Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Notwithstanding that the entire point of this very expensive regulation change was to close following distances. #F1 really cannot get out of its own way sometimes.

#F1 this is a bit annoying. Ross Brawn and Pat Symonds said that they would monitor aero exploitation carefully. If allowed to progress, teams will spend a fortune on these concepts, many CFD and wind-tunnel hours, only for them to be binned overnight.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/fia-will-wait-until-2026-to-act-on-f1s-outwash-loopholes/10554822/

You just do what you can while waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Monday. Both kids are ill again, it hasn't got to us. Yet. This is a tough time for year for bug-fighting.

"Don't show this recommendation again" | "Don't show any recommendations for a week". Of course there's no option to, you know, turn it off. Modern consumer operating systems, ladies and gentlemen.

My job title has the word 'director' in it. This is like a magnet for LinkedIn recruiters that seem to think I run the whole place. There's loads of us, it's like 'vice president'.

#F1 Logan Sargeant in for another year at Williams. No driver moves at all for 2024.

Thoughts to all affected.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/broadcom-lay-1300-vmware-employees-following-takeover-3957961

Read Doctorow's enshitification essay and it's very good. Describes so many things in tech. The latest of which is YouTube.

Sportscar racing is definitely having a sunshine period, the surge in manufacturer support due to Hypercar, the convergence of IMSA and FIA regs. But, they're fickle. They tend to walk away. Audi and Porsche in particular treat it like their plaything. LMP2/3 filled the gaps in the grid with a cost controlled formula. it's a shame to throw it away.

A superb Racecar Engineering deep dive of the Oreca 07, of LMP2 fame. Probably the most important class of endurance racing, they kept prototype racing alive while all the big manufacturers swanned in and out as they pleased. Dropped from WEC next year, they will only be at Le Mans. #FIAWEC #EnduranceRacing
https://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/rebellion-r1/

I first heard this version at uni in the 90s, and thought I imagined it. A kid in the next door room had it on vinyl and I remember thinking "what the hell is this?" Then I didn't hear it again for 20 years.

The 1986 rework of 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' is such an interesting example of a distinctive and timeless composition being made very, very of it's time. It sounds like Jan Hammer. A weird time capsule of the post-Police Sting dipshittery. I still like it, for all that.
https://youtu.be/8RlUMoWP-Mg