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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

I would have started investing when I was about 18. -Carbon

I was doing a S/L. I wasn't nervous. I was excited. There was about 5 of us watching landings waiting for the winds to slow down. We saw someone (student) forget to flair. They broke there leg just above the ankle. It kind of wigged out the class. I was last out of the plane. The guy who was in front of me froze on the strut. He got off with a little help from the instructor. He said he didn't remember getting out of the plane. -Carbon

In my office we rate your stature by these measures: Number of chairs - The President has 4. I had 3 but someone demoted me . Private office or cube - We have too much off space so unless your a part-timer, you get a private office (with a real door!). Personal printer - the holy grail of Officedom. 2 days ago I completed the collection by getting a color printer! It's a major step up. I feel like I got a promotion. -Carbon

I'm sure you old timers have talked about it before but I thought I'd bring it up again. I'm an AFF student and will do my Category C on Saturday. I've always been a relaxed and confident person but since I started Skydiving I'm even more so. I've also become more social and am less interested in geeking around with the computer. When you started Skydiving, what kind of personality changes did you experience? -Carbon

"What's the point of having anti-lock brakes if you're not going to use them?" -Carbon

The color of the ribbons isn't important. The important point is the banning of the flag. If I want to wear a flag on my label or carry a flag in my hand, I should be able to. -Carbon

11. If the gov't is buying bombs and building planes there is less money to bribe voters with. -Carbon

http://www.calpatriot.org/issueupdate/911.html School-sponsored 9-11 Remembrance Day to exclude patriotic symbols and religious references By Steve Sexton The "Star Spangled Banner" is too patriotic, divisive and political, so organizers of UC Berkeley's day-long tribute to the victims and heroes of 9-11 are excluding it. "God Bless America" is doubly excluded. Not only is it patriotic, but it also mentions God, something else that is taboo next Wednesday. The Sept. 11 Day of Remembrance, sponsored by the Chancellor's office, the student body government and the Graduate Assembly, will also feature student leaders distributing white ribbons, instead of the red, white and blue ones they had originally planned. "We thought that may be just too political, too patriotic," said Hazel Wong, chief organizer for the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC). "We didn't want anything too centered on nationalism-anything that is 'Go U.S.A.'" Wong said the event organizers are "trying to steer away" from anything political, and that, she said, includes singing the National Anthem and displaying the red, white, and blue. She said they don't want politics disrupting mourning and grieving. "To hold a Sept. 11 memorial service devoid of patriotism is counterintuitive," said Mark Engberg, a UC Berkeley freshman. "Holding a service without patriotism is like holding a presidential debate without mentioning politics. It doesn't work." Jessica Quindel, president of the Graduate Assembly, a key player in the planning, said the day's events are about more than just grieving. She said the day is, in fact, about politics. And it's not just about Sept. 11, but also the aftermath, including President Bush's response to the terrorist attacks. "We are trying to stay away from supporting Bush," Quindel said. "We don't want to isolate people on this campus who disagree with the reaction to Sept. 11." Quindel, a self avowed hater of the American Flag, the federal government, and the "Star Spangled Banner," said she is still patriotic. "It depends on your definition of patriotism. Everyone has a different definition," she said. Patriotic songs may exclude and offend people, Quindel said, "because there are so many people who don't agree with the songs." "God Bless America" is "very exclusive" because it mentions God, she said. Though plans call for four university music and song groups to perform at an evening vigil, not a single patriotic song will be sung, at the behest of organizers. Instead, songs of remembrance will be offered up. Also, to prevent the exclusion of those who don't believe in the American Flag, there will be no tribute to the flag. "The flag has become a symbol of U.S. aggression towards other countries. It seems hostile," Quindel said. Quindel will be one of two people selecting speakers for short speeches by students during a noontime event on Memorial Glade. Students must pre-register indicating the topic of the comments they wish to make-classifying them into categories of mourning, religious and political. That system doesn't wash with Robb McFadden, director of the California College Republicans. "If Quindel and her Marxist comrades are selecting the speakers, I think there are serious violations of fundamental fairness," he said. "How can we expect freedom of speech to be filtered through such a radical political ideologue?" Scheduled speakers at the Memorial Glade assembly include Chancellor Robert Berdahl, ASUC President Jesse Gabriel, and Quindel. They will likely speak, according to Wong, about peace. Those who aren't selected to speak by Quindel and her undergraduate counterpart, Gabriel, will have an opportunity to speak at an open microphone assembly in the evening. But if last year's open microphone assembly on the night the attacks occurred is any guide, there will likely not be an opportunity for patriotic speech Wednesday. At last Sept. 11's vigil, members of the Berkeley College Republicans were shouted down while speaking of patriotism. The primary planner for Chancellor Berdahl, Colleen Rovetti, director of university events and ceremonies, said she did not know avoiding patriotism was an overriding objective of the student planners. She echoed remarks by other organizers stressing their intent to make the event a memorial and not a protest. Gabriel said organizers aim to "separate political beliefs from mourning." "Singing 'God Bless America' may prompt people to shout it down," he said. Similar fears of aggression toward the flag prompted Berkeley's fire chief to order American flags removed from fire trucks. City leaders worried protesters would attack the flag and comprise firefighters' ability to do their job. After national outcry, the flags were returned to the fire trucks. Members of the Berkeley College Republicans attended the student senate meeting last night to urge their elected leaders to alter the plans for the Sept. 11 memorial to include patriotic themes. "If we leave patriotism and religion out of this event, we'd be reducing the memorial to a bunch of anti-American whining, said Republican ASUC Senator Paul LaFata. "Patriotism has a place on this campus, and by excluding it, the ASUC has done exactly what they wanted to avoid. They have offended students." The Republicans were countered by those supporting the decision of the event organizers. The decision's proponents argued that patriotism leads to nationalism. They also said patriotism would exclude students who are not American citizens. Quindel said it would be inappropriate for the university to endorse patriotic themes, and urged students to express their views at the open microphone sessions. -Carbon

It was painful for my web browser to go the Ranger's website but you got my vote. My favorite hockey game is any game where the rangers lose. Carbon