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The wind will be at your back while you are on the step. When you dive off you will pitch way down and the relative wind will be on your chest, then you slide down the hill. It's really fun to do, especially if you did hanging/poised exits for your first 14 jumps like I did. -- Brian
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Disclaimer: I only have 20 jumps, all of them out of a 182. I screwed up a few diving exits by actually diving off of the plane, that is, I pushed off with my feet, leading to a turn while I was still on the hill. My exits got a lot smoother when I stopped pushing and just reached for the tail and let myself fall off. -- Brian
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Stephenson rocks! If you haven't read it yet, Cryptonomicon is very good (and very long). Zodiac and The Diamond Age are also pretty good, but aren't at the level of Snow Crash. And his new book, Quicksilver, should be out this year. Top authors: - Neal Stephenson (sci-fi) - Simon Singh (math related non-fiction) - Arthur C. Clarke (sci-fi) - Donald Knuth (must read for CS types) - Barbara Tuckman (history) - Tom Clancy (military fiction) - Jared Diamond (history) I don't really read much fiction outside of science fiction or military type stuff. In non-fiction I like history, biographies, science, and just about anything that catches my eye. -- Brian
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Guys with European accents (or that can foreign it) have it so easy -- Brian
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There was something like that in the Onion horoscopes this week: "You will be shocked and embarrassed when the arresting officers inform you that cockfighting is supposed to involve chickens." -- Brian
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I just got a Breaking News email from CNN. Milton Berle has also passed away. -- Brian
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I'm with Bill on this one. I watched a coworker's hand turn purple after he accidentally tightened one on his wrist. He didn't even pull on the "tail" that hard. I have a feeling that if he had pulled down really hard it would have squeezed in the skin. That's a pretty bad description, but you get what I mean. It would be lower than the surrounding skin. We barely managed to slip a pocketknife in there when it was still fairly loose. A good hard pull would have probably needed real medical attention to remove it. -- Brian
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I'm sure Win98 does multihead. It was one of a half dozen or so lame reasons that Microsoft used to justify charging as much as they did for the upgrade when they should have sent out free service packs. -- Brian
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So has rotten.com gotten out of the photos of corpses business or have they just diversified into giant snow wangs? -- Brian
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Guitar Was The Case - Mono Puff Jerry Was a Racecar Driver - Primus -- Brian
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With more recent versions of Xfree86 and the Xinerama extensions you can have multihead cards, more than one single head card, and any combination thereof. Xinerama-aware window managers can do some really cool tricks, like edge resistance between monitors and maximizing to fill one screen instead of both. The last time I used dualhead with an MS operating system was on Win98 and it would do annoying things like pop up modals so that they were split between the two screens and filling both monitors when the user hit maximize. I don't know if this has changed with Win2k or XP. -- Brian
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What are you using to drive the dualhead? I have an older Matrox G450 in my linux box, but I don't have enough room in the dorm to use both of my monitors. Dualhead is a beautiful thing, and once you try to go back to a single monitor everything feels so cramped. Anybody wanna buy me a couple of 17" LCDs? -- Brian
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I thought it was: You can pick your nose, you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your friends nose. -- Brian
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Savage also writes the best (real) advice column ever. It's like Dear Abby with swearing and brutally blunt answers. -- Brian
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Other than that child molesting thing? -- Brian
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Check out the snopes.com article. Whether Jamie Lee Curtis has a Y chromosome or not is still officially in the realm of rumor. -- Brian
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Nope. 20^20 would be the number of unique permutations of a set of 20 items. Having 80 items and choosing any combination of 20 from those 80 produces far more posibilities See Vallerina's post for the correct answer. -- Brian
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Selected quotes from this weeks "What Do You Think" column in the Onion: "Homosexuals should be allowed to adopt kids, but they should not be allowed to molest them. I firmly believe that." "The law needs to make a distinction here. Are we talking regular gay or whoo-hoo-fabulous gay?" "The last thing we need is to put children in the hands of people who actually want them." ...and before the flames start, these are supposed to be humorous. I actually like the last one as a legitimate argument for gay adoption. -- Brian
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"To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." That's pretty good as far as computer science humor goes. -- Brian
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Played Tribes right after it came out but I didn't have broadband so it got frustrating sometimes. I bought Loki's Tribes 2 Linux port as soon as it came and played it a bunch, but now Loki is gone and patches are no more . -- Brian
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Doesn't bother me. I run a filter and if somebody consistently posts gibberish, they end up on the list. -- Brian
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That isn't a purity test, this is.
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Parachutist Linux Journal - It's changed for the worse, or I've grown out of it. I'll probably just let the subscription run out. A whole bunch of IT stuff that comes to my name at work. -- Brian
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Italian Ovens in Grayslake (far north 'burb). Great pizza and just about any other italian food. And my sister works there, so I eat cheap. -- Brian
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Optimus Prime? There was a Transformers comic, right? Aqua Man The Punisher Spawn Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (before the TV show, great comics) Radioactive Man Bartman Dick Tracy (anybody with a video watch and a yellow hat is super). I seem to remember a Thundercats comic, as well. -- Brian