Stoner – this is about one of the best explanations I’ve read. Basically it’s a loophole where the design of the rear crash structure can be combined with the diffuser – the diffuser is primarily governed by rules on parts as seen from below the car, so the extra bit between diffuser and crash structure is excluded from those limits & the limits on the crash structure are much more open.

Coffeking – if you don’t think they look that different, can you spot the difference between these two ;-)?

‘Gonna take a while to get used to them’ – for anyone interested in the sport they’ve been around for 3 months already! I’m mostly liking the new look – think last year’s cars look a bit daft in comparison now.

Should’ve said that it still does it with the windows open so that’s why I think it must be something in/around the frame rather than anything to do with seals on the opening bits. I was just wondering if there was some ‘usual suspect’ for that sort of thing. It’s only really started over the last winter too.

BAD Cap’n!

Last: some tyres from the classifieds
Next: Looking like a Zesty for Mrs P

And if you type *#5522#* it deletes the word ‘gullible’ from the predictive text dictionary…

The first & fourth ones are true – as for the rest….

Anyone tried the Twix straw? Take your favourite hot beverage (not too hot or you’ll scald yourself) and a Twix finger. Bite each end off the Twix then dunk one end in your mug and suck on the other. Then once you’re done drinking the biccy bit in the Twix has soaked up loads of tea/coffee and is a chocolate covered wonder.

Some of mine…

Phew!

Definitely not sweetcorn as that crops quite late, say around the end of August, and you wouldn’t want to be away at any bike events while your veg goes over would you? Oh, and it’s a bit big for containers too.

Ahem – this is what the OED says

Could the pedants please get there coat’s? (sic)

To calm everyone down, here’s a picture of some Octopi/Octopusses/Octopodes

Mrs P has got some 661 Kyle Strait knee pads – she uses the Small but they come in a Youth size too so they might do the job.

It’s got a very limited tools palette so is quick to learn, but compared to a ‘proper’ CAD system it’s really limited. In particular it’s handling of curves is poor. Useful for quick 3D modelling, a few add ons like Podium/LightUp get these models looking half respectable without too much faff.

So good enough at what it does, but no replacement for a meatier CAD system if that’s what you need.

Woot!

Squinty and Spanky get owned by the teams…

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73810

Captain – did she model for Gormley?

A while ago I was working in air traffic control research and we were doing a project for the folks at West Drayton. We set up a meeting with one of the chief controllers there but it had to be about 3 weeks off as he was away at the time.

Anyhow, we roll up to the meeting and in the chit-chat before we got down to work I asked mr air traffic controller where he’d been – ‘I’ve spent 10 days in Hong Kong watching the planes take off & land at the airport’ he said. So I replied ‘Well at least that’s part of your job and you’re not some sad plane spotter with an anorak and thermos flask’. Guess what – he’d been there on holiday, not with work, and he was a card carrying plane spotter.

The client relationship was always a little strained after that.

The incentive for the lower drivers is the same as it always was – after all if you’re not in a race winning car why bother at all? All of the other championship places will be decided on points, as will the prize money which goes toward funding the teams for the next year. So there’s still the same incentive to fight for 6th place.

They’re setting themselves up for a fail though as the points table will still have to be published and it’ll look a bit daft if the ‘world champion’ is down in 3rd place on the table.

BTW – anyone feeling differently about the Chain after Heroes (BBC3) on Mon night?

I thought this had been suggested by Willow but the teams, public and FIA had all told him it was total arse.

It’ll be interesting to compare the ‘points’ leader with the ‘wins’ leader during the season. Eg. last year Kubica’s fantastic consistency and reliability would have been completely worthless when it comes to the championship race.

Iz better than cheezburgerz!

spokey-dokeys?

Check here[/url] & you might be able to go along and try for yourself. If sizing for the AnthemX is anything like the Anthem you’ll probably fall between medium & large depending on your reach & preference.

Interesting quote from that facebook page that WCA posted:

(in line at the grocery store)
Amber: “That lady is buying one cucumber. I wonder what she’s going to do with THAT!”
Katie: “… make a salad?”

The folks on PF1 are using

http://www.fantasyracers.com/

Looks like it’s free

You came across a girl commuting into Manchester? Surely that’s worse than spitting!

Either a sticky piston or caliper not aligned properly.

Me, finding out the limit of my skillz the hard way.

Changed my mind at the last minute and was caught between stopping and going for it, and ended up doing neither.

IIRC the Trex EX8 WSD goes down to 14.5 inch frame – and don’t Titus make extra small sizes for the RacerX/Motolite? (EDIT – yep, looks like they do!)

Had it a few years ago – started as a pain on the left side of my chest which I went to the doc about as it was getting severe. Doc had a look and there was nothing apparent, then later that evening mrs p spotted the first blister on my back. Went straight to the locum service where i was prescribed a bunch of antivirals and painkillers, then spent the next week living by the clock of my painkiller doses, feeling completely bombed and had great difficulty wearing anything more than a light shirt. The rash cleared up relatively quickly but I had bouts of residual pain for months after and still get the odd niggle in the place where the rash was worst. My biggest mistake was telling the doc I’d be OK on the lower dosage of codeine…

Cheers all – found some of the 661 versions that StirlingCrispin referred to so will give them a go first.

From a couple of weeks ago

Deuter Cross Air EXP should be worth a look

Try

http://www.urbanfront.co.uk/

or

http://www.jckjoinery.co.uk/contemporary-doors.php

I thought the Edge only did lat/long rather than a grid reference – or has that been fixed by a new software release? Brownpants – Garmin’s topo maps can be surprsingly cost effective if you don’t mind them having features such as “The Pirate Bay” (cryptic? thought not!). The microSD on the eTrex is in place of the internal memory so with a 2G card that costs beans you can have full mapping for the UK and track logs galore.

Hmmm – so if I were going on wear alone they’d need to last 4 x the life of a set of bargain pads or 1.5x a set of other higher quality/more expensive pads. Anyone else got any comparative experience?

Does it actually say the ‘ha ha ha’ bit – if so, sounds like a virus rather than an Excel error – M$ employees aren’t usually that vindictive with their messages.

I’m worried where the lizard people have got to – I’m sure there was a thread on here about Colin Powell predicting that there was going to be some terrible disaster when Obama took over, and that somehow the lizard people were behind it all. Maybe they’ve decided to wait until it warms up a bit and there are more flies to eat…

Only you can answer that question – we’re in mid-demo season at the moment so get along to some of the organised events, ride as many different bikes in your budget as you can and with any luck ‘the one’ will be pretty obvious from that.

Yes, many/most of them are prosecutable – sometimes there is a period when the roadworks have been moved/extended & the distance between cameras hasn’t been verified so they aren’t calibrated, and sometimes the police decide that (for whatever reason) they won’t prosecute a given section – eg when newly laid concrete is curing so there are no contractors working in that zone. Mrs P was in charge of some motorway jobs for a while last year, hence the knowledge. The ‘bloke down the pub’ lane changing idea doesn’t work any more either.

Vanilla ice cream, crushed pecans, maple syrup… mmmmmmmmm

Here’s the Audi one (courtesy SniffPetrol.com)