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Great pics! I had a fantastic time, hope to see all of you soon -Ben

You're both too hot for words. I'm speachless. Stay safe; Eloy at Christmas right? -Ben

Yeah, after that it became common practice to tug on the reserve ripcord cable during the flightline check. -Ben

It's on? coooool edited to add: nope, no jumping for me tomorrow - $0 -Ben

I got so wasted last night that I could only just manage a curry tonight. Was going to be early to bed, but I guess my neighbour decided to have a party. I thinking of crashing it, maybe naked, I guess we'll see. -Ben

This is so fucked it's untrue. My heart goes out to the family, and all my friends at hib. -Ben

And more are certainly welcome! Like I say, count me in, but if you want to keep it manageable, I'm happy to play at alternate

Cool, count me in, although I may need a drouge

I think I've just got a problem with the muppets at my company who are driving this. It's like giving a blind person from the 12th century the keys to a car. So far all they've been able to do is punch on the horn. Personally, I'd rather see XP, but I guess that's really just for software right now. -Ben

Yeah, it blows. We have sigma 'Black Belts" fuck, I'd like to kick their arses. I don't really disagree with the central tenet, which is "you've got to be able to measure it, to improve it", but holding up useless wankers as the holder of the keys, people to be obeyed, just pisses me off. That and all the crap process around it. Rumor is that our CEO lost a golf game and is why we're implementing it. "If I lose I'll implement sigma" -Ben

Well, I was in the pub, in North Beach, San Francisco. Actually, I was outside in the patio. Screech of tires, bang bang bang bang bang bang bang, unarmed man driving a car, shot in the head and torso by the police. Were they justified, I've no idea. But the point is, it happens everywhere, it's just that the media in the US is appalling. (not saying it's not appalling elsewhere). Since there wasn't any video, it didn't get airtime. -Ben

Beaming some vibes: )> -Ben

Thanks all, I've found one :) Was having a bit of a brain fart. Have just got off a 12 hour flight, so I think that's OK. Incidentally, I'm now a new immigrant, and they didn't even ask to see the x-ray of my chest. -Ben

In my long running tradition of posting nothing remotely skydiving related to dropzone.com: Where can I buy thread from in the US? I mean, in the UK, I'd go to John Lewis or something. Which of the big chains would carry that kind of stuff; ie, threads, needles etc.? (I'm in SF) I just moved into a place, and when they told me how much curtains were going to cost I ordered fabric and a sewing machine from the internet. How hard can making curtains be? -Ben

There's a town in the UK called Over. I always wanted to fly over it: "I'm over over, over" -Ben P.S. "Rodger Rodger, what's the vector Victor?"

The financial district holiday inn is close to all the action in North Beach. (and to my local, kells). Never stayed there myself, but everyone who has says it's OK. Unfortunately I'm not in the country, else you could crash at mine. -Ben

I'm thinking of buying / making one: www.hovercraft.com Seriously, I live next to the bay and my office is next to the bay on the other side, it makes perfect sense. Also these things do like 70mph, that's fast. -Ben

Count me in. I may have green-hair. -Ben

Mate, it's us that are luck to have you, maybe see you tomorrow if 'the car of doom' makes it. -Ben

ain't that the truth! So I have broken it. I must have stamped on the break so hard that now the break lights are permanently on. I think the phrase rhymes with clucking bell. -Ben

I know, I know, I know, I just learnd this: {url "http://shutterfly.com/pro/jpkelly/skydive"}Deuce's awesome pics{/url} replace the { with [ and you get this: Deuce's awesome pics -Ben P.S. Thanks PhillyKey and bvsdjumper

I guess I missed it, my bad. -Ben

Emperor: "Good! I can feel your anger. Take your weapon--strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey to the dark side will be complete." -Ben

I can make it clicky, how do I change the name from the URL to something like "click here"? http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/69f43b15/bc/video/catandceilingfan.mpeg?BCOTAx.AnZUYdqAO -Ben P.S. No cats were harmed.

So in a previous thread some of you may have read my woes with a flat battery and the woman I'm datings car (is there a word for that? she's not my girlfriend, we're just dating). That was last week, this week she's also going away for the weekend and once again entrusted me with her car. I'm driving to work. Clip a cyclist. It's totally not my fault, at all. I cycle to work almost daily and am very aware of my two wheeled friends. He ran a red going the opposite way down a one way street. Anyway, he wasn't hurt, bike was damaged slightly. He didn't want to take my details. I got the number of two witnesses. DPT where there ticketing cars, they took down my license plate number. OK, here's my problem. The car is now making a funny noise (exaust), can't remember if it was doing this before. I'm sure it's not my fault, I like hit this guy at about 2 miles an hour. Do I tell her about the accident? Will DPT report it and send her a letter? They didn't ticket me or anything. Also the second witness was really hot, and she gave me her work and cell numbers..... -Ben