Jim

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=72177 I have to say that I'm a little freaked out by this...

Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh...... I don't want to sit (SIT?) through another class. Let me see if I can find an old nametag to wear.

Got it and sent you an email. Sorry for the delay. -jim

Yawn. You sure can talk a lot. This isn't a Christian forum. Granted, many of the participants are Christian and perhaps your words and scriptual references are meaningful to them. So be it. OTOH, many of us have serious doubts about biblical justifications and explainations. We will continue to discuss and vent about our treatment by TWI. Get over it. -jim

My hangermate is rebuilding/restoring 3 planes now, a 150, a Luscombe, and a new project plane he just dragged in in pieces that I haven't had time to look at. His name is Darren. I also know another guy named Phillip who's doing some restore work. Either name ring a bell? The CT is a Light Sport. It's very slippery and can be a handful to land on a hot and gusty day. I try to keep the tanks full when I'm flying by myself. Stick and rudder for sure. I've been having a blast with sideslips to a landing. If you'd like to take this to email, you can send me a message at owlmeat@hotmail.com and I'll reply with my real address. I'd like to talk some more.

2Q3 and a Flight Design CTSW. I just got back from practicing for my practical exam. Ground reference maneuvers and a forward slip to landing. I had a great time. The plane flew beautifully and I"m finally starting to get my legs wired to my brain.

So after work, I drove out to the airport to do a little work on my airplane. I keep it at a rural airport that is small and quiet. As I'm driving up to my hanger, I see a guy walking up the road towards me. He wearing a leather jacket, a beret, and has a red beard. I've seen this guy somewhere. I stop the car and wait for him to walk by me. I'm sure it's the guy. I ask him, "aren't you the Mythbusters guy?", He replies, "yes, I am". He's Jamie Hyneman, cohost of Mythbusters. I get out and shake his hand and tell him I like his show. He seems tired and uninterested, so I don't pursue him. He says they are finishing up a shoot. I presume that it must have something to do with parachutes or skydiving since the airport has a world-class skydiving school. Pretty strange huh?

Only my mommy gets to call me Jimmy

Audio cassette version of the New Testament as sold by the TWI Bookstore. Yes folks, a genuine original set given to me by Mrs. Allen herself for my longsuffering diligence in maintaining her tape duplicators. Email to owlmeat@hotmail.com if interested.

Late 2 year or early 3 year old. My mom is holding me and I have an earache.

Keep in mind that this scenario already played out in South Africa. It was fairly common knowledge that Apartheid South Africa had the components for at least 6 weapons. All of which were dismantled and probably sold to Israell before the ANC took power. All traces of South Africa's weapons program were dismantled and shipped out or destroyed. Mind you, Pakistan won't sell their weapons to Israel, but they probably would sell them to the US. BTW, something like 40 percent of our power reactor fuel is made up from plutonium from former Soviet warheads that we've purchased from Russia. So there's something of a precedent for the US buying up 'surplus' weapons-grade plutonium.

I wonder what's happening, I'm agreeing with Wordwolf and Groucho in the same thread :) Here's the point folks, nobody cares how much Joyce Meyers spends on her toilet as long as she does it with *after* tax dollars. She wants to take $250,000 out of the collection plate and spend it on herself, fine, pay the 30% tax rate then buy what she wants. And BTW, be sure to tell the congregation how much she's drawing down. The purpose of not-for-profit status is so that the organization can exist without government interference, not so the leaders can have an oppulant lifestyle. The really sad thing is that just like TWI, she's probably being supported by the very people that can least afford it. People living paycheck to paycheck and just scraping by.

Here's my desk. More tidy than usual. I cleaned up things so I'd finish a job I'd been putting off.

I fly an airplane, drive a car and occasionally saddle up the motorcycle. I have big metalworking machines in the garage that will happily turn a hand into hamburger. I have a torch and welder that will inflict 3rd degree burns quicker than you can blink. A transcontinental railroad and Interstate 80 are about 1000 feet from the back of my house, with chlorine, acids, LPG and all manners of toxics gliding by day and night. I also live in earthquake country and tornados are not unknown. These are real things to think about, not the one in one bazzilian chance of someone setting off a bomb near me. And I still sleep pretty good for an old man.

Easier to dump 6 flyers in the recycling bin once than 6 individual times. Honestly, I hate flyers. To me, they are no better than litter. They never offer anything I want and if I forget to take them in, they are a sign to thieves saying I'm not home.

Fill the bag with car exhaust fumes and seal it up.

I came to the realization that the only honest answer I can give is "I don't know". I don't know that there is a God, or that Christ was His son or that Mohammad was His prophet. I'm pretty sure that Joseph Smith wasn't a prophet, but I'm scared at the multitude that believe that he was. If Loy was his prophet, I really need to walk away. For me, God just didn't leave enough clues to allow me to use my brain and make a logical decision. And he did give me a brain. And you know what, I'm done searching. There's not a whole lot of things I can do well, and "spreading the Word" definitely isn't one of them. OTOH, I'll gladly participate in my Jewish friends' Passover, my Muslim friends' Eid al-Fitr and send out Christmas cards. I bear no ill to the true believer. In some ways I envy him/her. Life is simpler with a defined code of conduct and a set of pre-made friends.

Building things and learning about things are my life. I've been clear with my wife and daughter that when the day comes that I can't work, I'll most likely find some way to end my life. Ideally, as I get older, I will transition from being involved in the day-to-day responsibilities of running my company to being able to work full-time (or part-time) on projects that are particularly interesting.

ex70, Having known a couple kids with CP, I was once interested in innovative wheelchair design. The problem is product liability. People using wheelchairs often have balance and coordination issues that make it likely that they will have an accident. Given our litiguous society, it's the wheelchair maker that gets sued.

I'm an inventor so I can speak with a little bit of authority. 3 patents and started 2 successful businesses with my ideas. Here's two that I've been working on for 20 years with no progress: Autostereoscopic display. That's a TV or computer monitor that can display a real, 3D image with no special glasses. Practical infinitely variable transmission. That's like a manual transmission but with a million gears instead of 4. That would allow the engine to run at one constant speed while the transmission varies the speed of the wheels. A gas engine that only needs to run at one speed can be made cleaner and more efficent than one that has to run at a wide range of speeds. Infinitely variable transmissions exist, but are too expensive or unreliable. Here's one that's worth real money to the person that can get it into production: Personal reminder doll. A little furby like creature that can sit next to your bed or desk and remind you to get up, do your homework, take out the trash, etc. Reminders can be uploaded through a USB connection or wireless. The creature would speak the reminders. I have two more ideas that I'm working on, but can't disclose them yet. The problem that your son was given was a bit unfair and you and he should not feel bad having difficulty with it. I get one "genius level" idea about every 10 years, and I work on them every day.

<derail> Reminds me of an old joke... A Cardinal rushes into the Pope's apartment and says "Your holiness, your holiness, I gotta some good news and I gotta some bad news." The Pope says "What's the good news?" The Cardinal says "Christ is back". The Pope says, "What's the bad news?" The Cardinal says "He's in Salt Lake City". </derail>

Even more interesting is that gravity appears about 1/2 percent stronger at the poles than the equator. That's because of the sum of two effects, the outward centrifugal force at the equator canceling a portion of the gravitational pull, and the same centrifugal force bulging the earth out at the equator, placing the surface of the earth farther from the center of gravity. A simplistic explaination, I know, but it will do.

Well Goey, why stop at VPW? Maybe Loy was falsely accused and drummed out while he was the true MOGFOT. Is that possible? How about Chris Geer? Heir appearant to the throne (in his own eyes). Maybe he was to be the true MOGFOT. And Rosie? What about her? Maybe there's some mysterious reason why God made her the WOGFOT? If this is really the best God can do, I think I'll go it alone for awhile.

<derail> I think it was an Oldsmobile 88. It lived in Joe Coulter's garage and rarely saw daylight. </derail>

Oh hell, I thought I'd forgot all that junk. I used to really like JT, but when you phrase it that way... Exactly. If they could charge $200 and not make any money, they must have been losing money big time at $35. What I think they were trying to do was to find the sweet spot that maximized short and long term profits. If you get more committed believers at $35, long term profits from abundant sharing go up. If the number of committed followers yielded by a class is the same at $200 as $35, charge the $200. Businesses do these sorts of scenarios all the time. Uncle Vic and his finance people were certainly smart enough to get the data and run the numbers.