Well hello dear Sidepodders! Did you have a great Easter? I sure did ;) Sounds like the weather was good in a lot of places and people really took advantage of it.
Have you seen these cool F1-themed painted Easter Eggs? Speaking of which, Mark Webber got a massive Easter Egg! Good job he normally takes lots of vitamins to keep fit ;)
There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of news in F1 – but that hasn’t stopped me finding loads of good links for you!
Mike Gascoyne has a new video discussing Team Lotus’ success in China, some planned upgrades in Turkey and Spain and the aim of finishing in the points from then onwards. Hmm, nice to have lofty goals but it sounds like a bit of stretch to me…
Speaking of Lotus, today it will be announced in Duxford that Team Lotus will buy Caterham Cars – Metro F1 and Joe have posts on it. Also if you can get down to Duxford you can attend the straight line test for free – and possibly meet the drivers!
Joe’s also written about the challenge of the new circuit in India of winning over the hearts and minds… apparently it’s like selling Cricket to the Italians! :D
Nico Rosberg has been interviewed by F1.com and delved into a bit of Fantasy. I’m starting to warm to the lad...
McLaren are currently trucking it to Turkey – follow their progress here…
The latest F1 Minute is about Robert Kubica’s return home from hospital. Get well soon Robert!
Also, have you checked out Tweets of the Week and Christine’s Driver and Team Rankings yet?
Tony Stewart & Lewis Hamilton plan to swap race cars at some point. Sounds exciting!
Here’s an interview with Mark Blundell chewing the fat about his career and what he’s been up to lately. Top Geezer!
Ever wondered what’s under the skin of a race car? Well wonder no more…
In Sidepodspace, the countdown to the penultimate Shuttle launch has begun…
Remember Giorgio Pantano? Well just in case you forgot him, BadgerGP takes a look back at his career.
Anthony Davidson has managed to collect a model car of almost all of the cars he has driven in his career. That’s nothing – Ralf Schumacher has the actual cars…
Lewis Hamilton has tried out a version of a PC racing sim called rFactor – quite a favourite of mine. Wonder if he liked it?
Here’s a pic of Sebastian Vettel as a young lad sitting in an F1 car – he hasn’t changed much in 10 years apart from growing up, has he?
MartiV8 found a great Spanish website showing what was new in the F1 cars in Shanghai. Great find – thanks Marti!
Here’s some pics from the Cahier archive of Sir Jackie Stewart – great shots!
How about an optimistic article about how Robert Wickens might end up being the Friday Driver for Virgin in Canada? Also, it mentions that Marussia want to take over the team next year. I wonder if that is true?
What’s in the blogs this week?
- Christine has been blogging about running and Doctor Who –
- along with Lukeh, who has also blogged about Portal 2 and has made his first sketch in his newest blog.
- Pat has blogged about the 2012 IndyCar and has posted the latest scores for his TMR Game
- Leigh has many posts about his recent adventure covering the F3 at Oulton Park – lucky guy!
- I have been busy blogging too – with the Fantasy Racers scores and an analysis of the different strategies during the Chinese Grand Prix.
So that’s all from me. Enjoy your day and I will see you in the comments!
hello Gavin's daily!
Now I sign off because lots of work to do :(
Ooh lots of links, will give them a proper read in the morning before work though. Love that fact about ant and his model cars though, what a legend :D
Nighty night lovely people :)
Night Lukeh
Try not to lose your new word in the night
Night Sir
Night Mr Lukeh
I like it even more its in chronological order. I love it.
ohhh i hadn't seen the f1 easter eggs! they are soo cool! :) and yay for another sidepodspace following of a shuttle launch! :)
great daily gavin lots of lovely links :)
night!
just walked into the side of a door holding my macbook. I was so angry at myself until i realised my mac doesn't have a scratch on it, but the doorframe has a bit of a chunk missing.
Macbook 1 - 0 Door.
I love the link to those cutaway drawings. That is one of the things I miss about modern F1. With all the secret squirrel nonsense you don't get those any more. I used to love the start of an F1 season when someone would publish cutaways of the new cars.
:D
Aluminium Unibody FTW
I should head to bed
All-day meeting tomorrow or in silly speak: Strategy Day
Night folks
i (heart) my mac :)
nighty night!
Such fun
Good night
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 27th April 2011
- Live blogging gains points on this week's Team Rankings
- Robert Kubica makes his debut on Christine's Rankings this week
- Daily: 26th April 2011
- Tweets of the Week - Happy Birthday, Felipe Baby
right, i'm off to the zoo again tomorrow so bed time for me too. night all! xx
Night Lou
You must love that zoo
well they've given me free entry for a year and i'm doing a photography project on zoos, it would be rude not to go! :)
Free entry. You are spoiled
Good night and enjoy your trip to see the animals!
Hmmm. The Malaysia race edit is up on F1.com now. With a different song. Looks like it was the song copyright that held it up.
I think he was thinking of a team that DID pull it off. Super Aguri in 2007 ring any bells?
Heh. Not only is he now racing the guy who's car he sat in, he's won a lot more too. :D
still awake and feeling fine. 3 hours of work to go! Passport photo has been taken as well, now to send to air Asia and get this ball rolling!
I've hit the wall. Eyelids are heavy.
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 27th April 2011
- Live blogging gains points on this week's Team Rankings
- Robert Kubica makes his debut on Christine's Rankings this week
- Daily: 26th April 2011
- Tweets of the Week - Happy Birthday, Felipe Baby
Good morning!
Joe post... http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/consequences/
"the rumour mill in F1 circles is swirling"
You shouldnt do that running when your sleepy! :P
Morning. Thanks for all the lovely compliments - I always enjoy writing these Dailies because I know you guys do too ;)
Tony's arrived at Duxford. Ironically he's got the name of an iconic British marque confused! http://plixi.com/p/96356660
Seems weird such a conservative investment bank would want to get involved with such a sport in the first place though?
They have to do high yield high risk investments to balance the portfolio
Eurofighter?
Its official (sort of ahead of time) http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motoring/lotus-f1-boss-buys-caterham/256690/pictures/lotus-f1-boss-buys-caterham.aspx
Looks like we have to wait until the british gp to get more details, Unless something more comes out at duxford
Really? *rolls eyes*
Ah, yes they have a new title sponsor in the form of a large angolan oil company.
Step forward mr Teixeria
I'm not sure he's involved with Sonangol as they are a state owned company.
Wait... did you mean Tony (A1GP boss) or Ricardo (driver)?
The driver, he is one of the Team Lotus reserve drivers
aha.
Morning all.
Good morning.
Confusion Ping http://caterhamformula1.com/
oooh, interesting. cheers.
morning all! i am preparing to go to the zoo while waiting for the lotus announcement. hope you're all well this morning! :)
i recognise that list of sponsors.
eh? groundhog day?
hehe certainly feels like it. One of my uni projects is on people at the zoo. I've already been to a few but just need to do one more shoot and i should be all finished for that project. Lucky i have a whole year ticket really. *hugs my local zoos for it only costing £20* my legs do ache in anticipation for that walk again though..
#moreofaparkthanzoo
its annoying cause i could have got to duxfold today...stupid uni projects and short easter holidays
ahh, you'd have got some great pictures too :(
Couldnt you have done "People outside my window" and saved a lot of effort? :P
i know, plus Andy and Emily are gonna be some of the snappers there and i'm guessing i could have got close enough to chat to them. If i didn't need to get my photographs sent away tonight so they could be put into a book i'd have gone. silly time!
gah.
i could.. but thats not quite as exciting seeing as i live in the middle of the countryside :)
i may be rather grumpy as i take photos of people at the zoo today. may even mutter 'you're no f1 photographer' at some of them :) ah well my last deadline is 13th May, and after that, even though i'm at uni still i've not really got anything to do so if anything else pops up i'll be there. *is hopeful*
Sounds even easier!
another f1 podcast are there though.
http://yfrog.com/h8u56ukj
Tony on film
Whoops! http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/fernandes_says_uks_caterham_is_unpolished_diamond/2011/04/27/AFkMm9vE_video.html?wprss=rss_business
I have no idea how that presenter got a job at bloomberg.
The Caterham announcement is done then:
The acquisition by Tony Fernandes, Kamarudin Meranun and SM Nasarudin, the men behind the Team Lotus Formula 1 squad, from the shareholder consortium led by Corven Ventures, will see the legendary lightweight sportscar manufacturer expand its brand profile and product family.
The acquisition of Caterham Cars by Team Lotus Enterprise will not only signal the continued development of the legendary Seven, but will provide Caterham with the platform to apply its philosophy of ‘adding lightness’ to exciting new models for the 21st Century.
Whatever that means! :)
So who owns it then! Team Lotus as a corporation or the shareholders of team lotus?
More info: http://www.teamlotus.co.uk/news/2011/caterham-announcement
Who's Sonnegol?
And should I enter my email in here? Looks suspicious!
If it looks suspicious, don't do it.
So I just went for a run - which was interesting because I run around a fort, and I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Right at the finish a soldier carrying a rather large gun stopped me in my tracks and told me that I had to go with him.
I must admit I freaked out and asked him what I had done wrong - turns out all that he was doing was cordoning off an area because they were changing the guards, which included rifle checks. Rather exciting!
http://runkeeper.com/user/RubberGoat/activity/33291350
That's enough to put you off your stride!
It was a shame because I had just got through the pain in my legs and I was going for a strong finish!
Just thinking, is this a parachute for Tony Fernandes so that regardless of the court case his team becomes CaterhamF1 and allows for Group Lotus to save face?
Yo folks
Our favourite smasher is on Twitter
So, how is everyone today?
No Dont!
Its a fake site, manipe found out when it was registered.
It was missing air asia and the logo for sonangol was wrong
Sorry I kinda got dragged into a meeting, i forgot i posted it here
What Nick said...
Tut tut.
They have removed the email box, and replaced it with an address.
looks like the whole sonangol thing might have been a big bizarre hoax
Should have mentioned that if you were linking to it reeally...
Very, very happy.
The post has just arrived and there were 2 big Force India/Sutil posters in there (one of my friends attended a course that was run at Force India's factory last week and thought of me) :D
Havent got a time machine im afraid!
Well like you said, the email box has gone and Sonangol has been spelt correctly. So if it's fake, what's it about then?
If i was going to guess, its a bit like the people who make fake twitter accounts and pretend they actually are Fernando Alonso or Virgin Racing.
I guess it gives them a buzz, its generally pretty short lived though
Who started this Sonangol nonsense anyway?
First i saw of it was from @f1enigma
*Facepalm* he's connected to Peter Windsor via GPWeek. But then so is Manipe
Oh hang on, I saw loads of tweets before that - and a story from Crash.Net that references F1Times
Who knows? I initially assumed it was a swipe at Superleague for all their screwing around and various troubles
Ah, the F1times
Here we go: http://www.crash.net/f1/news/168705/1/team_lotus_to_be_rebranded_sonangol_caterham_f1.html
Really poor reporting
very first place it appeared was from a commenter on joe's blog, i think f1times read that and ran with it, even though joe had already debunked the idea. all kicked off about 11pm last night i think.
*facepalm*
Random commenters on blogs are rarely the best source of news...
Jeebus.
Love this: http://xkcd.com/891/
here ya go: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/more-on-the-team-lotus-caterham-deal/#comment-48404
someone did some digging and thought they were onto something, f1 times then 'reported' that as fact, and the rest of the copy/paste f1 world jumped on it.
It's amazing how that came out of nothing. Eat your heart out Rupert Murdoch.
Ive sent out a tweet as a warning. dont know if it will do much good. even the likes of emma stonier were RT them earlier
and here's the 'story': http://www.thef1times.com/news/display/03170
it was earlier than 11, sorry. i didn't see until just before midnight though.
Ridiculous. Have they done any reporting at all there? Spoken to anyone involved? Checked any facts at all? There's no context behind their reporting at all!
presumably a photoshopped picture too.
of course.
Last years car
i love that the f1 times are heavily plugging peter windsor. #itsasmallworld
They must desperately want to appear on the flying lap.
By the number of RTs i got i would say that f1 fans dont really care that much, I cant belive how they constantly get away with it though
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 27th April 2011
- Live blogging gains points on this week's Team Rankings
- Robert Kubica makes his debut on Christine's Rankings this week
- Daily: 26th April 2011
- Tweets of the Week - Happy Birthday, Felipe Baby
if f1 fans cared, gmm would cease to exist. so not in the slightest, nope.
Its crazy, im amazed there isnt a bigger market for more general fake news. "micronesia declares war on greenland" for example
The Onion have that cornered.
I fear those pesky weevils may have made their way into one container of my tea. I've put it in something more airtight and will wait and see what develops.
True
Oooh someone has to make an F1Onion.com website!
Another unfortunate URL shortener! http://bbc.in/grPraT
Ping: http://mrschristine.com/2011/04/27/back-to-the-future-episode-2/
This amuses me: http://www.gadgets.co.uk/item/80SIPHONECASE/80s-Retro-Case-For-iPhone.html
This looks really cool: http://blogit.realwire.com/Mobil1-Track-Challenge
A lot of good buzz over the Tony Stewart/Lewis Hamilton car swap...
Today, I keep typing test diver. Perhaps it is my subconscious telling me to follow a different sport!
Ping: http://www.f1minute.com/news/team-lotus-buy-caterham-cars-and-head-for-a-quick-f1-test
More from Tony: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/90957
Q. What are your plans for getting the Caterham name involved in F1? Will there be branding on the car, a total team rename?
TF: I don't know yet, to be honest. I am waiting to see what happens with the case, and all these sort of things. But an ideal scenario would be a marriage of the two.
wow zooz are tiring. evening all!
*zoos
i like tony's planning!
zooz is better
Team Lotus Caterham?
Sounds a lot like BMW Sauber Ferrari...
"hey tone, what are you doing at the weekend?"
*shrugs*
♥
:D
Hello all, how are we today?
bit wind beaten and tired, but good. how are you Janna?
howdy, am very good janna. steve is interviewing us later today: https://twitter.com/#!/ItsSteveLovell/statuses/63276079602876416
think it's our first ever interview :)
Happy that work is over for today
ohhh that's exciting!! can we listen to it anywhere?
Ooohh. Think you'll be great
shall ask if we can record it.
yaay! :)
Hey Janna, was ok till I tripped over the chair
Didn't you do that thing with Colin Murray or is that in my imagination?
Awwwwwwww (is that enough sympathy or do you need more?)
:D
Was probably just enough... ;)
oh yeah. my first interview then.
Evening.
Cool. Although Christine did that one with the northern radio station.
bleugh, chrome have a new logo and it looks terrible on the dock :(
Felipe Baby!
she did that too!
oh no! what does it look like?
clearly no-one has ever thought to interview me.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/27/google-launches-chrome-11-flat-icon-is-here-to-stay/
Apparently people think you want to be anonymous
Lisa McCormick
Hi all
:) :)
maybe they're thinking about how hard it would be to introduce you?.. 'and today i'm with... well i can't tell you who i'm with.. but.. erm yes.' :)
oh.. :( that doesn't look very nice at all. bleerrgh.
So tell us about yourself
I am anonymous
Where do you live?
Secret
Tell us about your day
That would compromise my anonymity
etc
Horrible
it all makes sense now :)
You'll have to sing a song too.
Can't wait to here the interview. Hope Steve is not reading this or I may have just set off his panic alarm
yes! what can we make Mr C sing about?..
Who Are You by The Who?
:D
genius. alas no.
:D hehe Mr C when will you be singing this? next Giggles radio? :)
:)
Afternoon everyone... I have been spending all day driving around in a van I hired taking things back and forth to the tip... So I might need some help... as I believe it's my turn to write the daily for tomorrow!
good plan!
I did play one of Mr C's tunes on the 12 hour Sidepodcast-aganza
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 27th April 2011
- Live blogging gains points on this week's Team Rankings
- Robert Kubica makes his debut on Christine's Rankings this week
- Daily: 26th April 2011
- Tweets of the Week - Happy Birthday, Felipe Baby
if you have the brand-new-just-out-today version of chrome, you can now talk to sidepodcast:
http://sidepodcast.com/playground/speech.php
Heikki playtime
http://yfrog.com/i38mipz
So I said something, how do I hear it back?
On old Chrome I get a box to type in and nothing happens. Guess I need to download the new one
It's speech-to-text, isn't it?
I only saw a brief demo, but I think you speak and what you say (or an amusing approximation) should appear in the box.
I didn't see anything, am probably doing it wrong. Never mind, I have bacon sarnies for tea :)
click on the microphone and talk. it converts it to text for you.
I did but it didn't so I shouted and it did :)
hehe, your mic may be turned down.
Hehe, give it a telling off :)
Helllooooo sidepodland!
Helllllloooooooo LUUUUUKKKKEHHHHH!
*waves*
Helllo Mr Lukeh
How are we all this evening? I hope my shouting didn't wake anyone up
Hi Lukeh
#sidepodspace
Everything still on schedule for Friday's launch. 80% chance of good weather
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
Hello everyone :)
Hello Marti
Evening :)
Yo sir.
Hi Marti
I'm doing ok... But I'm a bit scared about doing a daily post today...
Would anyone like cake?
I could switch around with next week but I'm a tad busy, so I'll act as standby in case nobody volunteers.
Do you need to re-enact a Rocky montage to pump you up and get you going?
Assuming you mean you need a volunteer..
I did... I am unused to physical exercise... And so I am unsure I'm going to be able to make it tonight. Which is a bit rubbish as I didn't do my last one either but yes I think I probably need a volunteer.
Volunteers can have cake though.
i just noticed my chrome logo changed without me doing anything..
ooh!
Do you mean the desktop one?
yeah on my dock..
Chrome has updated? I want mine to do that!
it doesn't appear to be the whole update, just the logo, can't find anything about speech to text so...
http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-27th-april-2011/comments#comment-1079379
I don't know... I use Chrome, but I haven't noticed any change in its logo.
Maybe you've updated it.
I tried to upgrade Chrome but still have the old logo
hehe i was there when mr c said. but am confused as to how it's updated automatically.
So I've got the old one :(
Yours updated automatically and mine won't even though I have tried to update it
Apple clearly put the mac into magic
It updated automatically on my pc too ;)
Maybe microsoft contributed the g and the i then :)
I am going to download Apple's Safari on my PC. Let's take a look at it :)
I forced it to just by clicking 'about'
Didn't know you could do that. It looks like all I have to do is click
Now I am confused again. It opened up with the old log but when I check About it has the new logo.
Now speech to text sort of works.
Hello Hello Hello becomes
blue zoo hello
It must be thinking about Lou
Hiiiiiiiiiii :D
w00t!
Well they're just doing the eurovision, opening a zoo is a bit much
Hello
blue zoo hello.
The closest it has got to sidepodcast is 8 podcast.
Can't wait till I can speak comments. That should cause chaos
I think we had it as "fun podcast" which is... fun.
working on it tonight. for some reason it doesn't work in the large textbox thing. grr.
Just got saint podcast. Has Mr C been promoted?
Every time I breathe it ends my comment
State podcast?
i think it might be limited to one liners.
i wonder if i can write a daily in one line speech to text comments?
ohh i think i can speak comments with my speech recognition software i was given by the lovely government.
Has to be worth a try.
I found I had to move the mic really close to my mouth. The sensitivity seems much lower than any other time I use it. Normally I keep it above my mouth so I am not breathing or popping
does the playground page not work for you?
Never heard any government called that
hehe yeah it does. i just completely forgot i had this software! :)
they government are buying votes with free pc's :)
This is its best attempt so far. At least these are words :D
I managed to get it to type side pod cast. Granted it was left hand side pod cast
:D
So is anyone keen to do the daily in exchange for cake?
Rightio computer wizzkids, is there any way to make my podcasts play automatically rather than me having to manually start each one? My songs do but podcasts don't. I want to use a full screen programme and just leave the thingy running playing away without having to quit every 15 minutes to start a new track....
i'll do it if you send cake to someone more deserving?
Will do... Nominate the person
20 minutes to con it into typing sidepodcast and it gets diggnation first go with two gs.
Clearly (for the good of us all) it's not very self aware.
i'll ask for nominees in the daily.
Can cake reach Dubai?
Good plan!
Are you deserving?? More importantly, what shelf would you store it on?
Good question!
Latest attempt at sidepodcast came out as facebook. I blame Amy
:)
:D
I can make it do sidepodcast
Whilst we're talking about what people are doing and whatnot, Amanda let me know that she couldn't do Spanish Wednesday today and that it may be fortnightly or monthly for a while as she's super duper busy.
We'll need a new way for Mr C to tell what day it is.
it's wednesday? oh my...
ummm... a cake stand? it can go next to the rice cooker! :)
a wednesday twitter account? :)
I only managed that by conning it. left hand side pod cast
Oooh, we need twitter.com/mrctodayis...
Hehe!
You have to do what you have to do
this is going to be hilarious if we use it to make comments!
It is going to start all sorts of arguments by not typing what people really said
I did earlier make a Sidepodcast speech to text video demo for you all but it's taken a while to upload to the internet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzE4H65hsn4
We will get jealous of 8 podcast.
"I never said that... wait... I did, but that's not what I was supposed to day..."
The real question is does Speech Recognition System rally encourage overtaking?
And I have just done a demo of saying Sidepodcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agGnBBGnnxo
wooooow!
How do you click on the mic if you are doing a handstand? :)
Mr C is going to have to invent even more internet!
I learned something from that. You have a lot less background noise than I have and a lot more difference between background and speech
:D
rally needs more overtaking.
fake #### cast
Not censored. That is what it typed
Oooh, how do you pronounce that? :)
I have half my little fake LEDs lit with background noise and speaking only 'lights' another 3
side pod cast.
ooohh, just forwarded by @conradder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1IJZkfaFs&feature=fvst
never heard that before. spooky.
At least that is how I pronounced it
:)
Do you live in a wind tunnel?
Mine's like that too... at least 3/4 permanently lit.
It is absolutely silent here apart from a small computer fan. Must just be the rubbish mic
wright state podcast
Nearly
Hehe, I am impressed by your determination!
It clearly doesn't like my voice.... I said sidepodcast it said
"fun"
I see mr c only retweeted the slightly less mad short video :)
I am now starting to believe that Mr C is against handstand based commenting ;)
#not competitive
It got another F1 podcast first time
#flamewar
A younger Ted Kravitz on the right of this picture! http://twitpic.com/4q48dd
:D
It doesn't like foreign languages?
I haven't tried that. I tried the Close Encounters 5 note thing and got something about Paul and a box even though nothing close to a word was said
Felipe Baby came out as free gay beer day
:D
That's a very different song.
Very different.
It's odd that it gets some things fairly close others are nowhere near. It must be checking against some kind of database rather than just typing what it hears.
try reading a famous line of text or two, see how it does?
there's a longer one?
Could it possibly be Steven's accent? I'm sorry mate, but I just keep thinking about that comedy sketch where two Scotsmen are stuck in a lift because the speech recognition lady doesn't understand "eleven"...
I don't have an accent. You lot do
i can't get it to say sidepodcast. what are you saying about my accent?
:)
ooh, found it, sorry for being slow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzE4H65hsn4&feature=channel_video_title
_I_ don't have an accent, you lot do!
:P
That sketch is funny but sweary - we loved it so much in the office though.
Tried the to be, or not to be thing
First attempt - re not toby
Second attempt - tipping walmart movie
Giggles needs to demos for all our stuff.
:D
When i was learning german (in the pub) i could only get them to understand when i said things in a really angry way... it might be the same?
You want a Scotsman to sound angrier?
I thought german was angry by default, turns out it wasnt! go for it!
Here's that lift sketch - warning, very sweary but very funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JcHhA7M-Y
Quite alright
Closest attempt yet. I wouldn't mind but I am doing slings, arrows,outrageous fortune etc and it is ignoring all that
hippie or not toby
Hehehehe!
Don't see why you can't be both toby and hippie
They should have said ten and taken the stairs for the last floor
chad hurley still exists: http://kottke.org/11/04/youtube-founders-acquire-delicious
You mean - chat hollister like this
i did... yes!
Thought so
evening folks
mail we had a good day
Was supposed to be Hi Leigh had a good day?
It's definitely not ready for commenting yet then.
not too bad - just relaxing at the mo
:)
I'm officially uber jealous
Oh my word!!
:o
http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/04/27/martha-elena-flores-cura-continental-lost-my-husbands-body/
good evening
How did she score that?
evening mav,
how are you today?
No idea, but she seems to be doing loads of freelance in addition to Driven Comms
Does she represent anybody?
evening, I'm good - it's been sunny all day, no work to do and lots of easter eggs had my name on them
she used to be sato's pr person at super aguri. we met her at dreamfields i think.
like jules is/was to jb.
The company she works for now represent a load of drivers
i'm going to catch up with some Indy Lights this evening and hope I don't punch the screen
Oh cool, I never knew that you met her.
actually 'met', might be pushing it. 'stood next to' would be more accurate :)
Does anyone know yet who Will Buxton's supposed commentating partner is going to be?
although i goggled something and it took me back here: http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-28th-may-2009/comments#comment-323173
so technically you did know, you just didn't know you knew :)
Do they only employ Emmas?
We can call them "The Emma's"
Small ping. http://northernwaffler.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/eurovision-sofa-an-introduction/
Maybe I didn't know that I knew that I didnø't know that I knew it once?
agreed
Well I've seen it all now - just seen a video from a gig where someone in the crowd is filming using an iPad 2 in the same way you would a phone
an iPad!!
that won't get in anyone's way at all.
You see, that would make me want to **** them
I know right? Holding up phones to film can be something but it is kind of hilarious in this video seeing his big crowd and then suddenly this iPad standing out :D
Bringing an iPad to film a gig...? I'm sorry, but that's just sad
they should do that thing where people hold cards over their heads to make big letters, except with ipads.
I'm surprised they managed to keep hold of it!
it's not sad. it's not the best tool for recording that's all.
The joke's on him ... anyone knows an iPhone camera is better ;)
Hehe!
Just when you thought NASA hand found every way possible to screw up a launch they now have brush fires. Shouldn't be a major problem though
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/status.html
I've retweeted the link on twitter, it's from a kanye west video so it seemed a bit un-family-friendly to post
it looks ridiculous. seeing people attempt to take photos in london with one is hilarious.
ohhh kanye!
Oh yeah, we saw those people in trafalgar square! That was very surreal.
isn't it on friday?
I do think it's sad. As someone who worked in the live industry for a long time, it's one of the biggest pet hate's / complaints I ever got (and made).
It just makes me want to grab people and kick them out of a show.
i know, but if you have one with you anyhow, i kinda makes sense.
it's weird but after being out with christine all weekend, and her having hers just always there. it becomes invisible to you.
just not to everyone else i guess.
yes. The countdown clock doesn't do days
ahh, see i'm for allowing everyone to record everything, so we'll have to disagree there. bootleg videos rule!
How very Dom Joly
ooooh.
I can't even imagine taking mine outside. Seems like a tool for the home.
It's not a bootleg issue, it's "being a pain to everyone around them" issue
Not strictly true as I took it to the pub in London but shh
oh. is it pain then. can't say camera people have ever bugged me.
you need a bigger handbag.
What if they were holding an ipad?
Try that in Cardiff and see how far you get
but most people would have a phone? smaller and easier to use? better quality too?
if I start side shuffling away pat, quickly join me
i'd probably move somewhere else. could be an issue, but no idea how you'd police it. you can't take someone's ipad from them can you?
agreed. the ipad is easier to hold steady i suppose.
hm.. maybe. but at a concert if your jumping around anyways, why use an ipad? lol
:)
The crowd will police it for you. Maybe ok at a small gig but you'd look a prat holding that up there.
An iPad at a gig only makes sense to me if you are working there, performing or a journo or PR or something. If you're a punter you're asking for it to be smashed on the floor, accidentally or not
also true.
on the other hand, when the lights are turned down for the slow song - biggest lighter in the world!
:)
I hope there's an app for that
hah :)
if they can take a £700 camera and a £200 camera off me for a jonsi concert i'm sure they wont bat and eyelid at taking an ipad off someone.
they did? are they allowed to and how did you get it back?
i got told that i couldn't go in until i put them in the cloakroom. I wasn't happy. the only reason i had them with me was because i'd come from a shoot straight to the gig. The lady escorted me to the cloakroom thing and gave me a ticket. I was so so angry with them and made sure i had someone to tell me that if anything happened to it i could hold them responsible. I didn't leave until i'd checked the camera after the gig just in case.
They can. Basically by purchasing a ticket, you agree to their terms. If you don't like them, I'm sure you'd be allowed to leave instead....
jeeez.
hm i was one unhappy photographer. specailly as i'd been given no forward warning that i couldn't take a 'professional' camera into the venue. silly jonsi
There will be a list of rules somewhere. It's just that people never read them. You expect them to email you in advance with a list of "no glass bottles, all men must wear shirts...."
T&C, etc...
It was one of the biggest consistent complaints I always got
Staff tell you to put it away or get out and you choose.... I worked in a cinema for a year. You can ask people to leave your premises if they won't keep to your rules.
They bug me constantly at anything to do with motor racing. People with cameras behave like they own the place. I have lost count of the times I have found a good viewing spot only for someone to stick a camera two inches from my nose and then get upset when I explain that I don't like their behaviour. There should be camera free zones at circuits
I'm just sorting through my Oulton Park pictures :-D
I have never watched racing there so you are OK.
Off to bed, early night needed... night all.
Goodnight!
Night Lukeh
ight lukeh
Have to agree with F1 meetings though (and certain parts of circuits at other meetings) - there just isn't room for people to be tracking cars if everybody is stood elbow to elbow but does it stop some people?
It's therefore perfectly acceptable at Turkey
It is difficult to get a spot without fences in the way. People can be pretty rude about it though.
:)
Which corners at Oulton were you photographing?
There's an app for it on my PDA (in case turning on the installed backlight when on a blank Word document isn't enough), so I'd think there'd be one for an iPad.
Clay Hill is great because you're very close to and above the track - so no fences in the way
Inside of Druids and Lodge are pretty good too
If he did it like I do, all of them
Pretty much, Old Hall is a great corner for watching but not for pictures
Lodge photos always look good.
I imagine it would be quite a trek to go all the way round Oulton
Too close? Looking forward to seeing the pics if they'll be online.
He had all day :)
you criss-cross over the middle really
Lots of first corner incidents and overtaking moves. It's one of those corners that encourages the ambitious
You won't get down to the hairpin that way. Unless they totally close off the short circuit
was hoping to have some up tonight, it's looking more like tomorrow now
Meat Loaf had a good way of dealing with photographic gadgets. Halfway through one gig I attended, he said to the crowd something along the lines of "If you want to photograph me you're about to get an opportunity to do so. Otherwise please keep them in your bags because you'll j and annoy people. Including me." All of the lights (as opposed to just the stage lighting) were then turned up to maximum for a couple of moments, after which he carried on like nothing had happened.
There was a sudden reduction in camera-based annoyances after that. Pity the off-key drunken singing from three rows behind me was more difficult to solve...
I saw your twitpics and it made me very jealous. 4hrs each way was too far for just F3/GT though. Am strongly tempted by Donington Historic on Sunday (or Thruxton BTCC also Sunday, which is much nearer but not as interesting).
15 mins from the mother-in-laws was positively lazy
Wonder if this means she was around when I got Takuma's autograph (Autosport 2007)?
Ooh nice
Nice was leaving the kids with her! :-D
...sorry about that, i get carried away :)
We all know how you love to belt out tunes - I can see you singing into a hairbrush mic now...
;)
Hah :)
Did you sing in the interview then?
needed more beer.
Right folks,
I'm off - have a good night.
Night Leigh
good night Leigh
If you are a (free-to-join) member of IndyCar Nation (and I presume not many here are but I'll say it anyway), this is a good piece about Twitter by @99Forever of More Front Wing about the IndyCar twitter community, along with some good tips for using it well.
http://indycarnation.indycar.com/exclusive-news/2011/04/27/get-the-most-from-your-@indycar-twitter-experience
I keep getting e-mails so I assume I joined ages ago
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/sidepodchat-thats-the-first-time-anyones-said-that-for-a-while
It didn't take long to get that up
Hopefully it's because I'm brilliant and not because I've deleted half of it! :)
:D
Evening
Hello
Good evening!
I doubt you were the worst offender because everyone was getting drowned out by about 12 distinctly female (if also distinctly unladylike) voices ;)
I keep forgetting as well. I kind of get bored of the IndyCar people after a while to be honest.
Evening all. Happy Setting-Unrealistic-Wedding-Expectations-For-Women-Around-The-World-Eve everyone!
:D
I'm planning on having a small "royal wedding" on my computer on Friday (there's a bunch of Sims in my neighbourhood who have been designated the royal family for ages and it would be interesting for them to do something that looks vaguely royal for once)
:D
The comedy sketch that needs to be made is Will and Kate sitting down and trimming their wedding budget in light of the economy.
Kate: "How would you feel if we cut the guest list from 5,000 to 4,500."
Will: "I don't think my family would be happy with that but do we really need $4.5 million open horse carriage processional route. Can't we just get some limos for $2.7 million?"
New daily ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-28th-april-2011
:D
My Sim Royal Family has a budget of 22,000 Simoleons - not sure what the conversion rate is on that, especially since chapel hire is effectively free...
Time for bed, said Zebeddy