Jan 3
2008

Now with 100% more orange

A new year seemed like a good time for an upgrade, new theme, and - wait for it - actual content. It’s been sparse around here for a while. Trust me, there’s been a good reason for that. Since that’s all over now, I’m going to try to post more regularly and try to have some semblence of focus.

I’m going to try to have more racing coverage throughout the year. Notice there’s a new page up top where I intend to post schedules of various series both major and minor. I know it’s blank right now - I just put it up 20 minutes ago - but check back as I keep adding to it. If there’s some series or special event that you think ought to go there, drop me a line and I’ll add it. That should be easy enough since I finally put a “Contact Me” page up there as well. Yeah, I finally entered the 90s. You’ll also find links up there to where I’m at on the net when I’m not here.

Overall, I think 2008 is going to be an interesting year to see where this blog heads. Not everyone shares my enthusiasm though.

Dad, your blog bores me.

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That’s not the reaction I was going for.

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Dec 31
2007

The number 1 should go hereSince the end of the 2007 F1 season I’ve been wanting to take a look back at the predictions I made in March and see just how far off the mark I was. Yeah, I know the season ended over two months ago. I’ve been kind of busy. Any way, since 2007 is over in about 4 hours, I figure I had better get to it.

So, starting at the bottom of the WCC standings we have

McLaren Mercedes - 0 points

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Dec 28
2007

StopAlright, enough is enough. I expect spam. I expect odd spam. I even expect lots of odd spam. But enough with the tramadol for dogs links.

Seriously. Tramadol for dogs. Hundreds of them each day. Day after day.

I don’t think I get a lot of dogs reading this. Maybe I do. After all, on the Internet no one knows you’re a dog and Google Reader is pretty easy to use. Even if I do have a large canine readership, I somehow doubt that a high percentage of them are canine junkies and/or have a credit card to order more smack. Even if they did, how much of that stuff could the average junkie dog go through?

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Dec 27
2007

Glad it's pverIt seems like I learn something new every year around the holidays. This year was no exception. In fact, I learned quite a bit this year.

  • There are precisely 22 trips involved in dragging out my Christmas decorations.
  • There are 22 trips involved in putting them away.
  • Lights that were carefully wrapped up and stored in January will come out of the box in knots.
  • They won’t work.
  • While trying to make them work, it is possible to put the wrong light in the socket.
  • When the strand starts working, that light will glow with the intensity of a small nova.
  • A small nova produces enough heat to burn a hole in the carpet.
  • Melting carpet will activate the smoke detector.
  • Hours spent decorating the tree to perfection can be undone by a single cat in under 5 minutes.
  • The dog does not destroy the tree.
  • Dogs > cats.
  • 10 inches of snow followed by 60 degrees and rain makes the ground soggy.
  • Soggy ground and high winds are not conducive to keeping yard decorations.
  • The neighbors don’t seem to mind stray inflatable decorations in their yard.
  • Dragging decorations back across the street in 40 mph winds sucks.
  • It is possible to maintain an itinerary that involves over 1000 miles and 16 stops with 100% accuracy.
  • It involves very little sleep.
  • And even less beer.
  • And lots of gas.
  • Gas is expensive.
  • No one at the last stop minds if you fall asleep on the couch.
  • Sleep is good.
  • Being the permanently designated driver is not fun.
  • Watching 2 brothers who haven’t seen each other in a year and a half reunited on Christmas morning makes the rest of this crap seem pretty pointless.

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Sep 19
2007

In December 2003, German citizen Khaled el-Masri boarded a bus in Germany for a holiday in Skopje, Macedonia. Instead of a restful vacation, the Muslim man of Lebanese heritage says he ended up in a Central Intelligence Agency isolation cell in Afghanistan as a suspected terrorist.

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Sep 18
2007

Nuclear fusion is the most promising, yet a very challenging method of producing clean energy that can meet the ever growing demands without worrying about fuel. Scientist have yet to succeed in harnessing the power in an affordable way, but by using the KSTAR furnace, the government wants to start commercial fusion power generation in 30 years.

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Sep 6
2007

ShinySo here’s the Cliffs Notes version of the season for them so far…

In Monaco they were heavily criticized and investigated for allegedly using team orders to keep Hamilton behind Alonso. The stewards cleared them in this one, but the British press vilified them for compromising their golden boy, Hamilton.

Next, Ferrari fired Nigel Stepney and it was then discovered that he had passed some 780 pages of Ferrari technical documents to Mike Coughlan. Coughlan was, and still is I believe, an employee of McLaren. The FIA was gracious enough to invite all parties to a hearing of the World Motorsport Counsel. It was decided at that McLaren was guilty of being in possession of Ferrari intellectual property, but there was no evidence that they had used it. Therefore, there was no penalty issued to McLaren.

Oh, then there was the Hungaroring fiasco where Alonso sat in his pit box long enough to block Hamilton and prevent him from completing his last flying qualifying lap. The stewards again requested the company of the team and this time penalized Alonso by stripping him of his pole and placing him 6th on the grid. They also stripped McLaren of any Constructor points before they even lined up for the race. The team has an appeal scheduled for September 19.

McLaren decided to file an appeal to the WMSC counsel verdict that was to be heard on September 13. That changed yesterday when the FIA announced that they have new evidence in the case and once again requested the honor of the presence of the team. In the original hearing, the FIA stated that, should further evidence be found, they reserved the right to ban McLaren from the F1 championship for not only 2007, but 2008 as well. In that light, this latest invitation probably isn’t Max wanting to share high tea with Ron.

And just for good measure, the stewards of the Italian Grand Prix fined McLaren $50,000 for the use of an unapproved gearbox in the Hungarian Grand Prix. I guess they had run out of other ways to penalize them.

I really don’t think I would want to sit in on any kind of meeting at Paragon on Monday.

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