Zennie

I'll B there. Without Gummi Bears... - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

So I'm sitting on the couch enjoying my latest BASE video when I start hearing some evil snickering coming from the proximity of my computer. By some strange coincidence Ramon happened to be surfing dz.com on my 'puter at the same time that the last few posts popped up. No wingi, I'm not on crack. And I only wish I had the imagination to have gummi bear dreams. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

They can feed a third world country for a month on the pus from my zits! Andrea Dworkin stood in line to beg to give me a rim-job! I'm cable ready! I have creative licence to kill! I invented the simulcast and fed the networks three separate angles of the crack of my ass! The stars are naught but cumwads shaken against the sky that I didn't bother to lick from my palms! My navel is a MIDI port! I sold my mother into slavery! I circumcised my father and ate the sleeve! I piss in phonebooths while making collect calls! I cooked the bloody rag of the Virgin Mary into an omlette and served it to the Apostles. God is my co-pilot and we're flyin' straight for the moist nether region of Amelia Erhart!! I give assholes to inanimate objects just for the pleasure of sodomizing them! I was the first man to get AIDS from an African Green Monkey and laugh it out of my system! I tought G. Gordon Liddy how to lie! I am wanted in 51 states of conciousness! I have an autographed copy of the Bible! I dropped acid with Buddah and had to talk him down! I shoot meter maids! I gave the President skin cancer. I taught Nancy all she knows about Anorexia. I just say YES! Brooke Shields turned tricks to finance my way through college! Fuck me if you can't take a joke! I fuck myself so good I tip myself for a hand-job! I drive the cars of dead relatives! I am a lesbian in a man's body! I get drunk and shoot cum into my third eye! I am the cause of spontanious combustion! I may be white and bright but I have a black dick! I sing the blues! I can clean a whole cat box without having to take a breath! I'm a rum runner, and a gun runner, and a gum chewer! I am the fifth dentist! God tests his material on me before taking it to the stage! I sold the trademark on hell for coke money! I am the eye of the hurricane! My Grandmother taught me how to French Kiss! I am the one who never leaves a message on your answering machine! I say Fuck the Dogma! I say kill the High Priests! I say "Bob" helps those who kills themselves! J. Edgar Hoover thought he was the Anti-Christ. Look at the Name: J. Edgar Hoover.... J E Hoover.... Jehoover.... The head of the conspiracy that dare not speak his Own Name!!! I say fuck the false Prophets! I only want true Profits! And if you won't I'll fuck them myself! Praise "Bob!" I'll kill myself before I see this become just another article in People Magazine, and I'll kill you right after that just to show you I was'nt fooling! I am a party animal! My ancestors brought the first keg to the Donner Party! Fucked being a vegetarian just to stay alive.... Praise "Bob," It's great to be a SubGenius. Joe Paulino Swami Z of Teddyrama, the discount Church of Enlightenment. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Some times I dream that I am a great big teddy bear in charge of a whole troop of fruit colored gummy bears. All of the sweet smelling fruit bears hug me and love me and wait on me all day. They make me cakes and help me get dressed. The give me massages and make my bath. Really weird they start making me feel really warm inside and I want to kiss them...but then I wake up all sweaty. I dunno, kinda weird huh. zen (teddy dad). - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

C'mon Dan, you're an engineer. Make them clicky pleeze! atair troll page (being up dated soon) atair's main page link - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Heh. If you & AggieDave formed a team you'd only have about 30 seconds of working time for your routines. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Nice thing about that is you kill two birds with one stone. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Ummmmm.... you *can* re-assign drive letters with windows' drive manager utility. Linux didn't screw up. It did exactly what it was told to do. Reminds me of a little IT poem... "Oh those damn computers. How I wish that they would sell 'em. They never do what I want 'em to, only what I tell 'em!" - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Unfortunately, we had a fatality (Robert Hindon) for this very reason just this weekend. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

I hate to bring up the packer's mantra, but I believe it to be true... were you in a relaxed body position when you pitched? Something 460 taught me which I have found to be more useful than anything else is to be totally relaxed when you pitch. Tension seems to exascerbate problems. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Hrm. Wonder where I got that goofy idea. *shrug* Oh well. Neeeever-mind. BTW. Been to Tahoe. Beautiful place. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Hey Mick, aren't you from South Africa? It's kind of a funny coincidence how the guys who run the two big parachuting boards... you with Blinc and Sangiro from this board... are both South African. You guys know each other at all? - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

I rented a rig from Vertigo for this year's Bridge Day. Real nice Warlock with a Dagger main. I think it was Marta's spare rig. Rented it for $250, which may sound like a lot, but it is new, state of the art BASE gear and she offered an equipment discount of that amount if I purchased a rig from them. Any FJC will also provide gear for you as part of the course. Note that the "classes" at Bridge Day aren't really anything resembling one of the dedicated courses you'd get at CR, BR, Vertigo... they are more or less 1 hour Packing 101 deals. I had 400 skydives and I left that class not knowing much more about BASE packing than when I came in. To really learn that stuff in depth, find a BASE mentor and/or take a FJC. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

And this brings up an issue I've been grappling with lately... just how "clean", from a point of diminishing returns perspective, should a pack job be? Most of my time is spent cleaning the inside of the pack job and lining up the line sets. I wind up making several passes at it before I pull the tail over. I can't help but wonder if I may be overkilling it a little, but at least I don't have gear-fear issues when it comes time to jump. Maybe when I get a few more jumps under my belt I'll start experimenting with not making quite so many passes. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Well, I've heard of people packing their BASE canopies like a skydiving canopy. BASE pack jobs, with a couple of minor exceptions, are pretty much the same as a reserve pack job. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but the main reason to lay down the canopy is for control & neatness. In my case, I lay the canopy down on it's side, then go through each cell, one by one, to make sure they're laying nice & flat and in line with each other. Then I pull at the top for each line set and clamp them when I get them aligned right. Then I rotate the job to sit on the nose and flake out the folds between line groups. This gets me going and gets a lot of the flakingout of the way early. Of course everyone develops their own style over time, but that's what I do with what seems to be good results. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Well, I'm kneeling, but my canopy is laying on the ground. A good floow-up question would be "clamps" or "no clamps"? I personally use clamps. Makes life a heckuva lot easier. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

I hate doing this on the forums, but since your email access is limited... Hey 460, gimme a call when you get a chance. I have a question about a very tasty looking B. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Health, health.... FUCK HEALTH! Oh, wait. Nevermind... - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

BASE jumping. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

How high? With or without an elevator? - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Hey 460, Email me at ted_biggs@yahoo.com when you get a chance. Better yet, check your private messages here. I'll be sending you one shortly. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

If the owner owns both the land and the antenna, it would be legal. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

WHAT!?!?!?!?!? Count off!!!! - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Well, I'm doing my part to help offset that a little (5'7", 130lb). - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

Absolutely. What I meant to say was if you can't take the FJC, you should find a good mentor to teach you the ropes. The FJC isn't a substitute for a mentor, in fact, if you go to the Vertigo, CR, BR sites they'll tell you the training doesn't end there. One nice benefit of a FJC is that it helps you establish a network if you don't have one already. Then when you go home, hopefully you'll have a contact to continue learning with. But like others have said, some folks don't have the luxury or having a qualified mentor close by. This makes things more difficult (and dangerous). And that's where an FJC is particularly invaluable. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon