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BTW, this kite was found in Oct 2009. Good job by the entire kiting community. (One more item from history, 'bumped' by the exploring newbie.)
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Cool stuff happens around midnight Eastern time on the KiteLife site. John's link is not all there is; click on the "Links" tab at the top of most KiteLife pages.
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At the upper right of the main forum page is a link that says "View New Content". Click on that to see everything posted since your last visit. Then click on the little orange icon just to the left of the topic name to be taken to the first unread post.
On AKA you can either click on the bright dots in the Forum Index, or click on SEARCH and then SHOW UNREAD POSTS. (There are generally several pages, but not all have new posts. It is a bug in the system they use.)
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Fine, except Google (both G-Earth and G-Maps) can't seem to get the addresses right in my neighborhood.
The marker is at my neighbor-to-the-east's driveway.
The red arrow shows the right location.
Hrm... Have you tried entering latitude/longitude instead?
Not sure if it would work, just an idea.
I did try. It won't accept it; at least in the format I tried: 42°19'21.60"N, 83°35'51.31"W
That's OK; you can always zoom in on the house at the end of the long driveway just to the west. Switch to "Hybrid" map to see the house.
Or check it out directly:
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Where do I find the thing to click on that after this post is gone?
Right-hand end of the Tabs at the top of the page.
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Fine, except Google (both G-Earth and G-Maps) can't seem to get the addresses right in my neighborhood.
The marker is at my neighbor-to-the-east's driveway.
The red arrow shows the right location.
It would be nice if they would allow Lat/Lon location entry. (I tried. I know my Lat/Lon to the nearest hundredth of a second of Lat/Lon.)
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What's this have to do with the "SKYDOG T-SHIRT"?!?!
It's Topic-Drift from RNG (several posts back).
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I certainly didn't mean to suggest that your current system wouldn't get the desired results (pick a random subscriber), but that depending on how you managed the list, it might be easier (and less load on the random.org server) if you didn't have to run the list more than once to get a current subscriber's number.
Given the way you store the membership numbers, I expect the way it is being done is about optimal.
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Yep, we use this...
http://www.random.org/sequences/
Simply entering 1 and the highest subscriber number we have, formatted in one column.
We look to award the first number at the top of the results...
If that subscriber # is no longer in use, we regenerate the list, and then again look at the first number drawn, and so on.
Since we have written 834 numbers since 2004 and only have 295 still with us, we do sometimes have to regenerate the list a few times.
All fair, however.
As the RANDOM.ORG owner points out:
Q3.1: How do I pick winners for a lottery or drawing?
...you can put your active subscriber numbers in a list, number it (easy to do with a spreadsheet or database), and submit the range (currently 1-295) to the Sequence Generator. Then look at your list to see the member number which is associated with that list number. This will give just as fair a chance for each member and never require regenerating the list of random numbers.
This would require re-making the list of subscriber numbers any time you added or lost a subscriber, but, depending on how you maintain the subscriber list, that should not be difficult. If it is in a spreadsheet, sort by the active/inactive flag, and then use the row numbers of the active subscribers as the starting and ending numbers for the sequence generator. If it is in a database of some sort, write a report generator that creates a numbered list of active subscriber numbers.
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Thanks for 'bumping' this. I really enjoyed those videos of the Zen Glider.
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Always room for a new kite and since the condo is larger than the house...
I moved twice, each time to a bigger house. After each move I had less room for "stuff" than before.
This leads to my theorem: Moving fluffs things up. (Like fluffing up a pillow.) Dare to disturb your "stuff" and you will need a larger place to keep it.
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I know RNG as Really New Guy... Who is this RNG of which you speak?
I thought RNG was Random Number Generator. It's also all I see when I google { TLA RNG }.
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... you will find a button labeled "Mod Options" ...
Y'know, I had already found that button and never tried it. I thought 'mod' stood for 'moderator' and was there to allow Moderators to alter things "for the good of the forum", like deleting the picture of my Aunt Sally doing her famous dance.
{edit} Got it! Thanks for the pointer.
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I'm here to tell you, there is no conspiracy... Only the outcomes of an elected group of people who were willing to do what so few others are.
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Any organization run by volunteers attracts people who are both willing and want to run an organization. Frankly, most of us fail on both counts.
To me, that means get out of the way and let them run it. As a non-attendee to the convention, what I used see is the magazine as the face of AKA.
Now, reading the forum, I'm seeing some of the discontent, but ONLY from those who post on the forum, which is a TINY fraction of the membership.
I think I am still in the get-out-of-the-way camp. I will read the forum, but may eventually ignore the political part, and concentrate on the news and assistance sections.
Oh, yes, and continue to subscribe at a slightly higher level in return for not having to run the darn thing.
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I uploaded a single picture, and was given the opportunity to add a caption and description.
Then, I used the bulk uploader to upload 3 pictures. Now I would like to add captions and descriptions. I can't seem to find where to do this. Any help appreciated.
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It wasn't altitude, but my dad had over 3 miles of kite line out back in the 1950s. Using seine twine (a hard cotton cord for net-making) and dimestore kites, he let line out until it sagged to the water, added another kite on a 50' leader, and began letting out more line. Repeat until out of kites. The terns would come and sit on the line, making it slowly drop to the water. Then they would fly away, and the line would slowly rise again. Back they would come to the line. Down they would go again. Fun to watch for a 10 yr old.
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On another forum (non-kite) I find that I'm up to 1240 posts since 9/09, so watch out!
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For this sort of thing, you might also try SailKote. I got mine from Jamestown Distributors, but plenty of people carry it.
Note that the solvent is nasty stuff and highly flammable, so apply it in a well-ventilated area and keep flame away until it is dry.
It dries extremely fast (In seconds), so you might want to string the lines up like a clothes-line and spray with one hand and follow with the "smoothing" rag with the other. (Or two people, working together.)
People also use this to waterproof their sails (both kite and sailboat). Makes them very slippery, too. Read all the instructions carefully -- twice.
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... many of your post over on the Rev forum....
Yeah, I do get a bit talky.
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... --Pete over on the Rev forum lives in Homer and flies Revs and flex foils....
Actually I live near Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, and now I'm on KiteLife as well.
If you (cgregurich73) or anyone else is in the area (on a day when it isn't 6F) I'd consider doing a bit of flying. It's been a while for me, so it would take a bit of searching to dig out the wherewithal for anything but my two new Revs.
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...Pete brought it back to life.........
Check my join date and number of posts. I expect there will be a few topics brought back to life as I explore the site.
I've seen it in other forums: a newbie goes exploring and answers posts from the dim reaches of history. The difference is, that I know I'm doing it. I'll try to pick topics that can stand re-airing.
(And Reef Runner, I suppose that Miller Ack-Emma would mean 5:00 in the morning?)
(Guru4tru: 30 Millers? What's that in wine? We went through almost 70 bottles on my last birthday. I think I may have had several, but I can't remember and most of my friends are still talking to me so maybe I didn't have all that much.)
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I had tubes like these (but 6" x 10' heavy-walled and with padlock hasps) permanently attached to the roof of my '86 Bronco. They were strong enough that by adding cross-bars I had a sturdy carrier for other things.
I kept my kites in them during the season, so I was ready to fly anytime. I had to include a 10' hook-ended rod to pull out shorter kites, since I couldn't pick them up and shake the kites out.
I did get some odd looks and questions occasionally.
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Guy,
Great video!
It made me think about wish-lists. Mine, back in the summer of 1989 might have included:
1) Have a photographer (it would have had to be film back then) to record my learning curve.
2) If I had a photographer, maybe he/she could have set my kite up when I crashed it.
3) Since I didn't have a photographer, I wish my lines had been shorter than 150 or 200 feet. (45-60m) That was a LONG Walk-of-Shame!
Yours might have included:
1) Longer lines, as those short (15m?) lines didn't give you much time to react.
2) Tighter brake lines, as you might have discovered launching from leading-edge down sooner.
3) Reading the instructions a bit more carefully to get the vertical spars assembled properly the first time.
I am assuming that was all on a single day. It took me a LOT longer than that to get to where you were by the end of the video.
Thanks for this. It should come on the instructional video that Rev provides. People should KNOW that they will crash at first, and that they WILL learn soon enough.
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Mine drives from old email/newsgroup protocols: you used to be able to put a line with just two hyphens before your signature, and most email/newsreader programs would ignore anything beyond that line when quoting someone else's post. I liked the look of it and affixed it before my name as an e-sig. Strictly speaking, the sig should have two spaces before the hyphens to avoid confusing email clients that don't properly ignore anything past lines that have ONLY two hyphens and ignore anything past lines that START with two hyphens. Unfortunately almost all forum software deletes leading whitespace (like spaces and tabs).
Someone once referred to me as "decrement Pete" as the double minus sign means to subtract one from a variable (decrement) in some programming language or other. (Maybe "C"?)
It has one interesting side-effect: since the ASCII hyphen sorts before any alphabetic character, it tends to sort my "handle" at the beginning of most lists.
(Another blast from the past, resurrected by the exploring newbie.)