MikeJD

A couple more for your consideration: "The Operative" (Chiwetel Ejiofor) in Serenity. Nicely complex villain, since he's ruthlessly doing really nasty things for what he believes is a noble cause. Qualen (John Lithgow) in Cliffhanger. Lithgow's done a fantastic job of playing bad guys over the years. By the way, ever notice how Hollywood loves a villain to have a European - preferably English - accent? Not sure why. Some of us are actually good guys.

I think that's Terence Stamp, isn't it? Don't know the role or the movie though. Nope...think 80s TV shows...villain that always came back no matter how many times he was killed. Think...someone who could create something out of nothing. Think...swiss army knife. Oh, ok. From your description I guessed MacGyver, but I never really watched the show. So that would make it (after a quick Google) Michael Des Barres as Murdoc. He does look a bit like Terence Stamp though!

I think that's Terence Stamp, isn't it? Don't know the role or the movie though. Some of my favourites: John Doe (Kevin Spacey) in Se7en. Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in The Matrix. Um... I'll think of some more.

Please tell me you're kidding. Surely the best response in this case is just not to respond. If you don't see any suggestive remarks from him in the future, then either it was innocent or he's got the message. If he's pursuing you then he won't leave it at that, in which case you can escalate it as need be.

Sheesh, if you're under a round, do whatever the heck you want . It's not like you've got any control over the damned thing anyway - you just drift around and bounce off anybody who gets in your way.

And that question is less valid than ever, except in the sense that it counts your exits and canopy rides. There are people with a tiny fraction of my jump numbers, but lots of tunnel time, who'll outfly me easily.

Sounds like she'll fit in just fine with all those other road users.

She looks like she might be very pretty - kind of hard to say.

We are gonna have to move you out of remedial English dz.com style(bonfire) and send you to English 102 SC. Your(you are,you're)just to damn smart. .. Corporations's? I saw my favourite ever just this morning - "Walla!"

The only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.

Hey, director Kathryn Bigelow also made a movie called Point Break. Anybody seen that? Haven't seen "The Hurt Locker" yet, but I read a glowing review this morning. I was afraid it'd be some ridiculous fiction, but I gather the writer's a correspondent who toured with an EOD team. So hopefully there's more authenticity than usual.

She doesn't have pointy ears and long whiskers, does she? Makes a kind of miaowing noise?

Assume it won't be - it reduces the crushing disappointment.

FFMedic, I do want to pick up on a few of your points. Filming something with a hand-held video camera no more distracting than opening your helmet visor? Do you really believe that? I don't. I don't think my concerns are regressive - I think they're common sense. Just because new technology allows us to do something doesn't make it a good idea. It doesn't make it necessary. You mentioned earlier that you could have emailed the video while still under canopy. There's a good example. And while I love to see the boundaries of the sport being pushed, I'd prefer it be done by people with lots of experience (meaning, more experience than me). My response was specifically about you holding the camera in your hand. To me that's quite a different situation. Things I would ask myself (and maybe you did) are: if I suddenly need full use of my hands, will I really be quick to let go of my expensive camera, even though I know it's secured by a lanyard? If I do let it go, what are the chances that a dangling camera might entangle with something, e.g. in a cutaway situation? Not at my DZ. Again, this may sound to you like an old fart's comment - but doing something and getting away with it doesn't make it safe. Accidents can often be seen as resulting from a chain of events, or a combination of circumstances. If you introduce the first of those then you're potentially on your way to having one.

I don't currently have any pets, but my late cats both seemed to believe: - That if they sat just behind me enough times they would eventually train me not to trip over them or step on their tails. - That, even after years of contrary evidence, I kept their food in the fridge as well as mine. - That over time I would learn to love claw-assisted lap massages. - That licking someone's ears is an agreeable way to wake them.

But I wouldn't recommend anybody be playing with a video camera under canopy after 42 jumps - arguably a hand-held camera is more of a distraction than a helmet-mounted one. Certainly it'll leave you less able to deal well with an emergency. Your post and profile suggest that as well as your jump numbers being low, you're not particularly current. Please be careful. Just sayin'.

I see those doubts about coming back after you heal have disappeared. Have to agree with cocheese and NWFlyer though - I'm in no hurry for the sport to get more popular than it is.

That's the procedure for the Skyvan. There isn't enough room for running in the Otter - you have to revert directly to the rocking/ singing. --------------------------------------- Seriously, at 1800ft I'd plan to be using my main. I've exited a few times between 2 and 2.5K (although it's been a while), and at sub-terminal I don't think that's enough of a difference to switch. However, the outcome in this case was happy all round and I wouldn't say anybody did the 'wrong' thing.

Horses for courses, I guess. A USB stick is frustratingly slow if you're having to transfer huge volumes of data in a hurry - but when it's fast enough, there's nothing quite like it. I use one now for music production - collaborating with a friend, so taking entire Cubase projects back and forth between my place and his. I originally used a USB stick for copying the projects between our hard drives. Then I was surprised to find that the stick itself is fast enough to stream the data for multiple MIDI and audio tracks - record and playback simultaneously - in real time, without a glitch. So now (except for backups), the songs never leave the stick and it's really cool to be able to carry them around like that!

Too funnyyyy hahah!!!!! still freaking laughing!!! Can't believe a few of you haven't seen it. That video has been around forever God. If like me you can't get YouTube at work, you're flying blind in The Bonfire these days. I'm thinking of petitioning for a dedicated YouTube forum where people can post all the links - it'd save me opening a lot of threads for no reason! But is it the Flash animation with the different nations nuking each other? If so, yep - it's years old. But still funny.

Don't think I know this one, but your thread title reminded me of an INXS song, 'The Stairs'. Storey to storey Building to building Street to street We pass each other on the stairs. I've never owned an album by INXS, but Patrick Passe used lots of their songs (including this one, 'Not Enough Time', 'Taste It' and 'Suicide Blonde') in his 'Travelling' videos that I bought and watched obsessively when I was a newbie AFF gaduate in the early 90s. Hearing them now takes me right back to those heady days

The world will end in [Frank voice]28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds[/Frank voice]. That's more than 2 years ahead of Camping's prediction, and he's going to look pretty foolish when it happens.

Bolas, thanks so much.

Shush. All those people have been given new identities now, so no harm done. Anyway, I never understood what all the fuss was about. I had clearly written TOP SECRET on there.