Cashmanimal

Hollister is about an hour and a half drive from San Francisco. WE have had absolutely wonderful weather, and you would have great odds of doing your jumps if you were willing to drive. Gotta root for the home team! There are a number of great dropzones around here. I pretty much jump exclusively at Hollister. Just got all new buildings! Come check it out! It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

DAMMIT. Thanks for the bump, haha! I guess I should hit the photo/video section... just assumed EVERYBODY flips through here. Somebody posted it as a sticker on their helmet, or something. It's just a simple graphic, an outline, of a guy with a Flat Top Pro on... cartoony guy. UGH It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

The "Do you name your car" thread made me realize I have a tendency to name my possessions. For example: My Bonehead 'Zeus' is named "Magneto," for obvious reasons. My Flat Top Pro is named "Banana Peeler." When I received it in the mail, I picked it up and continued to the cafeteria with it, due to convenience of mail room/cafeteria location. Everybody kept asking me what it was, and eventually my girlfriend just started telling people it was a banana peeler. It stuck. What names do you have for your gear? It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

Both dropzones I jump at, which I think goes as a general statement for every cessna dropzone, the cameraman spots, climbs out, and hangs on the strut looking back towards the door to film the tandem from climb out on. Then, on the count from the TM, camera guy leaves just ahead to get the classic exit shot. I can't think of a better method... it gets the most footage out of the jump, all of which is pretty personal to the student. The only slight variation I have seen is basically the same thing, but on the exit the cameraman exits about the same time as the tandem and does a short head-down exit (into the relative wind-- bellies out at the bottom of the hill). I'm not sure on the technical aspects of this, but I would assume this would be coordinated with the TM for a slightly later drogue pull? to compensate for additional exit speed. Not a tandem videographer yet. Everything I just told you could be a lie. It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

I have been combing the forums, and cannot find a few graphics I have seen of the Vidiot. Too many results, not enough time. (aka, patience) Would somebody PLEASE post the graphic of this guy? (If I recall correctly, he was a bit chubby...) But any other versions you have, would be greatly appreciated. It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

The suit has booties on it... do you think dying it would compromise any portion of the suit? (IE booties, hardware, etc....) Looks like i'll have to brush up a bit of my tailoring knowledge... It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

Wanted a lot of people to at least SEE this, and the bonfire seemed appropriate... I apologize in advance for the placement of a serious thread in the bonfire... Has anybody ever tried dying a jumpsuit? I have dyed many pieces of clothing before, but never any material such as a jumpsuit. I have a friend wanting to sell a jumpsuit, but it is primarily navy blue. For no other reason other than being picky about FLYING MY COLORS!, I haven't taken it off his hands, despite the fact that it fits me wonderfully. It is navy blue, with black stripes. I would be dying it completely black. I think it seems possible... It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

Not to toot my own horn here, but i was notorious for asking my (now ex) girlfriend to dances. Here are the ones that are basically legendary, some based off old ideas: 1) I gave her a HUGE tub of butter. Wrote a poem, laminated it, cut it into pieces and mixed it into the tub of butter. After she dug through and pieced the poem together, she was crushed to find the poem basically said I wasn't asking her to prom yet. That night, I went to her house and we watched a movie. Half way through, i popped popcorn and slipped another note into the bowl. She pulled it out and it read: "Just thought i'd BUTTER you up before i POPPED the big question." Then I asked her. 2) B asically did the same thing, except with a giant bag of flower. Except this time, i didn't bother to write anything, just lots of pieces of paper. The next day when she was out shopping, i found her car in a parking lot and left a big flower on her car with a note reading : "Oops, wrong flower." then i asked her. 3) I stole an Olive Garden menu. I scanned it into my computer and added my own menu item, right underneath what she usually orders. It said something along the lines of: "PROM NIGHT: one fun-filled night of something and something else i don't remember or care about anymore." 4) i made a series of pictures of objects or phrases that phonetically sounded like "Will you go to prom with me." (picture of a whale, uncle sam pointing, a green traffic light, a peace sign, i don't remember what i did for 'prom,' a picture of a road with a symbol indicating the 'width,' and finally I made a shirt with an arrow pointing to my head). i set all these things up in a public area and sat on a chair for a fucking hour waiitng for her to show up to school, which she was so kindly late for that day. Feel free to steal any of these ideas. No more dances for me. Glad i don't have to propose to her.... no idea WTF I woulda done then. It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

Had a dream last night I went to my home DZ in New Mexico. It was only one other jumper and I, and we did 5 jumps together, all of which were magically sunset loads (gotta love dreams). But they were not fun at all! My first jump was with my rig, with my Spectre 150. I had a lump of crap for a canopy at pull time, and a few lines got wrapped around my foot. I went to town with my hook-knife, and came out okay. We landed and hooked up another canopy. I never even bothered to ask what it was or even what size. Second jump, I pulled and right away noticed I was jumping a fully elliptical canopy, what I would guess to be in the low 90's ish as far as size goes. Also, the line set was incredibly long for some reason... easily twice as long as they should be I didn't really worry about it, and just flew it conservatively. But any toggle input, at all, put me into a ridiculous dive. I made a 90 onto my final approach around 500 feet, and the canopy never recovered from the turn. I bounced hard enough to turn my entire body into mush, but being a dream, I really did 'bounce' up about 1000 feet back into the air. I didn't make any more turns, and landed flawlessly with a perfect flare. This same battle with the canopy went on for the last three jumps. I never got it to work, and never thought to use another canopy or rig. I don't remember anything about the skydives... just that every single jump was at sunset that day. It's as if I would 'land,' and then walk to the plane with the magic pack job. I woke up physically stressed out this morning! It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

Here is a myspace bulletin I just posted about this subject. Feel free to copy and paste it into another bulletin, assuming you are on myspace. Maybe even add your name to the bottom, to further stress the point of how retarded it is. Myspace: www.myspace.com/cashmanimal (sorry for no clicky, too tired/lazy) It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

this is approximately the 70,0000000000,00,0,0,0,0,0,21341234123k90 afdjvasdnfga lfghadif hsdfhaoth time I have seen this stupid ass protest. It's stupid. First of all, protests piss me off in the first place (most of them) as the only people they are truly going to reach and affect are those who are either already fully aware of and/or fully ignorant of the problem being protested. In a sense such as this. Although I will also admit there being a few, not necessarily protests, but demonstrations I guess(?) I support. This is probably the most idiotic idea that anybody could possibly come up with. All these people are going to do is avoid purchasing gas for one day, which in turn will motivate the oil companies to hike their prices knowing that everybody is not giving up driving for good. That way, the next day when all those people who needed gas go buy it, they pay 10% more than they would have had they just not been a complete and total dumbshit about the whole idea in the first place, therefore costing 97% of the population of America another $2 that they wouldn't have needed to spend had they fueled up the day before. Think this through people. It f***ing retarded. It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

My last name is Cashman, and the 'animal' part came from the 2005 East/West All-star baseball game where I had multiple diving catches at third base in the couple innings I played (each player only played two innings). It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

i agree... it's hard to vendor all your old gear, possibly even epics, for greens that drop off everyday mobs that are better. But they DO make my cyber-barbie look much prettier... It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

Jesus Christ. I hate WoW. I hate it so much, that I went out and bought the expansion last week. I thought I had quit that shit for good. I quit it once, then quit it again and thought i was done, as i legitimately hated the thought of playing it. So, if you are around, hit me up. Cashmanimal- lvl 60 Night Elf Warrior, Burning Legion PvP server Alorae (Main)- lvl 62 Night Elf Druid (Feral spec for leveling), Balnazzar PvP server Aelius (New Alt) - lvl 16 (as of 5/1) Darenei Mage, the Underbog PvP server I hate this shit. It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

When I was a freshmen in high school, we were forced to put our dog down... it was extremely sad. But it also led to me getting my dog Toby, who I think, of course, is the best dog in the world. I wanted to train him to be a therapy dog, like the ones you take to natural disasters and old folks' homes, but it turns out he has dog ADD and they would not license him. But he is still the best behaved, funnest dog ever. Well my mother recently picked up a small puppy (bit of an empty-nest feeling since moving to college). The mother rejected the puppies, so my mom picked her up quite young about a month ago. At first, my dog Toby didn't really like the puppy. He avoided it, and kept to himself. But I guess lately they have really come to like each other. The new puppy, Trixie, LOVES Toby, and he has come to like her... i hear many stories of them playing and causing trouble and such. But, there was an unfortunate occurrence this weekend. My parents left town for the weekend, and a neighbor watched the house. Both dogs had pig ears to keep them occupied, but I guess they caused more trouble than intended. It appears as though Trixie may have been harassing Toby, and he tried to tell her not to... accidentally biting her in the face, and right on her left eye. Trixie went into surgery today... no way to know if the eye is gonna be okay for a couple weeks. But as you can see, she very clearly forgives Toby... and he feels terrible, and is afraid to even lie next to her now.... Trixie would be our second dog with only one eye if it doesn't make it. It doesn't make her loved any less... it's just sad. She is so energetic and playful, it breaks your heart to see her like this.... Send some good vibes! I attached a couple pictures... sorry for the lesser-quality post-surgery pictures, have to work with what mom can email... It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

I have found the same to be true with my 5D and my Mac. Transfer CF to Mac, Format CF in camera to get full capacity back. I really don't see a reason to do it any other way. In my personal opinion, iPhoto is probably the biggest piece of crap program to ever be included as a standard program from Apple. I think it just lowers their standards to an embarrassing point. I just don't like it when things get to automated with simplified programs such as iPhoto. The "transfer and erase from memory card" option may work for some, but that involves some third-party such as iPhoto most of the time. I just trust it much when I select the folder, drag it to the desktop, when they are done copying, I put the card back in the camera, and reformat. But that's because i am a manual kind of guy, and probably work faster manually then letting something else do it for me. Canon Camera, a Mac, and the entire Adobe Creative Suite cannot be beat in my opinion. If only more people would take the time to learn Bridge, they would see, understand, and bow down to the power of the Bridge/Photoshop combo. It makes programs like iPhoto an absolute joke, and at $250 for the entire Adobe suite premium (Photoshop, Bridge, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Acrobat) nobody could complain. (I bought it my senior year of high school... educational discounts, woot!) (Freshmen year of college, also comes in handy with the new CS3 line coming out) /end rant. Happy photos! It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

I do photography as a living in addition to casual skydiving photography... I take tons, thousands of pictures. All the time. All I have ever done is format the CF flash card to erase it. Especially with some computer systems if you use the computer to erase the images on the card, it still has a large registry and will progressively allow you to take less pictures on an 'empty' card. Every time I take photos, I load them all onto my computer, and then trash the ones I don't want from the computer, as it is faster than scrolling through and deleting each individual picture I don't want from the camera. Then I stick the card back in the camera and format it. This ensures that every single piece of unnecessary memory usage is erased, ensuring that you get the most photos possible on the card. It's confusing at first, at least is was for me. I would trash all the photos from the card while it was in my computer, and then put the card into the camera and when I pressed 'play' it would say that there are no images on the card. However, my 1g CF card would really only have 500mb of free memory space. I have just made it a habit. There is no harm in doing it this way. Not that I am aware of, at least. Been doing it for two years now on the same 3 cards, not a problem in the world. It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

My first naked jump I specifically remember laughing while spiraling may canopy because I was directly over a church. Didn't look like anything good was going on, but still, it's the thought that counts. It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

I already wear a shirt around here with "Naked Skydiving Club" written on it in Sharpie. I wear it on laundry day. I would most definitely be down to join an official organization. No time, resources, etc. to be of any official assistance, but I would most definitely join. Just tacked up a naked night jump recently... It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

It all Basically started because i am an idiot. But here is what happened. After a stupid bet starting Monday morning when a friend woke me up in my dorm room, I fasted for 5 days. I made a joke about fasting for the day because I was too lazy to go eat, and all my so-called friends laughed at me, claiming I could never go a day without food. Well, in their faces. I got pissed for some reason, probably because I just woke up, and told them I would fast until friday. I gotta tell you. It sucked. A lot. Day 2 was full of intense headaches, and day 3 was by far the hardest. But some interesting things happened, such as me being extremely productive. I guess i usually procrastinate by eating, because i got more work done this week trying to keep my mind off food than I have in a long time. But Karma was on my side. Last night, as i was counting down the hours til I could eat, a package arrived at my dorm from my mother, and it was an ice chest full of food from back home. Sure enough, 4 Ziploc containers were in there full of my favorite food in the whole world: Papa Nacho's Machaca beef, which became part of the most delicious burrito of my life. Those of you from New Mexico know what I'm talking about. It was a unique experience. My last meal was Sunday night, and I went without food until 1AM friday morning. I am quite proud of my newfound willpower. It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

I have always heard these jumps referred to as "Bonzai Jumps" It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

AH, very good to know, thank you. I'm the type of person that would pawn off my XT to somebody so I could buy the XTi, even though there is no real gigantic advantage to switching... not worth justifying the purchase for a college student, at least. I'm trying to find more and more reasons to NOT purchase the XTi. I think this should be enough. (But 2 MP is very tempting... but not worth it. for me) It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

Sorry... I wasn't very clear on my process. Although I WAS aware that is all the sensor cleaning does... flip the mirror up... I was NOT aware that the XTi had a vibration feature to clean itself... of loose stuff, at least. That's amazing... or a good idea, at least? A little misunderstanding led to a little bit of knowledge. Does anybody have experiences with that feature? Does it actually work, or is it just a good idea, in theory? It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

wow, what was on your sensor that required swabs for cleaning? I was told as long as the camera was under warranty to never touch the sensor. Having experienced foreign objects on my sensor many times, as I ten to do a lot of lens changes in my photography (no $$ for a second body), I have stuck to a pretty simple method. I am using a Rebel XT, and I simply use the 'sensor cleaning' feature, and then use a little mini turkey-baster to blow air across the sensor. (I don't know the technical name... i probably should). It has always worked wonders for me. Your not supposed to use canned-air because the chemicals could deteriorate your sensor.... Hopefully I didn't just reiterate what was mentioned in the link above, or what most already knew. I obviously did not take the time to study the link. Just thought I would get my bit of input in there... Still, curious what was on your sensor. Pollen? Dirt chunk? No idea?... amazing. It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

Hollister is open 7 days a week... it's just a matter of people to fill the planes. If you get 4 people, they will run the 206, and they will fly all day just for you. It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye