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"You can run but you'll just die tired!" KillCreek (AKA Stevie Case) after beating founder member of ID Software, John Romero, at Quake. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

LOL and I thought Lisa was going for the old joke about how to start a small gear store in California - Start a big one and wait. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

How many male chauvinist pigs does it take to screw in a light bulb? None- let the bitch cook in the dark... (this is actually very much out of character for me, really) ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

Yep, working today. I teach a course on Game Design and Application Developement in a federally funded (in a round about way ) course at the high school level. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

good timing. I was in that tunnel in August... 112 degrees at 120 miles an hour. Lost 2½ pounds in sweat. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

I have to agree with Travis. "I'm not even suposed to be here today" (over and over again) [#000000] Every time I work over or work on a day off I can hear this Dantè in my head. [/#003366] ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

I like the router option myself as it places most of the options/settings to at the hardware level. I am using a single port Linksys router/firewall which sits between my DSL hub and my first dumb hub. Here is a peek on how my home network is put together. Because it is primarily hardware driven I can loose any of the PC's and the rest are still functional. http://www.skiosk-esd.com/homelan.jpg

While this may not work for anyone who is not a student, I find www.studentuniverse.com just blows everyone away. The eligabiity is fairly straight forward. You must be in college. I am 36 and a part time student. (1 class this semester, Accounting at that) and I am still able to use them. On the upside, it may make going back to school worthwhile.

Thru either stupidity or just blind trust in complete strangers, I was not all that afraid on my first jump. I remember EVERYTHING about the jump but it was the landing that everyone else seems to remember. I landed directly on the big "X" that markes the closed runway. PLF'd right onto the asphalt. Everything was fine and I am now able to PLF closer to the target. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

4 questions: ESTJ Execution Saves The Job ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

36 years YOUNG. But still smart enough to know that most divers in their 20's have a ton of things to teach me about the sport. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

3 (names withheld to protect the innocent): 7 : 0 Great weekend for jumping in California. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

If I were in this situation I hope I would have the ability to realize that the terrorist are not making a rational demand. If you shot someone what would it provide them? Is it to tell the authorities that they mean business? That they will make a hostage shot another innocent if there demands are not met? I say shoot a bad guy... If handed a gun with one bullet make that bullet count. The odds that your shooting one innocent does not ensure that another will not be shot shortly afterwords. One less terrorist however is NEVER a bad thing. Be layman's definition a terrorist is someone who has strong convictions and limited resources to correct them. There is no reasoning, there is no "talking them down", there is not true recourse than to once again pit violence against violence. The trick is to be on the side who is doing it as a way to save the most people at the end of the day. (just my layman's opinion mind you.)

I doubt this counts as an incident so I am posting it here. Myself and a friend are officially off of student status and are mixing fun jumps with the requirements of getting an A license. Today we went up in a 182 with just the two of use (well 3 with the pilot). We intentionally spotted the plan so that we had to either track in or fly the canopy into the landing zone. I stepped out on the platform, he was in the doorway, I counted and on three we went. The dive went great. We had planned for me to barrel roll, front flip, makes some turns and to track a bit. He was to keep a heading on me. We BOTH agreed to track away at 6000, lock on to the altimeters at 5500 and PULL AT 4500. Well I pulled on time and then under full canopy hear him comming down. He was about 400 feet north of me and I watched him pass me with nothing deployed. Then just lower than me I see his main deploy and I undid the brakes. When I look back down I see his main is, well, crap. He sighted a line over and the pilot chute was wrapped under it as well. As I looked down I thought "cut, cut, cut". He cut away and deployed his reserve with out incident. It did take about 45 minutes to find his main. Even thought I said exactly where it when down then message was misrelayed to the pickup vehicle. I found it odd that from my view point he looked sooooo much lower then he was. He said he had full canopy by 1500 but I thought for sure I was watching my friend of 14 years pile drive into the dirt. I did chew his ass a bit for NOT following the dive plan. We discussed the fact that we may not be at the same altitude once we start the dive. This is why I stepped out and we did have a small gap in our exit timing. So at 4500 I pull. I know I am lower than him so I thought he would open at 4500 and then cork screw himself down to my elevation under canopy. He, in mid flight, desided to freefall down to my elevation and attempted to open at same. I reemed him for changing the plan. Oh yes, he now owes a case of beer to the DZ and a bottle of Vodka to his new best friend. The rigger... Payments are coming on Sunday when we will be jumping all day. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

I am sure my wife will be in charge of what ever celebration comes forth. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

Agreed. I am taking school sort of back asswards. I have ALL of the requirements for my Comp Sci degree and am now finishing up the general education requirements. It IS the thought process that is developed and not the actual programming language. You will find that most VB work will be in VBA anyway. Most C++ work is knowing the process and not the actuall deep workings. ALA Code Monkey work. (love that phrase) As a Comp Sci grad you will be looking at either systems or solutions to problems. You will most likely not be writting any code or at least not "in depth" code. Signed: DT Holder Software Analyst Contracted to Occidental Petroleum ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

Are you sure you want to announce to the world that your daughter has to fight your son for the use of a long viberating pole that is built to be used between the legs? And not only that but they use it until the BATTERIES die????? ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

Quoted from the New York Ranger website: Congratulations to all of the finalists and especially to Terrence Gibbons from New York, New York, who was our grand prize winner. Terrence will receive a One (1) Brian Leetch autographed stick and one (1) 2001-02 autographed team photo. Congrats Terrence. FINAL RESULTS Corey Hornak - 3.66% Mark Ramsey and fellow firefighters - 15.65% Terrence Gibbons - 70.53% The Brunetti Boys - 10.16% ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

Great pics, thank you very much for sharing. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

Another from me on diff IP address. Terrence Gibbons = 53.24% The Brunetti Boys = 32.24% Corey Hornak =7.65% Mark Ramsey and fellow firefighters = 6.76% ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

LOL too funny. $19 per in Taft Ca. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

Done. As of this moment its: 43.16% Terrence Gibbons 44.21% The Brunetti Boys ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

Well lets see. Broken things: Both arms twice (left, then right, then both) [skateboards] collar bone[bicycle] jaw [skateboard] ribs [skateboard] hand [fight] left pinky [martial arts] Sorry, no xrays laying about. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

LOL ya it rains here. Its almost funny in a way. You hear news bites like ".2 inch of rain in the south land, 5 parish due to the hazardous conditions." Where I live (Bakersfield CA) we have an average rainfall between 5 and 6 inches a year. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy

Hmmm, "rain"..."flood"... Let me get my dictionary out real quick. OHHHH thats why I did not recognize these words. I live in southern California. Sorry to hear about the wet weekend and I hope nothing gets flooded. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy