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I ran across this video a year or so back, when I was actually doing that jumping out of planes thing.

I believe it's of Loic Jean-Albert, the fellow that shot the photos in the article. I could be wrong, but pretty sure the guy in the video is named Loic. What the fellow does is jump out of a helicopter over a mountain that he had picked out because of the angle of slope. He matches the slope after he picks up speed and comese about 9 feet from the surface. Granted, he's flying at about 70mph, but quite honestly if he had some kind of sled/sky on his chest I betcha he could have put himself down on that mountain.

Here's the video. Go easy on me -- It's just a 768k DSL line.

I say we start making a list of stupid things that we've done.

I submit: this mp3. Granted, I posted this as a one-off thing for a buddy so he'd get a laugh out of it and after such a postive response from him (and former coworkers) kept it online.

If I had a video if the dumb-assed look on my face as I had a half Stevie Wonder half 'Timmmay!' (South Park) look to me it'd be even funnier.

For a football game where the women played football and the men cheerleaded in high school I signed up. Twice, although the first was accidental. I got pressured by some friends who signed up to be part of the halftime show. We were all wrestlers, me being a lightweight so I was litterally -tossed- between groups for the show. Not safe, but a skinny guy going "gaaaahhaha!" through the air is hugely entertaining I guess.

The next year I signed up and got some buddies to do it with me. We all dressed up in something stupid -- I picked a wrestling signlet. A small one... cut like briefs... in 40 degree weather... can you say "turtle effect"? I hadn't counted on that one. Shoulda brought an extra sock. Or two. I've never said "Oh shutup -- it's cold" so many times in a night in my life.

I wore a 3 foot tall foam Guiness top had during a short stroll from my buddie's house to the beer store downtown in a decent sized town once. Somebody stuck their head out the window doing 25 to express their feelings with the word "Shithead" rather loudly. Not a fan of Guiness I guess.

Ventured out onto my balcony once to watch a thunderstorm. Chilled ou there for about a half an hour reveling in how insignificant I really am in comparsion with the One that can make stuff like that happen on command. I go to open the slider door and realize how insignificant I really am as the door has locked itself behind me. With my keys inside. With my cellphone. Oh, and I'm on the 2nd story -- and it's still raining. A 20 foot fall into some mushy ground and 20 minutes of walking later I'm using somebody's phone (who thankfully I knew) to call maintence and get back into my apartment.

Of course, standing around with a group of guys in high school chit chatting and interjecting, "yeah, I noticed that X has a huge friggen crank. Wouldn't have thought that" and then being informed that you completey misunderstood about 4 of the 6 words out of the last guys sentence really puts a crimp in our style. Hey, I'm not the smartest peanut in the turd. Try explaining -THAT- one off!

Got on a mechanical bull once drunk... well, three times in a night. 'Nuff said there.

My first jump out of a plane I was informed that me yelling "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" can be heard 3500 feet below. I've probably watched 100 people dump so far and I've never heard somebody yell loud enough to hear them. I think I got a record there.

Hopefully the 'Star Wars Kid', if he's reading this, doesn't feel so bad now. Personally, if he had developed a little more flexibility in his legs he coulda looked a whole lot cooler in some of those shots.

Justin! What the hell is this?

Are you the StarWar's Kid?

hahahhaa.... I don't know why I find your mp3 funny, but I'm chuckling.

Enjoy the slashdotting.

AC

It's not much, and the encoding seems rather horrible if you ask me, but I managed to snag a copy before the Slashdot effect took over. Their front page seems to be loading rather slowly now.

So, if you want to watch an AMD K6/2 400mhz go up in flames on a 768kbps DSL line. Here you go:

Raider's of the Lost Ark Remake Trailer

My ISP is so going to kill me...

Anybody else see that miscaptioned picture? They had a picture of the girl from Lizzy McGuire with a caption referencing a "Brian" that was supposed to be on the left. At first glance I thought the (left) was to make sure nobody confused the real life person with the small cartoon character to the right. It made me chuckle.

Screenshot of it here

I've always wanted to see this happen to a webserver of mine, so bring it on. 768k DSL up/down on a AMD K6-2 400mhz w/ 128MB of RAM on IDE drives. Lets watch her die...

Screenshots with the new font setup

There's a Slashdot homepage shot, a Google results shot, and one of my Gnome Control Center.