--Pete

Do not mistake biding one's time for silence. A fatal error! Taken by surprise!

The Beaufort Scale has official descriptions of indicators (for both land and sea) of the various wind levels.

Working here. --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.323577,-83.597667 Sent from Pete's iPad using Tapatalk

Drool!

This is a serious kite. You know I want it. RNG, be mine tonight! (#833)

Bryan, Nice logos. I really like the kid with his foot up on the "K". I hope that you and yours are all well with the heavy weather in your part of the world.

Baloo, it is de regueur for any LEO to have a TLA. You might try a half grapefruit as a weapon. (No, wait! That was another movie.) Back on track: I assert that the day is getting closer when the RNG will pick #833.

Sounds like bantering words ....? Bantering - nothing. This is hard charging!

This one is serious. Sorry, I'm not givin' up my number on this one. #833 - all mine; mine, mine, mine!

I'd try to bribe you, but I can't think of what to offer.

Banter, banter #833 Emoticons seem to be working for me.

Oh, yes! I've been looking at these and lusting. This is going to be a very 'wait-y' month. #833 forever!

Get out there and 'trick' that kite. Congratulations, Nathaniel!

High-quality (high-strength) blue-print and drawings tubes seem to be popular. For large collections, golf club travel bags seem to work and may get some kind of 'sports equipment' discount or exemption.

I'm ready. One more day to get ready for #833

Support the right to arm bears.

Nick, I have a lot of good feelings for Bill Gates, Windows, and Microsoft. I began using home computers back when it was a crap shoot (with poor odds) whether ANY piece of hardware or software would work with your computer. I have boxes and boxes of hardware and software for DOS (in all its versions) and for OSs and computers that predate the "IBM-PC", that never worked and whose makers never supported their products. When Windows came along (with all its faults) you could look at some add-on for your computer and if it said "Certified to work with Windows", then you had a really good chance that it WOULD work, and you could operate it without reference to any manual. I'm a big fan of standards - make it to this specification, with these menus, with these features, and you can put this sticker on your product. Windows has had its ups and downs since those days, and I'm using a Mac for most of my computing these days, but I still feel grateful to Microsoft for leading out that particular bandwagon (standards for software and hardware). Oh, and Happy New Year to you as well. (And all the rest of the KiteLife gang.)

It just occurred to me: we will be having an extra day in the coming year. Everyone resolve to get in an EXTRA day of kite flying, and have fun while thinking of your fellow kite flyers around the world. (It doesn't have to be on Feb 29; just get that extra day of flying into your year. Make it happen - make it happen more than once if you can.)

I say this to every new two-line flyer: From the beginning, think to yourself - pulling this handle makes the kite turn clockwise, and pulling that handle makes the kite turn counterclockwise. Get right and left OUT of your vocabulary and OUT of your thinking, except to describe the two sides of the 'window' (the part of the sky where the kite can fly well). The reasoning is that when the kite is flying towards the ground, those misleading words are reversed. CW and CCW stay the same. This was the epiphany that stopped me from turning the kite INTO the ground when I meant to turn it back upwards.

Yep. All the best to my kite-forum friends, for the coming year, and for the entire future.

The funny thing is that I switch between browsers on a regular basis. I'll use one browser for a while, then switch to another. I have no strong attachment to any particular browser. Frankly I really liked Lynx (text only UNIX browser) from back in the bad old days when I was cruising the web using a 1200 baud modem. It was great. It NEVER downloaded images unless I made a special effort, and then it just downloaded them to my computer, where I had to open the images with a different program. Now, a 1x1 pixel image hidden on a web page can trigger a virus from some bad-hat website to infect your computer. (grump, grump, uphill, both ways).

The original poll was started (and list of options selected) over six years ago. Chrome was first released only three years ago. It's what I've been using most lately. Ask me again in a decade, and it may be a browser that doesn't exist today.

Yeah, I thought "Wind Wept" was an odd name. BTW, you can go back and edit an older post. Of course then your later correction will make no sense.

Good for Ken! I know you will put it to good use.

WHAT??? Nobody up yet? Today's the day!