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Don’t try to make sense of it, Bunn. You’ll just show them you are human.
This is the Black Swan F1 needed. I love it and I praise New God Branson.
Just keep your head up. If you don’t, I will, after they cut it off.
What can you do?
My best guess is to become friends with your neighbors.
Don’t “know” them. This would be the worst thing you could do. People suck and what they do or think is probably not what you would find comforting. Just get to be friends.
In the coming war against zombies, they will shore up your flank.
One way to become friends is to make sure you are using the same ammunition. I recommend 5.56. Some like 7.62. Check for Warsaw block 5.45.
Two to the chest, two to the head.
@Dave – when the dollars start flowing in to zulukilo, tghey ain’t going to Bunn or Rico.
They are going straight to you.
The first ever twilight Gran Prix. The lighting is simply awesome. Thank You Australia. Thank You God.
There is nothing that desricbes our world better than Richard Branson on the opening grid doing interviews. Out of nowhere he started sponsoring the Brawn team. Literally 2 days ago. The Virgin logo was not on the cars during Thursday Practice. It was small during yesterday’s qualifying. Very weird in a “down” economy.
Absolutely bizarre. The weirdest part is that the SPEEDtv coverage is sponsered by Acura. They really believe people are stupid. Are people stupid?
KERS is deadly. There are markers on the KERS cars for safety workers. This is an unknown.
Awesome start. Now watch Massa and Kimi take him down. Don’t forget Vettel. The Brawn car can’t possibly win against this onslaught.
My boy Vettel leads the chase. The SPEED guys are all into him now. It’s true, everybody has been, including me. Why? I should read my own writing. I should watch CNBC.
So I will reverese and fuck with you here. The glory being heaped on Vettel in the opening laps, happens every other year or so. Last tim eit happened? With Button? With Jacques Villeneuve? Have to defer to Bif on this one. I’m pretty sure it was Button. Everybody thought he was going to be the goldenboy back in _____?
Look at Hamilton.
Massa is God.
I rag on these guys, but honestly. Without SPEEDtv, my life would suck. or at least it would be like it was before I had SPEEDtv. It would suck. Except for those brief periods where I had women to guide me. And make my life hell.
That was a cheap shot. I’m awhiney bitch.
Awesome. The lighting makes every lap totally different now. Somebody should have come up with this idea before. Only the Aussies.
Halfway through.
Massa is God. Ferrari 1-2.
Lap 22. Who the fuck is “Steve”? SPEEDtv needs to reign this guy in, or at least keep kim from drinking on race day. Nice…
3:30 am
My weekend is not over because Felippe’s whatever shit the bed. I am not even angry. Massa raced superior. Nice Job, Felippe. Fuck the rest opf these people. fuck them.
Apocalypse Now is an American 1979 epic war film set during the Vietnam War. It tells the tale of Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) who is sent into the jungle to assassinate United States Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has gone AWOL and is believed to be insane. The film was produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script by Coppola and John Milius, based on Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness, as well as drawing elements from Michael Herr’s Dispatches, the film version of Conrad’s Lord Jim (which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness), and from Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972).
When the United States military turns on itself and takes out what it considers the enemy, it isn’t Kilgore who completes the mission, but Captain Willard.
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning is one of the greatest scenes ever filmed. But it is the first scene in the movie which is one of the most important.
The weird thing is that I have been looking forward to this event like no other since probably the Second Gulf War in 2003.
I can remember the feeling. My father, who’ve I’ve had an on-again/off-again feud over geo-political politics and strategery since I was 18 actually asked me in the fall of 2002 when the war would start. In my greatest moment ever, I was off by two weeks.
Yes, I predicted the invasion of Iraq within two weeks. It would be easy for me to change this story so that the date was the summer instead of the fall. In all fairness, it was very early, like September. It doesn’t matter, I’m very good. It could have been 2001. I’m not the War Nerd. I know what the fuck I’m talking about. I’ve actually read the Black Swan and I don’t concentrate on the Napoleonic Era. I kinda like WWI.
I like all the killing. The pain kinda focuses you.
I’ve been looking forward to this season for what seems like forever. Before Friday practice, the very first scene on SPEEDtv, before they cut to the track, they spent a good long ten seconds on the water at ______ Park (I don’t know the name, get Yarra). The camera was ona swan. The light was at 4pm or whatever and the reflection made the thing look Black, I strained my eyes to see, but there was nothing doing, they cut to the cars.
If a Virgin Brawn car wins, it will be a Black Swan. Why? Three reasons. It is an incredible longshot. The team didn’t exist (3 months ago?). The team was built on the ruins of a huge failure. It came out of nowhere. This is a REAL Black Swan, not one of the kind that Kunstler likes to talk about. Peak Oil is not a Black Swan. Peak Oil is the Whitest of all Swans.
Buy Brawn stock now. Get ready to dump soon.
after reading Bunn’s entry on KERS:
“Drivers will have a ‘boost’ button allowing them to deploy this extra energy tactically during a race.”
There is in fact a ‘boost’ button. I freeze-framed a look at one of the cockpits in the garage and spent 20 minutes trying to figure out the German or Italian or whatever gobbledy-gook they spe all over those things – but I definitely saw two buttons one green/one red labelled KERS. I Imagine the green was boost. Krauts and Greasers are slow, but they aint stupid. Not like the Nips. One of these days, Gouks will learn how to drive. Me Rikey. (It’s a joke, Nudge, if I thought you were gonna vote for me, I wouldn’t have said it).
BTW, what you call my ‘angst’ doesn’t exist in my head, only yours. You can never tie my supposedly anti-gook remarks to me or myself or my repeated showing of Colonel Kilgore.
I love Asians of all types. General Giap, Mao, and the guy that took on and fucked up Kissinger are among my favorites [I will amend this soon]. These are the dudes I relate with. Not Kennedy or Johnson.
As far as the women. Asian women are prettier than anything. And smarter. I’ve seen this is many situations.
I’d rather be chained to anything Asian rather than Angelina Jolie.
Asian women are smarter than Men. On average. I’m just saying. Not Bill Gates vs. Godzilla. I’m just sayin.
An amazing 1-2 for Button and Barrichello in the Virgin Brawns. Massa in 7th. The McClarens shut out.
I’ll take Massa.
It’s F1 time. 24 hours till GO
In an effort to stay sane, I’m concentrating all my energy this weekend on Formula One. I’ve been doing some work on Afghanistan and I think that is making me more nuts.
Talk about sports and the economy, Jesus. These are all in Bloomberg the last three days:
CVC’s $2.5 Billion Bet on Formula One Skids Off Track
Formula One’s FIA Rejects Protest on Pace-Setting Brawn Cars
Formula One rejected appeals by three teams against the bodywork of the Brawn GP, Williams and Toyota cars at the season-opening Grand Prix in Australia.
The Federation Internationale de L’Automobile, the sport’s ruling body, ruled the design of the diffusers at the back of the cars were legal, an FIA official said in an email. Ferrari, Renault and Red Bull plan to appeal.
FIA rules limit the size of the diffusers, which aids grip and speed by boosting airflow. Teams may have found a loophole by designing the rear bodywork to act as part of the diffuser, thus making it larger.
Red Bull team rules adviser Helmut Marko yesterday said that the diffuser on the Brawn, Toyota and Williams cars guaranteed an advantage of five-tenths of a second per lap. The Brawn team was fastest in preseason testing and its driver Jenson Button is the bookmakers’ favorite to win in Melbourne.
I watched Friday’s practice session and it was pretty incredible. First of all, after all the regulation changes between seasons designed to slow the cars down, the fastest lap was a half second faster than last year’s pace. The fastest lap set by Rosberg in the Williams Toyota was a second faster than Massa’s Ferrari and almost 2 seconds faster than Hamilton’s McClaren Mercedes. But Friday before the first race of the season is still basically testing, so I’ll have to wait until qualifying to get a better idea of what is going on. The drivers seemed to be getting used to the tires, which are both back to slicks after an entire decade and also the two grades supplied per race are “a grade apart.”
Grades measure the hardness or softness of the compounds and the one manufacturer, Bridgestone decides on the grades for each race depending on known track characteristics. Lets say from softness-to-hardness grades are A-B-C-D-E. In the past, the selection would always be A-B, B-C, C-D, or D-E. Now it will be A-C, B-D, or C-E. At least that is my understanding. Each team is required to stop at some point during the race an switch to the second of the two grades at least once during the race, so the contrast could really be a game-changer. In the practice session the soft tires seemed to be extremely troublesome.
Also, I just learned that the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System, or basically small hybrid battery component) is not mandatory until next year. Only the top teams from last year – Ferrari, McClaren, Renault – and one BMW car are using it. The cars with this supposed diffuser-advantage are the cars normally at the bottom of the pack and are not using the KERS system, we’ll see how that plays out. If the diffuser is in fact a game-changer, it will be in place on the top cars by next race, I’m sure.
I liked the way Massa way driving in the middle of the pack and am convinced Ferrari was just testing setups. He’s my favorite to win.
What he is doing is anyone’s guess. Mortals don’t know. I might. It could have something to do with trying to get a life, or so he says.
Less of a life could be better. People don’t exactly have any sympathy for gods when they fuck up. Regardless, word for word, he’s hard to beat.
I want the things that people do here to be organic, less self-conscious (if that makes any sense). I’m seeing AU and jim e beginning to work it out. This place is everyone’s canvas. As a writer, you don’t really care what anyone thinks so much as you care deeply about what it is that you’re trying to say.
There are few others who generate such compelling and fascinating commentary, with so much of it going unacknowledged, mostly because it is too densely packed for the average slob to bother with.
JR, on behalf of the ZK community, I salute you.
This is a pretty decent article by Taibbi on the situation. he usually doesn’t write at length like this. He’s done his research. I have problems with his philosophy maybe, but I haven’t finished it yet, I’ll have to do a second read later. Highly entertaining though. Keep in mind, Taibbi is now one of the growing ranks of people who made Obama President by believing the bullshit and marketing he spewed for two years yet now act like they knew all along that the system is the evil machine it is. A few people foresaw this current crisis and wrote books about it. I’ve posted them before and I think it is time to do that again…
… the funniest part, I think, is that nobody can say that McCain or Clinton would have done a worse job. We’ll never know. Hahhahahha! At least with McCain we wouldn’t have been lied to (I’m talking about the part before the election).
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print
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