Ah-ha, the end of the week at last, and another weekend just around the corner. It's been a nice slow end to the week in terms of F1 news, but I have a feeling (and Joe said) it's all going to start kicking off again next week. Meanwhile, here's what we're focusing on instead:
- We started turning our attention towards the Sidepodparty yesterday, and came up with the Christmas Carol that will replace the 12 days of Christmas. Last year, during the party, we all took turns to sing an F1 themed 12 days, and this time it's all about Jingle Bells. Naturally, we've set up a wiki page for alternative lyrics and volunteer voices.
- Yesterday's Thursday Thoughts was a good one, taking a closer look at the possibility of a group launch by FOTA rather than the individual team launches we know and love. We had some great answers from Lukeh, Jackie, Pat, Sean and Lady Snowcat. Mr C said he was writing one, but I haven't seen it yet, so it will have to be a Friday thought instead.
- Finally, we did a bit of an F1 Minute catchup yesterday, posting two of everything. There are two delicious shows about Donington and FOTA, whilst the Big Picture took a slight turn away from normal programming to feature DTM cars and politicians.
That's all for now, I think. As ever, let us know what you're up to over the weekend and if you have anything exciting planned. Watch out for the Friday Fun game appearing later in the morning, and I will see you in the comments.
PIIIIIIIIIIIIING
AAAAH YEAH
Go Pinger!
i may be a bit late with my thursday thoughts.
:D
Me too also. I think my Thursday Thought will be some time tomorrow evening.
#sidepodspace
Remember we have the space shuttle landing at 2:44pm UK time tomorrow if anyone is looking for something to do.
Oh yes, this is the one where we let you know what's happening over the weekend, I like this bit.
I hope to complete one past paper per day from Saturday to Tuesday. Up to now I have just been making revision notes which is why I can't get into it, too boring. I have four papers to do and that should get me in the mood for Wednesday's exam. My 'reward' if I think I've done well in the exam is to buy F1 2009 for the Wii.
For the non-study downtime (i.e. most of it) this weekend I've just realised I actually don't have anything else planned, for the first time in ages. I'm not quite sure what to do.
It should also be used to comfort you if you thing you've failed ;)
*think
I'm not sure that's good motivation :-)
Ok, how about as a reward for all the hard revision you're doing now? That way, pass or fail as long as you've put the work in, you get the game!
This could work. Changes the focus of the pressure..
#MFC
Borders are going into administration.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091126/tuk-borders-chain-enters-administration-6323e80.html
That Woman splits group
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091126/ten-pussycat-dolls-split-after-jealous-r-8a3eada.html
blimey. they're huge.
Yep. Every time I am in one it is packed. If they can't make money selling books from a shop who can?
wonder if it might affect distribution of autosport?
*cheers*
Not sure. Borders tend to be in cities and there are plenty of other newsagents etc who can sell it. A lot of the international and specialist magazines may struggle if the company goes bust.
:)
true, it's the only place i even found RCE.
it is only the UK one I think
excellent
goodnight
night pat.
night Pat
Unusual game ad. Play the video
http://www.masswepray.com/
Article says the founder denies it. We shall see.
Besides, she's leaving them to do solo work. We'll hear her name more.
Morning, by the way.
Thats the most rediculous advert thing i've ever seen, and thats saying something!
this is the sixth or seventh break up story i have read. Her last solo album was a miserable failure. I dont cross my fingers.
So was Victoria Beckham's. That didn't stop us from hearing her name. ;)
oh regardless of if they split or not we will never be free of her.
she'll have more time on her hands.
she'll go to more races. And if she ends up with her current Beau, she'd probably never need to work again.
i'm sure she doesn't anyhow.
oh andy murray didnt make it to the WTF semi finals because delpo beat roger? Ive never been so pleased to see him lose!
Andy Murray and WTF seem to go together quite well, but i cant quite put my finger on why...
haha! At least she had to lipsync for a living up to now.
delpo beat fed again? That's two in a row for delpo now. He now seems to have fed's number too.
And it's ATP, not WTF. You might've mixed it up with WTA.
its the ATP World Tour Finals.
atp wtf.
brilliant.
s'all greek to me.
adios, sleep for me
did amy let you sleep?
no sir :( but, but, but, i've got to go to slough in 6 hours, why would you put me through the pain of slough and no sleep!
just stay up! I only have 4 hours of work to go so you can sleep for 2.
if he doesn't, who's on amy-sitting duty?
it used to be called the masters cup. wtf is new for this year and it has the tennis world in hysterics.
looks like its you mr c. i do have a meeting in 2 hours for 60 min so you can nap then as long as you are back in time. And im on lunch for 30 now so nap now too. Im going to the market so too busy to comment for a bit.
I am still here trying to write stuff and failing miserably. I have to e-mail it before I go to sleep and at this rate Amy will be asleep before me. I have the doohickey scissor alert ticked so I will hear any comments
*snip*
as you're sround i shall sleeps. night.
Unfair
i can do weekend shift.
I might still be writing by then
right back from the market so stop napping. The butcher was so lovely, if took the bone out of my lamb! My sunday roast will be awesome now.
It won't be able to walk now
good, i dont like it when my dinner takes off on me
So what are you having with it. Lukeh will be most displeased if there is no mint sauce
mint sauce is the worst condiment in the world and would be banned if i was queen. I will have lots of gravy and a bit of tomato sauce. The latter makes me a heathen, they say tomato sauce on a roast is ghastly. I say its grand.
LUKEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So are you going to be queen of Australia, New Zealand or the whole commonwealth?
Tomato sauce on roast lamb. Michel will have a heart attack and Alison will blame you.
Success. Finally finished and sent the stuff I was working on.
i also put tomato sauce on smart chicken beef and pork. And any other roast probably but they are the ones i normally eat.
whoever knew smart is on the same phone keys as roast
Now now, let's not be hasty! Mint sauce, gravy, and tomato sauce are all just as good! But I wouldn't use it all at the same time. :D
Classic Mika for Amy (who may or may not have seen this):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRIq3UhoB-M
turns out my meetin involved a pub and some jugs and now im in no fit state to be at work. Oops. Oh well just 60 min to go
I never have meetings like that. Mine all seem to involve more work.
i found out that one of my colleagues gets free tickets to the f1 each year with mclaren hospitality because her dad works for mobil but has never bothered to go before. I tried to talk her into attending next year.
What a total waste of hospitality. People would kill to get that! :(
You MUST convert her. :D
I just realized now. Amy's WTF = World Tour Finals.
Looks like someone in the ATP office slipped that one through. :D
but if she goes then i will be very jealous! Perhaps instead i should ask her dad to consider adoption of a new child.
A good read on six of the best overlooked F1 moments:
http://www.patronisef1.com/index.php/features/six-of-the-best/1614-six-of-the-bestoverlooked-f1-moments
Most intrigued by the toin coss in Watkins Glen '67. Never knew that one took place.
Poor DC for his Brazil 2001 pass, as he came second in two respects - not only had his teammate done it first in Belgium the year before, but JPM made a spectacular pass on Schumi in the same race earlier than DC did... At least DC won the race though. ;)
:D :D When will you go to Monaco? Don't you have a friend who has a place there?
Monaco is for the honeymoon. My flatmate has a friend whose dad has a place there, but apparently he is moving back to NZ :(
Mika, Kimi, and Heikki all have beaus already, no? :D
Boo. They could give you the keys to the place there. ;)
Hmmm... If reports are to believed, Canada will *finally* be confirmed today, while Sauber has a press conference sometime today.
Morning.
Pastry day at work.
Can you guess where I am going tonight? I have bought a spare change of clothes and a bottle of vodka with me...
I didn't know the Pinger had his own podcast... :D :D :D
Morning all!
yum yum, pastries...
Poker night? Vodka Ironman? :D
Nope... Xmas party!
isn't that a month too early ? :-)
good afternoon
good morning!
Long story to go with that one...
ours is next Saturday. It's on a boat. Alcohol and the motion of waves do not sound like a good combination to me.
just the boat sounds bad to me...
It won't be :(
mmm, i'm not really a fan. I intend to get my 5 free drinks and then leave. If I'm still standing. I'm such a lightweight.
Not a good combo.
The last time I attended a company Christmas party on a boat, I was laid off the following Monday.
:(
eek.....
I'm sure yours will be fine, though!
:)
there is nothing wrong with that combination as long as you have a skipper who will remain sober :-)
Possible to leave if they push off from the dock? You may be locked in for a "three-hour tour, a three-hour tour."
Rain is pouring outside...that will be a fun walk to school...
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-birds-of-cologne/
not the news Sauber people would like to hear ...
actually , the "F1 2010's unsolved mysteries" article at Autosport.com a day or two ago suggested the same scenario may be on cards:
http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2518 - that is behind the paid wall
Stefan Grand Prix is the stupidest name ever. What next, Bob Le Mans or Steve Touring Car?
I have been lied to! Further investigation says its not a boat, it's here: http://www.republica.net.au/ and it looks nice!
well Stefan is not that different from Brawn or any other surname associated with Grand Prix team....
that's where I went for breakfast during GP :-)
the table at the lower right corner of the picture was my table :-)
ooh any good? I have never been there!
Isn't Stefan his first name?
I found it very very relaxing, I went there few times
I have been to the Stokehouse, just down the beach a bit. Only because that's where McLaren have their press events :D
I think his name is Zoran Stefanovic, so stefan is abbreviation of his surname
went there too, twice :-)
are you coming over next year? Without my brother to entertain, I plan to spend a lot more time in St Kilda, driver stalking.
Didn't this group try to get one of the new team's entries earlier this year?
yes, it is part of my plans for next year.
yes, they did, and they also made a complaint to European Commission about FIA forcing the new entrants to go with Cosworth engines
RG won't like this. From Joe:
"And while all this was going on I got a call at some point from a little bird in Cologne who told me that the staff of Toyota have been told that their entry has been sold on to someone else – and that some of them are going to be asked to stay on to build and run their car for a man called Stefan from Serbia. Apparently the government down there is paying for “Stefan Grand Prix” to become a reality."
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-birds-of-cologne/
As it stands, the only way Sauber get in now is if Renault pulls out.
Fudge - Wolf beat me to it. :D
hooray! I hope the buzz isn't too different since its not the start of the season.
what engines will Stefan run now though?
let me just say - the team name sounds rather F1-Reject-ful already.
is that the reason for the Sauber announcement or press con you mentioned earlier ? ...
Excellent thought, Wolf! You may be correct - Sauber may be announcing it's well and truly the end of the line for them...
Zoran Grand Prix would have been so much cooler!
it depends how they manage things. I can imagine well run small operation with ex-Toyota team technical support and know how to perform better than the Toyota F1 ... it it is well run
Who recently threw it out, I think...
or Zohan :-) don't mess with Zohan on the sidepods :-)
I would compare this to the Jordan/Midland scenario - good people, crappy owner, team falls through anyway...
I only caught the news about court throwing out N Technology complain, not sure how this Stefan complaint to EU worked out
one of the downfalls for Midland was the underestimation of the cost involved after the purchase of the team by Mr Shneider... once there is no money even people with good plans and intentions turn into crappy owners ...
And I also see that being Stefan's downfall. Even more so when your government is the one funding you and they can easily bail at the sight of a budget request too large or angry taxpayers or an election defeat...
That said, add Team Serbia (Stefan) to Team Italia (Ferrari), Team GBR (McLaren), Team Germany (Merc), Team France (Renault, if they stay around), Team (Force) India, and Team US(F1).
Memories of the Gordon Bennett Trophy (long ago) and A1GP (not so long ago) come flooding back...
it can easily turn out that way ... but if they fail, they will still have the entry to sell :-)
And thus BMW's failure to sign the Concorde (thus leaving them with no entry to sell) becomes even more apparent...
What I do find interesting is if Toyota indeed sell their engine design to Stefan. Would he decide to hire an engine house to create those engines? Or would he go for the Cosworths that he seems to have pushed away? Or would Ferrari agree to supply them with engines instead if Sauber do indeed not make it?
well, BMW AG could not care less, but Concorde is signed by teams not by car companies, so if there was any failure part of blame also falls on Peter Sauber's shoulders I would say (although hard to tell how much could he influence with his minority shareholding)
Dubai and the debt mess making its way to the Twitter trends...
Although Nick has confirmed he has no connections to the fraudulent companies involved, I wonder how hard hit the entire Dubai economy will be because of it.
I think the BMW AG board is to blame. Theissen (who is team principal) looked like he really wanted to sign, but the board didn't let him. Remember that presscon the day BMW withdrew? Theissen looked like he wanted no part of it...
I don't think Thiessen and Sauber are to blame here - Force Majeure from BMW, perhaps?
From Time magazine today: "This will be the end of the Dubai dream."
ANONYMOUS BUSINESSMAN,
on one of Dubai's biggest investment companies, Dubai World, needing to ask for a six-month delay on repaying its debts.
coffee time
STOP!
:D
seriously nice java aroma over my desk :-)
I wouldn't quite say it's the end of the dream just yet, but I definitely see them playing second fiddle to Abu Dhabi now from here on out...
its affecting stockmarkets all over the world! Silly Dubai!
More Dubai info:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/business/global/27dubai.html?_r=1&hpw
Among others, this news is weighing on BMW and Daimler, who both have significant sales in the Gulf region.
What about Aabar? (sounds like a Danish word!)
Thanks for the article, Jason.
Aabar is an Abu Dhabi-owned and based company, so it should still be financially stable - for now at least.
More details on Aabar here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704431804574539282325559224.html
VW FINALLY shows some interest in F1... but not until 2012.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80348
They may be the first manufacturer in the next cycle of manufacturer involvement in F1.
Aabar is traded (and headquartered) in Abu Dhabi, where markets are closed until next week, so I don't think they have been affected (yet). Ultimately, their fate will depend on whether investors view Dubai World as a self-contained problem, or as, the article stated, view the entire Gulf region as less desirable.
I was also curious about whether Santander had any significant exposure to Dubai, but it appears that they do not.
Welcome
Someone in an LJ community with a Heikki icon made the following comment:
I love the Pussycat Doll, when she's in at the end of Lewis' win with all the mechanics who couldn't give a **** that they're squeezing the life out of her, but she doesn't seem to care. She seems so fascinated and so focused all through all the races, and it's just...really, really cute. Particularly when she bounced up and down shouting 'YAY' at the end. Strangely, I really like her.
It's almost enough to make me stop liking him, if thats the sort of fans he has.
some sense making talk from Stuck there ... except the 30 cars grid :-)
:D Hahahahaha! It's not Heikki's fault! What kind of Heikki fan likes Lewis' girlfriend??
Lewis perhaps ? :-)
Lewis' last statement on Heikki makes me think he wants them to be best friends forever. :D
You think Renault will follow this advice and pull the plug on its team but remain as an engine supplier (as many have suggested over the last several weeks)?
It makes sense. Also VW probably will pull out of Le Mans soon as they have been doing sportscars for 10 years now...
clearly that statement and this image from the same person prove that the odd Heikki fan must be YOU.
link to the page?
Certainly a possibility if they find a buyer for their Enstone base. If they don't, I think they'll stay, for 2010 at least.
ah, I do not wish to be linking to peoples LJ pages after I have been mocking them!
Ah I thought it was a forum - it's a live journal!
:D :D :D Me? A Heikki/McLaren fan? No way. :P
Also, Heikki's jacket is way too big for him - makes him look very thin.
Not to mention Peugeot has begun making them look second-best on a regular basis now.
its probably the smallest size they make :D
Hardly. This is the first time in 3 or 4 years the Pug has been better than the Audi. I suspect Audi will blitz them at Le Mans this year.
I'm basing it across the entire 2009 season, not just Le Mans this year. I didn't look prior to 2009, although it has to be said the Pugs certainly had the pace to win before this year if their car held up.
I suspect Pug will win again next year.
I been collecting information for a lecture next year about models of development and Dubai came out just like Iceland, a bubble waiting to burst.
Abu Dhabi does not look in any way the same! While Dubai went on a building spree of Egyptian Pyramid scale its conservative neighbour is investing in huge solar energy farms (largest in the middle east).
Morning all.
Morning Christine, how are you today? :)
Pretty good. You?
I'm good. I have an assignment due in at 4pm which I've barely started :)
Hello, Christine. :D
Ah ha. What's it about? Are we going to have to shoo you?
Hi Journeyer. How's it going?
Pug have had the fastest car for years. It was only this year that they had the better team. They were AWESOME at Le Mans, but I am convinced they would have lost Petit Le Mans had it run the full course.
Incidentally the next major ACO rule change is for 2011...
Heya.
Morning all
Ouch!!. Lucky I had about half of mine done yesterday...
Morning Everyone :)
I need to make a presentation on using adobe fireworks and flash, to makes images and making simple games. The criteria we have been given is terrible and I don't think anyone understands what our lecturer is after.
I don't think I need to be shoo'd just yet ;)
Working. Or trying to, anyway. Leaving Manila after work tonight - long weekend, baby! :D
Ooh, lovely!
I like shoo-ing people. It makes a pleasant change for me :)
Okay, I'll let you off for now :)
Are you having a Long Weekend too Christine or was it just Thursday off?
I wonder why "long weekend" got capitalised there? Odd!
I just got a facebook invite to an event to celebrate the youngest Backstreet Boy turning 30. I think it might be the best event ever.
I think I know what I'm doing, so shouldn't take me too long :)
Yay!
Our American friends are having a 4-day weekend now. Black Friday today, with drop dead discounts at your favorite stores - if you can survive the mad rush...
The youngest is turning 30?? Goodness.
Apple apparently have lots of stuff off at their stores today. Must. Not. Give. In.
There are some paid apps available for free ;)
I already got a year subscription to iRacing at 75USD down from 99USD!
:o Awesome
I remember when he turned 20 and being upset that none of them were teenagers anymore. Where has the last 10 years gone?
Because it is important! But yes I am. I could get used to these three day weeks.
What?? Uh-oh.
It would be awesome wouldn't it. I think if it was 3 day weeks I would be fine with work :)
I bought Star Wars Trench Runner last night - lightweight, but cool!
http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/campaigns/holiday/giftguide/black_friday?mco=MTU3MjMyMDk
I am sorry if I just bankrupted Sidepodcast Towers
Do we need to donate sharpish?
GOOD HEAVENS! Seriously?! Yegads - I don't have my laptop with me.
Hehe! Just don't tell Mr C.
Has anyone seen this F1 Police Car thingy before? http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/26/video-formula-for-safety-abu-dhabi-police-unveil-the-f999/
And I thought some car launches can be OTT....!!
Good evening everyone!
Hiya Sean, how's it going
Very well. I'm not sure why but I feel really happy. You?
*giggles at the Gossip column literally copying and pasting from James Allen*
Anyways, time to go. see you all later.
Very Good. Is it because it's Friday?
Bye bye.
Well, Friday's nearly finished now. Sort of.
Boo it's just started raining :( I wondered why as the morning was progressing it was getting darker rather than lighter :(
Isn't that the norm over in England though. ;)
Never mind next week, it's all kicked off today! ;)
Incredibly shoddy, isn't it?
It's fine. The conversation continues and we move comments after. No worries.
Thanks :)
PING: http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/27/sauber-buys-back-bmw-team-with-conditions/
Beat ya to the ping! :D
#sidepodspace
It looks like the space shuttle will make its first planned landing slot today at 14:44 UK time. The astronauts have already been told to close the payload bay doors. The inside of the doors are radiators which are used to cool the shuttle. They are always kept open as when they are closed the shuttle uses up vast amounts of its limited water supply for cooling. The astronauts will be told to suit up and the go / no go on the de-orbit burn will be at 13:17pm UK.
There is a second landing slot one orbit (an hour and a half ish) after the first one.
Updates will be given at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
lisamccormick 1 minute ago: "Rob Smedley coming into the studio this afternoon! Veeeeery excited!"
What are the chances? I just but BBC Tees on to listen to Jet from Gladiators.
A million to one, I tell ya!
And Rob is going to rescue you from that
But still they come
Will we hear from Christine from the Internet during the show? :D
nope.
Awww. :P Heheh. :D
I don't think Jet is in today. So Rob will make up for that.
Interesting Gladiators related fact.... Hunter from Gladiators once stole Fourstar's girlfriend!
Ulrika?
And what is Diane Youdale up to these days?
:D
I don't think so... But I'd have to check.
that.
I wish :)
No, twas some time ago, when we were all living in York. Personally, I can't see what she saw in the hunky, blond-haired, blue-eyed, muscle-bound freak.
I'm nearing the end of my assingment (woo!) I'm just stuck on one last bit. grr,
Indeed.
Ah I see fourstar guessed where I was talking about Gladiators... :)
:D
We aren't even in the same building... So no looking at screens or nothing!
So how did he...?
I like to know what lies you're feeding the internet about me, Andronov.
Or in this case, fact!
Well it was either going to be twitter or here!
Headping
I had to ask him if it was Hunter
:D :D
LeeMcK: Sutil and Liuzzi confirmed at Force India for 2010.
Instead of don't feed the trolls this is "don't feed the internet".
oooh!
Breakout thread imminent?
Looks like no one's waiting for next week at this rate. :D
I wonder where this leaves Pedalo - he had been linked to FI after he fell out of favor at Campos.
That bloke who joined us on our Red Bull tour was right it seems.
he was... and who was he anyway?
Feed the internet, make it a better place,
for you and for me and the avoidance of face...
...book, there are people tweeting,
but if you care enough for the live.com,
make a better facebook for you and for me.com
Or something
I think so, need a bit more than Ms McK.
I need more Ms McK ;)
http://twitter.com/willbuxton/statuses/6110252212
http://twitter.com/alanbaldwinf1/statuses/6110294257
Wasn't he the one who shared a flat with him in Hemel Hempstead or something? I was too busy concentrating on Augustus and his camera at the time to make a mental note.
Will check with Mr C. I don't like doing things just on Twitter statuses. He probably won't mind.
Apparently, there's already a press release. There should be a link in a few.
I think you should wait, although with those 3 I would say it's 99% sure...
Ah, I got it.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80351
Breakout it is.
PING: http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/27/force-india-confirm-liuzzi-and-sutil-for-2010/
I beat Christine - by a second. That is mighty close. :D
No link though :P
Can anyone help me out with this?
It's the last bit I need to add to this presentation, and its driving me nuts.
You're doing what the pinger does though. I still maintain that's in the wrong place.
mclaren announced their driver lineup on twitter. there's no going back now.
as absurd as announcing stuff in less than 140 characters is.
That is true. But then I don't want to duplicate what you're already doing here. Oh well - I don't think I'll be seeing any more breakout threads before I head off.
90 minutes to go! :D
our new homepage sucks. it can only cope with x1 featured post.
:)
There IS a link - if you're using doohickey. :D
Some sites use this slideshow-like device to go through multiple featured articles. Would such a feature make this site significantly slower?
I prefer LCLT :P
I didn't realise it was Rob's birthday today!
#worstfanever
Like http://www.virtualr.net/
We have plans for the fancy homepage box yet. It's not done. :)
Wikipedia says his birthday is 28th Nov?
Is this studio wall reminder related?
Ah. I didn't know that either!
Lisa has cakes for him is why I got confused.
So you're not quite the worst fan ever then. Hoorah.
Now I can wish him Happy Birthday in the daily and I will be the best fan ever. Yay for Rob!
rob
That explains it. :) Mr C rarely misses a trick, after all.
You could go one better and greet him personally. Except that I don't think you have such a link to him. ;)
you may want to edit the swear in the thing Amy quoted this morning
eh?
ooh, bad amy.
I thought I saw a word that rhymed with firetruck but seeing as nobody said anything I assumed I was a bit mental. :(
well you are that too :)
Tell me about it! Today is just nuts :D
The visualization of information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8381597.stm
Very interesting - 'tis the ultimate goal of my work and my blog to be good at this. I got a copy of the book by Edward Tufte and it is very inspiring...
Of course, David McCandless's blog is also excellent! http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
yay, lucy might be coming into the studio with rob.
I would have thought the percentage of 'chicks' on deviantart was larger.
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/who-rules-the-social-web/
Got my Greggs, F1 Racing, haircut all done, gorgeous weather outside and it's a Friday...
I'm enjoying today :)
Mmm, Greggs.
Go onnnnnn. :P
First posted about 20 minutes ago in the wrong thread
#sidepodspace
Show time.
Mission control just gave a go for de-orbit burn. In half an hour the shuttle will fire its orbital manouevring engines to slow it down and start its descent. Odd as it seems in space it flies backwards. The landing will be at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in about an hour and a half.
Once the de-orbit burn is made they are coming home regardless what happens.
PING: http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/27/f1-analytics-2009-part-2-teammate-comparisons/
#sidepodspace
They have just fired the engines to break orbit. The engines will bur for two minutes. No going back now
F1 Racing has reminded me how blindingly mind blowingly bad the 2006 Suger Aguri livery was
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/121/265128538_278698d53a.jpg?v=0
It's like someone put the Toyota into a snow globe and shook it about!!
:D
Sounds good. Our sunny weather has been replaced with patchy grey cloud and occasional showers.
I like that. If a Toyota designer had done that he would have been fired immediately.
Boo, silly weather. This is the first day this week we haven't had the apocalypse of wind and rain lash down upon us, instead it's been blue skies and sunshine and that lovely winter frost feeling about it
I think NASA TV's commentator just read eery note he has for the landing without stopping for breath
Catching up with RSS feeds over lunch.
They want to build an oval in Qatar...
they do?
Can't they build it somewhere without pronunciaton problems
:D
Apparently. I'm sure I flicked past it in Autosport last week too.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21975.html
Okay....
Do not drink a Red Bull and then listen to Bohemian Rhapsody at work. Bad!!!
good spot. missed that one.
You were on the desk headbanging weren't you?
Not quite... getting odd looks though!
I say Wales needs a proper F1 race-track so why not build a proper track at Lanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
I second this idea
I will quit!
Aww. If it makes you feel any better, I'll take over the town and rename it to Rubensville. That is a lot easier to say.
Then Mr C would have to read it and no-one wants that
RubensGo!Go!Go!
There are worse places to read out like
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
which we all know as Bangkok, Thailand and the locals shorten to Krungthep Mahanakhon
And to make Amy and Gavin happy you could have a track in Kiwiland at
Taumata whaka tangi hanga koauau o tamatea turi pukakapi ki maunga horo nuku poka i whenua kitana tahu
this translates to the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played his flute to his loved one!
#sidepodspace
30 minutes to landing and everything going by the book. We should have video of the shuttle in about 15 minutes. The first view should be the pilot's hud
Shuttle at 400,000 feet travelling at Mach 25
Good evenig sidepodistan!
I see there is F1 news today... so it must be a good day! :D
Good evenig to you too
Force India has announced BOTH drivers to a huge media coverage!
I hadnt even noticed that!
Jarno will be pleased for sure
That he didn't get the drive?
He is destined for Lotus unless he is Norbert's little "surprise"
That would be an incredible surprise
Media|Future|Nochange
I bought a small radio for my apartment today, i wanted one which had programmable stations so i didnt have to keep turning the dial.
Every single one i looked at had a tape deck! Actual cassette tape decks!
The one i got has a usb input and a cassette tape deck! Madness!
That his mate is still around next year
you make it sound like he has just broken wind!
Way too subtle for me
#sidepodspace
20 minutes to landing.
Norberts little suprise will be Kimi coming out of Sabbatical after 2 weeks!!
didn't Haug say his surprise was a happy ending story for Formula 1? Or am I dreaming it?
*hopes it's Kobayashi*
The fact that it is all timed so much makes it less fun... suprise landings would be way better
#sorrybuttrue
You have that with launches. The thing about the landing is that it has to happen regardless what goes wrong. The shuttle glides like a brick so the pilot has to find a way to make sure it hits the ground wheels down
The shuttle is over Mexico but will land in Florida in 15 minutes. Why can't all planes do that?
will there be a replay online for me to watch when I get home?
Yes, There will be a replay loop from all the cameras.
no he won't
Sad news. 10 Downing Street have rejected my petition to replace the Queen with Brian Blessed.
Injustice I tells ya.
I think he will
Stupid politicians
What? Rrrrrubbish. Boo the Prime Minister.
thanks
No he won't.
You seem very sure
Funny, I sent one sayng that the Queen should divorce Philip and marry Brian Blessed. THATS Injustice :)
They know from the descent where it is going to touchdown on the runway?
10 minutes till touch down. 4000mph
According to NASA it is 100,000 miles!!!! above the coast of Florida
maybe they know where they told the computer to tell the shuttle where to touchdown on the runway...
We hav video of the shuttle. It is blurry like Christine
It's on the WRC page
How reliable is the WRC.com?
Fingers crossed it doesnt start buffering then
It should be good but I rarely check it
5 minutes to touchdown
Helllloo!
Shuttle is slightly low. Not a lot he can do about that now
That looked like a very nice landing. Everything on the mission from start to finish was just about perfect
Hi Jon
Have updated the testing wiki page: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Jerez+2009+-+Young+Driver+Test
AUTOSPORT said di Resta and Hildebrand would do half a day each on the first day then would have a ful day each.
Surprised Hartley is only getting one day and Ricciardo is getting all three.
this page has it split three days, who should we go with?
http://www.circuitodejerez.com/es/docsentrenaf11209.cfm
From what I have read Germans are generally not too crazy about Kimi - the surprise is that he is the number 2 driver as Nico is the team leader!
see James headline at http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2009/11/rosberg-ready-to-become-a-leader-at-mercedes/
Go with the circuit for now to stay consistent.
I am not!
why?
Hartley is the one more likely to become a driver sooner
Nothing to do with his driving and everything to do with his marketability - look at what the team stands for and its market!
I am not so sure about that.
Three full consecutive days is a lot for someone who has never driven an F1 car though.
You are talking common sense so obviously F1 is going to do the opposite!
2012 silly season already.
According to Hans Stuck VW may supply engines for the new formula in 2012. It would be nice to have a real character like him around again.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80348
pfft, "world engine"
World engine is one of the more stupid ideas Max dreamt up and that is saying something.
What is interesting is he made similar remarks about IndyCar in 2011/2012 about a week or so ago.
Hey.
Afternoon
favourite typo ever. just fixing the sidepodcast polls and have a variable called:
$poll_Id;
unfortunately it was causing php to crash repeatedly, further investigation revealed it to be named:
$poll_Ide;
lo chap.
Lukeh is that from you? ;)
Hehehehehe :)
Nope, sadly. Although I did submit a Muse one that got rejected for copyright. Boo.
Loving it.
:-D
Whoever said you couldn't complete an assignment in day was wrong! :D
I am glad to have it done. hard work.
DAILY!
Can you explain these threads in the doohickey to me just one more time. ;(
hehe!
Thompson?
PING: http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/27/predictions-revisited/
good lord, slow down!
rob's about to be live on bbc tees.
Um... sorry. I haz more to come.
Are you on commission today?
20 originally researched f1 stories?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_tees/
Yay Rob and Lucy :)
♥
Their kid is called Franck?
The man works for Ferrari and travels the world and for his family holiday, he chooses Center Parcs?
I know!!
Didn't even consider Butlins
:)
It's Rob's birthday tomorrow? Awesome :)
Felipe's feet stink. #GMM
:D
I always think it would be impossible for Rob to be any nicer, and I am always proved wrong.
He wasn't very nice about Felipe's feet
Only because he was being nice to the air freshener people though.
I hear they're smelly
Being nice is more complicated than I thought
RG, if you are still around, were you there when I mentioned the days and deadlines for the daily post submissions? You are first, so just want to check: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Daily+Post+Guest+Writers
This is why we do not do it.
:D
rob on radio tees:
Still 'ere.
Yeah, saw it in the comments I think. Am going to start it in a bit.
Wonderful :)
TSN in Canada is reporting that the Canadaian Grad Prix is offically back on in 2010. They say the announcement will come this afternoon.
http://www.tsn.ca/auto_racing/story/?id=300061
ace. thanks you.
I apologize for the terrible spelling, I was just too excited!
I'm sure graduates worldwide are in excitement about this Grad Prix :P
Excellent news though.
Don't worry about the spelling. I am just glad to hear the news.
I doubt Kimi will be anywhere near the top5 but it's nice to hear Petter thinks so: http://www.wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=101&id=6562
I won't post any more rally things after the announcement for whom he will be driving next season. I promise.
why not?
Because I'm starting to annoy myself already. It's a Kathi thing.
#blameKathi
:)
#Sidepodscience (I think this might be my first ever one)
Scientists have found the biggest star they have ever seen. It's so big that if you put it where our sun is then it would extend out past Saturn!!!
You'd think they wouldn't have lost it given how big it is (kertish!)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8382348.stm
I am enjoying the rally stuff
Now I'm certainly no Sir Patrick Moore, but that is quite a big star
That is a monster. That must have so much gravitational pull I am surprised it is not pulling the universe into it.
still not as Bono..... thinks he is
After 10 seconds of detailed research Saturn is almost a billion miles from the sun. Imagine a sphere that size and how much stuff is in there.
Patrick Moore is playing xylophone using it as one of the batons.
Do you think you could fit EJ's ego in there?
It's about to go Supanova so Katherine is not going to bother doing the washing up she says.
It's not that big
No way... that's still the largest thing in the universe!
It is 4500 light years away so it is going to take a while before we notice aby effects of it
Oh no... If it collapses into a black hole it could stretch space time for sure. I'm not falling for that one again!
Katherine is rapidly running out of excuses on an intergalactic level... But hearing about the 4,500 years ago thing said "hold on, they were making their bowls out of wood back then, so they could just burn them and not wash up".
I pointed out that we have a dishwasher so it isn't really a problem for bowls only pans (which don't go in).
She suggested wooden pans... but sensed folly and then suggested cold food in future.
If it is just about to go supernova from our view then it already happened 4000 years ago. Space time survived
or eating out.
Yeah... she said it was going to stretch space time... I wrote it in the comments and then explained it to her!
If they had invented dishwashers then we would not have de-forestation and global warming
I have just been informed that we are having Chinese takeaway. No pans.
Good point
You better check that the Chinese have wooden pans.
If there is a serious threat to space time then you are better eating out. If you order in you have to pay up front whereas if you eat out the universe may be ripped to shreds before you finish and you won't have to pay.
:) :)
Eeeeeeeeeverning all
This is good/geeky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDe4v318f64
Woah!!!
Apparently Toyota's future may not be so rosy?
Stefan Grand Prix, the Serbian team that is seeking a move into Formula 1, says it is still looking at opportunities to make it onto the grid next year - despite dismissing talk that it is about to buy Toyota's F1 entry.
stefan GP?
I've never heard of this...
I like, I like.
Less Stefan, More Sauber!
I'll use that as a slogan....
Yay!
PING: http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/27/who-are-they-anyway-toro-rosso-young-drivers/
#sorrymrc
sodding hell.
What's the story here?
Christine is bloggin' like craaaazy today!
she's never having a day off again. am behind with my commenting.
I think Christine missed the memo concerning "days off" ;)
could be worse...it could be MCM
It's just dawned on me that it's a young driver test...so i probably should be covering it ! ;)
please do. you know far more than us.
Attention Christine!
Guest post ahoy!
[There are some links in it, which will need to be en-linkified]
Hello all, just wanted to pop in before going out & being forced to drink alcohol by my friends. I have a new phone, an HTC Hero, which is currently charging. I'm looking for recommendations of Android Apps to download to it. Does anyone know if they do an F1 app?
I think en-linkified should be added to the dictionary ;)
I too am being co-opted into alcoholification, so must bid you all adieu for the evening...
byeeee
Christine's recent blog about I Love Traffic has gotten me to start to write up a blog entry about what I'm enjoying playing/using on my iPod Touch snce buying it...
*scurries onto Live Writer*
PING: http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/27/qadbak-how-the-deal-went-wrong/
Thanks Stuart.
#evenmoresorrymrc
strewth. nine post have gone up in the past 24hrs.
Yay for blogging!
check this shocker out:
"villeneuve likes fillet steak"
it's all true: http://bit.ly/6sNv9O
There was an f1 legend AND villeneuve in norfolk?! Wow
Does he not know that he should only eat pasta and fish?
Now there's a question...
Would you rather have JV or a fillet steak driving your car?....
I believe that both are probably more suited for NASCAR...
By the way have Lotus actually done a press release recently?...
Here's my app related blog entry that might as well have just been a 'games are awesome on the iPod' post...
http://tinyurl.com/ycszvdl
What we really need is a Zoo Tycoon app.
That would be awesome.
You do realise you've now made me want to do a 'Things I'd like to see as an app' post for the future right?
Glad to be of service :)
Good evening, all...
I would put JV in a Lotus if I was running the team
yep today, re: jaques visiting the factory.
I'd like F1 09...but it would be pretty unpractical
Evening
hey lewis.
Helloooo
Hey! Today was better than yesterday...
Tis a friday. Friday's always seem to go good :P
:)
evening :)
Evening :) how is lou this evening?
Heya :)
Well if JV gets a drive Bernie will be happy having 4 WDCs on the grid....
But unfortunately...
Not the one that matters to me.....
very good thanks :) just having a moment to sit and relax with a cup of tea. am thinking i may do some textiles research and take it easy this evening, so i'm not too stressed out tomorrow :) hehe
I would rather have the steak when its cooked you can at least eat it!
JV simply did not do well enough so BMW Sauber dropped him 2/3 way through the 2006 season (he only got 9 points in 2005 season). Even though he was in his second year of contract he only scored 7 points in the first 12 races - Nick his team mate had in the same period scored 13 points and finished the season with 23 points and that was his first year with the team after leaving Williams.
how is everyone else? that interview with rob was lovely :)
Not too bad. Has been a nice friday :)
Christine has been blogging like crazy today! Has made for good reading though.
Been ill but have felt better this afternoon. Especially with the Sauber news :)
:)
aw get better soon :) yes i saw that and thought you'd be happy :)
hey lou.
James Allen's blog was quite positive - viz the FIA will most likely decide between Sauber and the Serbian Toyota.
hi mr c, had a nice friday?
in response to this comment by Lady Snowcat.
I tried listing all rookies since 1997, driver that scored a podium are in bold
1997 Nakano, Trulli, Wurz, R Schumacher
1998
1999 Gene, de la Rosa
2000 Burti, Mazzacane, Heidfeld, Zonta, Button
2001 Yoong, Enge, Alonso, Bernoldi, Montoya, Kimi
2002 Davidson, McNish, Webber, Sato, Massa
2003 Baumgartner, Kiesa, Pizzonia, Wilson, Firman, da Matta
2004 Bruni, Pantano, Glock, Klien
2005 Doornbos, Liuzzi, Friesacher, Albers, Karthikeyan, Monteiro
2006 Montagny, Yamamoto, Ide, Speed, Rosberg, Kubica
2007 Winkelhock, Nakajima, Sutil, Vettel, Hamilton, Kovalainen
2008 Bourdais Piquet
2009 Tim, Grosjean, Kobayashi, Buemi
2003 and 2005 were rubbish years.
really good. x2 fine days :)
oooo yay :) *hopes for x3 fine days ;)*
Evening all. I have a sidepoddecision for you all to help me make.
Gimme a minute
I have a ticket for this show., http://runningshow.co.uk/
It was free so I wouldn't loose anything if i didn't go. It's in London so i can do other stuff there too.
So....
What to do?
#DrWho
Someone on Twitter has found this:
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/0/00E0531B96AEE2D68025767B0036418D?OpenDocument
Which basically says that the Christmas idents for the BBC will be Dr Who related!! Woohoo! :)
REINDEER SNIFFING BY TARDIS)
Brilliant!
:D
Project 3!!!! WOOOO :D
Breakout coming.
Thanks Kathi for comment #515
Looks like the class of 2001 has only been matched in that period by the class of 2007...
But in each of those years there were also some real no hopers....
Very interesting...
I have just learnt about Micro Pigs
http://www.luxurylaunches.com/entry_images/1009/08/Micro_Pigs3-thumb-450x298.jpg
They're so smaaaaaaaall!!!!
Micro?
PING: http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/27/canadian-gp-officially-confirmed/
#blamacanadamrc
"They're so smaaaaaaaall!!!!"
Unless it's a monster cat....
Nooo, you'll get me singing the South Park song...
hehehe f1 question on question of sport was funny - name the last 10 different world champions. they got confused between Mika and Kimi :) hehe
I switched on, just as they were finishing. I'll catch it on iplayer later.
Evening all!
Ooh.. fun game. Do they have to do them in order? I have got six. Mr C guessing now.
they didn't have to do them in order, they came up with Kimi pretty near to the end.
Hmm I think I can get them all. I'm not sure if its right though :)
I did it backwards....
And then forwards otherwise it's easy to start in the wrong place... or with the wrong guy...
I think I got all ten, though I'm sure I missed someone obvious out.
Interesting how the start and finish have a strange symmetry...
Sort of...
i have all ten... but then again i saw the answers. when guessing i got 8 though :)
same here. got mansell and prost the wrong way around.
what did everyone else get?
ME....
You are bad...
You spoiled it for folks who are still guessing....
I did end up missing out someone. Gah.
Also, you did 7-2 and came up with 4. Quite amusing.
I haven't checked yet. can we post or we letting more people play? :)
:P I have all 10 too (now)
Good evenig!
Just listening to Rob on radio tees..
I see there is some non news about canada too which should fill a few pages...
But i have just been watching cnn report tiger woods being injured, it isnt so far from cnn
#gmm even
Aghhh...
Anyone seen this yet...
http://wrc.com/index.jsp
Red Bull to fund Kimi? who has top 5 potential says Solberg....
Interesting it's on the WRC site....
they want/need him.
"they want/need him."
True...
And if it gets him into the Red Bull in 2011 as well that would be great....
However if he's as good as I think he'll be he may never come back....
Mrs Smedley sounds SO nice
Jon <3 Lucy Smedley?
She talks over him a bit!
i think he'll be happier there.
Jon <3 Mr and Mrs Smedley :)
aww :)
I saw mr c tweeted the word "Yay!" in refference to robs appearence earlier...
...he will be waving at drivers next :P
OI!!
ehehe it was a priceless moment :D
:lol:
I have an itunes related question... does the country you are in effect what you can buy?
yup.
Hopefully, I've sent off the daily.
Received. It's perfect, thanks RG :)
Boo...
Can i find out whats on offer before i download the whole software bundle?
I cant seem to find listings on the apple website
Woo :)
erm, no idea.
i thought you hated the very idea of itunes on windows?
I did.. but i am working on the principle that nothing can be worse than linux
And this is windows 7 which doesnt seem to have much scope to let much go wrong so far
in that case give it a try. it's free.
It looks like itunes doesnt even sell music here
So it looks like its time to don the eyepatch and get the parrot ;)
:D
boo
Arr
hmmm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRT70ceAMQ4
:D
Is anyone going to go and see Jimmy Allen tomorrow?
Anyone see that ending of spooks coming?
#ghostbusters ?
yes!!! there had to be something wrong with that woman.. otherwise there wouldn't have been a relationship between them.. these writers are clever people at setting up story lines :D
No, not the proper end, the her with the man = falling end bit
Ah joy. Friday nights. Whistles galore.
How i loathe thee
I may have been a little lax on my weather updates...
So to keep you posted:
Yesterday:Sunny
Today:Sunny
Tonight: Some Fog
I need to pop to get some bread, but i'm going to go to London tomorrow for a trade show, but know it won't take up much of my day.
What shall I go and do? (emphasis on cheap)
Back in a tic
Erm... Buy the bread and make toast?
i'm off to london tomorrow too! :) going to an interesting trade show?
Really really really not. But i fancy getting out, and the tickets were free...
http://runningshow.co.uk
Looks exciting dosent it ;)
I was actually going to make sandwiches!
Reet, head hurting so am guessing its a sign to go. Might be back later. bye. lotsa love.
aaahhh niiccceee :) have as much fun as you can :P
Ah sandwiches for london?
I would say just go to Greggs but I can. not. find. one. in. London!!!
That was odd. Randomly flicking through Nick Mason's book and the first word I see when I stopped on a random page was Michael Schumacher..
that's because we don't have them in the south! :) if you want food you go to nero's just cause they are awesome :D
umm.. there is one in staines...
In fact there are two and they are opposite one another.
Putting Lukeh in the middle of the road could be interesting :D
Some of them are called baker's oven
But they have the same food and greggs logos. They are usualy a bit bigger than greggs with seats ;)
Aww see I really like Nero's now and when I went in there today was was really lovely...
But... Greggs is just Greggs
For a company based in Newcastle, I'm disappointed there is only 15.
Well at the Sidepodmeetup I forgot what the green and red man means on traffic lights and the last time I was in London I nearly got run over so it could easily happen!
ya
byeee
exactly! but it's free, so who can say no ;)
Its fully pedestrianised, but being in between 2 greggs could lead to an impossible decision ;)
....up here. I should really finish stuff.
#nothere
I would go to the one that smell loveliest when you walk past
never heard of baker's oven either..
mwahaha :P
nahhh.. i've lived without them so far :P
as long as one of us is watching the road we'll live ;)
The great explorer fernando has made a new discovery!!!
http://www.ferrari.com/English/News/Pages/091126_F1_Alonso.aspx
Is it me or are starburst packets getting smaller?
I feel ripped off. I would like my 37p back please
Everything's smaller these days.
and Freddo's arent 10p anymore.
dont get me started on that :(
Someone bought me coffee there... ;)
It was pretty good, although they lost points for not putting the sleaves on the coffee cups, so i might not be going back...
#corporategrudgeholder
:D
Roads definitely have a thing against me!
What about space invaders?
they are 20p.. aren't they?
hmmm... course.. ;) i needed you when i went up to london for the psychology course the other day.. i nearly got myself killed by a cab! no one saved me! :P thank god i noticed just in time...
my local nero's puts sleeves on the coffee cups :)
Back in the day they were 10p... the correct price :(
Woop, I updated my twitter on Google Wave!
They gave us them on top of the cups...
Alison made excuses for them, but the damage was done :P
Ooh, go you!
What? How? Someone did something with google wave?!
:P
I know!! It does something!
Explanantion: http://twitter.com/lukehmuse/status/6124095525
I'm amazed and impressed. Mine just sits there filling up a browser tab
so you don't like them because they gave the sleeves to you but didn't put them on for you??
Alison is right Nero's are awesome.. plus it doesn't take much to put it on yourself ;)
The amount of cream they put on my hot chocolate. oh my god. The amount of cream.
...
oh my god.
Well booo. Where is Di Resta to go now, if not to FIF1?
That's an awesome thing btw. It provided much om nom nom. I almost forgot I had a hot chocolate underneath.
It doesnt, but they were not at all busy, and it was more that it was my first experience with them.
If i had used them before and like the shop it wouldnt bother me in the slightest, however as a new user i am far less tolerant, if that makes sense :)
Im not saying i wouldnt go there, but if i had a choice between say nero and starbucks i would go to starbucks ;)
Mercedees have a seat...
Noo, I prefer Nero's now. The starbucks hot choccys are so... dry in comparison.
Plus they provide less yummy cream. Ahem.
Really? They have special dome lids so they can put stupid amounts of cream on the take out coffee!
I like that rumor, and shall run with it.
@Nick
Just came across this story in my Google Reader,
Burj Dubai being hit by lightning. Great photo!
Have you seen it happen?
http://gizmodo.com/5413109/the-burj-dubai-just-cant-stop-getting-struck-by-lightning
:O!! Nero's is much nicer! This is like the apple store thing again... lol
Maybe they are creating mad scientist devices at the top
yay! :) good man ;)
What can I say, they offer me the cream I've always wanted on my hot chocolate :P
It is... :D
I hate bad customer service, I strive to avoid it at all costs.
The only chain that has been hit hard by this policy is waggamama's which i am boycotting for life after one brief visit
but that isn't bad customer service...
oh.. dear..
I have seen photos before, but i havent been around for a propper stom yet so no...
I also live and work in a different part of town so i would probably mis it... there are also awesome shots of it emerging above clouds.
There is fog tonight so expect some good shots of it tomorrow
Hello again...are you still looking for jingle bell covers?
Disneyland is top of my list of bad customer service, as well as bad customers. Rudepeopleland it should be called
Bad times. :(
Speaking of Pandas, they were inthe Aussi news yesterday, and apparently are migrating to Australia. Nicer weather perhaps.
We're taking alternative lyrics, yup: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/2009+Sidepodchristmas+Carol
Not especialy, but it is both sloppy and not good customer service.
I went for lunch at chillis today which is an american chain i go to ocassionaly,
The service was bad as we couldnt get a server for ages to get more drinks...
It wouldnt put me off going back there as i have had good service before, but they got a very small tip
Not fair you get panda before me :(
i can send ya back with amy?
I'll share it here, because I can't edit on my iPod. It isn't very good though!
Oooo. Sadly they are stuck in the airport terminal. I wonder how they kill time?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/26/2754533.htm
I think they are quite used to sitting around and doing nothing, to be fair :)
I may secretly be a grumpy old man :P
I guess that's what they are good at :D
it's no secret.
;)
Mr C's a genius
But no one knows his name
But that doesn't really matter
cos it earnt him podcast fame
But then I like pandas
Pandas all named Franck
Giant, spotty, black and white
They need a royal rank
Sidepodbells, Sidepodbells
Sidepodcast all the way
Amy wants Finns, Fisi wants wins
but no one wants Thursday
hey
Sidepodbells, Sidepodbells
Sidepodcast all the way,
Ringo Starr, Pandas and Franck Montagny
Wish you a happy Christmas Day!
Hehe... if people look like they are making an effort i have no issiue... but if they are lazy/rubish/rude then i will take advantage of any alternatives
heheheeh!!
loveit!!
Niiiiiiiiiice Lewis :D
Hehe, awesome effort with the song :D
Lewis = Awesome
Have added to the wiki :)
hehe thanks
good night all!
My phone is randomly sending texts to loads of different numbers... tis costing me a fortune!
wha?
Bad service at Wagamammas? Really? How odd!
For some reason since i put my dubai sim in it, if i have 3 or 4 numbers and an email address saved to my contacts for a person and i sms them, it will send it to all the numbers, not just the phone i want to send it to :(
Since most people here have at least 2 mobiles it is quite expensive!
We were kicked out for absoloutly no reason.
I am never going there again
you said that about itunes.
As they are one of the few chain restaurants to not take a percentage of the waiters tips you generally get pretty good service there I've found.
Hello hello
itunes i wouldnt put on an xp or older machine but i am willing to try it in 7 if i had a reason to. (i dont have it now as it is useless here)
But wagamamas is a big no no.
Evening :)
you wan't me to trawl the archives?
Jezza's on Jonathan Ross' programme on BBC1 if anyone's interested.
Jonathon Ross is very good tonight :D
more importantly... Muse are there!!!
good for them but i am not going in, They were rude, stoopid and there are far better places to eat for the money
Mr C should like wagamamas simply because they have the whole menu in lowercase (it is the one that fourstar had that time in the summer)
I wanted that but ended up with a bit of chicken pie instead. I think if I still want the beef crispy noodles tomorrow I'll have to get them.
i do.
We didn't have a Chinese in the end. I made dinner (and I used a non-wooden saucepan - don't tell Katherine)
I hadnt used 7 then, i dont thing things can cause any where near as many problems, i have had this pc for over a week and not pressed ctrl alt del once!
evening all
Rude is bad. And I understand deciding to never go back if you're treated badly. Am just really surprised.
agreed.
by you've not not been back to wagamamas since. so how could you know if it were different?
hey
If they opened up a spin off chain, i might go there, but not to one of there original restaurants.
I am sure they are not all like that, i am sure it is a good place to gofor some people.
I would hapily go back to neros, it was only a little thing, and completly silly. But waggamamas is personal, im never giving them a penny
howdy new peoples.
Waves hello too...
But its nearly 3am and my bedtime, so night all...
I will either have dreams about hot chocolates with mountains of foam or nightmares about restaurants...
Night All!
So, I was in the pub and was told there's this game called Crysis. First-person shooter. Somebody has made a mod for the Back to the Future DeLorean and put it on to YouTube.... so now I'm home I just found it :-D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZAaKH0FYO8
CLARKSON'S HAIR! :D
...wow...
But it's not a Back To The Future 2 Mod. That was the best one, wasn't it?
Scary thing is, the full clip of that is on YouTube somewhere. Let me find it.
NINE threads??
Sudden urge to watch The Matrix...
yep.
is it going to cause a conversation like the star wars one if i mention i haven't see any of the matrix films? cause if it will i wont mention it :)
Hahahaha, Clarkson's face when all those guys dressed up as Thanksgiving symbols was brilliant. Basically he was shaking his head, his face saying "WTF!"
lotsa news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDe4v318f64
sorted
If you say you haven't seen the 2nd and 3rd film, then that's TOTALLY fine. ;)
Can't remember which pill shows you how deep the rabbit hole goes. It is 50/50 though,
#sorrypat
If you get the chance just watch the first one and forget the other 2 existed.
:D
Now, if I was Alex what would I do?
Oh yes!
http://smarterthanyouraverage.com/2009/07/04/film-watch-09-the-matrix/
The other two were good, just not great like the first! Still worth watching once.
I don't mind :-) makes the convos easier to find.
This is how I see it
The Matrix
followed by
The Wachozskiz Brothers Rubbish Funland Experience 1 and 2.
my dad just rang me, not overly odd, except for the fact he is upstairs...
That's nothing. My mum used to msn my sister upstairs when supper was ready!
#MFC
:D
i get rung from upstairs on a weekend to get a cup of tea on.
The old guy in the white suit turns up, and I have no idea what he is on about. *brain disengages*
I'm glad I came in when I did, it has started raining
I honestly think they turned up to a meeting and said
"Well we made one of the best films in years, in how many ways possible can we run it?
Well it'll take 2 movies to ruin it but we can do it. I know we can bro."
*ruin
Good work Kathi. I have highlighted in italic the drivers I think were 'hard done by' and deserve(d) a fairer chance in F1. Perhaps some of them weren't suited to F1 cars though and I am tempted to include Wilson.
hahah :) it's odd cause he rang the home phone to ask if i was making a cup of tea... and then rang me back to ask what i was doing tomorrow... and then i rang him to ask what type of tea he wanted... shouting is over rated...
Actually, in what way was '05 rubbish? Doornbos is good, Liuzzi is good, Friesacher was good until he broke his leg and took a year off, Albers should be good.
there's occasional stomping on the floor 3 times to summon me, which is really amusing
Kathi - you missed one rookie - Esteban Tuero in 1998 ;)
Ooh, and Toranasuke Takagi in 1998 as well.
Awww Takagi. Hehehe.
He was like te 90's Sato.
ahh, Tiger Takagi! He went to IRL before I watched IRL
Blast From The Past! What about Taki Inoue in 1994ish? Hit by a safety vehicle at Suzuka, don't remember if he got the message or not.
I remember he came highly rated... and turned out to be a bit rubbish
the 98 statistics on forix only showed the driver that scored points and I was too lazy to look elsewhere. There are probably a lot more mistakes in my list. :)
Correction - yes he did drive in 1994, but it was in 1995 when he was hit by the safety vehicle, and it was Hungaroring. His car was also hit by a course car at Monaco, I remember.
how?
All I remember is him being upside down
I wasn't sure about the year, just remember the hit.
Lemme YT it. One sec.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pa3GrLfprM
This is Hungary. Slapstick at its best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pa3GrLfprM
OMG!
i assumed you meant he was in the car.
Wow, can't believe I thought it was Suzuka. That was the hit. I think Ma... they were trying to tell him something
I was trying to find the Monaco incident. That's Hungary, obviously :P
Nick did that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC4pb8cGJk8
Do you guys not think the guy from Roary the Racing Car looks like James Allen?
http://e2ma.net/userdata/6730/images/large/scaled_e1199797125.jpg
yeah, lucky boy.
nah. big chris is much thiner.
What do you mean "looks like"? It is James Allen! ;)
MUUUUUUUUUUUSE! :D
Oh yeah.
...is that a keytar?
There's one in Yeovil and that's in the South..
Oh yes.
I thought Matt was joking when he said he'd use one live.
well i'm yet to see one.. there wasn't even one in cambridge.. i did check..
Never heard of Nero's unless you mean Cafe Nero?
That is the best looking keytar I've ever seen! Most are rubbish cheap looking silver plastic things.
To be fair he got it custom made by the guy in Devon that makes his guitars. I REALLY want to visit his shop :(
Uprising! :D
You mean that Yamaha toy thing I used to want as a child?
probably!
The only chain I am boycotting for live is Victoria Wine, because I used to work for one and discovered the behind-the-scenes culture. I am secretly pleased they are in administration.
#evil
:-)
Why did they do something to the Wine?
Best. Ending. Ever. To a Wossy show :)
Where was Clarkson going? :D
home.
that was amazing :)
No, the manageress was an evil cow and the edicts and targets from head office were a bit too oily for my tastes.
ooh, thunder
For all you sarah jane adventures fans....(all one of you...yes...me...)
You'll find this amusing....
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/wmcap-8-mpg
the rest of you...probably wont
I personally think Vettel should get overtaking tips from Muse after that race ;)
reminds me of Works christmas parties of past
really?
thats worrying
Right....i need 10 tube stations.
Gogogogo
i have decided before this years party to go to bed early.
once i'm there, i will probably change my mind.
Mornington Crescent
Picadilly Circus
do you want me to continue?
yup, anyone else can jump in too
London paddington!
Green Park
Westminster
London Bridge
2 more. and i'll get some more off twitter :D
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/28/daily-28th-november-2009/
waterloo, charing cross...
thank you!
Goodge Street. I just like saying it.
Leicester Square
All sorted :D thank you aall
St James' Park
(can't stop)
Tomorrow task....
Mornington Cresent
Picadilly Circus
Paddington
Green Park
Westminster
London Bridge
Waterloo
Charing Cross
Goodge Street
Bond Street
In that order
try ;)
awesome!
oh and a picture of each station
clearly i am aware that "the running show" is going to be dead boring
you are going to visit each one? oh i would have said regent street... then you could go via the apple store..
nooo. apple store + me = bad
aww i love it sooo much :D
worked. sorry :(
me too. hense avoiding it :D
Then go to the Pole Position / Alex Reade shop in Regent Street.
i never saw that.... *thinks it may be the best chance to buy a brawn hoodie* hmmmmm
oooh, ive had an even better idea.
i have to go to those in that order, and cant pass through any of them until i get to them. if that makes sense
Just go on Circle Line, then go to the others mentioned after. I only mentioned ones I've been to, except Mornington Crescent, which was a "game" on "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" on Radio 4
other side of the road to the Ferrari shop and is quite discreet. look for the Steve McQueen 'Le Mans' style jackets in the window
yup. best radio show, well, just a minute was better, but its close.
nah, i have to do it in that order
btw this is where I bought my BrawnGP cap the day after sidepodscience, they were selling out as soon as they came in so I thought I'd better get one!
I haven't been to London since I had to take a machine into the office block behind Liberty's on Regent Street. If someone could pop in and break it just so I could visit these shops would be much appreciated
Eurgh!! Remind me to disown you....
:)