Nightingale

Not a lawyer yet... hopefully in september or october... or whenever the bar finishes my background check.

LOL. Yes. I have enough degrees. But what I don't have is a job that will pay both the mortgage and the student loans. So, I'm taking classes at a junior college (working on an AA) to keep the loans deferred, and I'm actually enjoying most of them, to the point where I'm looking into a master's in history after the AA.

Well, as for getting dressed, just stop at a fast food restaurant and get changed in the bathroom. Your greatest weakness... that's up to you. Most interviewers don't care what it is, just that you've tried to overcome it.

oooohhhh..... I must find one of those!

I'm guessing a number of posters would give some pretty foreign perspectives. Are you volunteering?

Current favorites are: House MD Stargate SG1/Atlantis Babylon 5 Lost Law and Order SVU CSI: Vegas Favorite Movies Princess Bride Pan's Labyrinth Harry Potter Tomb Raider Indiana Jones As Good as it Gets My Life as a Dog Cane Toads I can't think of any more right now... It's not even 6 am yet.

Thanks to everyone who has volunteered so far. I still need a few more victims...er...volunteers.

I need ten volunteers willing to be interviewed to help me with a fieldwork project for my anthropology class. The subject for the fieldwork is people's concept of race. It's just five pretty simple questions. Please post here or drop me a pm if you're willing. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

Wow! Thanks for the info! Paige sent me her teddy bear, and I hooked a pilot chute up to it as a main, and the bear's container was basically a BOC pouch with straps to hold it to the bear (12" bear). The pilot chute was the perfect size. Clownburner jumped tandem with the Teddy attached to his chest strap and deployed Teddy at about 700'. Teddy swooped the pond before (to my relief) landing safely on the opposite shore. He also made a few base jumps before getting sent back to Paige with his new rig. I think constructing a bear-sized rig shouldn't be too much of a problem. I just need to figure out the right balance between enough weight to get the bear to accelerate enough to set off the cypres, but light enough that a large reserve pilot chute will be sufficient lift so he doesn't make a new skylight for manifest. I'll definitely be contacting some of the riggers (hi, Sparky!) to figure out how to hook up the cypres. Sparky's bear is the one I made with the working cutaway system. As soon as I get some of the math worked out regarding weight/speed/lift, I'll drop you an email for Kevin's info too. Thanks again!

I think that the 'trial and error' would be the most fun part....

I probably go through about 3 netflix per week, so it's a good deal. It'd cost me $36-$48 per month to rent that many movies at blockbuster, and I pay $17 for netflix.

Yep. That's why I decided to go the math route. Except, I never took physics, so I have no idea how to begin figuring that out.

My cypres is expired, or almost expired, and I was trying to figure out what to do with it. I've already managed to put a working cutaway system on a teddy bear's rig, so I was thinking it'd be cool to come up with a cypres activated parachuting bear. I'm guessing I'll have to perform some minor surgery to implant weights into the teddy bear to get it falling fast enough to activate the cypres. I was going to try to get my hands on an old reserve pilot chute with spring, and build a bear rig that will hold just the reserve pilot chute, the cypres, and a closing loop. I figure the pilot chute should be more than enough to slow the bear down to a safe speed. I guess the key will be finding the right balance between weights to increase the freefall speed enough for the cypres activation, and the size of the pilot chute to slow down the bear. So, does anyone have any tips on how to go about doing this, and could some of you engineering/physics/math people help me figure out the weight/pilot chute ratio?

Yes, it's possible to have the lenses replaced. Lenscrafters will do it. You have to find a mask that has lenses that are completely flat. The lenses can't wrap around. They have to be separate from the frame. Lenscrafters just pops out the lenses and copies the shape with the new ones.

Clownburner has the boxed set. =) I LOVE firefly!

Thanks! I'm a dork. fixed now.

Has anyone else read this: My River Home I found it accidentally. The guy who wrote it is someone I used to work on dinosaur excavations with, and used to be a skydiver at Elsinore. Not sure if he's still jumping. I had a question for him about fossils, and googled his name, and found his book. The book tells about his time as a US Marine in the first gulf war and contrasts it with his 2003 sail down the Mississippi river on a homemade raft. I was really surprised at the level of depth in the book, especially about the gulf war. It was fascinating to get an inside perspective from an enlisted marine. The book was awesome, and it was written by a skydiver (although skydiving isn't mentioned in the book), so I figured I'd find out if anyone else had read it.

I love Battlestar Galactica! A friend loaned me the pilot episode while I was in law school, so those have been on my netflix list for a while.

I just added NCIS to my list. I've been watching CSI vegas already and am going to check out the other ones. I've heard Boston Legal is good; I'll add that too.

I saw Pan's Labyrinth in the theater. It was soooo good. I actually started to get a migraine in the middle of the movie and didn't have my headache medicine with me, and normally, I'd just leave and go back and see the rest of the movie later. Pan's Labyrinth was so good that I didn't want to leave, and I actually curled up across two or three of the stadium seats, laying down, and watched the rest of the movie with a migraine. Ended up in the ER later because I didn't get to the migraine medicine in time, but it was worth it.

Hey... due to law school and lack of money, I haven't had satellite or cable TV in about three years. I do have Netflix, though, because it's cheaper. Unfortunately, because I haven't really been exposed to what's on TV, and I need to update my netflix queue and I have no idea what to put on it. So, what are your favorite TV shows and/or movies? What's on your all-time-must-see list? I know a lot of you get to watch way more movies and television than I do, so help me out here. Thanks! -N-

Survival back float will work if you're exhausted. It won't work if you're not conscious. I don't know what kind of medical condition this kid was in, but the article made it clear that he had fallen, so he may have been dazed or unconscious. If you can swim, it's hard to get exhausted in a backyard pool. They're just not big enough.

I got one too.

Teaching them to swim probably wouldn't have stopped this drowning. The kid swam well enough to pull his sister out of the deep end to the shallow, and, according the article slipped and fell back into the deep water. He may not have been in any physical shape to pull himself out. An adult just could've reached in and grabbed him. The pool was only half full.

That kid is a hero. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he's a dead hero. Pool drownings are just so damn preventable. Watch your children. Fence your pool. At parties, adults take half hour shifts to watch the water. As a former lifeguard, I hate hearing these stories. If an adult had been watching, both kids would be alive.