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Sebazz1

Some people on DZ.com are too smart

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I'm just gonna jump and shut my mouth......


I would do that...but it seems I'm a danger to myself and everyone around me. Maybe I'll just drink beer in a locked closet at home..........:D
"I only have 145 jumps so I always carry a JM so he can pull for me."-Clay

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>Bill / HH, what books are your favorites and what are you reading now?
Favorite books of all time:
Catch-22
Mars Direct
1984
The machine stops*
Current books:
The best American science writing of 2001 (strongly recommended!)
Stone Gap
Manifold Space
* = this is really a short story by E.M Forster, but everyone who uses the net should read it. It talks about how people's ways of interacting, even their very personalities, are changed when they express themselves on the net though chat rooms and forums. It eerily predicts how people use the net to replace "the perils of direct experience," how we tend to get our information secondhand (if not tenth-hand) and what that does to our view of the world.
It talks about how heavily compressed videoconferencing equipment allows both more human interaction (letting you see someone else) but at the same time takes away a lot of the nuances of human expression, rendering the interaction even less human. It describes how, after a while, people almost start to worship the technology they come to rely on, from telephones to videoconferencing to aircraft to the Internet.
And the really eerie part? It was written in 1909.
-bill von

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Will you guys quit making Bill post? Everytime he does, I have to print it out, and sit down with a dictionary and a thesaurus to try to understand what he's saying. And then I only get about half of it as it is! ;)
Andrea
The brave may not live forever, but the timid may not live at all.

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Oh, I know what it is! It's that big head of Bill's! Quick, somebody pull up that old picture of Sangiro, and let's see if his head is big too. We may be onto something here!
Andrea
The brave may not live forever, but the timid may not live at all.

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ROFL
Tom reading a magazine - Bill Posts - Tom says yes and nods without even looking away from the mag - Bill posts again - Tom still cannot follow the first post - Bill posts again - Tom way overwhelmed by now and goes to jump out of planes.
:::OK, Canopy is Open, No Traffic Around, .. Why are these "Extra" Lines Draping Down??, Damn!

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I thought you lived in a pub !!


Sadly...no....Wouldn't that be heaven on earth though. An apartment connected to "Aviator's Pub" at Raeford. Plenty of jumping......a place to shoot just across the runway....and a never ending parade of "Raeford Booze Hags" :)"I only have 145 jumps so I always carry a JM so he can pull for me."-Clay

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