite please?
Err.. I mean... anyone have a wave invite ;)
If I ever get invites to give out, I'll be in here offering (after Mr C. gets one)
I have a really random question. My admission I have never worked in an open plan office - I have operated out of prefabs for many many years now. End of this year we move into new open-plan top floor (pent house) offices - that is simply one huge room for lecturer and post-grads with affiliated Institution staff. There will be up to sixty of us in this central space (no outside windows, actually the building has no openable windows - just walls of glass on all four sides). There are no real partitions either - just like large work space tables scattered with large monitors defining the spaces. I feel intimidated? Does anyone have experience working in such an environment or should I be brushing up my CV? Do I need to find the finance to install sound masking will noise be an issue. It is going to be a huge paradigm shift from working in ground floor shack that I can just walk out into the garden any time with a cuppa in hand and release the dog for a run to where you have to use lifts (stairs are alarmed and only to be use in emergencies) and everything is glass with an unmentionable number of security cameras.
Don't Panic, Rich!
Yay! I've fixed my layout issues :D Check out the new look!
agreed. i would say everyone reacts differently. so give it a try and see what you think.
I am feeling I am having an anxiety attack - it so different to anything I have experience. I know I should appreciate that we are moving "up" but I Iike bag-end where it is peaceful and very private (and very tatty).
that i like!
Very nice!
Gavin's right. I work in an open plan office, there is noise but you get used to zoning it out & just focus on your own thing. It will take time to get used to so don't worry if it's really weird on the first day
And I love the name of the blog, too! :D
The upside is that you get to have great interaction with your workmates!
It helps me too; when I listen to the song it's based off it reminds me of the blog, which reminds me to write something new. ;)
Thanks - so do your work in this sort of environment. In sleepy Cape Town there are few places like this and they have mostly been lots of complaints.
Obviously I share close space with my own post-grads none of our doors are ever closed and my dogs generally goes a visits who ever she wants during the day - but everyone together as one big department.
You have your dog at work?
Sure - she is too much of a pain to leave alone.
I think, like most things, some people will like it and some people won't like it. I find it tough to concentrate in that sort of environment, but YMMV.
You say that like it's normal?
i have done. it doesn't bother me either way. it varies from person to person, but also, from company to company.
there is already a published post called that. could you try something like TEST? {Comment #739}
If there is, I can't see it...
:)
i shall email you the url. has some links and a picture in it.
I like it and dislike it. I have been shoved into the corner though, so it's not too bad.
We have some of us in these weird micro offices with two people - that doesn't work!
Does Rich's dog fetch the prints off the printer? Does he get to say to his students "Sorry I didn't do your course notes, the dog ate them!"
could you try typing plain text directly into a fresh post please? {Comment #739}
Am currently combining that idea with the "TEST" title one. Results pending.
It is very causal - sure she is registered to be allowed on campus with an identity card- one of my post-grad students also sometimes brings his dog onto campus. It is not really an issue, students take her for walks and she provides some protection/deterrent to theft.
My first picture from Forza 3 :D
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/acura-positano-jpg
It works! The TEST page displayed as expected!
it worked! i see your test entry too.
What kind of dog is she? I hear from my bro-in-law that security is serious, is she 'working' too?
Awesome :)
great news!
Likes!
I like my own cube. Sure, people can still see me head banging, but not as much as if I was in an open room :)
Is it wrong I never want to work in a cubical area because of Office Space?
She has not eaten any notes - we have a long passage with a security gate at the end and so when someone comes to visit she takes the security access button to them to let them in and accompanies them to the office (gave up on the electronic locks the field mice kept eating the wires)
As you all know, I have a reputation for being crazy, so I don't bother with acting all restrained, like!
@lukeh
I just made a rather 'pro Apple' comment on your lovely looking blog. I'm not sure why I feel the need to apologise for that (stupid extremest nerds!)
have you all seen the bladeless Dyson fan?
http://www.dyson.com.au/store/fans.asp
That was supposed to be a reversal on "Sorry Miss, I didn't do my homework because the dog ate it". Never mind :(
*points at that guy* :P
Always welcome to make any comments or or against what I post though, so never need to apologise
Yes we have no demarcation what so ever.
I have had that excuse too!
not wanting kick off another spa conversation, but did anyone mention this petition yet:
"We are for the continuity of the circuit, and that passes by an optimal exploitation and we will fight to preserve it, we are sorry for the people who don’t agree to be integrated into the local life !"
http://www.defendonsfrancorchamps.be/petition-track-circuit-racing-track-spa-francorchamps.html
She is 3/4 domestic and 1/4 jackal so looks like an African Township special with a good dose of terrier to add attitude - she is on Jenson Button's web page under fans and I think 8 or 9 back from current. 21 Burglaries this year - the last time she went after the guy and returned with some of his trouser around the seat area - that was in June and have had no more incidents.
Has anyone linked to this yet? It's another video from James Allen showing Bruno Senna in the two-seater round Yas Marina at night. Cool visual and great sound. Not as pretty as Singapore though :(
that was via edd straw's tweet, via alia's blog btw.
also found that eliseo tweets: http://twitter.com/eliseosalazar
i shall email you the url. has some links and a picture in it. {Comment #766}
Thank you for the link. I see what you mean about it showing up, which makes me wonder why I need a direct link to see the page (it still doesn't show up for me on the dashboard or the home page, only with that direct link).
I'm also getting so annoyed that two of the three images refuse to show that I'm giving up doing anything else with this blog for the evening. Wordpress is an absolute nightmare of a platform to use compared with the old one :(
great news! {Comment #776}
Thanks, Gavin and me! Even I can see the TEST page in the places I expect to see it :)
not wanting kick off another spa conversation, but did anyone mention this petition yet: {Comment #787}
I've signed it :)
Haven't hear of him in well over 20 years
Do online petitions work?
well, you started a save sidepodcast group...
This is the artist's impression of what my new office will look like ....
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/richs-new-office-jpg
So different to pre-WWII and recycled prefabs that have pink flaky paint on all of the outside windows.
That's different!
Looks really cool!
Does it come with the ghosts, too? That'd be AWESOME.
same principle.
OK enough messing around, time to knuckle down with the career and my little Fiesta! :D
With all the glass - I mean lots of it and due to the environment it is "not air conditioned" just pumped air we are all afraid it will be hot. Seriously it is Africa's largest single research facility and somehow my own section I am responsible for seems to have ended up on the top floor where the ceilings are higher.
I'm not sure - I don't think I ever planned to send a list of signatures to you guys ;)
Yay you chose the fiesta too!
'Night all am off to bed, comment with you tomorrow
night janna.
Lots of leaks when it rains (usually in different place) - lots of noise from trees rubbing branches on the tin-roof - when it hails its deafening. It is a bit spooky at night but no known ghosts.
And that's a win! The first race was actually quite fun, battling hard with the other little hatchbacks. Fiesta's done me proud :P
Here is my desk - It's a little bit personalised ;)
I went to a real WW2 fort island thingy for a work do - complete with a role play with actors dressed as WW2 soldiers and stuff. Was well cool!
Hey I like that - I have a lot of junk like publications, books, research reports and we have to keep every student's assignment every handed to me in a filed systems for 15 years together with each assignment's plagiarism statement (they have not committed) plus all of the committee reports that I have to keep (its Africa so we have lots of them - actually they are stacked one on top of the other and have reached the ceiling).
I even have the fence topped with the rolled barbed wire bit around the building -supposedly to keep people out
I'm just reading an article written by Jonathon Legard about THAT day in Austria 2002 and it's amazing how reading his article actually feels like it's him speaking out loud... it's exactly how he commentates!
Here is my desk - personalising is toy smart car and the Korporate Perfect Cube that I use as a computer. I painted "everything" orange when the university refused to repaint the dingy pink walls. Are new office is to be "grey on grey" according to the architects.
Here is the link http://twitpic.com/9aqm1
Oh damn - forgot that the pic is old and does not include the star wars lego figures on my monitor!
Felipe Baby just came on the xbox last.fm! Awesome :P
Evening all. Sory to see that Mr C has been having Logic/Apple problems
I had a quick look on the forums - are you using any third part plugins with your Logic?
Gave the Fiesta a new exhaust, brakes and suspension and won my first race on hard difficulty. This thing's a great little sod to drive! :D
ugh. i'd forgotten.
nope.
Evening all
One of the darkest days in F1 history IMO
Definitely. :(
Not that I enjoy reminiscing about it for obvious reasons... but this is the happy thread ;)
That is fun.
I am partly responsible for the look, the other lecturers have each gone for long lines of classical cubicles for each post-grad (sort of padded cell), me being different I went for "work islands" - figuring if you go open plan do it fully! So they are are in a figure of eight so each pulls away diagonally away from their space when they get up to prevent knocking the person at the adjacent work island. We were allocated space according to how many Msc and PhDs you had graduated in the last five years an MSc gets 2.54 sq m and a PhD 3.21 sq m you have a n open desk in such a space.
Just auto upgraded the Fiesta to make it competitive enough to run in the Class E World Championship event at Circuit de Catalunya :D
Catalunya sure is a popular track tonight.
I remember during my PhD I gradually gravitated outwards from my allocated space swallowing up desks as people left. Not so much a work island as a work megopolis.
It's not one of my faves, but it's satisfying getting the first sector right.
I got given a 4GB USB stick in the shape of an aeroplane today!
I figured students numbers would expand and contract so while four are allocated to each table as per design if there were fewer they could encroach. The sneaky bit is the university authorities have not worked out 50% of my students are distanced based so the are not even in Cape Town so I will have more space. Case of graduate more students get more space for your empire.
Lets have a photo of that.
Hello!! I am home :)
That's reminded me, the LCE version of Forza 3 comes with a 2GB Sandisk USB flash drive for free. And it's got the FM logo on it too :D
Hello
Well it wasn't for free really when the LE was a few pound dearer ;)
Mrs Maverick has one shaped like a penguin. I'm secretly very jealous.
You know how much I got mine for? £7! :D
Well, mine spins...
Can't complain!
Oh the power of trade-ins ;)
I made a total prat of myself on the way to work this morning :( It was very bad times!
Anyways I'm heading off. See you tomorrow evening (going to the Toby Carvery straight after work tomorrow, woohoo!)
What happened?
Am jealous.
Night Lukeh
I had a bungled pit stop caused by poor strategy decisions....
Basically I left a bit late for work. I was gonna be about 5 minutes late anyways then I notice that the fuel warning light is on. I have 25 miles down the motorway to go and can't guarantee I'll make it so I stop at Tesco. There's a huge queue, I wait forever, fill up etc etc. Then I go to get my wallet and I don't have it.....
I spend the next 10 minutes rooting around in my boot/pockets/floor for money to pay for it. Have to 'borrow' a pound from an old man.... All the cars were tooting at me :(
And thats why they are banning refuelling.
Oh, its just for f1, shame.
To add to this, there were also roadworks on the motorway, I was half an hour late to work and I think I've got a speeding ticket off one of those mobile van thingies....
Now moved on to my next car, the VW Scirocco. Given it racing suspension, brakes and weight reduction along with a racing exhaust.
I think they're checking whether you've got Road Tax/Insurance tbh.
A bright yellow van with huge speed camera logos on the side and a big camera hanging out the window? I hope so. Those are two things I do have.....
I'll be annoyed if I get a ticket. I was hardly speeding at all.... My car can't really get much above 70 at the best of times :P
That is a real pain. I have found myself with a full tank of petrol and no way of paying for it on 3 or 4 occasions . I went in and said I don't have any money but I will be back with some in twenty minutes. One guy insisted on me leaving my tax disc but the others just noted down my car's number.
You had a really bad morning. If you are going to be late for work there is no point speeding.
I wasn't doing it on purpose!!! I don't really speed. My car is too feeble.
It is a very bad day for me all round tbh. Masterchef has now finished! No more Michel until next year :( :( :(
I assume the rest of your day was better
He is still on the iplayer
If you were doing speed limit, +10%, +2mph on top, you'd still be ok, just.
Pics 1 2
Don't I know it ;)
I had an okay day at work. Too stressful though. People should be banned from phoning in sick.
How does it get bigger between the two pictures?
Most of our petrol pumps have a shop where you can draw money - actually a mini teller - you draw a notification note from the ATM with your withdrawal and you go to the counter and get your cash.
The pics are cropped?
What if you don't have your bank card? That was the problem I had.... We can jsut pay with our card at the counter....
I opened the two pics and the plane is much bigger in the second one
Nor can mine its a Smart for-two so its regulated.
Evening all, how are we all? had a nice day?
The USB stick was extended?
i.am.shattered.
how are you?
oooh she's back!! did you have fun? take lots of pictures?
im doing alright ta, quite tired so am trying to make the most of being home for a few days!
You avoid carrying cash here but at garages you have to use a special garage card or cash - a normal credit card is not accepted.
i had great fun! yeah i did... over 800.. (most very grainy though :( i didn't realise the photography teacher had changed the iso on my camera till about 20mins ago.. gah!).
booooo. surely she should know what she was doing? /he?
Ahhh okay. I find some cash lying around can be useful ;) Where is here?
Just think how things would have gone if you'd run out on the motorway? you would have been in a far worse position then, and very dangerous.
Hi Jon
Hahaha yes. That's why I stopped even though I knew it'd make me late. What I really should have done is fill up yesterday when the light came on and I had my wallet with me....
I thought the UK was strict on speeding - here the leniency is about 5 km/h
i heard that was actually rubbish, because i know someone who had to go to a speed awareness course thingy, and there were people who were within the 10%
Yeah, there are certain penalties for certain speeds and it varies with area.
You wouldn't go on a speed awareness course for speeding on the motorway though. It's normally for slightly exceeding the limit in a residential area.
he was playing with my camera over dinner on wednesday and i didn't notice he'd changed the iso (probably because it was pretty dark in the resturant)...in fact i never thought he would have changed the iso, seeing as he wasn't taking photos with it.. and i didn't even think to check. big doh from me :(
yeah, she was 46-7 in a 40
"Everybody's innocent in here. Didn't you know that?"
Does that mean the photos you took after that will not be as good as you thought?
That's 15-17.5% though...
i like the idea of going on a speed awareness course and learning just how far you can push the limit!
but she was over the 40 so it dosent matter
i got caught doing 39 in a 30, when I genuinely thought it was a 40 zone. I took the points, i didn't want to take the course.
3 points and a fine, or 0 points and £10 more than that original fine.
eaaaaaasy choice
46 IS 10% + 2
how come?
wheres all this come from? ive never heard +2
the sign says 40, if you're doing over that, whatever it is, then you're breaking the law
Os that an option now?
??? Are you mad? You're obviously a lot older than me... I couldn't afford to drive again with points on my licence :P
i know. i just think it's a failure of the system to put a collection of wrongdoers in one place so they can compare notes.
everybody left the course wiser... but likely not in the intended way.
it means while the composition may be alright, the quality is kinda shocking... it's all grainy.. not good. i'll see what i can do in photoshop tomorrow. it's sad cause looking through my photos on my camera they didn't look too bad..
anyways, i've have 3 very intensive very exhausting days and can't physically keep my eyes open anymore. so sleep for me.
i'll catch up with everything in the morning, night all! xx
Not necessarily. It depends on your local police force. Even if your force offer the courses as a mainstream thing, it's allocated on a case by case basis.
its not just a course, you have to also do 5 online tests which you have to pass over a 30 day period with 4 days between each one.
its not just a sit there and try not to fall asleep anymore
Night Lou
again though, i'm not questioning how tough the course is.
night lou
Niiiight!
if you give people the option then im not sure what else you can do
http://www.speedlimit.org.uk/faq.html
i guess. maybe individual rooms?
if people are sitting in a room with others, they're more likely to pay attention then than if they are sitting in a booth where there is a possibility they could fall asleep which watching a film about it.
i would anyway
I think I get stuck behind you a lot. ;-)
well firstly. 20 + 10% + 2 doesnt equal 25 ;)
but like i said before, to me, if you're over the signed speed limit, then you have no excuse.
haha, luckily for you i am rarely on the roads! i'll drive at the speed limit, but not over it
Yes I'm mad. I don't pay the insurance, it's a company vehicle, and it was my first offence in 11 years of driving. I wasn't thinking clearly. (That's not to say I've not been stupid in my younger years. I've been very very lucky.)
I agree.
I've had some good news on the blog front. My co-admin has got back to me and told me he is attempting to rescue the server (the domain name expired while his computer was being fixed and he didn't tell me there was any danger of this happening beforehand).
So maybe the problems I'm having with Wordpress won't be such a problem any more.
Fair enough. I wasn't suggesting you'd learn from the course. I would just want to keep my insurance down. If you don't pay it, it makes more sense.
yay :)
And on that note, am too shattered to talk, so night. lotsa love.
Night RG!!
I'm gonna start painting the Pikes Peak livery onto my Fiesta and with that put my first paintjob onto the Storefront.
Thing is I probably would. Anyone who thinks they are a good driver are fooling themselves. I am certainly not.
Oh my god. I'm beginning to realise how busy I've been. Somehow 5 days worth of f1 minute have managed to build up.
I dunno. I know my highway code pretty well. I only passed my test 3 years ago. It doesn't seep out your head that quickly. I would say most people fall down at the observation stage.
I have no idea why, but i just felt like writing this;
http://jonwaldock.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/but-most-importantly-how/
At this time of night? You meanie!
And on that note, I shall retire ;)
Night Gavin
I'm confused!
go onnnn ;) its not long at al
Night !!
Nightie night Gavin.
me too!!
it just came out. its thought provoking i guess, will mean different things to different people
That's no good!! I'll happily talk about myself all day but I need direction dammit :P I was mainly confused by the statements at the end.
Very Deep.
The end bit is basically saying the answers you've given to some of the questions aren't what i was asking.
If i were to ask you "Who are you?" i wouldnt be expecting the answer "I'm Alison"
Ah see if you asked me where I was heading I wouldn't be telling you about my upcoming holiday :P
exactly ;)
I'm pretty settled in limbo at the moment tbh. Every aspect of my life is pretty much on hold.
It's not meant to be a "DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE" type post, it just makes you think, for some it'll just make them think, others it'll make no difference, but maybe just 1 person will deeply think about what they are doing and why, and change because they're bored with life.
its that person im writing too, but you wont know which you are until you read it. but im asking those questions lots at the moment for me, so maybe im just writing for myself
Jon do you think you could record yourself asking those questions? I'd like to stick that at the end of the next cast.
I've got the beginning of this piece of music in mind as the background
http://www.flyingwhitedots.com/Flying White Dots - 3D/08 - Rainy Place.mp3
I wasn't having a go! I know it's not. I find it very easy to reflect though. The state of my life is comical atm.....
im @jonwaldock on twitter, if you dm me what you want then i'll do it when i get back to uni on wednesday, my recording stuff is there currently and i wont be back properly until then
that didn't work i'll try again
This was the link(probably won't work again :( )
You've just started uni though! Are you not liking it?
will do
i copied it anyway, it works fine ta :)
i like it lots!
I love uni, and my course. But for a very long time i've wanted to be a primary school teacher, and i still really do, the reason i took this course is because i had to move on, a-levels really werent doing it for me, and i was really ill for hte last 18 months so i missed out on my top uni choices, so im looking at the options of doing a teaching degree starting next year, they will take a pass in the first year of this course as the entry requirements, im going to apply and see what happens, but i dont have to properly decide until feb-march-may time anyway, so it leaves my options open
i was listening to it while i read your post.
i dont know how you always get such great music!!
awesome.
Oh okay. Just take your time and don't be scared of time out. It's not the end of the universe.
in the grand scheme of things if i had to stay where i was for the next 3 years it would be fine, but i spent the last 18 months going no-where, sometimes literally stuck in my room because i was too exhausted to get out. i dont want to have a career in my motorsport, im doing it because i love it, but teaching is what im about, so its just a case of now or in 3 years
What's was wrong with you (if that's not too personal a question?)
its totally not personal really. i got really ill all of a sudden and basically burned out, had chronic fatigue for 18 months starting march last year, and im still not fully over it. plus i got quite bad depression too which didnt help things. chronic fatigue can come out as many different things, but for me i couldnt concentrate at all for more than 20-40 minutes a day, and not in chunks of that size, which makes A-Level maths and physics a tad tougher. im still pretty amazed i passed all my subjects, and even got an A in a business module.
my thing is not wasting the time you've got on earth, part of thats a faith based thing about using the gifts gods given you. in 2 years i've had 2 under 15's that i know die, and someone else close to me die this week. i just feel like a life where someones bored all the time, or not fullfillng their potential is almost a bit wasted.
my thing si teaching, it has been for ages, and i've seen teh impact a good teacher can make. my friend from secondary school has autism, which at the beginning of year 7 meant he couldnt be near any loud noises or in a crowded room, last month we went to see muse with 10,000 other people with noise levels that made my organs vibrate, it was my form tutor that changed him, that guided him. if i could do one zillionth of that kind of goodness towards a child, i'd say thats a life fullfilled.
sorry for the long post
Fair enough. I'm not in any great hurry to get on with my life. I've spent the past few years working so hard it makes me sick. Somehow I've managed to end up there again.... I just want to take some time to relax without having to make big life choices.
I'm the anti-Jon :P
I dunno, you don't have to be doing something big and bold to be fufulling your life. You (generally :P) seem to enjoy your job, seems to be one of those where you work your self silly for 12-14 hours and whilst you slump into a chair you have a smile on your face or similar. i may be wrong ;)
I do like my job. I'm a chronic over achiever! I really need to work up the motivation to go back and finish my degree at some point though.
I'm not fulfilling my potential academically at all. I'd be wasting my talents if I did this my whole life. I'm just very good at working myself into the ground. That said, most of my friends graduated last summer and loads of them have rubbishy jobs atm....
Don't even get me started on my relationship :P Somehow I've ended up in a very serious relationship but still find myself living like a cat lady.
Whats stopping you?
Same sorts of issues that you seemed to have I think. I don't really have a lot of contact with my family at all. This gave me really bad financial trouble at uni as I'm not eligible to be classed as independent so I'm still assessed on their income.
I didn't have enough money to live on so I worked full time while studying. I just got to the stage where I didn't know whether I was awake or asleep..... I took a year out to recover my thoughts and get it together. Then I errrrm took another year this September as I hadn't saved up enough to stop it happening again.
I didn't mean your family hate you.... Just that I have exhaustion issues and have given myself a rather miserable time of it the past couple of years.
nono i got you, dont worry :)
Have you tried talked to the uni about finance and stuff? They're usually pretty hot on that kind of thing. Especially being classed as independant and ting
They're a waste of space..... The medical school gave me a bursary for course materials and travel. Whats a few hundred quid though when you're thousands under the poverty line.....
I know alot of people with similar storys, its completely stupid and obserd some of the things that go on with grants and loans and stuff
They think they're being generous letting me take time off!!