champu
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And sports scores in the corner of the screen can cause trouble. unless something better rolls around when I'm setting up my next place, I'll likely get an LCD (or DLP) rear-projection television.
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Hell no, I want free legos.
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tabbed message windows for all your conversation sorting needs. I use deadaim, there's also gaim and aim+ that I hear work but I haven't used. I'm assuming you're using aol's instant messenger service
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I'm not for sale, but rental prices are very reasonable
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There is always grad school. Think of it as the snooze alarm for reality. I'm going to work while I go to grad school (so the company I work for can pay for it )
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I think the "typo" may have come from this post: Which has an error in it. Yes it is "just a substitution code", but a variable character length one whose overall design is really pretty cool (even though it is apparently missing a few letters ) For a couple characters I remember just saying, "aw screw it, I'm just going to guess the division is here, if it works it works, if it doesn't, I'll find out right soon" so my work has a few scratchouts and arrows all over it.
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well, I do like your sig-line. It's probably the only appropriate use of the code... just out of curiousity, after you had the second clue and knew which phrase it was (thanks bmcd308) how long did you spend chugging away at it? it took me about three and a half hours (I got to this page with the new hints around midnight) and I did it with pen and paper. I know someone mentioned it, but after the last few days I have about 5 pages of numbers, alphabets all lined out with patterns next to them, the original message in octal and 5bit break downs in all the directions, various partially decoded sentence fragments... I must say, I kinda look like a lunatic.
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I remember hanging out with some friends on a sand bar in the atlantic off of Ft Lauderdale beach. I caught a glipse of something out of the corner of my eye what looked like a floating log or something. Just as I turn to it thinking "hmm, odd place for a log to-" it vanished. I looked around for a few seconds and finally spotted him about 10ft from where he was only now he was just inches off the bottom, about a 3.5ft barracuda. until I recognized what it was, that had a pretty decent pucker factor
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Lisa needs braces. Dental Plan. Lisa needs braces. Dental Plan. Lisa need braces.
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would anyone consider useful, or does anyone who teaches packing classes consider passing the rig through the risers and showing the participants in the class what a step-through looks like when you walk the lines out? (it's pretty screwy looking even before you get half way to the canopy) Or should it be enough to show them what the lines are supposed to look like and say, "if it doesn't look like this, something is wrong."
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You know you'd think they could round up an Otter for the man...
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I'm a student during the usual school year. My work during the summer is classified, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
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BZZZZZZZ wrong. "ain't never too cold." would just mean "there is a time when it's too cold." not "it's always too cold." anyway If the plane can't fly... we still don't know if it's too cold to jump, because there's no way to try it. right... when our molecules stop, we probably won't be up for skydiving.
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very cool, I'm sure whuffos get a kick out of "all that for four seconds" Also, I think I fail to see Steve Irwin's point. I don't really care what he wants to do, but If what he was doing was teaching his kid about safety around crocs, then Michael Jackson dangling that kid off a balcony a while back was teaching the kid about safety while washing windows.
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Halo is like crack.
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well another thing about the three bit code that interests me is that there are three rows of characters on the dvd, perhaps each column is a character, and each octal digit can represent more than one letter and context distinguishes? Also, because they inserted punctuation, I think it's safe to assume punctuation can't be represented. Spaces maybe though... I'll try and see if this goes anywhere... /eta: this is rather quickly turning into a nightmare
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Going to make jump 4 in the morning.
champu replied to dkf1979's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Don't sweat it*, you'll do fine. *I doubt anyone will do much sweating tomorrow -
I think the areas where graduated students perform better or worse is more specific to the school than the training method. A properly trained student by either approach is going to be competent in freefall and under canopy. Being decent at either is going to take hundreds of jumps, and being good is going to take thousands. Whichever way you pick you'll be fine as long as you are dedicated to it and take it seriously. I'd recommend against hopping between programs though. The last thing you need as a student is to change a bunch of stuff.
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Fridge: ketchup, hot relish, cream cheese, half gallon of milk that's probably no good, most of a 24pk of pepsi, hotdogs, pasta sauce, 12pk of Hacker-Pschorr, 12pk of Warsteiner, giant can of Maxwell House Freezer: Bunch of frozen pizzas, a few frozen beef patties, handle of bacardi, handle of absolut, bottle of Kahlua, bottle of Jager
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No one is claiming to have the accuracy of a properly functioning altimeter by eyeballing it, but in either case, your eyes are the things with the final word on how high you are. it's not some democracy where if your eyes say you are low, but your audible hasn't sounded and your wrist says 8000ft, then you don't pull cause it's a two to one vote. And never under-estimate the internal clock. When I hit the snooze button in the morning, you better believe that 6min and 59sec later my arm is going to be gunning for that button before I even hear the alarm go off again. (what can I say, I'm not a morning person)
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Quitting, it's just too dangerous.
champu replied to dkf1979's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I was about to say, "the hell he is!" so uh, how are you going to get to the dropzone? -
I think it has something to do with the time change. I have loony toons characters that I'm tired of but I don't write cheques all that often (until recently, -my name on the bills -skydiving) so I haven't gone through them yet. When I do I'll probably get generic ones.
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why is it so funny when police screw up?