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Morning everyone. Seems like I've caught a cold. It sucks. And I'm not even sick enough to stay home... Jraf blew up a cow??? >hey guys/girls happyhour is still on in the pub Well damn I'm firewalled out. Hmmm. A lot of inverted smiles in my post. Well, my payday is only a week from now!

>all you really can handle is some light filing, followed by > aimlessly surfing the net and writing junk e-mails. Like this one? I think last Saturday I was at DEFCON 3, hovering on declaring DEFCON 2.

>Sounds like a good day to me... keep me informed! Will do. Of course, everyone else here is also invited to the wine-tasting-party. Book your flights... >Have you decided? I have insufficient information to make a decision. I haven't really tried looking for any yet either... I'll probably end up taking the first available flight where ever and freeze my bollocks off in Alaska or Siberia or something... And dude, close the "In reply to" tags! Like this: this is the text you're replying to Shows up like this: This is your reply to the text.

>But, That is not the worst of it, I still feel real bad because >of some things I said to people. Ahh, but the solution to that is, of course, to drink until you forget!

Yay! Look at 'em bounce!

Dr. Schambaugh, of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering, final Exam question for May of 1997. Dr. Schambaugh is known for asking questions such as, "Why do airplanes fly?" on his final exams. His one and only final exam question in May 1997 for his Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer II class was: "Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with proof." Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following: First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, then you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and souls go to hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. Two options exist: 1. If hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose. 2. If hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over. So which is it? If we accept the quote given to me by Theresa Manyan during Freshman year, "that it will be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you" and take into account the fact that I still have NOT succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then Option 2 cannot be true. Thus, hell is exothermic. The student, Tim Graham, got the only A. ------------- (edited to add: First Google search I tried:"is hell exotermic"; the first link had it. And I misspelled exothermic.)

>Am I invited to the tasting? But of course! Whenever that might be... The first friday of Dec., maybe. >Just booked my flight to Tampa. Going on Friday 13.12 >and NEVER coming back. Well I'll have the option of >08.01.2003 Take me with you... And pay my bills. Oh well, I'll be leaving for... well... somewhere, in April. I hope. >but I might just stay as an packing monkey. >I thought 6 packs a day will do. I'd like to see _you_ getting by on $30/day... If you decide to stay there can I have your TV?

>but I'll have to wait until you, AggieDave and Nacmac >are all online, to see who can resize it the fastest for me It's not going to be me. I go for quality, not execution speed.[snobby artistic face-icon] Paul: >i heard from Eevis you have 40 litres of home made wine brewing away Well, yes. And it'll be ready in a couple of weeks... But I have decided not to drink until the end of Nov., so the wine'll just have to wait for me.

It is Nick Nolte... Flyhi's profile pic that is...

>Who can help snickering? And who isn't awestruck >by the vision of these men who invented RW? It is amazing. Someone had an idea that "hey, maybe we could, like, move around while in freefall!" And the rest of the jumpers dissing the idea :"no, it'll never happen. Don't bother trying it, it'll just be really dangerous." I've often thought it would be a lot of fun if you had a timemachine(HH, can I borrow yours?), and would go back, say, 20-30 years, and go to a dropzone to show off some moves... You could take your own gear too, but I doubt anyone would let you jump it since nobody would believe the container could hold one parachute, let alone two. Concerning the baton pass: >(...) but I will say that a person should not attempt a jump >of this kind until he is a jumper of the highest calibre. Yes, definitely. I haven't tried it yet. But there' is an idea: An old school baton pass... I'm going to have to try that sometime

Hmmm... Skymama... I like the sound of that..

>As for drinking I'm going to slow it down (during the week that is) I think I had enough for a while last weekend. I'm going to stay sober for the rest of November.

Wow, I really must have a weird sense of humor to find something like this amusing... Must be a really extreme breakfast... and I don't even want to think about the "pun" part... Maybe I should get another cup of coffee, I don't seem to be completely concious just yet...

Hey Dan, if you're online in the (your) evening, check out the "Non-americans" thread in TalkBack. The thread has nothing to do with excluding anyone, it's just that the people there usually are online while (most of) the americans are asleep... There's a bunch of people there from Europe, Africa and Australia... And oh yeah, welcome to the sport and the forums!

>Oh I thought vodka was the leading cause...sorry my mistake No no, most men's liver hold on until the late 30's at least... Kerry: >I do solemnly swear to post pics, or at the very least, update >my icon, as soon as I get them (but only if I deem them publishable) We'll be the judges of that... So you'll have to post the pics to get a non-biased opinion on whether or not you should post the pics. Grega: [nelson]Haa haa![/nelson] I feel for you man, I was dying last Saturday... Paul: >I decided to put the sneakers on and go for a run. Now I can hardly move Real sports are dangerous. If you don't actually get hurt, you're going to hurt all over anyway... Stick to the sports you know: drinking and skydiving!

>Erno..what is the Finnish traditional weapon of choice? Why, the puukko [POOK-o] of course! The leading cause of death of men under 30!

Post #1607 on this thread... and a few others. Nothing spectacular. So Scratch, are the birdies flying already? Or do the kestrels walk/climb to their breakfast table?

Morning! >but there is no sense in giving Skreamer/ Erno >Nacmac/Kerry/Jraf etc etc any ammo Wha? I can't shoot without ammo! It's going to be a very boring day if nobody leaves any openings to pick on in their posts. Did you get the lost shee--- bird back?

>the dumpster is about 50 yards away---too far to launch. By hand that is... Don't give up just yet. Spy38w will have a few pointers for you I'm sure!

Like in this thread?

>I've lost count of the number of times I've had to close >someones riser cover for them during a flight line check That can happen with any rig if the rigger distributes the bulk of the reserve incorrectly. All brands have their own charasteristics, and if the rigger has little experience of the rig in question, it's easy to cause something like that. I haven't noticed Vortexes to have the riser covers open prematurely.

Hey, where have you been?

>Apparently Joe was funding his entire operation by smuggling pastries. Yeah, right. You've been watching too many movies. We know those things don't happen in real life. Besides, if you want to off someone, please, just shoot him or something. Messing with a man's bagel is just plain wrong.

>I say it serves Joe right for not using a CYPRES >(Cybernetic Pastry Release System)!! CYPRES is fine for student use, but experienced competitors might not want the additional risk of a premature pastry release. I know Joe practiced his emergency procedures daily, and I'm sure he was certain that his friends were competent in admistering the Heimlich-maneuver. Why didn't they do it? Does anyone have additional info on the incident?

>Do ya'll have any idea what you have done to my daily >bagel and coffee routine? Every time I go to take a bit >I start laughing and can't stop. Sorry about that... With the amount of bursts of laughter from my desk today, I'm sure my co-workers now think I've completely lost it, or that I'm doing something that's much more fun than my actual work... I did have this feeling we were being particularly entertaining today...