The weekend is upon us, so it's time for you to let us know what you're up to. It's a non-race weekend, so I hope you're all doing something exciting. We want to know about it. Don't forget about the inaugural Sidepodfilmclub showing of Talladega Nights later, as well - more information here.
- Making the most of the news regarding Renault's impending hearing in front of the WMSC, we posted quite a good looking F1 Big Picture, and the associated F1 Minute yesterday. The debate is raging in the comments over here on whether Piquet is smart/stupid/talented/useless enough to have pulled off such a feat.
- We're posting guest articles from the hosts of Sidepodradio shows to promote their segments, and hopefully get a bit more interaction if some is required. If you are doing a show, please feel free to forward me a few words to publish on your behalf. Oh, and if you're a listener, make sure you keep your eye on the blog for ways to get involved.
- Finally, a few days late, I read some interesting statistics on F1 Wolf's blog. He's rounded up some facts and figures to establish whether this latest record of six different race winners in as many races is as unusual as it seems. Short answer - it is. Long answer - read more here.
That'll do it for now. Another reminder for Sidepodfilmclub tonight, we'll be opening a thread in time for the film to start at 8pm UK time. I hope you can join us, but either way, I'll see you in the comments.
Morning new daily thread :-)
How did it become Saturday?
:D
Hehehe, i like that fact its a debate and not everyone telling me PK is useless! :D
I thought the Monday holiday was only two days ago
ask lou. she's been on the 5th for the whole day ;-)
I guess Friday pulled a Piquet and Saturday crept into the lead
It won't last, Sunday is looking after it's tyres
Hello everybody.
If he crashed on purpose, this will be the first thing he did that he was any good at.
The defence rests :D
at last! i'm on the right date! :D sadly my watch is now telling me it's the 4th. *confusion*
it's obvious: you switched days. it happens from time to time. just try to remember the number that came out in the lottery and you'll be rich...
ah i knew i should have watched the lottery ;)
I can now rest easier as i know what happened to the missing first page :D
I did watch it and I wish I hadn't bothered
Ah, but what if the numbers came out different?
Depends if you subscribe to the parallel universe theory.
Is it on itunes?
Is an option on Sidepod Selector I believe
oh no, this is just a loop in time. everything should be the same. actually, it's probably because she didn't see the lottery that she could do it. otherwise she'll be able to predict the result, which she didn't in the first place... (is that clear? :P )
Sidepodtime and parallel universes. A true story.
testing...
1..2..3...
1... 2... 3...
:lol:
echo....
North/South Parallel Universe? :)
Right, as promised earlier, here is my blog post on the DHL 5x5km relay run I did yesterday. Enjoy! :D
Don't you know there is a testing ban?
Dropio didn't like my brownie pictures and I tried to leave a comment about them in here and it didn't send either.
SidePodConspiracy?
how did your test create a blog post!
But I was testing last year's keyboard so it's exempt!
:D
:lol: hehehe
I was testing because Doohickey no let me linky so I went to daily...
There were problems with it earlier. Lukeh and Alex had problems and Mr C had to go in and do something
ahhhh
Contraventions of article 151 :)
Try tinypic.com
smoerne has drop.io'd a photo of part of sidepodcast towers, there could be trouble
congratulations!
smoerne has been tolled to buck his ideas up ;)
*told
Spelling admonishment FAIL
i am typing upside down!
Brownie as in Chocolate Brownie, or Brownie as in Girl Guide Brownie? Or neither?
SidepodYoga?
Thanks :)
Night all - see you later!
night gavin
Keyboards can rotate 180 degrees when required you know :)
I dont have any fosters and it was the next best thing :P
Catch ya later Gavin
If you ae talking about the desks with all the screens that is Alex's office
Night Gavin, like the post.
Lol, no I wasn't trying to drop pictures of pre-teen girls....
Night Gavin
hehe, no i mean i am laying down on my back and holding the keyboard above me
I'm guessing he means "Mrc C's Kitchen"
night!
okay, time for me to sleep, i have a sixth form fun day to go to tomorrow! (am sooo not looking forward to it) night all! x
That just appeared fo me.
Night Lou
Night Lou
night lou
Night Lou, you might enjoy it.
Have fun!
Night
hmmm. where'd friday go?
I guess Friday pulled a Piquet and Saturday crept into the lead
It won't last, Sunday is looking after it's tyres
It was vacuumed away by article 151c.
Oh my word. Some people are so rude!!
There's just no need for it. JBKJLBIULBIUBSDIBGIUBSBIUWSGFILEWB!!
Groundhog Day?
?
hi mr. c
we have various theories, but apparently it's all down to lou and not steven roy...
What you mean?
Hahahaha decided that comment was too good to waste on me?
friday didn't go so well did it. was hoping it would redeem itself by close of play.
Doohickey didn't like my double quote
Hah none of you :)
Who said what?
i knew she was trouble from the moment she first commented ;)
Marmot Day
Don't tell me, a troll attack? I know the special move to get rid of them.
(don't really)
yeah. that's by design.
cricket scores?
Sometimes it's just worth repeating
:)
Shall try to remember that
Goodnes me. F1 just can't help itself can it.
I review personal statements for a website in return for cold hard cash.
(Don't worry I don't do any of the writing for them, just identify areas they could improved etc. etc.)
I got a message back from someone who's statement I'd looked at telling me I was racist. I can't exactly work out how that conclusion was reached but seeing as he didn't pay for the service, I think he should have been more gracious.
It's too early in the day for arguments of the cricketing variety....
A good design too, a neat failsafe when things go wrong. Like drinking and commenting.
i have no idea what that means?
She gets paid to say:
"I have no idea what that means"
You need to look at sponsorship
:D
There's an iPhone app that stops you drunk texting apparently. Asks you weird maths questions before deciding if it should let you text
drinking and commenting yields the best comments :)
talking of which, i need wine.
gmail labs has it also. they say it's for 'late in the night' e-mails...
Apparently gmail pops up a message if you write a long email, in the evening, to ask if you really want to send this message. Wish Facebook could use this, I would not have to delete so much garbage the next day.
and also the worst comments too :)
someone asked me this week what i thought of behringer products and i pointed out they mostly 'borrow' other peoples product ideas.
apparently, they're not too hot on the web design front either.
:)
AHAHAHAHAHA !!!!
Whoever they borrowed that mixer from, want one. If it works with Reason, want it for xmas.
They've spent too much time at Apple.com
Or maybe not enough
just a little, yeah.
mackie, usually.
I have to go to make my dinner. see you later (if there is anybody left)
NIght Guille
Have an old Soundblaster Platinum Front Panel thingy from 2001ish, has midi inputs on it, so might work.
enjoy one's dinner sir.
I didn't think I was that drunk.
Then I tried to stand up.....
See ya Guille
Amateur ;)
Don't stand up
England lost by 4 runs, but its ok beca...
Oh, you didnt really want to know....
That's experience talking
Have walked along walls where one side has a big drop whilst inebriated, and danced around streetlights in the middle of dual carriageways whilst drunk. Sit back down for a bit.
Ooohh! Who won? ;-)
The australians and their umpire... :P
But the wine's too far :(
Make a lasso?
That's called preperation, not cheating. Just ask Renault
Stand up, stand up!
crawl. use a stick. don't stand up!
Im not drinking tonight, saving it up for tomorrow.
Maybe we could all drink a long to the film.
Whenever a car turns left... ;)
Right! Off to buy bathroom hardware. Exciting!!
#
To be fair i didnt see the wide in question, i had given up at that point and got in the car so i just heard it on the radio coms
Good for you, see ya later Paul
Rock and roll!
Bunnings! ?
and everywhere else.
I'm trying but it's not working
Have had two pints and don't even want a third
I think I have a sicknes
This stuff is going down too easy. Still keeping away from the Facebook though.
I like wine :)
Very wise
Oh dear
Sounds like you need a Helping Hand. We have one.
I'm not sure I need to pick litter out of tall trees right at this moment.
No, but far away bottles are a breeze, after a bit of practice.
Can it defeat the mighty fridge door?
Orange drill?
I reckon a bit of practice will open that door. You might end up with dead arms though.
You just need a magnet on a stick for that. So long as the magnet is stronger than the magnet that seasl the door you can't lose.
Fridge seals are suction rather than magnetic mostly, aren't they?
I missed that bit of the live stream, but I assume Bassano Clapper owns an Orange Drill?
The other alternative is to get a baby fridge that holds a couple of bottles and sit it beside you
You missed the infamous orange drill?
That's when it got good :D
she's not having one!
...oh wait, baby fridge?
They have to be magnetic. There is nothing in there creating a vacuum
Or an ice bucket
Baby Fridges: too small for proper bottles of wine, cans good though :)
It's okay. I've managed to actually go and get the wine. Crisis averted.
:D
*saunters off to check fridge for magnets*
:D hehehe
Almost as Legendary as the Legendary Owl!
Pressure reduction due to lowering the temperature inside?
Why is it when you pop your fingers in the seal it opens much easier?
I know. Regret missing it. Bad bunny!
Crawling wins out in the end.
It should still be on Alex's qik stream page
There are magnets involved as well. I think it's dual action
But it seals even if it is warm. New fridges seal before they are plugged in
Pesky fridges and their back-up plans
I tried to FF to the bit I was at before leaving. Stream crashed.
Trying it now.
Nah, Ustream won't let me ff to the middle of that stream. bad ustream.
Some minor googling would appear to put Steven in the correct corner and me in the mute donkey one
At least you have an orange drill! (allegedly, I also missed this revelation)
The heretics are in tonight, I see :D
My dad used to fix them, there's no vacuum in there. just magnets, a light and a few pipes around the outside.
Should I take my hoover out of the salad box then?
And you have to watch the whole thing from the start to view the evidence. I got a mention near the start. :)
There has to be a vaccum seal surely, otherwise the cold air would get out!
You haven't seen Bassano installing Alex's blinds while Alex yammered about it
if you like salad, then yes.
There is a seal bu the magnet keeps it closed
The way the seal works has cushioning in it, so the colder air does pull the door towards the body of the fridge, but inside the seal is normally a strip magnet that does most of the closing.
How A Refrigerator Works
All refrigerator/freezer doors have a seal--a rubber-like gasket attached to the door. Usually white, almond, black, or brown, the seal's job is to keep the cool air inside the refrigerator and the room air out. The seal is lined with a magnet that runs its length and width. The magnet helps to hold the door closed and create a tight seal. The screws that hold the seal to the door also hold the door liner in and help to "square" the door. The hinges allow the door to swing open. Some hinges also assist the door in closing. For the door to close properly, the hinges must be correctly adjusted.
But surely as bassano said the lower air pressure in the fridge would create one anyway?
Nah, the cold air is being constantly created by that big black compressor round the back. The magnets keep the door shut. I'll be asking my dad tomorrow now! I'll see if I can video it. You're probably not that bothered though are you?
i am.
It's the most contentious issue of the night
We already know what Piquet did
:D
Yup, he lost any chance of a Renault Drive next year!
You mean you want me to ask him?
If it only helps then conceivably air pressure does the rest?
Hahahaha whaaat? He had a chance of a Renault drive?
Strangely, I am seeing quite a few "fridge door sound effects" in google
Please. Best wait till dawn though
I really don't think I should type this, but how many "F"s in chance?
Could you use a fridge to keep food from freezing in very cold places?
Never heard of central heating?
as a heater?
If it was insulated well enough.
Though the heat exchanger might get a little confused
Saying that, I think it can only lower the temperature
No no no, I'm going to get a taxi, bray on my parents' door, and ask him about the mechanics of a fridge door. Expect post watershed language though :)
Qik it, for sure
Incidentaly my grandad built a fridge himself from parts before they were common place.
Apparently the whole street used to keep their meat in it!
That depends. If the fridge is cold and you open the door and take something out. The internal and external pressure would equalise even though the temperature wouldn't change much. So when you closed the door it wouldn't seal until the inside temperature dropped enough to create a pressure difference.
Which wouldn't happen if there wasn't a proper seal....
If you want to see the magnets working just close the door to the point where the magnets are close enough to react to the body of the fridge and you can see the seal move towards the fridge
Ah i realise the magnets close the door. but i expect the efficency of the seal improves as the vacuum is formed?
The most important issue on sidepodcast right now is how fridge doors seal. You should do a sidepodradio show on this
Can you live stream the video of that
I guess so. the squishy bits behind the magnets force a small amount of air out if you put enough pressure on them. Thing is, I didn't take the city & guilds in refrigeration, but i know a man who did.
brb.
Exactly. You would need to hold it shut until the pressure difference built up
When we have the answer from the frifge expert, can we have a break-out post please
In the meantime, I bid you farewell
Farewell, and thanks for the memories.
If you open the fridge and take something out though the pressures equalise. YOu are never then going to create a significan pressure difference again
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
What have I done.......??
But once the magnets contact the seal is formed so you can't force air out
Night Bassano
You have to love the dolphins. They are just so polite
I think the squishiness is too allow the door to move in towards the fridge as the pressure inside drops and to ensure a complete seal
But do the magnets run to the extreme corners?
You realise anyone reading back through this in the morning is going to think we are all mental.
Not a great deal of help though!
At least i am sober!
Exactly. If there was no squishyness the seal would not be as good and if the pressure difference built up you could never open the fridge again
As much as I would love to, I don't think my Dad would agree. If I can, I will.
Anyway, what questions do I ask? I need a list. Shopping has a list, important Sidepodquestions need a list. My email is [email protected]
I thnk that's probably worse!
i can't see any magnets moving. i did find more wine though.
You need to do a magnet test to find that out. They shouldn't need to do that to work efficiently. So long as the seal material does and the magnets can hold the weight of the door closed that should be enough.
Drink it and look again!
Wait! did you just go to the Kitchen?
Well I don't know about you lot, but i am definitely mental.
I am too
Drink more wine and you will see the magnets move.
that's where the wine is. i have to promise not to touch anything else though.
This is why we are winning!
Anyone else for the sidepodfilmclubdrinkingclub tomorrow night?
Christine is not goig to ba happy about that
Ah, best to be safe!
http://www.videojug.com/film/replacing-fridge-door-seal-neff-2
What am I asking my Dad tomorrow then? (pending video streaming approval)
1) is there a vacuum in the fridge?
2) would things be kept warm inside there if outside were freezing conditions?
3) is your son a mental?
Do you really want to know this?
yup.
We need information.
We're not suggesting that there's some kind of vacuum pump inside the fridge. Just that low pressure naturally develops inside holding the door shut tightly.
Point 1 is not so much is there a vacuum, but does the difference in air temperatures and therefore pressures help keep the door closed?
*gets pen & paper out*
Ok. I'll do what I can. Whether it be an audio clip or qik, i'll get those answers. I'm visiting about lunchtime.
See you all later,
enjoy the rest of your night/day/twilight :)
Night..
night startledbunny.
Night
If anyone is still up i am heading to bed... looking forward to Talladega tomorrow!
Ooooh I forgot about that. If I'm going to download the film I should probably get started now.... I've never got films from apple before. Is it easy?
i have to sleep too, but the phrase you're looking for, is... to damn easy.
Okay thanks. Night
I am going to bed now too.
I won't be around for the film tomorrow night as I won't be home in time but I hope you all enjoy it and no doubt there will be plenty of comments for me to read.
Good night anyone who is still awake.
one word: iTunes
do you get discounts on iTunes credit through certain retailers in the UK? there always seems to be someone selling them at approx 25% off here in Oz
Morning everyone! It's Saturday - And you know what that means? It's time to migrate some more servers!
;)
the times you get up scare me
hahahaha :)
That coming from you is scary!
This isn't so bad? It's the weekend after all.
Moooooooooooooooorning
Morning Jon!
*waves*
How are we all this morn' ?
A bit tired... I didn't get in until half past midnight... Or to bed until 1am... And I need to be back in the office in an hour!
On a Saturday? Boo
Yeah... Well it's the best time in many ways... fewer users to get in the way... causing trouble ;)
I got out of bed at 3.30pm :D
Booo! I woke up at 2ish, then at 8ish. Not going back to sleep because i have to get a train at 10.30 and need to make my sandwiches too. It's going to be a long day!!
I'll have a lazy day on your behalf then :D
aha Thanks. I'm going to be lazy for most of it, 10.30-12.30 on a train, 1-4.30 on a Coach....then 11.30-3 on a coach and then 3-5 in a cab....
It's lazy for the most part, it's just the 6.5 hour thats going to be the exhausting bit!
thats a lot of travelling though! travelling tires me because it's so boring
I'm hoping i sleep through it all ;)
travelling doesn't have to be boring when you can listen to the greatest formula 1 podcast in te world to keep you entertained :)
but i've listened to them all :(
Morning all!
Off to see some local motorsport at Wiscombe Hill Climb and cheer my friend Steve along!
http://www.g.pickett.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm
Its a great event, and hill climbing is a genuinely exciting and interesting branch of motorsport, if you have an event near you give it a go!
We went to a hill climb in italy, it was part of the FIA Euro Hill Climbing yada yada yada, it was awesome!!! Everything from ex-F1 cars to Fiat 500's that had to have their boots open to get air to their engines
My point being, it was great! And that i totally agree with Neil!
Yo. For the last time, from Cyprus.
Sup!
Is it raining? I miss the rain.
It's quite sunny where i am, but that is along way from where you'll be when you get home
You strange man. No, but it was raining yesterday
BBC suggests cloud. Aww.
But rain is goooood
I am having a lovely evening in with The Simpsons season 12 and lots of directors commentary :D
Woooop
Jealous very, very, very, much
and I am jealous that you are in Cyprus :D
That's true as well.
I shall depart as my lift is going to be here very soon!!
Shall speak to y'all tomorrow!!
:D
I shall also depart as my stupid card only has 90 seconds left. Lotsa love. Enjoy the film.
Morning all. Just come back from a haircut!
who's hair did you cut? ;)
Morning everyone, considering how much I drank last night am feeling surprisingly well. Listening to 5Live with the excellent Danny Baker talking nonsense :-)
I had my hair Kung-Fu'd by a lovely Vietnamese lady who owns a hairdresser on the corner where I live. Super cheap and done in 10 minutes!
Morning!
We have just had the tricky debate of which radio station do we listeni to while we work?
We have gone for Radio 6 Music with Adam and Joe
Adam and Joe are quite amusing!
My wife is baking bread for a party we are going to later and I can't have any... STARVING!!!
There is a programme similar to sidepodpanel on R5L at the moment... hmmm
And morning!
I am trying to decipher Italian train timetables. I wish I spoke Italian :(
IS IT BACK???
It got me out of bed at 11am :P
Just read it like its English but with an Italian accent!
eheheh. I have worked out which station is the one to get off if you wish to take the train to the race, I have a year to work out the rest of it :D
11am now seems strangely reasonable! :P
LeeMcK seems to be at the event MrC wanted to go to in Oviedo...
Her tweets mean we are as good as there!
Hey scott, got any pics of the Forza Liveries that you were talking about the other day?
Re-post of what I just did in the wrong thread:
Morning all. Just seen on Forzacentral.com a few screen grabs of some of the in-game menus in FM3 and there is one track which is literally huge. Seriously it's just looks like a huge tangle of roads :D
Also, the livery system lets you create your own vinyls and decals using a 1,000 square grid. I got a glimpse of some which someone had made in a video and I'm seriously impressed with how detailed you can make them! There's also a colour blender in there as well which lets you edit hue, saturation and brightness of colours. Brawn luminous yellow anyone?
October 23rd can't come soon enough :(
I can get some for you if you wish :P
Also, EVERY SINGLE CAR in the game is paintable. Yes, even the race cars. There's a Dodge Charger and Ford Fusion stock car in the game and both are plain and unpainted. Same goes for the Audi A4 and Merc C-Klasse DTM cars. V8 Supercars are in too! :D
I'd love to see them...
Gimme a few minutes and I'll get some done ;)
How did it become Saturday? {Comment #2}
It's Saturday? I suppose it has to be, seeing as I went into town for a library trip, which was extended to include handing in the CV and covering letter I wrote yesterday and picking up this week's Autosport...
Question about Ross Brawn - where was he caught speeding and what was the limit there?
60 or 70mph i would guess
First car - Merc C Class painted like Kimi's 2005 McLaren:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/78a9bcfa-fefe-4dd1-b76b-b14fd1be6d53-jpg
I am surprised there isn't a McLaren Taxi here in Denmark - they are all C-klasse like that one!
Morning
Anything I can help with :P
No joy with the job hunting yet?
I might take you up on that in the future when planning kicks up a notch. :D
Hehehe still going to Monza?
but of course. It appears the easiest way is to stay in Milan and get the train to the track :D
Here's a link to an interview with Ross Brawn from Mobil1 The Grid
It's a bit long but quite interesting - but is that a repainted 2008 Honda behind him?
You know you could have a lot of fun if you just turn up and try to muddle though it all on the fly? ;)
That is not in my nature! I heart my to-do lists!
That's not very Kiwi - what happened to "She'll be right"?
hehehe, hope you dont '"lose" them at spa :P
You don't want to go away with me then.... I'm a haphazard traveller!!
I don't want to have to sleep on the street :(
your language skills will make up for this minor inconvenience ;)
I definitely work on the principle of go first worry later.
hehe, dont worry as long as you have a lonely planet or rough guide book with you will nearly always find a place in there to stay, or at the very least a place in there can recommenced somewhere you can go.
I once swore I'd never sleep in a hostel again but I may have to rethink this pledge, for budgetary reasons :(
The tourist board are usually really helpful. The only time that's not worked out so well was when I turned up in Paris with nowhere to stay at some holiday weekend and every hotel was full. I mean EVERY hotel from rat infested hovel to 5* luxury. Not a room.....
That said, I wouldn't advise maybe trying to find somewhere in Monza at race weekend either.
They arent that bad, the first time i went travelling with my girlfriend i hated them, but after going round Aus alone i absolutely loved it.
You dont have to stay in a dorm, most hostels offer rooms, but it is really good to meet people
Amy... I don't know if you're planning on stopping in London but Katherine said it would be fine if you stayed with us if that helps at all!
I think is was the 7 weeks in one when I arrived in Melbourne that put me off. I met some really great people, true, but I was pining for my own space. I especially hate communal kitchens.
The week in Singapore was doable, but I was still wishing I'd picked a single room.
You stayed in a hostel when you moved to Melbourne? Where did you put all your stuff?
ooh sidepodhospitality! I am planning to spend a few days in London before the Great Spa Trip because theres quite a chunk of people I went to school with living there and it'd be nice if I could catch up with some. My mother tells me my cousin is there as well so no doubt my mum and aunty will be concocting some sort of meeting as we speak :D
I arrived with a 20kg suitcase containing all of my clothes and a few other necessities. I took my PS3 as my carry on luggage :D After a couple of weeks I had to buy another suitcase because I kept buying stuff. Then once I found my flat my parents sent over my other stuff that I had managed to fit into 4 boxes.
As I look around at the amount of stuff I now own, I realise if I ever move countries again, there is no way I can do it in 4 boxes and 2 suitcases :D
The kitchens are evil! I ended up eating at the backpacker pubs and subway which wasnt too pricey. But if you are moving around a lot, it shouldnt be too bad as you get new people every night.
I love the word pining... Where is my Fjord! :P
Okay. I'm happy to put you into my category of brave traveller.
With all the mooses in Sweeeden!
I had no job and no house and no friends and it was scary. And then I made lots of friends, but then I worked out making friends with travellers isn't always great because they all left the country :(
That is insanely brave! What made you do it? I would love to do something like that but i dont have enough work experience yet...
I had the same problem with traveler friends, but they seemed to replace themselves with new ones each week
When we moved to Denmark we had no jobs but we stayed with my parents-in-law. That was scary, but there's no way I could do what Amy did!
There's F1 here!
Plus the wages in Australia are a lot better than NZ for doing the same job and the cost of living isn't that much higher. It's very very common for young Kiwis to move over, although admittedly most of them come with friends. I wasn't going to let the fact that none of my friends wanted to move stop me :D
The list of bands and things that I have lined up to see, plus the other great sporty things like 'seeing Roger Federer play tennis' are pretty cool too.
I was planning on moving to Wellington for a few years and then coming over but I figured, hey, why move twice?
That is terrifying! Having just moved, I couldn't even fit all my possessions in 2 cars. I'd never get them all on a plane! I'd need to force my sister to have a room full of stuff that I could move over gradually. I couldn't bear to sell it all!
That does sound like it makes sense!
You have inspired me to put more impetus on my job hunt!
-1,000! :(
Apparently I left more behind than I realised, because when my parents moved house they complained a lot :D I haven't missed any of it in the last 18 months but when I go home in October no doubt I'll bring some more stuff back with me :)
I love Wellington, I'll live there one day because I refuse to have little Australian children :D
+10,000! :D
I wish I could inspire me! It took me 21 days to find my job, but because its kind of lame and low-paying my plan was to have it temporarily while I looked for something more relevant to my degree. I have now been in my job for 15 months, have only applied for one other job in that time, and my degree is coming up to two years old and never used. Oops.
Hehehe! I love how people get about their children and where they're born.
I've never really forgiven my parents for letting me be born in London.
So far i have been looking for a job on and off for about 327 days... not that i have been counting!
I am determined to have one by the end of the month.
It's the accent! It's quite harsh on adults but on children its a million times more so. Plus I don't understand their school system at all :)
Are you looking to move or are you unemployed atm?
I was bitter I didn't get the job with AIG that had four lots of training in New York per year.
Although it turns out the guy who did get the job got made redundant when this whole financial crisis thing started. Then I was glad I didn't get it :D
I am technically 'living by my own means' which means i am making enough money to not be considered unemployed, but i dont have a job
I had an awesome job lined up in london, but i got made redundant 2 weeks before i was due to start!
oh, boo!
Companies are rotten like that.... Just do whatever they want. Never mind who's life they make a mess of
I started like that too. Don't worry, the experience will help with the next job :)
Do I want to ask how you are doing that or will you perjure yourself by doing so? ;)
I have no idea what I want to do long-term. I'm doing a medical degree but I'm pretty sure I don't want to be a doctor.
Here is a video by FHM via CAR Magazine where they see if a Tesla roadster can make a circuit of the M25 on one charge. Very interesting - I won't spoil it for you!
Ahh I like hearing stories like that because all I hear from my family is how I've wasted my degree and will never get a job so I might as well go back to uni and start again :(
I play around on the markets for a couple of hours most days, its not making me a fortune but it keeps me going.
I also do little odd jobs for people as well. summarising reports mostly
my advice would be if you ever work in a hospital, be nice to the kitchen staff ;)
Right..... :P
You could do a law conversion and make a fortune as a medical malpractice lawyer...
also, look out for helicopters falling from the roof (just saying).
could you not play for a bit longer and then make that your job?
Well I wanted to be a doctor when I started. I've got 3 years of it done. I had to take a year out for financial reasons then I got ill and was advised to take another year just to get it together. In my hiatus, I've managed to find many things I enjoy doing a lot more. Many of them not grad jobs at all but meh
My first job was an admin assistant - very low-rent and low paid but a decent company, good connections and lots learned. I moved to Denmark and that helped me get a foot in the door in a company that works in the same industry and uses all my Maths and Stats superpowers ;) Oh, and the lifestyle is good too!
Combine it with professional poker player!
"...do you think they mean the greek guy?"
heeheh.
I cant really afford to, and it gets a bit lonely!
I would much rather be ain a proper 9-5 job where i can talk to people and stir up the office politics ;)
Indeed. Five years of working in a hospital taught me that real life is just like ER.
Seriously? Insane!
eheheh or not ;)
you really want to do it with other peoples money :)
Poor Dr Romano :(
If I worked in that ER I would explode in a meltdown of Ricky Bobby proportions!
Meh. He was a grumpy old bugger anyway. I laughed because it was so absurd!
That would be more fun!
Although it isnt all that great a job... to much office work, i want to get sent on survey missions to peru, angola, micronesia and the like;)
Helicopter magnet.... I wasn't sad when he died. I didn't like his arm accident though. Reminds me too much of genuine nightmares of mine that involve things like ceiling fans....
Motogp qualifying is on
i know maybe two things about ER, and now we've covered them both.
help, i need christine!
is doesn't qualify. sorted.
ari went up in the london eye.
am wondering if this was the very famous man giggles met?
huh?
I am most disappointed that my feed reader has not yet provided me a gamboling update. *pokes Alex*
I even bought the book and it isnt in there....
Although i did have awesome dreams about nanobots :D
as a motorsport... only two wheels.
hehe. he mighta had a busy day. do we know if he's out of the pub yet?
all I know is he was up far too early for a Saturday.
Ah! gotcha. I am using it to compensate until we get the 30 F1 races a year i demand ;)
That first accident is a HSE nightmare!
It was also scary how happy he was to be up!
he's migrating again? if you were the boss... you'd pick sensible times to work, right?
I don't think Mr and Mrs C will be fans of this new calendar ;)
i wanna know how he's planning on watching 30 races a year in peru?
my ideal 8 hour working day would be something like 6pm - 2am
Oh man! I work with people like that. They give themselves stupid rotas then whine about their hours. It's like you wrote it!
I'm not saying you can give all the unpleasant shifts out to other people, they'll never respect you if you're not prepared to do it. Similarly, there's no need to do them all!
brilliant. you can be my boss.
not saturday's though.
It would only be 1 or 2 races in Peru, i am more concerned about trying to watch it with the time difference in micronesia :P
I would go for 4pm-midnight... would be great!
actually i did that for a few weeks and didn't like it one bit!
my ideal day would really only work if I worked from home though, around 2am I'd like to stop working and then be at home already :D
No no no. I like getting my work out the way early in the day. Maybe that's just because of the sorts of work I'm doing at the moment though. The end of day shifts are hardest work because you have to close everything down and it involves basically just staying until the work is done :(
its funny because I say that, but when given the choice I always chose the 7.30-3.30 shift at work when I get the option because although getting up kills me, I like finishing early :D
I wish they invented Qik SmellyVision because my house smells of fresh-baked bread at the moment...
No joy with the job hunting yet? {Comment #311}
This is the first vacancy that's come up since June that I've actually met the criteria for and could do as a job. Things are looking up.
I wouldn't describe it as "joy", but the hope level is high :)
Hehehe still going to Monza?
but of course. It appears the easiest way is to stay in Milan and get the train to the track :D {Comment #314}
Amy, you do know I envy you a lot? Hope you are having and will continue to have an amazing time in Italy!
I am not in Italy, not until next year :D
It feels like a day off! As long as you don't sleep through your shift. I've done that once in my life and it's an awful feeling when you wake up.....
My day is 7.30 to 4 but sadly I have a long commute :(
That is not in my nature! I heart my to-do lists! {Comment #317}
So do I. When I went with Dad to Silverstone, we ended up with four lists of stuff to take on the Silverstone trip and a meticulously-planned itinerary of everything up to and including when Dad and I were showering. We even came close to managing everything on the list (missed out on looking at the outside of the Brawn factory though because we were too busy relaxing in the tent at the time we were due to look at it).
So far i have been looking for a job on and off for about 327 days… not that i have been counting!
I am determined to have one by the end of the month. {Comment #349}
I've been looking for a job ever since I left university, apart from about six weeks at the start of the job I had last year. It's not great.
I have no idea what I want to do long-term. I’m doing a medical degree but I’m pretty sure I don’t want to be a doctor. {Comment #359}
That degree will prepare you for pretty much anywhere that requires you to think about complex consequences and/or sort stuff out quickly and correctly and/or involves caring about people. So you'll be good at lots of jobs with only minimal/no extra training. At least you will have plenty of time to make the next move. Good luck in finding the right path for you.
James Allen is positive about Ari's chances, and therefore the future of Sidepodcast!
Interesting about the support he is getting in the middle east, that might help him with his fund raising.
Although the comments about CVC Bernie might coerce them into chucking more money at Todt
I am not in Italy, not until next year :D {Comment #409}
Oh well. I'm sure you'll remind me nearer the time ;)
The more I listen to this Aside as I transcribe it, I must point out to Mr C that it was 2006 that Bahrain was the season opener, because Melbourne was hosting the Commonwealth Games :D
Hehehe ooooh I totally forgot about my transcriptions!! I've got 2 to give you. When I did them, I didn't know how to use the drop :P
i liked that neither of us could remember :)
no way! thank you alison.
"2007 or 2008" says Mr C.
"One of those two" says Joe
:D
Just a reminder for everyone to have a copy of Talladega nights ready for sidepodfilclub tongiht...
I keep remembering awesome bits of the film, i cant wait :D
Who hasnt seen it before?
I haven't seen it. I managed to successfully rent it from iTunes. I'm secretly hoping I'll have a major technical fail with it though. Otherwise, I don't think my bank balance will survive my new film addiction.
I have the uncut edition on Blu Ray so I may have to fast forward to keep up :D
I saw the DVD a couple of years ago, but I've never watched this HD version. It came free with my PS3 and I only took the wrapping off it yesterday :)
I have it on blu ray and it came with my ps3 as well. I dont have the box and it doesnt mention hat it is uncut on the disk so i assume it is just the normal version...
mine doesn't say uncut on the disk either, only on the case. The disk says 'Pasado de Vueltas' though :D which translates into 'last lap' and was the Spanish title of the movie :D
Hehehe it's funny to see what people thought on the panels when you're hearing it for the first time with hindsight. You all bully poor Jenson.
ooh it has Finnish subtitles! *tempted*
Hi. Am shopping.
Have dropioed a picture of something exciting. May take a minute.
I'm gonna have to go eat in the middle though I think. Someone remind me to leave the film playing so I don't get lost!
WANT
Mmmmm chocolate fountain
Only £15? i thought they would be way more than that!
me.
one out!
damn the archives.
oooh lord.
hmmm... Numeric value out of range... hmm...
It's only a baby chocolate fountain ;)
you need a bigint?
:D
Walk closer to it?
I'm using a decimal(10,10)
:)
Awesome, it will be great!
(unless you dont like it;) )
It's a BCP import that worked before and has now stopped.
decimal hasn't changed in sql 2008 has it? in know datetime was updated but decimal should be identical.
That's what worries me... Was it changed in 2005? we're going up 2 versions here.
goes with the baby fridge!
My dad had a good idea that we should all open up the World Clock so we know when it is 8pm and can all start at the same time.
#sidepodfilmclub
Don't mention the fridge!!!
Hehe... too clever!
you think i can remember what changed between sql 2000 and 2005? that was almost a decade ago.
A fridge is no place to keep a baby! :P
It will be on time?
Good idea, other Mr C!
Good... I should probably know given what I'm doing?
You need a team of nanobots. That is going to be my sloution for everything from now on...
Guys, if you click this link can you see my photos on Flickr?
hehe. i did find this:
"In SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and later versions, decimal and numeric data types can be stored as a variable-length column by using the vardecimal storage format."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326755.aspx
not sure if that would cause you issues. just checking, but you are using the sql 2008 version of bcp?
I can indeed, it appears you have been raving it up at a festival
Yes I think so...
yep.
Ah... Have you been reading the book?
LOL that was Roskilde - got to see Oasis two months before they broke up (and I reckon it was one of the best concerts ever!)
Thanks - I added my Flickr stream to the SPC regulars page :)
good man.
Yes!
I dreamt i was a nanobot last night as well!
So far it is realy good! I hear you can get a copy from amazon?
It's on my list but because shipping to Aus is so ridiculous I am waiting until I need a few things :D
Have you guys read 'Prey' by Michael Crichton? That's a good book about Nanobots too!
I heart Michael Crichton.
I have, it was good, i might need to read it again.
I loved state of fear, that may be one of my favourite books ever.
Just about finished my Repsol Ford Focus ST :D
Awesome. Thank you!
Post a pic when you are done ;)
that might be it. We are going to cheat the data in from the old database and worry about it on Monday.
also mentions replication. but i likes your plan :)
hey, everyone having a nice day?
Hey, me not funny. That could just be Lou working on her airplane to helicopter conversion course....She just may have start up the tail rotor engine with out starting the main rotor typical rookie mistake ! :P .
Hehehe it could be Mr C trying for his helicopter licence so he can fly us all to Spa!
Sounds to me like you take those "Final Destination" movies a little bit too seriously.... :P .
Noooo! This stems from a very young age. I think it was originally a fingers in desk fan nightmare....
yup, but don't tell christine.
Has anyone else used a ZAGG invisible shield?
ooh... erm okay...
Heh I'm watching a repeat of University Challenge. I'm really amused by how poor the literature knowledge of the girls from the prantzy Cambridge college is. Most things I forgive you not knowing but all 4 of them hadn't read books that I have. One of them is studying Literature.
;)
1x Ford Focus ST in Repsol WRC colours
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/eaf5fe8e-f324-4704-83db-a4c00dc2bfb1-jpg
tasty!
guau. impressive! :-)
hi people
hey guille.
Very nice
I remember that the Russian Mil Mi-26 "Halo" Helicopter can haul 80 people around along with its crew of 6. It is a big sucker but with a max. speed of only 295 km/h (empty) I get the feeling that it going to take you guys forever to go from London to Spa on it...
Less than 2 hours from london, that sounds like the quickest way....
I've been trying to get a copy all the morning, but Amazon refuses to take my credit card! Did anybody had a problem like this: you get to the 'Delivery page', press the button to confirm the buy, and it takes you back to the 'Credit card data' page... :-(
Maybe it has to do with my credit card validity period ending this month?
I am very sorry about this :(
Hehehe why are people trying to sell it on used more expensive than new....
they don't want that I get your book! surely a FIA conspiracy...
ooh! Roger is on! I might as well just not sleep tonight at all :D
Hmm, i havent had that problem, but i already have an accoun with them so i dont have to enter my details.
my card expired about 3 days after i ordered it and it was fine, maybe their is a seperate option if you are using an overseas credit card?
this is about the best quality jtv stream I have ever seen. Why aren't the F1 ones this good!
ok, that made the trick. I don't know why, but using the automatic filling of the details worked, and filling them by hand don't... (?!)
In any case, Alex's book will be waiting for me in Paris in a couple of weeks! :D
i would guess the source stream is in hd?
good point :D
Woohoooo!
I don't know... it's odd! And they aren't used either they just do that to show up in the search and the text say, "actually new"
maybe because it's so good that after reading it you think that it should be more expensive than it is ;-)
the fia have asked you to attend too?
If I bring it to Europe, can I get it *gasp* signed by the author?
Oh yeah :) No problem!
who needs a signed Heikki!
:D
unfortunately, I'll arrive a week later. a missed opportunity for real time, in place, news...
That's a cover blurb quote an no mistake :)
booo Lleyton Hewitt, booooo
Who hasnt seen it before? {Comment #423}
I haven't. And I won't see it this time either because I
a) spent my pocket money on this week's Autosport and some treats for Mum's birthday and
b) am due to be in a swimming pool at the start of the Sidepodfilmclub!
hehe, you want him to sign himself?
you need to watch http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/08/02/sidepodradio-ga-ga/ from 4.41 onwards :D
Hehe, i completely forgot to watch the 4th one!
On it like a bonnet
Back from the Hill Climb, really amazing and my friend was top of his class. Was a Red Flag filled day though, unusually with 2 cars turning over, but luckily no one was hurt!
Valentino Rossi has Donkey from Shrek on the top of his skid lid this weekend and "The Donkey" on his rear instead of "The Doctor" :)
:D
Looks very good too. Looks like Donkey is riding the bike when he has his head down
We've just been out into our garden picking cooking apple and pears from our fruit trees outside. We've got 5 huge bags full and we just passed some onto our neighbours :P
I think we also have a bush outside the front that grows passionfruit.
brb, moving to your house *passionfruit fiend*
:D
Passion fruit is lovely. Assumed it was a tropical fruit though
I think they are more like a vine. I started ripping one out in aus and got into troubel. It looked like a weed...
these ones are a serious weed in NZ but I loooove them. My grandparents neighbours used to give us supermarket bags of them every couple of weeks and my dad and I would sit there and eat 30 or 40 in a row. They finally got control of their garden and the passionfruit stopped coming :(
It's one of the things I miss the most about home!
Ah, the ones we had looked like a normal passionfruit you had to leave them in a bowl so they shrivelled up and became super sweet though...
those are lovely but I never have them because they are ridiculously priced at the supermarket. I wonder if you can grow passionfruit in Melbourne because thats the one plant I'd be willing to not let die.
I guess you could grow it indoors, just put a wire mesh frame up on the wall..
They grow pretty fast though, in Queensland at least
Would it get enough sunlight inside?
OK, being a vine and me without something to grow a vine on, I am stuck. They also take 18 months to produce their first fruit and I am a product of the 'I want it now' society.
Walk on the wild side with the talking animals is on BBC1 at the moment
I have returned from the outside - minus one mini chocolate fountain. Boo.
but but but you can put cheese in them! two uses for the price of one!
I am sure amy's nocturnal habits would give it plenty of light :P might need some fertilizer though
I heart cheese, but that idea does not really appeal. Can't figure out why.
From twitter:
eddstrawF1: Someone really should give Paul di Resta and F1 drive
Where do they get these ideas from?
I have only had cheese fondue once in my life and it was at least 10 years ago, but I am still looking forward to the next time.
They are amazing!
I loved them so much we did one on the BBQ at uni once
You've made me want to do it now. No-one I know will humour me with things like that though. I don't think it's the same by yourself. Maybe I can force jack into it when he comes back.
I'm going to force my Swiss friend into it when I'm in Switzerland. They invented the stuff, I'm sure she'd be good at making it :D
Goodness Amy is there a country you're not planning on visiting?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/sidepodfilmwatch-png
Sidepodpreparation!
I wouldn't go there if she wasn't there but she'd kill me if I was nearby and didn't visit :D
I am sure there is a fondue set in this flat...
I have found the forks!
Stop taunting me with cheesy joy :(
If it makes you feel better i cant find the bowl/burner thing and i dont have any of the ingrediants!
Ingredients? Don't you just ram cheese in the bowl? I refuse to believe everyone doesn't keep cheese in their house.
I have marmite cheese
But you need 2 or 3 swiss cheeses and white whine, which i dont have...
Thinking about all this cheese has given me heartburn :(
i can't believe i'm still a day ahead.. i keep thinking its sunday.....
Amy why are you awake?
If you stay in bed all day tomorrow you might be back to the right place?
I am onthe train on my way home from work. Phew.
it's sunday here!
I was watching tennis and now I'm folding laundry while watching tennis :D
all done?
what is the crazy multitasking magic of which you speak?
Okay. I am right in saying it's 4am Sunday morning though....
maybe i should move to aus?
Joining in a bit of Taladega tonight?
3.20
wow... how do you manage to stay up so late?
Oh I see, do you not move your clock for the summer?
How does everyone else go to bed so early?! :D
pretty much yes. We have that weird problem with the field size on the bcp I think it's doing an implicit conversion somewhere along the line. The old database was clearly more lenient.
But we've patched it up so it shouldn't be a problem.
Its winter there though ;)
clock moves at the start of april and the start of october
haha:)
I'm not sure I can sadly. I think Katherine might want to see me a bit!
See you in the comments? :P
easy. laptop each, sit in front of the tv. every time she looks up, you'll be right there.
I think I'm going to watch an episode of Friends oN the train.
Series 1 epsiode 14 can't remember the name though.
or he could live stream him watching it so she could see him even if she is in another room.
hmmm... I'll see.
Hahaha I don't think that's the same really :P
is it 'The One with the Candy Hearts'? that's what one site tells me anyways..
I think that's the one. It's valentine's night.
Ross just gave a woman an egg.
he can you comment and watch?
yep that's the one :)
:D
not as well as you'd hope.
Oh it's Janice!
Have you seen the secrety released augmented reality app?
Are you on 2 phones/
wikitude have a navigation app i was looking at the other day for android, is that the one?
jailbroken?
I meant iPhone one. It's yelp. You have to shake it three times after you load it which releases the secret feature. Steve is not going to be happy.
nope.
christ!
Pheobes this woman is voluntarily bald!
Are they banned for iphone?
that's what I thought I downloaded it of course. It works pretty well.
the api has't been released yet.
on the current os. They are for 3.1 which is coming soon.
cool :)
we may need a qik demo at some point..
on this app the movement of the pointers isn't quite as fluid as you'd hope I mean it's good but my guess is that apple will want everyone to use their api for the overlay.
We now have a countdown timer in the Factbyte Factbox on the LCLT. Woohoo!
P.S. Thanks Dad
Actually, it's just a clock, not a countdown.
hehe that's great :D
Right i am going over the road to by sidepodfim supplies...
Beer, tortilla chips and hmmm maybe i need more beer
It's still cool :)
Have droppioed a screen grab of it.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-221
good lord, it's like playing quake!
Whoooooooop Whoooooop
Good evening everyone :)
evening
A woman just walked past me... She had vulcan ears!
evening!
evening lukeh and everyone else
yay :) Talladega Nights has finished downloading, am all set for 8pm now :)
New blog post: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/09/05/sidepodfilmclub-talladega-nights/
Woo!!
Hello. I am sort of here.
!!! Ari Vatanen's son just contacted me on Youtube?!
Uhh... what?
♥ ari.
Ari Vatanen, now there's a man who knows how to google himself....
excellent!
I bet him and Franck are great mates
:)
Perhaps we should email him and see if he wants to join sidepodfimclub?
:D Awesome! :D hehe Ari HAS to win, he is just awesome :)
real jb is talking to fake PK on twitter...
:D
Evening all. Not watching the film, so will not be around this evening much.
Apparently vettle is on twitter now twitter.com/real_Vettel
this is difficult as it may mean i have to like him now...
JB thinks its real...
#sidepodspace update
The third and final spacewalk of the curent shuttle mission just started on NASA TV. The job list for this spacewalk is below.
Oooh oooh oooh fluffy love!!
Back to daily?
You what?
Daily it is
:)
i heart drivers tweeting.
aw am loving that Vettel is on twitter.. now all we need is Webber and we have 2 teams :D
after all that film goodness, I find myself giggling at a bootleg video of Muse performing the Popcorn song at their homecoming gig last night... brilliance :D
dodo dodo dododo..dodo dodo dododo..
I'm pretty sure he's cut Mark Webber out of the photo on that page :P
we loves the vettel/jenson convo. that is all kinds of awesome.
I heart Jenson tweeting fake pk to say he likes his fake retweet :D
Add alonso and we will have 3... (for at least 1 race)
I love that he has nothing better to do with his Saturday night than to sit on the inter..... Wait a minute....
he missed filmwatch.
hehehe :D i so want all the grid to be on twitter now, just to see more convos like this!
I love that he is tweeting in english too!
#FakeGerman 2.0
if we get Alonso and Massa we can have the ferrari team for next year too ;)
:D
ehehe :D i <3 him for being just like us :P
Who is Tommi Parmakoski?
This really isn't going to help me tame my stalkerishness....
according to Jenson's question Vettel's trainer..
Made up name I think
that didn't make much sense. sorry. Tommi Parmakoski is Vettel's trainer.
he is Finnish so I like him.
This guy
The fact i found that out so easily makes me suspicious it may not be real...
Something they discussed on the parade lap?
OK. Someone I have never heard of
yeah if you google "Sebastian Vettel trainer" it comes up lots
A Finn won the F3 race at Brands Hatch today. I thought you should know
I like that he's gone on Twitter. Even though I'm not on Twitter.... Do you think he'd tell me if he has a gf or not.... :P
jenson says he's real. what more do you want?
i think that's why Jenson asked the question..not many fans know who his trainer is..
Picture of him drinking a little cup of tea next to twitter
How can I argue with Jenson?
Live streaming.... that'd prove it.
that wasn't the question??
hehe :D maybe Rubens will ask him if he is real too? if not i suppose they will tell us if they turn up at Monza and Vettel doesn't know anything about it..
A twit pic!
http://twitter.com/The_Real_JB/status/3784312621
huh?
I'm surprised they don't have his number ;)
I don't think he answered the one about teh parade lap....
That was the one he answered, unless he txted jenson to say it was him... he didnt answer the one about the drivers parade...
ignore me. i only saw the one about the parade lap.
that would be an answer you can't google!
Film's finished then? How is everyone this evening?
he did:
"Kers? We dont need Kers! We can do it by ourself!"
http://twitter.com/real_Vettel/status/3784459144
Lol, the number of followers has doubled in the past 10 minutes
No, i think that's in reply to
@real_Vettel You know your ****!! How you doing man? Wishing you had Kers for Monza!?
I took that more as an answer to "Wishing you had Kers for Monza!?" but then again I don't have the timeline straight, all I can see is 'about an hour ago'
isn't that in response to
http://twitter.com/The_Real_JB/status/3784403257
Looks like you need a friendfeed of F1 driver tweets to aid your stalking
That was sent at 20:43, vettel responded with "Kers? We dont need Kers! We can do it by ourself!" at 20:46
Love the F1 drivers on Twitter now :-)
Ooooh now I'm so torn. Do I have to actually join Twitter to stalk effectively?
http://friendfeed.com/f1-drivers
i'll add the rest in a second.
i would say yes... unless you are going to remember to check their tweets?
Journeyer seems to manage to stalk people on Twitter without actually having an account :-)
I shall remain sceptical then, its my natural response ;)
I want one! Despite my real fridge being six paces away!
Is there something about this time of night that makes people want to talk about their fridge?
Not when Mr C can produce stalking tools so quickly. You only need to sign up if you want to talk to them
how do we know who wrote what?
Don't start with fridges again. Did we get a live stream from startled bunny on the fridge answers?
I'm just catching up on the thread. I wasn't here last night
Oooh do you think he would reply. I might actually be in love then. He looks like he just wants to talk to F1 drivers....
Do I want more beer or do I want wine?
when i read the comments earlier i went to go and check our fridge.. mum gave me such a strange look.
We had a long long discussion on the pressure differential outside and inside a fridge and whether or not magnets were necessary
yeah, it's annoying. you have to rollover the "twitter" text and read the status bar.
am working on a better system!
He is only starting out. He probably doesn't know there are stalkers like you around.
Wine
you know the grosjean twitter account.. is it real? he doesn't appear to be following any f1 drivers... on the plus side he is following Mr C :)
I think he'd be more likely to reply while he's young and naive....
ah it getcha!
not content with rewriting Wordpress, you are now rewriting Friendfeed?
New blog post: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/09/05/the-real-thing/
rf1pp says he's real, and i believe everything he/she says.
so yes.
why's he following us?
So I can see
Why? Mr C went and checked his fridge last night and he was not alone. He was alone with his fridge but not the lone fridge checker. I was shocked by how many people had never played with their fridges to see how it sealed. That is just one of those things that I had to know the first time I was aware if a fridge
building on top of friendfeed would be a better way of explaining it ;()
Thanks. I think you're right.
Oooh, an ambiguous smiley.
Are you sure he wasn't trying to see if the light really goes out when you shut the door?
awesome :D
maybe he is a fan :D
Who is rf1pp?
Does RG really live in the north east?
He might think you are just being friendly until he knows better. You should sign up for an account then tweet him to say that you only signed up because someone told you he had.
Oookay.
i can't remember the first time i was aware of a fridge.. but i've never been interested in how they close before... cause as long as they keep things cold i don't care :D
writes the renault blog. we met him/her at silverstone.
He opened the door, the light went on and he saw wine. That kind of ended the experiment
and tweets here: http://twitter.com/rf1paddockpass
fact!
True story.
So why did you become interested today?
You were supposed to be sleeping
ah ok
I do not like twitters that are just feeds :( I want some real Renault goss!
i blame the comments.. i just had to see it for myself...
Agreed. If I wanted a feed I'd use RSS.
What were you conclusions?
From twitter:
eddstrawF1: Someone really should give Paul di Resta and F1 drive
Where do they get these ideas from? {Comment #540}
Steven Roy?
I have located a bottle of rioja and a box of jaffa cakes
It is ridiculous he has not even had a chance yet. I would hate to think he will be stuck in the DTM again next season when there are all those extra cars available.
!!! Ari Vatanen’s son just contacted me on Youtube?!
Uhh… what? {Comment #616}
Cool!
You mean start a new experiment - how much wine can I fit in this glass...
Thanks for highlighting that Alianora. I just tweeted for the fist time in weeks suggesting Edd should be plugging him more in his magazine. What;s the point in having the power and not using it?
If you met them then you must know, unless you're protecting their identity.
exactly!
About 1/3rd of a bottle in this glass which used to be a big bottle of Grolsch.
I have spent all evening editing and posting a 9 minute podcast, and it is still rubbish!
I don't know how you guys do it! I have realised how much of your time it must take up!
It does take a bit longer than blogging. :)
Why do you think yours is rubbish? I'm sure it isn't. Anything we can do to help?
Hi Neil. I was just about to reply to your post earlier about Wiscombe Park hillclimb. I've never made it along to that, I should do really.
btw I was in Exeter last night to see a film. flying visit.
Thanks Christine, I just need advice on editing, content, hosting, recording equipment, music... other than that I am sorted!!!
What film did you see Pat?
District 9 in the Vue cinema (which is extortionate: £7.50???). Was a really good film though, enjoyed it lots.
I wonder if Felipe will be at Monza?
I got home at 12.20am and slept until 11.40am. Biggest sleep in ages!
Ah, okay!! If you have any specific questions, we'd love to help :)
FWI, I am disappointed in this wine.
The Vue is a rip off! Did you take out a mortgage for refreshments? We are more into the Picturehouse, partly because we live near it, partly because it is cheaper, and partly because we like the arty/indie films they show!
Has anyone seen red dawn?
Is it worth watching?
Thankfully we were running late so only had time to get the ticket and go straight in! But yeah, I've seen the price of refreshments before... For some reason we go there instead of the Odeon which is a little cheaper. Sometimes to the Cineworld in Yeovil when the guys we hook up with can be bothered to drive over this way.. Not that we go often.
I'm not sure I know where the Picturehouse is?
Thanks! I have my friends tearing it apart on my blog, then I will see what needs changing on the next one. I realise if I do it often i need to pay for proper hosting, and work out what itunes is all about (I know, I am technologically behind!)
Hehehe as an ex Vue employee, I can readily assure you that they don't use their exorbitant fees to pay their staff a reasonable wage or let them take sensible breaks.... Or give them more than one shirt. Which when you think about it is pretty gross if you work a 5 day week.
Not heard of it before, but that's not unusual as I have no clue what is out at any given time.
The Picturehouse is down Fore Street... the dodgy end on Exeter!
Its on virgin 1 at the moment.
It is ... well
Ouch?! I wondered about the poor sods working there when we left at 11.15pm - and there was still a late night showing YET TO START
Ah right, not really familiar with anything other than the main shopping streets...
Ah. IMDB says it is about Soviets invading the US.
#sidepodspace
They are at it again. The spacewalk is 30 minutes ahead of the time line.
Yup. I've frequently been there until 3.30am... You don't get extra money for that.
Bizarely Loeb has been talking to USF1
There are also reports he is free to race in Abu Dhabi, but i have been unable to reliably source those quotes
What?? Surely that deserves night rates... what time did you start?
He and Citroen are supposed to have a deal with STR that he can race in F1 as soon as he clicnches the championship or after the last WRC rally of the year which would mean only Abu Dhabi. Citroen are quite happy for him to play at being an F1 driver to the end of the season and will not sign another driver until he decides whether he wants to rally or switch to F1.
It depends, I think the late night shifts were 7.30-2.30 but you hardly ever got the place clean on time. Not if there were actually people in the last screening! It's been a couple years since I worked there though, I couldn't be certain on that. I know I only got scummy minimum wage for the privilege though :(
I have to say the NASA TV feed is fabulous tonight. The quality of the pictures is incredible
Dear sidepodcast... I saw this headline and thought of you ;)
That sucks. Any perks? Like sneaking in to see films?
:lol:
Evening everyone, hope the film was good, sorry I couldn't join you. Have been out eating pizza & drinking pink wine. Will need quiet day tomorrow :-)
:D
You didn't have to sneak! Well I guess you did if you were supposed to be working.
Depends what you're there for. The place is very inter-bred. People can't work there for more than about a month without getting with another member of staff.
:D eheh <3
:-) :-)
I thought devices like that were banned though
Evening! Yeah we really enjoyed it.
They can't use sidepod panel. Brawn stealing from sidepodcast. Just shows what happens when he is let off with speeding
hahaha that was the most ridiculous storyline ever!
Ah there was at least that then!
Badly written rules as usual
Erm quick question, if I send a direct message to someone on Twitter, are the contents broadcast to everyone I know....?
Only they will see it - but they need to follow you to send one back.
No. Replying to someone will be seen by anyone else who is also following that person, but a direct message is private.
This is also true.
I think they have to be following you in order to be able to send it
No
Ah yes, I think that's true
Oh, you can't send it if they don't follow you. Stupid thing.
You can send them a tweet telling them to follow you so that you can send stalkerish DMs without leaving any evidence.
I'm not going to enjoy this experience I've decided.... I don't like broadcasting things to the universe!
Vettel just tweeted me... Im starting to like him more already
You do it on here though
This wasn't stalkerish, I just wanted to send a message to my bf. I didn't reckon all of you would like to read it too....
He doesn't follow you?
Ooooh oooh oooh. I sent him one too. Maybe he'll reply to me!!!
You don't have to... you can just use it to follow people who's stuff you like reading, and occasionally reply to it.
I opened my account about half an hour ago :P
wheeeeeeeheee!
I like that he replied, but his reply isn't convincing me he's real :-)
5live think he's real too.
If he is real.... ;)
Nevertheless I will revise my cheat opinion of him, but i am still to be convinced he can overtake!!!
yay :D
That used to be the case, until Twitter changed a setting. Now if you start a message with @(name) only that name will see it.. unless we read your page. I think?
Maybe he sent Jenson a PM with something private in it.... He seemed pretty convinced.
Tell him to get a qik account and prove he is real
I'm not ruling it out, just sitting on the fence for a bit.
Of all the people he could have tweeted too... :D :P
I think you have to assume any message sent on twitter will be seen somewhere
JB ain't following him though, so no DMing
freindfeed see's all.
i see everything you write to everyone ;)
Yeah, dw. I'm not gonna write dirty messages and post them on Twitter.....
eek my favourite Spaniard named Fernando is 2 points away from beating my favourite German.
Is the sun up?
hours ago!
Always remember that the contents of an email should be treated as if you were sending them on a postcard. Twitter is the same.
Did you have a sleep? went quiet for a bit
and you haven't slept yet?
Alison, am now following you. One thing you may want to do is to protect your tweets (which is in Settings). This means not everyone can see your tweets, only those following you, and you have to confirm if someone asks to follow you. I've only been on Twitter a short while & I've found this a good thing to have.
woooooooooooo vamos nando!
Email seems more private than twitter surely (provided you trust the person you're sending the emails to)
Scary...
nope, the tennis got gooooood. Twas a 5 setter!
I see you all pretending to be Sebastian's friend ;) I can see you all bullying him in here.... :P
He seems like a nice guy.
But that doesnt mean he can overtake! :P
I was considering this on my personal one.
Alison, are you gonna tell us your twitter name?
but... how have you not collapsed with tiredness?...
doing that cuts me and my scheming plans out. but i can understand why you'd want to.
In case anyone doesn't know... operating 2 accounts is more difficult than it seems. I'm sure I've got my SPC follows wrong.
Im good at all nighters, I do them a lot. Plus I woke up at 3.30 yesterday so I've only been awake 17 hours
Partly because my personal one isn't for spammers. I can understand them doing it to my bloggy one, my 'me' one isn't for them.. and it may contain swears etc which people might not like..
Nando? twitter.com/NanoAlonso
ahhh okay. i've stayed up for like 36 hours before when i've been working, but i always tend to get very cold and start to feel ill if i am awake much more than that....
just looking at that. not convinced yet.
You doing anything with the day?
Suggestion... run down Batman street going "nanananana nanananana nanananana..."
You need a client instead of the web page. That way you can manage multiple accounts.
I'm running Tweetdeck
It's my week to clean so I'll be vacuuming and wiping and mopping, and maybe making the muffins I never got around to doing yesterday.
Pssh I'm soo not leaving the house. I'd be lucky to get dressed.
Sounds like a Friday to me. 17 hours is the time between getting up for work (8am) and dropping to bed (2am). Admittedly you probably haven't been to work on a Sat so haven't had that drain..
erm... Jessica Mitchibata has set up a twitter account for her cat.... i'm not sure what to think of that tbh... :s
Goodnight all, must go to bed as I have an early start tomorrow.
Night Andy
night Andy
It means she is weird
I worked Saturdays for 5 years, that was my life :D
Night.
night Andy!
oh dear...
I am off to bed too, have fun!
I'm going to go make some porridge because this Roddick match is sloooooow
@alisonalisonali is me apparently i had set this up on my email address before.... I tried to change it but it didn't work so well....
Night Neil
Night sleepers!
Night Neil. We probably need to arrange Sidepodpubbing SW at some stage.
she seems lovely... but that does scare me a little...
You should be able to change the name in the settings if you don't like it.
night neil
Too right Pat! Night!
I set it to private now but I'm not sure I like this solution. Can people still send you messages without adding you if it's private.
You won't be surprised to know there is a wiki page for twitter details. http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodcast+Community+on+Twitter
I just tried to stalk, I mean follow you and got a message saying you have to approve me so that part works
They can still send you normal @messages yes, but they won't be replies to what you've said because they probably can't see it unless they are an evil overlord.
I followed from personal a/c and got no message
Jumping to new daily...
I took it away. It creeped me out....
I meant instead of just clicking follow there was a box saying that I had to be approved
how so?
I don't know, it didn't seem very welcoming to potential twitter friends.... I might put it on again after I've worked out how the thingy works.
Just think of it as a way to txt the world.
You dont need to say anything personal or worth hearing about, but its usefull to just say random things and send messages to people that you know online
That's OK but remember to check up on who's following you as I found I got a lot of spammers who weren't either my friends or F1 related. I wasn't happy with them seeing what I was saying.
i'm totally lost by the need to protect tweets. how is it any less public than commenting here?
Like the size of cakes??
Yeah it's not. Although a list of everything I say does worry me to a certain extent... Similarly stalker ex-bfs are a lot more likely to find me on twitter than on here....
I also already had to remove a couple of people that looked a lot like online hookers....
I don't get it either, the spammers don't bother me because I doubt they actually look at their tweet page with their 900 people they are following. Until they start @ing me, which has never happened, I'll just let them stay there.
fait point.
Just saw this tweeted.
Attention it contains a cute baby animal and a certain person may want one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwMdE5z5KGw
It's not as anyone can see what's written here. I think the difference was that I could see who was reading my tweets and some were half naked women talking about their web sites that I would never want anyone to see. I was also unhappy that any of my friends or family would look at who was following me & see some of these things.
interesting. hadn't thought of that.
You dont need to use your real name, and you could use an anonymous email address like 5 minute mail
Every now and then you have to trawl through your followers and block some.
you do? oh.
why?
I mean the half naked people. I don't want those associated with my account so I block them.
not sure i've ever looked. maybe i should.
Same reason as I gave for protecting. One way is to protect & block as people try to follow as I do, the other is to let everyone see what you are saying but go through your followers and block the ones you don't want
suddenly I feel like the only person who doesn't care about them. I never look at my followers list.
i turned off emails alerts about two years ago. never pay any attention any more.
I dont either.... If any of them are that interested in f1 and cricket and us talk shows then i am very impressed!
I was tempted to block anyone describing themselves as 'marketers' because I thought they might be harvesting my tweets for their own uses. But then I thought actually maybe they just like racing stuff.
but i don't mind who follows me. i care who i follow and who i don't follow. but that's about all.
there's absolutely no value in anything i say on twitter :)
I am not greatly bothered. I look occasionally and block the porn spammers but beyond that the only thing I do is see if I can find someone who is following me who would be interesting to follow.
Me too, I've about reached my limit of people I want to follow too. I only use mine for F1 stuff, the only "personal" twitters I follow are SPC folk. Theres plenty of other F1 fans who follow me that I have no interest in following back because they tweet about their lives, which is not what I use twitter for.
I don't care who follows my personal a/c. I get touchy with my blog one because I'm trying to turn that into something.
You might miss out on things like awesome cake jokes though... :P
I generally dont look at hash tags or do searches unless something i specificity want to know is happening, so my following habits are pretty much limited to names other people tweet, or what i hear about here
I think that could be said about 99.9% of the whole of twitter ;-)
If its important it tends to be mentioned in the comments here anyway :D
hehe. just looked at the follow total. i'm not trawling through that list and picking people off!
I very rarely do any searches. I'm all about the 'word of mouth'.
does him following you mean we have to be nice to grosjean?
I found quite a few f1 people going through who 5livef1 follow
I bet he listens to the show...
Its quite likely he dips into the comments and lurks as well :D
Hi RG 2.0!
:)
am assuming he hit the follow link by mistake.
In case anyone missed it...
What do you call a giant cupcake?
A cake... (shamelessly stolen from jimmy fallon) Somehow he manages to tell jokes so badly he is actually funny.
pssh if I was a driver I'd totally be the 'google myself' type so no doubt I'd listen to you guys to find out what 'the fans' are saying.
I dont... think about it a few weeks ago he was probably following f1 like we all do. Sure he was in GP2 and on PK's shoulder... but i expect he has an ipod and it really wouldn't surprise me if he was a listener.
I only love Jimmy Fallon for this
I remember that, it was awesome!
have they had the reunion? I am a sporadic viewer...
I don't think they did it on the show but they did a photo shoot for People magazine that I commented the other day. Screech didn't show up :(
It makes me wonder... are there people in the paddock who are listeners? and how much did Joe's appearance contribute to that?
sorry, my brain can't deal with that.
Boo him... Its not like he is famous for anything else...
I expect it should be on soon then...
What I've discovered from IndyCar is that people in the paddock there are aware of bloggers like Pressdog and MyNameIsIRL (love that name), and podcasters. I know F1 has this reputation of being so far removed.. but are they??
..You better stop reading then :P
I wouldnt be suprised if there werent at least 7-8 drivers who listened.
They have to do a lot of travelling and repetitive workouts... when better to listen to a podcast or 2?
don't know. we know a couple of teams have listened in the past. red bull and a few others. i doubt they'd be regular listeners.
someone said that tremayning was being discussed at williams hq a while back. i suspect that's about all though. why would anyone inside the paddock listen to people who knew less than they did?
the paddock definitely know about bloggers, its how they get invited to go!
"aware of" is very different to "listener" though.
again though. a quick google will tell you that. it doesn't necessarily mean they "read" bloggers stuff. they just know how to find them.
Pretty cool.
I dunno. I'd imagine the 'grunts' who did the donkey work would because they probably aren't privy to a whole lot of info. PR people might to see how the team/drivers come across. I'm not saying the higher-ups would.
They are trying to sell to us. That is their business. Racing drivers and the top technical guys have big egos so will be curious what people say about them.
my guess is a team might listen to a couple of shows if there were considering starting their own. but who knows.
part of me would rather not know, to some extent.
Possibly, and possibly if they want to reach out for a tie-up or what have you.
From your POV I totally understand that.. the pressure would be somewhat different...
Look how many insiders found out about the Felipe Baby song. You probably got blacklisted when you started killing celebrities though.
:D
Killing drivers probably doesn't go down well with teams. No wonder they want you to share their ace videos.
That was probably the inadvertent posting on Autosport forum. Don't know who did that.
i did that after it kicked off though. i still have no idea what happened with it.
Did Rob not say dozens of people texted him about it?
ahh, those videos are fab. can't get enough of that postage stamp sized fun.
Why are they installing a GPS antenna on the ISS? Is it for the shuttle's satnav?
i forget. wasn't it 500 letters or something. if he said text, i'm pretty sure chrsitine would've requested that number.
Have they left you alone yet?
Maybe e-mail
Also they are F1 fans above all else, for that reason alone I imagine it got linked around..
That is massively impressive, you must have picked up some paddock people though that?
yep. three tweets and a strongly worded email did the trick.
we now know croftie and holly had listened to it. rob was played it by bbc tees. ummm, beyond that we know nothing.
the shell people had no idea what we were talking about :)
You have to think if that many people with Rob's contact details heard it half the paddock must have done. The F1 journalists were taking bets on whether or not Christine sang it
wel they do work around a lot of fumes :P
did you get an answer on the V in V-power?
as yet, no. will hassle again shortly though. all questions were sent that day.
They probably have a marketing team working on an answer.... ;)
:)
Unfortunately I missed the sidepodfilmclub event of Talladega Nights but oddly enough they air showing the same film in America right now! Live commenting with one isn't as good as I had hoped though.
Ryan,
We are on the 6th September thread
Ha, great! You can follow our comments in time with the movie though.
Thanks for highlighting that Alianora {Comment #733}
You're welcome, Steven :)