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  1. Everyone needs to PM Kris and ask him to get on the list - he was complaining last night that not enough people ask him to get on it! Keep that guy busy folks! _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  2. Much too small! I love the bigger kite, I think it is called the spitfire....it's a blast when the thing takes you for a ride. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  3. It was a good friend of her's that used it - I'm sure that won't be an issue. As far as location devices - smoke bomb could burn your stuff. Somone was trying to create a canopy lojak once - it activated when the risers left the rig via a lanyard. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  4. well, maybe you are I was recently told that faghag was replaced with "Grace" Hmmm....call him Jack and see what he says (yea, tell him I said that) _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  5. Want to see what LucasFilm is showing at marketing meetings? Someone taped it with a camcorder and put it on the net. Doubt it will last long out there. Yup, a lot of stuff from Episode 3, including action from what will be the end of the movie. It has spoilers in it, so don't look if you want to be surprised when it comes out next year. http://www.movieweb.com/media/news/01_04/e3low.mov SPOILER Description below: It appears that the Dark Side is alive and well. Footage from a two-and-a-half minute Lucasfilm presentation for EPISODE III was filmed by someone and has now made its way onto the internet. We've been told from a source (but unable to confirm with Lucasfilm yet) that the presentation was part of a marketing meeting. The material was placed on the internet as early as last evening. What is extraordinary is that the footage shows numerous scenes of Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor rehearsing and then filming one of the key moments in all of STAR WARS: the lightsaber duel between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Other scenes include Samuel L. Jackson (Jedi Master Mace Windu) in lightsaber action; Jimmy Smits holding a placement object for a to-be-added at a later time CGI character or item; Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine) and Christensen talking against greenscreen; Christensen in the cockpit of a Jedi starfighter and then later hanging for his life against a ledge suspended against a greenscreen; scenes featuring Natalie Portman (Padme), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and R2-D2 and still more. Almost all of the filmed action is set against a greenscreen backdrop. The presentation begins and ends with material from the original trilogy of STAR WARS movies showing Darth Vader -- and the soundtrack used to convey the EPISODE III video is AC/DC's "Back in Black". The material does seems to be unauthorized filming. At the conclusion of the short the person holding the recording device seems to drop the camera just before the lights come up. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  6. Is that you John Wayne? I've never met you, so I don't believe you exist. And since you are not real, I am not posting a reply to something that never could have been written by someone that doesn't exist. For all I know, you could be a potato that is trying to fool us all. I really need more sleep and some warmer weather. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  7. Robert was out there today - no luck yet. Heather is headed to the DZ soon to get more info.... _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  8. QuoteThe risers are "Black and Blue" or was that "Blue Skies, Black Death" on the sides they werre to be attached? The risers really are not an issue....probably could get them cheap anyway _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  9. Found these on the BBC web page today, makes Dean sound even more insane after his Iowa speech. http://homepage.mac.com/lileks/.Public/Yeagh.mp3 http://homepage.mac.com/jonathanbarlow/.Public/howarddean.mp3 _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  10. That was said. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  11. Exactly JP - want a guarantee that you won't have a mal? Then don't jump. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  12. Heather didn't pack it, and it wasn't in her rig, but it was on her risers which are shorter and matched the split colors on her rig (each one was a different color). I think the PC and D-Bag may be hers as well. Also, it was a custom ordered Lotus 136 that matched her gear. The main was fine - Sally checked it out after her last chop two weeks ago, and someone test jumped it a few times to make sure it was fine. The jumper lost her Freebag and PC. So this was a very expensive jump. They think it is in the swamp, and the recovery guy was out looking for it today, and they flew the otter over the swamp. No luck yet. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  13. I'm a little depressed....wonder if anyone can cheer me up.... Hi Cheryl! Not an image I needed John. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  14. I jump with contacts and found they are better than wearing glasses under a full face. I can easily wear CurvX sunglasses or most goggles without having them dry up or pop out. I've lost one contact in three years of jumping with lenses. Sometimes a good burst manages to get in and dry out the lens - just blink as quick as you can. Oh yea, a full face works fine as well. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  15. Take your time healing - I sprained my ankle just days before a vacation to Mexico. I never used crutches, but was able to use sandals the entire time I was down there. Now the ankle makes all these really cool cracking noises and I've lost a decent amount of flexability and strength. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  16. good point....Better yet just don't do bigways. Or, be in Da Base, go low on break off and wait for everyone else to get away from you. (yea, that was a joke). I don't wear booties when setting base, yet on breakoff my gravity challenged body can catch up to those that docked on me during tracking. My tracking improved once I took the training wheels off my jumpsuit - I'm sure once I get another suit with booties I will be even faster. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  17. It is pretty amusing...It was nice being the camerawoman- less incriminating evidence of me...I think he should still have the tape though. And, I think Bo is on there too (but not naked)...Could be wrong tho. No, there really is no need for me to be naked at the DZ. Jeff keeps all his tapes - funny thing is, we picked up Sunny in the truck as she was walking back from shower house in nothing but a towel. That was a good weekend, and I only ended up with two more scars from the after hour fun. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  18. I paid $200 more=$1600.00 including custom colors. -Grant And the performance advantages that will get you? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  19. Best day for me 87 packs at $5 each = $435 for one day. I believe I did about 68 the next day, for a two day total of $775. Even if I averaged 100 over two days, that would be $500. That is a pretty typical weekend for most packers at DZ's with Otters KAs, etc. Now, that is less than what I make at my full time job, but it helped me survive while I was unemployed. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  20. Well, being unemployed most of the year kept me away from SDC a lot, and I didn't get a chance to travel to any of the other Chicago DZs because of that. I'll get back up there again this year. As Andy said - plenty of space to avoid the swoopers...and that patch of land to the north of the fuel truck is hardly used by anyone - it is always a safe out away from the crowds. Some people are prone to ear infections if they get water stuck in there - since the pond is part of a campground, the state sends out an inspector to test the water often. Donovan and his crew keep that pond nice and clean. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  21. BTW - for those Midwest folk that care, it is exactly one year to the week that we had that terrible cold snap last year. I remember because it was the week the heater, fan, windshield wipers, radio and windows all broke at the same time. I had to drive from Midway to Schaumburg four times that week during rush hour. I kept an ice scrapper in my hand the entire time so I could scrape my breath off the windshield. I purchased a new car that Sat, wonder why. Btw - I have an old Corolla for sale if anyone wants it - CHEAP! lol _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  22. Seems I can't edit my previous statement - It has been pointed out to me that Aerodyne doesn't place the ring under the webbing, but in the traditional position - and you can get a typical three ring setup if you do not want the miniforce setup. Gotta admit - Aerodyne continues to impress me with their customer service, nice group of people over there. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  23. Rook and Missy tend to walk down to the ramp alone a lot since they do many back-to-backs. Usually they walk up to someone jumping solo and ask if they can jump with you. They've done it to me a few times....how cool is that to have world record holders ask if they can jump with you. Keep an eye out for me at CSC this summer - I'll be making a few jumps up there this year as well. Bonfire? Hell ya. Nakedness? YUP! Nakedness in the pond??? Just ask Tracy and Sunshine. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  24. So I'm thinking that the Democratic responce only has so few options because thier platform and thier rebuttle is so limited. Or is it only their intelligence? Perhaps they can only focus on those few options at one time. Or maybe it has to deal with the amount of time they are given to read over his speech and come up with the rebuttle. Wonder if they have any time to do that much research. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....
  25. If you think about it, as the floaters wait for the base to form, they can complete their wackers and fly the line in. I don't think anyone on the attempt has below 1000 jumps - so the skill is there to pull something like that off. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....