indyz

Pammi, That type of animal abuse is unexcusable.... but it is a joke. They were even investigated by the FBI and cleared. The never crammed a cat into a mold, or hurt any animals. Added 5 minutes later: It's a sick joke, I agree. I have seen the site before, and didn't laugh. But it's still a joke, and is pretty obvious if one scratches below the surface, even just a teeny bit. -- Brian

I can't play with my sack at all. It's always hittin' the ground. Stupid jokes aside, the place I worked at over the summer hosted the Midwest Hacky Sack Championship, and those guys are unbelievable. They go for a whole minute, solo, and never drop the thing. Behind their backs, spins, up over their head, it's just amazing. -- Brian

I exceeded the posted speed limit by approximately 15 miles per hour at or about 10:00pm on the 28th of October, 2001. The incident occured on a stretch of Hunt Club Road about 2 miles north of Stearns School Road in an unincorporated area of Lake County, Illinois. My name is Brian Martin, I weigh approximately 150 lbs, I am 19 years old, I have 14 jumps, and my SSN is 3__-7_-4__. Resume with references provided upon request. All information is provided as is, without warranty, express or implied. The views presented in this post are those of indyz and do not necessarily reflect the views of DZ.com, the University of Illinois, the Falling Illini, or it's affiliates. -- Brian

I was just watching this show on the History channel about lost nukes, and they had an interview guy who punched out of a B-52 at 600 knots. He left his visor up, and got two black eyes just from the force of the air on his face. His pilot had his helmet ripped off and got knocked out from the blast. Ouchies. -- Brian

You might want to consider medical experiments, too. A few days ago, I saw a guy putting up a sign-up sheet for unspecified medical experiments ("$8 to $12 per hour!") in the common area of my dorm. That was right after breakfast. When I came back that night, all of the spaces were filled, to the tune of 40-50 names, and it had spilled over into the margins for another twenty or thirty names. -- Brian

Amen. My thoughts exactly, Zennie. -- Brian

D'oh! Of course. -- Brian

Another Vandalia jumper! I don't remember meeting any Tinas, but I also really bad with names. FallingMarc, FallinWoman, FallingILweenie (am I seeing a trend here?), and Jabeln79 also jump at Archway. Oh, and for 14 for me. -- Brian

Try http://robots.cnn.com. It never slows down during big news stories, unlike the regular CNN site. -- Brian

It looks like most of the site works, but you don't have proper and tags at the end of the forum pages, so it won't render in Mozilla. There is also an unclosed tag near the top of the page that might be causing this problem (it will also screw up any Netscape based browser):

The party was fun. The Hose played, featuring DZ.com's very own FallingMarc on electric guitar. I was only around for an hour and a half before a headache forced me to leave (missed the end of The Hose's set). All in all, definately worth the two bucks. -- Brian

That's all it took for me. My first step-through was caused by bringing my arms in, something that should have been easy to correct. The next two unstable jumps were caused by nervousness and lack of confidence in myself. I took 3 weeks off, and practiced my arch laying on my bed everyday. When I did finally get back to the DZ, I was confident and nailed my 5 second on the first try. Since then I've made it up to the 20 second delays without having to repeat anything. You know all of the technique, and once you get confident, get back in the plane and try it again. -- Brian

Here's mine. I'm a big Heidi Klum in a painted-on bathing suit suit fan. Thats my instant messenger on the right, me email program in back on the left, a note to myself on top of that, and my MP3 player is on there too. Before anybody asks, I'm running Linux (a customized Debian Potato, new kernel and whatnot), with the Blackbox window manager running on top of X Windows version 4.something. -- Brian

I want this picture in 1024x768 for my background: http://www.beyondtheultraworld.com/Foto/5way_vstar01.jpg

I can't blame him for the popups, those are because he uses a crappy free hosting service. My problem is that he gives out basically wrong information: It just ain't right to say that nothing will go wrong because you have a tandem master with you. My DZ had a chop on a tandem jump just a few weeks ago. Then again, anybody that takes clinton seriously needs to have their head checked. Closing thought: What the hell does this mean? -- Brian

Remember, all capitals means that you are yelling at us. -- Brian

I have to doubt that this article is true. I ran a search on the Orlando Sentinel website and came up empty, even though some other test searches turned up articles that are more than a year old. The article also has a few of the hallmarks of a fake: No specific location, date, or time. The only location given is, "at the local golf course." That would be fine, except that the Orlando Sentinel has a pretty wide distribution, and anybody who has been to the Orlando area can testify as to the insane amount of golf courses there. Hell, the guy might have ripped his nuts of at Disney World, right next to the Mickey Mouse shaped bunker. The article is also fairly poorly written. The "wash his own 'balls'" joke wouldn't slide at most newspapers, plus there are a few punctuation errors, and bad grammar. "Based on a bet made by the other members of his threesome," doesn't make sense. Oh, if you are interested in urban legends, check out snopes.com. I expect that this one will show up there soon enough. -- Brian

Nope, you don't have to die. You just have to eliminate yourself from the gene pool in some spectacular way. Assuming that this man hasn't already sown his oats somewhere, he could be a candidate. -- Brian

Did you buy that board off of a German guy? "...und Tschuss"

I'm not sure you really understand the whole concept of learning to skydive. You need to go to a dropzone, and talk to their staff. You will be taught by the instructors that are employeed by the dropzone. As far as I know, there aren't any freelance skydiving instructors. If somebody in this group agrees to teach you to skydive, you will have to travel to their dropzone. I doubt many DZs will let a student and instructor come in off of the street and start making jumps. -- Brian

The military, and a place in California does it for civilians. You need at least 200 jumps (if I recall correctly), and training in a pressure chamber. -- Brian

Only 13, and I want more... I don't count the days until the weekend anymore, I count the days until I can jump again. -- Brian

One reason that you don't get a "cash discount" at a lot of places is because large companies with lots of locations (gas stations, restaurants, Walmart, etc.) have enough volume in sales that the credit card companies cut them a pretty huge break on transaction fees. Smaller volume sellers just can't afford it. From what I've heard about the profit margins on jump tix, a 4% fee from the credit card company could eat up most of the DZ's profit on the jump, so they have to charge you more. -- Brian

Make sure you remember us Linux geeks! No Quicktime at all (although it is being worked on). We need either mpegs, avis, or Real files (shudder). -- Brian

Have you ever tried Netcraft? They're a really neat company that does webserver and operating system statistics. You can even punch in sites that aren't in their database if you want to see what they are running. Here is what you get when running dz.com: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.dropzone.com Also, down at the bottom you can see a history of what software and OS has been used in the past. -- Brian