Week Fifty: In Which R-P Is Full Of Win!

If you have a shufty on the Presenterbloke channel on YouTube, as well as being labelled inside the Talk Audio TV system under ‘˜Products’, you’ll find the Pioneer Appradio. It’s a huge step forwards and has been kept to an astonishingly keen selling price of £350 or a bit less, depending upon retailer. (I gather CAD list it at £299.99) The processor isn’t quite as rapid as the Late Mister Jobs’ company would have been able to charge for, so the speed and responsiveness of the first capacitive touch screen in in-car electronics isn’t quite as absurdly slick as an Apple but it is brilliant. I have also got wind of some whingers who complain about some facets of the system as it stands, utterly without understanding that the in-car application has a massive responsibility way over and above that of the distraction levels of iPhone/iPad/iPod Apps. There are big buttons and so forth and above all, a very new SDK. So the apps are still largely a canvas yet to paint. I am bloody impressed and it has so many sexy iPlop DNA cues taken on in homage by the UK design input of our very own Mr. Girish Janday of UK arm of Pioneer, that is has real eye candy appeal too.
The In-Time-For-Christmas Swag is awarded to R-P as a Fusion Chap I called liked his entry best. Monkey Biz gets the flashy Fusion lanyard and then whomever two of you that messages me first (of those who answered last week’s call-to-swag) will get the dts Blu-Ray. Note: you will, of course need a BluRay player to play thisnot included!
All you need do is PM me with your address details of where you would like the stuff posted to… and that’s it! Talk Audio will cover P&P. All I need is the beard, as I have the jollity and girth, for sure
Our bonkers Christmas grotto is now up, like some folks’ mad houses, but all inside the living room and best of all, my spirits are lifted by having finished a vile pile of accounts, long overdue. I do have a last-minute deadline on some lovely-looking Canton home speakers upon me but will strive to get some juicy stuff up rapidly
Lastly and leastly, pathetic excuse for my late posting of ‘˜This Week’ is that it was my birthday on Friday, (along with Donny Osmond and Coronation Street) and I went off to do a Radio 2 spot with Jeremy Vine and then some Christmas victualling at Selfridges’ Food Hall. (joi!) When I got there, there were fourteen paps and barriers across the pavement. I hung about, then went and muttered to the security bloke about having a ‘˜spot’ to do on Vine. He said, ‘Who are you here to pick up?’. I said, ‘Sorry mate, I am actually here to be on the wireless It’s what’s called having a good face for radio!’. He chuckled, let me in and then told me, sotto voce that it was ‘˜Kylie’.
And sure enough, five minutes after the thoroughly lovely chap called Tim had come and collected me from the foyer and installed me in the Radio 2 greenroom/waiting area, the door opens and in strolls Kylie Minogue and her small entourage. (three people)
As the radio feed was piped into our area, as much as anything for all staff to monitor their station’s output, you could hear the tune clearly and a relaxed and happy La Minogue was singing along gently for her own schoolgirly-singing-happily reasons as any lass serving chips in a chippy. Except even gently, her voice rings like a pearly bell of loveliness and this old sod of a sound engineer, who so loves the female vocal, had a bit of a birthday moment. There was an audience of just us four, briefly!
But best of all, were all the lovely messages from friends and associates last Friday. There were LOTS! And I loved it. Thank you all so very much.
Adam Rayner Online Editor