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Happy Birthday Jeanne! XXOO JP

Canadian. That's like $80 in real dollars. BTFU Remi. Get a saw. (Remtard) Shakes head "Remtard"

The DZO's are simply trying to stay alive. It's nothing personal against "up jumpers". Maybe we should ask Bill Booth and Ted Strong why they invented this method in the first place? I think it was Bill Booth, and he wanted to take his secretary for a skydive, the way I heard it.

I have done loads of amateur trim with 45 and 30 deg cuts just using a regular saw and a mitre guide. He probably doesn't want his place to look like shit, though.

I had wilsonart installed in most of my downstairs except the bathroom. I installed the kind they sell at Costco in my mom's entire downstairs. It's actually pretty easy, and I did it without help. A fine tooth plywood blade is all you need, and you should only be trimming the end that will fit under the baseboard anyway. The baseboard is the hardest part, so if you aren't up to cutting all those compounds, just lay the floor and have somebody come in to shoot the baseboard.

All Hail the Iwan! Nice pic. Very nice! Scooter! You rock! JP

OK. You win. I will now allow Bomber Freefly to sponsor me. The quality of their jumpsuits is clearly unquestionable.

She's so cute! Justi, this is a picture that either Jim Gold or Iwan VanDerScooter took. It was in my video folder, so I beg their forgiveness. You are the winner! Happy birthday!

Please add that to the 87000 plus posts in Speakers that I am proud not to have read.

It looks too short through the torso. Bend over and prove it's not. DO IT!

Vick Krusi just took a lady for her 95th birthday and she loved it. If she wants to do it, she'll be fine. I have found that the folks that get sick are the ones who are the most "excited" or afraid that they are going to be injured. When the parachute opens and it's much more like a balloon ride than a rocket ride, their blood pressure drops and they get nauseous. It's that post-adrenaline thing that sometimes has them woozy right about landing time. I haven't had anybody puke yet, but I've got a few on tap tomorrow out of the Cessna, so there's hope!

You need a wider lens so you could have included Clay chasing them in the frame. I'm thinking Sigma 14 aspherical. Or a Tokina 220. 220, 221, whatever it takes.

Cool.

Andrea pics. From the "I've taken your picture" thread that she can't respond to.

I think some professions are a calling. I think we agree here, I would, and do, instruct for free because it's a joy, and I'm good at it. Primarily I enjoy meeting and interacting with the skydivers. Someone who did it for $30 a pop and didn't care about the people at all causes me concern. Skydiving isn't like installing windshields in cars. As to the camera, my bad. I was wrong, I don't think that lens is complicating your deal at all. I incorrectly assumed the handmount for the whole mini-dv. The way I heard that story, in church, was the rich guy recalls having given a beggar a dollar on the street. God gives St. Peter a beautiful silver dollar and tells him give it to the rich guy and tell him to go to hell. Cheers.

Gosh. I'm glad you're not really mad. Like mad enough to start looking for a substitute camera flier. Likkahsto. Ambahlants. As in "Ah shit! Cletus runned over Bobbie-Jo with the tractor! Summbody call a ambahlants!" Yes, your unique combination of Great Britain/North Carolina accents is endearing.

He's passed out on mine at least once. You gonna jump out of airplanes at all, or just off houses, telephone poles, overpasses and hills?

The weather at Nationals last year could not be beat. That was the clearest sky I had ever seen in skydiving in Southern California. I know my friends down there need a long string of days like that to make up for this winter!

Maybe after the beer light goes on you can carry me to the liquor store. If you're going to Britain, bring Skreamer back in your luggage. We didn't get to hang out much at all this year. You see Kwoo's photograph in this month's Parachutist?

Oh. That hurts. That's me in the reflection of your glasses. And you hugged me like you meant it, too. *sniff* -edit cause I have one "airborne" just to piss off the Remtard

Callate Remsterre.

Lower left. Sweden. Before we had even met. Hahar. Photographic international omniscience.

I have absolutely no doubt that Mr. Reeve used steroids to get big to do his first role as Superman. Just look at the pictures before and after. Did that contribute to his injuries from the horse throw? He gained a huge amount of muscle to prevent wearing "muscle makeup" suits.

My opinion is that the tandem skydive is a entre into our sport, and it being completed without injury is more important than any accessory, like a handicam souvenir. Being inherently and obnoxiously (apparently) American, I have absolutely no desire to have the handicam prohibited. I do think it's a bad idea, though, and I don't think the argument can be made that it does not present the possibility of complicating the completion of emergency procedures. I haven't had my first tandem cutaway yet. I have about 300. Even though I have 4 sport cutaways, I would not like to have my PC 120 mounted on my hand when I have an out-of-sequence deployment on the Vector system. Perhaps a bullet-lensed system that is mounted in the student's jumpsuit, but not something on my hands. People will opt for your handcam option because it it cheaper. Do you admit is has the possibility of making their skydiving experience more dangerous? To be fair, a new video person also makes their skydive more dangerous. Like Lewmonst, I'm an accomplished video flyer who is becoming an accomplished tandem master. I'd just a soon keep the video flyer in the chain, rather than eliminate them for a quick "tip" like payment for complicating a tandem with a handcam. Cheers. If, during a violent malfunction a particularly strong student grabs hold of that hand contraption that has no cutaway and prevents emergency procedures from being succesfully completed, they may stop coming. Doing anything in skydiving for the money is very, very dangerous. Your European condescension is both humourous and saddening. Bully for you and your eurotopia.

67 days to what? Til I take your picture?