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Neat, I'm on the list twice. I'm still 99% sure I'll be there this year. If they have CRW organizing, make it 100%. If they don't, I might have to split my time between Crazy CRW at Perris and Rantoul (one weekend each).

PoP is very good. I'm also really liking Crimson Skies. It's a very cool dogfighting game.

The part number is VMC-15FS. If you search on that, you'll find some online stores that are selling them. Sony sells them for $20, and the last time I looked I didn't find any reputable stores that were selling them for much less. Edit: Looks like things might have changed on the price front. Froogle lists a bunch of places that are selling them for around $15.

Ah. That's Badfish by Sublime. A very Sublime-heavy video. I seem to recall the carwash theme was Doin' Time, yet another Sublime song.

Can't download the video to make sure, but I'm pretty sure it was Smoke Two Joints by Sublime.

I've been hearing good things about their Aerodyne's Pilot canopy so I decided to cruise over to the Aerodyne website and see about getting a demo. Unfortunately, the new version of their site is completely unusable without having the latest version of Flash installed. Without it I can't even find a contact email address or phone number at Aerodyne. [Edit: Removed rant about how requiring Flash on a business website is an incredibly stupid move.] If somebody could log onto Aerodyne's website, find the the contact information regarding demos (and maybe the email address of whoever I should send my complaint about the website to), and either post it here of PM me with it, I would greatly appreciate it.

Public speaking terrifies me beyond words. I avoid it at all costs.

0:7:1 It was a fun weekend. Team practice, zoo loads, and a single camera jump. I finally managed to take some halfway decent outside video. Still need to work on getting closer and steeper, but I'm improving steadily.

I'm on the fence. I think the "fight for my country, buy cigarretes, vote, but not drink" argument holds some water. At the same time, I know that when the drinking age was raised in the 70s it did help reduce drunk driving accidents, especially in teenagers*. Some people I know who could drink as 18 year-olds back in the 70s support the 21 drinking age. Is it because they don't like us young whippersnappers, or are they just excercising the benefits of hindsight? I might support lowering the drinking age if penalties for drunk driving were much more severe. As it stands, a legal drinker getting busted for DUI is practically a non-event as long as nobody gets hurt and no property is damaged. Even if there is, it's laughable how easy it is to get your driver's license back. * Sort of. Where I live, it actually increased them for a brief period. I live near the border of Wisconsin and Illinois. During the 70s there was a period of time when Illinois had raised the drinking age to 21, but Wisconsin was still at 18. Kids would drive to Wisconsin to get drunk, then trek back home. Instead of going a couple miles to the neighborhood bar they would drive 10-15 miles to cross the border. Same drinking, but more miles on the road, equals more accidents.

Try opening it in QuickTime Player. For some reason MP4s aren't associated with QT (at least on my computer), but it played the file just fine.

I'd try Computers For Schools. I know a couple of people who work with them in Illinois, they do a lot of good work around here. There is a minimum standard for donations, but as long as it is a working or mostly working Pentium or better they'll probably take it.

I love how over at IMDB there are already 758 ratings for Fahernheit 911 (Michael Moore's new film, which hasn't even been released yet), and almost all of them are either perfect scores (10/10) or the worst possible score (1/10). Nothing the slightest bit fishy about that. Nope, not at all.

If all goes according to plan, SpaceShipOne will become the first private manned space vehicle sometime on the morning of June 21. Although the planned altitude is 100 kilometers, or 328,000 feet, this flight won't count towards the X Prize because they are not carrying the equivalent weight of two other passengers, and they are not planning another flight withing two weeks. Oh yeah, the public is invited out to the Mojave to watch this thing. More info

oooh, an excuse to ride the new ferry!

It figured out Airwolf, Coupling, Space Camp, and X Play easily. I was trying From The Earth To The Moon when it asked me a rather strange question (attached).

0:4:1 Beer for my first hybrid. Looked kinda like that one in the L&B ad in Parachutist, but more rickety.

Ok, I get it now. I thought you were talking about a way to remove everything, including the articulated site extender.

I'm not sure I understand this. Could you elaborate, or maybe post a picture?

I saw: "I want to hit myself in the dick. Should I use a baseball bat or a crowbar?" I think both options suck. Like Andy said, find a good free highlighting text editor (EditPlus 2 is a good one for Windows) and learn the basics by hand. Even if you end up using Dreamweaver, you'll need those skills to tweak the final product.

It might be a tip 'o the hat. There is an old Kevin Costner movie called Fandango where one of the characters make his first skydive. It's hilarious. I'm not sure if it's well known enough to be referenced in a Rowan Atkinson film, though.

52. Not allowed to yell 'Take that Cobra' at the rifle range. Go Joe! 82. May not form any press gangs. I think this is hilarious, but how many people these days even know what a press gang is?

I do that to, but for a different reason. Mozilla is actually mostly standards compliant, and IE, uh, isn't. It's easier to design something broken and fix it to work with Moz than it is to design something to work with Moz then intentionally break it to work with IE. I guess it's the same results, just a different set of mental gymnastics. I am more than a little disappointed with MS. They know that IE 6 isn't standards compliant, they know how it isn't compliant, but for some reason they've decided not to do anything other than security fixes until Longhorn is out (2006!). I hate it that way. I can either design pages to conform to the standard, or design pages to work with a product that isn't compliant and doesn't give a shit, or (worst option) choose one or the other then use nasty hack on top of nasty hack to make it work for everything. The standards are freely available to anybody with a web browser. The bugs have been reported. The only reason that IE isn't compliant is because Microsoft doesn't feel like it.

Gurnee (town that I live just outside of) is flooded, so I'm probably going to get the canoe down from in the garage and paddle around the business district until sunset. Should be neat.

Straight from Sony's website: Handycam® Audio Video Cable VMC-15FS , $19.99.

0:6:1 4way meet at Skydive Chicago. One case of beer for crossing the beer line.