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You could always make a sticker that says "I LOVE RAINBOWS (NOT GAY)" and I'm sure it would get your point across without any confusion. And regarding the Gay Boogie... Themed boogies like this are really just for a change of pace. I made a lot of really cool skydives during Chick's Rock last year, and I'm on the DVD for about 10 seconds, 8 of which are me funneling a hybrid but you know what, who cares? I don't need the spotlight on me all the time, the boogie was about chicks, so the spotlight was on them.

"So this family walks into a talent agency..." "Well that's a hell of an act, what do you call it?"

Someone else's suffering doesn't make me feel any better, even if they are bad. I guess I'm odd that way. I just want the threat removed. Odd or not, it's hard to argue in favor of wrath. I think it would do us best to capture him, and then have whatever comes next be as long... boring... drawn-out... and anti-climactic as possible.

I'm not getting wasted... I just got too much sun... ...on the inside of my stomach.

Please go write "I will not hijack threads." 100 times on a sheet of notebook paper! That was pretty blatant, wasn't it?

okay I lied, but only cause I really like this photo... ...probably my three favorite women

All I have to say was that Chicks Rock ruled

It's certainly dangerous, but the way you make things safer is simply by respecting the dangers they present. In other words, don't think you can't kill or severely hurt yourself, and you probably won't. Also, I didn't drop the news on the parents until I had an A license and a rig. I felt at that point I'd be better equipped to field any questions they might have.

Besides, sometimes bleeping makes things funnier.

You're absolutely right, I don't work for a demolition crew, and I don't work for an NTSB aircraft accident investigation crew. But I've taken enough physics, design, applied mechanics, and science of material courses as part of my engineering degrees to know when I'm listening to someone compare apples and oranges. There was simply no precedent for what would happen if a fully fueled jet airliner flying at or near full speed hit an occupied building of the size and specific design of the WTC. Showing me videos of the B-25 that hit the Empire State Building is useless because that plane weighed 1/6 what a 757 weighs, and was going between 1/3 and 1/2 the speed. Showing me video of buildings with traditional internal lattice structures burning and not collapsing is useless because that was completely not how the WTC was built. And would someone explain to this guy you don't have to melt metal to weaken/severly deform it? Why does he keep showing me the periodic table and rattling off melting points?

I really try and put forth an honest effort to stay open-minded when I watch videos like this, figuring I'm not going to agree with all of it, but that maybe I can let those parts go and focus on other points I find interesting. I have a pretty easy time simply accepting or rejecting excerpts from documents that an author wants to spin one way or the other, with an understanding that other people will be more or less skeptical than I am, and that their lines in the sand may not coincide with my own. But when someone starts trying to pass off hand-waving arguments about how plane crashes and building demolitions work just because they've seen a couple episodes of Engineering Disasters on The History Channel, it really, how shall we say... grinds my gears. What are in-the-moment blatherings from news reporters and footage of assorted debris plumes supposed to prove regarding a catostrophic failure of two fully-populated 110 story buildings in a dense urban setting, an event that had probably never even been modeled before, let alone observed? Gather up four people with 30 jumps each, tell them to launch a Q, and then when they get down, ask them why the exit funneled.

Over 400 jumps and I still consider myself an infant in the sport. I think most people do. I certainly do. That's because most people compare themselves with their contemporaries and "elders", rather than comparing themselves to people with signifigantly less experience than them. Talking about how much better a canopy pilot Jay Moledzki is than you makes you a humble learner. Talking about how much better you are at freeflying than an AFF level 8 makes you a jackass.

You forgot the blowjob. No no, you don't want to give a woman too much to remember at once... let her get back with the beer and the sammich first.

Generally at least 8,000 hours, but most qualitiy bulbs last closer to twice that. Any hardware store will prolly have them. And bring your old bulb with you, they should be able to recycle it.

/note: I edited this post to align the tone more accurately with how I actually feel. Driving a vehicle that gets 10mpg because it has shiny wheels, airlifting food into a country because it has starving children, and drinking beer are all short-sighted and superficial practices people use to make themselves feel better. I choose the latter because it's the most cost-effective of the three.

I'd definitely go with crutchfield. They give you good directions for your car, and in most cases they'll give you the wiring harness for your car and the dash adapter (some plastic bits that will make the square peg fit in a round hole) for free which together will cost you about 30 bucks from bestbuy or circuit city. If you buy a head unit that specifically calls out ipod compatability, make sure you don't need some external $150 add on box to actually make it work (unless you want to go that route.) Also, and this was a big one for me, keep in mind that a lot of head units that interact with the ipod will disable the user interface on the ipod when connected to it, forcing you to use their, often much more irritating, user interface on the head unit itself. I went for a simple head unit that had an aux input on the back, and I just use it as a volume knob and a clock. Don't know what your budget is, but it's hard to go wrong with something like this. Depending on your car it could be a piece of cake or a severe pain in the ass to do the install. The most difficult part is usually figuring out the "trick" to get the dashboard apart. Some manufacturers do some crazy shit with snap in panels and bolts that must have been installed by friggin trained gnomes or something. But having crutchfield's install guide will help you out a great deal.

I doubt it's uncommon to feel guilt over one's own impassivity, but you can't force yourself to react emotionally to something. I don't think I'd ever consider it a shortcoming. Besides, your ability to accept things over which you have no control, if anything, makes you a greater asset to your mother at this point in time.

Yes, but only if the decision to give her the job or not give her the job can be modeled accurately as a random process which, arguably, it can not.

I carry a hook knife on my rig, but as long as my main isn't wrapped around me, a malfunction is going to drive me to my cutaway handle, not my hook knife. I trust my rigger better than that, and besides, a reline costs more than a reserve packjob.

good answer.

Don't forget to give the vat or whatever it's in a good stir first, if the whole mess has settled and you draw your 20-30 samples from the same location you'll still get a skewed number.

Yeah, lets go with that. It's been 48 hours since the jump occured so i'm immune.

Exercise caution here. A blown fuse is usually an indication of something else failing. They are typically in circuit to protect the system from excessive current draws so you may have another problem Also be aware that the magnetron that generates the microwave energy can give you an unhealthy belt or may emit the microwave radiation if you try running the unit with the covers off. Good advice... Basically, go ahead and replace the fuse, put it all back together, and fire it up. If it appears to be working fine, it probably is. If the new fuse blows, I'd scrap the whole thing and get a new one.

The song is called "Skies", it's by Rektor and this is a remix by Nils Noa & Tronso /eta: Nothing /eta: wait a second, if that's 2.65km, then that duck is over 3400 feet tall

What he said. Oh and by the way Chuck... you're going down.