Good morning, Sidepodcasters!
Are you enjoying this long weekend? The Royal Wedding was celebrated yesterday, and yes! Finally William and Kate got married in Westminster Abbey, but, talking in terms of money, was the wedding good for the British economy?
If you live in Britain you are heading into the second day of this particular weekend. If not, don't worry. The world is very big and full of unlucky people, who had to go to work/study yesterday... Yes, I didn't stay resting at home, instead of this I got up at 06:30am and went to my High School. How lovely my routine is!
Would you like to take a look at the images of the Royal Wedding? Here is a gallery, made by the BBC, and here is another, made by the Spanish newspaper 'La Vanguardia'.
Let's talk about Formula 1. Jarno Trulli thinks drivers would spend too much time focused on pressing the right buttons if the FIA allowed them to use the DRS system in Monaco. Talking to Autosport, he said:
It is not a benefit and won't help you at all for overtaking, so I don't think there is any point to run it.
Jarno Trulli
Adam Parr is confident about Williams. He thinks the season has just started, and Williams can still bounce back.
We come here to win, but we've finished eighth, seventh and sixth in the last three years and I wanted to take another step. So fifth, minimum would be good. We are only three races in, this is a long season and it's not game over yet.
Adam Parr
Rubens Barrichello has been interviewed by F1's website journalists, who asked the Brazilian driver about his thoughts about the sport, in a fantasy way. He'd like F1 to race at Argentina and Rio, his fantasy teammate would be Ayrton Senna and, if he was a team boss, his perfect line up would be Lewis Hamilton and Robert Kubica. Do you want a read more?.
Yesterday Nicolas Hamilton, Lewis Hamilton's brother, survived a big crash in a testing session. He is OK, but he might not be able to race this weekend.
This weekend F3 Euroseries' drivers are competing at the Hockenheim circuit. The Spaniards drivers Roberto Merhi and Daniel Juncadella set the two fastest times of the first Qualifying (the one that decides driver's positions on the grid for the first race), while the German Marco Whittmann got the pole on the second Qualifying (relevant for the third race of the weekend). You can visit F3 Euroseries official website for more info.
So those are some of the highlights of the four-wheeled motorsports, but there's a MotoGP Grand Prix this weekend too!
Have a great day!
In a Robin Williams voice "Gooooooood Morning Sidepodcastland !"
Another new daily writer, yay Marti!!
This week's dailys is like the U18s being drafted into the first team to replace an injury hit squad and then beating the opposition 4-0.
Good stuff Marti
Great Daily, Marti! I like the fresh perspectives.
I'm hopeful for Williams, I really am.. but that's true of every year. Parr is right though, people keep writing them off but they keep improving their WCC position. 5th might be too optimistic though, 6th is more likely but I hope they go for it.
Trulli seems to be saying an awful lot lately about DRS..
What a fascinating fun rubens interview that is.
Great post Marti.
I didn't pay any attention to the wedding today but looking at the BBC pics I see the Queen and archbishop both wore the same colour. You would think they could have discussed it.
Adam Parr has to talk a good game. His neck is as much on the line as Sam Michael's.
Okay, so I don't want to take the shine off the wonderful Daily it just came down to coincidental timing, so read that first.
But I have something I've been working on for much of the day.
I think that sounds about right, also I don't really understand the doubts about their future. Maybe it's just me being naive but I don't think Williams will be going out of f1 any time soon either
:D
I worry for the whole team and the name itself :(
In the word's of a much wiser lady, ahhh go on.
*looks on with great interest*
They need to get their act together and get some results
You serving tea now?
Frank's old, that's why
They ditched a promising driver for a sponsored one who has failed to shine so far [abeit in a terrible car]
They need to recreate the magic and bring in a lot of fresh blood, in my eyes
ohh love the daily! Thank you Martí!
Yes. I am drinking more tea these days.
Yay for green beer :D
New links:
Pt.1: http://toomuchracing.com/2011/04/30/2010-belgian-gp-saturday-pt-1/
Pt.2: http://toomuchracing.com/2011/04/30/2010-belgian-gp-saturday-pt-2/
Apologies
yaaayyyy for Spa!! :)
Still thinking about this year's race, I realise folks would rather a different venue though
Wotsits have gotten slimmer. This is not good news :(
Ohh, the comments are alive then! :)
Should be all okay now.
Sorry, we were busy talking about music :)
I was just sitting here for 10 minutes waiting for pats announcement in doohickey silence :)
i would absolutely love to go to a GP this year but i realistically don't think i have the money. Am hoping i can make it to goodwood otherwise maybe no F1 cars for me this year *sobs*..next year though.. pick a place (not monaco or somewhere ridiculously expensive) and i'll give myself enough time to save.
Thanks :)
We discovered this in Boston, I think it coincided with the arrival of SU :)
Kai wants to go
To Goodwood, that is
I saw my first ad for it today, a massive LED billboard on the M4 with a Red Bull
to goodwood? i've seen her chatting about it. If i can find a place to stay (although i'm hoping i'll be a) driving and b) have a house in Farnham) i'll try get to Goodwood for at least 2 days. it's become my anual holiday and i'm not sure i could deal with not having my 4th year in a row there :)
How far is it from Farnham? Is it doable each day?
I'd love to go back as long as long as it is much cheaper than before. Mentally assigned some of that money elsewhere.
General admission + the motorhome divided by 5
I can afford tickets but it all comes down to accomadation
My stranger (for my documentary project) took me to Chichester for the day, took us just under an hour. It's not ideal cause after 3 days at the festival i was knackered last year, however if i'm going for 3 days again i can afford to have a lie in each day.. kinda.
So yes just to explain for people reading later because the original comment has been removed now, this is a continuation of the series of posts about the Sidepodtrip to the Belgian GP. :) The last instalment was in November so I figured it was time.
Yay! better late than never :)
Do it
I cannot as it's my niece's wedding and she would be minus one usher and a fantastic uncle if I did
Plus the breakdancing potential, of course
Sounds much better. I'm also thinking of 2 days at Goodwood so will have to see how it adds up.
I think Emma may be up for it, need 2 more :D
We've gotta see this breakdancing
Honestly, it's better in the comments than in real life but you never know
i will try my very best. i need to set aside money and things cause money is a bit complicated atm. but i think it's got to the stage where i'm not sure i can not go to goodwood.. even if it's just for one day (of course the day that JB goes) omg i miss the sound of an f1 car.
:lol:
A Ryanair advert that promoted tickets to a place in the sun has been banned as the destinations only had temperatures of between 0C and 14C
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13208353
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 30th April 2011
- Live: Space Shuttle Launch STS-134
- The beautiful south
- Live: The Royal Wedding 2011
- Daily: 29th April 2011
Panasonic brought this AR app just a little too late for the SPC tv purchase
The Panasonic Viera AR Setup Simulator is a brand new free app in the App Store that uses AR to put a virtual big screen television right in your living room, so you can see what it looks like in place before you actually buy and "install" it.
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/29/panasonic-app-uses-ar-to-place-your-new-big-screen-dreams/
You'd have thought someone would have worked out that it's tricky to sunbathe in Oslo in February/March...
The budget airlines push the advertising rules to the limit, I doubt a rap on the knuckles will stop them
Time for sleepies, night guys!
Night
Will the majority of sensible people thinking their organisations are composed of people with a deficiency of brain cells and therefore shunning them work?
Night Lukeh
ah pat thank you for those posts, you've brought a massive smile to my face as i remember how awesome it was. :)
Goodnight!
Night Lukeh
:)
Night mate.
It's the decision makers not the employees
It was good to revisit it. Will do Sunday soon then will close it out with links to everyone's pics.
Hamilton doing the voice for his Cars 2 character - http://yfrog.com/gya05plj
yay thank you! :)
The decision makers may make these decisions but they reflect badly on their entire companies and thus their decisions come back to bite them (in theory, at least).
Night Lukeh!
I noticed that this week hs been quite a week for the subs, at least two rookies and a vet, and there's still two days to go ?
Ooh, just noticed it's WRC Italy next week as well as the Turkish GP
Anyone know where in Italy, off hand
[Am thinking Siciliy but don't know why]
Sicily, that is :D
Corsica?
Or is that France.
Sardinia
Close
If the WRC Italy is in Siciliy would it not be "off boot", Bassano ?
Oh, no, my Dad and aunt are in Naples this week. Hope they do not get stuck in the Rally.....
THat's France
okay bed time for me too. i'm shattered. night all!! xx
Still Italy though
G'night Lou
ahh, i always get them confused.
night lou.
Night Lou.
Naples is lovely, I hope they get to go to Pompei, that's beautiful
Looks like the first 'proper' event for the new MINI as well.
night
Before rallies were given vanilla national names it was called the San Remo so I guess it is around San Remo wherever that is
It moved in 2004
The Island that gets me confused is Elba. Which country is that a part of ?
Gets pretty hot though.
I'm reading this :)
http://wrc.com/news/features/wrccom-preview-rally-ditalia-sardegna/?fid=14595
kinda dangerous, what with that killer volcano and all!
#imamericansomyhistoryknowledgeisntuptosnuff
Interesting, I've not kept up with my DVR series link but I'll try to catch this one
To Sardinia.
I blame Max. Got rid of all the classic rally names
Extreme North West, home of the [industry] music festival
Todt is a rally man, I remain hopeful he'll sort it all out in time
Pompeii Lovely ? are you kidding ? that place is in ruins for all time ..... :) !
Italina, off the coast of Tuscany [Pisa, Siena]
Absolutely
Every time any motorsport has dropped the traditional event names for national names they have never gone back
Is that poncy wedding thing over yet? Can I look at the news again?
The volcano isn't the primary danger, it's Neoplolitan drivers!
Depends what news you look at.
Are those the chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry flavored ones?
Hah :)
Expect it to be in the news until Monday
[I guess that's not a public holiday stateside, being a Pagan festival]
I remember our tour person saying on the first day just to cross the road cos they'll only stop if you walk in front of them.
Bassano 30/04/2011 at 01:04:33kinda dangerous, what with that killer volcano and all!
The volcano isn't the primary danger, it's Neoplolitan drivers!
I pity the Neoplolitan drivers. My dad's temper erruptions can rival any mere Volcano......
That sounds about right. Naples is the only place in the world where I've ever seen non-helpful flashing lights at major junctions at night.
I can only imagine it was a caution akin to "there is a junction here"
I think it is because it's also Labour Day (which is fixed to the same date because of of the Haymarket Riot of Chicago on May 1 1886).
We have a network wide change blackout until Sunday morning because of the wedding (which means we can only make emergency changes to the network, servers, etc., just to minimize the chance of us blowing things up).
I always wondered what Labor Day [note spelling ;)]
Something about wearing white but I thought it was in the Autumn
Our shops have a similar ethic this weekend on accepting dollars :D
our Labor day is in september. Monday isn't a holiday over here, what holiday is it over there? May day?
Which means I can soon whip out one of my favorite jonathan coulton songs, "First of May"
For some strange reason, I always believed that in Quebec City, "Arrete" means "Run over the English bugger trying to cross the road"....
Oops - I got the spelling from the Big Issue because it's an internationally-recognised protest day, but since the USA invented it, its spelling probably should prevail ;)
Yeah, there are still some of us who wish we hadn't fought the war.
I am NOT one of them! ;)
It's also in September
Maybe it IS Labour Day and is for a different purpose
I don't know why the September one's in September.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day
Thank you :)
Our shopkeepers are appreciating the custom over the nuptuals weekend
Ahh, it wasn't so bad*
[*may not be entirely accurate]
I think it ended up just fine, no complaints here!
This is a funky and cheeky iPhone case but $40?
http://community.hipstamatic.com/hipstamart/analog_products/15
Can we skip these dicussions about "May Day", me being a pilot and all...... It is not exactly a word that I want to hear once, llet alone the industry mandated three times.....
:lol:
Bassano 30/04/2011 at 01:17:41Can we skip these dicussions about "May Day", me being a pilot and all...... It is not exactly a word that I want to hear once, llet alone the industry mandated three times.....
:lol:
Do not hurt yourself laughing, Bassano, I do not want you declaring "Pan" 3 times over on my account....
If I ever have the need to declare a full emergeny on approach, I assure you, I will not be lost for words or fail to be understood on the severity of the situation :)
Bush up on the "No Radio" procedures, Bassano, cause Murphy's is a -itch!
Good news. I survived this hellish week at work. I wasn't devoured by teenagers nor by mean coworkers.
Greetings, one and all.
Brush up, I'm guessing
Murphy is indeed a real sod with his laws
Hello Kai
What is Zoo-ey? :D
Hi Kai,
Glad you survived
yo kai
Zoo-like, trying to manage animal-like behavior = exhausting. :)
I predict it will go something like this:
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
OK, I figured it was something similar but wondered if it was related to a zoo trip causing such behaviour :D
I can be quite efficient under emergency but things happen really quickly, my brain is often quicker than my body
Not specifically. The zoo was in the hallways, and in the classroom if I let it, which I didn't, of course.
Have never heard of the term before, is it local or just Kai-centric?
Greetings, one and all.
Maybe your students or coworkers are Maoris from New Zealand? I think "Kai" means food in Maori, but check with Amy to make sure.....
Teachers come up with lots of interesting terms, to be sure. I'm sure I've heard others use it, but it may be that I've twisted the term/word. I guess I tend to do that.
hehe
It would figure if I pulled a name out of the air that meant "food". :D
And I'm a big fan of the Maori, so I consider that an insult to their wonderful culture. (not really)
..... Then one nanosecond later, Bassano discovers that he has confused the red "low fuel" light with the red "intercomm on" light.......
It's pronounced More-Ree, apparently and you need to roll your 'R'
And NZ rocks [not just for Amy's benfit, it really does!]
I've always wanted to go, it just seems to fit me, from what I've read and seen.
I only do glass cockpits, we have cautions, maintenance and warning messages :D
Top 5 country visited, without a doubt. South Island especially
are you guys referring to the using the term "zoo" to describe school?
Yeah, we use that. We use that a lot. Good teachers keep the zoo in the hallway :)
Low fuel lights are amber, by the way ;)
You might be safer with a word like Koi. one letter difference. But even the Japanese do not eat Koi. They are just display (gold) fish......
I'm hearing that Princesses Beatrice and/or Eugenie have caused a rumpus over their wedding outfit choices. Polls on FB don't really cause much cause for concern but the tabloids seem to love 'em
Yeah, the kids were zoo-y, or zoo-ey, I guess. I've never written it before. They have a big 3 day trip starting Monday, and it got warm, and they are really feeling done with school when we have 2 MONTHs to go. ugh.
Or tattoos
;) Lots of practice, and a low, direct, 'teacher voice' do the trick. Sometimes just a look. (dun dun DUN...)
Go a step further and make it rhyming slang.
The kids were a bit Deschanel today.
That was how I read it initailly :)
yeah, I can't do that. I subscribe to the R. Lee Ermey style of *ahem* "teaching".
Which doesn't work very well. Thankfully, I'm not a teacher!
hehe
And when I typed it I was going to say (not Deschanel)!
Brilliant minds think alike, you guys. Well done. :)
Not always, Bassano, not always. But then, I would not be hauling passengers in those types of aircraft anyway.....
I am more concerned that you actually checked out that bit of information....
mmmm... zooey deschanel....
I like this muchly.
Fair point
To cojna phrase, "If it's not Boeing, I ain't going"
Pukka :D
Then again, as a guy who first started out as a glider jock, what 's the first thing I do when I pick up the pilot's manuel ?
"Best Glide Ratio"........
In honour of the previous day of celebratory love ceremonies, I think this anniversary by folder short vid is most apt
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/29/declaring-love-with-the-mac-os-x-finder/#continued
/Even helicopters can glide
[Little known fact]
ooh. How? I've never learned this.
if they're high enough.
If they're not, then they just crash :)
They don't glide. They auto-rotate.
Helicopter pilots have to land them with the engine off as part of their test
Point the nose down, the air will turn the rotors and help the descent
Ok, point taken
You can tell I'm not a props guy
The rotor is wing shaped so as the helicopter drops like a stone the airflow over the rotor cause it to turn creating lift and slowing the rate of descent
Though technically, it is correct
make an unpowered flight, either in a glider or in an aircraft with engine failure.
Saw a glider in the sky, seems like a terrifying way to get about.
Okay, that makes sense about the helicopter blades and stuff. I still don't think I'd like a ride in one.
thank you. Freeing, quiet, then terrifying.
It's one of the most exhilerating experiences of my life
Cannot recommend it highly enough
No, terror. Just peace, freedom and a massive buzz
Just not well. I would call that "Stall Recovery procedure" more than gliding...
Big deal....Everything can glide when launched from a catapult, evn an F-14....! (So says the USAF pilots. to the USN pilots....).
I dunno. I'm not a great flyer anyway, but being at the behest of the evil wind seems like a step too far.
I would be terrified.
Getting a pilots license is on my "list". My brother-in-law has one, and growing up one of my friends' dad's was a pilot for United who also owned a biplane, so we flew in that a lot.
Forward C of G helps, I imagine
Nah, it's so serene
I have a mate who flies them and he has been nagging me for years to go up. I like engines. No way am I going to just hang about in the sky for hours.
He and a bunch of his flying mates went gliding in Spain. One of them hit a stork and ripped off one of his wings.
Kai, Christine: what about ballooning?
That seems horrible
I feel like ballooning would be one step above gliding because you have fire to play with but all are quite low down on the list of methods for travel.
That's true, But then there's me piloting in the front side, either screaming tht we are out of fuel... (Which is absolutly correct, gliders not having a fuel tank to begin with) or putting both my hands behind my head, while the glider is in level flight...
I've never tried it but gliding, skydiving and flying is fun
Balloning isn't really about travelling, nor I would say, is gliding :D
Heights would still be the problem. I bet it's wonderful, though.
hehe
Your one liners just totally crack me up, Steven. :lol:
Once up, you don't have a sense of scale. For ascent and descent, I suggest you sit below basket height and listen to your iPod
I don't know what it is for me. I've flown a few times and I've been in a helicopter and all have been perfectly fine. But I have nightmares of planes just dropping out of the sky and when I see them flying above me it freaks me out.
I have no explanation for it.
Yes, but then I could feel ill. I guess I'd have to look out over the horizon and do. NOT. look. down.
Imagine standing on a wicker basket with a 5000 foot drop. Horrible
Hot air balloons go directly over my place in the summer. I've waved and shouted hello to them, and they hear me, that's how close they are. It does seem very peaceful.
They do give you champagne though. I bet that helps.
Hey Bassano, why not tell Chrisitine about what happens to your stomach in that split second after the tow plane detaches the cable and the buffetting stops....
Nwxt Sidepod meeting, you and I should chat.
I'm very good at allaying flying fears, ask Kai
Everyone has these kind of fears about something or other. As long as it has an engine and I am inside I am happy
bleck. I don't think you need to explain anything further.
Rollercoaster effect, loss of vertical acceeration. Nothing to see here
Having control of something seems better than leaving it to air flows :)
They would need to give me valium
Oh yes, redundancies. I like those. Layers of safety..excellent. Very thoughtful, really.
Simple physics, understanding is everything
Skydiving I can never figure out. Who wants to jump out of a perfectly airworthy airplane anyway ?
That is not just the pilot in me speaking either....
Definitely. Although, I know all about the fact that it's the safest way to travel and all that.
It's not a proper fear. I've probably watched too many films or something.
So you're not going gliding either?
Valium IV drip. :)
Yeah, my mind/imagination is the worst part of it.
Wimps :D
Feeling like you are in control even if you are not really makes everything less scary. Like a car on a track. You feel calm and in total control even just after you dropped the damn thing and stuck it in a barrier
Those 15-30 secs of freefall... simply amazing
Yeah, statistics never set the mind at rest
The hardest part is leaning forward out of the open door :D
I have had the chance to go gliding and turned it down. I used to work with a nutter who had hang gliders and microlights and turned down dozens of chances to fly with him. One of the other guys at work did fly with him once and the pilot said to him to check the engine at the back because it sounded funny. He looked over his shoulder and the little mail plane was very close behind heading straight for them.
I want engines and radar and stuff
my wife wants to skydive. I told her no. She then reminded me that I want to race cars. I've since dropped the subject, hoping it never comes up again :)
Live on the edge every now and then
And she's on twitter right?
[knows the answer]
in all honesty, I would go skydiving if I could, but I probably can't (lung problems). I need to consult with a lung doctor type person to see if it's ok and it's not exactly high on my priorities right now :)
Control is the key for me, or the illusion of it. We don't control anything on this planet, but we like to feel we do. If a balloon pilot said "just tell me if/when you want to land and we will", then I'd feel a lot better about it. But the wind would help him decide that.
I think a lot of people fears of flying are actually issues of control at heart. Try one of those introductory flights and aski the instructor if you could control the aircraft for a few minuts would really help get rid of those silly imaginations if you got to pilot a real airplane yourself Chrisitne.
Of course, the more basic the cockpit controls, the easier it is for you to understand it.
OK they can turn the radar off for 30 seconds every hour
. o O ( no.... )
You shouldn't feel the wind in a balloon because you are moving at the same speed as the air
:lol:
I do have a flying lesson on my Life List but it's probably for a long time in the future :)
Your body will feel the horizontal movement though
I have always avoided those because if I did one flight I would want to do a lot more.
Cool
You should do it soon while the weather is good :D
I've been a passenger in a single engine Cessna-type plane several times and sat in the co-pilot's seat and helped the pilot watch for planes while we flew in between the clouds. There was definite beauty, and I trusted the pilot completely because I knew the hundreds of hours of flying time he put in, but it still made me nervous.
You will feel acceleration in all axes but it shouldn't be windy in the basket
One of the reasons I love flying is that it scares me just that little bit.
Agreed
I never understood why people like being scared.
That reminds me from my first issue of Panda Propaganda, have you figured out how to hunt down the Lock Ness Monste yet? Without a way of going underwater, it is going to be rather hard to find it, I think....
I don't like getting on a ladder taller than 4' off the ground. Scares the ever loving crap outta me.
Not yet. I am looking into scuba gear.
I hate heights and especially ladders.
Thrill, adrenaline, eetc
Too cold in Loch Ness for that. You need Arctic survival gear
Take them. Sidepod Airwys might eventually need a second aircrew at some point....
Dry suits would be fine
I like being in control too much. Even when I was racing and crashing I was never remotely scared even for a second. If I had been I doubt I would have enjoyed it
Submarine?
Does that mean they will pay for lessons?
There's a very small zone where something is just scary enough, like a few rollercoasters for me, like Space Mountain in Disneyworld, Florida. It took 3 tries to actually get on the thing, but once I did I wanted to go again and again. But other rollercoasters I've been on have been too scary and too fast and made me sick. It's the Goldilocks theory of rollercoasters, I guess. It has to be just right.
They have engines and radar so are perfect
Perfect.
The subway in Boston?
I can kind of understand it with something you are just sitting there doing nothing on but not in a plane or a car or something you are controlling
Sonar
hehe
Yeah, that was just about right. But I had to be careful that I was looking in the right place so I didn't feel sick with the movement.
Much the same thing. They must have radar for running on the surface and finding their way around before the days of satnav
Going to my first outdoor karting event tomorrow, wondering if this time I'll be scared :). We're going to try and qualify for the 70+mph karts for the next time we race there... Hopefully we can!
Trying to stand up without handrail assistance was like skateboard training
F1 and planning to be a Scuba Diver, Christine, we really do need to talk shop some time....!
You need either a 7 mm (1/4 inch thick wetsuit, or a Drysuit) for Northern Waters Steven. With those, especially the drysuit, people actually dive under the ice!
Twin engined four strokes? Those are fun. I once tried a 100cc 2-stroke. Those things are ludicrously fast and they handle so much better than the 4-strokes.
You can go a lot faster in the big corners than you think you can. You can outdrive your opponents on the first 2 laps on cold tyres if you believe this
Cool! good luck!
And she is going to have flying lessons
The zen approach to karting or using the force?
True. Especially the brake check in the middle of the tunnel for no reason I could discern.
Whatever works
It's all about believing in your levels of grip
I guess you want my dive photos to go on flickr too, huh?
I think the driver had a cam in the cabs and was looking for lolz
Use the downforce, Luke !
These are the standard ones we'll start out with: http://www.summitpointkart.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=40
These are the faster ones:
http://www.summitpointkart.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=41
:D
they both look like great fun. Wow, I'd love to try that. I once drove a kart as a kid. It was awesome, and the right altitude for me. :)
This place is supposed to have lots of grip. In contrast to one of the indoor places I race at most of the time, which is very slick, so it requires a lot more skill in keeping the kart pointed in the right direction.
So they have a single 390cc engine. That should be quick. I have driven similar karts with 2 x 200cc engines and they were quick
Much higher cornering speeds then. That will make it fun
On a larger outdoor track, I found I could feel and correct an imminent slide much better
It's much easier to get into a flow on a track like that rather than a tight twisty indoor track
Assorted Obamas inspecting the space shuttle Atlantis during their visit to not see a launch today
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1934.html
There tends to be a massive straight too :D
Sounds like a typical Tilke-drome....
The straight pre-dates Tilke-age
Those kids are having an amazing childhood. I hope they grow up kind of normally in an abnormal situation.
And thanks for commenting on this today, you guys keep me sane at work.
It would be great if they take the benefits from their childhood without becoming weird.
You are in real trouble if we represent sanity
Hmmm, If Christine does happen to be a Scuba Diver by next year, there's more than 6,000 shipwrecks along the St. Lawence Seaway Wich contans both the river and the Great Lakes. Toss that in June and there's the possibility of Amy in person for the Canadian Grand Prix....
And,, Marmots, Otters, other strange animals....
Austin, sadly, is landlocked.
Just thinking out loud......
That's what I mean, yes. It does seem like their parents are pretty normal with them and keep their feet on the ground, so that's good.
You're telling me! ;)
I thought Canada was on Amy's agenda for 2013
Can't keep up with someone who plans that far ahead
Yeah, next year is the Olympics and Tennis
No doubt, some F1 too
A guy on tv now from Tuscaloosa is recounting what happened to him. He got in his tub with his dogs and put his motorcycle helmet on. A Crispy Creme (donut) truck came through his front room and the back of the house blew off. He managed to hold onto the dogs with the leashes when they were being 'sucked out like kites'. They're okay, the house is rubble.
Whoa.
Why was he in the bath with a helmet on accompanied by his dogs.. on leashes?
The Krispy Kreme truck is the least weird thing about this story
I assume this is tornado related. Otherwise we have a wierdo and a donut truck doing 600mph
One never knows
hehe!!!
yes, tornado, not donut truck speeding.
That she's a Teacher in the United States.should raise warning flags, sort of like seeing only the grill of a truck or lorry in your rear-view mirror....
Makes a lot more sense now
The dog bit did make me laugh with my visual (and because they're okay).
And how many times do you type 'god' when trying to type 'dog'? or is it just me?
Just you
Now that, I'd watch
The Krispy Kreme Trials
The system is indeed broken, and I give up trying to fix it. I'll just do what I can do with my students.
Fast enough to suck your dogs like kites :D
I count on this, Steven. Thank you. hehe
Pretty much
Is that the phone ringing, I think it's Freud for you Kai :D
How is it that you now spell American companies correctly and I don't?
#becomingBritish?
Okay, so dogs are gods? I'm okay with that, except for Pugs. I don't like them.
Ugly suckers
Now? KK's are awesome
I didn't say that, you must've have one
20 maybe, when the apocolypse comes. But not one
Honestly, I can see how I can get "god" from mistyping "good", and switiching two letters because the later finger is a split second faster than the first, but three letters I have to stop and think to do...
Dr Freud is still waiting, do you wish to hold?
Mustn't. Must not. Oh no, not ever. Well, when I say never...
They are.
Yes, when I go 'off the reservation' food wise, KK's will be among the binge foods.
Apocalypse. I am increasingly dismayed that the internet has ruined my spelling
Who knew it was linked to handwriting?
#OnceCouldSpell
and remember phone numbers
Also true
Memory is so 20th century, it's an instapaper and bookmark life
Same.
Yes. I have to rethink now about s's and z's, like in recognize/recognise. See? I get a red squiggle for the second one...oh, but you can't see that, in fact.
What really gets me about technical English is why is the thing that routes (Say it as in Route 66) packets of data to computers is called a ROUT - ER as a ROUT describles a bunch of soldiers fleeing from a battlefield for their lives in total panic and choas.
ROUTERS are designed to have a have a very logical way of figuring out which pack ofinformation goes where.
Blame Mr C, ergo blame Steven
ROUT - ERs should actually be called (Route-ters) in my books as they follow a speciifc route (66) to from A to B ....
That is the American pronunciation which has come over here and taken over from the local pronunciation. Just like the squirrells.
Routers are pronounced root for both over here
Never rowt
Computer routers tend to pronounced rowt as do drilling/milling type routers
Some areas here say root for route, but some say rowt for the word route, but as far as I know we all say rowt for those things that bring us this message to you now via internet.
Funny. I am the only one I know who called them root-ers when everyone I hear calls them rowt-ers....
Not down here they aren't
Solidarity brother
I have lost my "unique" status.... Waaaaaah !
Maybe it's a pilot thing......
Well, night everyone. Lack of sleep this week has finally caught up to me... Scary that Iwill be turning in an hour earlier than normal.
Night Jordan
good night
Night sir
Tonight, I am rediscovering Kanye
Big idiot, great musician
Agreed on both accounts.
Taylor Swift shoulda drop-kicked his arse
I have to sort out getting over there. When is best, how can I spend time in England, Scotland and Ireland, see as many of you as I can, and be back in about 2 weeks or so.
Yeah, but she won out by staying cool. She gave him enough rope to hang himself by doing that. He looked like such a fool.
Personal plane and pilot
yeah, seems that way. Maybe I can't get to Ireland this time. :(
I keep getting stuck with the timing. If I go to Goodwood and get to see some of you, that's great, but then if I head to Scotland, how do I watch the race that weekend, then head back to fly back home out of London.
Maybe Scotland isn't the way to go, what'd you say Steven?
We have TV in Scotland
I get the feeling she's a nice girl but none too smart, have only seen her once or twice in conversataion though
He's a prime tool, on the other hand
Depends what Kai wants to do and see.
Goodwood is not to be missed.
I keep hering this and yet it doesn't draw me in
I'd give it a go this year but am otherwise booked
Lodgings seem a pain though
Then again, we know some folk near the South coast
I want to visit Sidpodpeople. It's not where you are, but who you're with, as they say. I want to see new places with people who can show me around so I don't have to stress about stuff after a very stressful school year. I loved having Janna and Bassano just tell me which train to get on, etc. Awesome. And we just adventured together.
Everything?
Yeah, that's about right. :)
It is a fantastic event.
Definitely personal plane and pilot then
But I don't get why, I just hear superlatives
I'm not ante, I'd just like to know why
Maybe it's one of those unquantifiables, like Glastonbury
Realllly dumb question, but what goes on there?
I've raised the likelihood of Kai moving to the UK above Amy in the SidepodEmigration League already
Let me get my business going and then I can live anywhere as long as I can break even and pay my bills.
There are so many great cars and drivers and you get access you won't get anywhere. There is so much going on it is impossible to see all of it.
And wait a minute. What?
We told you this, kinda
Eventually, we'll all be on Rockall
With Finnish WiFi
oh, ok. I just wondered if I missed something else. It's the time of year for this to happen for me. SidepodEmigration League. I thought I missed another list. :)
Imagine 100 - 150 cars from F1 to Indy to Nascar to anything you can imagine of all ages. Drivers from current F1, Indy, Nascar etc to all the legends of the sport.
There is a hill climb course that the cars go up. Some cruise up. Current F1 cars tend to do lots of wheelspinning and others really go for it. In addition to the hillclimb and static displays there is a rally stage running with some of the greatest rally drivers and cars in history.
You should check back on some of the podcasts from previous years for a flavour
They all need to move here.
http://sidepodcast.com/search?q=goodwood
Thanks Steven. I have seen bits and pieces of it over the years.
You did, you forgot to buy your ticket
Oh, the owl is back outside. Must be spring.
And http://www.goodwood.co.uk/festival-of-speed/welcome.aspx
SPC Owl Spy strikes again
It's a sign
[probably not]
This Aston looks familiar
http://www.goodwood.co.uk/festival-of-speed/news-and-coverage/articles/bonhamsauctionultra-rareastonmartin.aspx
I see. And they put up the pic of the Aston Martin that W and C drove out in today.
You won't see anything like this happen anywhere other than Goodwood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDi13GuaBQ8
1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 cabriolet, one of only two bodied by the leading Turin styling house Bertone. Previously owned by legendary Grand Prix and sports-racing driver Innes Ireland, this stunning Bertone Aston Martin has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £500,000 to £700,000.
It was there yesterday when I checked Goodwood dates, I presume the Wills driving was a secret
That must've made a mess of the persian rugs
I am sure it was worth it to have Dougie drive over them. Shame there is not enough room for an F1 car or they would probably try that too
Quite likely
I was waiting for him to have some clever way of getting off the roof.
That whole thing was crazy and cool.
And if given a choice between Goodwood and Silverstone with time constraints on the trip, I would have thought I'd automatically go to Silverstone, having never been to a race.
Austin, Spa, Suzuka
Im order of likelihood
Unless there is a Silverstone campaign here that I know nothing about [if not, why not]
He probably could have found one too. He has won a gazillion trials world championships.
I have never been to a race either but I have been to Goodwood a few times. Given the choice of Goodwood or Silverstone I would take Goodwood every time.
Kick Start!
And I've never been to Goodwood but I would say Spa
:D
World championships are a little more difficult than Kick Start was
Montreal! 6 hours north! What the hell is wrong with me? :)
1. very expensive to fly to Montreal from CT or NYC
2. Timing sucks as it is before the end of the school year, so I'd have to cram it into 3 days.
If the choice was Spa or Goodwood then it becomes a far more difficult choice
Been there, know that ;)
Interesting.
As Kai won't be teaching next school year it makes no sense not to do it
I like this thought. Let's follow it through...
Seeing as I'll be self-employed by then, I can go wherever and still work via phone or skype with my coaching, so I am free to do what I'd like.
Exactly, bill your clients in advance
What the frick is an EA to a VP?
Ok, I know what a VP is but...
In what context?
ooh, executive assistant to a vice president?
And that's different to PA how?
eH profile
Are you planning on applying?
No, answering
Acronyms are the new hyphens, obviously
Executive assistant is the new term for secretary. Personal assistant gets dry cleaning and stuff, and gets more involved in personal lives/family, too. Executive assistants only work with professional tasks, for the most part...I think. From what I know...
Sounds like corporate BS but I get the distinction
The average exec doesn't get an assistant here, director and above only I'd say
Depends on the size of business
Estate [Realty] Agents and Ad people are called execs here
Self importance wins over abilility and usefulness
2 EA's in one sitting!
Yeah, it is, for the most part.
I guess middle management and up get assistants, I think. Personal assistants are more for self-employed people it seems to me.
I can't believe you lot kept me up so late. I was planning on an early night.
Definitely going now.
Night all
Not here but I think it's a title and culture thing
Middle management don't get PA's here
Good night
Lightweight
G'night Steven
Yeah.
EA's are corporate, PA's are more freelance here.
Different here, for now
Maybe the financial centre is different. Giggles and Fourstar would know
*Bops to Gold Digger*
You must hear The Automatics version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvwJtWP_qXw
oh fun! :)
*bobs head*
Guess what? I could kind of manage to go to Montreal this year.
Too much at one time, I think, to then go the the UK. Bank account says "whoa!".
do I hear a kazoo?
Also, check out
Monster
and Raoul
They seem a bit like The Jam sometimes to me, especially in their early days [Raoul]
I think so yes
Crazy Welsh fools
This one's way better The Automatic's Monster in Lego
Everything's better in lego.
Do you have a flag?
No, but I'd like a t-shirt of that.
Yeah, with a Lego Man on it :D
Yeah, I can hear that similarity.
yeah, and he can hold a flag that says that.
Try this
Bromheads Jacket - A Trip to the Golden Arches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sunrc8hFY2E
It reminds me of Trainspotting.
Which part [ of the film]?
Lust for Life?
No, I think his delivery puts me in mind of Ewan's riffs at the beginning and end of the movie.
Did you ever hear this?
Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp1fQ51YZMM&feature=related
Mardy means, stroppy, unhappy
ooh, another new word. :)
Pretty soon I can teach an Real English language class. :)
*a
I better get my grammar straight first. hehe Oh well.
That one's proper Northern. Not in common English parlance
I like this.
Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales Of San Francisco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WrIN7xhEks
Oh yes, I've heard this one.
Choooon
Alex may have played it, they have mellowed but their initial stuff was great. Like early Strokes
I'm in between musical tastes right now, unsettled, not sure what to listen to. I go through these phases, and usually classic stuff helps me to settle, like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aj_vABphAo&feature=related
Your Time is Gonna Come, Led Zeppelin
But that's not hitting the spot these days.
I think silly dance music is more where I'm at right now.
One of my faves
Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j052-ROwPFM
Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Daft Punk, etc is where my electronia stuff lays
Define silly?
In thinking about my UK trip I want to spend time with you guys, be by the sea, see some of the countryside by train, and go to Goodwood, I think.
Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBbk9IjRdO0&feature=related
All are possible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBi0p4gRcDY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oXxBbcZpNw&feature=related
Kylie. Takes me back to NYC club friends. I'm still a bit nostalgic from my spring cleaning.
I love those you mentioned though, and Riot Van is good.
oh man, this used to be one of my favorites of all time!
Edony, Clap Your Hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1JCW42ImVI
My DJ friend used to remix like crazy.
That's not dance music, that's just Kylie
It's fun [well, the video is] but our definitions are different I guess
But that feels totally wrong all of a sudden, though.
Funny how music reflects where I am in my life...transitioning into new stuff.
I had great times dancing to it in the past.
A bit housey for me
I was more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaU5qkQJ1e4 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw&feature=related
Dancing to and Dance Music is entirely different here
Electronica is a modern term, I guess
Yeah, definitely. I go all over the house music map, from progressive jungle to drum and bass to a little more standard kind of dance stuff.
Kylie is never wrong ;)
Lamb?
hehe
Alright.
?
One of my all times favourite tunes
Listen all through or not at all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PILJRHjUVEw
Gives me shivers
Beautiful so far. I know people have strong reactions to Sinead O'Connor but I loved her. Lamb sounds a bit like her, but softer. I mean that as a big compliment.
Lou Rhodes, the singer is now solo and also doing good stuff though a little mellower
Oh my god, this is SO my style! I LOVE it.
Will be about 15 mins away ;)
Wha?
This is my test when I buy speakers
Such a choon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7b6JU9o9U
standby
Warm days with a breeze and chilly nights. I love proper spring.
This used to be my 'getting ready' tune when I was going out
Enormous volume as I pranced around the house :D
I can see why! Awesome.
Yeah, I really like it.
Perfect for that.
hehe
:)
Cool.
My downstairs neighbour now is a grinch, a whinger
I haven't turned the volume up in aaaages
I'll do it soon when I know she's home during the day
I'm getting close to sleep now. It's been a reallly long week.
G'night Kai
Check emails when you wake :)
Good night, Bassano.
Thanks :)
Night Kai
Jeez it's late! Or rather, early
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 30th April 2011
- Live: Space Shuttle Launch STS-134
- The beautiful south
- Live: The Royal Wedding 2011
- Daily: 29th April 2011
Welcome to the club Martin!!! :-)))))
Morning all
My new old PDA arrived this morning :D
Morning guys and gals :)
My new old PDA arrived this morning :D
what's a pda?
morning lukeh
Personal Digital Assistant. I use it instead of a phone. Smartphones are versions of PDAs aimed at home consumers.
Who are PDA's aimed at nowadays? im amazed they still exist
New ones don't, hence why it's a new old one. The trouble is that I've yet to see a smartphone that does everything I use my PDA for unless I'm willing to shell out a lot of money.
Aahhh I see
Wow, what does it do that smartphones cant?
Morning everyone :)
It allows the production of Word documents and Excel spreadsheets using a keyboard with all essential keys, view Powerpoint presentations, draw better than the program that comes with Windows (though not as well as GIMP, let alone paid-for drawing programs) due to the stylus, read two different formats of ebook and both produces and plays back video in a widely-recognised format (I don't think smartphones do that yet but that's the one feature I expect to happen in the near future out of this list). It can also do basic CAD, though I haven't seriously used that feature. Also, if you don't like any given feature, it's easy to get several alternatives, usually free.
All that and it also doesn't expect anything resembling an all-you-can-eat data package or a micro-SIM.
Good morning!
morning marti
Morning...ish.
Love this from DRR http://twitpic.com/4rdxa0 http://twitpic.com/4re6c2
yay for new debutant daily writers :)
*that may not be the right word, or even a word, but you catch me drift. right?
lovely sunny day, ahem.
Heheheheh. I get what you mean :D
more gossip from f1-enders:
@embearpark: Hi guys...dont get freaked, just changed my name back...hope you still follow me! Em
after will's tweeting yesterday, i'd do the same :)
http://tinyurl.com/eastendersdrums
What happened? Em seemed very embarrassed on Twitter today
Works for me
Can't say I saw anything
you can still read them back. he comes across as a bit of a letch.
maybe he's having a bit of a mid-life breakdown.
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 30th April 2011
- Live: Space Shuttle Launch STS-134
- The beautiful south
- Live: The Royal Wedding 2011
- Daily: 29th April 2011
Oh I see, much like half of Twitter at the time it seemed. Probably not so wise in his situation though.
true enough.
So I'm totally useless at decisions and I want to go to two racetracks tomorrow.
BTCC at Thruxton.
Donington Historic at, er, Donington.
i'm not agreeing with myself... honest. #waytooearlytobeawake
have you been since they rebuilt it?
:)
I got up at 06:30am and went to my High School
six-thirty? who knew such an hour existed?
That reminds me, Lou was asking this question a week or two ago to me but I'm still not totally sure, how did they recover the big hole and whatnot in the circuit? Obviously the track is operational again now with Touring Cars and the like on it but do they still have that giant hole in the middle or anything?
No, last I heard the middle was still a building site.
Got two chances to go this year, the other is WTCC/AutoGP but that's so close to Goodwood I might not have any money left after FoS. :)
I'm 70-30 towards Donington, the 6am alarm call is putting me off though.
Just filled it in an tarmacced over it
I don't think the GP loop is running as a racetrack yet though? Not sure. This weekend they are using it as a rally stage. :)
I was on at the time - what was so wrong with what he was tweeting?
Yeah they were using the circuit without the hairpin loop for BTCC a week or two ago
I suppose now they don't have MotoGP there's no urgency to fix that bit.
Donington has historic touring cars, sportscars from 60s, 70s, and Group C sportscar from the 80s, Group B rally cars from the 80s,
Thruxton has a BTCC that isn't what it once was, lots of unknown names (to me) after the big names vanished, and support series struggling to fill grids.
That I think is a decision made.
http://www.doningtonhistoric.com/
Anyone else coming? :)
great daily marti!
just to add to the DRS conversation, here's some thought from manipe: http://www.manipef1.com/blog/articles/74/
A ban of any kind on the DRS in Monaco would be a blatant sanitisation of the true essence of Formula One racing – the challenge placed on the world's best drivers to steer a motor car around a track in the fastest possible way. The day that challenge is taken away is the day Formula One dies.
If that were true, they'd let the teams decide whether to refuel during the race, and which tyres for which stints to use.
Seems weird to me that she is so bothered. It must be more healthy to either have a friendly breakup where you still care about each other, or ignore them for the rest of your life.
Where's the sense in just following and criticising from a distance?
even worse when you broadcast it on such a public platform too like twitter. If it still upsets her she's better off just not following him and just focusing on her career...
I only knew they had broken up because she tweets thinly veiled insults about him and what hes doing quite often, and they were blatant messages back when it actually happened which is why I'm kind of shocked every time someone doesn't know.
I've never seen him mention it at all on twitter. I definitely think in this case he's using it better than her :D
but in general? yesterday was a bit of a mess and the day before i assume he was a high as a kite. in terms of furthering ones career, i'd say he's got it all wrong.
in general I've cringed far more at her tweets than I have at his, and then I unfollowed her months ago because I was doing it too often
ooh Team Lotus seem to finally be running their Spark commentator thing properly
http://www.teamlotus.co.uk/news/2011/spark-in-turkey
Brazil IndyCar race this weekend - Penske / Briscoe leading the way after practice 1
Radio feed for FP2 should be on indycar.com at 3.30pm (GMT)
A good read
The Bahrain situation just rumbles on...
http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/04/30/bahrain-tries-to-buy-time-with-statement/
Ooh, it's Doctor Who day again. Already.
Oh my god, I totally forgot!
Pondering having another thread.
be interesting to see what todt does.
Yay!
He'll tell Bahrain to slow down with their F1 plans and let Abu Dhabi through or else he'll cancel Bahrain's contract
#foreverbitter
This is exactly what I expected them to say. No guarantees that anyone will be safe visiting there though, which really should swing the issue.
hehehehe.
it's a good test of his standing at the fia. my guess is he has the sense to stick by tomorrows deadline. at least i hope he does.
Rain! We haven't rain for ages
He didn't stick with any of Korea's deadlines, so I don't see any reason why things would be different now. Personally I'm expecting a decision (one way or the other) in about August - note that by the FIA's regulations, that would normally be enough time for a race due to happen in November.
Blimey, lovely up here. Maybe the climate there knows you're writing about Spa :)
A couple of days ago I saw people tweeting about lightning. Lightning!
Bernie's trying to box him into a corner by telling Bahrain they'll get an extension, he's testing Todt who would rather be consensual and have lots of dialogue behind the scenes. He wants Todt to back down, be interesting if he stands the FIA's ground and says 'No'.
There's due to be some in the south-west this afternoon. Mind you, this was the same place that forecast sleet in Cardiff yesterday (BBC).
agreed on all counts.
:)
And just as suddenly it has gone. Weird, skies are bright with a bit of cloud
Ah we don't want any of that
Bernie will get that - not because he boxed Jean into a corner but because that's how Jean appears to run the FIA anyway. It makes Bernie feel powerful without impairing the FIA's power any further than it would limit itself if Bernie hadn't done anything.
ohhhh!!! are they going to do something similar for Silverstone?
Good thinking... will have to keep an eye on that, perhaps they were waiting for the European races to properly get it going but you'd think it'd be there for Silverstone if they're doing it for Turkey
We will be running Spark at more races this season, so stay tuned for your chance to be the Spark commentator at your home race.
Looks hopeful!
if all we need is to be in the area for the event then i'm sure i could manage getting to an area close by to a few european races...
#reallyreallywantstogo
Love and sense rarely have much to do with each other.
DRS isn't about steering (especially not at Monaco where there are no corners fast enough to even think about trying to use it round a corner). It's about straight lines. At least with it taken away we might get overtaking battles in the last half of the race...
you may be taking that quote a little too literally, i think. it's a good article, recommended reading.
Maybe (the taking-too-literally, that is - I will go and read the whole article as soon as I find the link)...
http://www.manipef1.com/blog/articles/74/
Thank you :)
I don't see the problem as a safety one - Manipe is quite right to criticise that notion. For me, it's partly down to the unusually large problems for everyone else in the likely event of people getting it wrong (a slight error will almost certainly cause a red flag, which spoils everyone's running) and partly because of the vastly increased probability of getting it wrong. I'd put a ban on DRS in Monaco in the same category as making it mandatory to use extreme wet-weather tyres for Safety Car starts - with the awareness that they're controversial for similar reasons despite that explanation.
Also, the Chinese "phantom deployment" means that unlike DRS, the teams and drivers wouldn't even necessarily need to do anything wrong to cause inadvertent problems for everyone else.
if that was an issue though, you'd never let yamamoto near an f1 track. surely the superlicence sorts out the people who can drive, from those who cannot?
i like the analogy though.
It doesn't. It sorts the people who have X achievements in lower formulae or who a committee think could get X achievements from those who can't. There's also an issue concerning scale of error needed - DRS tends to generate far more disproportionate consequences for slight errors than other things. While this is normally an asset at tracks where there's enough space for a wrecked car to be cleared under double-waved yellow flags, it's decidedly not so at Monaco, where everyone who drives correctly could easily find themselves losing a lot of time just because one or two other people missed the mark.
kimi and sutil. no DRS involved.
i don't think the weekend will be significantly worse with DRS enabled. people run out of talent at all the wrong times, if anything it'll expose those with less to spare :)
faster-wearing tyres this year. we just might see a sequel of that.
true, but as Alia said, a crash here is more likely to affect everyone, not just those who crashed.
Lack of engaged brain and no red flag involved. Of course, that was because Kimi's error pitched him into a straight line during the race - had he gone sideways or the accident occurred in practise/qualifying, there would probably have been a red flag.
But if Kimi had DRS engaged when he'd hit that bump, he'd have been going faster, had more kinetic energy outside of his control and therefore a) probably hit the bump less straight (pitching him into the wall instead of down the straight and theoretically across the chicane run-off) and b) been going faster on impact (meaning more and bigger bits spreading further - he might have missed Adrian by spearing into a wall, but the Ferrari was made of equally fragile bits), increasing the probability of Safety Car/red flag.
Morning from Bright Sunny Tundraland, everyone.....
Just lurtking in the moments until I could form an opionion on a couple of issues....
1) DRS at Monaco, ==> You know, with cases in recent memory of our Absolute Best drivers in F1 crashing into each other following the safety car around the bend in the tunnel of Monaco, maybe it is a good thing that DRS is not palnned to be used.
Ultimately, the very last thing you need is a massive lose of downforce in Monaco, which is the basic function of reducing the angle of the rear wing. (DRS). The by product of this the decrease in drag, and voila, your car is faster....
2) Bahrain ==> That's a tough one.
I guess ultimatly it is up to the individual to balance whether or not they have the integrity to actually go to Bahrain and try to change the politcial situation themselves or not. If not then no matter how good or rightous you feel you are still supporting evil by doing nothing.
If you do go be aware that you might not even get a grave stone highlightting your integrity... Tough choice, but to make light I will share one story - one day I was really, really sick and a friend came over to visit. He was so shocked at my appeareance That he could not tell if I was going to die on the gallows or of the bug.I had
I told him that it him it depended on whether I embraced his principals or his girlfriend.....
it makes no odds though really. he screwed up someone else's race due to making a mistake. that's motor racing.
:)
And what of those of us who don't get to go to Bahrain whether we want to or not? Disagreeing with the regime is a lot better than doing nothing, as the Tunisian and Egyptian protesters discovered earlier this year.
Follow the money...
Rubens is in Sao Paulo at the IndyCar track
http://twitpic.com/4rgwwy
That's also something the governors of motor racing seek to reduce - a certain amount of race demolition by proxy is inevitable but done to excess and it removes the racing from the equation. In the specific case of DRS, it could potentially become a question of who predicts when someone will hit the wrong button best (and plans qualifying appropriately).
that's one guy. a SC throws a tizz for everyone else. normally, SCs in Monaco would be good to keep everyone bunched up, but it doesn't actually look like we'll need that this year.
Ever heard ofthe line "All that is regarded for evil to win is fo good men to do nothing?"
For those interested, live radio feed and T&S from FP2 starts in about 10 minutes from indycar.com
of course. there are plenty of things that can affect a rivers race. DRS used correctly or incorrectly is just another.
here's the thing: i agree with you in one sense (we need to be consistent with our rules), but at the same time, this is proving more and more to be an unnecessary device.
i think the DRS is overrated. if the ban stays and we get an overtaking-fest at Monaco anyway, it should be dumped for 2012, no?
Saying something is not "doing nothing". If it was, the old regimes would probably still be in place in Tunisia and Egypt.
Saying something is one thing; marching on the streets and putting your lives on the line to fight for it is quite another.
i wouldn't touch a single regulation, the chinese gp was the best one ever. change nothing until we understand what works.
was it the best one ever? it was a VERY good race, yes, but not the best ever for me. i'd rank japan 2005, belgium 2000, and brazil 2008 over that race. we won't understand what works and what doesn't work until we can see each component work in isolation.
i also think DRS is overrated because many of that race's passes (including the race-winning one) did not happen at the DRS zone.
Saying something is not "doing nothing". If it was, the old regimes would probably still be in place in Tunisia and Egypt.
Saying something is one thing; marching on the streets and putting your lives on the line to fight for it is quite another.
Exactly my point, Journeyer, marching on the streets is actually doing something.
if we remove one, it might break something! i will not watch another f1 season like last year :)
it keeps cars closer together for turns 2,3,4 etc.
I agree they are different and that marching in the line of fire is more powerful, but my point is that power comes in many forms. Going beyond that heads towards the #nopolitics line...
The chap commentating on IndyCar practice sounds like he's on tranquilisers. Imagine the complete opposite of Crofty.
From 2009, I'd say "not KERS", but clearly it is too early to say whether it's DRS, tyres, both combined or some other factor...
the race-winning pass happened somewhere in sector 2 - i doubt the DRS still has any effect after Turn 4.
also, given there's one turn in between the hairpin and the start-finish, the DRS effect is also greatly reduced by that point.
i think KERS may be even less of a factor now than it was in 2009. not surprising, since more teams have it now.
But Alinora, the only time words really phyiscally hurt is when a dictionary is thrown at a person....
For that trick to work you have to be "in-county" and within throwing distance of the target, not safe and sound a million miles and four oceans away....
Just driving home the point about safety of distance makes heros of us all.
i don't care, don't touch anything* ;)
*unless anything includes "bringing back refuelling".
we can't be further apart if we tried. :P
i'll be quite happy if refuelling stays away for good
i know. i also know very few people agree with me, but i don't care about that either. we started sidepodcast because f1 was awesome, then it wasn't awesome for a while and now it is again. i ask only that races are entertaining, i care not for history, or for purity or anything else, just don't bore me. please.
And now shoo.
oops, busy busy.
Surely the only place where it is just possible to use DRS at Monaco is between 2nd Poriter though the tunnel to the chicance ? And wth the wonky DRS of the Ferraris and Red Bulls, do you want more crashies in the Tunnel again ?
you and i both. and steven too. :D
:D
it can also be used in theory at the SF line into ste devote.
Shock, horror. EJ Viso has crashed....
Again, how many times is that today ? :P
Man it is too nice a day for me to say inside. I ma heading out. bye everyone.
Ping: http://mrschristine.com/2011/04/30/turn-by-turn-by-phone/
Hey everyone, little Eurovision ping.... http://northernwaffler.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/eurovision-sofa-the-songs-e-to-i/
No idea - I only heard that he approached a first gear hairpin about 30 mph too fast...
IndyCar FP2
1-5: Power, de Silvestro, Dixon, Hunter-Reay, franchitti
6-10: Castroneves, Hildebrand, Bourdais, Tagliani, Kanaan
11-15: Briscoe, Patrick, Conway, Rahal, Servia
16-20: Andretti, Wilson, Sato, Meira, Matos
21-26: Kimball, Saavedra, Jakes, Hinchcliffe, Beatriz, Viso
Words as levers are extremely powerful. Otherwise courts would have no power, salespeople would have no power, advisors would have no power, etc etc...
You don't have to be anywhere near a target provided you are in a position to either trigger some kind of consequence that a target does not want to happen, or be able to join part of a group that can trigger/help to trigger said consequences. Due to mass media and the internet, anyone with an internet connection can now do that to some extent to anyone else with an internet connection - or, indirectly, to anyone with an internet connection able to visit a kind of negative consequence a target cares about.
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/live-doctor-who-day-of-the-moon
Rubens wants it back, is he your new favourite?
He does? He's definitely my new favourite!!
...wait, he was already my favourite. I guess that makes him my double favourite. Or my favourite favourite.
Indeed, in this post http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2011/4/11975.html from the daily he says The only thing probably that drivers don’t like - because you want to go fast - is the fact that the cars are heavy at the start of the race. So the refuelling pit stops were great - maybe not that safe, but then if you crash on a full tank that’s not the safest either. I think the cars were better to drive - and faster - with less fuel.
Oooh so he did. I think I was too distracted by the thought of Ayrton Senna and Rubens being teammates :)
IndyCar racing in Sao Paulo on the anniversary of Senna's death could be quite emotional tomorrow, especially if a Brazilian wins. Marshall Pruett has a nice article.
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/indycar-sennas-legacy-lives-on-in-open-wheel/
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Live: Doctor Who - Day of the Moon
- Daily: 30th April 2011
- Live: Space Shuttle Launch STS-134
- The beautiful south
- Live: The Royal Wedding 2011
What?!
I am sad they have ruined river song already, boo.
Hello everyone again :)
hey squire, lovely daily :)
*toddles back*
hehe thanks! It's not easy to write in English when you are used to work in Spanish :)
they must start teaching you English when you're very young, your English is great!
I've been studying English seriously for two years, but I've taken lessons for over 10 years hehe.
I hope I can pass the First Certificate exam soon!
Wow! I'm always so jealous of people who speak more than one language, when you live on an English speaking island in the middle of nowhere they don't bother teaching you anything else from a young age :(
I'm sure you'll be fine! in all your comments I've read I think theres only been a couple of things that made me go 'ooh he's not a native speaker' and they were both very minor :D
Pat is right. That copy feature in the new Wordpress helper is brilliant!
I think I only tweaked two tiny little things. It was brilliant :)
Great isn't it :)
*makes notes to steal*
Here in Barcelona we grow up speaking two languages: The Spanish and the Catalan. The second one is original from Catalonia (click to see the map).
Lots of people study other languages, but English it's the most common.
I learned all about Catalan when I went to Barcelona because everyone said that people would be nicer to me if I spoke that rather than Spanish.
In the end I just spoke English and everyone understood me anyway. I felt guilty about that :)
Yes, we have a little feeling of independance and obviously Catalan is our original language, not Spanish, but we spoke and study both of them hehe.
In fact, there was a popular referendum about Catalonia's independance. In Barcelona the 'Yes' won with a 92% (20% of population voted). The referendum was not organized by the government.
Well, you went to the effort of learning it just in case it came in useful and that's the main thing. If everyone managed to communicate with you in English just fine, there's no need to feel guilty about your host country's reciprocal gesture.
I learned a lot of basic stuff for every country I went to but in the heat of the moment I forgot it all :)
It takes a while for languages to become instinctive...
my Swiss friend said the weirdest moment of her year in New Zealand was when she realised that her internal monologue was now in English
So you must have learned many many things. Now you have another country to add to your list: Korea. Will you try to learn the language?
I'll try and learn one or two words. Hello is always a good start :D It's so much harder when its a completely different alphabet.
For Amy, someone has done a lot of lipreading: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382162/Royal-wedding-Lip-reader-reveals-just-WAS-said-ceremony.html
ooooh
annyeonghaseyo (phonetically; the word is written as 안녕하세요 but I doubt you'll need to know how it is written on a short trip).
oh my. thats a lot of syllables. whats the korean version of 'hi' :D
annyong!!
(I learnt that from arrested development :D)
much better
How appropriate that I'm taking an AD fan with me!
Oh pamela is going to laugh everytime she hears that, I bet you.
Another SidepodClass about Korean language for Amy.
My name is Pat and I live in Australia.
--
nae ileum-eun paeteu igo hoju e salgo
And talking about asian languages, isn't Japanese beautiful?
this is going to be quite an adventure. Thanks Air Asia :D
*obviously I got confused in my last post -.-
I love T-Mobile's Royal Wedding parody hehe.
Here is how they filmed the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dkVhRoSCwo&feature=related
Tomorrow is the1st of May. Sad day for motorsport :(
indeed. have also made leigh's post from last year, the homepage article: http://sidepodcast.com/post/the-forgotten-man-roland-ratzenberger
Daniel has discovered f1 big picture!
http://twitter.com/#!/daniel_kalisz/status/64409460826841089
<3 thats awesome - one reason I'm not the biggest May 1 fan is every single year theres so much Senna talk yet this sport has claimed so many other great men yet none of the others get awarded the same when their days roll around.
aww, yay. he's the bestest :)
Yes. Imola held one of the most tragical GP of the whole F1 history.
I think Max Mosley went to Roland's burial, instead of going to Ayrton's, because the whole motorsport big chiefs where going to Senna's one.
Good decision.
considering the film is out this year, i was expecting a whole lot more, but it seems more restrained to me.
it aint hit May 1st properly yet though, even if the sun is about to rise here #shouldbeasleep
I wrote a tweet about Roland one hour ago, in a twitter account which has 11.000 followers. Result: 12 Retweets and some feedback.
now we just need the same for the other 43
Here is quite dark. According to my computer, it's 9:46pm.
ps. This year May 1st is Sunday :( :(
Jim Clark's in memoriam message was a success. I'll try to find it...
Time to leave.
See you tomorrow :)
Bye Marti.
Hi all
Looks like a shift change
#sidepodspace update
After half million gallons of hydrogen were removed from the external fuel tank and the tank went through all the procedures to make sure there is not even a little hydrogen left behind because it is explosive work began on finding the cause of yesterday's heater failures. It took until 2 hours ago for the launch pad area to be cleared for people to work in and now technicians are entering the shuttle's aft compartment to diagnose the fault.
The advantage is that "I am a huge Lotus fan" - nan geodaehan Lotus paen-i - isn't much longer, unless there's some grammatical subtlety the online translator isn't picking up...
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/rubens-answers-the-questions-and-so-can-you
Anyone really want to see half a dozen planets but only have time to see one? Well you are in luck because you can see every planet except Saturn at the same time.
http://www.space.com/11509-skywatching-tips-6-planets-visible-dawn.html
Ping: http://www.f1bigpicture.com/news/mr-blue-sky
Cool, will look out for it
He said even the fields were green and yellow :)
I mentioned this earlier but this time I'm going to tag it #rankings just in case it gets him points :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/izodindycar/5672855624/in/set-72157626607101770
I really like that pic
right, i'm going to right the daily now. it is saturday right?
.. any links people want me to include?
After 5 attempts I have given up trying to explain dr who so I have nothing this week sadly
It's Saturday?
Oh yes so it is :)
Christine's Rubens post should be linked to
http://sidepodcast.com/post/rubens-answers-the-questions-and-so-can-you
If you'd be very nice to link to this.... http://northernwaffler.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/eurovision-sofa-the-songs-e-to-i/
http://www.manipef1.com/blog/articles/74/
and your new bff's tweet :)
It's a bit ridiculous to suggest that KERS has the same potential to compromise safety as DRS
I can just imagine how that sentence would have gone down at the end of 2008 when we were all panicking about KERS' ability to electrocute...
so far kers has caused more accidents this season* than the drs. so it's not really.
*assuming you subscribe to the theory that alonso smashed in to hamilton because FA hit the kers button and LH didn't.
Good point.
Evening, Later... With Jools is starting, haven't seen it in ages
Lykke Li is on, great stuff
On screen message with a hash tag for the show
#MFC
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Rubens answers the questions - and so can you
- Live: Doctor Who - Day of the Moon
- Daily: 30th April 2011
- Live: Space Shuttle Launch STS-134
- The beautiful south