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Thursday 29 May 2003

An orgy of toys [slim]

What a night! Big box full of red hot sex arrived from Dabs.com. First out was my new Palm tungsten t. Cor its small, as you can see from the pic. Genuinely palm sized, even in its natty leather case. I've owned a palm pro in the past, and liked it, but found the screen and connectivity options a bit shit. And I can't be doin with batteries. This palm has a 320x320 colour screen, bluetooth, and it charges sat on its cradle. First impressions are that it's a sturdy little thing, fast, and comes with a bevvy of applications that are going to take some time to sort through. More later no doubt!
Next out of the box was a spare hotsync cradle. Yawn! Ok last out of the box was a nice new TFT screen for the shuttle. In case you missed out on my shuttle enthusing in the past, this machine sits near our TV in the living room, it does kids games, it does the wifes work, it does divx, dvd and mp3. It rocks. It's now got a 15' TFT attached to it that also takes composite and svid in. So when the wifes must watch Carol Cunting Smylie destroy peoples homes, I can plug me Cube or PS2 into the TFT and rock on without bleating. Only cost 180 or so from Dabs, and for a couple of quid more you can add a tuner and turn it into a sexy flat screen TV.
And in an amazing act of self control, I actually managed to put all these toys aside, and go out and watch a bit of the TT practice laps. I swear I forget just how fast these mad bastards go until you get out and see them up close. See that big long straight in the first pic? Well here's what it runs into. Spot the gravel run off? No, I don't either. They're fuking mad!

5 comments:

  1. Balls the size of mellons! Love it, can't wait to see it all Slim :) And yes, you have to be clinically insane to race the TT, there's just no room for error, none. At least on a track you can make a bad mistake and walk away with a broken collar bone...

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  2. It does make it very exciting to watch. Those shots are from the first lap of a practice session, so they weren't even pushing it hard, but there was still a few hairy moments that could have easily gone bad. Nice spot to watch for passing that too, not that there's much of that in the TT. Hopefully it'll be fine on saturday so we can get a look at the race.

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  3. Was this far from your house? It seems like a really good spot, you can see them coming from bloody miles away! It'd be nice to see the onboard video 'casts as well though, they're insane.

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  4. It's hillberry corner, so about 10 mins walk from my house. One of the best places to watch actually, unless you want to walk miles. The very best spots are up on the mountain, but you can't get to em without a good hike. I think men and motors are doing on board shit daily this year.

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  5. It should be pointed out that Slim has hands the size of dinner plates; the device shown actually measures 12' across and 2.4' in height. Also not shown is the 3 pin mains lead (of the kettle plug variety) that inserts into the top.

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