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...just admitting that she hasn't met me yet. Elvisio "sorry ladies, off the market" Rodriguez

YOU GUYS ROCK! I tried iRip, but it choked and wouldn't recognize the iPod when it was plugged in. Hey, it's crap, but it's free. Then I did what was suggested here and in one of the websites you guys also posted, the copy and drag thing. In the end, we'll only have to repurchase seven songs. Schweet! Thanks again to all! Elvisio "jammin' yet again" Rodriguez

Thanks for the input. I'll try it out when the wife (and her iPod) get home. Elvisio "updates to follow" Rodriguez

Spend your time doing things worth writing about rather than writing about them. Live your life so that when you're gone people will remember you by your actions rather than by words written in a book and shoved on a shelf somewhere. Elvisio "but here I am PWing on dizzy" Rodriguez

My hard drive crashed. It had been about two months since my last iTunes backup (a couple dozen songs purchased in the interim, probably) when it happened. My wife has some of the songs on her iPod. The question is, is there any way to get the songs off the iPod? I figure that when I attach the iPod in question for the first time that it'll sync and wipe out all the songs on the iPod that I'm trying to save. What's the skinny? Elvisio "hate paying twice, especially for HER taste in music" Rodriguez

Those who know my alter-ego, real-world self will understand why I think this is the GREATEST THREAD OF ALL TIME. Elvisio "don't kick the baby" Rodriguez

Dude, it's not duct tape. When used on an aircraft, it officially becomes HIGH SPEED TAPE. Elvisio "dats right" Rodriguez

Absolute classic. ESPECIALLY if you imagine it being said in an English accent. Elvisio "chortle" Rodriguez

BWAHHAHAHAH! Yeah, I know, the Big Guy got started with an even smaller number of apostles, but I get the impression we shouldn't worry too much about the impact of this particular gathering of misguided souls. Elvisio "sounds like a campfire rather than a bonfire" Rodriguez

Best part of that whole test is the set of fuzzy dice in the '59. Elvisio "not as effective as an airbag, though" Rodriguez

New Year's Day, 2000. Cloudy all day, everybody wanted to make that "first jump of the new millennium;" we whined and whined until the pilot finally agreed (with a knowing grin) to "take us up for a look." In the end, we didn't QUITE get 2000'. Not TOO low, I think we had about 1700' or so. The best part was when we called for the "cut" the pilot actually INCREASED throttle to give us more relative airspeed for the deployment. Elvisio "DZ unnamed to protect the innocent" Rodriguez

Work in Progress Elvisio "needs a few finishing touches" Rodriguez

Please note the 500 cases of GBS you refer to were during the 1918 epidemic. Although I'm not directly involved in the field, I'd favor a guess that the state of the art has improved over the past ~100 years. Bring it on. Elvisio "skydiving and GBS: both involve running out of air" Rodriguez

My guess was they'd keep a pretty tight grip on this kind of gear to keep MacGuyver types from figuring out ways to get them off. Elvisio "officer, that is NOT mine" Rodriguez

Worst of all: when you go digging for a real deep one, but you only manage to knock it loose. Then, instinctively, you snort IN really fast. The now freed booger accelerates to approximately the speed of sound from one end of your nasal passages to the other and impacts the back of your throat like a sniper round. Coughing, gagging, and weird looks from passers-by ensue. Elvisio "not my favorite kind of boogie" Rodriguez

I closed my usual Firefox+adblock combination, blew the dust off of IE, booted it up, and went to DZ.com. The ad in question was the first one to pop up. Yeah, that sucks. But, you know the cure. If you're at work, tell your boss IE is contributing to a hostile work envrionment because if you see that ad one more time you're going to go postal. Elvisio "back to running Firefox" Rodriguez

I wonder if the FAA will agree. Did you file a NOTAM, and jump through all the other hoops you need to jump through to make a "legal" skydive? Remember man, it's not you they'll throw the book at. Elvisio "pilots are our buds" Rodriguez

Totally useless hijack: The view/post ratio for this thread is going to be sick: any post by a female poster with any form of "pussy" in the title is bound to go flaming in no time. The only thing you could have done to get more attention would be to use the grammatically incorrect "my pussy's..." instead. Every guy on DZ.com: It's WHAT? WHAT? Sorry I can't help with the names, I'm a dog person who is wicked allergic to cats. ...and dogs for that matter, I just like dogs enough to tolerate it for them, my wife's two cats just piss me off. Elvisio "sometimes bad grammar can be fun" Rodriguez

You haven't posted in this thread lately so it's possible you've come to your senses, but just in case: Do you BASE? Your profile says nothing about it. Either way, you might want to compare your BASE credentials against those of the guy you're trying to argue with before you continue. I've never met Tom, but I know wisdom when I hear it on DZ.com. Elvisio "only two S's but enough to be feeling for my BASE buddies" Rodriguez edit because I'm dumb.

It shows exactly what's most important to them. Also says a lot about how they're probably going to treat you if you do get the job. It makes them sound like hosers. Ask yourself: does this come across as the kind of place you'd like to spend the majority of your week? Elvisio "give it a pass" Rodriguez

When I was on my S/L progression, I told one of my instructors I wanted to be a tandem instructor, that was my goal. He told me what it took, I said OK, and made it happen. I went from jumping at two separate "make a few tandems and a few fun jumps each day" DZ's to a great DZ that has a well-established tandem operation. I won't call it a tandem factory because there is a strong sport-jumping contingent as well, but when you're on staff, you're ON STAFF. You will go all day long. In the end, two things burned me out: the pace of the work, and the liability. Credit goes to my student operation manager, who let me set the pace of how many tandems I wanted to do when I was in my "try to fix the burnout" phase. But ultimately, it was the liability that did me in. When I was a young buck in my 20's without a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of, I didn't have much to lose. Also, I was naive and thought "hey, they signed a waiver, they know the risks, they won't sue, right?" Now, after over a decade in the sport, I realize what asshats students can be, even (or especially) when the instructor does everything right. I never hurt a student, and I never was involved in a lawsuit, but am more aware that it DOES happen. Now that my wife and I are working HARD to save up for our first home, I have a much stronger awareness of how much could be taken away from me, seemingly on a whim. So, I hung it up. I still sport jump when I can. I'm starting to remember how much fun this stuff really is. Elvisio "did my tour of duty" Rodriguez

How in the HELL does a thread about this subject go for over a year without a single incidence of the word "Carbone" in it? Elvisio "befuddled" Rodriguez

Wow. I think I need to go for a run. Elvisio "flabby and not even forty" Rodriguez

Yep, buying the parachute means at least the online purchasing binge won't be a COMPLETE waste. Elvisio "" Rodriguez

They're all AN-2s. Elvisio "a touch of bonfire" Rodriguez