I use a Nikon CoolPix 995 digital camera.
Your pictures are pretty cool. I like the 'wish' one alot.

First, the Great American Scream Machine opened in 1989. That makes it 13.

Second, no roller coaster should *ever* be taken apart.

Third, that's just not true :p Go ride the Loch Ness Monster, Matterhorn. . . Cedar Point's Corkscrew. All have aged very well.

Other than FIRST
 

In the winter I do ALOT of skiing. Before FIRST I was on the Varsity ski team for my high school, and did quite well. Back country is great, but you gotta love those wide open cruisers. Other than that you name it I do it. I'm a pretty athletically diversified individual. Gotta get the excersize in some how, and building robots isn't doing it.

bah, all you roller coaster people are crazy :p

theres something outside of first?

ooh ya there is... LAN parties... going to one this weekend... anyone who has been to one knows what im talking bout

basically, i spend most of my winter vacation (as long as it doesnt interfere with robotics) skiing in vermont and most of my summers windsurfing by my house. i also spend way too much time designing stuff. you might have seen the thread that ian started about out hovercraft. ive also been working on a go-cart recently, but its not coming together very well. last year, i designed a rocket car and tried to make a rocket engine using hair spray for fuel, but i came closer to lighting my hair on fire than to actually making it work.

Hmm...

- digital graphics design (hopefully future profession)
- listening to music
- playing music with my band
- tennis
- computer games

OH...I missed a big thing that I do when not doing Robotics.
I am in another club called Key Club. I am parrt of the Smithtown Key Club. (I made the site.) What we do is help out around the community, raise money for charity, help out at events, and more. It is a great club.

im a boring guy so when i'm not building FIRST Robots I ride my mountain bike all over S.I. NY

um, girls :D yeah, but other than that, computer graphics stuff, beating the crap out of my friends in online games, hanging out with my friends in downtown plymouth, riding my bike, going to work (i don't like it but i still do it), plan for world domination by millions of midgets in tutus with jars of pickles (still working on this one), oh, and FIRST

Let's see ... I don't relly do anything that isn't in some way FIRST related. Like this summer I went to Arizona for two weeks and spent the entire time setting up a camping trip for my FIRST team. Then when I got home, I did some stuff for IRI and finished my 2002 FIRST scrapbook. Now I am trying to set up something with Wisconsin FIRST teams at the Wisconsin State Fair, working on my "secret WI teams project" and trying to figure out a way to get more sponsors for the team for next year. Oh, when I'm not doing that, I'm working on re-doing my 2001 FIRST scrapbook (didn't like how it looked so I tore it all apart at about midnight last night!). Yeah. Life is interesting... kinda.

- Katie

i got to work, sit, get on aim, talk to people, get up, go home,go to sleep, wae up, go to work.....this is my summer

when i'm not doing that i'm helping people w/ FIRST admin stuff

p.s. if u don't believe me im me @ trueyank32 between 10:30 and 5..u'll see

Hey Mike i dare u to ride the cyclone at coney island.....you won't think that all roller coasters should stay how they are

It seems that a few people in this discussion like coasters just like myself. Has anyone ridden X or DejaVu at Six Flags Magic Mountain California or the coaster around the NY NY hotel in Las Vegas? I haven't ridden any of these but I really want to. Or howabout the one around the top of the Stratosphere in LV. :eek: