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A rain-out no skydiving weekend. If you are also earth bound, here's some cartoons to get you through. -Carbon

I also failed D1 (level 4). I failed it twice. I was spinning so fast that I threw my JM off. To stop myself, I think "point my toes" and "get my arms out" and to arch excessively. These things help to correct what ever problem I'm having. I'm just about done (Level H). D level is the hump. It gets more fun when you get to E. Getting through D helps to make you comfortable in the air, which is key to solving many problems. Stick with it, relax, and if you don't have video of your jumps, try to get some video of your next jump to see what you're doing wrong. -Carbon

I went through the Skipbarber 3 day race school. If I wasn't skydiving, I'd be racing. -Carbon

The Toronto Board of Health has proposed that warning signs be placed on all alcohol bottles to tip off drinkers about the possible peril of drinking a pint or two of any alcoholic beverage. 1. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to wake up with a breath that could knock a buzzard off a wreaking dead animal that is one hundred yards away. 2. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like an idiot. 3. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to assault you 4. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to thay shings like thish. 5. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the boss what you really think of him. 6. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burn on the forehead. 7. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, handsomer and smarter than some really, really big guy named Psycho Bob. Any Others? -Carbon

I don't write much C anymore but when I did, I didn't use sscanf much. Wouldn't something like this work? if(file_ptr = fopen(file_name, "r")){ while(fgets(buffer, MAX, file_ptr)){ data[counter++] = atoi(buffer); } } Now days I'd do it like this: (PERL) while() { print; chomp; $arr[$i]=$_; $total=$total+$arr[$i++]; } print "Total=$total\n"; -Carbon

This one to. "Excuse me while I whip this out." -Carbon

How about: Hacky and Silver Flare and Spot Rodent and .com Kate and Barbara -Carbon

"If you took a shit, please put it back." or "If you don't think sin is fun, you haven't been committing the right sins." -Carbon

On a uninal "As you're reading what I've put, You are pissing on your foot" -Carbon

If it's not too much trouble could you send the storm to Oklahoma? The forcast has the storm coming our way by the weekend. I don't want to get rained out. Sorry to anyone in Oklahoma. -Carbon

I'm head geek at my company. They give me a long title but really I spend most of my day writing code that no one ever sees or even know exists...until it something doesn't work then you'd think the building is on fire and we all just took gasoline showers. The joys of geek work. -Carbon

I was playing around on http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/address.aspx and found an aerial picture of my DZ in West Point VA. The aerial data is from '94 so things aren't exactly right. If you ever wanted to know what your DZ looked like 8 years ago, now you can. You'll have to play around with the controls to find what you want. If you don't know the address of you DZ, you can use this http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/place.aspx. To create the GIF image, I did a "Print Screen" and used Paint Shop Pro to crop the image. -Carbon

Congrats. -Carbon

No...then it's nothing like skydiving! -Carbon

Makes me want to whip out my old Atari 800XL. I couldn't tell you how many thousands of lines of that crap I wrote when I was young. Now it's Java, Perl, VB, ASP....it's all crap...but it's a living. -Carbon