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Morning Discussion

by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Mar 17, 2008 5:00am PDT

So let's start this whole "week" thing, shall we? If you're going to be fully educated in regards to your next seven days, then hopefully the Shack will be key in achieving that. First off, you can learn about said week's new games via the Release List courtesy of Faylor. After that, you'll be quizzed on something entirely different by Nick with another course of Sunday School. Plus, sometimes you randomly get educated by just being a Shacker, like the other day when a nice lad from Valve dropped the 411 on how exactly medic healing works.

























  • Toured the Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky today.

    No cameras allowed, which I thought was a little silly, until I saw it, in all it's glory...

    A red ZR1, sitting just beyond final assembly in the testing area. We just walked right by it, it wasn't pointed out or anything. I stopped our tour guide, who said he doesn't officially show it or introduce it, since it's pre-production, and he doesn't know if he'll get in trouble to show it off at this point. We saw a couple yellow parts carts around (production carts are green) stamped "Prototype" loaded with carbon fiber parts, mostly roof panels.

    So hot. Also cool was watching them fire it up on a rolling road (4 wheel, not really a dyno as it doesn't monitor power output). They pull it on the machine, a large TV drops in front of the windshield and tells them how to run through the test. You could see it monitoring how much fuel trims were being adjusted in closed loop, and a pass-fail for the car was given. Cool stuff.