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On the contrary grasshopper... Yet another example of why not to take survival advise over the Internet. There is a scene in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where they keep getting slapped by these things that pop up. I would discuss any rig fit advice with a rigger.

Cats roam around in the kitchen and get on the counters. Sometimes, they stray to close to the stove and singe their little furry parts. They take away different lessons from the experience. Some cats will never get on a counter again, because it is somehow linked to a stove. Some cats will never get near a stove again, hot or cold. Some will learn to approach slowly and look for signs of temperature. They act according to their observations. They learn that their are hot and cold stoves. Funny how cats are.

This year, I will be spending twice as much on Valentines Day as I did last year.

Yes, immediately. Bigway organizers are excellent for grammar correction. That is the first step in being considered for large organized skydives. Use the correct "clique" instead of "click". "Click" has too much of an internet sub-theme. You want to go with the foreign sounding "clique" so that you sound more educated. The internet is your friend. WomenInPrison.com can introduce you to a wide variety of women who will be dating in 1-3 years (depending) on behavior.

And Lindsay Lohan is teaching kids that if they have enough money, they can be caught with bags of coke in their pockets while driving drunk at high speeds... but not have any repercussions. Paris Hilton is all about casual sex with the entire US population. Hollywood isn't promoting your messages.

Great news.

This is not correct, unless your body weight is so low that one beer equal .08. Most of us would be well under the limit still. One big caveat to these simple numbers is that one GOOD beer is probably more alcoholic, and bigger, than their reference "one can of Bud." I looked it up. It depends on your weight. You are correct - One beer will not put you over the limit unless you weigh less than 110. At 180 lbs, three beers will (and that is many people). clicky Over the course of an hour, the alcohol metabolizes at a rate of .015. So, in two hours .03 metabolizes. However, if you had 4 beers in 2 hours, you are way over the limit.

Another stumbling block on my road to the presidency. - I can't dance. - I can't play the sax. - various sordid videos probably exist.

+1 That is what Sally taught me in the tunnel and it is way more effective than the "beach ball" method. It becomes obvious in the tunnel, where it can be measured immediately.

"i was doing this while you were still in high school" I've heard that before. I was so tired of dealing with the attitude that I told him, "Yes, but that was the wrong way". At some point, people have to realize that a job involves doing whatever you are paid to do. That "whatever you are paid to do" is defined by who you report to. Whenever I have team lead responsibilities, I think about why I am doing that. Most of the time, people are not as productive as I am. So, I am get disappointed with their work, but I coach them. Also, remember that the working world can be an ironic place. The person who was my boss on one job, may report to me on the next. Or, they may be at a company when I apply there and say, "No thanks. No interview." So, your boss is working with this guy for social reasons. Identify the issues clearly to your boss, but illustrate that you are handling the situation in some fashion. Otherwise, your inability to deal with it may limit your future. Remember, your job skills are supposed to include handling problems with subordinates. (If you can't handle 4 people, then you never get to manage 40.) Your boss will probably have a quiet conversation with the person. The most important thing is, you will not request that conversation. "Do I need to do anything?" "No, I just wanted your input on handling this."

There used to be a joke going around that the Dallas Cowboys were going to have a great team in 2-to-5 years. Some team members had been sent to jail for a variety of offenses. In the US, professional athletes are routinely not prosecuted for all sorts of crimes. The crimes against other people are the crimes that concern me. Crimes of violence are a greater problem that they don't seem to address.

Private enterprises are given public funds, often in the form of tax break incentives, all the time to re-locate (or keep) their facilities one place or another (factories are a typical example of this). The idea being, the investment of public funds pays off as the business contributes to the local economy in multiple ways, both directly and via ripple-effect. There is a large difference between a tax break and what happened locally. They give them tax breaks, and they also used public funds to build a $300 million football stadium. The old stadium was working fine, but did not have enough "skyboxes". Skyboxes are where the big-cash seats are. $300 mil takes a long time to repay because it will somehow affect the economy. Remember, 26 games a year is 13 home games. It did make the football franchise worth $1 billion though. A manufacturing concern, across the bay, employs more than 2000 people, not just 25 millionaires. That is the business worth attracting with incentives.

There are two problems. One is going low. The second is what to do when you get there. There are certain mechanical solutions. I once jumped with a guy we called "Big Pat". 6'5" and something like 320 lbs. His suit remedies were extreme because of his size. He didn't do a lot of lateral movement, but he could stay in a slot. So, one of the best immediate solutions is to talk to Tony about suit changes. - swoop cords - polycotton fabric - puffy sleeves You know Scotty B. I did a lot of RW jumps with him in his early days. Good suits make a difference. He is a source of info. I do a lot of different jumps, so I have swoop cords and a set of pull-on puffy cotton sleeves. I weigh 200 and came out 18th on a 22-way last weekend. You suit will allow you to fly in the middle of your range. You don't want to struggle all the time. My second suggestion is to go over to the tunnel with Sally and work on getting back up. I did that and it worked wonders. You don't want to worry about fallrate all the time or it will ruin some of the fun.

If you are under 6'5", you need to pick a career other than the NBA. If you are not 6'5" and 280 lbs, NFL lineman is not for you. The entry criteria to professional sports is not necessarily skill, it can be just simple genetics. Genetics is just a crapshoot. Steriods are modern medicine. My only objection to professional sports is that they are given public funds to build a venue (stadium) for a private enterprise.

The relationship of "DUI" offenses and the Calif problem is the criminalization of the entire population. In Florida, BAC of .08 is a DUI. The estimate is that it takes one hour for each beer to get out of your system. If you drink two beers in one hour and leave a bar, you are over the legal limit. So, essentially 98% of people that I know have been over the DUI limit before. Enforcement at that level has developed into a revenue stream, and not protecting the public. The prison system is now an industry.

When I worked at Kmart years ago, I was in the clothing department. They sold reinforced spandex shorts in a size 46 waist. Now... there is nothing illegal about selling those shorts. It seems morally offensive, if only from an aesthetic perpective, but not illegal. As long as people are buying them, and the company is making big money - size 46 spandex shorts will always exist - regardless of the righteous indignation of the public. Lots of things work that way.

I plan to spend the day consoling the girlfriends of cheap, unromantic, heartless bastards by listening intently while they share their feelings with me. ...and then knocking the bottom out of it.

Do you have a Super-8 movie projector?

I never let reality interfere with my enjoyment of the day. You would get along well in mgt at my company. "Our MBA program... educating people beyond their intelligence every day."

Years ago, I was working on an interstate overpass. We were setting beams on top of the caps. A truck crane pulled in and set a beam. Then, it lowered the boom and backed up to set another one... without lowering the gantry. It pushed the beam off and it flattened a pickup to a height of 4 inches. Plus, it took the back half of the truck-crane off. It seems like all the yelling, screaming, and noise would have signalled an issue, but no. Ya got to pay more attention in some circumstances.

I've heard it said that if you halve the distance between you and an object - and then do that repeatedly, you'll never reach it. That's how I stop at stoplights.

How about that Mars Lander ? One little math error and it is Mar's flattest extraterrestrial object. "Frikkin' meters..."

I never let reality interfere with my enjoyment of the day.

Perhaps a "newer" version of the AN-2. It just doesn't have that "flying bus with squeaky mechanical brakes" look to it.

Attraction varies with the distance from the Earth, so that is not a constant. Obviously, you can get far enough away that you are not even attracted by gravity.