So, Dave pimps Youtube and Top Gear.
So, while I am saving money to pay for MS word (or Steaze gets me a copy), I may be writing more abstract works for a while in the blogger box.
So I'll start with a multi meed post.
Top Gear is probably my favorite show on computer. I say this because I never find it on the proper telly and I am forced to watch google and Gvids.
Tech savvy, peppered with dry humor, smart and smart alecky and hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, who has a devilish avuncular appeal, Top Gear is a show about cars that feels like an action/comedy. The beats and cuts feel more like nothing like a science or consumer review show that it is. Instead of being "this old house" for cars, it's more like an educated "jackass" with a 500 Hp v10 turbo in place of a drunken self destructive motor.
First off, this show works mostly because of the host(s). If America was to do this show, we'd have some beefed up, product enhanced pretty boy like Paul Walker in Fast in the Furious, a cokey le femme who would be more adapted at surgery than reading a spec sheet. The only other options I can think of are ranges of an extreme, a Dog the Bounty Hunter to Matthew Lesko, someone whose main appeal is their eccentricity. Call it the Jesse James syndrome. With the exception of Stewart and Colbert (Daly's 2 year run on TRL begrudingly counts), American TV hasn't had a good TV host/personality since Andy left Conan.
It pisses me off because British TV tends to lead with quality instead of pandering to teen demographics when it comes to doc shows. It doesn't hurt that Clarkson knows that he is living with his dream job. Intelligent and exuberant, he both knows his stuff so anyone familiar around an auto that his spec talk doesn't feel forced, and recklessly cackles as he takes a $80,000 Jaguar out onto a frozen pond for a slalom run. They get Clarkson and Cowells, we have them surrounded by bubbly OTH starlets, vernacular spouting demo grabbers, and an understudy for Ace and Gary.
The revolving co-hosts are terrific as well, both playing up to a role of either pretty boy, femme fatale, or rookie.
On to some clips.
Like I said, the show doesn't feel like a typical hour long about cars. The two best car games on any game system are Gran Turismo and Burnout. The GT series is a virtual museum of dream cars and real world physics. The cars drive like they do in real life, and you can geek out for hours customizing the gear ratios, suspension, and engines for top performance. You spend equal time equipping as you do driving, and you have to learn to drive like pro racers do, taking the perfect line through corners, downshifting vs. braking, and worrying about drag.
Burnout is a video game version of the car chase from Blues Brothers. Recklessness is encouraged. You get boosts for driving on the wrong side of the road, sending opponents into incoming traffic, all in densely populated areas. It's the game for the road rager inside all of us. Plus there is a bonus game where you get points for creating the most monetarily damaging crash.
Top gear is the TV version of the Burnout with the knowledge of the real physics of GT.
First. A clip that answers how to plan the perfect getaway in a parking garage.
jump or watch below.
Next Clarkson gets a test drive with the most expensive car ever made, the Bugatti Veyron.
jump
Teaching the staff of Gray Dawn how to drive like those damn teenagers.
We want our liscences back!
While driving the Ferrari enzo, one wonders, which one's pink. They really have fun with this one. Ps. One more reason why I love this show and brit TV. The music. They actually pull out a track of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless for this one.
Because it's the only way my generation would ever consider playing Polo.
GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLL!
Sadly the google link to the full episode of their recent winter olympics was taken down. It featured a biathalon with an Audi vs Volvo suvs, a test of cold temp endurance with a human vs. a car, an ice hockey game, and the ice driving. Just one of the best hours of TV I have ever watched (three times)
Here's the finale.
3, 2, make rocket go now.
Enjoy.
Dave
So I'll start with a multi meed post.
Top Gear is probably my favorite show on computer. I say this because I never find it on the proper telly and I am forced to watch google and Gvids.
Tech savvy, peppered with dry humor, smart and smart alecky and hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, who has a devilish avuncular appeal, Top Gear is a show about cars that feels like an action/comedy. The beats and cuts feel more like nothing like a science or consumer review show that it is. Instead of being "this old house" for cars, it's more like an educated "jackass" with a 500 Hp v10 turbo in place of a drunken self destructive motor.
First off, this show works mostly because of the host(s). If America was to do this show, we'd have some beefed up, product enhanced pretty boy like Paul Walker in Fast in the Furious, a cokey le femme who would be more adapted at surgery than reading a spec sheet. The only other options I can think of are ranges of an extreme, a Dog the Bounty Hunter to Matthew Lesko, someone whose main appeal is their eccentricity. Call it the Jesse James syndrome. With the exception of Stewart and Colbert (Daly's 2 year run on TRL begrudingly counts), American TV hasn't had a good TV host/personality since Andy left Conan.
It pisses me off because British TV tends to lead with quality instead of pandering to teen demographics when it comes to doc shows. It doesn't hurt that Clarkson knows that he is living with his dream job. Intelligent and exuberant, he both knows his stuff so anyone familiar around an auto that his spec talk doesn't feel forced, and recklessly cackles as he takes a $80,000 Jaguar out onto a frozen pond for a slalom run. They get Clarkson and Cowells, we have them surrounded by bubbly OTH starlets, vernacular spouting demo grabbers, and an understudy for Ace and Gary.
The revolving co-hosts are terrific as well, both playing up to a role of either pretty boy, femme fatale, or rookie.
On to some clips.
Like I said, the show doesn't feel like a typical hour long about cars. The two best car games on any game system are Gran Turismo and Burnout. The GT series is a virtual museum of dream cars and real world physics. The cars drive like they do in real life, and you can geek out for hours customizing the gear ratios, suspension, and engines for top performance. You spend equal time equipping as you do driving, and you have to learn to drive like pro racers do, taking the perfect line through corners, downshifting vs. braking, and worrying about drag.
Burnout is a video game version of the car chase from Blues Brothers. Recklessness is encouraged. You get boosts for driving on the wrong side of the road, sending opponents into incoming traffic, all in densely populated areas. It's the game for the road rager inside all of us. Plus there is a bonus game where you get points for creating the most monetarily damaging crash.
Top gear is the TV version of the Burnout with the knowledge of the real physics of GT.
First. A clip that answers how to plan the perfect getaway in a parking garage.
jump or watch below.
Next Clarkson gets a test drive with the most expensive car ever made, the Bugatti Veyron.
jump
Teaching the staff of Gray Dawn how to drive like those damn teenagers.
We want our liscences back!
While driving the Ferrari enzo, one wonders, which one's pink. They really have fun with this one. Ps. One more reason why I love this show and brit TV. The music. They actually pull out a track of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless for this one.
Because it's the only way my generation would ever consider playing Polo.
GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLL!
Sadly the google link to the full episode of their recent winter olympics was taken down. It featured a biathalon with an Audi vs Volvo suvs, a test of cold temp endurance with a human vs. a car, an ice hockey game, and the ice driving. Just one of the best hours of TV I have ever watched (three times)
Here's the finale.
3, 2, make rocket go now.
Enjoy.
Dave
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10:09 AM
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learn how to use your computer and download Word yourself.
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