TomAiello
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>>Actually it no longer works...if you want to jump it now you gotta work for it! Foolish young jedi... You must learn the power of the Dark Side... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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It's a long story, with lots of sides and different perspectives. In my opinion, it's mostly that we (i.e. BASE jumpers) were not sufficiently respectful of the site and other people around, and were not sufficiently careful in our interactions with the governing authority. If you want more history, I'd suggest wandering over to BLiNC and starting a discussion there. There are lots of folks who can give you the various sides. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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It was A World Out of Time. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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If I recall correctly, her money came from her first husband, United States Senator John Heinz (as in Heinz ketchup, I believe). Her "official" bio is on the Kerry web site, here. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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The footage was previously available on "Lemmings Extreme", by Will Forshay. Johnny re-released the footage after Will's death, as a service to the BASE community. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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What kind of music do you listen to, mostly? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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While I'm not sure I disagree with you, Ron... What about someone who can't find a job but has children? When you send the parent to the military, what do you do with the kids? You can't send them into the military, too. They just aren't going to be effective soldiers. And you can't just hand them a welfare check. Massive state orphanages? Might be cheaper just to keep handing out individual welfare checks. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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You've actually probably heard a ton of his songs. You just don't recognize it as being "his". In fact, you probably don't recognize the songs as being the same artist. I had about four years of not knowing who he was. Then one of my friends sat me down and made me listen to about four hours worth of his stuff, and I kept saying "oh, I know that song" every ten minutes or so. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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To make something clicky, put {url} before it and {/url} after it. But replace the "{" with "[" and "}" with "]". http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=778621;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Zelazny was my first "favorite" author. I had read all of his books by about 7th grade. I can still recite the first paragraph of Lord of Light by heart. He's written a lot of great stuff, but much of it isn't sci-fi. I really enjoyed Changling and Madwand for example, as well as the overall thrust of the Amber books (in places they weren't my favorite, but overall they were very good). If you liked Lord of Light have you read Creatures of Light and Darkness or Jack of Shadows? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Brin is one of my "get the new stuff as soon as it hits the stores" authors. Sometimes he can be preachy and annoying (especially since he's a lefty and I'm not), but when he forgets to try to save the world with every sentence, he's great. I think my favorite is still the first one I read, The Practice Effect. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Or maybe "The Wino and I Know", but that's just because I'm drunk right now... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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It's different every day. Today? Maybe "Chanson pour les Petits Enfants". But it's always a different one. Tomorrow perhaps "He Went to Paris" or "Who's the Blond Stranger"... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Did he mention that was with an elevator? And that E? Yep, it was _that_ E... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Actually first E was jump number 6, as I recall. And the B was around jump 16 or 17. That old log book is in California, so I'm not sure about the exact numbers. This is one of those cases where BASE is really, really, a case of "Do as I Say, not as I Do." Please, don't anyone do what I did. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I've read most of her stuff. I agree that Earthsea was among her best. Oddly, I liked Atuan the best, mostly because I liked the protaganist (not the main character of the other books) better. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Agreed. Forever War was a favorite. I wrote a book report on it in the 7th grade. I thought it did a good job of treating the "other side" of Starship Troopers. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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What did you think of the BBC television series? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I felt like the movie was a spoof of the book. It was quite funny in it's own right, but it wasn't the same story. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I did like Troopers, but it was far from my favorite Heinlein. I've read most of his stuff (duh, given that my favorite book of all time was written by him). The top one I haven't seen mentioned yet is Citizen of the Galaxy. I'm not holding my breath. Who's directing it? If it's Peter Jackson, I bet it'll be fantastic... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Definitely try Kay, then. You start out thinking, "ok, these are the good guys, those are the bad guys, I know who to cheer for," but by the end of the book, when the "good guys" win, you're often left wondering which side you really liked more (except for his first series, that was pretty black and white good v. evil, but still plenty complex). He also has no remorse about killing off characters. It's very not-simple. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Yeah, and this was just your kind of question--shouldn't you have been all over that? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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On fantasy, has anyone read Raymond Feist? I really liked his Riftwar books, although some of the later books felt a bit campy. Lately, he's picked back up a bit, though. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Anybody read the Dorsai series (Gordon R Dickson, if memory serves)? Tactics of Mistake was a pretty good military Sci Fi. I also enjoyed the Bolo books. And I don't know if it counts as military, but the Berserker books (Saberhagen) were pretty good, too, in places. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com