Entries from January 2004
World Team Record #1
672 Skydivers Set Mass Free-Fall Record
Sat Jan 24, 7:59 PM ET
BANGKOK, Thailand - In a world record for a mass jump, 672 skydivers from 42 countries leaped from six aircraft over the Thai capital on Saturday, organizers said. At least three jumpers were injured upon landing.
The previous mark of 588 skydivers was set in Rio [...]
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Define Normal
I was at lunch today and someone was talking about how once they had ridden in a private plane, and before take-off the plane wouldn’t start so they had to jump-start it with a golf cart. And later the air conditioner on the plane started to smoke and they thought it was the engine. They [...]
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World Team
My mom and Roger left yesterday for Thailand to participate in World Team 2004. Everyone think good, positive thoughts for them and their teammates for the next three weeks while they attempt to break TWO different skydiving records. You can check out their progress and get daily updates and pictures/video at the official World Team [...]
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Christmas 2003
Christmas was a success. :)
Here’s a picture of my new favorite Christmas toy - a 20 GB Rio Karma (MP3 player). I transferred all my MP3s to it (not as many as I once had due to an unfortunate crashed harddrive incident a few months back) and still have 16.3 GB of free space left. [...]
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