It is Saturday morning and I am already fifteen minutes late writing this daily post. Oops. Still, this is the first real day of my off-season, and I am determined to enjoy it. What about you? Meanwhile, here are some of the things we're talking about:
- Yesterday, we featured a little bit of Friday fun, just something to pass the time. Iain came up with a game and it was a great way to pass the day. If you haven't already, let us know what you think you'll never hear drivers say. If you've already had a go, then just wait until next week!
- There is all kinds of nonsense going on at Force India with the gossip abound that some of the FIF1 intellectual property may have been borrowed or suchlike by the new Lotus team. I can't imagine the proper Lotus name owners will be impressed with such headlines being associated with their brand.
- As pointed out by Alianora in the comments, Rob Smedley was given an honorary doctorate for his services to F1. Yay for Rob! Teeside University have seen what a great job he's done with Massa and offered him a Doctorate of Professional Studies for his work. I'm not biased about this at all, but it is well deserved.
That's all for now. There is no racing this weekend, which is upsetting for some of those who don't heart the off season like we do here at Sidepodcast Towers. If you spot anyone in distress, offer some support, and I will see you in the comments.
Does the ping have a hangover too?
Never mind the ping, I'd look at "weel deserved". :D Christine? ;)
Hi. I heart Rob.
Indeed you do. :D
i heart rob too.
i thought your affinity was with ted?
Bob? Bobby Smedley? ;)
I wonder if they played Felipe Baby when he was going up to receive it since it is his theme tune
NO!
Always Robert to me.....
A Buemi no?
No, that's a real NO.
Lotus seem determined to look serious. Well, they're hiring the right people (so far). From f1scoop:
Uh oh. Has she seen the (whisper) archive reference (/whisper) yet?
he'll be telling us they didn't in ten minutes
:D
shhhhhhhh
I think what you meant was #confidential
my opinion of f1 scoop has diminished considerably after speaking to joe. aside should be up shortly, you may make up your own mind.
Oooh nice teaser!
yes, i was actually about to ask that. do let us know when it's up.
been listening to more leo?
done.
just need to listen back to it. i don't trust logic after the last episode, so give me an hour or so.
itunes waits with bated breath
Ah. OK. In a "look, look over there" moment may I direct you to the wedding photos I mentioned below?
www.ajtaylor.com
Also, more proof of the existence of Mr C here:
http://ajtaylor.smugmug.com/Events/F1-Bloggers-and-Friends/7062837_RGKfF/1/452495715_YWCnW
you'll likely be asleep before it's up (or at least pretending to sleep)
I wonder if they played Felipe Baby when he was going up to receive it since it is his theme tune {Comment #9}
The ceremony isn't until November 27 (though the award has already been announced). It would be a great way of individualising the occasion :)
oi :P
true though
You make him sound like an otherworldly being. :D An alien, if you will.
Half an hour more and I'm home. Night trains take aaaaaaages!
he isn't? *mind blown once more*
just as well that my day has just begun.
:D :D
Oh my gosh. They are some beautiful photos! Your wife is gorgeous!
She's not my wife, these are pictures I took. I'll pass on the comments though :D
Booooo! I see now. Your name is not Liam presumably.
I was going to say that she didn't look gothic, or purple :)
Who is in those pictures?
ehehehe i wonder how long it would take...
I think his name is Andy Taylor....just guessing though
I spy a slight beard in that one.
It's a pseudonym, silly!
or is it?
I was captivated by the pretty lady in the dress.
i has a beard now. i'm far to lazy to share regularly.
Various people who came to the Karting in January. Steven Roy is here:
http://ajtaylor.smugmug.com/Events/F1-Bloggers-and-Friends/PAS9195/452499891_2RstH-S.jpg
All I get is a white page with a title top left and an Apple logo on the bottom. No pictures
*mental image blown*
Same here. Is it a slideshow widget?
Alianora & Christine
http://ajtaylor.smugmug.com/Events/F1-Bloggers-and-Friends/PAS9154/452496314_Bc24s-S.jpg
photographs should be banned.
totally
Hehehe. Same here when I saw that. :D
they reallly should
no, not at all - they're perfectly fine. :D
I thought he was the one in the glasses. That's all I'll say on that subject.
Steven does NOT look like that!
Perhaps you forgot the "incident" regarding last year's pics and Mr C...
I hearts young drivers without managers, i really do
...I can't remember any problems with last years...
Like fluffy???? :D
I have, actually... Can you refresh my memory?
He's 27 and I will stick by that. Nothing will shake me on this.
Sorry I meant this year's. Why was I thinking it's 2010?
He dosent count. Just because he dosent have "a manager" he still has minders
Someone who was there posted pics (presumably no-one here) of the event on their Flickr page and a few of them contained Mr C.
But I don't want to go opening that can of worms again, so I'd like to end it there if I may.
I personally love that I've trained you all to recognise someone by the name of "fluffy" That name was pre-"beard" and everything....
AHHHH! Now, I remember.
Bah. Try this instead:
http://ajtaylor.smugmug.com/Events/Hunnybeez/Elaine-Liams-wedding/
Fair enough. Still don't remember, but will not ask any further
No I strongly disagree. I really like to have a mental picture of who I am talking to...
I thought he was called flully because he's small and 'cute'
But you just opened it!
That works
i do too, but my mental image is always soooo wrong, but i like it that way
thinking of becoming one?
if you are, might i add, never look like willi weber. i'm 200% on that
I think it mainly comes from my desire to ruffle his hair. But yeah, it's the same basic idea. I'm not sure you get to patronise people who are older than you.... I'm certainly going to try though!
Alright, what I meant in that case was - I didn't want to take it any further than that. That better?
Hmm, that was a great advert for MobileMe. Ah well, Smugmug saves the day.
ha, ta. no i love them because they reply straight away....e.g, i've been trying to get an interview with a british driver who races in america who has a manager who i have to keep going back and forth between her and the driver. where as i just emailed a formula renault driver and within 5 minutes he'd replied on his blackberry!
Yes - and the bride is beautiful, indeed. :)
No, I really prefer to know what a person actually looks like rather than imagine it!
Yup.
depends. you go for a night karting. do people need to take pics, i don't know. we haven't decided if we're going this year, but i'm thinking probably not.
it depends. i dont mind if i know quite soon after speaking to them, so i know what you like, so my mental picture is you, but mr c, ive never met and so my mental image is AMAZING. he has a 3rd coding arm and everything
Might it be the same one who sent me a signed pic? You have to try and thank her in some way from me if it is ;)
i used to like that with myspace bands.
it's the same argument as knowing the stigs identity.
i don't want to know. i do not care.
some people do.
You're asking the wrong person because I come from a family of happy snappers!
my mental image of adam curry was better than the real one. (shudders)
yeah i can imagine.
im trying (im going for the make a huge goal thats probably unachievable but if i fail then atleast i'll have something) to get an interview with someone from every major single seater championship over the off season......
major.task
Eurgh I'm not a fan of photos in almost any circumstance. I say enjoy what you're actually doing not focus on capturing it for later.....
i read that as happy slappers!
The Stig I don't care about. But for you guys it's different because I talk to you on Skype. Else I probably wouldn''t be too bothered...
maaaaaaaaaaaybe ;)
hehe. you haven't been to our country yet - we're a country of happy snappers who always have a digicam in our bag at the ready. :D
Depends on the occasion ;)
my skype picture probably wouldnt help you...
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v239/176/35/667872554/n667872554_577031_176.jpg
right, I'm off to bed. See you guys later (probably this afternoon, depends how long I sleep)
adios
You're Jenson Button?
It is amazing the number of people who go to motor racing and never see anything because all they do is take photos.
see you sir.
Oh yeah, I met a Canadian tonight who might be related to Christine. She kept complaining to me that the cards dealt to her were RRRRRRRRRRRRRubbish!
yup. shhh, dont tell lou
#confidential
All the Formula Renaults + all the Formula 3s + GP3 and GP2 = HUGE task.
You should see my MSN pic. I'm Jeremy Clarkson.
night Chris
Well I'm not that bad of course. But a few pics at the right moment are always worth taking!
I'm going for...*clears throat*
FFord
FRenault
FPA
F3
F2
GP3
GP2
WSR
American Young Driver
Team Principle.
My goal is to have all by the end of the season
Night Chris
no, you can't be. it was you in front of the cling filmed vehicle wasn't it?
wasn't it? *waves hand in front of face*
I had better go too. The train is nearing Odense. See you all later ;)
or vids
see you Gavin
you're not at home?
Oh no!! Absolutely not!!!
nooo! darn!
i mean....no...that was..my erm...brother....egor
adios
Hello all
Well, if you're only doing all from all the FFords out there, and one from all the FRenaults out there, that should be relatively easy. The higher up you go, the less there are to choose from...
hey joe.
poker night. :D
Bye Gavin / Hi Joe
ahh, i had assumed wrongly.
hi Joe
generally the british series. oh and i forgot F3 euro aswell. I probably won't release them all as full interviews as i have a plan for something else i want to do, so will probably use them for that
have I missed the lamenting of the loss of Toyota and their beautiful car on the grid?
We are all distraught that we won't know what their 2010 livery would have been.
:)
That would be a shame.
Right, I must go to bed as I have an exciting day ahead of me watching the dismantling and rebuillding of a VW Beetle engine. Sadly it's not mine.
oops
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/s8001256-avi
fuunnn. im going to spend my day procastinating!
adios
:D
That was one of the best parts of the off-season. What about when they teamed up with Batman, was that not cool or what?
at the world series were we?
was it good?
yeah. except for the extreme sunburn. i saw the sun cream in the shop and laughed. oh how the tables were turned.
theres a vid i took of bff somewhere in the spc drop in the 2007 f1 car.
i was looking through them because i'm sure i videoed some of the racing action
#Forza3
What do we think so far?
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/4369/saubermerc1.jpg
you did that?
thats very cool
seconded
night Andy
Yup, just with basic shapes. It's amazing what some people can create just with square, circles and triangles along with other odd and obtuse primitive shapes.
This one might look complicated but really it's all the length and positioning of the lines. Once I've got that, I'm away ;)
I need to go to bed before the aside comes out otherwise i'll be up for another hour listening to it! Adios mon compadres!
night Jon
depends. you go for a night karting. do people need to take pics, i don’t know. we haven’t decided if we’re going this year, but i’m thinking probably not. {Comment #84}
Is there anything I can do to persuade you to come again? It would be a pity if you missed out simply because I messed up by not telling everyone about the anonymity thing :(
Night Jon
it was andy's pictures i was referring to earlier, and he did know and still published them.
will let you know though.
It was my fault that people didn't know about the anonimity not yours.
You are totally unrecognisable in that picture.
If everyone at the event had warning, they'd know that if they were they would need to make sure any were taken out of range from Mr C.
i know. i just find it annoying.
i find it more annoying than the chap who didn't know, if i'm honest.
it's an impossible situation, there is no answer other than staying indoors.
and we know the outside is bad, so i'm okay with that.
i should probably clarify, i just hate pictures of me.
it's not like i'm on the run and need to hide my face. i want to hide all of me.
It's just like any other phobia. Doesn't make sense to anyone else but clearly it matters to you.
#nothere
WANTED - MR C - For Crimes Against Ringo Star
#goneagain
:)
can't pictures be deleted from there?
So do I, which is why I created the bunny logo. I'm ok with a picture or 2, but I get where you're coming from.
I'm more so with my voice than with a picture though tbh
i don't like mirrors either. but, yeah, you're right.
best pic of me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidepodcast/525441574/
Love it!!
the dunlop bridge in the background no longer exists :(
First.ever.sidepodouting :)
and im gone, but properly this time
promise? i have an aside show with your name on it?
DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT MR!
I have to keep my identity hidden because I'm actually Santa.
i could hit publish right now...
heeeeeh!
everything suddenly makes sense
im gone!
ho ho ho
although its not secret really because here I am in the most magical place in the world
ooops.
whereabouts on the circuit was it?
i filmed this from the open bridge before stowe last year. i only like this though for the engine noises (renault 3,5)
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/s8001349-avi
donington. near the main straight. video here:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2007/09/06/video-16-gplive-2007/
ah for some reason i thought it was at silverstone. my bad.
i've been to donington a couple of times in the mid 90's. it's smaller than i expected it to be.
only went once, but it was a lot of fun. gillett has a lot to answer for,
i didn't have a camera with me at the first visit, but we went to see this car, and others like it in action.
http://drop.io/startledbunny/asset/mclarenf1-jpg.
Simon should hang his head in shame, along with B.E. who has been trying to get rid of silverstone for ages.
here's a working link
http://drop.io/startledbunny/asset/mclarenf1-jpg
Must go to bed now. I need to be up before 7am for Mr Argos and his 8 hour delivery window. Boo.
night all
night sir.
did i miss something? lee mckenzie is working for gpupdate?
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/news/2009/11/06/lee-mckenzie-s-end-of-season-review-2009/
also, slightly weird is gpupdate's concept of exclusive. given the same copy also appears on:
http://www.leemckenzie.tv/full_story.asp?pageref=49
News to me
must be time to sleep. catch you all tomorrow.
night mr c. ;)
Evening all. Just watches the Boston celtics play basketball. I am such a local already. I was swearing just as much as everyone else. My officemate won tickets in a bar by drinking budweiser. Not his choice but it worked well for the promo.
EURGH!
For some crazy reason I have woken up at this obscene hour of the morning!
You have been to bed already?
Yes. I was trying to make sure I got enough sleep for my big journey. I'm very paranoid about falling asleep on the train.
Expecting to wake up in Brighton?
I am home. I did not achieve much.
I have just finished work for the week. I did not achieve much :P
*shivers* too cold this morning :(
go to the airport and come pay me a visit, its 32 degrees and I just made a fruit salad :D
best. Offer. Ever :)
theres not enough strawberries for my liking because the ones I bought went mouldy very, very quickly. But other than that, it's a good one :D
I feel inadequate as I just went a bought one
probably much cheaper that way.
Not as nice and crunchy though I suspect. Ah well.
I treated myself to some fresh raspberries and they're currently $8 a punnet. Ouch.
It's the weekend...yaaaaay.
It is. And the aliens are attacking on the TV
um....okay...
Independence Day (urgh) followed by Deep Impact (double Urgh)
oh.
and War of the Worlds last night (urgh x3)
morning all... Alcohol is not my friend ...
been trying to download the aside for a while... my computer doesnt seem to know how to save mp3 files, it keeps opening them with media player 9 in the browser window.
this is then unable to stream the audio properly :(
Morning :)
solved by listening it to now... but was hoping to save it for the flight ;)
Have you trained yet?
No! I'm only just awake again after my annoying middle of the night awake time.
did you use it wisely or were too worried about the people behind the curtains :P
I don't spend my whole life cowering in fear you know..... The obvious logic is that if I don't look out and see them, they aren't there! But erm no I didn't do anything very productive. I watched some masterchef reruns :P
hehehe
Please dont tell me they were epiosdes you had watched before!
Its my last day here so i am debating what to do... skiing?
Maaaaaaaybe.....
Skiing is awesome fun. Is it fake snow presumably? I can't see those folks going in for the funny rug stuff.
Real snow :D
hahahaha!
oh dear!
No no no! It is not. I disapprove strongly of this!
hehe whats wrong with it!
its super cold in there :D
It's hugely environmentally unsound. Some people have more money than sense.
Morning everyone :)
its not too bad... the slope is in a mall and raises above it, using the cold air falling principle, it cools the whole mall..
I'm sorry but no way! I refuse to allow this to be justified. Just put the magic carpet down.
Morning Alex.
good afternoon!
Now you're just trying to upset me!
!!!
I was just being pleasant!
It is most definitely NOT afternoon. Anywhere.
look... http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/imag0106
see.. it all looks very nice :D
think of all the flights it saves on people not going skiing overseas!
Im not sure how i win this argument!
You don't I'm afraid. You're obviously confused.
I do like the idea of a global time system... unfortunatly at the moment its still 2:22
So why are you just waking up? It's clearly morning.
i have been up for 3 hours!
I even went to buy some yummy biltong
I guess they think adding pictures makes it exclusive ;)
hehe if alex comes along on monday you may not have a choice :D
NO!
you cant look that scary! :P
It's not that at all. I just find it strange.
I know what you mean... i am not a fan of it, it makes me really self concious... unless other people are more worried about it than me!
You mistake my objection. It's conscientious!
hehe you might need to explain that!
Yeah. I just don't get it. It's not that I dislike being filmed particularly, it's just. I'm not sure why anyone would want to film me.
ah.. but isnt that the smae as taking a photo?
You did well on your sidepodradio show :D people listened to that!
I don't sound like that though! At all. I'm really not sure where the Cumbrian accent came from. I have a generic non-accent that could be from more or less anywhere.
hehe i think the same...
so you have no discernable accent and no picture... finding you in the pub is going to be fun! :D
just to check with jackie (if she reads this) perhaps mr and mrs c or lou will confirm... we are meeting at 9am tomorrow?
Errrm if you think I'm going to be able to find a mystery pub unaided, I think you've severely misunderstood my navigational talents.
hehe. it a picture of her! :)
ditto.
is there any f1 news or can we claim the off-season is go?
Hehe I have mailed you ;)
It's the sidepodpub! It should have a Wikipage :P
Who else wants to come along? I think giggles is coming :D
So far it's a go.
Disaster movies are on TV
yes!
Armageddon!
Goood morning everyone.
Quite. Deep Impact, so there a comets, but no Bruce Willis. How will we survive?!
howdy sir. how's RG this fine saturday am?
I am good thank you. Wasting yet another lovely day outside :)
haven't even looked. we're having a john and yoko-esque lie in, but we're not sure what we're protesting about...
any suggestions?
You don't know? :P
Against being active?
In which case, it must be we're protesting against outside.
ahh yes. terrible place.
You'd think that would be helpful to me but I remain skeptical.... I really am very easily lost!
Anyhow. Time to go time. Have a good weekend peoples :)
ooh, joe's uploaded a sample of his "business of motor sport" news letter:
http://joesaward.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/bm0944.pdf
never be able to see that before. more:
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/a-weekend-off/
Good spot. I would not buy a subscription, but it looks like an interesting read
at that price we couldn't afford it, but an interesting read.
i think part of me likes to focus just on f1. i like being blinkered :)
I am playing Mr C the latest Media Future Change episode: http://mediafuturechange.com/2009/11/05/this-is-what-goes-for-news-these-days/
He can't get away with not catching up this time!
you have to focus on something, otherwise there would be no off season!
aha! that hadn't occurred to me.
There must be some time to watch movie about comets ;-)
i had sidepodradio for that.
steven says we're not looking hard enough.
Has Bruce Willis saved the world yet?
and having Morgan Freeman as president does not help if Bruce Willis is not on the case
somehow I get the feeling they don't get the same TV channels as us. Plus they have no TV.
No. Booo. I keep shouting at the screen but they are not listening
GP2 Driver Interview Setup?
Check
:D
This is easier than i thought!
Morning :D
I suppose they could lie in and listen to MFC :D
ha! the archives don't forget, i will remind you of this.
:)
#mediaguru
we could buy it on itunes and jump to the right point...
haha i know it wont always be this easy, but GP2 is the highest i'm going and i had to go through a manager and they still said yes! woop
I would have thought everyone knew that Bruce Willis was the go-to guy for world-ending problems.
bah, spending money.
Hi all. I just found out that Teletext is shutting down next month
Wouldn't you think?! Dont these people watch TV?
We haven't plugged the last one yet! Stop doing more interviews! ;)
you still use teletext?
#media.oldschool.change.
Tele-what now?
hehehe. i'll release a few but most i'll hold back, and i'm going to group the questions, then release some podcasts on different topics from driver experiences.....:)
Cor... you're so organised.
not often, but sometimes. It just kept flashing up on the screen...teletext is closing down...
in theory, but when it comes down to it, i'm really not ;)
Four podcasts and he's getting all edity and everything
morning all
Playing on GRID ps3 and there are some potty mouths playing today.
it's more like dodgem cars than proper racing.
i've never bothered with the "fit as many swears in one sentence as you can" game. someone on the game is though
Mr C, is there still a debrief tomorrow?
Oh wow Mr C really did click publish as i was going ;) boooooo (-urns)
:P
I have it on PC, but the framerate doesn't agree with my laptop...
There won't be a debrief tomorrow as we are going to this Mercedes thing.
...to kidnap Finns.
Ooh, when will it be (or is there even gonna be one this week?)
Plans unknown at the moment.
oh well, I'll just delve into the archives to keep me interested... ;)
Have you listened to the latest aside?
I think everyone should transcribe to pass time. I set a SPC challenge to get all the shows from this year done before next season ;)
no, I should.
But you do such a great job
I'm tackling Asides, theres still plenty more shows to go around :D
i had to give up.
i like playing with collisions on, but when it becomes a obstacle course, and people are actively trying to halt your fun, you have to turn the collisions off. i've found a suitable f3 race now. or so i think
RG got a mension! thats cool
i'd stay away from those archives unless you want to end up on the naughty step
Morning all!
Is the F1 review on Today?
Indeed 1pm BBC One.
Worth Watching?
Erm no idea I intend on watching though.
Summary:
sounds alright, but then they are good at making stuff sound good when its not always ;)
if its bbc end of race summary style then ti will be good :D
I think I will but I'll bet it's mostly about the off-track stuff!
I imagine it will be in a studio of some sort, so everyones happy ;)
oooh i know what i was going to tell you. I have a friend who was in the house band on stage at Abu Dhabi!
Joe said frankly, and I just typed the word "Franckly".
#blamechristine
ooh. awesome idea. i think we're planning to reward the effortss of transcribers come the year end. so there's still time to make a start.
will only work as long as you don't do a more shows between now and then :P
i'm happy to help but uni has taken over and i'm struggling to remain motivated with it.
he said "living the dream" too, i reckon he wants to be lewis ;)
F1 show just starting...
Indeed loving this start. Looks like the MP4-21 or 22 with those horns.
Why didn't they show the intro more often???
Ahh recycled footage...
No idea, they really should.
This montage is making Legard sound good.
Hello hehe something tells me this is going to be a nice hour of f1 :)
isn't that what a review is? ;)
Indeed it is all about Jenson ;)
they would do though...
I wonder... we used to really slate ITV for bias and yet the season review is called "Jenson's Glorious Year"
Its a "how can we make the most of the extortionate amounts of money we paid bernie to have this"
:)
...
could be worse, they could have called him Jenson button champion of the universe...oh wait they did ;)
Yeah but they are recycling the Valencia Intro... I would have thought they would have made a new one...
suddenly I'm glad I'm not watching.
i agree... but as i'm biased.... plus... it has been a bit of an amazing year...
They used it in Brazil as well. I'll try and get that first opening video and upload it ;)
It has. TBH it's not too bad at the mo...
it may change as the season goes on and red bull become dominant?
oh.. maybe not.. maybe thy'll concentrate on red bull next?
I doubt it. There was epic Jenson love all season, even when he stopped winning anything. I got a little sick of it, and I got a little sick of people saying how much better it was than ITV's Lewis love because I thought they were about equal.
We shall see - can you breathe at the moment lou? Are you recording thuis?
Someone make a note of the songs used?
I agree - but TBH as someone who holds a UK passport I didn't mind either way ;)
Journeyer did - they are using the same ones...
hehe er.. kinda :) and yes... :)
ah ok :)
Well... most of them...
as a non UK person it seemed like last year you'd get shunned if you liked Lewis, but this year you'll get shunned if you admit you don't like Jenson.
Wow there was overtaking in Australia :D
If you can't for some reason let me know and I will try and get you a copy...
The Lewis lying thing still makes me sick to my stomach ... that was very hard to tell people I am a Lewis fan and try and defend it even though he was completely wrong :(
i haven't really been a fan of Lewis and alot of f1 fans my dad knows didn't understand why i was supporting Jenson rather than Lewis.. because 'Lewis is obviously better'.. :( this year i've not noticed anything, but that's probably because i support the driver in question...
Yay Loonie mention :D
thank you :)
Oh yeah - Ted news!
Oh look a non-British driver after 29 minutes ;)
Lewis is not obviously better. They are very different drivers. Why do people have to compare the two?
because people see two british drivers racing... one winning and challenging for the championship, the other not.. they never really take into consideration the standards of the car.. ah well ;)
Well I like them both - and for very different reasons. However I will say that I think Jenson makes a better ambassador for the sport than Lewis does.
Ah Webber - he must be awesome because even though he's an Aussie I still like him ;)
Blah Blah Blah-ing!
Felipe Baby's accident makes me sick - I felt like May 1st 1994 on that day and people kept asking me why I was so sad!
what's this song called??? i've been wanting to know what it is for years...
booooooooooooooo
He never was supposed to come back. It was a shill to deflect from BMW leaving!
Afternoon all.
good evening :)
afternoon.... god i need more sleep. :(
Who here is watching the F1 review?
I slept from 3am until 12pm!
me
Long day?
wow!!!
me
long week... today has been alright.
I am, think I've just convinced my parents to get a wii ;)
So four people... wrong time or people aren't bothered?
not bothered. I feel like the season ended too recently to be reminded of it.
I am good at sleeping - I sleep on the train to work every morning. Saturday morning is sleep catchup day and I have mild man flu so I think it made me more tired!
Its just a repeat of everything from this year, including their clips.
Normally this sort of show is on at Christmas isn't it?
To me that's too easy - they should have made more effort making new stuff I think.
Exactly that.
So would you have watched it if it was on at Christmas, for example?
yeah.. early december? but then again ITV never used to produce these kinda race reviews and clips after each race... i personally don't mind watching them again.
Probably yes.
Hey, I'm not saying it's bad - this could be sold as a DVD - but I would have thought it would have been a 'new' programme rather than a remix...
Yay happy Rubens :)
yeah you have a good point.. for me personally this is just what i needed today :)
and yay that they are using a sigur ros song :)
What's the song during the points table bit?
not bothered.
anyone else noticed they completely missed valencia? ;)
erm... sounds like - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXG0YMv5Fvk
so long as it wasn't NYD, cause i always had a hangover when itv showed theirs.
Hopefully next year we won't have a silly shambles with Parc Ferme rules during Qually like we had in Brazil!
Poor Rubens not winning in Brazil :(
yay! it's daddy button! :)
I feel like I should be flying a Union Jack watching this bit!
...And I've got to stop, because I've got a lump in my throat ;)
I've just realised I'm live commenting as if it were a race weekend. Apologises if it's a bit too much!
Oooh I love this Florence and the Machine song!
don't mind at all. saves me watching it.
Watching one of the races the other day, i was sitting there thinking "im really looking forward to hearing the british nat anthem" and then realised that it was red bull, and although they are based in england, they are austrian. booooo
I forgot Kubica crashed with Trulli in China. Aaaaaaages ago.
Was it worth watching? Like, the first 54 minutes?
Well I thought it was very good and worth watching - however it's basically a remix of the BBC clips during the season.
okay i have much work to get done, so i'll be back later..... see ya! x
Right, is it just one hour of Button or is everyone remembered?
bye lou
adios
From what I saw, mostly Jenson.
Hey guys
#Forza3 - Just got my 6 free gift cars from Turn 10 - an A4 DTM, 2 R8s, a Camaro, an M3 and an RX8 :D
i have no idea what that means, but it sounds like you're having a fine saturday.
how is your saturday Mr C?
v.good. we have nothing to do today, except charge camera batteries.
shall probably spend it coding SPC.
mines already charged :D woop
Basically - I got free cars from the game's developers.
ccol. why?
damn you :)
any idea what the weather will be doing tomorrow?
They ran a couple of competitions - one where you had to post a playlist of 10 driving songs, and the other where you had to send them proof that you'd pre-ordered the game. Plus, just because I'm on VIP status as I have the collectors edition of the game, they gave all of us another two free cars as well. :D
http://metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/tomorrow.asp?zipcode=kt13
:(
Oh and it was everyone that entered both those comps that got the cars, not just certain people.
ooh actually, it may be ok. i should read the stats rather than look at the pictures
Ooh, driving songs.
fab day :)
sounds like fun :)
Yeah, it's a comp they did with Zune HD to try and compile a playlist. Anyone who just posted 10 songs they thought were good driving songs got the free Audi A4 DTM, which is dark grey with multicoloured stripes and such. Nice design, actually.
What were your songs?
Oh, and it has the Zune HD logo on it and also Forza Motorsport 3 written across the bonnet.
Oh lord, if I can my post, I'll put them here. So many people entered, it may take a while!
You could just make some up. I'll never check :)
Hehehe, true. I can remember a few of them, but I'll have a hunt and try and find my submission. I may be some time... :P
Aha! Found it!:
Kasabian - Underdog
Mutemath - Spotlight
Poets of the Fall - Lift
MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
Foo Fighters - The Pretender
Peter Gabriel - Steam
Black Crowes - Go Faster
Joe Satriani - Summer Song
Joe Satriani - Lights of Heaven
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
kenny!
No Queen!
I dont know any of those songs apart from the Foo's
I am now being subjected to Kenny Loggins.
That one song makes up for me not knowing the others ;)
I could only pick 10! :P But I do like "The Show Must Go On" so that might make up for it. :P
It's got me playing it as well. :P
in preparation for Finns? Don't forget the bribery!
hehe. do you likes our homepage?
I hadn't looked at it for a few days. But now I see! And I like the picture choice!
Regarding that playlist, I'd probably exchange the Peter Gabriel track for this instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFdn4YfihVc
Much better :P
righteo, I have a Europe Travel 2010 expo to attend tomorrow, so I shall hit the sack. Good night sidepodfolk :)
night amy.
adioss!
Hello. At Dad's using Chrome which I think got installed when he installed something else... IE7 is being terrible again.. (LCLT feedback - Chrome loads it as a single column)
Ikea plans cancelled due to lack of stock of thing mate wanted to buy (anywhere in the country..).
I have Sky here, RoC highlights are supposed to be on Eurosport I think but the channel has locked up!
but Eurosport 2 has lumberjack championships... i'm not kidding! no sound tho
dependent on screen size, no?
Ooh, trees and stuff?
are they wearing women's clothes?
Could be. My screen isn't that much bigger but he may be on a different resolution
Men on a stage with big chunks of wood, and axes
:-D
Agreed.
Kiwis normally do well at this ... we do have a lot of trees and forestry people!
Right, off to the outlaws to set up their new laptop and get free dinner. See ya's later ;)
Outlaws? Is that different from the inlaws?
No, it's the same thing. Bad habit I picked up from an ex-colleague :(
;)
hi sidepodpeople, is there anybody out there? ;-)
heeeelllllllloooooooooo
Hello! How's guille?
Hey
:D
Just skimming through last night's comments and was amazed Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure wasn't the immediate response from everyone, it was mine before I'd finished reading the question
Ah, it is your turn to have an affinity with Mr C.
Does that mean I have to be anonymous?
actually, very upset. I've just come from the rally (or should I say 'pseudo rally'?), after 4 hours of wait in the cold and the wind to see only 13 cars once, because a coward has decided that his small chances of winning the championship where more important than a couple of thousand of people waiting in the road :-(
what? whats happened?
you have to change your name too.
'cos everyone know what it is? hmm.
that doesn't sound good
I vote Mr P.
Anyone think they have problems passing their driving test?
You really dont compared to this person...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8347164.stm
yo yo
Mr T, after my blog, and I ain't gettin on no plane
ups and downs?
Perfect.
I'm glad I didn't have to change my name the other day when you told me that ;)
hi lol
whatever you do, don't call yourself Chris. There are so many of them, i get confused
hey, rcc.
i've been lurking for weeks, been busy lol
is ye all caught up now?
hopefully, depressed weeks until testing
nah. you don't want to be like that. much enjoyment to be had. dd you take part in friday fun?
friday fun?
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/11/06/friday-fun-things-drivers-would-never-say/
The 1st and 3rd specials of the day were going to be run in a very fast (and beautiful :-) ) asphalt road. The place is a typical tourist circuit in Bariloche, in the woods, with many turns (both open and tight), sometimes at the border of a lake. In short, there was a lot of excitement for those specials, not less because it was going to be the first asphalt specials in the history of the rally (always run in gravel as most of this edition). Needless to say, there was a lot of people there, many of them since 6 or 7 in the morning, with 3 or 4 ºC and wind.
First pass and nobody can say that it wasn't up to the expectations. It was marvellous, the cars going from one side to the other of the road, most of the time flat out. Unfortunately, the 14th car went slightly out of the road and crashed two cars parked. Nothing serious, he just lost his back bumper, but that prompted the cancellation of the special. Fair enough.
Second pass, the 000, 00 and 0 cars go through the road; but the first racing car never appears. After a few minutes the radio gives details: the special wasn't going to be re-run. It was raining (slightly) in the first km of the 8km special (sunny and dry in the rest), and some drivers had requested to cancel it for security reasons (nobody had rain tyres although Bariloche is known for its rainy springs!). And who was the leader of the revolt? None other than the guy who is running second in the championship and was seeing his possibilities come to zero after the guy in front had taken from him 10s in the first two specials, 6 of them in the one they were cancelling. To put it mildly, the local organization of the rally and the fans are not happy with this guy (and more because the probable champion is from here).
The funny thing is that this 'driver' that claims security reasons is Federico Villagra, who you must know from his WRC outings this year. For me (and probably half Bariloche) he has lost all the respect that had gained during the WRC races.
I've been a bit down this week but I don't know if that was end-of-season blues or something else. Anyway you can't feel bad until next weekend, that's when the next GP would have been.
Fair enough although I'd have just moved the cars..
i'm re watching the season to pass the time, Got the races onaboard so watching it from that perspective
booo, thats not fair
Tactics then? Pfft. If it was fine and safe to run, they should have done so.
Evening.
At the Outlaws just setting up the new PC - hope this works OK. it's a 17" Laptop and it's MASSIVE!
there was a person inside one of the cars and they had to evacuate him (nothing serious)
I've had food, and now I'm back. Did I miss anything?
Ah ok
I prefer Mr P actually. Or 'him'. :-)
rcc's depressed, guillie's upset and gavin's got back ache...
i think?
the guy who's running first is using now some conciliatory tone and says that he would have waited a few minutes more for the rain to stop, but at the moment he was pushing to race.
oh yeah, we've renamed pat.
not a great deal!
im happppyyyy (ish)
cool
:D
Having my regular Saturday 3pm heart attacks.
really? To what?
Mr P.
I don't have a significant other to be named after.
Mr C and I thought of the same film, although I did so a day late, but I hadn't read ahead to the right answer yet so it counts.
ok this is a bit eery i may have to change back
:P
I'm going to get confused so easily.
No you should come. Don't have to bother with Autosport show.
I'm going on a trade day this year. Very excited
back shortly..
Justdo a stig and not take your helmet off
tried that last year.
erm...balaclava? (I'm running out of ideas here...)
Didn't you get confused with Steven?
Which can only mean one thing....
:D
Tell me about it, I was mortified!
All of them???
ummm...yeah
Going to be a fun off season for you then!
So far i've got GP2, Indy Lights and a possibly another F2 sorted, along with a FRenault driver
Impressive! Are you doing Atlantics and Star Mazda or are they out of scope?
I need to plug your show too, will do at some stage.
Love that video!
I haven't really thought about them i guess, i only planned on doing 1 american series but i will put it on the list. The worst that can happen is they'll say no
I've been to Donington three times for BTCC. Great place to just wander around from vantage point to vantage point, some bits up close, some bits giving a wider view. It needed modernising but now it may have been ruined.
Hello all, hope everyone is OK. Just wanted to let people in the UK know this month is Will Aid which you can read about at http://www.willaid.org.uk/ Basically, you go to a solicitor to make a will, the solicitor gives their time for free & you then give a contribution to Will Aid who divide it up between the charities they support. The site will let you know if there is a participating solicitor in your area. I think that everyone over 18 should have a will, it makes dealing with an estate much easier at a very difficult time, even if you don't think you have anything to leave.
I don't know much about them but they seem an interesting alternative for those looking to get to Lights/IndyCar.
yeah, i'd only really heard of atlantics before Christo won Star Mazda, and then someone posted a link to a Lights driver...
it's something i'd like to learn about, my knowledge of american racing is terrible
I completely agree, I had one made up recently because a company had some sort of offer on.
I can't say I've paid attention to anything other than IndyCar. I tried to dip into Lights this year. It doesn't help that Atlantics was very closely aligned with Champ Car. Frankly its amazing it managed to keep going since CC died. This year it had no TV and no publicity to speak of which is ridiculous given how long it has been running. Read www.openwheelworld.net.
So the Computer works - bloody hell it's quick!
Does anyone know a good resource for Windows 7 tweaks?
I'm looking forward to hearing stuff from the sub-GP2 level actually, it can be really hard to keep up with it all.
Sub-GP2 i'm going for F3, F3 euro, FRenault, FFord, FPA
Sounds good to me
Ahh that'll be why I always missed it :-)
I did and I enjoyed it, which I was surprised about given the title. Yes it was JB-led but you had to expect that, just as you had to expect ITV's to be Lewis-led last year. The difference seemed to be that the BBC (eventually) got around to talking to and about some other drivers.
They forgot Force India's quick spell though.
*waves*
Hullo
Lukeh! How're things?
Hello Lukeh. Has anyone linked to this yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETMRup3rgH0 Los MiniDrivers Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. I love the crown on Jenson :)
Has been a day to forget but I'm hona, thats what matters :)
I'm also home, whatever hona is. As may you can tell I'm tired. :(
Hey
hi lukeh
haha, thats awesome. Love hte Tim bit too
Love the last picture of vettel and tim!
GRRRRRRR WHY DO YOU INSIST ON CONTINUALLY SETTING OFF THE FIRE ALARM!! GRRRRRR
Welcome to halls.
Evening all. Anyone want to see what I've been up to today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvYJpbUdIJo
This is our 5th apparently, which isnt too bad i guess. It's just annoying they have to do it a) whilst im here b) whilst im in bed c) meaning i have to get properly dressed to go outside d) whilst working
Our halls matron person (can't remember her actual title) set of a campus wide fire alarm at 6:30 am one morning, to hold a meeting warning us not to wake everyone up early in the morning!
hahaha, how ironic!
After our first official one (i.e set off by the uni not people around here), we got told that we all had to be out in 2.5 minutes, and it had taken 6 so lots of us would probably have been dead
thats very cool!
hey andy
We were all sitting there in stunned silence throughout!
It was flipping cold though.
yeah i bet!
i've stayed indoors all day (apart from a brief 2 minutes outside because of a fire alarm)
I need some help for any sim racers out there.
We're running a fastest lap competition at the university, so someone pays £1 to do 3 laps and we record their fastest and give them a prize.
So we need a ps3 game (we'll probably hire it from Blockbusters or somewhere) but i need to know the best game for it...
One that we can set to a test run and then just let the people run the laps and then we take whatever it says the fastest is. I guess that most do, but anyhelp would be appreciated?
I've stayed indoors all day apart from 5 minutes driving my sister up the road. Nice and warm here.
err, 'in here'
Sadly, the PS3 is the console I know least about. Is Grand Turismo out yet?
Theres GT5 prolouge i think. I think we need scott!
SCOOOOOOOOOOOOTTT!!!!
Nope not out till next year.
I would maybe guess Need For Speed Shift... I don't ahve it but Scott does so you;re better off asking him if that's as good as people seem to say
Bye people, I won't be using the Internet for a whole week (this is for a bet
- I can't believe I will have no Sidepodcast for a whole week... :( )
boooo. not sure its worth the bet to be honest!! byee
Bye and good luck! See you on Monday! ;)
correction - next Sunday morning!
if I'm getting £10, then hell yeah!
harsh!
Squeeze out at least £40 quid for that.
Honestly, £40 is leniant. I'd go for £50 and the new F1 game.
Good luck with that, you crazy fellow!
before you go, have you seen this?
http://xkcd.com/597/
There isn't enough money in the world to make me give up the internet.
confession time: i'm watching the N sport ;)
netball? ;)
Same. If you'd ask me say 5 years ago i'd do it, but i plan, talk, communicate, do pretty much everything on the internet.
Maybe even get Timo to drive me to school. And have Kobayashi as a teacher, at least it will be excting.
hehe the one that we do not speak it's name.
umm....Needle finding....part of the haystack games?
we need more sports beginning with n really
the one where they go left, left left, left, rinse, repeat.
i see a sidepod game :) Nordic skiing
left left left left?
OH!
ummm, n-ice hockey. Basically ice hockey's poor sister, without the fighting.
yeah that one. i just got back from the shops - i moved into my apartment about 36 hours ago so had to do the setup shopping experience. lots more to go but taking a lunch break and don't have a tv and felt like watching sport on a weekend lunch break and found this.
it could be worse i guess.
not sure how. but there must be a way
:) that would never work. i would never watch. i don't like violence, but when it happens on the field, then sometimes it's different!
i plan to go see the Boston Bruins play ice hockey soon. Saw the Celtics lose last night - I am such a local already.
not sure. was chatting with an american girl last night who caught herself watching N once. and accidently enjoying it.
Our local team (Vipers) are top of the Elite league. Am rather smug with the rest of my ice hockey friends in Britain (Currently at 0)
:D
heheh. I was channel-hopping the sports channels earlier and Nottingham were playing Edinburgh. I counted maybe 20 people in the stands, although the cameras were cropping quite tightly to the rink..
Saw a guildford flames match once. Great fun to watch!
do you ever go watch? i used to watch icce hockey in australia - i had this great spot right about the goal. and it was free because it was inside a shopping centre and you can stand at the top of the escalators. then they changed the design and you couldn't see for free :( the seats inside were not as good as the free spot over the goal. very abu dhabi :)
Saw that, was a good game.
I'm incapable of making decisions.
My sister is now staying somewhere else. This means I can go home (15min drive), but I'd have to come back in the morning to feed the cats. I am trying to work out if I can be bothered to move, bearing in mind all the interesting stuff is at home.
move.
Excitable Canadian guy on commentary. Looked fast-moving and exciting but I didn't really understand it so moved on.
I say move too
I try to, but sometimes its inconvient. As in last night we played but I couldn't go as I was doing over things. We have a youtube channel which helps with that.
yeah life is like that :) You need to organise the rest of things around sport.
I do that with some sports. Just unfortunatly life comes before ice hockey on my list.
I should add that there is Sky Sports here. Not that there is anything on but that's not the point.
But I think move too.
move. you have the net at home right? therefore you have whatever sport you want.
fair enough. I'll let you off :)
This means you can watch...
*looks at onthebox*
...International rugby/Spanish football/WWE 'Bottom Line'....
But rugby league is awesome. (Following sentance may possibly contain spoilers).........but England are winning.
He also has the choice of overpaid drama actors falling about in silly places in front of a big crowd
Also, the WWE.
:)
V8 Utes are on MotorsTV.. they are crazy
I can't tell the difference between the two types, except one has more sponsors.
:-)
:D
two types of what? The English and the other team?
league and union
we should education you. but we won't :) i like both codes but a slow game of union is torture.
i meant educate. i was speaking american.
Hello :)
I'm just popping in quickly to say I'll meet the others going to the Mercedes World thing about 9-9.15am tomorrow morning. I'm picking up Jon too.
Got much to do this evening, gotta run. byeeeeeeeeeee xxx
Have a great timo tomorrow!
Ur, great time. RG has clearly gotten into my mind.
Hi! If you can text me to let me know roughly what time you'll pick me up that would be great! Thankkkkyou :)
Have fun!
Hehe :P
Dum, de, dum...
Have fun those who are going tomorrow.
Hi Jon, I'm thinking about 8am? will give you a call when I am exiting motorway.
Sounds great. Thank you :)
okay really have to dash now, a womans work is never done LOL :D
I'm off to get food and head home (fancy a Chinese, hope takeaway is open ;-) )
Adios!
see you later pat. now i'm watching the league instead of the N thing. then i"m off to go buy plates.
Good man. and bye Pat!
there's only so many lefts a guy can watch.
Must have been the Nationwide series as well?
maybe but i can't say i know the difference.
A little preview into what you can expect from me over the coming months;
http://bit.ly/2uNDWV
yay :) i've just come back from the station and have my tickets for tomorrow.. 6:30 train though.. so i've got to be up at like 5:30.. i may be a little tired.. :D
Wooop!! I couldn't get a train to be there on time, so Jackies picking me u as im on her route (ish)
It's gonna be funnnnnn :D
*up
awesome :) lots of lovely train journeys means lots of time for work :) which is good for me. I'm charging my camera battery and getting things ready atm :)
im going to get lens evny arent i?
just don't forget your battery or film cards. anything else is a luxury...
okay with the league just about over, i will say my goodbyes and head off to the shops for the third time. speak to you all some other time - maybe in 2 hours even
ahaha maybe... my lenses aren't that huge though.. i'll be getting huge lens and career envy when i see the pros though..
hehe by the time i go to sleep everything will be packed up in my bag, because at 5am i'm not going to be in the mood to do any sort of organising things.. lol
the camera i've managed to get off hte university is...
http://www.photographyreview.com/channels/photographyreview/data/images/C_5060_test.jpg
so the answer is yes, im going to have huuuuuuge lens envy
:) have fun everyone. shopping time for me now.
byeee
aww that's kinda cute.. :P
:P
byeeeeeee. Celebrate the win...
byee :)
my camera is "cute"
my life just gets better :P
heheh!
The best camera I have is on my phone, and even that's rubbish. It has a fake shutter!
...I like the fake shutter noise :(
hehe i don't :P
It's all I have!
i suppose it's better than nothing.
evening everyone :)
i think its going to be a case of "looou, can you make my camera work properly pleaaaaaase"
;) :P
howdy hey
hehe :D can't wait ;)
ooh i need to buy rolls and stuff for tomorrow. trip to sainsburys!
back in a bit!
hey
you bought it on yourself with "aww thats cute" :P
that's a point.. hmm... *thinks about what she has in the cupboard*
see ya :)
going to regret this i know just know it. but there are pictures of me on my blog regarding my hair ;) http://alwayslookingforward.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-hair/
and now I will go into hiding after posting pictures of myself on the internet.
I know a supermarket that ahs rolls on offer at the moment
;)
we dont have one of those :(
I shall have to send one on tour then
you've went from Trulli to looking like my science teacher...?
I have? Oh dear. :)
I lasted 1hr 17mins before I cracked. Is that a problem?
did you see the comic I posted as you were leaving?
I lasted a whole week, and it happened to be on a race weekend :P
Welcome back by the way
where is it? Link please!
I salute you.
Join the club.
http://xkcd.com/597/
note: swearword on last panel
me all over...
I think most of us unfortunately...
it's hard to remember a time when I DIDN'T have Internet....
I still remember being a kid and having to get permission from my parents to use the modem, as we wouldn't have a phone line! I miss the dial up noise...
How does the friend know if you haven't been on the internet?
I blogged about it as well, I'm too lazy to go find it right now.
Bunch of lazy pluggers
http://f1loonie.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/6-my-internetless-grand-prix/
they should have that noise everytime you go
to your homepage.
hehe I wasn't expecting that, thank you RG :)
he saw me crack up....darn I just lost £10...
That would be awesome!
Gah. Manage to get yourself out of paying a tennner. I managed to get myself out of paying £7 for a whole year.
More on that later, tis dinner time.
Apparently Mr. Waldock required my help earlier?
i like how that lasted about? 5 hours?
i did.
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/11/07/daily-7th-november-2009/#comment-582528
ta
read, and commented. I salute you. I remember the times when I didn't go onto sidepodcast for the race (Brazil...) and it felt...empty. I had no one to talk about the race with. But now I have! Yay!
1hr 17mins
haha classic. was it a parent bet?
Bon appetit, RG!
Parent and friend...mmm...
Aha, right then.
Only decent racers I can think of on PS3 are GT5 Prologue and F1 Championship Edition.
Of course, if you were going to use a 360... ;)
I was strangely excited because I had no idea what was going on and it was a very eventful weekend. I did miss sidepodcast though...eventually ;)
Fraid not. The uni only has Ps3's and Wii's and they are free to hire, so we're gonna stick with them
When is it? If it's in 2 weeks time or more, you could see if you could borrow F1 2009 for wii
yeah. None of my friends or family like F1 like I do, so finding the comments have made my f1 'experience' much better.
Good call!
Ooh, wait I forgot that Need For Speed Shift and Dirt 2 are on PS3 as well as 360.
It comes out in the UK on 20/Nov/09
yeah it has crossed my mind.
sorry, wierd moment there, chris talking about f1 09 on wii. hehehe
not sure when we're oding it
I meant when is Jon's event
my family kind of watch, but will make comments that show they don't watch a lot. or wonder how quali works each time they see it ;)
my friends just berate me because i support alonso over hamilton.
Same day as Left 4 Dead 2 and Assassins Creed 2...
RIP Lukeh's Wallet :(
...?
you think you have it bad?
my lecturer for "Applications of sport science to MOTORSPORT" thought that the grid positions were drawn out of a hat, she had no idea that qualifying existed!!
Don't forget COD: Modern Warfare 2. I didn't think about having a look at it but after seeing the trailer, my god it looks good. There's even missions in space on this one!
I know that, I was just adding to your F1 09 comment. :)
hehe its a long story
!!!
ok you win. :P
yes, yes i do :P
I think I'm the only 360 owner who ahs absolutely zero interest in it
rFactor is what I use for F1 09...much better! :)
Wahhh.
Personally I like the Modern Warfare side of COD rather than the whole WW1/WW2 games. That period in history is so overused in FPS games it's not even funny any more.
Hehe, tell me about it. MW1 had a superb campaign mode but I didn't get into the online at all. Whilst Mw2 does look like a polished experience, there's nothing about it that makes me want to rush out and buy it immediately like everyone else I know and the apparently 6 million worldwide preorders that it has! I'll just wait for a while before I get it
I like that idea
'Pole position, Jaime Alguesuari. Second place, Kazuki Nakajima....Eighteenth, Kamui Kobayashi, Nineteenth, Lewis Hamilton'
That's exactly the reason why I didn't go for COD: World at War and stuck with COD 4. To me it was just another World War game.
it would make it more interesting granted. but the idea that the simplest of simple things to do with motorsport, that my lecturer dosent know, just adds to my dislike of it
We have just found Bibendum! Woohoo!!
yeeeeey
Phew!!
Yay! where was he?
Tucked safely away in a box we hadn't opened yet.
yay!
Is it bad that the thing i'm most excited about tomorrow isn't seeing the Brawn, or the Mclaren, or even the DTM car. I'm most excited about seeing the F3 car.
What a wierdo ;)
i'm more than excited about seeing the brawn for the both of us ;) so i wouldn't worry :P
awesome, i'll be F3-excitable for you too ;)
I'm also very excited because i've bought wotsits and monster munch for my lunch. havent had them in years!
Good evening
wotsits AND monster munch? wow.. lol
evening.
multipack win!
evening joe
okay... i need someone to be on 'shooing' duty please??? i need to get some more work done before i sleep.. thank you!!
i'll be back in a few hours (hopefully not before)..
byee! xx
SHOOOOOOOOOO!
Shoo!
;) bye!
shoooo..... meh, i don't do it as good as steven. byeeeee
Hi Joe
see you in a few hours and beers
In the airport, hopefully I just dropiod a tobbacotastic f2007
woow retro
Am I still meeting Jackie and the rest that are going tomorrow at 9 @ weybridge station?
9-9.15
Yup, when are you landing? or are you back in british land?
I went to the Chinese import mall this afternoon, its a gadget lovers paradise. Some really odd stuff! Can anyone explain the vehicle I just dropiod?
landing at 6.20 tomorrow!
car tyres on the back, bike tyres on the front. its like a trike but not
ouch!
don't tell bassano, but i'm navigating to brooklands via heathrow.
it must be a constant in my life.
9:15 i think.
do you need somewhere to park? Or are you going straight there?
cool... I hope I'm not dancer....
assuming there will be parking at the station?
and then get the shuttle?
think so. what say you?
i'm doing what i'm told :D
using google maps, it looks like there is enough parking around the station, unless lots of people have the same idea as you :P
KT13 8UD
*is not here* i'll be at the station from around 8:51 (tis the nearest time to 9-9:15 i can get there) so i'll be the one in the corner listening to her ipod clutching a camera :P
*runs away again*
SHOOOOOOOO
ah good point, I'm only a few stops away.... very nice of f1 to be following me around the world :D
doohickey is about to be X-rayd!
:P
Website says parking is avaliable when you get there (as well as the station)
SHOO!!!!!!!!!
I said shoo
Evening all
ite ;)
Evening
Hellllo Mr Roy
At last I can stop faking that English accent every week
Looks like I killed the conversation.
#blamesteven
Hi Steven. How was Saturday for you?
^^ i miss that ;)
Evening.
Four hours configuring and installing stuff on my inlaw's new computer.
Why? Because they forgot all the damn codes!!!
Very quiet. Normally I go out to a football match and offer the referee the benefit of my advice but the team had no game today.
Hi Gavin
:D
:D
:D
Hi Gavin
Hey guys. Need to de stress!
I miss doing that. I remember my uncle used to go out to the half way line and just shout at the ref for 90 mins.
#sidepodspace
I saw a comment earlier on about space rocks not being tracked. NASA instead seem to be tracking tiny pieces of debris that are no harm to us down here but are hazardous to the ISS crew. Tough choice I suppose. Find big rocks that could wipe out life on the planet or track 5cm pieces of metal that could never reach the ground
Pudding is the answer. Stressed backwards gives the clue.
btw, i'm really disappointed that TWiT listeners didn't get my oh-so-subtle "free pre-us" one liner in this mornings aside post.
Had dessert already!
Grrrr.
]
Have more?
I still don't understand it.
That's because it was rubbish.
Ooh, I like that!
join the club
rats. neither did christine.
"free pre" is the phrase arrington was taunting leo with, before he got thrown off the show. joe got a free prius.
i'm wasted on you lot.
Surely it should have been free-pri then?
Everyone likes pudding
You need to sleep more.
Ah that thing. Still don't understand why he got so mad!
Actually it should be free pré
:D
He explained it to me and I looked at him blankly, but he was determined that someone would get it.
uh oh. just discovered a pub next to the train station..... ;)
you've all let me down.
Well I didn't see it till this evening! So I didn't let you down this morning
....I let you down this evening. ;)
Leo goes out of his way to maintain his integrity and independence. He has turned down advertising from Microsoft and Apple so that no-one can suggest his reviews are influenced. He was given a review model for a couple of weeks and after spending years building his integrity some pillock who Leo was probably paying to be on the show said that the only reason he was saying he liked the phone because he had beeng loaned it.
Clearly there was some tension between them before and this was just the tipping point.
Damnit. Now I've played with a faster computer mine seems so slow and awful. I have tasted the crack and I think I like it :(
I doubt Ariington or Leo would get it
This is why I shouldn't have gone into the Apple Store and played about with a Macbook pro
did it have cs4 on it?
it did...
it was like my creative dreams started jumping around my head sing ala disney cartoons...
Interesting post from Joe expanding on a point he made in the Aside
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/why-ferrari-is-tough-on-the-small-teams/
More spam on dropio. I really should stop putting it there. :D
can you see ferrari bailing on fota if the get a bernie-sweetener?
:P
Ferrari has always been on the FIA side in all disputes until the past year or so. They have had all sorts of special deals over the years so it would be no surprise if they screwed over the other teams as they have done many times in the past. In the end it depends what Domenicali is really made of.
Getting on the plane... see you at the other end... can't wait!
safe flight.
byee!! safe journey!!
I thought you were staying in middle east for a while
i think the weaker fota become, the more likely it is to happen.
Guys in spooks trying to out run a car....silly people
It will be interesting to see if McLaren, Red Bull and the like try to keep the small teams in.
Unless Piquet is driving
or badoer
Granted they were still by its side in 4th gear, it was a Pug 106
RG and Lukeh,
Is it worth staying up for MOTD?
For the people earlier talking about modem noise...
http://www.lazylaces.com/56Kmodem/
i heart spooks :)
and before people do their job and tell me to shoo...i've done my work for this evening :) just a little left that i'm doing on the train tomorrow to help pass the time, and that's only reading :)
Night all...
Ummm, there were quite a few goals scored today considering there were only 5 games.
Without giving them away I only know the scores, working all day. But they sound like good games based on that. No idea if theya ctually were mind.
.
SHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*sigh* good times...
Byeeee!
Night Lewis
Night Lewis
*cough* read the rest of the message :P
SHOOO!!
;)
but i've done my work...
through back to the awful days of dial-up
I always, as a child, looked forward to hearing that bleep...
You're allowed. I am chief shooer, and I say you can stay. :)
How do I know that isn't just a ruse?
bah. hi lou
It's a saturday night, give the girl a break! :P
Awww, was hoping you'd miss the 'r' from 'shooer'. Chief shooe just sounds, odd.
And back to thingy.
Why does everyone miss the wink pointing out it's a joke?
yay :) I (heart) Christine! :)
I assume thats what Jean Todt would call the Commisioner of F1 if he were to choose his Ferrari son ;)
Not that he will. of course. I am not jinxing it.
cause i've got to wake up at 5am tomorrow and i can't afford to have a late night :) plus i'm still here commenting.. not feeling any homework guilt :P
hehe i saw it... thought i'd clarify for Steven though :P
Evenin' all.
Did we already know the title for this year's F1 season review DVD?
http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/11984423/-/EnlargedImage.html
"Not in a hurry"
Horrible title no? :-)
I didn't realise you had to get up as early as that. No fun on a wkkend getting up in the middle of the night
And thats meant to mean what?
That has to be fake
blame Brawn... and Jackie for giving me the ticket :) hehe it will be well worth it i feel :)
Last years wasn't that great either - "Luck doesn't come into it"
I am sure it will be worth it
I prefer their Johnathon legard special edition
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/legardreview-jpg
:D
Nice one.
Even AUTOSPORT had a go it him in their review of the BBC coverage. You know it's bad when they put something like "Legard doesn't get it" in there.
I'm guessing he's contracturally not allowed to say "unless I'm very much mistaken"
Haha :D
Meanwhile, Trulli is "not surprised" that Toyota is leaving F1. He's probably blaming Sutil.
Good work! :-D
okay sleep time for me. i'll see a few of you at around 9 tomorrow then :)
night all xx
Night!
byeeeeeeeeeeeee :D
Night, have fun tomorrow.
Night Lou. Have a great day tomorrow
have a super awesome time tomorrow :)
Have a good one!
Is it like in Diagnosis Murder, with the rollerskates?
Why do people always have to die in spooks? I wish there was just one episode where everyone was alive, and all happy and smiley at the end.
BOOO
I've uploaded my current 3 completed Forza 3 paintjobs into an album on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35754185@N08/sets/72157622631767741/
It's like dr who. Someone has to die each episode!
I may have done a few more taglines...
Luca badoer
Trulli!
Valencia...
Marathon man...
Smile, Jenson!
he who shall not be named
Soap Opera
Lou!
Well of course
Thats not the point?
:D :D :D
You have way too much time tonight! Nicely done though!
oh i know, but a nice man died for no reason. they should be nice to the nice people
All fantastic :D
So yeah, I changed location and had a very nice chow mein with a Guinness and good stuff on telly. Now I've come back to annoy you all some more.
:D
:-)
Just saw a TV ad for the Palm Pré but it is not free
I have SoCo, lemonade and lime. In a can.
Coke, a few biccies listening to the boxing. Great evening.
Is that the David Haye vs the monster fight?
The sell it inna can?
Packet of Monster Munch, Packet of Wotsits and a nightclub report. Boo
Yep.
Yup, found it in Waitrose. Also got a can of Gordon's gin and tonic. Amazingly, I've never tried it.
Choccy and MOTD for me ;)
You can watch it here
http://www.channelsurfing.net/
I also had a bowl of Mature Cheddar flavour Kettle Chips.
Oh and I'm on Forza 3. Big surprise...
oh I'm nto watching MOTD. FA Cup highlights for me
Tis a sad day when a man no longer mixes his own gin!
Well, its finished now so. Radio was fun to listen too :D
Ah. I'm not a fan of gin. I have switched to Old Speckled Hen.
Love the poppy symbols!
I didn't realise it was on so early. Just found the result
I'm in a stupid mood....
if something goes from 4144 to 8386, is that an increase of over 200%?
Thats like just over 100% increase
That is an increase of over 100% but it is 200% of the original
ah yes. ta
ta. knew i was wrong
It's a 100% increase, but it's 200% of the original value...
Waitrose also sell these cocktail mixer pouches. It's basically the ingredients you need to make a certain cocktail all mixed together into a puree. All you need then is just the alcohol required.
I just said that
Boo - that's never as good as doing it yourself!
I think it is a 100% increase but 200% of the original value, just in case noone said it yet
I didn't see it. Aren't you glad I agreed with you though?
(nods agreeably)
I thought it was a 100% increase, which i think is 200% of the original value
:D
Who gave you that idea?
#blamesteven
For those who want to live comment the football, use the #MOTD tag on Twitter...
is it live commenting if it is recorded?
Live commenting I think... s'on late tonight!
Ah. First time I've properly looked at Google Reader for a while. Looks like I haven't read through for a month. Oops. Sorry.
Now I realise why cricketers have back problems - I was playing Cricket on the Wii last night and my back is killing me!
I'm not normally in the crease that long to find that out.
If i do Wii karting will i get bruises on my back like i do in real karting?
And if i do F1 Wii will i get neck ache?
:P
#ilovetheresetbutton
No reset button in real life...
Jon.
Put the bottle down and brew yourself a strong coffee :D
Clearly you havent seen Men in Black.....;)
haha.
im fully sober. scarily
What's the link to SB's podcast? I am in a downloading mood, while I listen to my older stuff.
Clearly, you haven't seen my batting.
http://startledbunny.net/
here comes the meeen in blaaack...
I can hand on heart say....i am worse than you
I'm a bit bored, so I'll comment with you guys n gals! 'sup peeps?
gaaalaxy defendeeers
Which Cricket game do you play?
Ta.
Jon, your .tk site could use an RSS feed..
the sky?
It does have one!
I'm talking about my short cricketing career and how I'm not normally batting for that long to get back ache.
Ah. The 'Subscribe' button on my link bar didn't recognise it.
in fact it has 2
Hello mr Turkey Machine
I see no clouds, only a vague smoky red mist thanks to the sodding fireworks that keep going off!
Hi
Oooh, I'm a "Mr". That makes a change from "oh, it's you".
Found it following the link, I was just being lazy
theres 2. one in the "how to subscribe page" which subscribes you just to the podcast (With no intro post) or theres one at the bottom of the site which does everything
You got me in a good mood.
How do's?
I hear you have fire alarm issues. When I moved into my apartment a few years ago it was a new building and had teething problems. We kept getting evacuated at 1 in the morning and the Firemen told us that they couldn't turn off the alarm so they told us they disconnected it. Needless to say, when the firemen wished us to sleep well, I was too scared to sleep!
Touché.
Talking of RSS and stuff.
Theres a new (non-podcast, shock horror) post on my site, tell all you lucky people whats coming up in the next few months...
www.feederseries.tk
it's got nothing to do with that im afraid....
its called being in halls :P
Poo.
Thought you'd like my story! :P
haha i do. although the likelyhood of you dying is quite high if you have no fire alarm
When I visited NZ last December, I went past the building and it's already falling apart. Fire is the least of their worries!
Morning, everyone.
Rough night last night. Terrible hangover this morning.
Nice.
Morning J
But the likelihood of a fire is all but non-existant
Scary story coming up. Some idiot in my first halls of residence at university decided to microwave a trainer at 4am. Cue smoke from the 3rd floor kitchen window, mass panic as the fire alarms in ALL buildings went off and everybody congregated and looked open-mouthed at the smoke coming out of the window. Me, nearly calm as a coma thanks to the strong Scotch whisky I'd had not long ago, rang the fire service, asked them to make sure they had the necessary gear to get up 4 floors, and within 5 minutes, the clueless warden on duty had opened the gates, everybody piled out of the way, and about 20 minutes later, the charred remains of a microwave had made their way to the pavement for all to see. The only concern of my friend who lived next door to that flat was whether there would be any damage from the smoke. I had to assure her nothing would have happened as it gets contained very quickly.
Over the next couple of months, the entire flat in question received a bill for £2000 to refit the gutted kitchen, and since nobody owned up to it, they wouldn't get their deposit back. Needless to say, they were fuming.
No pun intended!
Recovering well?
Alison is a bad influence
Watch it, I heard she does revenge drinks. ;)
tell that to all the people who've died in fires. ok so you cant, but my point still stands.
the likelihood is low, but the fire alarm is there for those 1 in a million times. oh and for when you burn the toast
Relatively, yes. It could've been a lot worse. At least I remember what I was doing last night.
:D Heheh.
Hello sir.
"Home of Toro Rosso's Underfunded Research and Development Department"
How long has that been there and was this in response to Mr C's epic rant which got censored?
In terms of genuine risk though it is much lower than many things that people don't worry about. Gavin said he was too scared to sleep without an alarm but I bet he does all sorts of other more dangerous things withut worrying about them.
Was that never included in the debrief? Shame!
suggest by jordan: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Subtitle+Suggestions
feel free to add more.
of course, but if i had the choice to have one or not, i'd go with having one
The rant was, but Christine got annoyed cos he swore, so he had to "tone it down". I'm hoping at some point somebody with far more time and skills will cut the uncensored one cos it was smeggin' brilliant! :D
s'alright then ;)
As an aside, what was stopping you from spending a few quid and buying a smoke alarm in the absense of a fire alarm?
Because the building had a sprinkler system and fire alarms?
but they turned it off?
Only for two days while they fixed it!
How do you add lines to tables in the Wiki?
oohh, you missed out that bit :P
that wasn't swearing
Right-click then Add Row.
Click on a box, and there are arrows which tell you which way you want the new row/column
Do you really think I would have stayed otherwise?
True, you could have house swapped with steven, he dosent mind not having them ;)
Nighty night everyone
Night Mr Lukeh
Byeeeee
To add a suggestion to that page, do I have to sign up or can I just post it here and somebody'll do it who knows what they're doing?
"Sidepodcast - Badoer's retirement retreat".
Sweet dreams, sour nightmares! :P
there's this guy i know who's a wiki wizard...
Night Lukeh...
Well, you can post it here, and I do the hard work.
But for the future, you can sign up :)
Night Lukeh!
Right click and add row
Scott already said that ;)
Long way to swap houses
Did you see my even simpler idea?
Naaahh, days travel. Easy
I think there is an echo here
Night
Thanks RG.
Done.
By the way, right-click add-row doesn't seem to work with Google Chrome, unless I'm missing something completely.
How do's Mr C!
Google Chrome isn't the best thing to use on the wiki I'm afraid. I'd suggest Firefox or I think IE will be the best to work on the site. I don't know if you can click on a column and use one of the arrows to add a new column
Yeah, the wiki is not Chrome-friendly!
Wiki hates chrome. Use something else
You need to have signed up and before you make any changes you need to click the easy edit button
Damnit, that's twice I've tried to post my subtitles and I can't because other people have at the same time! Grrrrrrr.
all good. was trying to get the individual post pages on the site into the new format, but not sure i'll finish it tonight now. tomorrow evening though.
Cheers guys, I guess I gotta find my Firefox Portable then. It got retired when I discovered the fantastic Chrome!
Just click merge thingy and copy your idea into where it shoulda went.
make sure you get an early night!!
tis okay, i'm not driving.
Yeah, but I just tried doing that, got everything in place and went to save and someone had edited it again while I was trying to merge.
awesome!
It's almost impossible to rely on one browser these days!
Yeah, that does get annoying.
So, attempt no. 3...
At my work we use sharepoint, which locks anyone else from editing when the page has been opened for an edit!
Right, who was editing it this time?
Looks like Gavin.
stick em in the comments, rg will sort it out.
the page is there 24/7. please keep the ideas coming (just not all at one).
No matter, I got something on there eventually.
Not on purpose of course - I had to adjust my tagline because it was wrong!
OK, here's mine:
EXCLUSIVE!
Would you like to see our cog?
Not rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrubbish in any way shape or form
Can easily do a better job than Legard
We have a Trulliometer, you know.
Blah blah blah blah blah-ing about F1, all day, every day....well, sort of.
Franck Montagny knows who we are, so there!
Powered by wine, squash and unnamed energy drink. Oh, and a panda.
I have added them for you. Feel better now? ;)
Don't worry about it, it's not a big deal.
Okay.
Loooking at Chrome, unless you want too add a few words, get firefox.
Oh jolly good then :D
I still think "All for F1 and F1 for All" is the best.