Quote from Bose321 :

You have to write for such sites?

ha ha

If you saw her on a website it's probably one I write for.

Quote from Racer X NZ :

What ever the rest of us think of driving in circles there's certainly more money in the states.
A certain kiwi called Scott Dixon has certainly made that clear.

I think a few other kiwis, Bruce McLaren is but one, may have pointed this out a lot earlier.

All the best for your racing Scott, and thanks for your advice and sets in the past.

There's plenty of racing over here that's not in circles. More road course racing than not, probably. NASCAR is just the most commercially successful.

Nasty wreck. I guess he shoulda heeded the warning from that other flip a couple weeks ago.

Awesome result for Kimball yesterday. Dude's been on a steady upward trajectory all season. Nice to see Pagenaud get another podium, too. One of the most likable guys in the sport.

Luca Filippi P5 in combined practice for Mid-Ohio! Very nice result.

Quote from N I K I :

I like the idea of finishing the season with the 24 hours race as it showed that after 24h race interest used to drop in previous seasons. But! Is it really a good idea to have 12h and 24h one after another? Wouldn't it be a little bit more sensible to have at least one 6h in-between? And that it's not a City race in between.

So, plenty of time to do whatevers one wants after the season and 24h race till the next season. However, should we really go that extreme and have 24h right after the 12h race?

For once, I agree with NIKI.

Amateur hour not broadcasting at night...

This isn't technically a racing video, but it's pretty freaking cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeO2q8FzcnM

RIP

http://jalopnik.com/world-supe ... killed-at-mosco-857473546

Quote from JazzOn :

Yeah, obviously their act, but i think here he was really pissed.

This is hilarious (and painful):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGlVtNXLMmA

I'm a big fan of this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqH8JEpSbM

Quote from amp88 :

The lack of IS (for video usage) is one thing that has stopped me from doing so. Also, the 40mm f2.8 pancake might be a better option (yes, it's slower and a bit more expensive than the 50 1.8, but it should provide significantly better image quality) in that (relatively) cheap non-IS standard-ish (though not really, considering I'll be using it on a ~1.6 crop camera) lens area. The 40mm 2.8 also has the STM which should provide better AF performance compared to the 50mm 1.8. Certainly something to think about though.

Or get both. That's what I'd do.

::glances at pile of lenses on his shelf::

You can get one for <$100, so there's very little reason not to.

How you getting along with WP8, Boris?

I should also mention that I'm not the only one at xda bitching about lagginess in 4.2. The prevailing theory seems to be that it's a problem on Google's end, and everyone is hoping it's fixed in 4.3.

I don't download a lot of bullshit apps, but I suppose it's possible something is eating up CPU cycles anyway.

I just came from Paranoid Android 3.5 w/ the latest Franco Kernel nightly, which I loved aside from the lagginess. Now I'm on the latest CM10.1 nightly with whatever the included kernel is (LeanKernel, I think). We'll see how long it runs fast.

Bought FEZ (doesn't run) and Borderlands 2 (to play co-op with a friend) so far.

Quote from Matrixi :

Right, thought you meant you've had issues with more phones than one.

GNexus was pretty much mid-tier in speed even when it came out though, so it's not that surprising, I was more annoyed by the Pentile screen on it rather than the hesitation. High end Android phones in the past couple years have been really snappy from what I've tried. Running One X (with the battery killer Tegra 3) on CM10.1 myself, and it never hesitates or drops under 60 FPS in general usage.

I just can't see the point in moving to iOS or WP8 from Android. You're just locking yourself in to a closed garden, along with very limited app support on the WP platform.

I've had these issues on more than one phone, but the GNex is the most powerful one I've owned.

It's not the most powerful phone, but it should be plenty to run Android smoothly. And it does, sometimes. Whenever I install a new ROM, it's great for a week or two and then gradually slows down to the point of being a pain in the ass to use. Today, for instance, I installed CM10.1 and it's flying again—but I know it won't last.

At this point, the excitement of a million apps and whatnot has worn off for me, and I really only use my phone for a few specific tasks—primarily, texting, audiobooks, music (Spotify), web browsing (Chrome), reading news (Pocket), navigation, and taking photos. All of the major mobile OSes can do those things, so the depth of the ecosystem is essentially a non-issue for me (though staying with Android would admittedly be ideal to maintain the integration with Google services).

My main wants for my next phone are (in no particular order):
-Best camera I can get
-Best battery life I can get
-Smoothest, most reliable interface I can get
-Best build quality/design I can get

So my main contenders at the moment are:
1. HTC One (camera, design/build, smoothness?)
2. Nokia Lumia 928 (camera, design/build, smoothness)
3. iPhone 5/6 (camera, design/build, smoothness)
4. Samsung Galaxy Note II (battery life, smoothness?)

I'd love to test drive the Lumia 1020, but AT&T is a no-go for me. Oh well.

Loved having Matchett on these broadcasts.

Yeah, we'll see what happens with that. Seems like a pretty major error in judgment to me.

Quote from Matrixi :

Which high end Android phones have been lagging for you?

TBH I'd go for the One Google Edition running vanilla Android. It's as smooth as silk.

The Galaxy Nexus, as I said.

The problem is that it's really smooth most of the time, but occasionally it'll lag for 5-10 seconds just opening an app or waiting for a press to register. Seems entirely random and it's annoying as hell. Oh, and battery life is terrible, too. (Though I think that's mainly due to 4G.)

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Quote from Gougoodthing :

No, they said that it was waved off before they started.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7BIMBMme6k

What? They did the formation laps, arrived on the grid, Newgarden had his issue, and they waved it off.

Been playing around with a Lumia 620 for the past week and I'm really enjoying it so far. Way more than my Galaxy Nexus, anyway.