panzwami

Ace-to-five straight flush, any suit. Guaranteed scoop in Stud H/L.

Caught him a couple months back when he came to Atlanta. Definitely a great show...

Was anyone able to record this? I didn't get a chance to see it...

he brings out the best in humanity:

There's a good bit of that footage in the Norman Kent "Willing to Fly". This is a photo from the film: http://www.normankent.com/work_WTF_graphic4.htm

That sounds about right. I've got about 250 jumps on my Nitron (Precision), and I've never had any problems with the lines. I do a "normal" PRO pack, with 2"-2.5" stows and 15"-18" of line between last stow and risers. Never seen any issues with tension knots or anything else. Never had to chop it. I think mine was one of the first few Nitrons to roll off the line when Precision started with Ground Zero. It has the "brownish tan" HMA lines. They do tend to bunch up a little bit when I'm running the lines during packing, but it's just like hippie said. A couple of the lines get wrapped around the others and tighten up, but a few shakes of the lines usually clears it.

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I had a similar experience a couple years ago. I was on my way home from late mass (again on a Sunday...), right after a decent rainstorm, and came upon an accident that had occured not more than ten seconds earlier. It was over the crest of a hill so I didn't actually see it happen, but I was the second car to get there. It was pretty clear what had happened. A new Mustang GT traveling the other direction had crossed over the grass median sideways, onto my side (which would have been the wrong side for him). A girl in a Jeep (on my side of the road) came up over the hill just as he came over the median, and hit him at 90 degrees, with her front end hitting squarely on the passenger side door of the Mustang. The passenger door was compacted all the way to the center console. There were actually two people in the car, but I could only see the driver (age 19), as the passenger (also age 19) was completely covered by wreckage. I ran up to the driver side, but it was instantly clear that the driver was very, very dead. He and the passenger (his girlfriend) had both been killed instantly. There was one car (a guy and his girlfriend) that had gotten to the scene before I did. I could hear that the girlfriend was screaming into her cell phone for 911 to send an ambulance. The guy, on the other hand, was trying to do anything but stick around. Another few seconds, he finally managed to get his girlfriend in his car and take off down the road. More on that in a second... At this point, there was nothing I could do for the people in the Mustang, so I ran over to the Jeep. The driver was still in the driver's seat, crying hysterically. Her face had a few cuts from flying glass, but when I asked her if she was ok, she said she was fine except for her foot, which had been trapped in the footwell by the impact. I tried to pry the driver's door open, but it was jammed in. I figured it made more sense for the EMT's to get her out of the car, so I stood there and held her hand for the next few minutes. I could hear the sirens in the distance getting louder, but I wasn't really paying attention as two fire trucks and an ambulance drove up. The next thing I know I hear "Matt, what are you doing here?" I turned around to see my sister, who is a volunteer EMT, jumping off one of the trucks. Intially she thought I had been involved in the accident, but when I told her I wasn't, she went right back into EMT mode and basically told me to get my ass out of the way so they could work. At that point I figured there wasn't much else I could do, so I checked in with one of the officers on scene, and went on my way. They ended up closing that road for most of the night to do a complete reconstruction and investigation. One of the officers on the scene was a high school friend, so I was able to get the full story. This is what happened: The driver of the Mustang had recently gotten the car new, and had put in a series of engine mods (including nitrous). When the accident occured, he was racing his car against his friend's brand new Mitsubishi Evolution. It was dark, and the road was slick and somewhat curvy. For whatever reason, he lost control of his car and spun across the median. When he reached the other side of the road, the Jeep hit him broadside. The police determined that he was going between 100 and 110 (on a 35 mph road). Game over. The other car in the race (the Evolution) was the one car that got to the scene before I did. He had seen what happened, pulled a U-turn, and come back to the scene. His girlfriend was the one who called 911, but the Evo driver wanted to get the hell out of dodge for obvious reasons. The police were never able to put together enough of a case to actually charge him with anything, but the rumors still got out. I think the worst part of the whole thing is how it ended up for the girl in the Jeep. It's tragic that two teenagers were killed, but they put themselves in that situation. The Jeep driver was just going home from the store. When they took her to the hospital, they told her she had just bruised her heel, and sent her home. Three weeks later, when she still couldn't walk at all, she went back. This time, they told her that A) they were wrong the first time and missed the shattered heel that she really had, and B) the fragments had already begun to fuse together so there was nothing they could do. Kinda bad news for a professional bartender. So now it's over two years later, and she still can't work or even stand for more than an hour or so. She sued the hospital for malpractice and has a pretty solid case, but the damage is permanent. Tough price for just going to the store...

f the excuses. Bring it to the table. I'll be there...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/license.asp

dammit, I'm gonna be on a plane when the tourney starts. I guess that means someone else can have my seat at the final table...

one time I was having something shipped to me, but the company screwed up my address when they created the shipping label. Instead of marking it undeliverable and returning to sender, FedEx pulled out the phone book and found the one listing in the DC area with my exact first and last name, and rerouted the package to that person. Nevermind that the two addresses were completely different and almost 40 miles apart. Luckily, I was checking the tracking about a dozen times a day, so I noticed the problem. I was able to pick it up from the regional warehouse before they put it on the truck for delivery. Sure enough, the original address label had been covered up with a new, wrong label.

oh yeah, A-7 offsuit is BOSS.

you can get the current Top-40 lists on billboard.com. If it's a new popular song it might be on there.

Main tournament final results: ------------------------------------ PokerStars Tournament #18905486, No Limit Hold'em Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00 33 players Total Prize Pool: $330.00 Tournament started - 2006/02/02 - 21:00:00 (ET) Tournament finished - 2006/02/03 - 00:01:46 (ET) 1: Lrd Thanatos (Marietta), $132.00 (40%) 2: crwmike (Miami), $79.20 (24%) 3: panzwami (Fairfax), $52.80 (16%) 4: TheRackv.2.0 (Oakland), $39.60 (12%) 5: skinnyshrek (tallahassee), $26.40 (8%) 6: DZbum (Waterloo), 7: billo1175 (KC Couch Freak), 8: bob80001 (Kansas City), 9: SeaKev (Seattle), 10: Jank Freefly (Hayward), 11: jumper12 (high point), 12: SDR_JennX (Highlands Ranch), 13: SDR_Dave (Lincoln), 14: pptfly (oswego), 15: tfelber (Tempe), 16: SDR_Cory (Omahahaha), 17: genofalldown (costa mesa), 18: SDSpaceland (Fort Polk), 19: peanut4040 (hazel green), 20: SkydiveFarm (rockmart), 21: Dinero2005 (Columbia), 22: brianfry713 (San Jose), 23: DMskychick (Des Moines), 24: AEtherBunny (Gordonsville), 25: AlanFitz (Rockmart), 26: GanjaR (Lexington), 27: 3andahalf (Lincoln), 28: girlbase (San Francisco), 29: skysaintolav (Conyers), 30: shaggio (columbia), 31: Delfina201 (Charlotte), 32: SDR_Stump (Lincoln), 33: hp429 (temple),

I dunno...it was like trying to play tennis against a brick wall. There was definitely some quality poker at that final table.

[Steve Carell voice] Abraham Lincoln once said, "If you are a racist, I will attack you with the North." [/Steve Carell voice]

how about "2005 Best Wicked Suckout catching running Aces to beat a flopped set?" I've got a nominee...

how high were you when you got the canopy fully open and flying properly? If you were above your hard deck, then I don't see a problem with this. If you were below your hard deck, I think you should have chopped. You said you were at 4k when you opened (which I'm assuming is above your hard deck), so you have some time to try and work the problem. But, if you reach your hard deck and still don't have a LANDABLE canopy, STOP screwing with it and start peeling and pulling.

if you're on someone else's computer, you're pretty much screwed unless you can convince someone at the front desk to give you admin access to the machine.

booze....always a winner. My client just had a White Elephant exchange today, which is possibly the worst idea ever. Although, it was pretty funny watching the same three gifts go from person to person around the room. Strange, they were the only three gifts (out of 30), that contained alcohol.

right over is right... http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=972867&WxsIERv=Obrvat%20747-406&Wm=0&WdsYXMg=XYZ%20-%20Eblny%20Qhgpu%20Nveyvarf&QtODMg=Cuvyvcfohet%20%2F%20Fg.%20Znnegra%20-%20Cevaprff%20Whyvnan%20%28FKZ%20%2F%20GAPZ%29&ERDLTkt=Argureynaqf%20Nagvyyrf&ktODMp=Abirzore%2022%2C%202005&BP=1&WNEb25u=Fvzba%20S%20Tertbel&xsIERvdWdsY=CU-OSY&MgTUQtODMgKE=Pnaba%20RBF%2020Q%20%2B%20Pnaba%20RS%2017-40Y%20-%20Guvf%20vf%20jung%20V%20syrj%2013%20ubhef%20sbe%2C%20Frn%2C%20Fnaq%2C%20Fha%2C%20FKZ%20naq%20XYZ&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=4097&NEb25uZWxs=2005-12-09%2012%3A50%3A29&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=25356%2F888&static=yes&width=1200&height=812&sok=JURER%20%20%28nvepensg_trarevp%20YVXR%20%27Obrvat%20747%25%27%29%20NAQ%20%28cynpr%20%3D%20%27Cuvyvcfohet%20%2F%20Fg.%20Znnegra%20-%20Cevaprff%20Whyvnan%20%28FKZ%20%2F%20GAPZ%29%27%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=1&prev_id=&next_id=960691&size=L

buying new gear early in your skydiving career might not make as much sense as waiting until you're ready to get something you'll have for a while. The first few downsizes for new jumpers tend to happen fairly quickly, the but length of time usually increases greatly between each downsize once you've gotten to higher performance gear.

how the hell did I miss that? I searched every combination of "737," "Southwest," "collision," "near miss," and "Dallas" that I could think of. Thanks, though.

Anyone know where I can find a copy of the photo of the 5-way in a near miss with a Southwest 737? I don't need a hard copy or anything, just want to show someone.