Week Thirty-One In Which I Find Myself Afeared & Wrathful!

When I was at Uni, my cool friends all read 2000AD. It was a comic published in the 80’s before they were seen as cool again and the lead reason for purchase was Judge Dredd. He was a future cop and was police, courts and executioner in one. Incidentally, there’s a new film on the way, that shall be faithful to the source material. Not that I was much of a fan, I just knew about it. But I am so much not a fan of the modern day version, who after pulling me for driving like an arse, wanted to punish more than the offence warranted, so thought he would menace me and try to put the fear of God in me during the pull and talky bit.
Odd for one so huge but I have never had to be tough and rugged about anything as let’s face it, you just wouldn’t want to find out if 23 stone, six foot two Adam Rayner was a lover or a fighter, would you? I was terrified and spent two months in a living hell of fear.
So I was stupefied into actual dumbfoundedness when I was told by the beak that it was £325 and five points. I am so not proud of myself, I cannot tell you (but I shall save the details, hopefully to sell the lot to a glossy) but despite my clean licence, I am an expert. In the thick end of thirty years of driving, I used to get pulled an awful lot and back in the Eighties and early Nineties, things really were different. It was pre the universal sharing of data and it just cost Dad more on the insurance on the ‘shared’ car. (That’s another thing that has been rightly tightened up) And I have had meetings at roadsides with so many officers, (only ever for going too fast, nothing else) that I can tell that something else was going on here. But only afterwards, in retrospect&;.
I remain convinced it was two things. He had someone pull out on him in his unmarked car during his pursuit and so I got out of contact with him for a while, which he took personally. And then, well, the real offence was Being A Fat Bastard. Like a club doorman, he figured he’d put the frighteners on me first. Trouble is, I’m an FB with a pen, er keyboard.
OK, enough vitriol, back to the records&;
The upcoming review of the Sony XAV-601BT double DIN AV head unit shall be laid out a new way I think, as it will make it easier to grasp the bones first. I have secured permission from the Dude (son) to use his HTC ThingummyBob Phone running on PiffleCream Glory, or whatever the ruddy operating system is called, to try out the MirrorLink system that the unit employs for Android phones.
The Celsus Ice ‘Installing Excellence’ training session last week was brilliant. It was sweltering as we filmed the Paser Maestro iPod system sat in the Celsus Scirocco before it began. Paser’s Gianluca Pedrazzi and Manuel Bregolin were suave stars, while I melted down in the back seat! It was the first outdoors use of the brand new Talk Audio Sony HDR-CX730E Handycam. All part of the sponsorship of TATV by Sony. I am still in the process of playing with the Bluetooth microphone system and fluffy-bunny protected directional mic I requested, as well. Dead excited about getting more advanced
I have started a product video for the GZ Nuclear GZNW6.5 subwoofer and need to do the test-rig-running end piece to complete it. That aughta be soon. Meanwhile, I shall go get cracking as Sony need their leading edge MirrorLink Unit for someone else to play with and I have got lots more to test.
Last but not least, it’s Ultimate Street Car this weekend at Santa Pod. Check out details here: link
Right, let’s see how much we can get done, then.
Adam Rayner On Line Editor