We are halfway through the week now, and it seems as though things are getting nasty in the world of F1. Piquet's having a go at Renault, Ferrari are having a go at Williams, who's next? Meanwhile, here at Sidepodcast, we're being nice to each other! Here are some of the topics we're talking about:
- F1.com have a round up of what the drivers will be doing over their summer holidays. My favourite thing about this post is that I have now learned Fisichella has a boat called Fizzy!
- Pat wrote a post yesterday to celebrate the one year anniversary of his home on the web. It's always interesting to look back at where you started, and see how far you've come, so here's to Pat and bring on the next year!
- On the blogging subject, Maverick has written an excellent post (with added graphs!) about the state of overtaking in Formula 1 at the moment. You probably know plenty about how little overtaking there is, but Maverick makes some great points along the way.
- We also have more information about the inaugural F1 Rocks concert which will take place at Singapore. The silly Black Eyed Peas and Beyonce are taking the headlines away from Backstreet Boys, who are heading up the concerts organised by the circuit themselves. Grr.
That'll do it for now. If you've been following the safari park saga (no pandas, pah!), then the photos are finally up. I will see you in the comments.
Hello Wednesday
It's Wednesday already?
this always happens to me, the new day comes just when i'm not expecting it. thank heavens for the daily post, lord knows where i'd be without it :)
Yup
Still in yesterday, living in the past ;)
Scary...
Is Entourage the best TV show ever? they are racing Ferrari 430's around an oval......
possibly yes :D
This is one of my favourite photos! sooo cute!!
Ta for the pluggy :-)
That's what I thought! I haven't done a quarter of the things I was going to do this evening..
Not a fan of the earrings, personally
Sounds paint-scratchingly good. Which oval?
hehe
hehe :)
aww i've just got to some of the photos of the tigers!! awwww!! i love tigers... i want to go to the zoo now :(
You should do a sidepodradio animal show.
i can't do a sidepodradio show.. i go away on holiday on the 16th. plus i wouldn't know what to say other than 'aww aren't tigers adorable'... 'awww look at the elephants!'....'aww i love monkeys'... it could get boring..
Is there a revised date for SPRadio?
steven said the 16th the other day i believe?..
i'm saying nothing. i'll just get into trouble (again).
Do Christine & Mr C know of this? :)
Fair enough
Going back though the old F1 big pictures it seems williams havent been happy with FOTA's proposals for a while.
I guess this spat has been-a-brewing
i did, yes. i may have not relayed that information as well as i perhaps should have.
oh... okay..
i thought you emailed important stuff to Christine during the day so you didn't forget ;)
I think Williams should've just replied with their own press statement, simply saying 'lol.'
Well, they did get kicked out
Essentially, because they were skint and had no other choice
we were on hiatus. i may have had a drink (or two). your honor.
:D
You could pre-record it. Finding enough stuff to say is a bit more difficult though but you could put a lot of photos on the video feed and everyone would be so busy making awww noises to listen to you.
Wasn't me
[Just saying]
They werent happy with the FOTA proposals on wind tunnels back in February either...
:)
I am working on it being the 16th until Christine beats me up again. To make this happen there needs to be a deadline and until I am over-ruled that is it.
Air traffic was hectic around the Grove factory today...
You too?
Are they even happy that FOTA exists?!
:lol:
fair enough :)
Funnily enough I got that impression earlier when Christine expressed a degree of surprise.
here's a question for you... are we?
what have fota ever done for us?
it's been a hectic couple of days :)
I suspect frank thinks he should be in charge, or at least deputy...
they made a really stupid logo for us to joke about
We'd have a two-tier format next year if not for FOTA
Well they did complain about the circuits not being all that sensible, and they beat up on max...
they fought Max on the two tier thing didn't they?
i don't think it's that at all. he's wasn't even williams' representative was he?
They got the Concorde Agreement signed and tied Max's hands and his successor's.
I think FOTA has been a success.
that was never a serious proposition. it was a starting point for a discussion.
they helped Brawn get Brawn GP up and running?...
what have they achieved?
Adam Parr was at the meetings.
I think had he been offered a place in the top 2 he would have been much more involved...
but have the people who signed aren't even in fota?
I have a feeling you're about to get a load of responses the same way as the Romans question...
*half.
I agree. He should be.
I think it was a serious suggestion.
I don't think there would have been a discussion if FOTA didn't exist
No he wasn't, I believe it was Adam Parr
I think I know which one is the most important there :)
This is true, i dont think the FIA will be anywhere near as involved in the future.
#maxout is at least seeming more likely than ever before? They have brought me joy
do we know that? or are we assuming that?
Look at how long we have gone without a CA and within a sesaon of FOTA being established and a bit of trust being built between the teams we have a new CA
#jeanin ?
:o
bad mr c
i agree that they trust each other. they are watching their own backs for certain.
i'll repeat the question... what have done for us?
just sayin'
nooooooo.
#Ariwillwin ;)
We know that the F1 commission has been re-established and their is now a procedure for modifying rules so we won't have Max inventing rules on the fly because he got out the wrong side of the bed.
I think you should watch this to get back to your sense ;)
Not made it as bad as it coulda been?
how much worse could it have been?
helped brawn survive therefore helping all the brawn/jenson/rubens fans out there ;)
:)
I would tell ya but...
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! :)
this is true!! If it werent for FOTA helping out my poor Rubens would be back in Brazil with no awesome car
i'll give you that. yes.
slim shady could've been in charge.
rats.
A lot worse. We could have had a two tier championship. We could have Max making stuff up on a whim. I think things could have got really nasty.
I think the teams pretty much locked themselves of from the FIA. This is better for bernie as it gives him more power too.
The true test will come next winter though
:D FOTA rock! just cause they saved me from alot more heart ache :D
Whom?
The truth is a bit close to facts for my liking and everyone knows facts is cheating.
guy with the... massive... chopper.
it's not important, really, as you were.
#arivatenin?
MM
#CHEAT ?
bill's mate
You have confused me...
Beer time :D
ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Ahhh
and thank the lord he isn't in charge. Mr Brawn is too amazing! :D
Massa has been sent home... http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77555
to be fair even I was gonna buy the team at one point
but they might have come up with a better livery?
#sorrylukeh
:D
what's wrong with their livery?
nothing. nothing at all.
BUT ITS SO LOVELY
Have you seen it in person? It's so... brawn!!
Do we need to do the highlighter pen thing again?
White car with a stripe on it? C'mon..
i have. and yes it really is.
There was a lot of doubters on the old panels...
I wouldn't use that sort of language about anyone here
:D that's the correct answer ;) it's much nicer when you see it in real life... as opposed to on the tv.
also i had a thought the other day.. is the yellow reflective? if so that may look pretty cool in singapore :)
:(
Me and lou stood there for ages at goodwood just admiring it. Even the truck is awesome!!
Dont forget the helmets!
ummm. it's certainly... brighter.
I thought the new aero regs look nicer in person, on a static car anyway. I'm not sold on a white car with a stripe on it as counting as a colour scheme.
I did like the truck..
well.. it's better than Renault's... i have to admit i do prefer the red bull livery, but the Brawn is my second favourite :)
sad but true :(
Wow, that may make it into the press tomorrow ;)
i loved the blue renault livery... and even the first creme egg livery, just not this years :(
Why is it sad... it highlights flav's lack of taste even more...
It's not their fault tht the McDonald's sponsorshi[p is a secret
I still love the mclaren's chrome... its stunning
i used to like the blue and white.
or blue and yellow and white.
You could throw random tins of paint at a wall and come up with something better than Renault
i've been known to like other things over Brawn :P it does happen... very occasionally... and i do feel a little guilty.. but it's true the red bull livery is nicer, the brawn car however is prettier.
that is true, but its not as if blue is an under-represented colour these days...
Just ask Toyota
I can't explain it. There is just something about the look that I just love about it. It doesn't need to be overcomplicated and it's just simple, it doesn't need to have sponsors plastered all over it like a nascar dream, it just needs to be pure and white. It is Brawn... it's just something completely shocking that noone expected and now I've just grown to absolutely love how it looks with the black and yellow flowing down the car and everything about it. Plus now it has a bit of red from the Virgin logo :D
It's just awesome. I refuse to stand down on how much I love the livery.
...or that winfield williams
:( how could they go from amazing one season to shocking the next :(
Eeeesh!
it kinda does. purely from a sustainability point of view.
I like it, i just hope they keep it like ferrari have done with the red and not flip though the colour spectrum on a sponsors whim like williams
NOOOOOOO
shhhhhhhhhhh. don't ruin my logic!
I had a nosebleed a few weeks ago. Every hanky looked like a Toyota
or.. they had no sponsors to speak of, no time to work on a design in the rush between buyout and season start, so they came up with something basic ready for a title sponsor that never came...
apologies. carry on.
i'm with mr c on the sponsors thing... they need sponsors, i wish they'd signed a title sponsor at the beginning of the season tbh
:lol:
:P
I think Ross was stoned during the JPS Lotus years and this is his acid inspired take on it. Lots of white so it appears an homage rather than copying
the bar "zipper" was worse though?
ehehe :D
I can't imagine many major sponsors being happy with white and highlighter
Or 3 or 4 races in, to bump up the price
Rymans?
Maybe h is colour blind and thinks it's black.
yeah i wasn't meaning in melbourne.. just when they were on they were winning every race :) not they they wont be winning again...
I can't see Theo spending that amount of money on F1.
a blank canvas.... lots of white means lots of space for their advertising ;)
Lots of yellow highlighter pen is going to clash with everything
dynorod?
to be fair it's not lots... and even if the colours do clash it will make the sponsors more visible to the audience on the tv and stuff, meaning it will grab the audiences attention :D
I'm just gonna get a black marker and write on it 'Well I like this car - LUKE'
...'PS rUbens rocks'
I liked that, it didnt need the zipper, but the split colours were quite unique
And a clever route around the two cars with the same livery rule
Nice theory but branding people like everything to go together without clashing.
you say clever...
I didn't say nice
fair point.
*thinks up another defence*... well.. i'm sure Brawn would be willing to negotiate on the amount of yellow... plus the brawn is far too quick to be able to see anything but a blur... the clashing colours would be best :P
except for lucky strike?
I wouldnt mind a brawn 'tribute' to that livery next year with a half black and yellow, and half white and yellow car next year!
Great defence with one minor chink. If I was going to sponsor an F1 team why would I sponsor one that went so fast no-one could see my logo and were only going to see a blur?
Oh so thats why Minardi looked like a NASCAR's younger brother
Lucky Strike's branding is neat. The only problem they had is that BAR didn't know the rules and BAT wanted to advertise two brands.
i did like the racing revolution branding.
because the logos would clash with the yellow, so they could be seen... kinda.. and the team are grabbing all the headlines, it would become common knowledge as to who were sponsoring them. plus with them doing so well a title sponsor would get the 'vodafone' treatment i'm sure.. with the drivers saying '{insert title sponsor here} Brawn GP or something ;)
Shame they forgot to have the revolution though...
The 555 branding they used for china was cool though...
his makes me happy :)
*must slow down typing*
*note so self, i really need to stop typing 'though' *
not sure the drivers could carry of the race suits could they?
You convinced me. Where do I sign?
hehe, i forgot about that!
ehe :) this also makes me happy :D
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/555-jpg
it wasn't the best look :(
I dont remember that...
what on earth??
The race suits look better than the car! If they'd done the car all blue like the rally car, that would've been sweeeet
what you need is this amazing post by ollie! - http://blogf1.co.uk/2009/01/31/bars-hondas-livery-developement-1999-2008/
That year they were allowed to run a different livery on the Friday car for commercial reasons, so Davidson did. I can't remember if the race cars did?
I still associate 555 with rallying Subarus
no, no. the earth car was this one:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/earthcar-jpg
badumtsh
:P
Yeah they did just for china... Teams can change their liveries for film sponsors e.t.c...
i shoulda just done that in the first place.
I have forgotten all these special liveries...
now I feel rubbish like a rubbish fan :(
okay... so i've just seen a photo on the brawn site (which may be one of my home page tabs...) and i think it proves that reflective paint is the way to go for Brawn GP for the Singapore GP.
Also.. when did drop.io seems to have changed a bit...
i only remember them cause of this post... tis a great post :D
that doesn't even make sense :(
today i think. although they haven't tweeted anything.
oooh! looks kinda radioactive :D
I like it
I would quote Yoda here but let's not start that again
Yeah they should all have reflective bits on the cars for Singapore!
IndyCar and sportscar teams do it and it looks fantastic, I'd love to see it on F1 cars.
They can change from race to race but both cars must be the same. If I remember correctly 555 is a much bigger seller in China so the whole car went to that brand.
Nooooooooo Ive just realised... with no Piquet that means we won't get at leats one guaranteed spin per weekend of F1 :(
tim won't let us down.
Less tweeting :(
Kaz?... i don't know why i think he isn't a great driver. i hardly notice him in gps anymore...
Schumacher will get a surprise from that twitchy Ferrari.
I refuse to call him that :)
Jaime didn't spin once in Hungary.
I'm hoping Kubica starts getting loose and goes a bit silly to get some attention now he needs a drive. Just do a couple a'donuts or something on the grid at the start. Yeah noone will have him after that (perhaps Jordan if they returned) but it'd be something!
you has a better suggestion?
maybe he wasn't going fast enough?
..i feel mean for that comment... i like Jaime really...
He's almost as good as tim
The fake F1 tweeters call him Bob
I prefer Hymie, it makes him sound like a Jewish lawyer and that makes me laugh
What happened to Jimmy Superaguri?
I guess his anglicised name would be James or Jim, if you were being familiar
what if we combine that with the fake tweeters....
jimbob?
Jimbob Aguilera
sold.
Terrifying
He didn't spin either
Sounds like he should be in Talladega Nights
i prefer Jaime Alguersuari ... sounds nicer.. :D and Tim is less complicated... but i suppose Jimbob is an alright name...
You know, it only occured to me when he left F1 that the french character is a charicature of Bourdais in that film...
He's kinda destined to having the most pseudonyms
:D i'm sure he's thrilled :D
There's a Safari Park in West Midland? That's rather out of nowhere. :D
Morning, everyone. :)
morning sir.
Hullo!
morning :)
There are several, i think i went in at least 3 last saturday night ;)
I hav just found a flaw in the doohickey. I had a headset on earlier on and now I have taken it off I can't hear the scissor clicks.
sooooo... you want... nope, i'm out.
You think you have it rough?
In my part of the world we dream of being able to hear scissor clicks....
:P
:D
I want you to fix it obviously
i'll get right on that then.
Well when I say hear the doohickey.....
I hope it goes straight to the top of you list
Watching the funeral mass for Cory. The outside of the cathedral is packed with people standing in the rain. Wow. :O
this is rather amazing
oh it has. trust me.
:D
thats so cool! Quite amazing!
It is, but i dont understand it...
Is this lemming theory?
Indeed. Wow. :)
wow!!
to me it showed how music truly is a universal language. As he says,anyqwhere he goes, instantly the crowd get it. And everyone in the audience got it together instantly! Quite remarkable.
I want a loop of this to send me to sleep... it is so relaxing
agreed.
It's genius because I had to put my headset on to hear the video and now I can hear the scissors again.
:D Genius!
hi there!
Wow wow wow. I'm sending that to my choir conductor.
Especially the first time he went to the first new note. You would think people would just stop.
I wish i didnt have a political brain, i have far too many thoughts about what is happening i have to focus to enjoy it!
I've been up far too long and done too much so now i get lots of sleep :)
night!
:D Mr C can cross that off his list then :)
*tick*
But everyone knew what to do - that was a genius idea that worked very well.
Hi Nikki. Looks like a few people have signed up for your show.
It's Derren Brown stuff
i can't stop watching that video, it's amazing :D
Night Lukeh
Gold star I think
i guess the crowd are visualising the scale in their minds eye and interpreting the correct pitch. i was doing the same by the end of it. can't explain it mind you.
night lukeh.
Yep! I'm getting pretty excited about it. If I get any more music I might suck up that 14:30 slot, too. Would that be so bad?
This annoyed me.
but listening again it was awesome :D
night Lukeh!
night Lukeh
Night
you remember the scene in the film "big", right? where they play "heart and soul" on the keyboard, on the floor, by jumping on it?
imagine a massive keyboard on stage...
night Lukeh. :D
I can understand how it works for the fifth or six note because a pattern has been established and we are programmed for pattern recognition. I have no idea how they get the third note though.
there was an amazing installation on south bank once that was a huge keyboard on the floor, you could do what he is doing and jump from one to the other :D it was so much fun :)
agreed. i didn't get it that fast by a long shot.
i guess you need a crowd?
I thought you didn't have enough time for one show?
When he went to the third note I was clueless and amazed anyone made any noise.
Most cultures have an understanding of the pentatonic scale. Less so in western cultures -- we've had do-re-mi banged in instead, but the pentatonic scale is at the heart of most genres beside pop and rock (Jazz_. So we're just used to it. Pattern recognition and extrapolation. :)
Yes i loved it!
Problem is i cant help thinking about all sorts of things i have been taught about freedom and free choice. Things i didnt realy want to belive were true...
I can shut it all out though *la la la big piano man* then it sounds incredible!
Yeah, I didn't. But now I have help. Editing help. And music. And a plan. Yay startledbunny!
Why does it bug you so much, Nick?
I've added myself to the list, too. :D 5 of the 7 continents are now on that list. ;)
Seems like you are starting to enjoy it
That sounds like a challenge. Rich is in South Africa
Indeed. We need to get him on! ;)
well it doesnt ... ok it does. but i dont want it too.
It is a hard concept to explain. i see it as a social science experiment.
when people do something like that en masse, it shows how little free will is really at play. they follow unsaid instructions without question and without thinking about it. in essence they are submitting to leadership without any knowledge or awareness of the fact.
I am being silly. It is fun mr piano man... you wont convince me otherwise!
it's 2:30 :( time for me to get some sleep. night all! x
I should do the same... just 10 more mins... Night lou
And it's pizza night for me. So I'm off too. Night, Nick and Lou. And bye to everyone else.
Night Lou. :)
mmmm pizza. :D
Cyas!
Night Lou
Greenpeace has an annual income of $200 million. How can that be possible?
interest.
I could refer you to my previous comment... but i wont, instead i am heading to bed. Night!
Later Nikki.
Night Nick. :)
Night Nick.
Clearly to mak loads of money we need to brainwash people. I can see sidepodradio being re-prorammed slightly. Nothing to worry about. Carry on.
Well, I'm already addicted after only a very short time.
"touch the screen..."
"touch the screen..."
All I'm getting is greasy fingerprints all over the screen!
you don't feel healed?
Do you have the urge to buy sidepodscreenwipes?
Yeah, but I think that's from the beer...
this is a long shot. but did we ever create a wiki page for subheadings?
e.g. the random ones that will appear instead of "all for f1...".
i don't remember any being created...
damn. that means:
a) i'm going to have to
b) i have some comments to trawl through
:)
Good luck to ya. :D
I think there was a list at one time.
"touch the screen..."
hmm. have done a man search but turned up nothing.
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Subtitle+Suggestions
It doesn;t look like a complete list on first scan but it should gve you a good start
oh.
...
...
*feels rather stoopid*
...
...
thankyou :)
Hey, at least there's less work for you to do. :D
yay!
I was searching for tag lines, taglines, various variations on subtitles before I found it. It's not just knowing what it is called it's figuring out spelling and spaces.
that is true. i am rather glad you found it before christine woke up though ;)
Time for bed. Actually it was time for bed a couple of hours ago but ho hum.
No sign of Amy yet. I wonder if the samonella got her this time?
Heheh. She will be here soon enough.
Night, Steven. :)
Just donated some towards Sidepodradio. I thought PayPal and my bank would never get things confirmed.
Jon is having that very same issue right now.
aww. thank you aitch. v.much appreciated.
paypal not a fan of sidepodcast?
I haven't had any issues with Paypal yet, though.
an exclusive look at the new sidepodcast homepage:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/subtiles-in-action-png
brawn-esque, you might say.
title randomisation is working, but we're going to need more so they don't get too repetitive.
It's Brawn without the yellow highlights. ;) :D
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/more-subtitles-png
COOL. Have you ever considered doing a panda podcast? :D
no!
heehee! :D
i was kidding, ya know. :P
;)
Someone, I can't remember his name, had one a while back it was Sidepodcast: Resistance is Futile.
morning
love it. adding that one :)
it's probably worth pointing out that custom subtitles were suggested over a year ago... we get there in the end.
hullo squire. how's tricks?
I had some hopes that the typhoon that came our way would only make it this morning and allow me to stay home. but no, again it had to be over night meaning no holiday today :-)
ahh damn. you should've asked giggles. he wouldn't of been able to do much either, but then you could've blamed steven...
I blame Journeyer :-) all the typhoons come here from that part of the world :-)
Heheh. And there's another one here right now. ;)
could you send it wolf's way, during the daytime please?
will try our best. ;)
that sound bad, if it is there on Wednesday it will be here for weekend , not what I want
damn you're picky when it comes to your typhoon's ;)
I am ... but this year is interesting. we had almost nothing last year, this season they like to come our way, but always in the wrong time :-)
ahh, time to snooze.
Night, Mr. C.
good night then
do we have that Canadian GP news from some serious source already ?
Bernie said it, according to AFP. I linked to it earlier.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/Montreal+driver+seat+Formula+return/1859728/story.html
looks like he forgot to tell people in charge in Montreal ...
This makes me laugh in a bitter, rueful way.
Hola amigos.
hola, lunch time for me :-)
Gone lunch time for me :(
A box of Maltesers appeared on my desk this morning, and I don't know why. Question is, should I eat them before anyone realises they're not for me?
Eat them and if anyone asks, say you never say them.
what's the worst that can happen? You have to go out and buy some maltesers to replace them?
A fierce debate raged last night here at Chateux Giggles about Maltesers. Some suggesting the origionals were best others suggesting the special ones in Celebrations were best.
The Celebrations ones are the best chocolates in the Celebrations pack, but they do not outrank original Maltesers.
interesting. I personally voted that the only way to find out for sure was a taste off!
I have to agree with Christine on this.
Damn, that's a better idea.
Looking good Mr C ;)
It might just be me but it looks like there are a lot of grammer errors in that article.
is it today the deadline for BMW Sauber (or whatever they will become) to sign the Concorde and keep their place on the grid next year ?
I think that boat has sailed
Bit of a bizarre story on grandprix.com today?
I thought it was odd too.
Either it's referring to F1 and America's Cup mirroring each other - first Valencia now the UAE or it's referring to Bernie's preoccupation with moving eastwards after the money or it's a reference to BMW blowing millions on a boat. Take your pick.
Today is the dealine for signing the Concorde Agreement but that does not affect whether or not the team has an netry for next season. They can still have an entry without signing apparently.
Thanks for the link and kind comments by the way
then, what is the point of the deadline ?
Ooooh. I like thinking of random titles!
Also, morning!
Morning everyone!
My cheeky tweet to Mclaren has gotten me a £10 voucher to their eshop! :D
"I love deadlines; I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly past" - Douglas Adams
Oooh, what did you tweet?
What can you actually get for £10 from their eshop?
They had a contest, take a pic in a victory shirt, tweet it to them, then they send you a voucher.
I tweeted them saying i didnt have one, but if they sent me a voucher i would buy one!
there is a 30% sale on, so most shirts are only £17, so just 7 for me :D
Classic
RAK!? They are going to RAK!
What on earth is this all about... the place is well not quite a dump, but not far off. It is completely different from the wealth and cosmopolitan cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
I really don't think you have to worry about a grand prix going there! :D
last time I got a voucher from them it didn't work. Boooo. I try not to buy too often anyway because their overseas shipping is ridiculous.
My voucher doesnt work...
I wonder if i can just go down there and pick it up? Somehow i dont think they would like that...
mclaren don't strike me as the kind of team to deal in cash.
I find it odd that in the twitpics of the drivers signing stuff for the eStore they are clearly Hugo Boss shirts rather than the if-I'm-honest-terrible-quality ones they usually sell.
Maybe they won't let their drivers go near such heathen items as replica merchandise.
Oh no, they've only gone and closed Bernie's local pub (Bernie's Inn?)
http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=38621
(They're really desperate for F1 news today aren't they? First yachting, now pub closures)
#donttheylooktired
Maybe that was what happened to Heikki last week! :P
Now we just need flavs gin palace to sink en route to Valencia...
It's very foggy off the coast of Valencia at the moment - a fair chance he could run aground? A shame Piquet won't be driving it.
Asumming he needs to go to Valencia of course.
sidepodemergency! I just knocked a litre of chocolate milk into the tiny gap between my tv cabinet and the wall, and my tv cabinet is so heavy I can't move it. Will I ever get the milk out? I'm quite certain if I don't it will start to smell bad.
What you need is a very long straw ;-)
Or a very skinny & thirsty cat
try a vacuum cleaner? pour down some water?
I just wish it was a small glass instead of an entire litre :(
You need to get the TV out or get a long straw. I would suggest in future not holding litre containers of milk above the TV.
we dont have a wetvac
You should be able to borrow or hire a wet vac
If you have some cooking salt, chuck a load of it over the spill if you can. Can vacuum up later possibly.
Come summertime, it might start to reek a bit
you cant use a normal one?
Can you empty said tv cabinat and move it? better to do it now than when it dries, smells, and attracts ants...
If you only have a fat & well fed cat, pouring cat litter down the back will absorb both liquid and smell
You can't suck a litre of liquid into a conventional vac.
I think I read on GMM that Funnel Web's love chocolate milk ;)
Without it blowing up
Can I be the first to say it's no use crying...
Have moved TV cabinet far enough to fit my arm and/or leg down the gap. I have carpet cleaner and towels! Now to spend all evening there :(
Good plan. Amy, collect a few hundred funnel webs and they will drink it.
We're SO helpful, aren't we
move to Finland?
or making the bag all soggy
The fire will sort the soggy bag out
What about the bagless kind, i use them to slurp up water... never been a problem...
It will blow up before the bag gets too soggy
Depends on the motor.
Ah its almost comical, I just knocked over the carton again and sent what was remaining in it onto the floor. Luckily in the same place. I'd hate to have to clean two areas.
Put the container in the sink
:lol:
Take a time out
Can you use your slippers as super-soppers?
Are you sure you're not secretly in a sitcom?
Any chance of moving closer to Albert Park before the summer arrives and your mates stop coming round because 'that smell'?
After seeing the Truman Show I always suspected it was based on my life.
hehehe, i sometimes get that feeling when everything is going wrong...
almost need an iphone ap that adds a laughter track to your life...
That's a point. Do we have video?
The blood pouring from my hand says: The bottom of my TV cabinet is sharp
I used to think this paranoia was just me, but apparently it is quite widespread.
Or the beginning of an episode of Casualty
now we really do need video! (feel better soon Amy)
this doesnt sound good...
"When Chocolate Milk Attacks!"
I know, she's probably out of chocolate milk too
Amy, I hope you resolve this without further injury or spillages
I must leave for work, see ya later peeps
Can we use some of the Sidepodradiocharity funds to fix this? Anyone know a chocolate milk delivery service that doubles as an ambulance?
I would however like to give thanks to the people who built my flat for putting in brown carpet.
No, but that sounds like a great idea for a business plan!
I wonder if Amy has thought about turning this disaster into a sidepodradio show.
We still have slots available http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodradio
And fire rescue for those who used a vacuum cleaner to clean it up
you've got my name on the travel list, that is enough. :D
And an insurance service and home repairs service
NO!. I want to own your soul. But I would settle for you doing a show
The Borg dont have souls though, you facing a battle here, resistance is futile
I haven't thought this through have I? At least we know sidepodradio will be broadcast to the hive meaning we will have the biggest radio audience ever for a radio station.
I fancy reading a bed time story - half an hour is rather long though
Perhaps you could volunteer some other people to do the same, and have a couple of stories?
Something tells me that we're not going to be able to stick rigidly to the half hour thing anyway.
Perhaps pre-record a 5/10-minute filler to use as you will?
#Sidepodanory
Give me an idea and I'll do something. I just lack ideas.
Perfect.
That is a certainty. Given that we have F1 minute every hour and handovers in between if people produce 30 minute shows we are going to have some creep in the schedule.
I love the idea of a vedtime story. Go for it Mac and we will fit it in somewhere.
I'll get writing...
Flav and the Beanstalk?
What are you interested in? Do you want to talk about Formula 1 or stay away from that nonsense? :)
Are you interested / knowledgeable about anything that the community may be interested in?
Chocolate milk disaster management, for example
Is amy still alive? last we heard she was leaking blood...
We need an update on the latest plot points...
It must be hard to type with one hand bandaged, and the other mopping up chocolate milk.
Very true, someone needs to invent extra arms for people...
now I'm feeling a little chilly so hunting for a blanket
That would just increase the chances of both knocking over the chocolate milk in the first place and sustaining blood injuries
Either is fine, although non-F1 is preferable.
So we need to have everyone's arms cut off? That would solve the problem.
This show has lost some of its drama i fear...
I just had deja vu as soon as I read that comment...
So what else are you interested in?
Yes I'm now in bed. Nothing else bad can happen. I think.
Ah just wait, a bowling ball will roll off the top shelf of the cupboard that the blanket is in...
You are in bed with electrical equipment. Nope. Can't see what could possibly go wrong?
rather in bed than in the bath :D
It could be like one of those horror films where the character is not expecting anything, but the audience is amazed they cant see whats about to happen...
oh lordy. i just checked fropio...
HE FELL IN THE WATER!!!
I am sure Mr C will be interested in this. He probably knows about it anyway as it was on TWiT.
http://chartbeat.com/
Yay Giggles
nope, news to me. shall take a peek.
"Chartbeat checks your site every minute and tells you immediately by phone or email if the site is down."
to be honest, we could do with one that emails us when spc is up ;)
Maybe v2.0
O love in the vid Giggles says he is doing sandpodcast
I love those... as if finding you out 30 minutes earlier is going to make your provider fix their damn server any quicker.
I have a VPS that took 10 days to fix earlier this month. I was not amused.
mediatemple?
Well, I'm currently looking at a couple of hundred DVD's but there's already a film show I hear. ;)
Umm, music, although I don't think I would be able to play any of it for lack of podsafety, and I couldn't talk about music for any length of time.
Other sports? Football mainly, although boring for the show, snooker, although boring to listen to someone talking about anyway.
Umm, I don't know...
will they be hosting mediafuturechange?
no.
Sounds good, i was a bit worried...
It might be interesting to have a show about other sports. You could get people to tell you what sports they watch and discuss how they rate to F1.
Hehehehee. I'm watching that petatontic scale video Mr C posted last night again, it sos cool!! :D
"Tennis and F1 are both sports with lots of good looking men, although in tennis they don't wear helmets so the good lookingness is always on display"
You could do it as a general sports phone in show and get people on skype to discuss it with you
You can be the first caller or a co-host
love it.
And baffling
Roger Federer has twin girls. Rami Raikkonen has twin boys. They should get married.
Who's Rami Raikkonen?
Is Giggles on a trasport themed holiday with all the trains, planes and automobiles
Kimi's brother
Some sort of pixar crossover character?
Ahhh.
for amy
I can't do anything live.
I wouldn't be able to do that. Eating is more important than sleeping. ;)
Damn timezones.
Perhaps we could get people writing in some questions. Make you a kind of Agony Uncle for Sports. Then you could pre-record it whenever you like.
I have heard about this before, they say you shouldnt eat when you fly to australia. its a 24 hour flight so i dont know if i could do that, but it might work?
I will write in asking why Wales played so badly against Finland when I went to see them in an international match, but I can already see where the answer will be going :P
page still hasn't loaded for me. stupid capped internet.
You shouldn't eat when you fly to Australia because it's airline food. last time I flew to Australia I ate their food then I was sick for 24 hours. ;)
Kimi internet?
Oh wait, for some reason I just turned Sean into Amy there...
I love airline food.... its so much fun!
I'm sure I could answer it just as well, my birthday is Finnish Independance Day. ;)
I found that out when I was about 10, and that made me like Finland.
This is exactly what we need in the show. Sign yourself up Sean :)
Does the general area of Australasia all want to be in Finland?!
:D
It's colder there, so yes. ;)
Plus they have super duper internet of course!
And we have the worst internet in the developed world.
YOU DIDN'T SEE THE TWIN-FINNS?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/img-9305-jpg
They are Finnish! And there is two of them! And one is called Titus! TITUS RAIKKONEN. Epic name.
You should make a wiki page for it, because I think you know what the show is better than I do. :)
Or, titanic name?
Wow!! Titus. he sounds like a transformer. That is an epic name.
Surely that depends on the pronounceation? :P
I feel like the other twin is being discriminated against because I assume he has a dull name
I'm telling ya now - Titus Raikkonen - F1 World Champion 2030. :D
The other one is called Juustu. Not quite as epic, but still rather Finnish.
Hehehe. Will do :)
Or perhaps they will team up Double Dash style, one will drive and one will throw things at other cars, but they will be driving for Ferrari, so no one will notice. ;)
On the subject of the radio: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/08/05/sidepodradio-back-on-track/
Yaaaaaay!
Just after Muse's album comes out too. BEST WEEK EVER.
19th September! I will be in Newcastle! I don't think I'll be joining you live then.
Gosh. Comparing Sidepodradio to Muse. No pressure then!
Least you know I'll be in an excellent mood :P
Is this before or after the lotus thing? Is that still happening?
I believe it is not.
Boo.
Ah well... Still its good to have a date for sidepodradio! I am looking forward to it already!
Still, it means I won't have to suffer the embaressment of listening to anything I record live. ;) I'll get to listen to it when I get back.
I have updated the wiki pafe with the new date
Absolutely. Replays for all :)
Sidepodradio2?
mmm lasagne salad for lunch... anyone else have anything good?
The Sidepodempire Strikes Back?
:P
Shhhh.
Maltesers!
I had pringles and a sandwhich! Woo!
mmmm.
You said it.
Depends which Newcastle. If you come to mine, I'm here, and you have no excuse.
Course, if your talking about that Aussie place that nicked our name, then you won't.
Hi everybody.
Here are Finn-Twins when slightly smaller
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/little-finns-jpg
I hope they don't dress them in identical outfits every day of their lives.
Hi Dr Nick!
Ur.. I mean, hey RG.
Unfortunately it's the latter.
G'Day.
Love that guy!
Its amazing, i love the beach there, its one of my favourites in the world... and i have been to quite a few...
:D
hey RG, what time is the quiz tonight?
No quiz. Didn't plan on the quiz tonight, was meant to be last week but had to pull it due to illness.
my twitter angel is randomly back! he says "The F1 summer shut down is inducing cabin fever. Actually maybe that's the early stages swine flu..."
your twitter angel?
Ohhh. Does that mean the quiz is on summer break now?
the person who got her that pass to the Vodafone event at the Aussie GP weekend.
Yep, on a good ol' summer holiday.
ah, i wasnt around then...
I always feel this video sums it up best :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYij-UpaoyA
Aww I love how he holds the bat. Cricket needs more Heikki.
He's holding the bat wrong...
Its not really all that different from the way KP holds it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufK2qNYCe4w
"he called it a paddle earlier"
then he came over to tell me how awesome I am.
That was you fiming? you were practically holding hands with lewis!
For anyone who was around this morning, the Maltesers were for me! Woohoo!
Apparently I did a kind deed yesterday that I had forgotten about.
I just rewatched the "Lewis playing cricket" video and realised that Heikki was close enough to touch/kidnap. There was a fence in the way though.
Just relised Mclaren have posed a series of video blogs on turing their lemon into lemonade...
I thought you had decided to eat first and ask later when you said you had eaten them earlier
I did. I had them for lunch.
Thats great!
*shakes fist at the little old lady downstairs*
Hehehe.
James allen lights a lantern of hope...
I am getting a 404 for his site bu I saw the headings on the right hand panel. I assume that you are talking about the German testing again.
Does anyone remember the old Mtv show 'where they had models of celebrities having fake fights?
I want to see Flav and Vladimir Putin climb in the ring...
Someone might not be fit to race...
My goodness, JA's site is slow. His Twitter says that the German's test next week will decide if he really will come back.
Celebrity Death Match!
Ahhh I remember that!
:D Yes!
they need an F1 special!
it is quick at this end, no probs reading
I managed to see the story. I wonder how many more tests he is going to do?
I guess since he is doing more then the FIA investigation into him running in a 2 year old car that was reported by a well known 'news' stealing agency was bogus.
Good point there. More reason for us to be careful.
I thought they meant medical tests?
We need a list of F1 fights #CDM so they can have a wiki page later.
Ari vs Max #CDM
The FIA have no right to investigate. As joe says in his blog, the testing ban has nothing to do with them and is not an official rule
Flav vs PK #CDM
Paar vs Luca
Ari vs Todt
Nelsinho vs Flav
Fernando vs Ron
Scott Speed vs Franz Tost - my personal fave. :D
BMW vs Existance
BMW are celebrities right?
#CDM Kimi vs Sutil
I like that!
James Allen vs Jonathan Legard
#cdm
Fisi v Liuzzi
#CDM Martin Brundle vs every rival tv presenter on the grid...
Surely its Brundle vs The Grid all together
#CDM
Bernie vs Mrs Bernie
well, frankly, what is there to investigate (other than perhaps the slick tyres, but would Ferrari be that stupid to use 2009 slicks ...) ? he is just the rich guy who can afford to get into 2 year old collector piece Ferrari F1 car and take for a spin around the track. anyone with some serious money to spare can do that ...
what makes it a two year old car though? grooved tyres would be one thing...
He is a Ferrari F1 driver driving a car owned by Ferrari that is on the closest tyres available to F1 tyres driving during the factory shutdown and the whole thing is being done to circumvent the testing ban.
If his test is legal then what we are saying is that teams can't test their 2009 cars to save costs but they can test modified 2007 cars. In two years time there is going to be an awful lot less difference between current and 2 year old cars thatthere is now.
wouldn't surprise me if he needed to get accustomed to the pit traffic light system at the same time.
i bet his tyre men could use some familiarisation too. he probably stops differently to massa.
I am off to ross brawns home town tonight, do i drive, or would it be safer to take the train? :P
Or, indeed, a Hansom Carriage?
Welcome back from hiatus, by the way, Mrs & Mrs C. Heard anything else from that fake lawyer?
I had to google that ;)
I think i am safe, we are going to the slightly less glamorous maidenhead...
All quiet on the lawyer front at the moment.
although we did discover a tiny flaw in a certain companies business plan...
what would that be ?
Whoops, got caught up in watching Dr Who for the past hour or two there...
Paying too much to that so-called brief Bumfluff Wangwang, from the legendary legal practice Messrs Sue, Grabbit and Runne?
well. it may not be a flaw. i guess it depends on how you look at it.
but suppose you're in the business of syndicating stories in return for a fee. you might want to protect those stories from anyone not willing to pay said fee, right?
what you don't want to be doing is giving them anyway to anyone and everyone, unchecked... right?
You are setting up a free version of a motorsoorts syndication agency?
don't need to. it's already been done or us.
*for us.
It's war!
just a random rss feed picked up from google and tweaked a little
however. it wouldn't take much effort or very many hands to do a better job for less money...
huh? im confused do you have a link?
I see what it is but i dont know what happens to it...
Oh my life, that's most definitely 10-30 unresearched, cut-and-pasted and thoroughly unoriginal news stories per day. Hoist by his own Peugeot!
Can it use Google translate though?
Can anyone? :-)
I think it would be very wrong of us not to make this information widely available.
neither do i. but i could take a guess that it might get sold on a month-by-month basis to anyone who wants it.
and apparently available for free to everyone else.
to twitter?
The only problem I can see is that the links don't work
It seems only fair.
ahhh. things just got VERY interesting.
there are no links. the content only appears to exist within the feed.
Well, I'm off to the bank before it closes (parenthetically, why is it that they close so early? Wish I'd had the sense to go and work for one in my youth. I may even breeze in just as they're shutting up shop and say, "Half day, is it?"). Perhaps I should shove printouts of the URL through a few letterboxes en route?
The headline is a link but it just takes you to an Apple - not found - page
couldn't hurt. it's not going anywhere :)
the RSS specification requires there to be a <link> tag. and there is nowhere for it to go. so i picked an arbitrary url.
pick another and i'll change it, but there is nowhere for it to link to.
if someone sent your wife threatening and intimidating emails, you'd respond in exactly the same way i'm sure.
the question now, is what to do with the following domain name. coincidentally acquired earlier this week?
http://motorsportnewswire.com/
every business needs a little honest competition... right?
oooooooooooooooooh.
i may have been a little busy this week.
it certainly looks like it!
I have three words for you: Go for it.
sidepodcast. Use the news to drive traffic
Mr C just had a much better idea.
Nooo, don't do that. I don't want to be associated with all those lies.
ah-ha. i didn't. but you just did :)
agreed.
you... you... you've just made me a genius. :P
*claps happily*
the doctor just regenerated into david tennants doctor! onto the next episode!! :D
god I love the iPlayer.
oh :-)
That's a tough one. I am going to need a couple of years to come up with an idea for that. I know I will get one sooner or later.
Is it wrong that I see an embeddable news feed that people can put on their site for free that updates in real time?
it's not something that could be done alone. it would require many hands, some with foreign language skills, some in different timezones.
Hey Steven, we were on the lookout for some Portugese man-of-war jellyfishes for the Sidepodsafaripark weren't we?
Just gotta head to Dorset or Devon.
wherever could you find people like that? One could only imagine.
true, true... i wonder... hmmm... :D
haha. that's propagating more nonsense though.
what's needed is a competitive product. one that properly credits sources (and links to original stories). one that drives traffic back to journalists.
Shame we don't know a few dozen people who are totally obsessed with F1 news who could do that
and not forgetting, one that costs less than everyone else.
I can see that working - If loads of sites sign up for free 10-30 made-up news stories a day, people will rush to SPC as the last refuge!
isn't it? sooo close :)
Dios mio, how many projects are you working on at the same time?!
I am so disappointed. I always thought they were huge.
i just need a little motivation. thankfully last week i was provided with some.
We also need a technological genius who knows how to protect the work and not hand it out for free when it's not meant to be. Someone who, you know, can create realtime commenting updates and things like that would probably be able to do that.
But it puts gmm out of business
That's a hard ask. I wonder where you can find that. Hmmm... :D
we don't want to do that.
we just want to offer some honest competition.
that's how business works.
Do we need to advertise or just hire a head hunter?
we really don't have all the pieces in place to do this, do we?
i guess it's not meant to be ;)
awww, the shame! ;)
I am all in favour of honest business and especially if it make you a few quid but he started a war and I just want to destroy his business now.
but this idea might make them a few quid AND dominate the competition.
It could be done with a free introductory offer...
Right i am going to head to the gym and ask them if i can join.
It sounds so easy, but i have never done this before and i will find some way to make a fool of my self...
no need to destroy anything or anyone.
there are sites that need content, journalists that need attribution, press officers who need a break, and people around the world that want to see proper f1 news syndicated properly.
if there's money to be made along the way... bonus!
exactly.
I'm so happy I have to watch A Muppet Christmas Carol. I don't care that it's August.
That film is awesome. Michael Caine!!
Your seasons are all screwed up. :D
Wonderful film! Why do you have to watch it though?
It probably makes more sense than watching it in the middle of summer...
Every December I watch it at least 10 times. Might as well start early this year.
That destroys his business and makes a profit so I am all in favour of it and if that doesn't work there is the free option.
Every Christmas I make sure I watch that, Cool Runnings, Willy Wonka and Jingle all the Way at least once.
I may be the only Jingle All the Way fan in the world.
I don't think I own another film that makes me smile so much. I like the songs :D
I'm more a Muppet's Treasure Island kind of guy
that. movie. is. AWESOME.
I love Christmas movies. Everytime I see one I have to buy it.
Every time I see it, I want a Bean Bunny.
Plus it has Troy McLure. Everytime I see Phil Hartman pop up in that film I just wait for 'Hi! I'm Troy McClure...'
I want the Ghost of Christmas Present. He seems a jolly chap.
I'm not here.
I live in Dorset or Devon! One mile from West Bay.
Do you own a net?
This other agency thing seems like fun. Will read more later, gotta go again.
I don't own a net but lots of shops do, I'm sure they could be persuaded to give me one in exchange for money.
it's not quite ready yet. only mentioned it because stuart brought the subject up.
so you have TWO promising projects in the pipeline. you guys never cease to amaze.
http://mediafuturechange.com/
work in progress...
looks promising, for a start. :D
can i get a "christine is awesome"?
How come yours says answers enabled and mine doesn't? Did I miss a setting somewhere?
Christine is AWESOME! :D
there was a tick box somewhere? will have to look later.
seconded.
I need to start drinking and visiting safari parks
No probs. I will look next time I post.
:D
Managed to leave an answer to the USB 3.0 bit, although I had to type my name and email blind - I couldn't see any output. :)
:D
yikes!
i can't see the answer though? wonder if it got moderated?
this is what i see:
i see that at the spot where i entered my answer.
I can't see it either, and there's no mod queue in the dashboard as far as I can see. Odd.
odd. might be cached.
I left an answer an the name and e-mail came up in white and was very easy to read.
i refreshed the page, and my answer came out. so it's out there somewhere.
I can see my answer but not Journeyer's
Mr. C, can you see Steven's answer?
Can't see your answer, either - can only see mine.
nope.
I see there is no option to leave a second answer
looks like it needs some debugging, then...
yup, don't have that option, either.
I don't think it is designed for conversation, we may have to rethink the tumbling.
I just got an e-mail asking me to confirm my e-mail address
You did? *Rushes off to check email*
http://www.tumblr.com/docs/faqs#comments
and a few down from that it says about a question & answer post. It's all a bit weird.
It's not just a conformation click. It wants a password and a user name
it's a starting point :)
What it really needs is a doohickey.
Anything but Wordpress, right?
I have now completed the confirmation process. Has my comment appeared
correct.
I didn't get any such email. I hope I typed my email correctly. :(
nope.
I have just made a second comment after confirmation and log in. Did it appear?
nope :)
I can see my second answer but not the first or Journeyer's
I get the impression this is half a story.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77559
What happened to the old developer or have the really gone this far without one?
Thirdededed.
I'm back now... and almost dried off!
For those who saw the video of me standing in the water I have to say that I was clearly tempting fate. Seconds after stopping filming I slipped on a rock and my iPhone ended up about 3 centimeters away from the water!
My first thought was, "why did I stop filming!"
I have gone round the sidepodbend!
Oh... Goodness another 4 Giggles Radio shows!
I'll have to check with Katherine about whether Dr Giggles can reappear. His glasses are on a time-share with her ;)
Off to bed. One more day at work, then off to holiday. w00t!
Night, all. :D
Obviously you do not have to do another four, but you know everyone would love it :)
Night Journeyer
I can see the answers in the dashboard. I think it is treating them more as messages for us rather than comments to be displayed.
Joe has a couple of interesting stories on his blog.
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/todts-glossy-brochure/
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/what-is-fair-play/
I wasn't backing down and I have ages to prepare now :)
I think Professor Giggles may not be coming back this time. But Doctor Giggles will be there with his phone in show! And I have an idea for something else that there simply wasn't time for in the previous schedule!
That seems an odd feature.
Yay :)
Apparently there is a way to hack comments in...
http://hacks.tumblr.com/post/7489772/comments-tumblr-oldway
I just discovered that the new sidepodradio date is not as good for space rocks. The first two were perfect but three in a row was too much to hope for.
I have discovered that just like Lukeh and his Muse, the new Pearl Jam album is out September 18 :D What a great audio week for Amy :D
Perhaps the other half fell down the hole in the new access tunnel...
Is that like F1 Rocks?
Something for everyone:
1. Commissioner is good for the individual series
2. Stewards Review Group is good for the fans confused by how they make the rules up
3. Regional centres of excellence are good for those who vote for him because nobody else better expect to get one :-)
No These are the kind that Bruce Willis may be interested in. I have found one a week after sidepodradio so I can use that. On the original date there was one on the day. On the second date there will be 4 the following day. Seprember seems to be a safer month.
Right, well I'm now in trouble for not meeting Mrs C (my Mrs C that is) from work, so must scuttle to the pub and order her a pint to ameliorate the aggro.
Silence will reign from this end tomorrow and Friday – off to chisel lumps from a coal face belonging to a certain energy drink...
You're tempting fate - the "big one" will probably sneak through the radar on the 19th now
Update on the interview: went brilliantly :) . In fact, I got complimented on the amount of research I'd done into the company. I'm now waiting to find out when I can start...
Sounds different.
Woo, awesome :)
There is every possibility that the first we will know of the big one will be a few days before it arrives. There was a big one that went between the Earth and the moon and they only found it two weeks before it arrived
Anybody interested to see that the man who must NOT win the presidency is offering in his manifesto?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77563
That's good. Your normal level of research will have been way more than they are used to.
You'll have plenty to talk about then, better reschedule to around noon though :-)
Try this http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/todts-glossy-brochure/
Woo, awesome {Comment #747}
Thank you :)
oooh I did not see that earlier in the comments.Apologies.
I promise if there is a big one going to hit us the schedule will get shuffled so it's live.
No problem
It's a very nice brochure - shame about the guy behind it
Two weeks is enough to rustle up Bruce and his men.
This is SPC you're talking about - bound to be running late and so miss the mass extinction event
At least we'd have a good excuse!
i can’t do a sidepodradio show.. i go away on holiday on the 16th. {Comment #16}
What about a virtual tour of a zoo in your imagination? Then you could pre-record it...
That's a relief
Just think. You wouldn't need to edit the show
Evening all. All of Lukeh's talk of Muse's new album must have got me into them again. I've just bought Absolution in a 2 for £10 deal at HMV.
Woohooo!
What was the second one?
With if terrorists with dodgy German accents hijack an office block the same week?
Well Bruce has to save the world before he can save the office block. I have faith he could get it all done though.
here’s a question for you… are we?
what have fota ever done for us? {Comment #41}
- Stopped Max from imposing that ridiculous medals idea one week before the first race of the season
- Got the teams united for one crucial week - just long enough for Max to realise he can't have everything his own way and to force concessions
- Limited the extent to which the FIA can split the teams in future
- Stopped the budget cap, which would have resulted in no F1 in 2011 due to lack of teams
- Stopped Ferrari from getting any special deals out of the new Concorde Agreement (probably)
- Forced a new Concorde Agreement to happen (if it had been left to the FIA, there would never have been one because it suited them to pretend they ruled everything)
- Forced Max to stick to his promise to step down at the end of 2009
- Stopped the teams from squabbling with each other for a few months (mostly), thus highlighting how stupidly the FIA has been behaving and promoting the agenda for change. Jean knows now that if he wins the election, the fans won't follow him, however many small clubs do. Unfortuantely neither FOTA nor anyone else can make him care, but that's another story.
Granted, FOTA's ideas have been pretty dodgy, but they've curbed worse excesses. Better the yapping dog at the gate than the wolf at the door...
Pendulum - In Silico :P
Ah, good. I have no idea what that is. Well done though :)
Scott,
We have a new dropio where you can upload the sidepodradio show we spoke about on Monday
http://drop.io/sidepodradio/
We can always get Morgan Freeman on half the budget I suppose
Office block - planet. It's a tough choice but if he goes to the office block and saves it, it is going to get wiped out anyway by the space rock.
i am confused why nick craw is on todt's team?
i don’t think it’s that at all. he’s wasn’t even williams’ representative was he? {Comment #84}
No, Adam Parr (Williams' CEO) was Williams' representative. The only reason Frank isn't a full member of FOTA is because Bernie made it sign an agreement in 2005 separately tying it to F1 until 2012 because Williams needed the inducement money.
Beats me
Developer is not quite the right term, as that usually relates to the people putting up the equity (so Donington leisure is the developer). And they already had a contractor announced. So it looks like these guys are coming in as project managers/construction managers/client's representatives.
In all likelihood this relates to Donington's fund raising efforts. Lenders to construction projects will want to know that the project will be delivered on time and budget, with the right contracts in place, performance bonds and guarantees from the contractor, so that cost overruns delays etc do not affect the lenders. I guess it is felt that having a well respected construction management team on board will make the lenders look more favourably on the project. Quite how getting someone from Multiplex, who spectacularly cocked up the Wembley project (in terms of time and cost overruns) provides that comfort I'm not sure!
Hmmm - just noticed on re-reading that she was involved in the purchase of the Dome by AEG. I wonder if AEG would be interested in Donington - since their venues like the o2 and staples center host music and sport, and Donington hosts its fair share of music events, and sport...
I have decided I can risk going outside.
Back in a couple of hours.
if you walk out that door....
that was never a serious proposition. it was a starting point for a discussion. {Comment #50}
Since Max was insisting on the same fatally flawed structure and was only prepared to change the amount, FOTA's thwarting of the plan was still necessary.
do we know that? or are we assuming that? {Comment #66}
The FIA didn't want a Concorde Agreement at all and after selling to CVC Bernie didn't need one (alternate commercial contracts would have had a similar enough effect for his purposes), so it has to have been enough of the teams together to force the matter. The only such group around was FOTA, so it has to have been them.
The Concorde Agreement severely limits the powers the FIA can exercise, unless the 2009 version is significantly different to the old version that leaked onto the internet.
In short, we know that but through indirect evidence.
how much worse could it have been? {Comment #76}
We could have had no F1 in 2011 on the grounds of everyone getting disqualified from 2010. However flawed it may turn out to be, we will almost certainly have F1 of some description in 2011 due to FOTA's actions.
I can’t imagine many major sponsors being happy with white and highlighter {Comment #146}
Judging from Spyker's experience, orange highlighter is slightly better than yellow highlighter... ...but only slightly.
Jaguar demonstrated that green highlighter is considerably better, but the money tends to dry up without notice.
The effects of pink highlighter were demonstrated by Brabham to be fairly disastrous.
jaguar's livery was gorgeous.
Why am I getting the feeling that some of Todt's proposals make sense? I don't want to go over to the dark side! I hope Ari's keep my faith in him.
you need to read joe.
I would happily be a major sponsor of Brawn. However, I have nothing to sponsor them with unless they put my name all over the car which would ruin it. Even more so, I have no money to offer them, unless some packs of chocolate and a sausage roll can persuade Mr Brawn ;)
Shame they forgot to have the revolution though… {Comment #171}
Their successor did, though. According to my poster, Honda was "Powering dreams one lap at a time" (with a service between laps...) Now that's a racing revolution ;) )
now I feel rubbish like a rubbish fan {Comment #190}
I wouldn't worry too much. Do you think I can remember all the Jordan 2004 engine covers?!?
Nooooooooo Ive just realised… with no Piquet that means we won’t get at leats one guaranteed spin per weekend of F1 {Comment #199}
Wait for Free Practise 2. I don't know what's gotten into Giancarlo lately, but ever since Spain, he's had a crash, off or near-collision of some sort in or around every single FP2, even when the rest of his weekend has been perfect. Baffling, but staves off the boredom.
I think we need a wiki page for things that have happened when people who shouldn't go outside go outside.
Obviously I need to be excluded or I'd never fall in the water!
Kaz?… i don’t know why i think he isn’t a great driver. i hardly notice him in gps anymore… {Comment #202}
That's because he's quiet, keeps his head down and drives anonymously. I wouldn't count on him for a spin, though, which is good news.
you could have a mishap in your bath?
maybe he wasn’t going fast enough? {Comment #208}
He was quicker than Sebastien in the race... ...though maybe there is more speed in Jaime than we first saw. This could be interesting...
or your kitchen sink.
...if you were, say, changing the kitchen light bulb.
Today is the dealine for signing the Concorde Agreement but that does not affect whether or not the team has an netry for next season. They can still have an entry without signing apparently. {Comment #368}
Then the Concorde Agreement is... ...strange. That's effectively saying protections from rogue FIA decisions and the like is optional.
Is the FIA trying to annoy the EU?
then, what is the point of the deadline ? {Comment #370}
It's typical Max playing with whatever power he has left to him.
I am quite near Bath down here in Sumerset!
now, if you fell into a roman bath...
electricty and water don't mix... Especially not the iPhone ;)
Ecce, cade in aequora
:D
I love those… as if finding you out 30 minutes earlier is going to make your provider fix their damn server any quicker.
I have a VPS that took 10 days to fix earlier this month. I was not amused. {Comment #473}
The forum I admin is still down three-and-a-half weeks after it first went down, and all I'm getting is technical support claiming it works fine...
Sim racing news: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! :D :D :D :D :D
http://www.virtualr.net/lamborghini-and-bugatti-join-gran-turismo/
#simracing: And we have pictures! :D :D :D
http://www.gtplanet.net/lamborghini-bugatti-coming-to-gran-turismo-series/
The other one is called Juustu. Not quite as epic, but still rather Finnish. {Comment #517}
I wonder if that's Finnish for Justin (in which case he may well make F1 himself?)
Have you tried this? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Eening .. has anyone mentioned Todt's manifesto?
Yep. But he doesn't promise to bring back the letter V to your keyboard so dont support him! :P
eening ;)
Ah, I see from the cool searchy box that it's been mentioned
e?ening ;)
Haha :D
Ooh, just remember again that today marks 3 months in my job :)
It's a cool new welcome phrase
hi all
*waes*
*waes back* :-)
If his test is legal then what we are saying is that teams can’t test their 2009 cars to save costs but they can test modified 2007 cars. In two years time there is going to be an awful lot less difference between current and 2 year old cars thatthere is now. {Comment #593}
No - what we (or at least I) are/am saying is that only organisations that have signed up to the Sporting Regulations can be bound by them. It would be legally impossible for the FIA to act otherwise, even if it's as frustrated by the partner organisation loophole as I am.
The 2009 test was planned to be with Ferrari itself, while the 2007 test was with F1 Clienti. Legally, there's no reason why Ferrari couldn't give F1 Clienti a current car and let Michael test that. The ethics of the situation are a different matter entirely.
me likes :)
It's quite surprising how often you use that letter.
very often?
ery :D
however. it wouldn’t take much effort or very many hands to do a better job for less money… {Comment #609}
I thought Yahoo! had effectively been doing this for donkey's years because of it pubicising a combined RSS feed including various GMM recipient sites. Either it's not paying anyone or it's paying the recipient sites, who are effectively making money from the GMM feed.
I'm ery excited at Lamborghini and Bugatti in Gran Turismo. Means I can drive the Eyron and the Reenton among other ehicles! Wouldn't mind seeing the Olo C30 though ;)
:D haha
Seriously though, the Veyron in Gran Turismo. Wow, never thought I'd see the day.
Introductions aside,
lets move right along,
you can all sing along,
to the sound of my song.
A new tune?
well I was convinced that was the lyrics to do the Bart man. But I've just learned it doesn't seem to be the case.
Well that seems to have killed everything. Maybe we shouldn't put introductions aside but should stick to them?
Where's eeryone tonight .. busy preparing radio shows?
So Jackie have you caught up with Giggles Radio? Last I heard you hadn't started?
which show are you doing for Sidepodradio?
Entertaining myself with various games :)
Unfortunately I haen't found the time yet Alex, though I hear you had rae reiews blooming letter after U's .. roll on tomorrow till I get a new keyboard.
Re the what am I doing.. hiding?
Also Jackie. I've been meaning to ask you since you revealed while I was presenting the parade lap that you had read my book. I wanted to ask you what your favourite story was?
Although I now realise that you may own but have not read.
I thought you might be hosting the quiz live?
That’s good. Your normal level of research will have been way more than they are used to. {Comment #750}
Apparently I knew more about the company and what it did than the interviewer (who runs the office I intend to work in), though she did reveal that she didn't know the company had a website*, so it may not have been one of my more spectacular achievements...
* - I hasten to add that the website was done by someone in a different branch of the company.
Hae to dash for a bit .. promise I'll come back later
heh
It’s a very nice brochure – shame about the guy behind it {Comment #757}
I have to say I was hoping for a rather less conservative agenda, but then he is Max's protegé.
Congratulations on the interview going well Alia!
i am confused why nick craw is on todt’s team? {Comment #775}
Same here. Wonder what he was promised for that defection?
Have you tried this? {Comment #809}
The sidebars of the page load but not the main (and most important) screen of the forum or my admin function panel, so it won't show up on that test. However, it does make adminning the site (or even viewing it) impossible - and from what I've been told, other forum users are having the same problem.
I got:
If you can see this page and still think we're down, it's just you.
Then I remembered I'd copied the site's URL after I'd copied the forum's URL...
I tried the forum URL, but the checker doesn't narrow it down enough anyway (it simply claims the whole network is up, which I already know because otherwise technical support would still be in the dark about this - their e-mail doesn't work!)
It's finally started working properly :) ,
with a message from technical support claiming it worked all along despite all evidence to the contrary :(
even though the site only started working correctly between me sending off the last comment and this one.
*Ahem*
HELLO SIDEPODWORLD!
hey JON!
howdy, how are you sir?
good, just catching up with comments
you?
exhausted, but doing good thankin' you
hi jon
HELLO JON!
*ahem*
is that a tired related clearing of the throat? ;) ;) ;)
hows the land of cider?
woah, its 9 already. I should really stop playing Football Manager.
Tell me about it :(
#simracingnews: Spy shot of an Audi A4 DTM car in Forza 3 :D
http://i25.tinypic.com/28r3151.jpg
Good to see someone has pointed out where the car is on the screen
Also that screenshot also confirms catalunya it seems :)
Indeed, that was unveiled in a bunch of screens T10 released a week ago or so, showing off some hot hatches, such as the Fiat 500 Abarth, Ford Focus RS, Alfa MiTo aaaand... Renaultsport Twingo!!! :D
Lukeh, seriously man, you NEED to bookmark this site:
www.virtualr.net
Only place where I get all my sim racing news :P
Also, a question for you: is Absolution the best Muse album or Black Holes and Revelations? Which is better in your honest opinion? ;)
Absolution by a country mile. BH&R is good but Absolution is absolute. No pun intended. :P
I'm just scared I'm having so much fun managing an obscure Swedish team.
Bit more on me and Absolution.
I'll probably do the rest over the next few weeks leading up to The Resistance.
Sounds like I made the right choice then ;)
Uprising is very good. Me thinks I shall have to purchase this latest offering :P
Good evening Sidepoduniverse
eening
nothing wrong with my V or any other key, all omissions are due to my own lousy typing
evening
What's this all about on BBC F1?
#
Formula 1 2009, The European Grand Prix - Qualifying
22 Aug 2009 12:10-14:15 BBC One (Northern Ireland, Wales only)
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Formula 1 2009, The European Grand Prix
23 Aug 2009 12:10-15:00 BBC One (Wales only)
Wales only?
The English and Scots are spared the race in Valencia? Hurrah!
very good thank you!
Good job I'm in Cyprus.
Or over Croatia, yeah, I'll be flying during the race. Great.
Only songs I recognise from Absolution are Hysteria, Stockholm Syndrome, Butterflies and Hurricanes, Time Is Running Out and Thoughts of a Dying Atheist. Only know of the last two, haven't heard them.
Any other good ones I should check out? Try to avoid saying all of them ;) :D
Urm... if you bought the album you should realy be checking out the entire thing!!
Bare with me, I've only just copied it to iTunes!
Hehe :)
I suggest finding an hour or so to just relax and go through it all in order. The entire album flows from song to song :)
I have noticed the slick transition from Hysteria to Blackout. Thinking about it, that does sound like some serious medical condition.
:D
Ah, onto Butterflies and Hurricanes :D
I did find when seeing the F1 05 intro set to this, the whole thing seemed a bit 007-ish. Not Muse, but the cinematics.
Yeah I remember that well with the whole bond style openig and slow mo effects of the rain down Monza :D
I liked that f1 game. No reason why. Ahem.
I'm pretty sure the opening bit looking down on the pit garages looked a lot like Interlagos to me.
Evening all, Just sent tweet to Jake Humphrey to ask why they only want to show the GP to the Welsh. Will let you know if I get a reply!
Also, a question for you: is Absolution the best Muse album or Black Holes and Revelations? Which is better in your honest opinion? {Comment #864}
Having never listened to either album (I think I saw the former in a shop once and the latter still brings me more in mind of F1 Racing interviews than music albums), I can't really comment...
I meant the on track bit, with the cars going down the straight ;)
I thought all that was set at Suzuka?
Was it?
Well thats my mind blown
Lemme find the intro on t'YouTube.
It also doesn't say about any of the practise sessions which is a little wierd although I wouldn't be surprised if that changes as we get closer to the GP.
Still... no idea why it says Northern Ireland/Wales only....
Hello. Having a lovely time thinking up Welsh film titles over on twitter.
One little F1 related plug by me. Bout Piquet and me feeling sorry. Like Liuzzi, and me feeling sorry.
hey janna :)
groovy, i check now.
I've got an email from the dutch 2cv team coming over for this weekend with info about his team.
Their drivers names are Kars, Arno, Niels, Roderik
Best.names.ever
Lukeh - I think the whole intro's set at Suzuka. Look out for the Fuji Television banners ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMsw7ZYnIw
Lets be honest, Kars is only racing cos of his name.
He has driven 1,500,000 km in a 2CV.
How did it not break1?!?
You are indeed right. My entire perception for years of that intro has been smashed to pieces!
For all those that don't know, there's an new iPhone software update, version 3.0.2, which I think only fixes SMS vulnerability.
3.0.1 fixes the SMS thingy. I know knothing of 3.0.2
I cant understand the reasoning behind Wales only for the European GP. What is on TV for 2 days on BBC1 on that weekend that would cause the F1 not to be shown? I dont get it.
I went. I came back and only got slightly damp in between
I cant understand the reasoning behind Wales only for the European GP. What is on TV for 2 days on BBC1 on that weekend that would cause the F1 not to be shown? I dont get it. {Comment #906}
My grand and complicated theory is:
It's a typo.
If someone's looking for a show idea I heard one on the radio that may work. Get people to phone in and say who they would like to be in a film or TV series and why
Question for Mr Woodwiss, is Gran Turismo 4 any good?
I'd go along with that - this is the BBC website we're talking about
Probably. Just seems wierd for it to be on the listings and on BBCF1 but I can't see why it would'nt be on
Well, it has a wide variety of cars, but physics and AI aren't really that different from GT3. Then again, GT4 has Le Mans and the Nordschleife. But then so does Forza 3.
My advice - it's not as good as it could have been. Strangely enough, I think GT3 is better. Go with that and wait it out until GT5, which apparently should be out this year! :D
has this RCE article been discussed yet today?
i really new nothing about stefanovic before reading, but i recommended if you've not already perused.
I have to restore my iPhone. Boo. :(
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2009/08/todt-plans-to-change-how-fia-manages-f1/
Have to wholeheartedly agree. Ari's smear campaign was clumsy while Jeany has come up with a well thought out manifesto. Come on Ari, try harder.
Lukeh, correct me if I'm missing something, but isn't it OK for you anyway as you're in Wales?
Ah but does GT5 cost me under £5 including postage? i think not ;) and it won't work on PS2
I got a Amazon voucher for completing a certain amount of surveys from a survey company, so i was just using that up. I've bought Race Driver 2 (which i used to play so much the disk stopped working) and GT4 (it was that one or Le Mans the game)
Yeah it's fine for me but it just confuses me is all and I'm sure evn though it's Valencia if it isn't televised asides from here it'll leave a lot of unhappy viewers....
Plus when a mystery surfaces it's fun finding an answer :D
Absolutely, I've been looking at other sports on the BBC and can't see anything that would clash. I'm leaning towards the typo theory, we'll have to see :-)
GT5 WILL be worth it for these reasons:
- Indianapolis
- Le Mans
- Nordschleife
- Nurburgring GP circuit
- Damage
- 16 player online mode
- Ferrari
- Lamborghini
- Bugatti
- WRC
- NASCAR
And that's only, quoting Kaz here, "a very small portion" of the game. There are still very much likely quite a few rather large bombshells to be dropped yet, me thinks ;)
I have just discovered that in the tiny village that we are staying is having a gig tonight by half man half buscuit.
OMG
I have seen them live before. The gig was tonight so I've missed it now.
Nobody else here has heard of them! Surely SPC know them?
Ah, but it won't be avaliable on PS2, so this means that to play GT5 it would cost me over £300....
£5 or £300...
ummm..
;)
nope.
Really gonna need some glasses, read that as half man biscuit tin.
Apple today released Mac OS X 10.5.8 for download via Software Update.
seeing as how well things went during the last update... wish me luck won't you?
I haven't seen it. Looks like somone is gunning for Max
*keeps fingers crossed*
Very interesting. Of course he would say they're good but facilities-wise they do look better than Campos or Manor - maybe the financing was weak?
well iff you haven't then that's probably it. You were probably my best hope.
where did you see them?
Would this be of any help?
http://cobweb.businesscollaborator.com/hmhb/
we will miss you the next few days ;-)
I think it was Reading.
name doesn't ring any bells. sorry.
Mmm, biscuits.
"Satisfying the Bloodlust of the masses in peacetime"
probably won't be going to see them ;)
The roadwater gig, which was sold out, is the one in this tiny village.
Ah, you're in Exmoor?
I was wondering if I could eat enough biscuits to become half man half buscuit?
Combo Update! Combo Uodate!
I think you should certainly try.
from memory they were a comedy covers band. So I think that's probably a joke.
I think so.
Well, trying to install the update on my iPhone essentially just broke it, so if it's not going well for me...
*gulp*
What biscuit would you like your other half to be?
okay. I'm on it :)
Wimp.
I saw it advertised last week, I think my father-in-law went
are you nearby?
Try recovery mode- unplug then switch off the phone, then hold the home button down as you plug it in to your computer. Then restore.
:D
I've never had a problem when using 'em
Hobnob!
I'm going to look!
Father-in-law lives on Somerset levels, visited at the weekend
Chocolate digestive
iTunes told me it already was in recovery mode...
As this is a family friendly place I'm not able to reply to this comment.
Here:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_8_Combo_Update
hahaha. I wanted to write something Adrian Edmondson would say!
It's a biggun though, 760MB!
What? "This calls for a subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence?"
Ouch, going for the Software Update route - 165MB (we're starting to sound like Macrumors now.
What can be more family friendly than biscuits?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/img-1054
Hehe.
no it's just the way my trousers are hanging.
That's the equivalent of driving at 50 km/h (30 mph) for 3 and a half years without stopping.
That is quite insane
it worked :)
I'm getting error code 1603. Erm...help?!
You've not watched a lot of Ade Edmonson's work, I take it?
I've got 3 minutes to go on the download
Chocolate served by pandas
Nope. Isn't he in Holby City?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA38603?viewlocale=en_US
um. I don't think so. He's married to Jenifer Saunders.
Sounds made up to me. I think he has an extra zero on the end
what??
If he is, then he must have a big mortgage to pay these days
Have you tried recovery mode?
Was.
He did used to be: http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/holbycity/characters-cast/characters/abradurant.shtml
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_(TV_series)
Oh that.
OMG!
OMG
Poor bloke
Big tax bill?
I think you're right, it's taken 16 years he said, but thats over 90,000 miles a year for 16 years. Tis possible, just not probably, i shall email him to clarify
I don't watch that Holby show, but from what I can tell, he was very popular in it.
but... but... b...
Well, if all else fails, I can always just take my iPhone across the road and work and ask "Couldn't flash this for me, could ya?"
Oh the advantages of working at an O2 Repair Centre :D
I take it you're not a fan ;)
E-D-D-I-E!
the first series was good. and the xmas special brilliant.
outstayed its welcome maybe?
I forget. Which probably isn't a good sign.
The Gas Man episode is probably the best 24mins of British TV comedy in my book
Is it the same when there's a complex operating system as opposed to a little bit of firmware?
Erm...I'm not an engineer, so I don't really know what you just said...
3.0.1 was released on Friday, is there another update?
Either I read it wrong or yes there is. Probably knowing me, it's the former.
Is RG still about? I've been tidying up my room sorting things out and I complete forgot about this...
Is that signed?
Looks like it, bottom left corner.
By Timo, yeah. From when i found him at Goodwood.
So, am about to trawl the F1 sites for news
Anyone else fired or hired today?
Not that I know of.
alia got a call back, i think.
and nick's jobhunting (or so he claims).
Cool, good for her
:)
Good luck with that then, if required
One Team. One Aim.
Yeah, one aim. Taking your time aren't ya Toyota.
Apparently, there's a small 'update to the carrier settings'
Think I'll wait a day or so on that one
*yawns*
Monrning everyone.
Anyone else fired or hired today? {Comment #1006}
Narain Karthikeyan apparently thinks he still can be hired in F1, if that counts.
Unless the aim was to bring Timo to F1 and make everyone love him, then, they've passed.
By everyone you actually mean SPC, right? :P
No, everyone in the whole world.
Actually, everyone loves him???
Stop loving him people, thats my job.
So desperate for news were the sites today that one went with an item about the America's Cup going to the UAE and another went for Bernie's local pub being closed.
Can anyone tell me what rami's kids are called?
...and I'm back, 10.5.8 installed. Safari seems snappier (you have to say that apparently)
RG now loves you
even more
Any luck with your phone, Scott?
For anyone who has read and is a fan of Alice Seabold's 'The Lovely Bones', Peter Jackson's December release film is trailered here
Juustu Raikonnen... and... TITUS.
TITUS RAIKONNEN.
As Amy puts it, the most epic name ever.
I was aware of it and already took that into account in the scale of lovingness towards lukeh.
Should Fisi be worried?
Thank you everyone for the good wishes!
Tomorrow's mission - sign up for college courses. :)
One new team is only hiring from the US, the other is looking at Spain and the third isn't daft.
my wifi troubles seem less troublesome. i was blaming the wine.
I love it!
No, he's going to retire and go into poker
There's no update for that ;)
Awesome isn't it
It's ciabatta time, I shall return
I half expect him to transform into a power ranger with a name like that, it's wonderful
Hust going throught the sidepodradio schedule I see the Journeyer and Amy Breakfast show is not booked yet. Both of you have agreed to do it you just haven't told me when is a sensible time for you.
Don't think if you stall long enough there will be not slots left. That is not going to happen.
Just - stupid keyboard
One new team is only hiring from the US, the other is looking at Spain and the third isn’t daft. {Comment #1028}
The third team is also probably reserving a space for an up-and-coming Spanish driver called Roberto Mehri, currently in their F3 squad.
I don't remember the book being like that.
By the way, 21 drivers got given 30-second penalties towards the end of the British F3 race in Oschersleben for ignoring yellow flags. Either there were a lot of inattentive drivers or there was some strange stewarding going on...
righteo, I'm heading off for an earlier night tonight as I got wayyy too little last night. Night all!
Just spotted that Sean has picked up the sports show. Those of you who follow other sports can leave him opinions or questions and he will respond to them. He says he can't do the show live so you can leave voicemails on the usual number or e-mail Christine or you can record your comments and post them on the sidepodradio dropio.
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/All+Sports+with+Sean
That's ridiculous.
#2CV Update
Jon is now uber excited, and has discovered that "we'll be bringing you a LIVE onboard video feed from one of the Tete Rouge cars, and a camera or two in the pitlane!"
wooop, how cool is that!!!!
However, the 2CV site has just died, so this dosent bode well!!
Should Fisi be worried? {Comment #1026}
I don't think any current F1 driver needs to be worried by this particular item of news...
I'd like to read it, I guess I should do before the film is out
[and then say: the book was better]
Seems odd but it is not unusual for there to be multiple offenders in categories like F3 but 21 is extreme. Normally it is ambitious drivers who won't give an inch so if one keeps his foot down the others will as well rather than waiting for the stewards to deal with it.
Sounds good.
See ya Lukeh
Night lukeh
Thats insane, there is only 26 cars in British F3 as it is. I'm looking forward to watching that one on tv
Can everyone who has a show fill in the status column so that we know how things are progressing. I know we have more time to play with than we thought which is good because we should now be able to do things like the melodrama
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodradio
So 21 out of 26 got penalised and presumably at least one of the others caused the yellow so a maximum of 4 drivers managed not to get penalised. Unbelievable
I think if 80% of drivers don't see a yellow flag, then it's not big enough or in the wrong place
That's 21 from 23 racing at the time
Love the podium conference: http://www.f3euroseries.com/newsausgabe.php?id=2482
"I didn’t improve in the first sector while yellow flags being waved there. It could be that my lap times were partly faster. However, that wasn’t due to the first sector, but to the other two. I am totally disappointed."
Sidepodspace update - Lunar Elcipse tonight, not a very exciting one though as the moon will graze the edge of the Earth's shadow
Done
The moon is lovely where i am, or was, twas full and bright. Tres nice
ah rubbish, it's F3 euroseries, i can get British F3 on 4od but not euroseries.
It was particularly bright earlier and very white
Quite unusual, I thought
it's usually too cloudy to see it, but tis lovely tonight :)
the usually too cloudy to see it is still in effect here
Didn't know that. From here the moon could have gone on holiday. Can't see nuthin' but clouds
Thanks
Reading Joe's blog. Apparently Jean Todt has an election brochure and thinks F1 (and each world championship) should it's own commisioner
Hi again. I got delayed by family things. Anything interesting happen since I popped in?
Something about biscuits and the discovery theat Ade Edmonson was once in Holby City (Mr C & I were both shocked)
Ah yes, that really confused me because when I was channel hopping once I saw him in it and thought it was the doctor comedy he'd previously been in..
I thought that FOTA had insisted on F1 having it's own commissioner anyway as part of the concorde agreement?
Ari really seems off the ball
I put it down to a large tax bill
There can be few other reasons
Todt is selling himself to the publie. The public don't votes. Ari is doing his selling to the people who have votes.
All Todt is trying to do is make himself seem reasonable and not Max.
He dosen't have to do anything, he's basically got it sewn up. It's his to loose now.
I disagree - the regional centres of excellence is pure candy for the voters. Don't vote for Todt and your country doesn't get a centre of excellence - classic tactic.
I hope you're wrong but I fear you are not
Steven I can't edit the wiki from here. But I haven't started any of my shows but I will be doing the 4 as pre-records.
I will be around live on the day in case anything else is required :)
Same
That's an interesting business plan.
I'm out.
I should have said.."and for that reason, I'm out"
Frankie Boyle's Mock The Week Musings podcast is quite amusing
NOT family friendly is slightly overstating it
Absolutely!
You can heckle your shows if you want from the live comments
I really worry about Ari's green credentials.
I think that is a big weak spot for him.
Note: I'm not arguing about whether his position is right or not. Just how the clubs will perceve his position in relation to them wanting to look good. The environment is the next Euro N-Cap.
Thirded :(
I'm sure I will :)
It was exactly the same with the last US election, McCain had all of Bush's old advisors, and it was clear to (most of) the country that it would be another 4 years of the same bush stuff, so it was Obama's to loose. Luckily for 10,000's US troops in Iraq, he won.
I'm being optimistic here. Therefore, I disagree.
That's good. So long as you are taking up your slots that's all I need for now. I know you are starting from scratch again.
I am sure there will be things needed on the day.
I've tried virtually every method to cure the 1603 error code and no luck :(
I need to read Todt's brochure properly. I only scanned it earlier.
Bah. A Trip to the Apple store for you then.
Mock the week podcast?
Seems to be material rehearsal or stuff that WON'T make the show
Or across the road at work. They should be able to flash my handset seeing as it is an accredited repair centre that has a contract with O2 to fix their phones. Will enquire at work tomorrow.
Simple fact is - if I take it to an O2 store (there are no Apple stores in Norwich atm), I know exactly where they'll send it - my work. So why go through the system that way when I could just walk across the road and ask "Couldn't take a look at this for me, could ya?"
Agreed, take it to the 'main dealer' rather than their approved retailers
As I said: There is no Apple Store in Norwich.
Excellent, you have been busy! (collective 'you')
I hope you will have time to work on the name... I'm not sold on that..yet.
whatever the next number is because I haven't read further yet!
i'm kinda with you there
Never know, might be a 'grower'..
I guess you have little choice then
Although according to macrumours.com, there soon will be. To save my hind from the wrath of Messer Taylor, I'll say no more than that.
Hehe. Good man. :D
Interesting to see when it's opening though, according to them. Not long. Again, won't say anything more than that on, erm, that.
Isn't Messer only used in the plural
[Pedantic side just had to ask that]
The name is a holding name. I'm pretty sure.
Christine said we need something in the area of media, future and change. But all the good names are taken. So I jokingly asked wow who took mediafuturechange.com and then they decided to buy it as a holding page.
Maybe it is a grower.
Well done!
Is that why I can't comment? ;)
There is a problem with the comments
And the Doohickey, obviously ;)
me neither. working title.
To be fair you should do this with every album rather than hunting out the good stuff and only ever listening to those.. that only comes later. IMO.
Now going through the In Silico album. :P
I've heard of them but haven't heard anything by them, to my recollection.
I remember seeing them once or twice on Gary Crowley's "The Beat"
No that, was a show for the indie kids
[when xfm didn't have it's full licence yet]
I should really stop using this thread now, but I can't ignore a biscuit conversation..
There are biscuits made locally to me called Moore's Dorset Knobs.
Of course my personal favourite is the chocolate digestive.
I'm not liking the fact that Bourbon is not getting the love it deserves
Just catching up on comments...
hehehe :D aww poor Giggles..
:o awesome! go Mr and Mrs C!!! :D such a brilliant plan :)
awesome!! gosh you guys have been so busy! :D
yay!! i can't wait! :D giggles radio rocks!
yay! that's great news Alia! :)
gosh you guys talk a lot :P i've just been in fits of laughter over Jackie and her missing 'v's though :D
Hey all. How's it going? What's new?
G'day.
I think you're in the wrong daily though. ;)