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The first time I ever played, very first game of the day, maybe a minute after the starting horn blew I my partner and I saw a couple of guys coming down a path into an open area that divided the field. We were maybe 100 yards apart when we saw each other. There was no way that we should have been able to hit each other from that far with rental guns so I didn't even bother firing. I saw a puff of condensate out of one of the other guys barrels then my whole world turned pink. First shot of the day, from 100 yards, with rental guns, got me right between the eyes. I couldn't believe it. -- Brian

Liquid Generation rocks. The Crying Game is hilarious. -- Brian

There's no real point. I need to munge some data as part of an assigment and a log book is something I'm familiar with that happens to fit the assignment neatly. If I go further and add an interface (make it usable), it will be more of an exercise in learning Java's Swing GUI components than anything else. -- Brian

Altitude is in the spec, it got lost in my copy 'n paste somwhere. D'oh . Max and average speed is a good idea. The point of the project is to work with data storage and retrieval (guess who got XML?), so analysis will be left out until I add a "real" user interface. Thanks for the ideas! If I get into this like I usually get into projects (and get off of my ass and learn Swing), I should have some sort of usable demo done after finals. -- Brian

Yep. With an Alti-III the mount is held on by a plate screwed to the back of the altimeter. Just unscrew it, flip the mount around, screw it back on and you are all set. I've never seen the altimeter on the right hand though. Maybe because the right hand is used to pull? -- Brian

I'm doing an electronic skydiving logbook as part of a CS project. What fields would you want in your electronic logbook? Right now I have jump #, date, location, aircraft, container, canopy, delay, total time, maneuvers, description, and signature. It's basically just right out of my paper logbook. [geek mode]For now I'm just writing the classes to read and write the data (XML), with a little command line demo to spew the data and let my professor key in his own entry. A complete app is outside the scope of this project. Of course, once I have those classes it wouldn't take more than a day or two to put a simple GUI on it... Looks like I might have a little summer project here.[/geek mode] -- Brian

* It is impossible to lick your elbow. False. I've seen a photo. * People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second. False. * A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. False. Check the Straight Dope archives. * If the U.S. government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles? Quade took this one. * A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. All sound echoes, that's just the way it is. * Most lipstick contains fish scales. Some, not most. * Cat's urine glows under a black-light. So does my urine, but you wouldn't wave a blacklight over that. * Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. What is recently? 5 years? 1 year? *All polar bears are left handed. Polar bears don't have hands. *"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. If you allow a lone imperative to be considered a comlete sentence, then many sentences tie for the honor of shortest. "Halt." "March." Check out http://snopes.com for info about a bunch of these. -- Brian

John, after my grandfather. -- Brian

Have you considered NYC? Here's a 1300 square foot loft for $700 a month. There's just one catch... -- Brian

He's also in a crappy band that most people have never heard of (Dogstar), which I think brings this thread full circle. -- Brian

That's one of those one in a million photos... From any other angle, those trophies don't look phallic at all: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020423/168/1funx.html As an aside: Since when are Muppets allowed to testify before the House? -- Brian

Dr. Nick: Do you want make it longer or wider? Sea Captain: Arghh... both. -- Brian

And I paid for the pleasure of that same show. Third time that I had seen them live. They played all of the Fingertips. That rocked. -- Brian

But are you clearing your throat and gripping the lecturn, smiling and facing your audience clearing his throat and smiling with his hands on the bathroom sink? -- Brian

There were 87 Advil in the bottle and now there's 30 left... -- Brian

The Word, eponymous. Totally great instrumental gospel, with a killer lap steel player. The Aquabats. Look for either The Return of the Aquabats, their first and arguably best album, or The Fury of The Aquabats, which is pretty good also. -- Brian

Could it possibly have been one of these? -- Brian

Comfort is a consideration, though. I have skinny fingers and the rubber ring on my Altimaster is quite uncomfortable when I'm under canopy. I'm looking at either sewing a flat cloth loop (which is to say, having my mom sew a flat cloth loop) in place of the ring, or just buying a different mount. -- Brian

And yet some how 91% percent of the class of 2001 managed to graduate with honors (check out this story in the Boston Globe). -- Brian

It's a finances thing for me... If I can afford to hit 50 jumps by WFFC and still buy a rig at the end of the summer, I'll be there hitting the demos hard. Otherwise I'll be down for a day or two to show the Falling Illini colors and just hang out. -- Brian

Well, it was attached to the front of a diner... FallingMarc pointed it out and we were going to take a picture but ended up going back to the dropzone instead. -- Brian

0:0:0. Drove to Archway with the rest of the club on Saturday. Weather sucked. Went out for lunch and ended up visiting two different craft stores and a Rural King. Found out that baby ducks are $3 each with a minimum purchase of 15. Saw a sign that said "Ho-Made Pies." Good day over all. -- Brian

Ever watch Maximum Exposure? I saw these yokels do something similar out in the desert, except they used a carabiner attached off center (looked like the righthand three-ring). He got airborne behind their van just fine but he had to give tons of right toggle to keep it flying straight. When it came time to land the thing, the van was going to slow down, he would undo the carabiner, and make a smooth landing. Of course, to do this he had to drop the toggles. The canopy started banking left and he spent the rest of the trip to the ground trying to disconnect the tow line. He only broke his leg, but had to lay there in the desert for almost an hour while an ambulance came for him. -- Brian

I should be at work three days a week but this flu has been keeping me in the dorm. That and I just got an email saying that all of the tech support workers are being laid off at the end of the semester, so I just quit. Might as well use the last two weeks of the semester to study! -- Brian

Who is the guy on the right in the first two? -- Brian