BoogieBob

I cannot for the life of me remember who did this song that I want to download on LimeWire... All I remember is that in the video the singer (guy) was in a small room and the floor moves underneath him moving the furniture (a couch) around the room. IIRC he also walks on the walls and ceiling. It was kind of a techno song...what was it? It's pissing me off that I can' t remember what the hell it was. I've kinda got "delight" or "dlite" or something like that in my head for some reason but I'm not sure why (may be completely off on that). Beer #15 is now gone and I am stuck wondering what the heck this song was.

I re-installed Slackware recently after I had a strong reason to believe that my box had been rooted. I forgot to save a Rantoul video I had downloaded before I re-installed. The video used to be available on http://www.freefall.com/other_video.htm. The filename was something like "tuesday_highlights.wmv". It is my favorite video. It starts (after the sponsor flashes) with a segment showing Cora, DaGimp, SkyBytch, Airmail, SkyMedic et al in a hangar on a rain day at Rantoul. The skydiving portion opens with a downplane. Naturally, after I had reinstalled I noticed that this video is not available on the site anymore. I asked Michael about this. He did not save a backup of this video before bringing the 2004 site online. Anybody have this video saved? I would appreciate an opportunity to obtain it again...say via AIM DCC. PM me or post here if you can help. Thanks. Bob

7/5/2003: Innocently riding motorcycle through Vass and around through Southern Pines just to see if Sandhills HD was open (I needed a new helmet). Got home and remembered something about skydiving near Raeford...Google'd it and then rode back out; taking a turn down Doc Brown road this time 7/5/2003: Met Chuck Blue at the Raeford School to request a tandem 7/6/2003: Tandem jump courtesy of Tracy (out of a Casa) 7/7/2003: Overwhelming realization of what I'd done the day before 7/8/2003: Began First Jump Course with Chuck Blue 7/9/2003: Finished First Jump Course...drank free beer courtesy of John "MonkeyLip" Campbell 7/20/2003: Cat C2, D1, D2 & E AFF skydives (including my most memorable skydive [Cat E] where Raff mixed it up and got me through E in one skydive) [note: to me, at this point Paul Rafferty was just some skydiver person; I didn't know who he was until I saw a post by Chuck elaborating on the fact that he is a 5-time 8-way world champion...Raff never said a word about it...he was just "some guy who was doing my AFF"] 7/20 - 11/22/2003: Enjoyed countless hours of fun on the DZ 11/22/2003: Got my A-stamp from Tony Thacker (on the paper and on the forehead) 12/27/2003: Made my last skydive (for now) I've sold my gear now. The financial aspects of the sport just don't seem to justify what I get out of it now. I miss every bit of what I experienced this summer. It's hard for me to believe that I got training from some of the best skydivers in the world (I still remember seeing Atkins drop away from me reserve-side on my C1 dive...I looked desparately toward the main-side....there was Chuck...giving the thumbs-up...I learned a lot about confidence this summer.)

Congrats Scott! Nice job.

I went to Raeford this afternoon. Nothing stirring there except Sheck on a tractor doing some landscaping. Sheck said that The Skydiving Place is usually open over the holidays so I went out to see. Very nice experience at The Skydiving Place. Nice people and I was even on an Otter load of only about 12 people (killer climb rate). The size of the landing area was quite comforting.

I've made 41 skydives (including one tandem). I have made 18 jumps on my own rig (with a Sabre2-170). For the first 16 jumps on my Sabre2 the openings were incredibly consistent. Even with my pack jobs (haven't been packing long) the openings always felt just the same. Snivel, snivel, small hitch to the left then about a 90-degree turn to the right. On jump 40, I deployed...snivel, snivel, small hitch to the left and then canopy started banking to the right and my airspace is clear. "Ok! Another great opening" I'm thinking as I reach up to collapse the slider and realize that the 90-degree hadn't stopped...it's a spin. Call me crazy, but I was actually kind of excited about the situation. Not because it was happening, but because the two thoughts that instantly popped into my head were: 1) I'm spinning and something is wrong; 2) "They" (my instructors) always said not to mess around too long...I'm going to take a couple of seconds to try and fix this and then I'm cutting. I looked up at the canopy. "Well, it looks fine, WTF?" Maybe I've got some kind of line over that I can't see real well? Screw it...one flare attempt to clear it and I'm cutting. I reached up to the toggles to flare and the instant my right hand put pressure on the right toggle the canopy was flying straight and level. I felt kind of dumb when I realized that it was just an unstowed brake that had caused my problems. But, in hindsight, I feel good that I didn't freak out and that the first things that popped into my head were those things I'd been instructed. I know most of you people in here are probably saying "What kind of idiot doesn't know what an unstowed brake looks like?" or "What kind of dumbass can't recognize a stowed-brake turn?" Well, with my jump numbers and my canopy's history of consistency I just didn't know what was wrong...but I did know SOMETHING was wrong and that I wasn't going to bullshit with it for long. I know it's not some great "No Shit There I Was" story...but I'll be quite happy if I never have one of those stories to tell.

That wasn't meant to offend. I'm just not around here enough. For your indulgence, I will admit that the original subject of my post was "A Test for Ivan..."

That's it. I'm never posting a link to anything again.

I tried a couple of variations in searching to see if [URL "http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/trailers/ROFL.STARWARS.NERDS.wmv"]this[/URL] has been here before, but didn't see any evidence. Yes, it's not the best quality. Yes, it's a bit old.

Even if it is possible, please don't. Posting the same question/idea in more than one forum leads to separate discussions and causes needless repetition not to mention consumption of resources (read: Sangiro's $$). The forums here are topically defined quite well. If you have doubts about where a post belongs, make a "best guess." Even if you're slightly off, more often than not your post will be noticed by a moderator and automagically relocated to the most appropriate forum. If you want to cross-post, try it on a news-server. Even there I'll bet you get more than a few stern complaints about the counterproductive nature of such a thing. Edit: Andrea had not posted when I started to compose my post...she snuck in on me.

Congratulations. Good luck with the rest of AFF. You do have an open line of credit right? That's what it took for me.

Sorry I had to bail on you. I am worn out. I think I saw you as I was leaving...someone fitting your "description" had landed near what I consider "your spot" on the DZ (close to the peas but favoring the road a tad). The last time I was out there for a bonfire I went to bed just after 6AM (and that was only because I ran out of beer). I need some rest tonight. Regarding the beer situation...you all pick a date and make sure Tony knows about it (he has the cash). Keg-o-riffic splendor will certainly be in effect and on that day/night a new baseline for "not-sucking" will surely be set.

Rest assured you and the other Raeford folks will be the recipients of a plentiful amount of beer at some point in the near future. That's all I can say for now...but you will like it, it will be good and no one at Raeford will be dissatisfied the day that my gift rolls in.

You only get one clue...

Thanks quade.

Thanks.

I did some searching but all I get is mostly posts with BSBD in someone's sigline.

I will take the prize for least owned DVDs with: 1) Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring (given to me as a gift one year before I even had a DVD player) and 2) 9/11 - Filmmaker's Commerative Edition (bought this one -- really the only reason I bought a DVD player in the first place was to see this). Yes, that's it...only two DVDs unless you count the poorly bootlegged Chicago screener that I got with the DVD player (bought on ebay). Still have yet to get TOSLINK cable for my DVD-to-5.1 receiver...but I doubt I'll ever get one...for the same reason that my Pioneer powered sub sits powerless on the floor.

1 (slowly-diminishing-yet-still-oversized-credit-card-bill):0:0 At least I stopped by the DZ today while riding around in the good weather.

High: Clocking another 70 miles on my Shadow in nice weather Low: Realizing that time will win its pursuit of me and Monday is near.

Is that George Costanza?

Work

0:1:0 My dad did a tandem jump on Saturday. I got to exit before him. DaGimp did video of my dad's tandem (and a nice job of it). Saturday night was a blast. I took 18 beers to the DZ in a cooler. I gave Ryan (pilot) one at about 7:30pm. I was sitting at the fire-pit waiting for the night's action to commence. And so it did... Lot's of familiar faces around the pit after dark, lit only by the firelight. Chuck came out to the fire with Katie (SO glad to see her again) and everything was fun. There was talk here and there of differing things, but the whole sense of fun was clearly perceptible. Chuck took a picture of me kneeling in front of the fire. From what I saw, it looked like I was there, with my can of Bud Light...and the fire was behind with this strange plasma-like pool around it. At about 4:00am, everyone else had gone to bed, but I was still out and about. So many stars. I can never see this many from Fayetteville. I heard some rustling near the horseshoe area and dove into the shrouded darkness aforded by manifest to check it out. I found Dusty (dog) had turned over a 32 gallon trash can full of Aviator's trash. So, with nothing else to do, I cleaned that up. I went out to the windsock to feel the fabric. I went to the spot I'd landed at earlier that day, just to see how far away from the tuffet I was. I recreated my flare, trying to avoid reaching for the ground this time and correcting to the left. I looked to my left and almost saw my dad landing with Carlos again, Jake filming the landing. Foolish, it's 4am, but I still think I saw it. I looked again and saw myself approaching on final, from the loading area toward the far corner near Gene Paul's house...my first jump on my new rig...I flew overhead and vanished...so long ago these things happened. I walked to the mock up area...I could see the sun setting on Wednesday, July 9, 2003, when Chuck was finishing my FJC. MonkeyLip had beers, and they were consumed. Tending the fire to make sure it didn't go out. Fixing the swoop lane (two of the noodle-sticks had somehow gotten broken in the ground...nothing some improvised log-hammering didn't fix although I did be sure to keep them intentionally loose in case someone hit them). Watched the moon creep up (waning gibbous) chasing Orion's belt. Wondering why everything has to continue...can nothing stand still for a moment so I can enjoy it? Nonetheless, Orion's belt moved serenely across the sky, laughing at me as I looked at the fire and wondered about time and how I could possibly stop it after such a great day. As such, my seventeenth (and last available) beer was consumed at approximately 5:30am. Time relentlessly pursued its victim and I was but a passerby, consumed by it's magnanimity. At 6:18am I retired to my car. And it was all over, except for... the terrible depression that I experience after such nights. Sunday was aweful. The whole day was nothing but "now I'm here" and "that was so nice, but it's gone." Time laughs again..."You've got nothing" it says...."I had everything!" I argued..."I took it away like I always do." time responded. Trumped again by time, I sulked away and slept at home...dreaming those Raeford dreams that I've realized. When can I have such fun again?

Here's the deal: The drag force on a body moving through air (or any fluid) is expressed as: F = 1/2 * (rho) * v^2 * Cd * S Where: F = drag force (rho) = greek letter rho = fluid density v = velocity of object (v^2 represents the square of the velocity) Cd = coefficient of drag of body (varies with body shape NOT size) S = Frontal area presented to airflow Let's assume the same skydiver on the same day, then we can assume that (rho), Cd & S are constant (given incompressible flow, within which regime skydiving occurs). Let's define constant K to represent 1/2 * (rho) * Cd * S, we now have: F = K * v^2 We know that: F = m * a where F = force, m = mass and a = acceleration. So, the acceleration on the skydiver (in the vertical direction with an upward vector) is F / m, or: a = K * v^2 / m We also know that graviational acceleration is fairly constant (does not change appreciably, even at 13500 feet). Let's use 9.81 meters per second squared for this constant. In stable freefall, the acceleration vectors are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction (acceleration due to drag has an upward vector while gravitational acceleration has a downward vector). Thus, we obtain: 9.81 = K * v^2 / m We are concerned about velocity here (and how mass affects it) so let's isolate v , yielding: v = square root of (9.81 * m / K) This equation shows the answer to your question. The stabilized freefall velocity IS affected by mass. In fact it varies as the square root of (m2 / m1). That is, the same skydiver with twice the mass will fall approximately 1.414 times faster.

0:0:0 BoogieBob got his credit card bill this week. BoogieBob was surprised at how many digits were required to display his current balance. BoogieBob became depressed and decided to save some money. BoogieBob saw a picture of SkyMonkeyONE in October's Parachutist (page 26). BoogieBob still owes a keg at Raeford. BoogieBob thinks Columbus Day may be a suitable weekend for payment of aforementioned indebtedness. BoogieBob...out.