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  1. Nothing says love like the unmistakable sound of a super ball bouncing off the ceiling and breaking something. Happy Valentine's Day everyone.
  2. here's a nice illustration
  3. it's called "Flower" by Moby /edited to add: Green sally up And green sally down Last one squat Gotta tear the ground Old miss lucy's dead and gone Left me here to weep and mourn confused? yeah so was I this website explains the lyrics
  4. black coffee. I'm not picky on my brand but I have to make it myself so I can make it strong* (*you know what the contents of your filter look like when your coffee is done? that's what my coffee looks like.)
  5. damn, you beat me, actually, you had this before I even found the thread, but here's what I found
  6. oops, I only locked it so I didn't accidentally change things, just go to tools>protection>unprotect sheet to be able to edit anything. I haven't had to cutaway yet, but I figured 120 bucks should buy you a repack and maybe a new cutaway handle if you dropped it using two hands on your reserve handle. I realize this causes problems with my scheduled repack calculations because let's say you get a repack, and then 30 days later you have a cutaway, well you would have had to get a repack in 90 days, but now you got one and you can go another 120. I don't know anyone who would go and get a repack 90 days later anyway, but that makes the math easier The default values I used for gear cost were done for new gear. Obviously used gear is going to be cheaper up front, but it will already have jumps on it. I have the lifetime expectancies to figure out how often you'd replace the items, and those calculations "don't care" when along the life of an item you bought it. I thought about jumpsuits, helmets, logbooks, altimeters, and gloves after I already made the post, hmm, maybe I'll add them in there....
  7. You'll notice there's no reference to any costs whatsoever besides skydiving on that spreadsheet. This is not a coincidence.
  8. champu

    Outkast

    I hate to kill the party but he's saying "eargasm"
  9. This is prolly one of the top two questions asked by people about skydiving. And as my school's club pres I've gotten to the point where I can rattle off every price of everything at our dropzone in a heart beat. Then people ask how much -I- pay per jump. And while I usually just tell them how much I pay for jump tickets I don't really consider all the other stuff, so I made a little spreadsheet to play with. Basically you can change anything in the "Used For" and "Variables" column. I tossed values in there that I think are pretty reasonable but if you think it's an outrage to pay W for X or get a new Y every Z then feel free to change it. my Average cutaway cost is assuming you find your main and D-bag but still need a repack and lose one of your two handles. If you want to play the worst case scenario game, feel free. I know there's no spot for main packjobs, that's because I don't use packers. If you do, and you really want to account for it, there's a magical trick you can use... Oh, and before anyone says anything, yes I realize it doesn't include gas, beer, pies, divorce lawyers, etc.
  10. I just opened it up mostly just to get chatzilla working again...
  11. This isn't my engineering field, but if my understanding of nuclear weapons serves me correctly... A poorly maintained nuclear weapon, but one that is still capable of functioning would most likely result in a smaller explosion, but a greater level of environmental contamination, particularly a low-yeild device such as these "suitcase bombs" I think "is still capable of functioning" could be a pretty big if though. Nuclear weapons don't exactly have wide-open tolerances, let's just hope that, if they are out there, they didn't come with detailed care instructions.
  12. hey, remember when everyone was saying how aol's im service sucked in that other thread? yeah it's been working fine... just in case anyone was wondering...
  13. I'd like to know what kind of backwards place you pay $250 for a jump ticket and only $75 for a rig
  14. March 10, 2052 at the age of 69 years old. On that date you will most likely die from: Horrible Accident (26%) Cancer (15%) Alcoholism (11%) Heart Attack (7%) Alien Abduction (5%) Contagious Disease (5%) Drowning (5%) Auto-Fellatio (5%)
  15. I have DSL, and it took me about 5 seconds to load the page... this is a bad thing, particularly since the internet is still about 2/3 dial-up users. I have a few comments. the 100KB animated gif is not a real good idea, particularly for the front page of the site. Another issue you're going to face when using a program like microsoft publisher, is that you are going to get big html too, that page is ~95KB of code, all to do what could probably be done in about 5KB of code (an average page on this forum is on the order of 30KB) I'd say no page should really be above 100KB (text + images) and the front page of the site should be even more stingy, maybe more like 60KB. The site looks good, but you'd do yourself good to try and ween your way off of publisher sooner rather than later.
  16. yeah I read about that, one of my "mac friends" sent it to me trying to start an arguement about how dumb and subborn PC users are and how great macs are and it's all built in and all the software you need is included and they're pretty and blah blah blah... It didn't work though, cause there's really no arguing the fact that what this guy pretended to do was stupid.
  17. champu

    Crazy! SFW

    I think it's kinda cool that something like this can happen, and yet there are doctors that, with a lot of talent and a little luck, can give this girl a chance. That said, obligitory "laughing at tragedy" response... "always knew that kid would make it, she really had a couple heads on her shoulders"
  18. http://people.kldp.org/~eunjea/jargon/?idx=holy-wars.html
  19. Don't know about a foot and a half of snow, but 2 inches of ice and 4 inches of snow made for a pretty fun landing. Just be sure to give yourself some extra room to slide before any obstacles
  20. I've seen snow... I've seen plenty of snow... I'm out of here at the earliest convenience.