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Just reverse the still camera mount so that the mounting plate is to the outside and the top of the still camera is pointed to the middle. That will reduce the snag risk and protect the camera from getting smacked by the door, etc. Your video camera looks a little snagadelic, but no more so than if it was sidemounted.

Anybody have a link to the before and after photos everybody is referring to?

Oh, crap. And I just started a thread about volunteerism. (It's cause senior women outlive their men by a ton and volunteer once the man is dead)

If you have any time at all, you should. A while back I saw that there was a vacancy on the Police Commission in my town and realized I had no good reason not to volunteer. I actually have a ton of experience in crime prevention and police science, so I couldn't rationalize not volunteering. I interviewed with the Mayor and the Chief not caring if they wanted what I had to offer. It wasn't a job, after all. I got appointed and now about once a week I conduct neighborhood watch meetings with folks that live nearby. Tonight I had a great meeting with a very colorful bunch of neighbors. It was really heartening. With all the pushed news about how bad things are, and with movies like "Crash" out there, who would think that 11 diverse families would crowd into one of the neighbors living rooms to listen to how they could better cooperate to create a safer environment for the adults and children that lived on that court. Great stuff. A beacon of positivity in an ocean of pessimism. Log on to your city and county's commissions page and see what commissions have vacancies. No, you may not make a difference, but it is fun and heart warming. That is all. Commissioner Kelly

He won't be able to use juice or HGH any more. Last year me and Hooknswoop and his Ms and BigBen went out to PacBell and watched him put one in the water. No juice last year either. When you watch him hit homers this year, you'll know they are un-juiced ones. Or not, An interesting issue here is that substances have to be identified before the can be made illegal. Extasy was like that in the beginning. It was a molecule that got people high, but it wasn't cocaine. It wasn't illegal until it was placed on the books as illegal. I think that's what the "cream" and the "clear" were like. New subtances that hadn't been made illegal yet. I don't think Bonds was lying when he said he wasn't using "steroids" "back then". Human growth hormone isn't a steroid, and the cream and the clear weren't specifically classified as steroids yet when he used them. It's hair splitting, but the man gets paid to perform, and perform he did. It's a game. People work their advantages.

Whoops, Spectra, then. Thanks. So how often does Vectran need to be replaced then, since it doesn't stretch or shrink?

It really doesn't bug me. I guess because growing up we had the steroid olympics every four years, with the Soviet-bloc freakish weightlifters etc. What was that clean-and-jerk champion's name? I still remember the bar being bent almost to his shoulders. I just don't see what the big whoop is all about. I bet the Babe used speed or drank a lot of cocaine-fueled Coca-cola in his day, or used laudenum. He is reported to be a heck of a booze abuser with poor impulse control. Heck, tandem masters have an unfair advantage when they have an O2 system on the plane. I bet it really helps with hangovers! Athletes at that level use every advantage they can get, from insulting the other player's mom to using human growth hormone and using Motrin along the way. Bleh. I think it's a manufactured controversy.

When the parachute is turning without input? That's how I found out my were done. I asked why my canopies where turning and flaring like crap. How many jumps on them I was asked? "Oh". I've had them both relined.

You know, I was really obese for most of my life. People would react with disgust like I wanted to crowd them out of space, and it was beyond my control, pretty much. Have fun. Fat people don't make that much difference, and they are completely aware of how much they crowd you on SouthWest. Fucking with them about how they are using more cabin than you is just silly. Or how much more roller coaster. Go around and then ask them where the fudgesicle guy is selling.

I knew sending all that crap all over the world would pay off! Actually, I'm getting used to using the second monitor as an extension of the smaller one on the notebook. It's pretty cool. Thanks, Scott.

I have a Sony Vaio with a docking station. My docked keyboard is working fine, but I want my docked monitor to take over when the notebook is docked. Right now I have two monitors active, which will be cool for video editing, but while I'm looking through the help files, does anybody know the answer? I want the docked 20" monitor to take over from the small screen on the notebook. The sooner I get this fixed the sooner I can finish the Holiday Boogie video. Thanks. JP

Your attitude sucks. Disneyland/California adventure has to be approached like a military campaign where vitory is measured by the percentage of major attractions in both parks are ridden in one day. Listen up, Marine: Enter park when it opens, either one. Go directly to the ride you want to ride most and get a fastpass, ride another favorite ride and go to the other park (CA adventure/Disneyland) and get a fastpass and wait in a regular line. Alternate between parks using a fastpass and waiting once on each side. When on the CA adventure side, have cocktail. Have whoever in the party hates rides or gets too wasted spread out a blanket in front of the fence in front of the Huck Finn island and hold spots for everybody else for the Fantastic show and then the fireworks. It helps if this person has a little barf in their hair. You gotta Work It! I love Disneyland. But you have to have a plan if you go when it's crowded.

No Kudos on the four months thing, but me and the owner and the the managers of Byron routinely golf on Mondays or Tuesdays when the DZ is closed. Low 90's is excellent. I've only broken a 100 like twice. Play hookey some Monday or Tuesday and we'll do Lone Tree or Bethel Island. Bueno.

I started wearing Bike compression shorts on student status because the leg straps hurt. My custom Wings rigs are plenty comfortable even without them, but the compression shorts allow the straps to move without binding any other fabric.

Good lord, everybody is lighter than me these days. But actually I'm much cooler now with the Dacron. More like Greg Gasson, Brent Finley and Tony Hathaway. I'm training with an advanced 4 way team this year that has a 300+ training jump schedule on top of my regular weekend instruction and video work, and I'm a middle-aged guy. The dacron is just easier over all on the body and the cumulative stress on the bod can be reduced by going dacron. Where I really notice the difference is in the difference between the A2 tandem canopies and the 384's. A2's open fast, and because of the dang microline on them it does get an instructor's attention at full inflation. Snivelllllllll-WHUMP. The A2 handles great, but I just don't know why they dont have dacron linesets. The 384's open Snivellllllllllllllll-whoooosh.

I just relined my Spectres with Dacron. I would say the openings are half-again softer than with the micro lines. I think part of that is that the slider comes down way slower on the Dacron lines. The lines are barely noticeably larger than the micro. When it was still in the bag, a rigger friend went so far as to say, that I didn't get the dacron. Anyhow, much softer and very noticeable.

They have to read the forums anyway... so it really makes me think that besides making someone angry, that clicking the Banned button and setting the banning time for 2 weeks, 3 days, 60 days, permanent... whatever is not THAT much grief. I'm sure it's a pain to clean up certain threads but if someone accepts a moderator job, that's what they get to do sometimes. Honestly this concerns me little so it surprises me that I'm finishing this post. You too? TIMMAE! Timmaetimmaetimmae!!!!! I'd say that half my posts I start typing (at 95 wpm), get my initial reaction down, consider it, and then think to myself, self, "Why bother with a considered response that some banmeister is going to slash" and then just refresh the screen without posting. I'm glad you hit "post reply", I enjoy reading your posts.

The forum used to have "ranks" for how much of a postwhore you were I even forget the titles, but people would post one-liners to get to a new rank. HH got rid of the ranks or titles to make things a little less cluttered, I think. I'd have gotten banned, but I know almost all the moderators and most of them are friends. Getting into it with some retard on the internet just was never worth it for the grief it would cause a friend.

The Original Meth Superhero! "Wait just a moment while I get my stash out of my ring!"

I will NEVER forget my first one of those. In Elementary school they just kinda told us we had a vry dangerous enemy and if the siren went off to get under our desk and wait for the light and then the shock wave. So when they had us practice, I guess I wasn't listening and thought it was for real. I melted down really badly and when they asked me what was wrong I told them they had to get word to my family, so they wouldn't die. Good God, the Soviets and the constant threat of nuclear war. That's something I don't miss. This new terrorism thing is bad, but growing up we had MAD (mutually assured destruction) if one side launched it was the End Of The World.

Dude, ask the Monkey: Go Easy Early.

"Tunnel Man" Just go in your work suit and tie a beach towel around your neck with a big baby-pin.

I don't know how quality suffers. The linear board stores the mini DV images in digital format and then the tape records right to the DVD recorder through the linear board. We store the still images backwards from the landing, through the opening, through the exit shot, an in-air plane, and a gear up shot. That gets the editor back to the opening sequence and the play through is about 8-10 minutes. The whole thing takes about 15 minutes and the stills are burning to CD while that is happening. Somebody shit-hot on a Mac might be able to do it as fast, but using an editor is usually faster than having a camera flier do it, cause the editor stays in the editing groove.

I win. It's a wierd crime and I'm now officially 140 years old.

Bah. Even I know that one. If the drapes don't match the carpet, you just shave or wax the carpet.