F1 2010 #fb

March 13th, 2010

The season opens tomorrow with the Bahrain Grand Prix and, regrettably, I won’t be home to watch it. I don’t have access to SpeedTV so I’ll have the watch the replay once I get home.

Never-the-less, some things to note:

- My pick for the winner of the 2010 championship Sebastian Vettel proved that he and his Red Bull-Renault are so far up to the challenge by taking pole position in qualification today. So now we know that the car goes well when it’s hot (his team mate Mark Webber finished 6th today), the Australia GP will show if the car goes well in the cool temps. If so Vettel will be hard to beat this season.

- Felipe Massa proved he is back in the game following his horrific accident last year. Very good to see his 2nd place performance today and it’s a nice reward to the Ferrari team who stood by him.

- Ferrari also has to be pleased by the 3rd place qualification of former world champion Fernando Alonso. Alonso is the best driver in Formula One and now that he is in a top car he will only get better as the season goes on. Vettel and the rest of the field better hope they stay on sharp edge of performance if they have a hope of keeping up with Alonso once he is fully integrated with his car and his team.

- Lewis Hamilton has to be breathing a sigh of relief following the disastrous debut for McLaren in 2009. While a 4th place qualification is still not up to his standards it is certainly an improvement from last year.

- 41 year old Michael Schumacher proved his can still hang with the younger drivers by taking 7th in qualification today. It will be interesting to see how he holds up during the course of the season. He’s motivated to win another championship but time will tell if the rest of his body can match the enthusiasm of his brain and heart.

- Last year’s champion Jenson Button is not happy to be qualifying in 8th place. He complained about the car today, we’ll see how the race goes tomorrow. It could be a long season for Button if he and his team can not get things figured out.

- Robert Kubica may prove again in 2010, as Alonso did in 2009, how well the Renault car can do under the pure force of will on the part of the driver. 9th place qualification could be as good as we can expect to see with this car.

- Adrian Sutil was the last driver to make it through all three rounds of qualification today. The fact that he did it in the Force India shows this team is building upon the success they found in 2009. The other Force India car qualified 12th which is a steady improvement from the days when these cars were lining up each race at the back of the grid.

One aspect of the racing that I am really looking forward to seeing this year is the lack of refueling and how this affects the pit stops. Cars are required in 2010 to have all the fuel they need for the race loaded at the start. This means that pit stops will only be used for tire changes. Timing will be even more critical in the pits than ever before and some teams have been clocked executing their tire changes in under two seconds. The fact that teams will no longer be waiting on the refueling crew to finish their work before releasing the car from the pits, which usually allowed plenty of time for the tire crews to get their job done, means that all the pressure is now on the tire crews. This will make pit stops even more pivotal in 2010.

1 pixel = 1 million dollars

March 10th, 2010

Survival Seeds!

March 9th, 2010

Crisis Garden!

Indestructible Survival Seed Bank Can Be Buried To Avoid Confiscation.

What the fuck are you waiting for?

RVV #fb

March 9th, 2010

cobbles

I’m riding the Tour of Flanders this year.

It will be my first time riding in Belgium since the the last time I rode in Belgium.

That was in 1991. My understanding is that nothing has changed over there.

Jeeze, almost 20 years ago. I was younger then. It’s probably going to be a lot harder to ride those climbs than it was when I was 22 years old.

But I will have a GPS unit and a heart rate monitor so I will have that going for me. Maybe it won’t be so hard after all. Maybe it will be totally easy.

Probably not.

a thought

March 8th, 2010


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Maybe we should have a jump ramp at State Champs next year…

liberal media

March 8th, 2010

Having someone on tee-vee that basically lays out the facts followed by someone on tee-vee that basically lies about everything is not “balanced coverage”.

Television journalism today is really pretty terrible.

BREAKING! Bike Night #4 field opening two hours early! 9pm tonight! #fb

February 26th, 2010

Due to a cancellation we will have the field tonight starting at 9pm!

Registration will open at 9pm in the infield, once riders are registered they can have access to the field for warm ups. Racing will start around 9:30pm.

Show up early!

Bike Nights #4, World Championships!

February 26th, 2010

Bike Nights returns tonight at the National Sports Center!

Registration opens at 10pm and closes at 10:50pm. Events run from 11:15pm to 12:30am. Registration is $15 for men and just $10 for women.

Come on out and ride indoors, get a great workout and have some fun.

Tonight’s events will include the Open Indoor Field Racing World Championships Race complete with rainbow jersey awarded to the winner!

More prizes will be on hand for those who show up. This is the last Bike Nights for 2010, don’t miss out!

Fiscal Conservatism!

February 24th, 2010

Chart from the 2008 American National Election Study.

Turns out when the rubber hits the road conservatives don’t really want to cut federal spending on much of anything.

They just want to cut taxes and pass the bill on to their children and grandchildren.

I guess being a Republican means never having to apologize for total and complete hypocrisy.

Android first impressions

February 23rd, 2010

Hey, this is pretty nice.

Easier for me to type as compared to the iPhone interface.
Screen is beautiful.

Software does what I want it to do without janky modification.

All in all pretty great so far.

More to come soon.