Posted by jonathan
on May 27, 2006
I couldn’t believe this, watching practice. Schuey braked hard into the corner (anticipating Alonso following a few 10s of seconds behind) and did a stoppie, sliding the front-end, inch-perfect, to the barrier in a stunning display of precision driving.
He then (in my opinion, and those of the F1 stewards) deliberately stalled, waiting for Alonso.
This had the effect of slowing Alonso’s flying lap by maybe a couple of 1/10s, enough to keep Scumacher on pole.
Luckily the F1 stewards have stripped Schumacher of the pole, and sentenced him to start alongside Massa his teammate at the back of the grid.
More here from the BBC.
Posted by jonathan
on May 27, 2006
Wow, what a surreal experience! I was just settling down on the sofa after mowing the lawn here in Texas, and what pops up on the screen but Changing Rooms from Edderton in Ross-shire Scotland.
This is pretty neat already seeing as I used to live there, but the next thing was that the actual house, “Carloggas”, that I lived in about 1979 or so so came on screen.
That sure brought brought back some memories:
- some big parental fights.
- visits to family that lived over in Kildary.
- playing with the local kids.
- listening to John Peel for the first time 8pm – 10pm on Wed, Thu, Fri weeknights.
- walking up and down the long hill to the shop to buy Red Arrows ice lollies.
- hiding out under the stairs for hours (years before Harry Potter!!!)
Thanks Changing Rooms!!
Posted by jonathan
on May 04, 2006
My Imp Amp arrived today courtesy of FedEX, and I was going to wait for my Athena bookshelf speakers to arrive until I played with it, but really I wan’t going to wait, and I hooked it up to a old pair of Technics SB-CR33 speakers I had laying in my ofice.
So what does it sound like? Great so far is the answer, but with any luck, maybe even better with the Athena speakers.
I have my iPod hooked up to it (just happened have a stero jack to dual RCA lying about) and am listening to a wide variety of my favorite songs. So far I’ve noticed the following:
- various clicks and hiss on some songs (from CDs and iTunes) that I’d never noticed
- real silence, through the amp is very clean and hiss/crap free
Other than that, you plug an iPod in and it makes great room filling music. I’m kind of at a loss for what to say since I’m not an audiophile. I have an old Aiwa walkman from when Aiwa was high-end (1988) and it sounded great, but not as good as the bass-boosting Sony crap boxes. This amp is similar, but it actually is bassy enough. I can always crank the EQ on the iPod if I really need to.
It does look absolutely rocking though.
