If you were hoping for a quiet off season, you will need to wait just a little bit longer. It is Bonfire Night tonight, and we have certainly seen fireworks in Formula 1 for the past few days. Ahh, I like being cheesy about it. Here are some of the things we're focusing on:
- Toyota pulled out of the sport and we have tons of coverage of this. There's a breakout thread, a brilliant guest post from Stuart, a quick roundup in F1 Minute, and a Toyota shaped Big Picture as well.
- Meanwhile, the rumour mill went into overdrive with suggestions that the top bosses at Renault were gathering as well. Could there be another team on the way out already? That would be three teams out in the space of a few months, plus Bridgestones. No wonder the FIA are starting to sit up and take notice.
- All this to-ing and fro-ing has put a bit of a spanner in the works of our 2010 Season line up thoughts. We now have even more drivers to try and squeeze into less teams, with Trulli and Kobayashi needing a drive as soon as possible. Do we think they'll fit in anywhere neatly?
That's all for now. Let us know how Thursday is going for you, as it is notoriously not a great day for Sidepodcast regulars. As ever, I'll see you in the comments.
I've had a great start to my Thursday with a massive sleep in (over 9 hours sleep!). Thursday is late night shopping in NSW so I do the afternoon shift
nice one. do you have the new mousey thing in yet, and is it any good?
I had a play with one the other day. Weird.
Gotta love the long sleeps. I'm looking forward to the weekend already!
good weird?
Pretty cool. I like the multi touch surface. A little strange as a mouse, it feels a bit weird in the hand. I only had a play in a shop, but I guess you would get used to it. Not sure if you would have problems clicking with your hand on the surface, or other fingers or what ever.
yes and yes. Weird at first. Don't know that I'll use te swipe thing much
#MFC did people (Beatles fans) see this:
http://www.thebeatles.com/#/news/APPLE_AND_EMI_TO_RELEASE/
i'm trying to find something wrong with my mouse to justify buying one.
america only?
I saw something about Beatles music being available on line a couple of days ago
it's old. You don't want to be using old stuff do you?
ignore me. worldwide, doh!
Nope. US, UK, Japan
hehe. if i stare at it long enough. it might break.
Speaking of sleeps, bed beckons. Night!
oh look it fell of the desk, oh look i trod on it
one last thing.. really liked Stuart's piece on Toyota. Forgot to comment earlier.
Soon as I saw the title I knew Stuart had written it
I've done what is probably the eighth plug for a "Toyota leaving F1" blog entry in the last 24 hours - this one compares with the entry I wrote 365 days ago for its Japanese counterpart.
I will read that later. Keep plugging your work
I will read that later. Keep plugging your work {Comment #22}
Will do - and seeing as I'm doing NaBloPoMo again, there should be another 26 blog entries to plug this month alone.
I'd also like to take the opportunity to (re-)plug the 2nd F1 Bloggers and Friends Karting Competition. If you're interested, please send me your e-mail. I've only got four people confirmed so far and I'd like there to be more than that on the day...
Just now it looks like I am not going to make it much as I would like to. It's a real shame more people haven't signed up after last year.
hey, everyone.
From JA:
Sorry, RG.
I thought Toyota announced that they were not selling the team because the building is part of the Toyota building in Cologne
They might've suddenly seen the penalties forthcoming of not doing so. At the very least they could sell the entry to Qadbak and make some money out of it.
But they have to decide soon. If Renault drop out, the value of their spot will decrease significantly.
Sounds like they are negotiating with the FIA to drop the price of pulling out
Hmmm. They could be, but aren't such penalties written into the Concorde Agreement? And if I were the FIA, I'd go down hard on Toyota - it's not like they're a poor company by any stretch of the imagination.
I don't see how they can sell their entry anyway. Sauber are not going to buy it unless they have competition for it as they get in automatically if Toyota default. They would need to convince Sauber that they were getting offers from Prodrive or Epsilon Euskadi or there was going to be a management buyout
Well, f1scoop said that Renault has terminated negotiations with DR. Would DR be willing to buy Toyota's spot and either provide the facilities or move to Germany?
I don't know if he would be allowed to buy the entry and move to England. Too many rules now.
Good point. Let's hope we hear from Renault soon. Any idea when we'll hear word from them?
If the board meeting was today they should announce within a week if they are pulling out. If they are selling though things may drag.
Anyhoo, watching Game 6. I wonder if Pedro is still coming back...
The feed I am watching says not. His manager had a long chat with him and was patting him on the back so it looks like he is finished
He's gone down the dugout stairs. That should be it, surely?
Meanwhile, Pettitte is holding up very well. :D
It's also Jeter up next. If it was the bottom of the order they may let him pitch but not against the top guys.
I am surprised how well he is doing on short rest
They don't NEED a Game 7, MLB! :D
Yup, Durbin pitching.
He and Sabathia both.
I don't like the way this day started. Client makes an appointment an hour earlier than our usual office hours because that is the only time that fits their schedule. And then they show up 90 minutes late ...
I hate people who do that
... and I am so sleepy now :-)
Boo client.
NYY - 7 runs
Matsui - 7 RBI.
What the. :O
OK, 6 RBI, but still!
It's only 6 RBIs
and here comes the sport I do not understand at all :-)
All you need to know is that if the Yankees win tonight you don't need to hear anything about baseball for another 6 months
Home :D
I have beer in my hair :( I thought I had it all out but I candefinitely still smell it :(
Why do you have beer in your hair?
OK, good :-)
I didn't piut it there.
Nick's fault?
washing hair with beer is said to be good for hair
I hoipe not. I blam you.
How drunk are you? Your typing is worse than mine. Everything is normally my fault.
Me?? I'vr not been frinking.... No sir.
Are you sure? Not even one frink?
Well maybe a little bit.
I miss michel ;(
He is on in 15 minutes.
WHAT?? how dDid you keep this a secret
He is on at this time every day. It's repeats but I am sure that is good enough for your purposes.
What putposes would these be? I'm converned by this.
The putpose of worshipping Michel. Nothing to be comverned about it.
are you drunken STevenm?
I thought it would be easier for you to read if I spelled words the same way you did.
You're making dun of me :(
I am not. It's just unusual for you to make so many typos. I do it lots because I try to type faster than I can.
Michel time
there is chance of Macau GP paddock pass again this year, this day is getting better :-)
That is a race I would love to go to. Doesn't seem to get the coverage it used to here. When is it?
in 2 weeks
http://www.macau.grandprix.gov.mo/gp/56/subpage.php?id=1800&lang=en
Thanks. I will make a point of trying to watch it on the net somewhere.
star sports will be showing this year I believe. here are some shots from last year:
http://www.f1wolf.com/race-photos/2008-macau-grand-prix-pictures
and my video edit of friends onboard camera:
http://www.f1wolf.com/2008/12/macau-gp-the-drivers-view-video.html
and more video:
http://www.f1wolf.com/2008/11/2008-macau-gp-formula-3-video-highlights.html
I will have a look at that lot later. Thanks
Yankees almost there. :D
Was Alison really THAT drunk?
With Rivera in it looks good.
I don't know if she is still around. She can't have been too bad if she could make sensible comments. It was just the typing that was a bit off.
Hey everyone. After the last few days, I expected to come back to Sidepodcast to see another something leaving the sport.
Hi Dan.
No more teams leaving at least until Renault announce the outcome of their board meeting
With Rivera in... the Yanks got it.
I hope so
I am actually rooting for the New York on this one even though I dislike that team.
The only reason why I am cheering for them is that I HATE Boston sports teams.
Trust me, after going to Mariner games with both of those teams in town, the Boston fans are the most insufferable. Especially since they started winning.
2 outs to go and my feed dies. Fortunately I have a dozen back ups
They waited a long time to win
:D
Different stadium... same outcome.
Awweeee... the Yankees are playing Jenson Button's favorite song.
:D Different outcome actually... they didn't win at the old one for 8 years straight.
So your MVP? I'm tempted to plump for Matsui.
:D
It;s a while since the last one
Go back to bed Lou.
It's has to be Matsui
I think Jeter
HAHAHAHA! :D
Don't worry, I've been waiting my entire life for the mariners to get to the world series.
That was a good one.
:D
You only have to mention JB and she pops up to comment
And to think a few games ago the press were slaughtering Girardi
The thing is, that Boston always had a good team. All those close tries in the 1990's. The 1986 and 1976 series.
The fans that I really feel sorry for are the Cleveland and Cubs fans. There are no hope in those towns.
I am upset that A-Rod has a series ring. Can't stand the guy.
I don't like people like that succeeding at anything
Not really. I respect and like Jeter and Riveria. I am actually pretty happy for them.
A-Rod departure from Seattle was really ugly. That is the main reason why.
I assumed it was to do with the drugs and the personality. I forgot he was a Seattle.
Sorry to be a negative Nancy. It's been a interesting day.
No problem. Call is as you see it
Let's just say that was the icing on the cake.
im so tired :( i thought the off season wasnt meant to do this to me!
Go back to bed. It will be OK
Speaking of problems, Bud Selig. Between him, Bernie, and David Stern: I don't know who does a worse job. However Selig and Stern have the edge for stealing teams from Seattle.
Matsui must speak English by now
Hehe. So true Dan. Matsui the MVP then. Nicely done. Rivera is just absolutely mighty.
It's the oldest trick in the book. It like Mifune's character in Grand Prix. Ichiro does it as well.
i would love to go back to bed but i am at work for 2 hours and 36 minutes more.
Here is a trick you could do. Go into work early and set up everything at your desk and then fall asleep. This way you can trick people to thinking that you were working through the night.
I saw it Seinfeld once.
That's not too bad then. You can cope with that
ooh good trick but it wouldnt work in my building because it gets automatically alarmed at midnight so they would know i was not here!
i have one more break too so could steal a 15 minute nap. And tomorrow is friday so its got to be a good day really.
Time for bed I think.
I have never seen people putting on skiing goggles to stop champagne getting in their eyes before.
Night Steven. Congrats.
Haha! Night Steven. :)
dear giggles. Can you make sure i win the raffle i just entered? #fixit
Oooh, what raffle is this? :D
$2 to win $400 of tickets to britney! I quite wanted to go to her show but not for $200. $2 i could handle. The guy selling said they regret their choice of prizes as no one is buying and they will probably lose money rather than raise it :)
I'll try my best.
I missed my train this morning. What day is it? Oh that's right.
I thought you hated Nico Rosberg? I didn't know he sings now. I mean, I know he's like Prince Charming from Shrek and everything, but he's no singer. :D
:P
Morning.
Strangely enough, I was on time this morning for the first time in two weeks ... but then, something had to make up for the train debacle last night...
morning all!
I entered a raffle yesterday...but I think I lost my ticket...
Just had a thought about Tim's visit to the pit lane on Sunday. Obviously it was the similar liveries that was the problem but I wondered about why the pit crew for him weren't ready.
I have always wondered why the instruction to the drivers to pit is the word "box" rather than the word "pit". Firstly it doesn't make much sense (I think it might be the translation of the Italian word for pit or something).
But the second reason that has always confused me is surely "box" could be confused with talking to the driver about the gearbox over the dodgy radios. It was a gearbox issue that Tim had so maybe that's it?
yeah, but 'box' is the term generally used for the area that the car stops in, but I see your logic...
I read somewhere that the reason they use "box" is that the pronuncation can be clearly understood, unlike "pit" which sounds like a lot of other words.
yeah agreed. I mean I get that you need different words for the bit of the pits where you work on the car. But yeah you don't need to say the word on the radio. If you say pit then they would know what you mean.
see that would make sense, except I cam think that box sound like gearbox, but what does pit sound like? Hit? I can't think of any other F1 words?
pit, hit, bit ..it, and many more :-)
Ide...
to be fair to Ide, he has done many things in his short lived F1 career but never stopped in Honda's box instead of Supa Aguri :-)
Is that worse though? He did send someone into a barrel-roll, which Tim didn't do...
it was a bit of an Ide-otic move really...
Star Sports viewers, coming Monday, 11pm, 1994 British GP with commentary from Alex Yoong and our beloved Mr Slater.
Bastardized commentary much? I guess I should be happy I see old races with proper TV resolution now rather than a grainy Internet stream.
Wolf, is there a page that has the schedule of all the races they'll cover?
Pun intended much? :D
much.
nope, Slagter kept talking about this since Brazil, telling us to check out their website for more, but there is nothing, no word on that. All you can see is TV schedule a week ahead ...
not sure how Star Sports looks at your end, but over here it is far from what I would call proper TV resolution. The picture quality of the online feed from RoC was much better than the picture quality on Star ...
They showed some old seasons here in Denmark ... but I don't know where the picture was from because it looked RRRRRRRRrubbish!
if you want to see what is troubling people in this part of the world, here is the front page of today's papers :-)
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/two-mickeys-jpg
That's a newspaper? Which you pay for?
no, used to be normal paper, they turned it into free paper
Ha! I was about to say that looks like the free papers I get on the train...!
BOO. I probably won't be able to watch all the races, so I want to properly schedule those I can. Argh.
It's miles better than JTV, that's for sure. :) It's a bit above-average for SD.
One of those Disneylands will die, surely? They're way too close to each other, and HK is struggling as it is.
When will the one in Shanghai open?
no idea, but if they managed to build F1 track in a year or so, the Mickeyland won't take much longer
none of them will die, taxpayers' money will take care of that. at least here where government owns more than half the shares ...
So the initial rounds of news are part-good, part-bad:
1. Caubet of Renault has told L'Equipe that they're on for 2010. But I'm not sold unless I hear it from Ghosn himself.
2. There's this story about Petronas staying with Sauber that looks utter rubbish - considering JA's statement that Sauber isn't a lock for 2010 yet, and that it has no sources at all. No prizes for guessing where this came from. :D
3. Rumor is that Bernie is giving Silverstone 48 hours to sign the dotted line, or the 2010 BGP is off. Nothing on this yet from the mainstream channels, though.
TIME magazine says 2014.
Isn't HK Disneyland in the red already?
yes, so the government agreed with Disney to pump more money into it, expand it and attract more people :-)
Frankly I would be surprised if Renault decides to quit (not that I was not when BMW and Honda pulled the plug).
Yes, the country is communist :P
I'm not so sure. They were treated leniently for a reason, remember.
Hello all. I was going to say good morning, but of course it is Thursday, so by definition it isn't.
The Google doodle today is making me hungry.
Morning. I just bought my new newphew a baby-gro with cookie monster eating a guitar. So funny!
Morning
everytime I see the Sesame St video where they explain to Big Bird that Mr Hooper has died I bawl. Stupid kids show making me cry repeatedly.
I don't know who Mr Hooper is.
he was the old dude who ran the store. He died in 1983, so admittedly before I was even born, but I have seen the clip on many of those 'great TV moments' shows. And then I watched it on youtube once because it seems I like to punish myself.
Aren't you too young to have seen that? Or was it in re-runs? I don't remember Mr. Hooper...
Well, you could look at it the other way as well. Allow Renault a gracious exit by being lenient on them as long as they leave the sport. Saving face and all that.
its apparently one of the 10 greatest daytime TV moments ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZTvDZHRFrU
Looks like Autosport might be quite taken with the digital thing, this week's is available online too. http://www.autosport.com/postalstrike/
After the last couple of days, I think my head will asplode if I start to think about that!
Yet it'll have 2 Disneylands by 2014. Madness.
Loving the URL there!
That's a good thing! :D
Wasn't Walt Disney a bit of a 'Red Hunter' in the 50's in America? That would make it very ironic!
I believe so, yes. But I'd like to think that if he were around now he'd have done the exact same thing. ;)
Finally a Pic of Kimi Raikkonen Smiling!
TBH, I think it would be hard not to here ;)
That's why it's ironic!
BTW, in Denmark, pretty much every Disney Character has a different name - so confusing!
ahh yes, he was hanging out at the Olympic beach volleyball. My dad says thats the greatest sport in the world.
I assume at some point they'll have to give in and change it to something more long term. Can't keep hiding behind the postal strikes forever :)
I went to see that live in Wellington. It's very cool!
autosport.com/paperisdead?
autosport.com/MFC?
autosport.com/notoutdatedbythetimeyougetit?
That's the one.
You know how the politics is really boring and just seems to have a life of its own and never ever stop and go away...
Mark Hughes seems to think that Ari might sue the FIA for an unfair election...
http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2468
His article went up a few days ago. I probably missed the conversation about it.
Haven't seen any discussion yet to this effect. If it's true that there will be investigations, Todt (and his appointed cabinet) will have to vacate the presidency (temporarily anyway), and all of a sudden, the FIA ends up headless.
Just to be clear Wavamunno is the person making the claims that somebody said this to him. My extracting of the article might make it look like it was him who was responsible for the threats. He wasn't.
'sup punks.
Boost for Force India this morning...
Thanks to @RobertsF1
When compared to the exposure Etihad and Aldar got when they moved to Ferrari, it's a well-made investment.
he might pay some bills now.
Who were Todt's VPs-Sport?
We have:
Sport Vice Presidents
Jose Abed, President, Organizacion Mexicana del Deporte Automovilistico Internacional (Mexico)
Michel Boeri, President, Automobile Club de Monaco (Monaco)
Morrie Chandler, Honorary President, MotorSport New Zealand (New Zealand)
Enrico Gelpi, President, Automobile Club d'Italia (Italy)
Carlos Gracia, President, Real Federacion Espanola de Automovilismo (Spain)
Mohamed ben Sulayem, President, Automobile and Touring Club for United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Surinder Thatthi, Secretary General, Kenya Motor Sports Federation (Kenya)
Take your pick.
Just found something interesting:
Gus Lagman, the Philippine representative who became a VP-Mobility with Todt's election, apparently has another hat beyond the FIA and our local AAP.
He is also a proponent for election automation in the Philippines, as an IT expert. Many have found such automation fishy, as it may make any attempts at cheating easier now. Interesting background he has, indeed.
BatRacer is back up but there are no Formula 1 games, so that is essentially BatRacer finished I suppose.
A tale of woe: http://mediafuturechange.com/2009/11/05/disappeared-into-the-ether/
Yowzers. Someone will replace BATRacer soon enough.
when Etihad took over the naming rights to one of the stadiums in Melbourne, from listening to the discussions in my office I was the only person who had heard of them. And that was only because of Ferrari.
I had a thought this morning...
I was thinking since last week about what I could do to sneakily turn around on Christine and her pestering power for all our blogging efforts. What could we encourage Christine into?
I have been pondering for a while... Then when I was creating the extraveganza plug video I watched a bit of the parade lap live video from the car and Christine said something like, "I don't think we've ever done a show from a car before".
There it was...
So Christine when's the next Sidepodcast Diary ;)
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodcast+Diaries
The first couple of Sidepodcast Diaries were Christine not only broadcasting from her car, but driving at the same time!!!
#sorrychristine :)
What does this mean for modders?
We need more reliable Internet connections. We really do. :D
Hehehe.
I do drive more than I used to, so in-car cam is a possibility.
Isn't rFactor still up? I guess some modders do have proper arrangements.
Well they do, certainly. Ours was fine, we were doing a live show!!
In-car cam comeback.
That's a mouthful.
Fair enough. Some people have tried to argue it is 'artwork'. But mods for some series have been stopped in the past...
I think it just depends if Ferrari know, if they don't then it is safe.
Good morning, how's life?
It's not exactly secret is it?
:)
well no but then neither was batracer
Just finishing the replay of the Video from Sunday night (man it's been a busy week).
Loved the show as per. #sorrychristine for the multiple endings.
There is a really great extra bit near the end where Mr C just repeats, "the hotel did a good job today" about five times in a row at different volume levels.
Perhaps he wants to take over the titles.
He already does the titles for the Aside, but I prefer your style of delivery. :D
Morning! It's Thursday. Boo. How's Maverick?
That's true. I don't think he particularly enjoys that bit, so maybe not.
Thursday is the least of Maverick's worries... I really don't feel well. Just kicking some students into shape then I'm off home to bed.
How's Christine?
Have you ever considered a career on radio? I think you'd do pretty darn well. :)
You teach, Mav? Cool! What do you teach?
Uggggh. I feel icky... my throat kills :(
Morning. Stupid thursday.
Goodo.
Sorry you don't feel well. Bed is best!
Erm, no. I been on the radio. It was scary.
Oh no! Another ill person! Poor Lukeh.
I was fine yesterday but I've woken up today with a rubbish cough and allsorts. Thursday is definitely to blame!
I believe so. P'raps once I get them baby pandas up you'll feel better.
It's reading out loud. From my experience... Mr C isn't a fan ;)
I don't like licorice either.
ooh can I join the club too?
I saw the waters of Mars trailer last night before Spooks. It made me think it was a Steven Moffat episode. It looks scary!
Just over a week, woohooooooooo!! Hopefully it will be as good as Midnight in terms of a scary RTD episode...
there was a trailer? I missed it :(
He has a cowriter for this... Apparently he's written another of the final three with RTD and wrote an episode of Torchwood before.
Do we know what time it will be on because it being on a Sunday is a bit of a pain.
If you follow Christine's Google Reader feed you will find 10 of them: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/cblachford
Eurgh morning
Oh yeah...
I would say 7pm but I've no idea. Which is ruddy annoying for you if it is!
Does anyone else here have a shared google reader feed?
Ah yea, Radio Times says 7pm.
Rrrubbish.
I just checked that too.
Why not just leave it on Saturday, like normal? I guess the BBC can't find the time to fit in arguably it's most anticipated show between the exciting likes of Stupidly Gone Dancing and whatnot.
Oo thanks, but I've seen it now. I found somewhere I could download it :)
A doctor who section in the debrief then? :P
I think I've had it since two Thursdays ago come to think of it
Debrief will have to wait!
#MFC
Am hearing Apple is going to launch a iPlayer type thing to fit within iTunes.
The idea is that you would pay a subscription for it, and that would allow you to stream tv to your machine.
But of course instead of just being the BBC it would be across multiple networks. Of course expect it to launch in the states and take a kajillion years to reach here.
I'd say 8pm, after Countryfile
Or 7 if that's what the radio times says
Hehe I could watch this trailer over and over, and I am it is on repeat :)
WANT.
I wonder if I can convince Mr C that we should have a live commenting thread :)
Ah, have to feed it in before X-Factor don't they?
Oooh, twitter have copied the Doohickey - now tells you how many new tweets there are
Dank says:
Steven will love Brawn lots now... :D
Does that mean McLaren are not bothering with it and are lending out Paffett?
Bernie is saying that Silverstone has 48 hours
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/nov/05/bernie-ecclestone-silverstone-2010
I'm trying to upload the trailer for doctor who to youtube because it should be HD, but it is taking forever....
Well he could fix MFC's commenting ;)
Silverstone need Eddie Murphy!
Also, not that I want to annoy Christine, but next Sunday also sees the return of a certain BBC2 car-related program...
That's true. Or STYA. I wants it there too. :)
I am watching the Amazing Race and their challenge is to race F3 cars around the Dubai track. I think I have found Nicks favourite show.
Oh.
Already?
I must say I am becoming bored of that program. I'm two seasons behind and I can't be bothered watching it!
And Go For Odd :) Oh yeah I better do something on there...
Yeah I know what you mean.
Dr Who excitement = YAAAAAY.
Top Gear Excitement = ...well, Christine said it excellently. 'Oh.'
Of course the next thing we're going to want is a subscription doohicky where you can specify which doohicky enabled sites you want to follow from a single doohicky page.
#playground
:)
last season had Mika and I doubt they can top that so I say :(
Crikey. That would be a lot of information!
I mean, will they do anything new and exciting? Kinda hard to after 13 seasons!
Indeed. have you seen these amy? http://community.livejournal.com/kimiraikkonen/71747.html :)
They will blow up cara....
...yeah well, they will accidentally get in troub...
.......I'm sure they will race around eur....
..................hmm.
I think we are sort of sensing that from everyone. The first time we found ourselves conflicting, it was a real problem. Since then it seems more people are happy to catch it on the iPlayer later.
Indeed, I have been LJ friends with Emma for a long time, I heart her Kimi picspams :D
exactly, i'd rather miss top gear but see doctor who and catch the debrief.
yay! :) I'm going to miss kimi in red.
It would... And imagine cross posting problems ;)
Same here!
I'm not! When he went there it kind of felt like being cheated on. :D
Kimi in red,
he dances with Kathi,
#sorryamy
We have 'Japanese Casserole' for lunch today. Not sure if I want?
If it's anything like Toyota it's just like a normal casserole but they convene a board meeting to discuss what vegetables they are going to include
:)
I'm guessing an unexpectedly exciting casserole that is almost refreshing, and that deserves it's place on your plate in 2010
If it's anything like Toyota the Casserole would be needlessly expensive, be prepared in two kitchens by a commitee and not the cook, and will disappoint the palette!
does it come with a side of warmed barrel rolls?
Christine, I realised I haven't mentioned it but I have name ideas for the blog I should be starting! :)
I'm really not in a fit state for an Italian lesson :(
Wassup? Thursday blues?
Hangover from hell. I shouldn't complain really.
Ooooooh. Do it, do it.
:)
I've narrowed it down to:
not looking back
pretending to be normal
new day somewhere
water always wins (that trailer is stuck in my head now)
huh?
Xx1 doohickey page that brings in comments from MFC, Go for Odd, STYA and Sidepodcast.
Mind = blown.
oh i see.
so... if i was already working on it?
I would say stop it and let me have the doohickey on my sites first.
kblammy!
hehe. but i have to see the big picture.
i'll be honest, it's really easy. am wave-enabling doohickey. then when the other sites you mention use this template, they'll all get a wave enabled doohickey.
so to get them all in one place you simply create a custom wave and add whatever doohickey sites you desire. no real work from me at all, you can mix/match at will.
not this big picture: http://www.f1minute.com/category/f1-big-picture/
another one :)
As I said kblammy!
Coooooooooool.
mr. c. will fix it?
Do you have an orange drill? ;)
#MFC
So Google have decided to face down the privacy concerns of users and give you a page you can look at that tells you everything they have on you: https://www.google.com/dashboard/
i know a man who has.
And when will that be?
(Answer: now)
Answer: Hopes by Sunday :)
heheh! does the homepage look even remotely finished :)
what's happening on sunday?
I think Christine has a favour to ask you ;)
Next Sunday.
Yes sorry.
what's happening next sunday?
dum, da da da dum, da da da dum, da da da dum, do do ahhhhhaaa, ahhhhahaahhaaaaa, eeee oooo ooooh ah bah bum, tididdy bum, da bum tiddy bum...
oh.
and what do i need to do?
Or Doctor Who returns if you don't speak theme tune.
*swirls through time*
swoooososshhhwwososhsso *names fly at me*
eee ooo oooh kinda gave it away.
Morning all. Getting annoyed now. I've been ill for the past three days. Ironically, it's mainly throat based, like Lukeh's!
(disclaimer: I have not been near Wales, and therefore could not have given Lukeh my illness, unless it can now be spread across the internet.(no virus jokes please))
I thought for a second you were singing Ski Sunday. It confused me.
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/11/05/daily-5th-november-2009/#comment-579340
I blame Thursday
*ducks*
Isn't that tum, tum, tum, ta, dum, dum, dah, do, dah, do do dah dah.
Or is that the Cricket?
me too!
grr someone has taken the blog name I wanted and not used the blog.
Hello everyone :D
I might have a *cough* Job...
I'd blame Thursday for that too
Sounds like you've caught the cough that Lukeh and I have too
:)
although youtube did upload the HQ version of the trailer, so I can be a little happy :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETK41njGAZw
oh no!
i think i will be ok, i just struggled to finish that sentance! :P
Wasn't me!
ahh, right. well it doesn't bother me, so sure thing.
Breaking news from the Renault Press Release site...
New Renault Scénic wins the 2009 golden steering wheel
*wonders if they can sell the golden steering wheel to pay for the F1 team*
Not really though. I don't want Doctor Who live commenting here. I want them on a different blog.
oh. haha. that's asking the impossible given it's hosted on wordpress.com.
Mine isn't.
true. i'm not sure it'll handle the load, but if you want me to try i can.
Neither is mine ;)
:)
I'm going to have to rethink this.
It's fine. Daily thread will do as always.
I am torn between extreme excitement and fatigue... not sure how to react... :P
Is MFC hosted?
wordpress.com
hmm would neverlookingback.wordpress.com be too negative sounding a name? and not because wordpress is in there ;)
What's happened? Good times?
You could have alwayslookingforward instead :)
I'm starting to think motorsport isn't the top of Renault's priorities as they're going all girly. Who'd have thunk Renault would form a partnership with L'Oreal to develop a concept car that's half spa - presumably because you're worth it:
http://tinyurl.com/yfzp2z5
Job/hangover :D
Right that explains why I have to use quota time for it here at the office. I didn't put two and two together. I was thinking "odd that they've quota times mediafuturechange.com but of course its the underlying site they've caught.
Because we can't find reverse :)
Ooo I like that, thats what I'm using :D
Do you have people sneaking up behind you and going BOO! all the time? Or is that just something I would do?
i have no idea what that means?
i will say i'm never going near self installed wordpress ever again (unless they rewrite everything).
Yay! That's awesome. Is this an actual job offer this time? I am with you on the hangover :(
I won't either.
(Once I get my hands on the doohickey.)
and that is going in the title for now ;)
I hope so :D
you had a night on the bottle? ;)
Judging my the smell of my clothes/hair/bed I've had more of it thrown on me than I drank tbh. But erm yeah I'm refusing to open the curtains.
in response to
I am back on ye olde laptop, so sorry if my commenting is useless
You never know who is behind them...
I helped! :)
:( Are you trying to keep me away from the windows at all times of day now?
So will silverstone sign?
I doubt it... I expect they will want to become a concession like monza
Is the event protected by the new concorde?
I say open them... its perfectly safe...
Brilliant!
But it's too bright! Make the light stop.
Indeed I have a second blog now :D
... give me a few hours ;)
That was last week's show? I missed it! BLAST! :(
Paffett's been closer to Mercedes than McLaren, I guess (see DTM).
YAY! Post something, post something.
:D
they have F3 cars!!!!
*Looks for gyms...*
I will I will :P I love the comment from Mr Wordpress.
I went to say pivot tables and said pigeon tables instead. Out loud. That's embarrassing.
I heart Pivot Tables!
hehe *pictures pigeons sitting down to a formal dinner at a table*
Back from Lunch.
Japanese Casserole was too much like Honda - only a fleeting success, displayed badly and in the end I had to stop eating it in a hurry because it was disappointing!
Nick, how was your dog?
i think there is only one choice to help make me feel better for my lunch... ;)
Does it rhyme with 'Smegs'?
We have a system that blocks access to "bad" sites here at the office. It just wont let you go to those.
For sites that should be discouraged but aren't actually "bad" (facebook, ebay, etc) the proxy imposes a "quota time" system. So when you arrive on the site it says, "you have 25 minutes of quota time remaining are you sure you want to use 5 minutes of your time here."
The quota time thing then allows you to request as many pages as you like for the next 5 minutes from sites in these categories.
For reasons best known to themselves Wordpress.com is in this category. As is twitter's css page (but not twitter) as is the css page for the Sidepodcast wiki, but not the wiki itself. Presumably the css is on other domains.
But sites like Sidepodcast, Smarter than your average (or as the cool kids are calling it STYA) and Go for odd are all good. But Media Future change is blocked in this way. I guess because Wordpress itself is blocked.
It's a totally bonkers system.
Possibly.
Oh dear... I'm going to have to refresh my pigeon table ;)
I could not do my job without Pigeon tables. They are like Excel Black Magic!
We have a two web blocker systems in play here. certain sites are blocked like eganywhere you can download AIM, gambling sites etc. Then they have a webwashjer which blocks certain terms so if there is a news article which contains the word sex or whatever you can't see the page. Totally random and
My dog?
Are you saying one of my friends is a dog!?
I used to have to use them...
...hated with a passion.
I think i might need them in the new job too:(
I'm sure you were eating dogs at some point.
When are you starting?
maybe in 10 days or so. i need to get a flight back here and find somewhere to live, a car...
Ah... not quite, but it was very nice :D
Glad i wasnt paying the bill though!
Oh my god. That's crazy talk!
They're fine when I generate them with the wizard. But there have been a couple of occasions where our clients asked us to programatically generate a Pivot Table. It was HELL. :O
ooh somehow I missed the news that you found a job. Congratulations!
Its not definate yet... but i am quite hopefull :D
Its very MFC too :D
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/wetnick-jpg
I heard Nick was a bit emotional during the conclusion of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but the poor bloke must have been blubbering like a baby to get his T-shirt so wet?
Did that link to drop.io work?
nope it has issues, soz. it's on me list
Image Shack it is!
http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/7856/wetnick.jpg
A lovely Road Trip article from Joe - really enjoyed reading it.
I have a colleague from Budapest who is always badgering me to visit there..
Me?
But i dont wear shirts without collars in public after somone told me not to! :P
Them Germans really know how to party. :D The red-eye is awful, though...
It's the Terminator.
ah! scary!!!
:D :D
Wouldn't want you looking like a twit.
:D i cant remember what that was about... but it was funny!
Are you too busy for sidepodpubbing then? I'm getting the train down Saturday morning but I've managed to make myself a lot busier than I intended :( It's bad times.
I can do it... how long are you around for?
I see in F1 Racing Whitmarsh decides if it was an animal this years McLaren would be a flying kiwi.
Coming on the same page as how great a Raikkonen-Hakkinen team would be, he knows the way to a girls heart.
A couple of weeks. I had long term leave booked so I might as well use some of it before I start working again.
Well here it is, the blog with the name inspired by Christine and Alex. :)
http://alwayslookingforward.wordpress.com/
please note, not an F1 blog. complete and utter randomness ;)
what's crazy is how many places i recognise from these videos:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2007/08/11/video-13-bulls-versus-lions/
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/08/01/inside-track-budapest/
I do think that Monday is best for me though. The 9th.
I suddenly feel better after that lunch and panda thursday at STYA :)
I thought you were flying off into the ether?
Excellent! What did you have?
Hence the booking of the leave.....
Have you missed all the melodrama? Lucky you.
I had a cornish pastie and a chocolate ecclair. Although I should've eaten the pastie with a cornish accent.
hehe i saw that! my first thought was... who would compare there car to throing fruit about? it makes a reall mess :P
+sorryamy
does moving to Dubai mean you won't make it to Spa? I was looking forward to punching you.
Ok... anyone else in london? Alex? Janna?
:P
Makes my day!!
hehe, its only for 3 months, then i can decide what to do...
Why do i get punched!!!
Erm... Sorry to me as well I hope?
I'm tempted to write up a blog entry like what Jakey did, an alternative F1 awards for 2009... but my own awards I mean :P
Have left a comment!
Oh yes!
Assuming you insist on calling them kiwi FRUIT too...
hmmm i think campos could do a sponsorship deal :P
Do it!
here is a, erm, lovely Panda story for a Thursday.
I am around!
Ooooh, sounds most excellent.
Well I do, so yeah.
You will get a follow-up punch from me after Amy lamps you one :P
yay!
thank you :)
Awesome... Coalhole 6-6.30?
any other takers in the london area?
Can i bring private security to spa? :D
The distant Italian part of my heritage is inclined to offer you protection ;)
Sounds like you can afford it.
i (heart) dt wearing a black shirt: http://joesaward.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/dinner.jpg
that was a great read.
hehe... Ill makea you an offer you cannot refuse, eh!
I have a job... i can afford anything!
Or doesnt it work like that?
:D It does when you're me! I'm waay too used to living on a scummy student budget. Being in employment is like winning the lottery.
this is tempting: http://johnnyherbertkarting.co.uk/
5live have entered a team (sans holly), it's a fiver to spectate and held at docklands, nov 29th.
Here too: http://joesaward.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/0b2j9856.jpg
:)
I have to resist the temptation to blog a lot now I have a new blog. :)
can I have some? I have five entries planned, including that guest post I promised MFC I'd write in the weekend. Um. I've done some of it. :D
I read that as johhny heart breaking
tis okay. i know of another person in a similar situation...
Maybe do what I do and write in a big burst but save them in draft on the site? And then release them later?
Awww I thought you were moving for life there. How on earth are you going to get organised and sorted to just go? Don't you have a lease on your house and boring stuff like that?
Hi. Lunchtime.
#sidepodspace
I am catching up with the last few entries in (on?) a really interesting blog called Spaceman
I heart this.
Mr C how goes the hearting comments idea? :)
other priorities at the moment, but it'll happen.
hehe cool :)
What race did James Allen produce that poem... thing?
with hand gestures? I think it was Malaysia. I remember there being 'puddles'
I couldn't rememebr if it were Malaysia or China but I think you're right. I wish it was still online!
Like this post that I wrote a while ago but just posted because you reminded me :)
http://www.gamboling.co.uk/2009/11/what-are-you-spending-your-social.html
It's #MFC and it mentions Joe Saward so it's fun for all of the family ;)
he pulled it?
I can't find it anywhere? Not on his youtube as well
You can see how long the process takes sometimes... I wrote that post on 23rd September 2009.
hehe loves it :)
sidepodsearch must know...
with all thse blogs... how about a sidepod webring? :D
Seemed odd searched for 'hand gestures' yet first result worked :P
found this, so not china: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/chinajames-wmv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWOTDQLSgdM
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaayyy!!!
good man. how did you find it?
hehe... where there is a will...
i was in the uk for a year and couldnt find a job.
i have been here for a week... Things will be sorted
Which went onto daily, and again, ctrl + f hand gestures = found it
hehe. will add to the playground.
w00t!
That is crazy though! Why are you so unemployable? :P
Onward..... to victory
Bad timing and I guess I am fussy about where i work.
Plus i could make money at home.
New job looks awesome though, i really hope i can do it
so, I have signed and sealed and delivered a new blog post. The amount of content will blow your mind.
:)
Yay!
I like the tags. SPA OR BUST.
No kidding.... I just don't understand this I guess. I have a good job now but I got it by taking a job at more or less minimum wage 2 years ago. It's hard for me not to think that minimum wage is better than no wage.
as beautiful as it is, the full pdf upsets me. I refuse to believe Mr Clappers name is not Mr Clapper.
I think your right, i didnt know that 9 months ago though, but i have found it out myself, and i think it will help me in the long run
awesome... but moving out here might mean i have to wait till xmas to buy a ticket :(
thats still 8 months in advance, you'll be OK :D
:)
Lies.
Clever boy :)
and at least 5 months before we buy ours.
oh I know, but I was trying to channel Mr C when I typed that :D
I haven't bought mine yet. My life crisis has put me off the making of long-term plans.
#sorryamy
I am finally catching up on debrief. I am easily led. It is true.
then there is the temptation to go to bahrain, it wont be as awesome as yas, but it could be the 2nd best :P
I heard that and thought it was true.
Its not as easy as you might think!
kill.me.now.
For you to learn? I see that!
except you'll never make me like Dr Who. or Harry Potter. or Apple.
Alcohol poisoning?
are you going to the mercedes event on sunday?
yup.
yeah, but i'm wearing ear plugs.
and am willing to punch people by proxy ;)
:lol:
can you bring me back a Finn? or two?
back to our house? what would i do with them?
whoah the sun set so quick tonight... that was nuts!
keep them fed and watered until I land in London?
hehe that might stop me from dozing off!
Aren't you near to the equator?
he'll miss at least 7 grand prix?
I hear they eat reindeer.
*actual finn told me this
hmm. you can allow him to go out, but tie a tag on him that says "please return to SPC Towers, Rockall"
well yes, but tonight was especially fast... i am in a room facing east, which might have something to do with it
can he swim?
it would probably cost me a panda, so i'm gonna say no.
Afternoon all.
I've just walked past the Stig. Very bizarre. They appear to be filming Top Gear in the car park at HM Towers...
ah. OK. I will also accept anyone returning from the event with pictures of Finns. If both are in one picture, even better. I am willing to pay in SPC Paypal donations. Bribery. It works.
Did you say "Hello Ben"?
Afternoon all,
Just had a meeting with the head of my course as to why it's been "suspended", what a fun meeting that was
deal!
aooh? this does not sound good?
finally!!
Postal workers and Royal Mail have agreed on a draft deal that could end the long-running strikes, according to Sky sources.
Oh my gosh! Bad times :(
i can still finish the course but the future does not sound positive....
is mika gonna be there?
did you feel any kind of magnetic force?
Don't think it was him. He's a bit taller. May have been a double.
The car he's going to drive appears to have been constructed from dustbin lids. It's a very bizarre contraption.
yup.
What? So what do you mean by suspended?
:( why have they suspended it?
Is the deal that, since we are both completly useless we are giving up and a new sparrow based service will take over?
yes. My lifetime ambition to meet him fails once again since he is not in the same country as me. We were in the same country, once. I saw him on a big screen. I don't think that counts.
Basically no-one else can start it, so i can finish it, but no other years will be able to start it next year. Which considering we are only the second year to have done the course, it dosent sound promising
I hope so :P
They sparrows beaks would clearly need to be replaced with those stamps that stamp the stamp, if that makes sense? The RSPCA would be livid
Oh I see. That really isn't good. Was it takeup problems or something else?
Couldn't they just peck at the edges of the stamp to show that it has been used?
Lack of leadership, and they didn't have as many people as they would want, but then they didn't market the course at all, rubbish PR, they didnt even go to Autosport which is an epic fail!!
Singapore last year? Can you imagine what it would've been like had they started those autograph sessions last year? I saw... Ralf Schumacher! :D
What happens if those self sticky ones are used? The sparrows would need a small knife to nip the edges as they would be stuck down..
Today is such a wierd day
ah cool... somone else to sign my tickets :D
What was the course?
Some say he makes magnets spin...
Indeed. I didn't explore enough to find the paddock entrance, I'm sure if I had spent enough time there I could have been within metres of him! Instead I got within metres of Bourdais and Pedalo. Mika>them.
Motorsport at Bucks New University
If it helps i saw him sitting on the roof of one of mclarens motorhome/villas in AD
sat next to anthony hamilton and a guy who i assume was mr koveleinen sr
I will stop plugging this particular episode eventually...but as i'm in a bad mood i'm hoping it will cheer me up...
Sebastian Hohethal (who? i hear you cry) yes THE Sebastian Hohenthal was interviewed by myself (and apparently its really good!) on the latest Episode of "The Feeder Series"
www.feederseries.tk
Ta
I shall now go and reheat my pasta bake from last night.
mmm
"V8 Supercar driver Cameron McConville will retire from the sport at the end of the year because he is "over" the ups and downs of motor-racing."
This is bad news for my F1 coverage. Now he'll be there for every race :(
P.S it smells of mince in my room. ergh
Bear grillis is on tv.... i really need to go to the pub!
they must have had a "man" area and a "lady" area ;) because the world feed had a shot of Linda Hamilton and Catherine and THAT woman at a table with lots of other ladies I didn't recognise :D
Already listened to it. Jon, that was a great interview!
hehe :lol:
maybe one day the web will retire and take over?
mclaren, or abu dhabi?
hehe it was just the 3 of them on a massive roof in front of 2 tvs... will try to drop a pic i took, but its on my phone and night = bad
It's outrageous that some educational institutions prey on student aspirations and suck in funding while providing nothing of value in return.
mclaren. I am totally not serious though :D
They only real thing that I got from him that wasnt the very basic stuff that you'd expect on a Motorsport course (you know, like people who know what they're talking about. I have not walked into a lecture yet and have them know more about the industry than i do!) was that we take our ARDS, they rest was basic standard stuff and frankly it's not the course i signed up for
Chin Up Jon, I faced the same problem in my first year. My solution was to make a course change and take the points earned with me. You'll find a solution!
Run along then....
Maybe something more specific, like mechanical engineering. 'Motorsport' seems like such a nebulous title for a qualification - it doesn't tell a prospective employer much about what you've learned.
Maclaren grouping, mika on the left, anthony in the middle http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/imag0176
I tried making the beetroot soup myself. It didn't work as well.... My dad is officially mean!
If i'm totally honest, i don't want to work in the industry afterwards anyway. I joined the course to learn more about the industry because im passionate about it, its what i love learning about. I was originally going to do Mechanical engineering or Motorsport engineering but i discovered that generally they are very design based and i wanted to be doing something practical and thats what this was advertised as. But its really really not
I've got a solution in the pipeline, but i still have to finish this year to do it, so it'll still be a slog! oh well
Now your ordering me about?!!!
Later peoples
Why the heck not..... :)
McLaren. That's a lamping!
I'm so thankful for Mr Cs proxy punches.
In other news, I read the tale of Joe's road trip with considerable amusement, aided by visualising some of the banter with DT. Can you imagine?
Grrrrr! You ate all the M&Ms! Grrrrr!
I'm still writing up these awards!
:)
Keep it up, we are very excited to read them!
Scandal!
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80029
Kinda
Grrr! This map was printed before Hannibal crossed the Alps! Grrrr!!!
heeeeh!
Grrrr! This wind is messing up my hair! GRRR!
Grrrr!!! What do you know about Ferrari anyway Saward Grrrr!!!
GRRR!!! Your Music choices are not as angry as mine Saward! GRRR!!!
GRRR!!!! Why do I look like Simon Cowell in these pics? GRRR!!!
Grrrrr!!!! Seriously why do you do a podcast with that website that do all of those impressions of me Saward! Grrrr!!!
Having fun?
I think for the Christmas show we need to get Joe and David to Tremayne on voicemail.
Are the two of you having some sort of meltdown or is this the SPC equivalent of a dance-off?
Doing impressions of each other :D
Stewart started it. This time, and literally.
I've been listening to the Sidepodchat podcast from January which were very good and suprisingly wrong which I think shows how topsy-turvy this season has been!!
On another note does anyone expect Force India to do a Jordan and not be so good next season?
*Stuart ;) :P
This is Sidepodcast - facts should never get in the way of a good argument :P
Oooops.
GRRRRRRR Why do we always go on road trips when the big news happens?! GRRRR
I don't know about that ;) there were a lot of facts and many complaints about Honda not testing!!
am quite sure Honda didn't test in January as they pulled out in November ;)
I have always wondered why the instruction to the drivers to pit is the word “box” rather than the word “pit”. {Comment #136}
"Box" is ambiguous in the sense that it could be "pit" or "gearbox", but it has the advantage of being relatively easy to distinguish from background noise due to the hard sound. This reduces the likelihood of the word being missed in the first place, which is good because instructions to pit are invariably important.
It also means that pit stops can be discussed (using "pit") without any risk of confusion of an imminent stop (using "box").
I think this is probably the main reason. Actually that makes a lot of sense!
http://www.formula1.com/video
Abu Dhabi onboard lap is up - it's from Lewis Hamilton. :D
To be fair, it was totally unexpected what happened to Brawn and nobody could have predicted that. The show was just a bit of fun after all - nothing that shuold have been taken too seriously and definitely not something that should be used as a form guide or an expert opinion!
The archives will always come back and haunt us all though. Always.
Isnt that why you invested the comment search box? So that when we use the podcasts against you, you can use what we've said against us ;) :P
I'm not too bothered about that - half the stuff I say is RRRRRRRRRRRrrubbish and the other half I was glad to be wrong about. However, it was just for fun and not to be taken seriously ;)
I have skived off my Italian class :(
Has this been brought up?
Renault delays decision on F1 future
Ghosn says:
Does this mean they're looking for a seller? Did they really terminate negotiations with DR, I wonder?
aaaand it's done. The 2009 Formula 1 TOATA Awards are now available ;)
And without the driver thinking they are calling him a 'git'...
I don't think they will leave, if anyone knows what they are up to it is Red Bull. Afterall they are supposed to be using Renault engines next year.
ummmm, im telling!! *puts hand up like a little kid*
If they're not gonna leave, why haven't they announced it yet?
I think this particular news cake isn't ready to come out of the oven yet, or it will sink in the middle...
Didn't mean it in a negative way. It was a very interesting podcast and I think many looking at F1 at the time would have felt the same and I have to say that this is what I loved about this season as the lack of testing (which I think was one of the main factors) flipped the status quo. Still think they are very enjoyable and once my broadband go live I will hopefully be on more often!
I think it means "you will have to be patient."
So this item could quietly disappear without a trace? Somehow I doubt that. We'll probably hear something from Ghosn one way or the other.
True dat.
I think that's rather unkind to those in the F1 team. So far, this has been an exact replica of what Honda did last year...
*stamps foot*
No - it's just one facet of a story that's ongoing. After all, if the story is that they haven't made a decision yet, then it's as simple as that: either they have (and aren't telling) or they haven't. There may be other factors that may yet come in to play; it's just that with the 24-hour news culture we have nowadays, everyone is so eager to be first with the news that they tend to jump to conclusions.
how so?
I am not in any rush to know either way. It's a long old off season and we have had far too much news as it is.
we haven't had any off-season yet :(
The Honda F1 Team continued working on the 2009 car as normal, expecting support from the mother company. Then Honda decides to pull the plug in December, leaving them hanging. We're not quite at the plug-pulling yet, but I just find it surprising that for a team that seems to have decided post-Crashgate to stay in the sport, that they don't seem to be so sure after all.
Riiiiiiight.
I'm off for another meeting that i really don't want to have! What a fun day!! Woop woop :(
Speak to y'all later!
Why do they make a big deal about it then or was this one of those 'leaked; stories??
I'd rather get it settled now, so that December will be nice and quiet. The longer this drags, the less likely we'll have a quiet offseason.
Nope. What with people signing us up for trips when they don't even know what day it's on. ;)
Oooh. Have just noticed the microblogging section of the Playground, funky :)
i don't see any resemblance.
honda quit, said stuff the lot of ya. ross/nick you can figure it out yourselves.
renault have said, "you outside people, you mind your own business".
ahh yeah....
I think Witness X was Bob Bell....he's slowly trying to infiltrate F1 with Irish people...e.g....Eddie's back....
they want attention?
given how news works nowadays, the people in the team may just be as much in the dark as the rest of us. that seems like a stuffing to me.
Any attention is good attention??
:D Gary Anderson hasn't returned yet... or Ralph Firman...
i disagree.
YET
for people spreading rumours. yes.
I want to be bored of no F1 news so we can start playing games and that while we wait for something to happen.
I'm bored of not being bored yet.
As long as Renault don't announce, I wouldn't count on it.
There's still the BGP to settle too - and if those 48-hour stories are true, that'll come out by the end of the week.
It won't though, will it? The British GP always has a deadline and it never seems to count for anything.
You may be right. But surely it'll have to be settled sooner or later, or else we get no BGP at all? Regardless, there will be some sort of headline everytime there's a deadline...
We could always ignore them.
that remains a possibility.
true. if i remember correctly, the final calendar is released sometime in December (the week of the FIA Gala?), so we should know one way or the other on or before then.
Interesting piece from earlier:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/05/toyota-profit-unexpected
Can anyone help me out?
In preparation for this year's FIA Gala video, I've been updating my list of songs from previous F1 highlight reels at the gala.
I'm starting with the Year 2000 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw-OG4z80Ms
I'm now only missing the first song in this sequence. Anyone know what it is?
Whoa, what? Lou didn't/doesn't know who Yoda is!?!?
Yup, she didn't. :D Took us a while to explain it too. Hehehe.
Afternoon y'all
Ah that was a fun evening :)
I weep. WEEP for the future. :P
Was this the same evening where we talked about the similarity between Star Wars and a certain other movie? :D
It's not out of the question though. I know of Yoda but have never seen him/it in action. Not really sure what he/it does either, 'cept say things backwards.
Yup, as mentioned in my post ;)
Master of the Force he is. Train Luke in the ways of the Jedi he did. Talk Danish with English words he does.
You haven't lived!!!! He is Yoda, he is awesome, he knows stuff. Lots of stuff.
But has he ever driven down a moutain in a bobsleigh. That's the key question.
This is a good question. However, he wouldn't need too.
He would stand at the bottom of the hill and control the bobsleigh with the power of the force.
That would be a cool running.
Ah, believe they dont, some people say, bobsled team, jamaica dey 'ave.
He's 900+ years old.
I'm sure he has at some point.
Ooooh, this is new. From CNN:
Vatanen: 'Renault right to question F1 future'
There's a video in the article.
One of my former colleagues just e-mailed me to say simply:
"I miss the Daily Pun. Sigh."
I don't think that I did a daily pun, but between fourstar and I we probably did.
Just one!
Maybe not just one...
Yes but you don't really watch many movies as we discovered during Sidepodradio! Badaas Yoda Fighting
Doesn't work I'm afraid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRd9PGmAQUE
jake's doing a piece on newsround about why f1 teams are leaving. It's probably not going to tell us anything new, but you never know.
OK ...where is everyone?
engrossed in your video?
I'm here still!
Ah I thought it was either that or I had broken a Commenting/Sidepodcast rule with my post and was being shunned!
I have got one street away from my work and I am stuck in traffic. Boo.
he he, they've used a photo of a ferrari to talk about Honda!
*shuns*
;)
We have a list of items we shouldn't mention. They're called the unmentionables and can be found at http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/The+Unmentionables
MoJoker you can now leave Coventry ;)
Evening all.
Evening RG
Hullo
EURGH! Why do I not feel less sick?
Phew thats a relief! #sorry Coventry
Evening all. As Thursdays go, this one was pretty good. I won a chocolate bar in Life Skills because I was the only one who volunteered to do the activiy. You should have seen the look on everybody's faces afterwards...
Evening
So how is sidepodcast today?
And what did Life skill did you learn from that?
Evening all
Alcohol?
I think everyone's ill
You already know the answer :(
probably contemplating Renault's decision to have an emergancy briefing about their future in F1...
It's not your fault...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sent_to_Coventry
You were very entertaining last night. Looks like you have control of your fingers now so that's progress
Well, I already had too much of coldness this year.
Oh god really? I haven't looked.
:D
well, we are in Britain (well, me anyway...)
What are people gonna do for Sidepodradio II?
You told me you hadn't been frinking and thought I was making dun of you because I used your spelling back at you. Then I told you Michel was on and we never heard from you again.
Learn something new everyday!
We don't know just yet but we are open to any suggestions. I expect after the first one more people will want to do shows.
Any ideas can be put at the bottom of the wiki page
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodradio+2
Is nervous to look... Have I been volunteered for anything yet?
@Alison
Your first comment was at 3:13am this morning. I have no idea how I guessed you had been drinking
Hoping this Michael Jackson/Derek Acorah thing works out. Then I'll hire him aquiring about Nostradamus.
Not too confident that will work though
I definitely had nothing to frink!
No-one other than Mr C has been volunteered yet. I am sure I won't need to volunteer many people this time as everyone enjoyed it so much the last time
my iPod can't edit the wiki...and the computer is being darn annoying...I would like to do a Quiz Show
So why did you have beer in your hair?
Professor Frink, professor frink, he makes you laugh, he makes you think...
RG's on it!
Mmmm... Excellent idea. :D We had one on the first one, and it was absolute fun! ;)
No reason. The fact that the world is still spinning a little also has nothing to do with anything.
That monkey is going to pay!
I am sure there will be a quiz show that you can be involved in.
Is Mav up for a sequel, I wonder...?
I would love to do it...if it is after Xmas, then I will have a good chance of doing it. (getting skype about then)
You should read your early morning comments. They will cheer you up.
evening..
I'm really off it today, I'll add your suggestion Lewis
hi there
:S
I haven't just gone to the search, searched for it and smiled during it.
great, thanks!
I wouldn't mind taking part in a quiz. Not sure of doing a whole show...can't stand the sound of my voice so don't want to force it on others! ;)
:D
Good evening :)
Hellllo lou
You can listen to the shows from sidepodradio1 at http://www.sidepodcast.com/category/sidepodradio/ There are a few pages of them.
My brother just asked me over dinner who I thought would be champion next season. Already?!!
I'd love to host an F1 quiz show!
Hi Lou
Glock innit?
the original sidepodcast was pretty epic!
It is! ;) Evening Lou
It's best to predict when you have no real information I find....
I said Johnny Herbert
*keeps fingers crossed*
Hey Lou. :)
A lot of people feel like that but once you get started you enjoy it. There will no doubt be a series of sidepodpanels before sidepodradio so you will get to see how people resond to your voice on those
their first podcasts? of course they were epic! :)
I'm telling you now Nelson Piquet Jr! Definitely!! .....or Badoer heard he's good!
everyone had a nice day?
You know what, lets all back to the archives and start listening again!
ps, I'm already on the naughty step.
I like your thinking. If only he hadn't trashed his legs he could have been champion
I meant sidepodradio but the first podcasts Christine and Mr C did were also epic!
At this rate Badoer is a good shoe-in for the 1999 World Championship
Sorry, thats 2012 according to my reliable predos
Don't fancy going to Coventry again!
I have been there for months
Same here. Perhaps one day someone will remember we are here.
Oh RG, I finally finished my coursework! I gave it in...phew!
fingers crossed, might be catching up with joe this evening. questions as ever, in the usual place:
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Questions+for+Joe
I think I am here for ever. Just because I pardonend everyone when Christine put me in charge for 5 minutes then mwhahahaed her.
Do you want voicemails?
awesome! Will add one now
plus you're blamed for nearly everything that goes wrong
Well done. Unless it was original writing, cos I liked that one
ummm, probably not, am a little short on time.
I get so much blame I have to sub-contract some of it to Bassano but he gets away with it.
Because he is responsible. Fact.
No problem
Have added a predictable one for joe
it was...
Just listen to the first ever sidepodcast (the intro from Xmas 2006). Soooooo different...
Predictable for my own content I mean, that sounded odd
Me too
*listened
Completely off topic but a bit of good news, there will be no postal strikes for the rest of this year (or so they say)
It was a different time back then. :D Has been quite the adventure, the last 3 years...
Done and done.
and when you say different... you mean rubbish :)
cheers all, keep em coming.
It's crazy that Christine wasn't called Christine!
it sounded so much more formal (haven't really listened to vintage spc because I started listening at Xmas).
Here's an idea. You should repost classic episodes of Sidepodcast, you know, re-living the memories...
Doesn't Christine call herself Chris in it and things like that?
Thats not in Mrs C's stlye...
Christine is a stage name.
There's usually an end of year review/best bits
I thought it was Chris that was the stage name?
she's not gonna like that idea at all :D
Is Mr C a stage name too?
Christine doesn't like listening to the old shows so I don't think that will happen. There is a lot of good stuff in the archives though
*tries to contain laughter* :D
she's still called chris in some transcripts.
Is there not a wiki pahe for that?
Nope. That's his real name
We have the best comments. Apart from that, last season there was that megamix, sidepoddies, inside track review, season in words and audio...
Lukeh, you will LOVE the ending of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5lavVwrHnU
Better late than never for Mr Mantovani, I suppose. :)
Parents were A-team fans but the Registra mis-heard!
Awwwwww that was awesome!! No more Zombie Rubens!!!!
:D
The concept had to be retired sooner or later - Rubens has, after all, well and truly revived his career this year. :)
Right People - I'm off home. May be back on later! Bye
Byeee
Argh. My freeview signal is horrendous tonight. I blame Guy Fawkes.
ahhh, a good evening to record a podcast...
That was secretly his agenda. Not to annoy parliament but to upset podcasters of the future
Fireworkgate? (Related to Owlgate)
Evening all.
What an aweful day
grrr
012828 87225 ;)
There's going to be pretty colours though!!
Hey Jon, care to elaborate?
thanks!
not greatly ;)
lets just say i've had 2 horrendus meetings today, and then to top it off, didnt get told that i wasnt going to get picked up for a course im doing (which is frankly the only good thing about this place)
ARGH
centreeee, centreeee
right. How are we all today?
Pardon? (french accent)
DO NOT CALL THAT NUMBER
It is 0121 28 87225
You would think Mr C would know his own number ny now
Tonight be The night of Mr Fawkes and his fireworks.
oh right yeah
hahaha. thats amusing.
Jon.
Drop the course at the earliest opportunity and start again. I did that after my first year and never regretted it. You haven't lost anything by doing this - you have still learned stuff and you won't get messed around!
I am so far ahead of you it hurts ;)
The course i'm changing to starts in September, but i have to pass this year to get into that course. So i have to stick with it!
GRRR!
The McLaren e-shop won't accept any of my credit cards and they think it's my fault!
I have now emailed them asking if I can send them a cheque or something...
Hehe typical!
What you planning on doing?
a cheque? you mean sending it via post?
MFC stares at you ;)
Well their bloody website doesn't chuffing work!
I originally applied to do Primary Teaching at Oxford Brookes (quite different i know), but after my aweful a-level year i didnt get in (hense ending up here) so hte place i originally applied to have said i can get into that if i finish this year! Which is a bigger challenge than i'd originally thought!
True story!
no like reliving old sidepodcasts from 06-07
they really aren't that bad...
Hey, it's achievable!
Don't they have a rule in the UK that says after a certain age, they can't deny you admission solely on your grades?
That's... ever so slightly confusing!
Yeah, 21. It's called 'Putting Bums on Seats'
Alright, own up. Who started going through the archives?
ooops.
I was going to do primary teacher as soon as I left school but I dropped it a month after it started because I felt rubbish doing such a huge course at the age of 18... I'd definitely have a think before definitely jumping into primary teacher. I'll probably do a PGCE in a year or twos time now I'm older and have had a good think about things, the last few days I've had some really serious talks with tutor leaders and graduate opportunities about teaching.
Yeah, but being 19 i'm not going to wait for another 2 years ;)
Then you should look into what else you can do just in case.
You have options, it's not all bad...
It was him over there
I've wanted to be a primary school teacher for aaaaages, and unless i really have to i really dont want to stay here doing this!
Ummm...it twas Guy Fawkes...
Same here, and you have no idea how much I wanted to do the course before I started it.
At the moment Brookes is my option, if i dont get in then i'll just have to have a rethink. I'll have to finish the year whatever happens so its always open to me.
Why did you change?
You are learning fast. Guy Fawkes started looking at the archives.
Actually from my own experiences I dont think it's right that a teaching course should be available to ages under 20 or so, but that's just my experience. A few years toughening yourself up and getting experience in the world and workplace than simply coming straight out of school into that just didn;t work at all for me.
Like I say, it's just my own personal view so don't take it as if I'm criticising anyone elses choices because the last time I mentioned this to someone the other person got really mad at me :(
I kind of answered your question without realising in another comment... whoops!
Don't do something you don't want to do. Life's too short. Seriously.
I've left my degree already. Despite reassurances that my grades were fine and the fact I've been out of education for ten years wouldn't pose a problem, the engineering course I started in September was harder than a pitbull wearing a chieftain tank for trousers.
It annoyed the hell out of me for a week. My aspirations in the gutter. But I'm now doing a few Maths and Physics modules through the Open University (check it out) to see if I can pick up the knowledge to perhaps begin again next September. Failing that, I'll just continue with the OU and see how that goes.
And that's my story.
yep
You're only saying that because usually we blame you ;)
it was me, sorry...
told ya!
I didn't suggest it. No way.
Guy Fawkes is on Sidepodcast. How did God let him get here? :P
And on that funny note, am off to bed. :) Night, everyone. :D
Night J
I completely agree.
Some bits are ok here, and the people are ok. The worst thing i can do is to go home and do OU stuff though, now i've left home i need to stay away.
Night sir
Night J!
Night Journeyer
night
Guy Fawkes you should really stop listening to the archives - you're embarrasing Mr and Mrs C
Evening folks
Evening!!
Hi Jon, you feeling any happier tonight?
Helllllo
HI Jackie
Hey RG
Nope! :D
Hullo
and Steven .. and hi to everyone I haven't mentioned
Oh dear.. have the guys been giving you good advice?
They have :)
sidepodlove is cool :D
Friday tomorrow, i have only just realised! :)
Yay and I've got Monday and Tuesday off as well
it is totally awesome :)
awww i love you guys (no i have not been drinking, not one bit, na ah)
one lucky peep!
#MFC
ooooh. I really hadn't heard about this until just now but apparently there is a scary Internet only drama called girl number nine which is being broadcast in 5 minute clips over six days. Online only. And apparently not only is the show on Twitter but so are all of the characters. Sounds like some quote serious people are involved. The first episode was last friday and I haven't checked it out. Apparently it is quite scary so if you are of a nervous disposition don't look.
Maths revision test, booo.
Double PE (with football training) yaaay
I can't believe you didn't mention me even though I wasn't here yet ;)
my dog has decided to go under my desk because of fireworks. poor thing.
I did, telepathically ;)
Got an A in my history mock, yay!
#oppositeatschool
congrats
"Sidepodcast - "Who Needs Sleep?""
Too true
ahh I only just got it because of the telepathy strike!
haha
same..
Goood for you!
Well done for picking history as well ;)
Gonna do some racing - be back later...
me too....
:(
well done.
I am trying to remember some historic mocks myself and all I can come up with is that time Queen Victoria dressed down Prince Albert because he brought a tree into the living room in mid winter. But who's laughing now?
And I'm expected to do well in my English next week...
numbers not your thing?
Don't talk about the Christmas tree :( :( :(
actually I was more reacting to the sports thing.
I liked all classes except pe / sports.
Sorry. Why not?
obviously this is highly ironic as now, as I'm sure you appreciate my sporting prowess is legend ;)
Table tennis and football. Small gap and then football.
#friday'srock
My parents have a HUGE one (by this I mean 3 story house height) growing in their garden. They're chopping it down as they say it's too big. When we moved into the house it was 6 foot tall. It's like the pet I never had.....
Hello
i go to slough on a friday....i can assure you they do not "rock"
Friday is the best day of the week you silly
Friday from around 12.30 onwards i agree
#fridaysrock,foreveryoneexceptjon
hey pat
Despite my gripes about it last week, I'm entertaining the idea of spending £10 on James Allen's blog-o-book. Or should I spend it on sweets and fizzy pop instead?
blog-o-book?
You should get the train to Bristol, then in the centre of town there is a market and it has THE best sweet shop EVER. Admittedly it will cost you more than £10, but it's worth it.
This: http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/order-your-book/
I suggest you take them to the European court of human rights.
evenin'
I liked his blog when he started it at first, now that's its just become another news site I'm not so keen, in fact, it's starting to annoy me.
£10 would probably see me get so far as the borders of Oxfordshire and not a mile further!
You know what? I think you're dead right. Swayed towards the sweets now...
Anyone know any details about Stuart's booky wook. If it's just pretty pics I'm not so sure I want it
I think there are a lot of pics but Stuart has written a bit on each of them. I am not sure what the balance is though
I will be in Bristol on Saturday 21st for a revision course (retake coming up..)
Thanks .. what we need is for Stuart to give us a synopsis
There is? where? I live near Bristol and have no idea :)
IndyCar has found a title sponsor and the announcement is live on their website in 3 minutes. http://ow.ly/zCOj
I can't explain exactly where it is :D Not a million miles away from the castle ruins bit i think. Near the main high street, its a covered market
Maths and Physics rules. That is all.
i decided the next day that you were wrong and it is a good idea. so i say buy it.
LIES! ;) ahem
hmm means nothing to me :P
He needs to do a plugging course with Alex
I think you are mad
You're mocking history?
Who ate all the pies? Henry VIII!
ummm....me neither :D
Putting out the idea. People clicking to buy the book.
Hand gestures to sign the copies. Happy.
it's not an obligatory purchase. i suspect many of us will be buying it, so you might be left out if you don't have a copy.
hoping for a podcast chat with stuart before the official release.
I'm going to buy it!
I'm debating it.
I am :D
My degree is a Science degree, majoring in Maths and minoring in Physics...
cool :) .. actually I'm looking for a book to buy and see if I can get any of the drivers to sign it at the weekend. It would make a good christmas quiz prize.. thing is, I dont want one that's team-centric
lol .. buy my book .. a hand gesture :D
whats happening at the weekend?
There's a Mercedes event at Brooklands on Sunday but I'm afraid the tickets are all gone, they were free
Ah there is a book available that isn't team centric that sounds ideal: http://www.thebookwiththemissingfirstpage.co.uk
Well a boy's got to try ;)
:) :) :)
Not the easiest of subject matters. I've got equations coming out of my ears!
You didn't technically say an F1 book ;)
oh yeah i did know about that, lou was saying about it yesterday....Mr C's going on Saturday ;)
When is your next one out?
I think I have discovered the square root of your problem... They are supposed to come out of your pen ;)
How very dare you. I'm never wrong. Maybe.
When's Sidepodcast jumping on the bandwagon and releasing an annual?
I may know someone who has a ticket .. want me to ask them?
As of today, right now, the ICS is now the IZOD IndyCar Series.
http://twitpic.com/odvgp
Now, that would be an awesome idea!
hehe but yeah, Bristol is a nice city. whoever was actually going there :)
not a very catchy name .. sounds far out as in alien space far out
I can imagine it
'Inside: 100 Reasons why Button is a great WDC, Non-F1 Related Recipes and find out the behind the scenes of Sidepodradio'
we don't do print :)
Izod is a clothing company.
e-book it. You have no excuse!
ebook? :P
isn't it time we did a new 100 things list?
100 uses for a can of Red Bull?
Audio book, Online book. There are options
I still can't believe we haven't done F1 drivers as biscuits.
true lol
(except when Etherpad goes down ;) )
ooh, really? only if its not too much hastle and they're not going
Evening all
New Mantovani cartoon - Barrichello's no longer the Monster! :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5lavVwrHnU
new sidepodtagline ;)
100 of them???
ouch!
it was anaesthetised
Evening Scott.
Yeah that's a good'un!
It was an obscure Fighting Talk reference.
Oooops, I mean radio show similar in format and not as good as the currently awesome Sidepodpanel
Hey Scott, hows things?
#sorrymrc
I was only thinking of it because I read a great post about it over at everyone's favourite blog about the future of media and changing: http://mediafuturechange.com/2009/11/05/disappeared-into-the-ether/
I don't even know what that is. Any references are beyond lost on me....
Good thanks, yourselves?
Not too bad.
:)
I am soon off out to the Fireworks I think. I knew there was something I was supposed to remember tonight ;)
Anyone have a favourite kind of firework?
The ones that actually set fire
The one that shoots up in the air, has a big bang and lots of pretty colours!
The ones that don't work
Of course given my most recent comment I could now plug this post on STYA ( http://smarterthanyouraverage.com/2009/11/02/thoughts-on-fireworks/ ) but that would be ridiculous ;)
Is there a quiet one?
silent ones.
I hate bangers and crackerjacks though they may have been banned
Not a fan?
aren't sparklers banned as well now?
Within a second. I must turn off my wireless thoughts
No they're fine aslong as you don't light them ;)
I never normally go to such things. But a friend has tricked me into going. So there we are.
I like big roaring fires. Maybe they'll have one?
Catherine wheels as they are named after my fake middle name....
that's something completely different. you don't want to get those confused.
Actually a fan might be useful if you wanted to put one out?
I remember when lou had a spider in her room and my advcie on here to her was 'Throw your bed at it'
I want to offer the same advice to you and the bonfire!
Should be banned and those caught using them sent to me for punishment.
Have you never heard the phrase fan the flames?
BEEEEEEEEEP... I'm sorry I think we're going to need a judges ruling here. You have a fake middle name?
But I like big roaring fires. I am a fan of the flames.
Oh well erm that's a very lengthy story. I'm not sure why I brought it up. I need to be much drunker to get into all that.
*makes note to ask on Monday* ;)
Oooh are you coming? Happy times :D
#Forza3
Now on Level 49 and just one more level to go. In the middle of Season 5 of 6 and have about just over 3 million credits in the bank as well as a garage stuffed full of awesome machines.
Plus, my next project after I finish a Lexus I'm working on looks like it's gonna be this on the Merc DTM racer:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qK4eE0KbOoA/R3NMgfB2rwI/AAAAAAAAAg0/17zxgT8HSK4/s400/Christmas-2008-048.jpg
I don't have a middle name.
However in theory if I was really Russian (My Grandparents were born there) I would have a patronymic. So I would be Alexander Igorevich Andronov
Have you seen the video of Murray talking about Forza 3?
Me either ;)
You have no idea how happy that would make me :D
My brothers middle name is Benjamin, so i call him SamBenj. My middle name is James...so i'm JonJam :(
Except for this fake one...
Plus, if there's any 90s BTCC fans in here at the moment, I have the Holden V8SC in the colours of John Cleland's 1995 Vauxhall Cavalier on my storefront and it's selling really well! Already sold 10 or so.
Gordon or Walker?
I like JonJam sounds good.
Murray Walker
Ooh, linky?
Spirits both.
I wish you had mentioned this yesterday
You should have done the Holden in DTM Calibra colours. Great job though!
im warming too it. My dad woudl be TrevEric which dosent work at all
Here you go
He's amazed at how drivers these days can use games like Forza to learn tracks :)
I can do that. Which paint scheme though.
Umm, the team Keke Rosberg drove for ... Joest I think?
So for those who are waving and that... Has anyone been keeping it open like e-mail? I have been but I was wondering if others are?
nope. as yet, hardly used it.
I'm checking it irregularly - seems like a tarted-up ICQ chat so far...
Oh apparently there's supposed to be a video on there too of them playing Forza 3 with Murray commentating behind them but no sign of it :(
I think the problem is that it has to reach critical mass otherwise it's just another place to open.
Katherine and I tended to send pretty short messages back and forth through the day. But can't use chat, so Wave works well for us. And because I need to check it for that I'm in there. But most people I've connected with on there are using it "when they want to check out about this cool wave thing".
Firework time!
Erm, isn't that the same as the Cavalier? Or am I thinking of when the car debuted in 1993?
i think so too. we probably won't do much with it until every has access, so as not to exclude anyone. good to have an early heads up though
Might be the same: http://www.blausucht.de/images/Cars/calibra/dtm95op6.jpg
Yup, it's pretty much exactly the same, only with Opel, not Vauxhall and a few more sponsors.
Here's Cleland's Cavalier from 1995:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/cleland cavalier/matt_71/VVOC/1995JohnClelandVauxhallCavalier.jpg
Ah, bad link. Lemme find another one.
Here's a bigger, better quality pic.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/cleland cavalier/Turbo272/95_cleland_don.jpg
Damnit!
USE THE CHUFFIN LINK BUTTON :P
Try it without the space.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/clelandcavalier/Turbo272/95_cleland_don.jpg
Exactly. To be honest the bit that is hard to get from looking at it now is the thing they are basically launching is: "a live data sharing protocol". If they just released that nobody, pretty much, would be interested. So what they did is worked out the simplest thing they could lay on top of it which would show off some of the features.
It's when the developers start writing the extentions and layering them on top that people will go, "I love the new doohicky".
"Yeah, it's only possible because of wave."
"Wave? Really? It doesn't look like wave."
"Yeah I know, it's a protocol... don't worry ;)"
I remember going to the BTCC that year - was awesome!
I went to Snetterton to see the BTCC in 96 and 99 for the night race. That was epic! :D
or the preview button :)
bingo :)
Or both ;)
was a dog-oh.
or rather... it's only affordable and reliable because of wave.
Is Google open source?
the protocol will be i believe.
hehe driving in the dark is really fun :)
Howd it go?
Yeah... I know you listen to Mac Break Weekly - so stop me if you've heard this one already. One of them mentioned that with the kindle the argument people are still trying to answer is, "I don't want one of those because I like reading books." The rebuttal, actually, is "yes, but don't you just like reading? Because this is much better than whatever you have for reading everything. Or at least, in your case, everything other than books." And he went on to say that it was a continuing trend of content being separated from its medium.
I would argue that wave is the next step in this. In the same way that lots of people currently read blogs in their feed reader. Commenting has been broken for a while. I see wave fixing that. Each blog post with the comments appearing as waves underneath etc. To name but one example.
How you get to the content will be about what you like. Just as how the content you read is about what you like now. Now if I like whatever content I have to deal with whatever blogging platform they use. That's over.
#MFC
Fact.
To be clear only the first para was from the podcast, rest was from my bonce.
fun :D my mind was totally on other things though :( stupid house drama tomorrow... i wasn't as bubbly as i usually am apparently. but my driving was fine, i'm just so tired...
Just wear dark sunglasses during the day for the same effect
haha :D
hehe.
i don't think it'll be easy though. for one thing wave is obsessed with threaded conversations. which i despise. i'd rather things worked linearly.
how you prevent wave from trying to thread comments streams is a hard one to answer.
i also doesn't appear to quote.
MotorsTV had it last year
Am back again!
I assume that is all part of the layer on top though. You can't have to use that part in the protocol.
People say, we need threading to solve this problem. In my opinion now you have two problems
I've just seem my first christmas decorations of the year ..groan!
agreed. but people's expectations might be that we should do.
the wave "experience" is yet to be determined, especially if we want to bring comments into the wave console.
booo.
it's not december :( celebrating christmas early annoys me :P i'm a right Scrooge until december :P
Should not be put up till the flippin 21st.
I just don't like Christmas it's far too commercial nowadays
i (hearts) rg.
we doing the twelve days this year?
never.again!
maybe something else.
:(
boo!
Maybe a pre-record this year. Might be simpler?
Steven ... I'm bbbbbb...d
gotta be original though. i'm sure we can find something else to sing.
NO!
pmsl :P
Good. You can dream up some shows for sidepodradio 2. Feel free to volunteer anyone you need to
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodradio+2
dives in front of person who is set to be killed by a bullet screaming nooooooooooooooo, kind of no?
buemi style
have ya submitted a question for joe?
oh noooooooooooooooooooooooo's it's a blank page
Why does Hindhaugh bother doing the F1 Review?
He hates F1 and its really obvious. I wish he'd stick to what he knows
I'm not putting my idea down, just because I know I will end up doing it. :)
nope
Dear Joe .. Steven says I can volunteer people for shows, what are you going to do for us Joe?
Oh I haven't heard that yet.
I get the impression they like winding people up.
What's a blank page?
Put it down and volunteer someone else to do it
the radio 2 show
Sadly I'm not like toy Steven :P
Works for me
Or Put it down and I'll add it to the wiki with no names attached...
It;s not for me.
Try again. Suggestions at the bottom of the page
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodradio+2
Put the idea down and we will sort put a host later. We did that with a few shows the last time. It will help give other people ideas
corrected. ;)
When is the show? within 6 months?
no!
within 20 years
this time next year?
exactly.
between now and 20 years time apparently.
less than?
Preferably not bonfire night!
I've added it to the wiki.
not within the next 6 months, i can assure you.
:P
The date has not been sorted yet. I expect during the off-season but Christine is only prepared to commit to it being sometime in the next 20 years. Once we sort out the schedule and we get some volunteers the date will fall into place.
ah.. see i live in the middle of the country, i hardly notice if it's bonfire night... :P but i meant early off season :)
Maybe
I reckon next years off-season would be good.
Go you
He doesn't mean it
I live in the country at the moment too. Unfortunately right next door to a school that runs what must be the biggest show in the county.....
it won't happen before we get a new live server that can be trusted to stay up for 24hrs.
that requires much testing.
That's fine by me!
24 hours? This is expanding!
if we go on about it often enough i'm sure we can change your minds :P
I dont want this to sound negative, its not meant to. I thoroughly enjoyed the last one but it wont be special if it happens too often. Part of the fun for me was the long build-up
*translation* many more sidepodradios!
...or not...
i meant 12.
oh balls.
Christine is not going to be happy that he has made sidepodradio2 a 24 hour event
Sidepodradio .. the marathon
We got it on record folks...
i hate myself :(
24hours... when are we/you going to sleep??...can't wait to know christine's reaction to you committing to a 24hour show :P
quick get Alia to note the comment number
gotta love the archives! :)
Boooo. drop.io is being stupid :(
There will be a long build up this time anyway now that the first batch of ideas have been done. I think we need to try and do shows that are 80% different to the last one.
;)
See, good stuff always happens when I am b....!
aw Mr C *hugs*
So without volunteering anyone to do anything does anyone have an ideas of subjects that we could do shows on that were not done before?
I had a couple before. I can't think of them now. I'm sure it's not an urgent concern.
karaoke?
*runs*
I just want to start sparking off a few ideas.
I was thinking a proper drama/comedy play like on real radio, but it's WAY too much work for us to do
YMCA?
wheezes with laughter
Well you walked into that one didn't ya RG. Bloomin idiot.
:D
February, it'll be the perfect start to the season.
I am not mad about Mr C signing us up for 24 hours because that is not happening, no freaking way, you're all mental.
We have a lot of time
Evening Christine
hehehe it's alright, we would never ask you to do 24hrs.. it's silly.. we were just teasing mr c ;)
*waves*
Sidepodpanel Special - Joe vs Stuart
nice idea
:)
Howdy.
how about GP2 for dummies.. I know nothing about the series apart from its an f1 feeder
It'll be great. If you need a break it could be 2 x 12 hrs over a Sidepodweekend.
That would be way worse!!
You're going to kill them/us!
Best of Sidepodcast? like best bits from the debriefs/chats etc?
When you say It'll be great, you really mean it'll be fictional, cos it ain't happening. :)
Isn't that the plan?
That's be the end of Sidepodcast!
*That'd
Would go out in style though. Okay, I'll settle for 12 hours before the season.
2011 season?
Love the pics!
I enjoyed the show :) You not fireworks people or is it all a bit too outsidy?
I am going to channel Jon and start plugging the fourth episode of our other podcast: http://mediafuturechange.com/2009/11/05/this-is-what-goes-for-news-these-days/
:D
It would be fun to get them involved
...how did I miss episodes 2 and 3?
I know a man who does podcasts on that kind of thing
We're not very good at plugging.
There is a show that covers that at the end of the year.
ahem
Ah, ok.
I haven't been here a year yet ;)
and I dare not go into the archives.
you need yourself an alex ;)
We had enough trouble finding one day that suited everyone. There is no way the first one would have been done yet if it had needed two days
i really need to use hte preview button dont i
http://www.feederseries.tk
im currently working on a series of guides about the various junior formulae
The archives are awesome
That's why you're on the naughty step and he isn't ;)
I think he lives there
It's simple. Use the archives, but don't advertise it in the comments
I can't. I find this site impossible to search or navigate (#sorrymrc) I need the comments to help me.....
But it says archive at the top of the screen?
Oooh, that show takes ages to make.
So, if anyone is at a loose end at any point before Christmas, (and seeing as you all love the archives so much) why not see if you can pick out any of your favourite moments?
Make a wiki page, let us know when and where, or even better, use something free like Audacity to cut out your favourite bits and pieces. We could make it a collaborative thing.
As well as the search bar ;)
They aren't finished yet, though.
We had people say they couldn't do Saturday and other people say they couldn't Sunday. Now they can dip in when they want.
Nope. I was on the naughty step for something. Can't remember what then Christine put me in charge for five minutes on a live show so I pardoned everyone and I got put straight back on it. Then I mwhahahaed her and I am here forever now.
This is of particular confusion to me. I still can't find things I'm looking for.....
Known as 'taking one for the team'
Want me to set it up?
already done :P
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Best+of+Sidepodcast+2009
I thought we started a wiki page for that. I am sure you and I discussed it a couple of months ago when Mr C said something that had to be in the show. Can't remember what though.
So good of you. And yet still found my way back on there.
What are you looking for?
Is there not some form of rehabilitation available?
Have you mentioned this to Mr C? He'd want to know.
Too slow today.
#banthursdays
Nothing specifically right at this second! Normally I just wail about it and someone else looks it up. It's probably just my stupid broken computer.
ITS A THURSDAY?!?!
That explains EVERYTHING
Added a couple of items
Hmmmm no. My main problem is when I know roughly the date something happened on and you can't order the results by date.
But earlier you mentioned tomorrow being friday so surely you know it's a thursday
Not after the mwhahaha
Ah, good. I hope they fixed the repetitiveness.
I'm doubting it based on the previews I've heard
Nah it was mensioned that it was Friday, and on Fridays i go to slough, but i wasnt really thinking about the days of the week
:-(
They shouldn't throw away a good series by being lazy.
Ah yes, that's a common request. I believe it is on the playground somewhere.
add it to the wiki ;) http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Hash+Tags
Didn't James May crash a caravan into a tree by accident while aiming for a cricket ground? It doesn't sound like they've found any new jokes.
with the best of sidepodcast, is it actual podcasts or do the live shows count as well?
"The Go Motorsport ambassador [VBH] was filming her exploits in the 495bhp 4.3-litre mid-engined supercar for Fifth Gear Web TV and for her Absolute Radio podcast, and will be writing about them for the Ferrari magazine, Auto Italia, and Country & Town House magazine.
"
hahahah
#MFC anyone else been on Google Wave yet?
Then I probably won't bother.
Whatever you like
We have always done just the shows, but we could make one for live shows as well. Chances are there are more for that than anything else!! *cough*Ringo*cough*
Its already on hte list ;)
Did Mr C murdering Ringo make the final cut? :P
Nope :(
:D
Already put it on the list along with a certain song
Oh no please no
Now I have "Mr C killed Ringo Starr" stuck in my head on a loop.....
wooooow that changes the game
(just realised the elongated wow doesn't look like it when written)
Perfect.
Don't forget the more info you put on there, the more likely we are to be able to find it :)
Don't forget "What do we want!"
"...I don't know!"
:D
This is just a big podcast to show the world Mr C's slip ups isnt it? ;)
You'll get a good feel from it from the comments and tweets at the weekend... although I just realised I will probably be at Dad's and so none from me..
I meant Felipe Baby but now you mention it.
which show was that?
Yes, yes it is!
oh man
That's gotta be on it do!
Who sent in that drunken voicemail about how awful voicemail was?
*to (I'm doing bad on the spelling tonight!)
Oh yeah! Now I remember :D
Volunteered yourself. I love it
Oh I like that
I can't remember which is a real pain because I spent ages convincig him it was a good idea to do it
For some reason I'm thinking Nick, but I've no idea why.
any ideas on the show? ;)
Cool. I have an Orkut account?
Looks like Nick
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/06/26/daily-26th-june-2009/#comment-372204
Will Sidepodpanel/radio be in for this?
The actual thing was: What do we want? Less races a year, or something. So it was when the news about the calendar came out.
Sometime last month. I think. I'll search.
I honestly can't remember. Was only a few weeks ago. The answer was meant to be "less races!" though.
They have their own. Sidepodpanels are up to date in terms of best ofs. Feel free to log some for Sidepodradio but it will be a different show.
That was only a few weeks ago
Put it on the list as a reminder and we will find it.
Paid My Dues, Time After Time
What the heck?
...the help option on Windows 7 actually helped. It actually fixed a problem.
.............what?
@Christine and Mr C another detail about Top Gear new series... apparently it will start at the later time of 9pm.
Back again! Can somebody do me a favour and add on the Sidepodradio II wiki page my name (Lewis/LB22) next to the bit that says F1 Book Reviews (darn iPod...)
How did that slip through quality control?
They can't stand the competition
Help is supposed to be useless. I'm a little offended Microsot's help helped me.
Am on it.
Dont worry, won't happen again.
Hahaha that whole conversation is epic.
I wonder if Jenson has improved his singing since Brazil...?
:)
Phew!!
Done
great...i have too many f1 books to count!
i think even the great Freddie wouldn't sound that good if he was singing and driving an f1 car :P
Note to self, put it in the right flippin column
Martin and DC had a chat when they were in them :P
Also I presume Amy was never made redundant? How things change.....
I think there should be an album of drivers singing 'We Are The Champions' so we can compare them all.
thanks both Steven and RG!
Mr C, apologies for the few videos on drop.io that havent converted... feel free to delete, it's my internet connections fault with uploaded rather than drop.io and they're just sitting there useless, just thought I'd bring it up
yeah...but Jenson can hardly talk when driving them as it is... :P
I just had to find it :) http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/09/27/live-after-dark/
Evening all
I give in on tonight, not getting anything right.
aw :( *hugs RG*
Today has just been a write-off. I might give up and go to bed.
What's the error?
Anyone else think theres going to be a live EJ vs Bernie fight on air next year if Silverstone dont get a GP?
:(
Gah. I'm fed up of this stupid internet. I can't upload a thing.
Already? You will miss Michel
I missed him yesterday too despite your best efforts.
reset the router?
I didn't know if you stopped commenting because you were engrossed or asleep
Jiggle the cable?
I've spent the last hour or teo doing allsorts, changing settings, trying different connections, everything does the same thing. It's Virgin Media being a useless...
...I'll end it there before bad words become involved.
Neither I don't think. I made food.
Stupid ISPs.
Occasionally I have to unplug the power from mine for 30 seconds.
The cable falls out of mine every so often.... It's very confusing. When I put it back in, it doesn't seem in any way loose.
BOO @ Hindhaugh. He's really bugging me now, i used to love him, but not anymore :(
I'm not listening (didn't know they were on but am listening to something else anyway), but he does seem to say things about F1 purely to wind people up. In an interview earlier this year he said he does enjoy F1..
I know it's not F1 but he sounded bloody bored at RoC
No it's yesterdays. some he does, but most he genuinely hates it. Grrr, i wish he wasnt there for f1 stuff
He kept making provocative statements about F1 while doing RoC though (if you're talking about the confused commentator man)
Thats the one.
He has every right to be though, it isn't a dedicated F1 podcast and lots of people following other motorsports find F1 a bit odd to say the least
Remember the sale on the McLaren website the other day... my stuff arrived today! I'm not a huge fan but I do like them a little bit and it is always good to get new F1 stuff :-) :-)
Even the packaging is silver,
exciting,
swag!
I hope the orange shirt came with sunglasses :P
Thats awesome though, woo!
It is a lot brighter than I expected!
I may lose Amypoints because I got the Lewis one. Shh.
Thought I'd better try them on. Turns out their Large is actually quite big. Face is excused thru tiredness.
BMW have lowered the prices, slightly tempted.
Anywho, must sleep. Night all. Lotsa love.
See ya RG
That's Dynarod orange !
Go for it.
Night.
Clearly a shirt to be worn under something..
A peat bog springs to mind.
w00t! x1 aside show wrapped.
(hearts) joe.
i'm not promising it'll be done this evening though, given i'm using logic.
yay! got through the fireworks silliness then?
hehe. i think it was okay. luckily i don't say much and it was all quiet joe's end.
hah :-)
I'm so sorry that I seem to have turned this into your job Mr C!!!
good stuff, look forward to it
my job?
Have you had many? I haven't heard a single one and I'm just off the middle of town now.
We haven't had as many as usual here but still plenty
I'm sure it was Christine's job. I told you she'd like it if she woke up and it was already done and for some reason you fell for it. Now it's less like a nice surprise though.
well i'm just about ready to scream at the teacher who came up with the idea of having a house drama competition... and scream at the people who gave me this work to get done for tomorrow... ohhh.. and kill UCAS...
am in need of a laugh :)
yeeey UCAS!! woooooooo
Romain Grosjean. Hahaha!
you probably dont want me to say that do you? ;)
Oh dear
What planet do you live on? Obviously not one where you actually have to use UCAS :P
personal statements are annoying.
ahhh, my dad helped me (alot) with mine.
You should watch Tom Baker interviewing Tom Baker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9zWuklil8g
ooooh yeah! i forgot!
grr. alison. grr.
I'm glad they haven't changed in the ten years since I was last in contact with them
How is it that the Forum isn't on iPlayer?
GRRRR I should have know you would have GRRR
Honestly mister your memory is awful!
Still having problems with it? I did speak to someone (a charting musician) bout the crashing, they said it happened twice and then stopped. He is very happy with Logic 9.
yes it is.
You need to look for it on the bbc f1 website. It wasn't broadcasted on one of their channels hence no iplayer.
i haven't used it since. i only do the aside shows.
however, this time i'm not planning to use it whilst being tired and moody.
okay thanks, found it htere
:( Fair enough, but let me know if you are still having problems and i will see if I can get you some help.
Is broadcasted even a word? I'm beginning to doubt myself. Should I have said broadcast?
If your neme is George W Bush, then yes. For the rest of us, no.
Broadcast
portfolios also suck.... :( uni preparation comes at the worst of times.. am currently making a video for house drama tomorrow... :s
Alright.... I did notice.
you are allowed to turn things down
Did the email work ok with the video thing?
this is my second time in it! its great hte second time!!
The stress of the meetings has clearly made you go crazy ;)
hahaha, no its great because you just copy it all from the old application
It's so tedious though, all those drop down menus! There should be a way of keeping information actually prefilled from previous years!
Many of my friends had major stress too as now you need module marks or something and we didn't before. They're not listed on your certificates so god only knows where you're supposed to find them.
not when you're deputy house captain you can't... plus i'm really bad at saying no...
yep very well thank you :)
Yes you can. Uni is way more important
in that case you are allowed to resign.
agreed
Yeah but despite what your school tell you, there's no huge rush with that. Also it's things like responsibility and dedication that get you in :P
at the moment i'd argue sleep is also important... i'm getting the impression my school don't like me very much..
i am very close to doing just that..
Your 6th form head or whoever just want to get it out the way to suit their own timetables. It's nothing to do with what's good for your application or otherwise. Schools generally pressure people into applying before they're ready and completely happy with their application.
unfortunately, as jon learned today, educators only care what you can do for them. not what they can do for you.
true story
it's not even to get my application done... it's for an interview practice session i have on tuesday... O.o..
:(
i'm beginning to realise this.
:(
Yup.
Oh god. This is where I start to be glad I went to such a scummy school. I've been spared hours of torture.
am sure its not the case with all of them, i've known some thoroughly nice teachers in my time....but the higher you get the story appears the same...
I went to a scummy school....but instead i had my dad....who's 10 times worse than any school practice could ever be
All my A Level teachers were really lovely. I don't know though. I'm a bit of a teacher's pet :P
Tell me about it, my rubbish school barely even knew who was there for lessons!
it's like a proper evening where loads of contacts from the school and parents come in and they basically interview loads of students... i'm not looking forward to it. then again i get to chat about f1 and photography in my interviews :D
mine were too actually, but the higher people can put so much pressure on you and not realise they're doing it.
I didn't really need it. I'm very driven. I can't tell what came first though. Maybe I became self-reliant because no-one gave a monkeys. If so, it probably did me a lot of good.
It swings differnet ways for different people i think
they do realise, i'm sure.
they just don't care.
i love my teachers... they are all very supportive (except my AS ict teacher - he was rubbish - thank god i don't do ict anymore) it's just head of sixth form i don't like much... lol
Evening...
Pub was good... mai-tai bar was even better... glad i was sent! :D
Some people don't though. They just see their little piece of the puzzle.
I remember my netball coach giving me a right blasting for missing a practice or not keeping up my fitness programme or something. They don't see that you're up all night trying to keep on top of something else.
:D
having just read through... the conversation appears to be a tad heavy! especialy for somone in my condidtion!
they see what they want to see.
best avoid!
You had fun then? Do you have beer in your hair?
yay! i have proper beginning credits to play over the curtain at the beginning... now to try and add the video of powerpoint.. (this never works for me...)
Now i've only met Nick once....but i can imagine that however drunk he is...he dosent mistake his hair for his mouth...
What are you using to make the video on Windows?
He doesn't type like he has beer in his hair
This does sound like hardcore work though. Please don't work yourself too hard. You shouldn't be scared to give up some responsibilities. Your health and happiness are absolutely the most important thing.
it's true. they really do. my teachers certainly do. I have a lovely new history teacher and he's always very concerned if we are stressed and things because he's pretty young himself so i suppose can remember what it was like? where as our other much older history teacher... well she's lovely.. but she's only concerned with our grades and deadlines...
I didn't put beer in my own hair! That would be really stupid.
can i just insert the clip made from that program you sent me?
I think the older they get they can sometimes loose touch with what its really like to be a student, or they'll just go hard over time.
Clearly you haven't met Nick ;)
(joooooke)
hehe happiness happens on sunday.. until then i soldier on through the work ;)
Oh yeah, you can actually. I am le slow.
I'm used to editing it for uploading purposes, doh.
I think they see that year after year people get through it and just start to take it as a given. It doesn't matter to them whether you're a concert pianist in your spare time or that's the only subject you'll ever take, they expect the same in their little area.
a) dont kill yourself
b) this is the hardest year of education you have so far, and next year (whatever you do) it will be a breeze compared to your current stuff
I definitely wouldn't have said b was true but it depends what you do I guess.
very much agree. they expect you to put their subject first.
i had that with coursework last year, each subject was demanding that their subject was put first and i just said to them that i genuinely had about 20 minutes proper concentration a day and that i'd do the coursework in terms of deadline
i'm always too busy stressing or something to kill myself so don't worry :P
honestly can't wait to be studying photography next year...
I had a teacher really go off on one when I didn't do much work at all... it was a design tech class and he got really stressy saying "no you can't design now, design is over, you have to make it". but I was too busy doing science, english, maths, the important stuff...
Was your first year not really easy? I know it's not going to be uber easy, but lou's working alot harder than i've ever seen anyone work
ahhh i remember that point last year. the "I HATE EVERYTHING AND JUST WANT TO LEAVE" point
I had my hardest time when I was 16 finishing my GCSEs. I worked myself into the ground. I'm never doing it again. Ever. It started to happen at uni and I just took the year off. And the next one..... And..... :P
:D
In comparison to years 2 and 3, it was a breeze.
In comparison to A level, it was tougher. Although I foind my A levels to be a breeze if I'm honest, it was quite bad for personal reasons.
they require the same...
i assume that if half their students didn't make the grade, whilst another teacher hit 100% pass rate. questions would be asked.
students without the grades may be happier, fitter and healthier, but he number don't add up.
I should stop saying breeze.
wasn't that around lunchtime?
I could tell you a right fun old story from my second year of uni last year that sums it up well about the greed of lecturers but I am le tired
well yes thats true, but i meant in the year :P
i'm so divided on that front.. on one hand i want to leave and get out and do something i want to do and enjoy everything.. and on the other i've had 15 years at this school, it's all i've really known.. it's been my life, as have my friends, leaving this all behind in the past is going to be something extremely hard. i mean i don't like small changes at the best of times..so a huge change like this will take some getting used to.
no beer in my hair! Although I ended up on cocktails. Mostly containing rum.... I don't even like rum! I have apparently also.agreed to teach people to ski tomorrow, notreally sure I am qualified!
I suppose they would. It's hard to compare like with like though. My school was too small to really have more than one A Level class in each subject so comparing would be harder.
I don't mind people working you hard by giving you useful tasks that help you to complete. It's when they say "design a poster" "make a power point" "perform a play"......
First year of uni I found sitting around watching TV to be far more interesting than doing my boring computer course. So I dropped out.
Next year I did a Business course and it was hard. So I dropped out.
Next year I did a Construction course because I was working for in the office of a construction company, but that was the most unbelievably tedious thing I have ever done partly because it was above my level (should have taken the preceding course.. actually I should have left the company). So I dropped out.
Result: 3 yrs of student loan and sod all to show for it.
DON'T DO THIS
:-) :-) :-)
Big girl's blouse..... I don't understand the skiing thing. Isn't it like 30 degrees?
...prepares another drink.
eehehehe :D vista is actually better than xp for one thing... just one thing!!! i am able to add a video to a power point pres... i could never make that work in xp :D
It's totally amazingly hot, i love it
apart from when its cold
When it's also the best place on earth? No place could ever be better at anything? Fact?
Woohoo! :P
I'm still stunned that the Windows Help and Support on Windows 7 actually helped and fixed something tonight. Honestly, I've never ever seen H&S fix a thing on windows. I'm amazed.
For Sunday, I think the supermarkets have started their Christmas offers on cases of beer
it's only cold indoors. by choice.
Sounds ecologically unsound!
ahhh, the penny has dropped. i've just realised why nick thinks nelson is awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqRK6Esn3g
only to you and i.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Jesus, those men are very trusting.....
the bit that the video misses is him getting out the car and all the team throwign snow balls at him. genius
:D
:D
:D
Hi everyone.
Before the race SpeedTV has a short segment of Steve Matchett going over to the USF1 for a visit to the factory.
There is a lot of things that entered my mind when I saw this again. None of it positive to be honest. Actually a lot of it was new to me because the first time I saw it I nearly knocked myself unconscious with the force of my palm hitting my forehead.
LINK: http://www.racingeagles.com/2009/11/matchett-in-the-usf1-factory.html
I saw this a few days ago. Nothing other than the Jim Clark poster on the wall is convincing. The office does not look lived in and the milling machine could be anywhere. Not a single wide shot to give the feel of the place.
eric published that for us at the weekend.
you've lost me?
Face palm?
really? why would speedtv take part in such a cover-up?
why?
i have no idea, but thats what the long sentance meant. i have no idea what he's refering too
V.funny response :-)
http://www.mynameisirl.com/2009/11/us-f1-mini-series-pt-3.html
(warning - contains one instance of swearing)
As a person who has a blog dedicated to the team, I was a bit embarrassed. Soon as I saw it, I knew they were going to get grief for it.
Really, I thought Peter Windsor had more common sense than this.
i watched this video earlier from the radiolemans guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMh3qu5GtZA
and i didn't get it. but it's saying basically what steven just said. and now i think i'm missing something?
Those people are not working at those desks. There is no way they've been interrupted in the middle of a day at work.
they're not?
I think this is what counts as 'open access'. Tbh it didn't seem much different to any segment on Inside Grand Prix, which is all very well but it isn't new.
Look at their papers all set out, shut in stupid little stacks all over the whole surface. Set in a tidy grid. Noone can work like that.
I'll put it this way, if all it takes to fool the FIA is a autocad program and a milling machine, I think I could get a grid spot in Formula One.
Oh and Dan there's a stray apostrophe in your blog header :P
but again... what's in it for speedtv?
I am not saying it isn't right. I am only saying it just didn't look right.
I don't think you need the milling machine.
There is something fishy there. I understand cheer leading for the home team but it is getting ridiculous. The press conference they did in February was basically an informational.
Thanks Alison. I've been meaning to change it but haven't had time.
You realise what this means for the main F1 broadcasts next year..
That is exactly how I saw it
if they're party to making stuff up, to blinker the fia, won't someone just take their broadcast rights away?
why would they be a part of this?
... was basically an infomercials.
i was reading through comments and...
does this mean Rosberg isn't necessarily going to Brawn?.... *gets back to work*
(*groan*)
Is it me, or is this question extremely badly worded?
"13) How do you think about and comparing the skills, knowledge and understanding that you have at any given point with the competence you need to develop?"
Definitely not. I have been around a few CAD offices and it was totally unconvincing even for the things I have seen let alone F1.
Something like Australia's Mark Webber coverage?
I like the sound of that !
or ITV's Lewis Hamilton coverage
It is not just you.....
Didn't the FIA visit USF1? Surely they don't get their status info from SpeedTV
problem is theres 30 of them and they're all equally terrible. i dont even know what that question means
#FakeGMM: SpeedTV hires James Allen to be pit reporter. His duties are limited to the USF1 garage.
here's my non-cynical take...
the milling machine is clearly cutting a scale model cockpit for windtunnel testing. the 3d flow-vis modelling software doesn't come cheap either. i'm bemused why there's a mac on the desk when the software is clearly running windows, but i'll gloss over that.
it seems okay to me.
Boot Camp? The alu/white Display is Apple too.
I missed this. I saw in a MAGAZINE today that there is a three day young driver test in December. They were taking to Hüüülkenberg who said he was doing two days for Williams and Soucek who won F2 was doing the other.
If diResta and Paffett are testing fro Brawn I wonder who McLaren have in their car.
It is complete garbage.
Pat got 2 Mclaren tshirts today
S;all I'm saying
i only stood in redbull's design office for a few minutes. but it was pretty damn clean. more terminals (maybe 60), but it wasn't a world away from that video.
I wasn't expecting McLaren's headquarters but it just made the team look really bad. I can imagine any start up team would look the same with just the basics stuff around. Somehow, and it is probably me over reacting, it just looked bad to me.
NIIIIIIIICK
USF1 is split up over many locations. I am sure thy will have aero people living at the Windshear place for example and other people at other locations. What they showed was fake but it doesn't mean the real stuff isn't happening elsewhere.
it's not just you, because the RLM guys have made no less than three videos on the subject!
keep it under your hat
you stood in Red Bull's design office?
EXCLUSIVE!
:P
is there a man hiding behind the door at 2:46?
It's the office mainly though. It's not just expensive stuff they're missing. It's the desks and the stuff on the wall that I take issue with.
they're quite orange, they might show
Adrian Newey to declare the 2010 car model name the Red Bull Doohickey
yeah. dank and i went there last year, ian from racingbulls.net invited us. we walked past newey who was drawing stuff with a ruler.
:D:D:D
Sadly it looks like a jacket. Disappointly.
It looked how I would expect it would have looked several months ago. Perahps it was filmed then.
i'm sure we did a podcast about it? if i hadn't broken the archives i'd find it.
random question to ask on an f1 website but i'm really desperate for sleep so i want to get this done quickly... so... er... does anyone know where i can find a ghost sound clip from? like one of the traditional cartoony kinda things..
ahh.
Most people prefer a pencil or a pen (Aithanque)
Disappointingly I should say. Although Disapointly sounds funny
:D
There's a difference between tidy and staged though..... Noone could ever work like that. Somehow it's tidy but ALL the available surface space on the desk is also covered.
:D
But normally there would be a wide shot of the milling machine giving you an idea of the scale of the machine shop. Instead we got a super close up of the head of the machine and no idea whether it was in a freezer or a desert. That machine could have been making toaster parts then one car part then back to toasters.
It just looked wrong. Same with the offices. Everything in tight close ups. I have never seen an F1 shop shot like that and the whole thing jut looked wrong. I have done a few factory start ups and it looked like someone had stuck a couple of desks in a corner and put a couple of computers on them.
The only thing we saw of Windsor's office was the door an the Jim Clark poster. They could have shot that in an airport toilet. Why not show him behind his desk or in a conference room?
cooool
fair enough. i concede defeat.
Was it the Queen?
ooooooooooooooh.
A ruuuuler.
that describes ron dennis right there!
Who would put a T shirt over their hat? Maybe Alison last night
:)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidepodcast/sets/72157610384090193/
Dirty kate?
You did. That was when you went in one building and came out a different one without ever going from one to the other
Since they've already mentioned they are outsourcing some of the work to local suppliers, perhaps this is one of the suppliers..
I know I'm cynical but it even crossed my mind that the poster was only put up in an attempt to gain credibility rather than them being fans of his..
yeees!
Garageband no use, sorry.
Perhaps Free Loops can help:
http://free-loops.com/download-free-loop-5067.html
You've broken the archives? Trying to get into Christine's good books again? :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidepodcast/3068916782/in/set-72157610384090193/
I like that one
oops. jumped to today's thread. i found it:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/11/30/episode-85-burying-his-own-news/
There's certainly something wrong with them..... I opened that link at the top of the page and there's a link at the bottom with my name on it!!
Try http://free-loops.com/download-free-loop-7129.html or http://www.soundboard.com/
Is the ping on holiday? I hadn't even noticed the time.
and you beat the pinger, which seems to have called it a night
wow i never knew about this site... thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you... :)
you done wrote a post :)
or not the pinger 'cos that's the panel show thing..
been drinking with nick, probably/
Crossed my mind too but who isn't a Jim Clark fan?
I'm gonna call it a night.. *waves*
I thought it was assumed that everyone was and thus no poster is necessary.
that's not implemented yet.
:)
bye
these sites are perfect... not to find clips of a phone ringing, a baby crying and some witches... yes our play is very odd...
Where is Nick anyways? I shouted. He seems to be comatose.
NIIIIIIIIIIICK
night
Night Lukeh
Night Lukeh!
Would you like someone else to poke fun at you while hes away?
NICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ta, btw.
That's not necessary. Mr C bullies him enough for the both of us these days.
Just remembered. Windsor is a big Jim Clark fan. He interviewed him in Australia when Clark was doing the Tasman series at the start of 1968. Windsor was really young at the time. He has done a few interviews on the subject.
Amazing the things that pop into your head.
me? never.
Steven! My friend had the pure cheek to get Michel confused with Raymond Blanc!!!!
Don't speak to her/him ever again. They are not remotely similar
I never realize that he was that old.
I know. I can't imagine how any confusion could ever arise.
Who, Steven?
aha, good to know
Sorry,
I was referring to Peter Windsor.
Firstly....i hate wordpress (although i think im doing something wrong rather than it...) secondly...bed time. im pooped!
Night all
Night
I am not sure if it is best to avoid or educate. Maybe you could watch Michel videos together
What? me? old?
Night Jon
Anyways I have an epic meeting with my (ex) boss to ask if I can have my job back. I can't work out who needs who more. I quite hope they say no so I can have a bit of a change.....
You remember things from last century. You must be old
I saw ^^ and thought "are they trying to get rid of me?" then realised i'd said goodnight! oops
#amnothere
sorry to ask the blunt question, why are you asking to have your job back if you dont want it?
I remember stuff from last century, does this mean I am old in Sidepodyears as well?
Errrrm because money is good. I don't hate it really. It's just they make me work like a b****. I'm a bit sick of it.
Oh sorry Mr C. I didn't mean to swear.
They will keep you working
shocked
Last century was 9 years ago
Yes I know. Initially they tried to get me to take a more junior job when I asked. I said no and they've invited me to a meeting so they must be interested.
fixed :)
Thankies :)
A negotiation tactic I would use is pretend that money is better at the place you are at now but like the people at your previous employer more. It's positive and it lays out if they want you back or not.
See, you can do maths too.
Or was it 10 years ago?
No it's a bit of a stupid unnecessary situation. I was planning on flying to NZ this week and booked 3 months leave. As I'm taking up a new job when I return I had my contract terminated. Now I'm thinking (as I'm not going) it would be a good plan to maybe do some work.... They have however recruited a replacement.
They offered me a job straight away as the replacement's deputy which I politely declined. I can just see myself doing as much work as I do now for less money as she doesn't know what she's doing.
you don't do things by half do ya?
What on earth happened to NZ, if it's not rude to ask?
Erm no. I am queen of the melodrama. I don't know how I got myself in such a mess.
Eurgh. It's not rude. I can't really explain though.
OK, no worries. I'm disappointed for you.
is NZ the island in LOST and did it move before you got there?
Everything's just a completely unnecessary mess. It's man related.
That might explain why those kiwis are always trying to leave.
#sorryamy
Hah unnecessary mess - sounds just like LOST :D
I usually is. I hope it all works out.
:D
I don't.
um, or not?
ooookay, time to change the subject I think...
Hah sorry. I'm sure you mean well :P I'm at that stage where I hope he dies a painful death. Not really in the mood for working it out right now.
Right.
What am I meant to do with this Google Wave thingy?!
logic hasn't crashed yet.
you can add: [email protected] as a contact. but i'm edit at the moment.
Michel was on Saturday Kitchen!!! How did I miss this?!?
Am sure what Paul meant was "whatever happens" i hope it works out.
sidepodvoodoo?
#nothere
Strange things happen to you at night :P
Good, something non-controversial to talk about :)
So, you get a googlewave.com address?
Oh. This year has really been a rubbish year for lovelife (based on the stories of my friends, anyway).
Morning, everyone. We're still in yesterday's thread?
:D
yeah. it's not an email address. it's a wave address.
email is dead.
apparently.
*starts new learning curve*
Apparently this is ironic. We break up over arguments about the fact that I don't care. This upsets me enough to make me cancel a round the world trip. I then realise that actually I probably didn't care after all. It's been an emotional week.
Does he not have a blog you could subscribe to so that you would know stuff like this? Is it on the iplayer?
For those with invites.
It most certainly is :D I'm enjoying at the moment.
true story
Oh. does that mean I am special for once?
email is on life support.
if i had any...
Perhaps the truth is somewhere in between? I'm sure you'll figure it out once things calm down. :)
I'm not at all jealous. I don't even understand what it is or why I would want it. I'm sure someone will turn it into something I like to use at some point then I can go on not understanding in peace.....
i kinda get it, but i think its a bit like hydrogen fuel for cars.....it dosent work if only a few people have got it. its total market saturation or nout
by far the best plan.
i don't really understand it.
Maybe. I'm not getting back together with him though. He's been a selfish twerp.
He has a website but no blog
http://www.michelroux.co.uk/
perfect way of explaining it.
it's also quite broken at the moment.
Phew. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
it was the cricket scores wasn't it?
Only for personal contact.
In business it most certainly isn't. In fact I'm using it more than ever during the postal strike.
I'm sure you'll bounce back better than ever, Alison. Plenty of fish in the sea and all that. ;)
Yes. That was the only reason. I just couldn't get over it.
i think she's a tottenham supporter and he's a stoke supporter...after the result it would never have worked
and thus concludes my football knowledge for the year
I just listened the Red Bull visit, very interesting, thanks.
not bad considering you're fast asleep.
I only ever sent letters out on 2 occations...
1. Thank you cards for birthday/christmas
2. Letters too my other half
Both depend on stamps, so i email ;)
:)
don't tell christine.
and also not bad considering im fast asleep doing a health and safety workshtee that i forgot about!
:D :D
Yep, that was selfish alright.
That was my first time listening to something in the archive. That is unless you count something downloaded weeks ago but are only just getting around to, as listening to the archive.
I just think that perhaps people could choose a better time to vent pent up concerns than just before I'm about to set up on a life-changing trip. He didn't say anything new, he was very rude about it, I just can't be bothered with it anymore.
I don't know what he wants from me. I was so good not harassing him while he was away, letting him enjoy himself. I don't know why I don't deserve the same.
Mmm... So they were old concerns, but you just never got around to properly fixing them?
I still can't believe you came all the way to Milton Keynes but didn't come and see me at work :(
maybe he did....you just didnt know what he looks like ;)
Well not exactly. The sort of paranoid concern that people have and it doesn't matter how many times you say it's ridiculous, it never totally goes out their head.
It does eventually, but it takes time. It's a typically male thing (generally)
you didn't tell us until we got back :)
Not while he's away. It's the same qualities that made it possible for me to tolerate him being away that he got annoyed about. You can't have it both ways. You also can't claim I'm the uncommitted one if you've chosen to move half way around the globe rather than move in with me.
you should tell my brother that, he moved to Africa for a few years. no idea how he's still with his girlfriend. sometimes these things do and dont work i guess
Tell your brother what? I think if nothing else, I've learned that actually I could probably make a long distance relationship work which I never believed in any way possible before.
the "you cant have it both ways" bit.
It can work (I was in one before), but it's very tiring - and there's always that possibility that there's something going on at the other side that you don't know about...
Oh I see yes. I really just can't see how anyone could be expected to both wear their heart on their sleeve all the time and also cope well enough alone to allow you both to function sensibly. If I needed to be on the phone all day wailing away, I don't think he'd have enjoyed himself very much.....
I don't get why you'd bother keeping up a l/d relationship if you found someone else where you're living. Maybe it's a man thing :P
it's one of those, she's girlfriend material, you're wife material, kinds of things. crazy, yes, but there ya go.
hmmmmmmmm
Yeah when I think about it like that, I can see how someone explains it away but really? If you're that serious about wanting to get married or whatever you'd do something about the distance. It's just that there's another priority. Which is absolutely fine. It's stupid to pretend that there's not though.
True. It's just that some guys, when they find the person who they think is "the one" but they don't think they themselves are ready to settle down yet, do whatever they can to keep "the one". Selfish? Absolutely.
not all of us are like that :P
No. I should think not. I might just go live in a cave. I know he wasn't cheating on me.
caves are fun. i wonder what the cavemen did before twitter
He just got paranoid. At least he was faithful, but he could've trusted you more.
fire can be very fascinating. :D
You have no idea what I've been up to..... :P
aha, a fellow piromaniac!
Hmmm. :P
Where's Guy Fawkes when you need him? :D
Being celebrated ;)
On that bombshell im actually going to sleep.
adios amigos
Kaboom. :P Night Jon.
Maybe he was right about what he was worried about. I don't know. That's not why we've broken up. He's been shockingly rude to me and decided to spring all this on me at a time chosen, by the look of it, purely out of spite.
That says it all sadly. But, hey, things can only get better from here. :)
Yes. I'm not sure how I've found myself talking about this.
I think it started with my "rubbish year for lovelife" comment. We can always change the topic. :D
Hah. I'm just an open book though. If it's on my mind, it's out my mouth. I think this conversation has shown me that really I'm not very emotional about the whole issue. I think I'm supposed to be weeping.
Normally, you would be, yes. Sometimes, it takes a while for things to sink in, but seeing as that it was a l/d thing, the weeping may not come after all? :)
You are supposed to do what you feel like doing. There is no one size fits all answer. Some people sit and cry in a corner and others go out and get beer in their hair
Hahaha! :D But seriously, Steven's right. People do what they need to do to bounce back. :)
I wasn't drowning my sorrows. I had a good time, got very rowdy and had beer thrown at me..... Sign of a good night out I'd say.
Not to mention had great fun on the doohickey last night. :P :P
I caught a bit of the noon news today and I saw that Santa Claus was back in Town, I think he was plugging the annual Christmas Parade. I personally think that Christmas decorations should not be seen until December.
it won’t happen before we get a new live server that can be trusted to stay up for 24hrs.
that requires much testing. {Comment #1101}
As instructed, I've noted the comment number.
I've also noted that the wording of the comment is ambiguous and could mean, for example, that the Cs want some redundancy and/or practise time so that they can be confident that the machinery is capable of handling their ambition.
Is it me, or is this question extremely badly worded?
“13) How do you think about and comparing the skills, knowledge and understanding that you have at any given point with the competence you need to develop?” {Comment #1447}
It's an unsound sentence in several ways - "comparing" should be "compare", "competence" does not necessarily tally with "skills, knowledge and understanding" even in combination and the whole thing could do with some simplification!