New oneEleven Life - Andretti Winery & sidebar on CharlieX

[The Stig]

I guys
The last couple of time we release this online magazine you guys liked it so here's another one. This time we interviewed Mario Andretti on his winery and Lotus. And we also did a side bar about our mad ecu tuner Charlie Wallace (CharlieX)... just another video game programer... not quite

Thanks for all your support... enjoy the magazine.

http://www.sector111.com/images/gall...e/Nov_2007.pdf

Neil

[Audiophile]

I had dinner with Mario Andretti in 03, what a class act and all around nice guy, a very grounded and "normal" considering the legacy surrounding him. Nice job!

[Lotusmotion]

Nice read!

[NRG x Elise]

awesome pictures

[The Stig]

Originally Posted by NRG x Elise

awesome pictures

Yap... BTW, all the photos of the Spyder were taken by Daniel Song aka NRGxElise

Neil

[charliex]

hmm i've been edited

[NRG x Elise]

Originally Posted by The Stig

Yap... BTW, all the photos of the Spyder were taken by Daniel Song aka NRGxElise

Neil

*sniff sniff* you give me more recongition than my mom

when we shooting the exige?

[The Stig]

Our interview with Charlie was a bit longer and I didn't have enough room to fit it all in one page. But I thought the answers were worth post
Enjoy

What are your hobbies outside of work?

I'll let you know as soon as I get to stop working. But mostly I paint, airbrushing and so on, spent years doing watercolours only to discover the person who'd told me it was the easiest to do, was lying.

Beyond that I do a lot of social engineering, as you're about to find out.

What is monkey tuna software?

Its software that I developed to allow me to real time tune the engine management system inside the cars. Its written in Assembly Language/C/C++ and uses Microsoft's Foundation Classes, its developed on Windows XP with Microsoft Developer Studio Version 6.

There is an emulation engine inside it that allows it to run the same software as the ECU does, allowing it to be quite accurate.

It'll show you the real time systems inside the ecu as you tune it, including diagnostic systems only see inside at factory, though they were a bit miffed about this, so they removed the capabilities on later cars, i put them back the next day.

Its a bit of game/distraction for me, unfortunately due to the political climate we're in today, its not always appreciated by our friends in Norfolk, but i do try to appease them, I'm a Lotus enthusiast first and foremost, and i don't want anything bad to happen to them, though i'm sure they might not reciprocate that thought !

What is it that drives/motivates/inspires you?

Satan. See those new wheels Sector111 just brought out, think that's a coincidence do you?

What’s up with the floppy hair?

The dude abides, which honestly I have no idea what it means, but it sounds cool. I used to have blue hair, and a Mohawk but you can't be a Lotus owner with a Mohawk because the flat cap will keep falling off, my lotus mechanic believes I have a blonde cat.

Possibly it’s because it grows quickly, and I never get much time to cut it. Recently my friends have started to see some resemblance between myself and Doc Brown from back to the future, which is odd because the fellow that pointed it out is the one with a delorean, I suppose at the time I did have lots of electronics and wiring running around while I was reprogramming a friend's ECU.

What is your favorite Vegas hotspot?

Bellagio hotel, my friends try to persuade me to abdicate to the Wynn, and it is great at the Wynn, but they just don't have the appeal of the Bellagio , which has some fantastic engineering feats such as the fountains, and the chocolate fountain, the glass ceilings, art galleries, etc, my friends countered with but the Wynn has special pads in the urinals to avoid unfortunate splashing, but for some reason I wasn't really swayed by that.

Other than that I often head to the Double Down which is a punkish bar, the pinball museum and occasionallyI hang outside Wayne Newton's house dressed in a red gingham dress with knee high Doc martens handing out pamphlets for scientology...

[Cali]

Hilarious!

[Lotus-Position]

I love the humor! Seems like a lot of Scots have this inate skill to make me laugh.

The real question is "why Vegas"? It's like someone dropped barbie's castle in the middle of the cat box.

All I can think about when I drive from the airport to the strip is "don't you people realize all this stuff is built with the 'shake' from the real money these gus are making off you?".

Plus, all the illegal immagrants handing out the stripper club cards... pathetic.

So, CharlieX: why Vegas of all places... it's a far cry from Sterling Castle dude!

[Lotus-Position]

Oh, and BTW... wasn't William Wallace born in Northumbria?

[charliex]

House prices mainly, plus i love the strip , and its just too cold and crowded in los angeles, lots of things to do, lots of empty roads with no people and wild donkeys.

No he wasn't, he was born in either renfrewshire(close to where i grew up) or ayrshire(where i was born) no ones exactly sure, the wallace memorial is very close to where i grew up though.

Almost everyone where i'm from though is a wallace though, we're all related.

strangely wallace means from wales, and charles means man, so literally 'man from wales', or depending who you talk to visitor man.

thank heaven i'm not from san diego, or as it would literally translate 'man from whale's vagina'. that would have made an interesting day at school when we made our own shields and heraldry.

[Beanie]

Cool!