Deuce
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Dude, do the lawyer thing with the Rocket guy. You go to a regular salary job and everything you do goes to the person who signs your paycheck authorization. I am in the middle of an amazingly heinous wrongful termination thingamajabbie, and I am getting to know the rules pretty good.
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Just to be sure, that's nothing like "bukkake", right?
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Yes I am! Not many are, as they are extremely challenging if one is not expert. Your father was a hamster.
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Then she should try to get a different job. When someone is paying you to work and think for them, the things you produce and invent belong to them. Take a really smart inventor-guy. This guy goes into a lab stocked by his employer and invents a zillion-dollar gizmo. The patent goes to the employer, the employee gets whatever his contract or salary said before he made a zillion dollars for the company.
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Do you write stuff like that on student's papers, too? I thought academia was an ivory tower, not that one with the badly accented French guys teasing the English Ka-niggits. "It's the Colonel, with his wee beady eyes, who puts the secret ingredient in the chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly!" It's the pentaverate, John, you will be assimilated.
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Dude, I didn't think the doctor was fixing you up with meds until tomorrow.
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That detail isn't on his site, and I need to replace two of my screws. Thanks!
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I'm guessing Roy is keeping the stills from between exit and landing secret?
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Why Do Christians make it so hard to be a Christian?
Deuce replied to Duckwater's topic in Speakers Corner
We expect nothing less from a rocket scientist. -
Yes. I make back my cost in the first quarter, and it's gravy after that. I'd be making a lot more if I put all my pictures in there, but I have a difficult time keeping magazine submittals, advertising photos for gear manufacturers, and gear manufacturer's website submissions all separated. I need to do a better job at that, but I'm not so bright. -AND- I get paid on the spot by my concession owner for wearing my digital camera for the customer. If I can make more with the images after that, it's all mine.
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Isn't that mostly because JP (SoCal) is the person you get the demo suits from, and his is really, really bright orange?
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And Ed is there. And he's really cool.
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At my DZ we call this "working for spec" it means you find a tandem passenger who hasn't bought video and you pay your way to video them. When you get down, you show them the tape, and if they like it, they buy it. You get reimbursed for the jump and paid through the concession. It's very win-win, and keeps the stress level pretty low for the new camera fliers. And, as an added bonus, when the regular crew is out of town or whatever, you go on the wheel. Stress of that initially is huge, but it makes you get better.
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Check their site for stock used suits. Some great deals, and lots of color choices too!
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Did some of that this past weekend. They've got that Crack Tunnel too.
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Why Do Christians make it so hard to be a Christian?
Deuce replied to Duckwater's topic in Speakers Corner
Yep. Goes for Conservatives and Liberals as well. -
Just submitted the passport stuff.
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If you've got the only suit at your DZ I would definitely suggest the GTi. Yes, the GTi can hang with the 3's, and somebody like SkymonkeyONE would kick my S3 ass in a Classic. As to the rodeo thing, I have only started getting successful stable exits right out the door. I'm at a Kingair DZ so the door is tiny and we are HAULING when we bail. My instruction is just for the passenger to hang on and have faith it'll get stable. It's usually a barrel roll or two, and when I see planet I open the wings and VROOM! Off we go. Haven't lost a passenger yet on exit.
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The DZ.Memorial Day Boogie at Perris will have you jumping as fast as you can pack for very cheap.
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Yes. There is a big difference. I have an S3, and did a dozen jumps on a GTi before getting it. The S3 kicked my ass on my first jump and scared the crap out of me. One of those "Oh, shit, I just dropped $1200 on this thing and that was absolutely no fun at all" kind of things. The two other high-time Birdman flyers at my DZ, one with a GTi and one with a Classic both have flown my S3, and both of them came down pretty wide-eyed and beat, because it takes much more arm strength to fly maxed. One of those guys was MadJohn Dobleman, for those of you who know him. He said he'd think about flying it again after spending some time in the gym . So, unless you've got several other folks to fly your S3 with, I think you'd be better off with a GTi. That is, if your ego will allow you to do the smart thing, rather than the most challenging thing. I love my S3 now, and fly it pretty good, but I'm either flying with GTi's and classics most of the time, or doing rodeos. Cool, though, huh?
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You know, once you start taking people's money, you aren't allowed to make mistakes. Seriously. There's no excuse for things like film, flashcards, and batteries not being ready to go. If you have done everything and your gear busts, that's different. I had a tongue switch crap out on me in the middle of a freefall, but I made a nice collection of screen grabs off my tape and gave the customer a disc and a partial refund. I fell off the plane once in sleet, but that wasn't my fault.
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Why Do Christians make it so hard to be a Christian?
Deuce replied to Duckwater's topic in Speakers Corner
Yeah, for us it's the whole school-church-social thing. We're basically a network of families with kids the same age who can depend on each other. If it sucked, we definitely wouldn't be as in to it. -
Yeah, 250, 251, whatever it takes.
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OK, so the plane takes off, the dikes burst, and suddenly it's a water landing, right?
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Really? Where would anybody get that idea? Nah, if somebody puts a "No Soliciting" sign on their door, I'm not one to rationalize some excuse to knock.