Boxing Day is traditional for sitting around, eating leftovers, and watching dodgy Xmas television. If you're near to your computer while all that is going on, then Sidepodcast.com is a brilliant place to hang out. Here are some of the things we've been discussing in the absence of F1 news:
- Shameless plug: The Sidepodcast Alternate Christmas Message is now available. A special tribute to a departing driver, with a well known story told a different way. It also spurred on the idea that I look like a Flump. Harrumph!
- We, as podcasters, tend to stick to all things online, and therefore have caused a debate over DVDs and CDs are comparable to mp3s and iTunes. Plus whether we prefer books or a Kindle.
- The above conversation started with the plethora of iPods given as gifts this Christmas. Let us know what you got, if you haven't already, especially if it will help you listen to Sidepodcast more often!
- Steven Roy found a DC quiz, so have a go and let us know your score. I got 3, which is pitiful, and I must do more research.
I've given up with the record for the latest posting of a Daily thread, my guess is that at some point this year, the post will go up minutes before the day runs out! Nevertheless, this one gives us plenty of time to chat, so I'll see you in the comments.
I want an iPod Touch with at least 80GB capacity to replace my 5th Gen Video. :(
Don't know how I'll cope if I get an iPhone, will still have to cary both when in car
Afternoon all. Merry, erm, Boxing Day to you all.
In this mp3 row thingy, since I've got a new PSP, I can get an rss feed to play all the pocasts I like. Therfore, I result that the PSP is the best media device out there, you can go on the internet, listen to podcasts, music, television shows, sat nav and it is of course a gaming console with that. Did I mention you can go on Skype?
I got 6 or 7... I did OK with DC's early F1 career (but I forgot he won the British GP twice)
How many did Steven Roy get? ;-)
I got 6. Not bad I suppose.
Scores from the other thread:
Steven Roy - 7/10
lou - 8/10
littlepurplegoth - 9/10
Alianora - 6/10
Jon W - 1/10
LPG ... which one did you get wrong?
Jon W ... which one did you get right?
Gavin, from the previous thread Steven got 7/10 I believe. I got 8/10 , and LPG got 9/10. :)
Anyone who knows about iPod touchs, is it possible to highlight text and quote on it? Am still getting used to it.
the scottish karting championships one, and even that was a guess :P
:D
Sweet god, Christine does not know about Blackadder. I loved that show when I was a kid.
Sorry.
Great Blackadder Doc on last night
[shakes head at Christine's comedy vacuum]
Sorry.
it's ok Christine, there is still time for us to educate you ;) you must have seen faulty towers though, right?
Yes.
Yay!
Yay, that's good ;)
Phew.
I got the F1 season review for christmas, am watching it now.
Just seen the DC vs Massa crash, it makes it hard to believe that Massa could think that was Coulthards fault...
Wallace & Grommit?
not that i wish to ruin a good thing, but i just scored 20 out of 10 on that quiz :)
out of interest, does 'realtime' work on the psp?
I have yet to set up internet connection on my new PSP, so I cannot tell you that.
*Runs
ooooooooh-kay
I've scanned in a copy of one of my pressies, hope you all like!!
Haha. How did ya get that? As in how was it made?
Theres a few websites that do it i think, try google-ing 'personalised stig poster' or something like that.
It comes as an A3 poster, but my scanners A4, hense the mismatching in the middle
Ah yes, I see it now.
I got 7 last night. Lou got 8 and lpg got 9
Hey everybody,
I hope you're having a great Boxing Day and that any hangovers/bellyaches are manageable ;-)
Here's some F1 News for you:
Drivers hail 'fantastic' Algarve track - I wonder how long it will be before we see an F1 race there?
Montezemolo: KERS introduction a mistake - Well of course he is! Ferrari will be the last to test a KERS System and as far as I know, they have no plans in the near future to implement some kind of KERS/Hybrid System in any of their road cars.
Which do you guys prefer to use: google-ing or googling ?
I think "to google" becomes "googling".
Someone posted a vid of a lap about a week ago and the track is fabulous. I assume they have to try for a race now that testing is so limited that they are unlikely to make any money from that.
i add -ing to end of words as i get confused what the original word is
good point, but then would you:
- sidepod-cast
- side-podcast
?
Aww... My head just asploded :-(
Evening all :)
Got 9 in Steven's DC quiz, I really must read that autobiography Santa bought me for christmas
evening.
yeah, sounds like you need all the help you can get!!
I'm doing an F1 quiz and am completly stumped for the answers to a couple of questions.
Can anyone know the answers to these two? .. I don't really want to wait a week to know the answer.
1. It "wasn't really racing" in 1985 as car after car ran out of fuel but who won the race?
2. Who was the only three times winner of the European Grand Prix Championship?
Problem is .. I call myself a DC fan and so I'm especially miffed that I got the number of points he got at Red Bull in 2005 wrong
Now if it had been a Frank Montagny quiz I'd have got them all wrong :)
Mum just told me my Grandad Berry has died at the age of 90. R.I.P, I never really knew him :(
That's sad Scott and very difficult at this time of year. Hope your Mum and Dad are okay.
Thanks Jackie. My dad doesn't know since they're both divorced. To be honest, and don't think I'm not being respectful here, I'm not actually sad. Like I said, I never really met him that much, only maybe 3 or 4 times in my life, so it's doesn't really affect me as much as it would like someone close to me dying would.
But thanks for your kind words anyway :)
Very sad to hear that Scott. 90 isn't too bad an innings, mind.
Sounds like a perfect time to give your other rellies a call...
Thanks Gavin. Mum and her mum, whose dad my Grandad Berry was, have most likely taken care of most of that :)
I guess this is the pre-war championship in which case the answer is almost certainly Rudolf Caraciola.
I remember cars struggling on fuel consumption a lot during the mid 80s but a quick look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Formula_One_season suggests Imola is probably the answer.
"It also proved costly for Ayrton Senna, who lost victory just four laps from home at Imola when he ran out of fuel. After Prost was disqualified for an underweight McLaren, victory fell to the other Lotus of Elio de Angelis."
You mean Funeral Arrangements? Yeah, I'm sure your Mum etc. are taking care of that - what I meant was, it's a good enough excuse to call a rellie you haven't talked to for a while just to say 'hi' ;-)
we can look forward to more of that in 2010 then.
Heh, I guess so. :)
According to Lief Snellman who is pretty much the ultimate authority on the subject Carraciola won the championship in 1935, 1937 and 1938
http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/cha5.htm
Thanks Steven :)
Sorry to hear that Scott
Just to correct something, it's my Great Grandad Berry. I made a slight mistake.
I don't think we will have any fuel consumption problems in 2010.
Haooy to help
because there won't be any competitors left?
brawn was troubled by fuelling issues in brazil, i don't think you should be confident by any stretch.
DC quiz: got 6/10
Autosport International: I'll be popping along on the Sunday now as something has come up on Saturday.
Happy
bugger.
"Haooy" sounds a bit more Scottish though ;-)
It was either that or walk down the M40 on Saturday. I know which I prefer!
Finished watching the F1 '08 season review DVD. It's good. But nothing amazing. Disappointed by the lack of new footage. Ok, there are some (race start problems with Charlie at Instanbul and some conversation between Lewis and his brother at Silverstone) but not enough.
At least they've got rid of that annoying supermarket-esque background music and Ben Edwards feigning excitement as he now commentates in a paste tense.
I award it 7 Red Bulls out of 10.
Sounds like my Mondays...
cannot argue with that.
is that because they used it all up on the f1.com videos this year?
brilliant :)
hehe.
Oh God. 'Driven' has just started on TV :-(
erm?
Correct! All the best footage that didn't make the live-feed on ITV, made it onto F1.com and subsequently this DVD. I wished they had the vision to put all the highlights from the website on the DVD as extras, that would have been cool.
Speaking of extras, one of them is about the return of Ross Brawn to Honda. I had to chuckle listening to his optimism for the team in 2009. :-D
This. I'm surprised you hadn't heard of it. It was directed by Sylvester Stallone and was supposed to be about F1, but thank God for Bernie as he wouldn't allow them permission to make it :-)
It could possibly be the worst car movie ever made, other than this one.
Basically they show Motor Racing in it's most ludicrous, physics-defying and comic book form. Avoid them both like the plague - they make 'Days of Thunder' look realistic and believable! :-(
Damn, moderated again!
news to me. thanks for the heads-up.
Oh that film!
It's like the cinematic equivalent of scurvy and as much fun as choking. Avoid!
Couldn't have put it better myself ;-)
Strange u-turn from Loeb about the S2000 regulations.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72575
as if to prove honda had their eco-strategy fundamentally wrong...
we just washed one of the towels they gave us this summer. the problem is that it's 'bright honda red' and has to be washed separately.
one 60 minute wash and the drums only 10% full. not sure how that can be equated to eco-anything?
maybe gavin convinced him?
:D
Is anyone bored?
I found this flash identikit thing. http://flashface.ctapt.de/index.php thought it would be fun if we tried to draw our favourite drivers and put a screenshot of the results on the wiki.
Here's my first attempt at Fernando http://i42.tinypic.com/ml1ovn.jpg
Oops I must have been naughty, my last comment went in the bin.
oh.my.lordy :)
Driven was directed by Renny Harlin by the way though maybe Sly shoulda been behind the lens. :D
Steven Roy found a DC quiz, so have a go and let us know your score. I got 3, which is pitiful, and I must do more research.
Yah! My 4 beats Christine's 3! I got Questions #1, 5, 6, and 7 right!
can't beat 20 though?
I present to thee
Mr Nick Heidfeld - http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/nicky
WOAH!
love it.
Unless of course, Monaco will have the highest number of laps at 20.
i could.... if i cheated :P
as if :)
You forgot to mention that there still traces of F1 in it. For Example when it was supposed to be about F1 they got Burt Reynolds to protray Sir Frank Williams, right down to teh wheelchair and dumping his current championship-winning driver.
And try to picture Til Schweiger as some sort of Hollywood bad guy version of Michael Schumacher. Makes you laugh.
Only recall reading in the newspaper that they where closing down University Blvd, a major road in Toronto, during the nights to shot the two race cars drag car each other down city streets scenes. Made me nervous as that was my way home from work in those days....
Heads up for all the iPod owners out there - iTunes is giving away 1 song per day for the next 12 days.
I will use a "Degree of Diffcultly" multipler of 10 and therefore 4 correct * 10 = 40 points. :D .
I got 40 points! Beat your 20 me.
pah!
ooo really? yay
Do you not have anything black? Or a 30 degree wash? Pretty much nothing runs on a 30 degree wash in a cold fill machine (certainly not if you've rinsed it a few times anyway)
Or am I the only person who is lazy and just washes the 'might run' things in with all the other things that the colour wouldn't show on (or where it wouldn't matter, like, um, most of my wardrobe (redface))?
not that needs washing, and washing something just to fill a hole seems a bit daft.
what's a 30deg wash?
hehe. the water was very red when i peeked at it, so really can't be washed with anything else.
if i were feeling mean, i'd suggest the colour runs faster than their cars.
if only you could have seen my expression when i read that. there is no smiley to convey it
:P
sowwy :(
That is priceless!
Jarno Trulli
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/jarno
damn, you're good at this!
Thank you, I prefer the Heidfeld one myself.
And for the end tonight, what Mr C may look like
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/mrc
OK all, my suitcase is packed, my camera battery is charged and my iTouch is syncing now... off to bed shortly and then I'm off skiing for a week in Austria.
So have a Happy New Year and I'll be sure to toast one to Sidepodcast on New Years' Eve :-)
See you all when I get back,
Gavin ;-)
have a great time Gavin :)
Oh no, not another one :s
Indeed so, have fun, and try not to fall off and embarrass yourself by hurtling down the slope, colliding into other people and getting snow in your face.
Cheerio Gavin and hny!
it's 'me' , he is a bad influence ;)
This article was showing up on the Wikipedia home page under recently updated articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_T93/30
Does this explain the origins of Minardi DNA?
Have fun
Just watched the QI I missed the other day. I love the iplayer.
I loved the joke at the end.
Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker "I know what you are getting for Xmas Luke"
Luke "You can't know"
Vader "but I do know Luke"
Luke "How can you know"
Vader "I have felt your presents"
Flac > MP3/AAC
Cowon D2 > iPap. ;) :P
we're winning ;)
In true panto style: Oh no you're not...
oh yes i... could be a long night :)
Perform a Google search* for: iTouch
Then another Google search for: "iPod Touch"
*This is the correct term to use instead of google/googling/googled. By the way, Psion seem to have started asserting their rights to the term Netbook. They don't even make them any more...
iNetbook it is then?
No idea, but MacWorld is less tha n 2 weeks away...
About "Happy Days" on the Sidepodcast Wiki. it appears that The Cunninghams had three Children in the first two seasons. The Third and older than Richie child was named "Chuck" and he basically was written out of the script as the Fonz grew in popularity. He was supposedly gone to College on a basketball scholarship but he just bascially disappeared.
Now, who was it on the sidepodcast League that was going a decent job in 6th or 7th and just basically dropped of the planet and can this person be "Chuck"?
- sidepod-cast
- side-podcast {me - 82 comments ago}
Sidepod-cast, presumably, since that way round you have two words coupled together as intended (the name is short for Sidepod Podcast, but the second "pod" was redundant).
It was either that or walk down the M40 on Saturday. I know which I prefer! {Dank - 60 comments ago}
Sorry about you missing out, Dank. Will you still be doing the karting or is that out of the question as well?
I don't like iTunes. For one thing, their site doesn't load properly on my computer. Secondly, their music is for iPods and therefore wouldn't work on my PDA anyway.