Deuce

Ouch. My three-hole punch (I don't get to use the electric one) doesn't make me fat and lazy! Being fat and lazy makes me fat and lazy! I've got a box of AccuWipe 1-ply Delicate/Critical Task Wipers, model 29712, that I use as Kleenex. Beat that!

Oh, I don't get to USE the good three-hole punch, I'd have to go to training and get a card and stuff. Nope, I got my forklift operator's card just so I could drive around downtown in the forklift with my tie flying in the breeze. It's cool. I do this neat back-of-the-hand beauty pageant wave and stuff. Chicks really dig it. I get the most use out of my Sharp Compet CS-2164E two-color Ribbon Print 12 digit electronic printing calculator. It makes real cool officious sounds when people ask me to do things. Clickety-clickety whir-whir, rip-snap "No, not in the budget"

Oh, Seb! You're perfect! Let me bring you into the morass of Government Bureacracy! We have ELECTRIC three-hole punches! The only problem with them is they kinda whir-punch the holes out, but they do like 16 sheets at a time! I want one that uses three selenoids from starters for Chevy 396 cid motors! It'd have to have this big plexiglass safety cover that I'd take a couple of minutes to bypass so I could use it in the open position, we'd have to have big yellow and black signs and OSHA'd make us wear safety goggles, there'd be a big buzzer that'd be foot-operated and we'd shout "CLEAR"! Over loudspeakers and then two people would have to simultaneously turn keys or shoot the other weinie that was afraid to punch the holes and then Three perfect holes for placement in the $2000 three-ring binder. Lovin it!

The lanc port is where your Cameye II plugs in. That camera doesn't look too friendly for manually turning on while it's on your head. Go ahead and get a Cameye II now, you'll be able to use it with whatever Sony camera you end up going with. That's if the plug doesn't strip out when you scrape that camera off on the horizontal stabilizer of a KingAir

Whoo-sha! No foolin! Let's show that one to the enemy troops while they sit there in their trenches. On real big war-sized rear-projections screens! "The big aliens! They keep changing perspective size! Every scene! Please! Give the smaller alien a trumpet and let him play jazz with the guy from 'The Fly'! I SURRENDER! Turn it off! Turn it off!

If you can wait til May, I'll put it together for you at Perris. Get a Pro-tec, like Cajones suggested, and get a football helmet chinstrap and mount it up. We can do the rest with some aluminum and a Dremel tool. Does that camera have a lanc port? JP

L. Ron Hubbard designed that bomb?! Is Travolta endorsing it's use? I could swear it says "Dianetics" on the back!

Oh, heck, jraf.

We usually have good 6 to 10 ways organized by the world-famous ()Gareth Holder on weekends. If you decide to put Byron on your itinerary, I'll hang up the tandem camera for a day to show you around and jump out of a KingAir with the Mama! The boogie at Davis really is the bomb, though. Really friendly, relaxed, and fun. They do a good split between RW and FF too. They usually light up their landing area with road service lights for their night jumps, too. By June, the rolling hills will be dried and golden, quite a change from the relentless green of Florida

JT, I think you should wait, and do it right. Use of gear develops habits. You'll end up having those habits as useless, dangerous garbage when you change gear and need to develop new muscle-memory habits. If you're just going to go top-mount, and stay that way, you'll probably be fine, though. Plus, you'll have the joy of breaking that camera on a door somewhere!

Dunno, Pre, but apparently he has to go back to Africa every now and again to get it. I knew there were a lot of Dutch and British colonists down there, way back, did Transylvania ever send out an expedition?

Well, crapweasels! Sorry, babe, just got home. Can't make it back down until May to buy you some "Anger-sushi" served by Mr. Miyato and his Penthouse Pet wife. "That which does not kill you makes you stronger" but it tends to make you meaner too. Sorry to hear it Hang in there.

Thanks much, Q. JP

It says SGW-05 on the outside of the lens. Mountain man. I never noticed that before. I think that's because it's a still, not a frame-grab. It does not do that in video mode. None of these lenses is really any good for stills, and they're all pretty poor for flash photography too. I took the stills to show relative fields of view. I hope it was helpful.

OK. I'm all over Max Cohn to start importing a Diamond .05 so I can use it to replace my Kenko .05, and that way I'll have the same settings on my camera when I switch between freeflying and shooting commercial tandem video, and outside RW. I love the .03, it is really compact, produces a bright image, and will let you see the three other fliers in linked RW. I wear my camera helmet with the .3 when I fly on my belly and on my head. It is way too wide for tandems. So, Max lets me know he's got .5's coming in with 37mm threads to fit my PC 120 and I'm all over that as fast as you can say "Do you take Visa?" I've attached photos, probably in two postings here of the lens on the camera, and the Kenko on my camera, and images taken with the lenses to show their field of view. The Diamond .5 is wider than the Kenko .5. We've discussed this before, here, that different manufacturers produce different fields of view. I will bump the zoom on my Diamond .5 when I shoot tandems, up to about a .6. It's no problem. Now I can re-mount my D-box further forward on my helmet, something I didn't do with the Kenko, because I felt it presented a snag-hazard. Another plus to the Diamond line is that they are single-element lenses. Hopefully Quade can explain this better, but on the medium to low cost range of lenses like my Kenko, the lens elements reflect off each other in light conditions where light enters from the side, and you get glare and light-ghost images in the video. I get less of this with the Diamonds, and I think it's because there are fewer lens surfaces exposed to the glare, just the Diamond and then the Zeiss lens on the Sony. They aren't cheap, but they are competetive with the better lenses out there, and nothing is lower profile. No, there's no threads for a filter, but a few folks at my DZ buy filters that fit over the outside of the Diamond, and gaffer tape them on. I've decided to keep my Kenko in case my Diamond .5 gets broken, but I won't be using it any more otherwise. That's my .02 cents. Fly well, get video! JP

Como un Viking en el carcel? Ay chingao!

It is definitively not MAD (mutually assured destruction) Kim has the ability to turn my town, San Francisco, into a parking lot, maybe. He absolutely cannot destroy the United States, or even substantially damage it. He can and would kill you and me, Q, and our homes and families, but not this nation. The United States DOES have the ability to completely destroy North Korea. Completely. He's a nut, and we should remove his strategic weapons while we can. He will develop the greatest strategic nuclear capacity he can, and in a decade he might be able to destroy the US west of the Mississippi. We've appeased him quite long enough.

Argh. Well, B-squared has dibs on "Flew her like a kite". I just can't get that footage that BigBen shot of you doing a perfect backflip without ever letting go of Cornholio. And then once you've recovered from that, you get flipped over onto his back, and I seize the opportunity to finally rodeo you out of the formation. All the while you've got this look on your face like "OK, I am having fun, but these dudes are nuts!"

Well, the satisfaction of doing the right thing. If you hang around in somebody's house an hour or two a day, you should occasionally bring a gift. And seeing as I just can't visualize Sangiro submitting to one of your sensual rub-downs, I'm thinking maybe a case of beer might be in order

Well, apparently the Dropzone.com word for "Funnel" is "Hybrid". We were watching the video in our hangar last weekend waiting for enough folks to turn up to roll the KingAir, and we were in hysterics! It's a good thing Mouth is double jointed, cause at times she was getting shook like a dog shakes a sock. Kept smiling, though. Tough chick.

Careful. You're gonna be at the next one, and Sangiro will put his spell on you! "Free dream-date with SkyBytch when you buy Sangiro a pack of condoms"

And then there's the whole "Texas rules" vs. SkyBytch issue. The 12-way on the video is much more entertaining than any slot-perfect nonsense! The Full-contact RW record was set in Eloy!

Pre, you did get your tape and disc, right?

I don't know. Now, he just sees these fuzzy curvy people that smell nice. That whole sight thing may complicate things enormously. Everybody I know that's had it done is very happy. Congrats! I bet skydiving without prescription goggles, contacts, or glasses is going to be the bomb diggity shiite.

Well, all our stuff is marked "This Equipment Will Assist You To Die If You're Stupid" and we sign waivers from day one, we're all adults (well, of adult age at USPA DZ's). Skydiving is acknowledged as a very dangerous sport. Skiing is not inherently anywhere near as dangerous as skydiving. I mean, if you fail to correctly perform the fundamentals of a skydive, (W/O Cypres) you will very likely die. If you fail to correctly perform the fundamentals of a downhill, you have a remote chance of dying, and a middling chance of serious injury. That chance goes up as you drink peppermint schnapps and do banzai runs through the trees. And just because the guy was arrested and charged doesn't mean he'll be convicted. I'm curious about how big a honcho the man who died was. Condolences to his family.