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I suppose he is Mr Pekka Vanninen from the Parachuting Club of Kemi (in Northern Finland). The body of the suit is actually wery dark blue and the wings are bright green. It's an old GTi. Those colors are not in the standards, but I think BM will also make suits with custom colors. Vesa Humm.. who knows, I had asked Kim if there were any other colors that weren't listed and she said no, so maybe it's an old color that they don't make anymore or something.. oh well - he's got a unique suit now :)

HEY!!! I just saw a guy with a black suit & green wings on the video, those are my colors!! Where did he get the green wings from? That isn't a standard birdman selection last time I checked..

Did you ever find a solution to your problem? I thought I was the only one with this crazy problem. What I found that seem to help it a bunch was a few things: A) Disk space - if you don't have plenty of it this could be a problem B) defrag - i found that my disk was fragmented a good bit, a good defrag helped a bunch I ended up buying an external firewire 80 Gig drive and haven't had a problem, all of this editing was done on my dell laptop w/firewire built in.

What do you guys think about safety when it comes to foot or shoe mounted camera systems like that from bonehead? To me, it seems a lot safer then a helmet mount camera system.. any other thoughts?

2.5 hours?? what are you on a dialup connection or something? I've only got the first 5 minutes down so far but it's badass!! good job

does anyone know who the hell those guys actually are, or is it a big secret?

"did i feed my dog today?"

Dude. How in the hell did you get that shot?? Kim - thanks for all the information, I'm glad to see this fourm is starting to have some good information in it...

I kinda beg to differ, I don't have any of Eminem's CDs don't idolize him or anything like that, but if you've heard his music I think he does have a good bit of talent. Anyone who can fit that many words into a sentance, make fun of that many people AND make it rhyme has got something going for them. He may not be the most politically correct person, his music may not convey any type of good message, but he is singing about things that have happened to him or in his life -- i think his lyrics are kinda humorus actually. Just my 2 cents.

That is hillarious!

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Wow that is kinda interesting, do you actually use this or just heard about it? I'm kinda leary -- doesn't this mean they have access to all your bank info? Or even worse, all your bank info is in one place for a hacker?

So - how do you guys track your money? Do you prefer Money (microsoft) or Quicken? Every year I vow to myself as a new years resolution to start keeping track of where all my money goes (i don't balance a checkbook, actually I hardly write checks.. but that is another story) but anyway, that normally falls through by about week 3.. so was curious if you guys use any of those software programs in order to generate nice pie charts on how much goes to skydiving and whatnot.

Ah! I had asked Flyhi about that pic in a thread that was later deleted by some moderator I think.. I made the comment that he looked just like Doc from back to the future!! :) Hell I didn't know it was nick nolte

That is a good thing, right?

Plus you have to worry about cat pea.. if you scare the cat good enough it's gonna piss it's pants.. and talking from experience, cat pea does NOT come out of a rig very well.. (still trying to get it out of mine after 5 months)

Screw the trailer house I want a 727! According to their website the airplane is guaranteed to no longer fly. Damn... i missed the auction for the Missile Silo Home that actually looks pretty cool.. runway included.

cnn article here WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Gay sheep that mate only with other rams have different brain structures from "straight" sheep, a finding that may shed light on human sexuality, U.S. researchers said on Monday. The differences are similar to those seen in some homosexual humans, but probably only go a small way to explaining the causes of different sexual preferences, the team at Oregon Health & Science University said. "We are not trying to explain human sexuality by this study," Charles Roselli, a professor of physiology and pharmacology who led the study, said in a telephone interview. "Whether this is a big component of what contributes in humans, that's still debatable." Working with a team at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Sheep Experiment Station in Dubois, Idaho, Roselli's team studied 27 sheep -- 10 ewes, nine rams that mated only with other rams and eight rams that mated only with females. The "gay" sheep are strongly homosexual, Roselli said. "They don't pair-bond," he said. "But they are exclusive. They don't court or mate with females. They only court and mate with males." Brains may hold the answer First the scientists watched the sheep to be sure of their behavior -- something that cannot be done with humans. Then they took apart their brains. "There had been reports in humans that a certain area of the hypothalamus, the preoptic area ... was usually larger in males than females," Roselli said. This area was also found to be larger in heterosexual humans than in homosexual men. But the researchers had used the brains of men who had died of AIDS in their study, which meant the disease or drugs used to treat it could have had an effect on the brain. "With an animal model you can be more selective and do more controlled studies," Roselli said. The sheep had similar differences in their brains, the researchers told a meeting in Orlando, Florida, of the Society for Neuroscience. "In a sense we confirmed what been found in humans," Roselli said. The brain cells in this area also made greater amounts of an enzyme called aromatase in the heterosexual rams. Aromatase is involved in the action of testosterone, the so-called male hormone. No differences in testosterone This does not mean the gay rams had less testosterone in their brains, Roselli stressed. "It is not necessarily the activational effect of the hormone," he said. Other types of neurons are probably active -- they just have not found them yet. No differences in testosterone relating to sexuality have been found either in the sheep or in humans, he said. "It's not that gay men have lower levels of testosterone," he said. "And it's not the case with these sheep." Roselli believes that exposure to hormones while still in the mother's womb may affect the brain and cause differences in sexual preference, and more experiments will aim to show whether this is true.

Dude, where are you living that you didn't have to sign a lease? Do you have to take care of 5 horses too?? *wonder*

Uh is it in your lease when and where you have to deal with the garbage??

Okay, I saw the shirt - - educate me, what is the big circular fan looking thing? At first thought I was thinking wind tunnel but now i am not sure since you said something about sky surfing..

In david letterman's top ten voice........ NUUUUMMMBER: 8. There will always be another sale 7. Be careful for what you wish for.. (yada yada) 6. Don't bring a knife to a gunfight 5. If it ain't broke, dont' fix it. 4. Treat others how you would like to be treated 3. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission 2. It's better to have a gun and not need it, then to need a gun and not have it AND THE NUMBER 1 motto Kevin lives by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. Be careful of the feet you step on today, they might be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow

i think it also does that when you have connections to the server still open in the background, i think it limits you to 2 downloads at once..

is the pic still there? don't see it in the profile.

I remember seeing a post a while back about a skydiving dog -- cnn has picked up on it now and has video, if anyone has the stupid "Passport" they sell then grab it so we can see it too! :) here