Discarding Sabot
Sep. 12th, 2006 06:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonSunday after the race, diMontezemolo was chasing Schumacher around trying to get a photo op with him. He finally cornered him and hugged him in front of the cameras. David Hobbs made the comment that the expression on Schumacher's face resembled that of Hobbs' cat when he was being cornered and hugged.
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One of the curious features of the 1918 flu epidemic was that old people, babies and the chronically ill often survived the disease, whereas healthy young adults generally died rapidly. Now there seems to be an answer why.
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So, on to China, a track which doesn't necessarily favour Ferrari. They do, however, have the most imposing and wonderful grandstands that I've ever seen. The whole thing looks like it just dropped from the sky onto empty wasteland, though. Very bleak landscaping. Presumably that will improve as time passes.
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The cleaning people at work are starting to really weird me out. They're all quite friendly, which is odd in itself. What's really getting to me is that they all use the same greeting: "How ya DOIN'?". It's never "Hi!" or "Good Evening" or anything else. There're five or six of them, and they all say the same thing, each and every time. It's like a cult, or maybe aliens have taken them over.
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The captured terrorists at Abu Ghraib have decided that they'd rather have the Americans back.
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I got a fairly nice used office chair from work. They were just throwing them out, didn't bother to call the Salvation Army or anything. There's nothing wrong with them - they just don't want them.
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And, yesterday in comments on another LJ I characterized Alonso's qualifying penalty as unfair. It's been subsequently pointed out to me that under the rules, he was on his outlap, and had to let Massa by on his hotlap, regardless of how much time he had left. That does seem to be the case.
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One of the curious features of the 1918 flu epidemic was that old people, babies and the chronically ill often survived the disease, whereas healthy young adults generally died rapidly. Now there seems to be an answer why.
*****
So, on to China, a track which doesn't necessarily favour Ferrari. They do, however, have the most imposing and wonderful grandstands that I've ever seen. The whole thing looks like it just dropped from the sky onto empty wasteland, though. Very bleak landscaping. Presumably that will improve as time passes.
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The cleaning people at work are starting to really weird me out. They're all quite friendly, which is odd in itself. What's really getting to me is that they all use the same greeting: "How ya DOIN'?". It's never "Hi!" or "Good Evening" or anything else. There're five or six of them, and they all say the same thing, each and every time. It's like a cult, or maybe aliens have taken them over.
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The captured terrorists at Abu Ghraib have decided that they'd rather have the Americans back.
*****
I got a fairly nice used office chair from work. They were just throwing them out, didn't bother to call the Salvation Army or anything. There's nothing wrong with them - they just don't want them.
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And, yesterday in comments on another LJ I characterized Alonso's qualifying penalty as unfair. It's been subsequently pointed out to me that under the rules, he was on his outlap, and had to let Massa by on his hotlap, regardless of how much time he had left. That does seem to be the case.
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Date: 2006-09-12 10:46 am (UTC)You're right about the cleaners, they are from planet Zog
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Date: 2006-09-13 09:08 am (UTC)The use of sabots is avoided when firing over the heads of our own men.