->  Well, how do, Wayne?

Fair, yourself?

->  -> I've read NASA was stockpiling 486MBs to send up with
->  -> the shuttle. To think how
->  -> shortly ago, engineers were trying to break the 66MHz barrier
with PC board
->  -> design...

->  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 refueled around the equator.

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

Wasn't a daughter of Chuck Yeagar the co-pilot of the around the world
non-stop flight?
  
->  ->  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.

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

I quit Akaido classes because the instructor thought it a hoot 
to match me up with two woman who'd been taking classes for 7 YEARS!!!
I could only take the humiliation for a little under six months twice a
week. 
Brother in law ex-special forces taught me some really nasties.


->  ->  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.)             

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