Archive for May, 2006

Lotus’s, awayness, and physics teachers

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Saturday me and dad headed down to Castle Combe in the terrible weather, with the hood down. We got to the track in a fairly quick time, I think the average speed was legal, after a bit of confusion about which entrance we should use we found our way. Bloody first car that caught my eye was a Ferrari 612 and the huge Ford GT parked next door. Pulled into a space, next to the Ford, put the lid up and proceeded to wonder the car park which was full of some very nice Lotus’s, overly populated by Elise’s but hey. We took a stroll up to the track and watched a few cars go around, some much faster than others, there was an Esprit doing a fair rate of knots even though its a mid engined car in the wet. Didn’t see anyone spinoff, a let down (assuming the occupants were not injured, or the car!)
We returned to wondering the car park and looking at some of the really nice cars scattered around I spotted a new Exige S which was the Club Lotus chairman’s car, git. There was a good cross section of Lotus cars on show, Elan’s, Eclat’s, Esprit’s, Europa’s, Eclat’s, Excel’s and of course the more recent Elise’s and Exige’s, toggled with some of the older and rarer cars, even saw a Ford Lotus Cortina (dad wants one of their engines for his boat, it has a cortina engine it currently.) After meeting with some other Elan owners we decided to join the parade laps over lunch so, off we went in search of a pass to get on to the track, pass obtained we jumped into the car and toodled off towards the track waiting with all the others. It may have been raining but we still went topless, got a ‘little’ wet but it was worth it :)

Physics teachers; well all I can say is why couldn’t this guy tought me?

Ohhh and I am going to be away Tuesday (tomorrow) to Friday.

Priceless thread: “Often I put the rear seats flat, this reduces weight.”

Friday, May 26th, 2006

My dad just bought these three forum threads to my attention, what an entertaining read, I am still laughing now! The user in question is the guy named “Police_Driver” and I should damn well hope he is not a police driver, because he is full of *@”!

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Party, hospitals, music, and free Videos

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

Well leavers party went really well, was not much of a party atmosphere more of a social mingle over a few drinks drunks, hum ho. It was not really that bad, everyone behaved themselves which made the night a swell one. Most people buggered off to other bars/clubs at around half 11 so me and the Bristol Traveller phoned my dad (on taxi duty) and told him to come for about 12, while we got the last few drinks in. :) I calculated I had about 16.6 units of alcohol that one night *whoops*.

Friend is out of hospital; yay, he is on the mend so hopefully his adventurous plans should not be effected neither his exams hehe :)

I have obtained some new Music CD’s, which I ordered from Amazon, they are; Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium, Lacuna Coil - Karmacode, and Bon Jovi - Have a Nice Day. Big thanks to the one, you know who you are, who got me some CD’s on my wishlist. I cannot stop listening to this RHCP or Lacuna Coil album, as my last.fm profile shows.

Free videos, of the Google Videos variety; Pearl Jam have released their latest music video under a Creative Commons license and uploaded it to Google Videos. You can watch it here.

Expressing Myself

Friday, May 19th, 2006

… I just wanted to express myself (its my blog after all) Weeeeeeeeeeeee!!! There we are, I have now finished school (bar the exams which I have to look forward too) hum ho.

I am having a good day, best friend not so, after our lovely meal last night he ended up in A&E within the hour. My thoughts are with him, atleast until I am incapacitated by intoxicating fluids (if I can afford enough.) Yup party tonight, yay, gonna return to head banging and celebrating freedom and looking forward to June 22nd (last exam.)

BTW, no power cut today; no idea why. But it will be back :(

Without Power

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

I am going to be without power (of the electrical kind) for most of Friday 19th May so, this site will not be available. Friday cooincides with my last of school, ever, and the piss up party in the evening. :)

Guy Kewney ‘Impostor’ in BBC Interview

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

The BBC made a small slip up when interviewing Guy Kewney, a columnist on PC Mag, they managed to pick up some french guy off the street, and put him on air! While the real Guy Kewney sat in reception.

Video

Firefox Bon Echo Alpha 2

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

The latest Alpha of Firefox 2.0 has been released. Going to install it and get my hands dirty in a minute :)

Plans

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Lets break this temporary pause in service with a quick quote:

(13:20:07) Martin: I have a plan :-)
(13:20:18) Martin: I might not have a clue, but I have a plan ;-)

Chav Driving

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Well everybody is busy or otherwise engaged on AIM/MSN and I dare not venture to IRC (it will consume me) so, the blog has drawn the short straw to receive my latest rant. The subject, Chavs, specifically one and his driving ability (or lack of.) For more information on the Chav, checkout my best friends blog (don’t bother bookmarking it, it is rather static (subtle hint SJ ;).) Before I get started this I don’t want to sound like I am the best driver in the world, that claim is quite often a sign of coat hanger man, I have had my share of scrapes but nothing in the last 5 months.

Well off I went in need to a beverage to tide me over the impenting maths test, which was cancelled but this is another story, so, off I wondered to thy trusty steed, in the form of a ‘96 VW Polo 1.4L equiped with pwnage music and a single working speaker (not quite the chav.) I started the vehicle and strapped myself in, never know what is going to fly towards in school car park, off I went. Trundled out of the sixth form car park (I mean overflow car park, which sixth form should use), and into the main car park. Proceeded with caution around the blocks of cars parked at varying angles, rarely parallel to the parking space or the car next door. Out of the main body of the teacher parking and through to the middle where the entrance sits and the bus bays to the left, to the right we have the visitors parking (lazy sixth form and chav parking.) This is where the encounter began.

Watching out for cars merging into me after they entered the car park and head towards reception, I noticed a car come into a space about 3 spaces down from me with great hast, I anticipated idiocy. Saw continued momentum so braked rather quickly, eventually meeting the year 12 driver *ahem chav ahem* with a bunch of morons in the back, he stopped too (omg). He gave me the “wtf you doing? uh ur mum” look, I gave him the “awww special” look, realising he had no intention of going I hastily checked mirrors and sped off. Only to notice him emerge from the parking space and follow me towards the speed bumps. Yup you guessed it, he tailgated me over speed bumps, not the most clever thing to do, but heck this is moronicity at its absolute maximum here. So I proceeded over the speed bumps and an over cautious, unambitious, and damn right slow speed (cannot be too careful, but then we would never get anywhere *sigh*.) Used a bit of throttle and pulled away and headed onto the exit junction, bless he caught up and managed to follow.

Seeing nothing was there I pulled away in adventurous mode, got to 30MPH (the limit) and stuck there. Glaring into the rear view mirror, I saw him performing an attempt at pulling away, and then predicatably ending up sat on my ass again. Well I thought this is not good, increase the safety of the situation I slowed down a bit, down to 20MPH now. Let him follow suite and then dropped down to 2nd and got back to 30MPH, when he began to follow I slammed on the anchors, just a little hint I don’t mind using them when you are too close to stop (it is his fauly period) never know what bugs I might spot. I arrived at the Stop junction (blind looking right due to protruding house) I observed clear right, left and over the road so I pulled out. Chav followed again, without a glance right (wow he trusts me so bad.) Anyway I was back up to 30MPH quickly and soon he reappered on my tail, this time he didn’t like my tactics so. He overtook, in a 30MPH zone when I was doing the speed limit, there was a car coming towards him and a traffic island ahead. Yes this is the best example of irrational thought ever, broken logic supreme, or maybe everyone in the car was suicidal (or just the driver, the rest had brown trousers.) He managed to pull back over about 5 seconds before hitting the traffic island, if I had continued at ~30MPH I reckon he may have had it, but fearing for my own safety and predicting big cockup with slippery road surface I slowed down. I was expecting him to try and move over then brake to loose speed and lock his wheels up, what a cool site that would have been (not wishing death here.)

Thankfully nobody was hurt just my respect for him, ohh wait I had none, he had a sign above his head saying tosser. So, all is well in the world of me :)

I could populate this blog with dumbass things spotted on the road but, alas, I think my database would scream :)

Best of Contest 69

Monday, May 1st, 2006

The task Modify a classic propaganda poster (or create a new one) for one side or the other in the pro- and anti-Microsoft conflict, the results.


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