No-one out there seemed to know a free, efficient and bugless translator from Pagemaker to plaintext. Happily Janet gave us yesterday some material we were able to put on-line.
I'll tag here a copy of T.Savolainen's column in today's Groundloop.
The goal was not to have 70 outlandings in one day. The goal is to get all gliders flying home.
Tapio
This is Ollie. He looks like a doggie, but he really is not. He is a fierce 4-wheel hairy Terminator equipped with a 1-bit CPU (thus, two modes GERADEAUS && HALT). He's been thrown out from Lift & Sink on a gradual basis, but he used to re-appear there in a flick of an eye. We Finns are boring people in this sense, as we tend to keep our dogs in a line. As Ollie is a German (Austrian?) fella, he doesn't have to obey these dull and inhuman Finnish limitations. We're betting on how long does it take until the health authorities close Lift & Sink. It is another tightass Finnish rule not to allow dogs inside a restaurant.
Ollie is an OK guy, though, as he bit the German Team Captain in the hand the other day. It was only fair however, because them Germans are flying like hell. What is more, the captain tried to stop Ollie from wasting a dog one third of his size in the Briefing Dog Eating Championships. He just chose himself a wrong target. A gooood solid mouthful of Weiss' or Ziegler's right hand (or a seat of pants) would have been more profitable to the other teams.
Ollie has other funny hobbies like chasing wasps -and eating them still warm- and swifts, and whatever that moves including one guy in the GNSS evaluation team he has warm feelings towards to. Unfortunately for him, they are not responded with the same intensity from the GNSS cabin.
Janet probably hates me.
One of us underground Loop editors 'borrowed' Janet's Digital Camera yesterday to provide the net audience a look at our nerve center. Unhappily, we only got this one picture. In it, you can see our Internet connection in detail. Note the bars in the window - the cable is wrapped into one of them.
Why the heading 'Mystery..'? - simply because the borrower forgot to tell Janet about the loan. When she was unloading the pictures she saw this one and named it 'Mystery'.
As you can see from this picture, things are well indeed for BBBBB from the Great Britain, as the Sun is shining, task has been assigned and the outfit suits the weather.
The last few days have been so warm and sunny here at Räyskälä that the beer supply of Southern Finland is quickly coming to its end. Note the bartender's worried look. He is constantly looking for new sources to get beer from to satisfy the ever-growing need.
This is one of the reasons the Organization has recently set penalties for breaking certain rules in six-packs instead of the normally used points. Secure your own back.. eh.. throat!
8th European Gliding Championships '96 - underground Loop #4 on gei.geichhorn.com
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