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http://www.virgingalactic.com/[^] It's a tad pricey though, and you'll probably have difficultly thinking of something to beat it with next year.
Simon
hmm only a few dollars short
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My girlfriends birthday is coming up in less than a month. I can think of several places that would make for a great dinner (thank you minneapolis) however i'm completely clueless about what else to do. I want to make it amazing... (i'm competing with her b-day from 2 years ago where she went hang-gliding in New Zealand) any ideas on once in a lifetime opportunites that she'll remember forever? :)
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
Spa : massage and all that jazz for two.
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unfortuantely i already asked her if she was interested... no go :(
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
Ah, that's a barrier.. Remember that making something special doesn't mean you have to fork out lots of money for it :) It could just be that her favourite meal, or something she really likes or whatever will do it :) Regards, --Perspx
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My girlfriends birthday is coming up in less than a month. I can think of several places that would make for a great dinner (thank you minneapolis) however i'm completely clueless about what else to do. I want to make it amazing... (i'm competing with her b-day from 2 years ago where she went hang-gliding in New Zealand) any ideas on once in a lifetime opportunites that she'll remember forever? :)
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
Out of curiosity (read: I'm not against what you are doing), why do you feel the need to keep raising the bar? You will eventually reach the point of diminishing returns. I am reminded of this joke: A young man seemed to take an unusually long time to place his order at the flower shop. When the clerk asked how she could help, he explained that his girlfriend was turning 19 and he couldn't decide whether to give her a dozen roses or 19 roses -- one for each year of her life. The woman put aside her business judgment and advised, "She may be your 19-year-old girlfriend now, but someday she could be your 50-year-old wife."
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First time skydivers is tandem only I believe, and beyond that when you're finally allowed to solo, you need to have so many successful jumps where your parachute gets automatically deployed after a few seconds. Only after you've forked over a ton of cash (thousands of pounds) and done relatively piddly jumps are you allowed to free-fall solo. All very safe.
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Here in SA your first ten jumps are normally static line, i.e. the auto-deployment scenario, after a day's training. Tandem jumps require much less training, but do nothing to further your accreditation. The static line jumps cost about R200 each back in 2003. We also have an Accelerated Free Fall track, in which your very first jump is free fall but assisted by two trainers at your sides. It only takes one or two more jumps to reach solo free fall, but that cost about R1000 per jump in 2003, and required several jumps.
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My girlfriends birthday is coming up in less than a month. I can think of several places that would make for a great dinner (thank you minneapolis) however i'm completely clueless about what else to do. I want to make it amazing... (i'm competing with her b-day from 2 years ago where she went hang-gliding in New Zealand) any ideas on once in a lifetime opportunites that she'll remember forever? :)
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
If she wants to go some place expensive, take her to a gas station.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I was going to suggest that, but it is dangerous, and something going wrong could make it a very unpleasant affair.
Brady Kelly wrote:
I was going to suggest that, but it is dangerous, and something going wrong could make it a very unpleasant affair.
Whereas hang-gliding is....?
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If she wants to go some place expensive, take her to a gas station.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Now that is humor!
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If she wants to go some place expensive, take her to a gas station.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
hmm only a few dollars short
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
There're somewhat cheaper options that would fit your budget if you were only a little short for a VG ticket. For a few grand a ticket there're companies in Florida and Nevada that will fly passengers in zero g parabolas for brief freefall experiences. For $30k there's a company in Russia that'll fly you high enough in a MIG-31 to see the curvature of the Earth.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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If she wants to go some place expensive, take her to a gas station.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001ok, that was good :)
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
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Out of curiosity (read: I'm not against what you are doing), why do you feel the need to keep raising the bar? You will eventually reach the point of diminishing returns. I am reminded of this joke: A young man seemed to take an unusually long time to place his order at the flower shop. When the clerk asked how she could help, he explained that his girlfriend was turning 19 and he couldn't decide whether to give her a dozen roses or 19 roses -- one for each year of her life. The woman put aside her business judgment and advised, "She may be your 19-year-old girlfriend now, but someday she could be your 50-year-old wife."
"Love people and use things, not love things and use people." - Unknown
"The brick walls are there for a reason...to stop the people who don't want it badly enough." - Randy Pausch
I only want to raise the bar... because the bar was set by her last bf, and its all she could talk about for a while
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
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My girlfriends birthday is coming up in less than a month. I can think of several places that would make for a great dinner (thank you minneapolis) however i'm completely clueless about what else to do. I want to make it amazing... (i'm competing with her b-day from 2 years ago where she went hang-gliding in New Zealand) any ideas on once in a lifetime opportunites that she'll remember forever? :)
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
Well you could charter a Sea Plane to take you and her to a remote lake 100's of miles from no where and spend the weekend camping and picnicking in quiet serenity. Of course Murphy's law would suggest that should you do this, some other moron will have the exact same idea and make his camp immediately adjacent to yours.
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My girlfriends birthday is coming up in less than a month. I can think of several places that would make for a great dinner (thank you minneapolis) however i'm completely clueless about what else to do. I want to make it amazing... (i'm competing with her b-day from 2 years ago where she went hang-gliding in New Zealand) any ideas on once in a lifetime opportunites that she'll remember forever? :)
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
Ask her to marry you. She’ll remember this.
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There're somewhat cheaper options that would fit your budget if you were only a little short for a VG ticket. For a few grand a ticket there're companies in Florida and Nevada that will fly passengers in zero g parabolas for brief freefall experiences. For $30k there's a company in Russia that'll fly you high enough in a MIG-31 to see the curvature of the Earth.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
And lets not forget that for a meager $10m you can go to orbit ...
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
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I only want to raise the bar... because the bar was set by her last bf, and its all she could talk about for a while
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
StevenWalsh wrote:
... because the bar was set by her last bf
And you should learn something from that. Look at what he got eventually, you don't want she talk about what you did with the next bf ... ;P
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My girlfriends birthday is coming up in less than a month. I can think of several places that would make for a great dinner (thank you minneapolis) however i'm completely clueless about what else to do. I want to make it amazing... (i'm competing with her b-day from 2 years ago where she went hang-gliding in New Zealand) any ideas on once in a lifetime opportunites that she'll remember forever? :)
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
Why do you feel compelled to "compete" with your last bday gift to her and with a bday gift from her old boyfriend? I don't think too highly of her if she's making you feel like you have to compete with a gift an ex-boyfriend gave to her! What if next year, circumstances have it where you temporarilly have no money to spend on frivolity? Would she still love you? Still want to be your girlfriend? Does she love you for you or for what you can give her and do for her? Hey maybe you don't care, and maybe you get off on being the big guy throwing around money impressing people. But there just seems a lot wrong with the situation here where you are trying to top things. Obviously just my opinion. I've always been the type of female to look through all of the garbage to get to what the person is like. I wish you luck with her birthday and with the relationship.
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StevenWalsh wrote:
however i'm completely clueless about what else to do.
Really! :rolleyes: Marc
But I'm sure you have some helpful country suggestions for him, right? :)
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I only want to raise the bar... because the bar was set by her last bf, and its all she could talk about for a while
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
IMO, it's probably a good idea to lower the bar, and just be what you can be. If she's only interested in what you can give her and not interested in you alone, then she'll leave you for someone else.
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My girlfriends birthday is coming up in less than a month. I can think of several places that would make for a great dinner (thank you minneapolis) however i'm completely clueless about what else to do. I want to make it amazing... (i'm competing with her b-day from 2 years ago where she went hang-gliding in New Zealand) any ideas on once in a lifetime opportunites that she'll remember forever? :)
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
Be thoughtful and personal rather than trying to be bigger and better. For my girlfriends first birthday after we got together I got her a signed & framed pic of her favourite musician. He's not a particularly popular artist, so took a bit of tracking down, but didn't cost too much. I then took the trouble to get it framed along with the CD & cover artwork that the pic was from. Total cost was under £100, but she cried when she opened it, and she's still got it up on the wall in her study. She still proudly tells people about it any time he is mentioned. Think of something personal to her. Think about what you know about her and the things she likes, then make something special out of that.
Simon
