WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Tap tap tap..."

 ->  Well, how do, Wayne?

 WC> Fair, yourself?

Ah... You know? The parents have been running me off my feet. Yesterday, I had
to excuse myself. I'm still in tears.

 ->  WC> Did you follow Burt Rutan's venture with SpaceShip One?
 ->  WC> 20 milllion from idea to two flights a week with the same
 ->  WC> spacecraft!!!

 -> I've been watching Burt for some time. He reintroduced
 -> the Ascender (A play on
 -> ...-ender.) canard wing with the Vari-eze, or something
 -> named like that. The
 -> popularity of home-built composite with a canard wing is
 -> due to his company,
 -> Scaled Composites. His brother Dick was flying one of his designs when they
 -> went un refuelled around the equator.

 WC> Yeah I've caught Dick's act too.
 WC> Haven't seen the varisize canard but have seen them with fixed
 WC> canards even around here on one or two occassions.

A variable canard? The best I've seen in that regard is the fighter that varied
its main wing angle. The Vari-eze was just a name of one of his first
homebuilts. (Still, I might have the name a bit off.)
 WC> Wasn't a daughter of Chuck Yeagar the co-pilot of the around
 WC> the world non-stop flight?

That struck me after I closed the mail.
 ->  ->  WC> of neighborhoods I try not to advertize my
 ->  -> disability and so become a
 ->  ->  WC> mark for a mugging.

 ->  WC> I've a few martial arts moves I've picked up over the years from
 ->  WC> various sources but they're all rather deadly so I'd hate to have to
 ->  WC> employ them.
 ->  WC> Nothing wrong with my upper body strength as long as the spine doesn't
 ->  WC> give out dropping me to the ground at an inopportune moment.

 -> I feel the same. I was only trained for a few months in
 -> elementary school, but
 -> quickly got tired of the repetitive nature of the
 -> instruction. Shortly after
 -> stopping one fellows heart in a 'non-contact' sparing
 -> match, (He walked into my
 -> foot! The Sen-see even saw it that way. ;-) they asked
 -> me not to come in any
 -> more.

 WC> Worst I ever did was really messs up a guy's arm and shoulder.
 WC> He pulled a knife on me and was quite serious and at that time
 WC> I hadn't found some of the better ( but more risky to me) ways
 WC> of dealing with such.

Well, that's just it. Do unto others before they undo you. 

Thankfully, my last fight was in Junior-High.
 WC> I quit Akaido classes because the instructor thought it a hoot
 WC> to match me up with two woman who'd been taking classes for 7
 WC> YEARS!!! I could only take the humiliation for a little under
 WC> six months twice a week.

Shoot... That wouldn't bother me a bit! Akaido is a discipline that hadn't been
popularized when I was growing up. Wish I knew more of it.
 WC> Brother in law ex-special forces taught me some really nasties.

Yikes! The only thing I got was how to bust a neck, while dislocating my own
shoulder from a buddy here. His memories of training, (No service.) were rather
distasteful, so I tend to let that sleeping dog lie. The way I figure it, is I
could likely handle eighty percent of the numb-skulls, if the rest want to take
me out, I'm ready to go. <-;
 ->  ->  WC> They're packing 146 H.P. into 1100 cc machines these days!!!
 ->
 ->  -> MPFI! Now, if we could just EPROM those 'puters, we
 ->  -> wouldn't have to spend $500
 ->  -> a pop when the logic chip goes South. (I know we can
 ->  -> do that now with an
 ->  -> on-board laptop.)

 WC> They already have PROM's in them, the advance curve for speed
 WC> is programmed into them and the computer has a tachometer that
 WC> monitors RPM to select the correct setting for any given motor
 WC> speed.

...But they aren't erasable.  Was it you that was writing, that when you
change the battery, that hey have to re-learn their parameters?
 ->  ->  WC> Interesting URL for crazy attractive biker lady and
 ->  ->  WC> Chernobyl:
 ->  ->  WC> www.kiddofspeed.com
 ->  WC> ( not a typo, that's two dd's in kid)
 ->
 ->  -> Biker Ladies in Chernobyl? Oh, baby! I'll have to check
 ->  -> that out one day. ;-)

 ->  WC> I highly recommend it.

I'm just wondering if there might be an echo delay here? Seems I had already
responded to the typo thing a day or two ago.

Well... Be as well as you can. 

... Crisis management works beautifully until an actual crisis occurs.
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