Forza!

[rain_gryphon]

My oldest FurryMUCK character turns ten years old today. I remember sitting in the darkened library at my mother's house, logged on with a 2400 modem building my character, aware that this was something interesting, but never for a moment guessing how far it would go. Boingdragon was the first person to greet me as I crawled out from under the bandstand :) Sadly, the MUCK seems unreachable from here ATM. It seems a shame not to log on on my birthday.

In other news, the new F1 season looks promising. Ferarri tested at Imola today, and lapped the track nearly a second and a half faster than Williams. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=motorSportsNews&storyID=4437662§ion=news

Ten years ago, I was glad just to see Ferarri on the podium a few times a year.

Prunkleprunkleprunkle...

Comments

[loganberrybunny.livejournal.com]

I noted Rubens on the Ceefax saying he was going to be aiming for the championship this year. I don't think his team-mate would be terribly happy! =;) On the whole, I think Renault are probably the team to watch this year, though I suspect Schumacher (M) will be champion yet again simply because of Ferrari reliability.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

> I noted Rubens on the Ceefax saying he was going to be aiming for the championship this year. I don't think his team-mate would be terribly happy! =;)

That's a sore point for me, that the FIA makes everyone go through the pretense of acting as if there were no team orders. IMHO, F1 should be about the teams, and not about the individual drivers. It's a very calculating and strategic sort of racing to begin with, depending as much on the engineers and pitwork as on the driver, which seems to me to be a large part of its appeal.

Now we've got a situation where everyone knows that Rubens is under orders*, but everyone has to pretend that he isn't. They've accomplished absolutely nothing except to remove one element of racing strategy from public discussion.

I was at Indianapolis in 2002 when this all started, BTW. What seems to be forgotten is that Frank Williams told his drivers to race head to head, and they took each other out on the second lap. Ferrari, cooperating as a team, finished 1 and 2.

* He's a better driver than his record would make it seem.

[loganberrybunny.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I have to confess to feeling an attraction for the Williams way of doing things. My head knows that, as you say, they're teams... but I really have no interest in watching a two-hour board meeting. They're racing drivers, and should race. Totally agree with you about Barrichelllo, though - he could have been champion in other circumstances, I think.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Well, congratulations. My first muck was Brazilian Dreams II, which is long gone; I won't reach ten years on FurryMuck until October of next year, by which time you'll certainly have forgotten about it. I'm still amazed at the fraction of my life that I've had Austin Dern as a regular character in it. I was roped into it -- admittedly without putting much struggle up -- by Chip Unicorn; ask him sometime about his terrifying me by invading the mathematics library.

Furry's had some DNS stuff wobbling around about whether you're supposed to use furry.com or furry.org or furry.net and the details just escape me. My TinyFugue works with it, so I'm not worried.