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Since I am going through a self imposed retraining
to typing using a Dvorak keyboard instead of qwerty, and since I don't
feel particularly creative while I can't type yet, I dusted this old
thing off to attempt to get new Bios. Send any
updates to me at dave@lucycrew.com
(Kevin Hogan),
> Madame
Wu's favorite customer, and gamesmanship Chief Judge. Completely
in charge once the blindfolds go on; and the only one of our players
allowed to go to the third floor of Madame Wu's Tea Room without a
bodyguard. With all his children at home and his previous records
at Madame Wu’s Tea Room remaining unchallenged, it’s just a matter of
time before he must come out of retirement in order to "win back" his
standings. His old sponsor tells us that he is standing by with a
whole carton of paper bags and gallons of whipped cream for Kevin’s
return.
(Cowart Fairley),
> Cowart is the head Balloon-Bubba, and massage
tester. He it is who is responsible for introducing us all to at least one new Jazz performer
each Fiesta; and one new restaurant. Since Cowart wasn't able to attend
the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta last year, the Lucy Crew was forced to
attend "used" restaurants and listen to a second year of Kenny G. And this
year we are leaning toward Elmore James, "King of the slide guitar".
Cowart died in 2005 so he rides with us every time now.
(Alex
Wade),
> I can be most accurately described as "Not Eric,
the other one." I would prefer, however,
"Hey, you sass that hoopy Alex Wade? Now there's
a frood who really knows where his towel is..."
(Annadiana Beaver Abedini),
> She has always aspired to be a vagabond and
travel the world. However, right now she is too busy being a grandma to just sell everything and
head for the road. maybe next year....
(Cheryl
Ammann),
> Shy flower of the "War Games" crowd, Cheryl
pretended to be invisible until she stumbled into a rainstorm, and it all washed off and we saw
her standing there.
(Joe Reynolds),
> Joe
sold his Jaguar long ago so he could buy a Mustang GT and was forced by
circumstances to sell the Mustang so he could buy used computer
parts. The computer parts eventually filled up his life to the
extent that he needed to leave Texas. When he finally decided
what he wanted to do, it turned out to be Astrophysics. Now,
Astrophysics is a very strange calling. Especially if you don't
own a telescope. But Joe continues to study Astrophysics, even
though he has to use a modified radio-telescope to study the
stars. He puts the radio part up next to the chip that the aliens
left in his neck, and he talks to an old "gray". So far he has
made several discoveries which relate to the true "meaning of life",
and he hopes to be able to make many more. But, recently he has
been seen running around town shouting "43". Nobody has been able to catch him to tell
him about the sequel.
Joe died in 2006 so he rides with us every time now as well.
(Cindy Collins),
> One
of "Those Collins girls"; you know, the writer and her sister, and the
"spoiled" one. But nobody seems to be able to determine "which"
of "Those Collins girls". She was recently spotted at the
Pendelton Roundup, but nobody was able to ascertain whether she was a
spectator or a participant. However, I happened to see someone I
thought might have been her on RPN. RPN is the Portuguese
Television Network, and I was entranced by what appeared to be The
Royal Family arriving at the Bullring in a horse drawn carriage wearing
nineteenth century gowns and being led to the Royal Box. The
cameras seemed to flicker back and forth between the bullfight and the
elegant Royals. For some reason one brave soul with a "stocking
cap" would wave the cap in the air and then jump up and wrap his arms
over the bull’s horns and "ride the charge". There were fourteen
or so people lined up behind the Fool with the stocking cap and they
would all "pile on" the Bull to stop it before it could crush the Fool
against the board fence around the ring… The bull always lost,
but it was not killed. This was certainly different from the
bullfight my stepfather took us to in Juarez so long ago. This
elegant lady that I'm pretty certain was Cindy threw Roses to the
Fool. He took off his bloody cap and gave it to her. She
gave it back. I don't know all the symbolism. I didn't understand a
word the Portuguese announcer was saying; so I can't tell you what was
happening; maybe Cindy can explain.
(Tait Cyrus),
> 36,
still single, sigh :^(, currently living in Colorado Springs.
Worked for Sun Microsystems for the past 4 years working on system
admin applications (AdminSuite, AutoClient, & AdminTool for those
who are interested). Sun decided to close the Colorado Springs
office, and I didn't want to move to CA where I couldn't afford a
house, so I find myself looking for a new job. I'm currently
doing some part time work for a company in Denver that teaches short
courses. I've already taught a beginning UNIX class and I'm
scheduled to teach a 5 day perl class next week and a 4 day advanced
UNIX class the week after. I've got 5 interviews scheduled in the
next 5 weeks. 2 in Denver, 1 here in Colorado Springs, 1 in San
Diego, and 1 in Orlando (FL). 4 of these are the result of my
posting my resume to the net (link removed)
I'm shy, never been up in a balloon, though I've
taken LOTS of pictures of them. I LOVE to dance (ballroom, East coast swing, West coast
swing, etc.). I'm also an amateur photographer, mostly scenics (lightning,
fireworks, the 2 comets (last year and this year), mountains, sunsets, underwater, etc.). I
also snow ski, scuba dive, sail, Mt. bike..... I'm also looking to get married and start
a family, but that all depends on the good Lord.
(Raedell Reed),
> As luck would have it, Raedell was being followed
around by her "boy toys" last balloon fiesta so she was flying with Randy and that
crowd... But, if Ani Difranco can sing a song about "When Jesus finds
Buddha..." Then Raedell can slow down enough to chase balloons. And we all have
a friend in New Orleans.
(Dave Wade),
> Sometimes
I think I'm getting Alzheimer’s; everything just seems to be fuzzy, and
yet so warm, and I forget just what it was I was worried about.
Recently I have joined a group of Private Detectives in their search
for the notorious Boris Badinoff’s successor; Igor Muchbadder, the
person responsible for ensorceling the marvelous Janine Turner and
turning her from a pilot in Alaska into June Cleaver… How could
anyone do that?
(Elizabeth Lear, Stormee ),
> But, I would "fall in lust" with her if she were around ... What more can I say?
Clearly, she doesn't have a dowry; but beyond that, with the right music, she can blow away any male within eyesight...
(Laura ,
Curb-Girl Extraordinaire' ),
> Can
you imagine, a beautiful Oklahoma lass, driving through San Francisco
in her Datsun Pickup, camper loaded to the roof with all of her
material possessions, and rocking chair tied onto the back of the
camper... Singing, at the top of her lungs, some old Rock and
Roll? And she probably drove right past John's house, and Josh's
and Laura's; but she never asked... Talk about independent!
"Rock On, Zena!"
(Barbara Freeberg),
> Barbara...is it the name which is too grounded sounding? Maybe I should change it to Dulcinea. And maybe
Lochinvars don't spirit away brides who squeeze the toothpaste from the middle of the
tube.
(Gerry Graff, bananaman, idono
pilot, Lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds pilot),
> Gerry hasn’t been available on Friday
nights lately because he has been pursuing his avocation of
becoming the World Champion in the Quarter Midget Tractor-Pull.
With his orange Kubota he has managed to eliminate all New Mexico
competition this summer. He expects that "The Unsers" won’t take
this development without retaliation, especially with the recent
changes in rules which permit entry of their Kawasakis. He
expects that the Unsers will modify one of their snowmobiles to
threaten his commanding lead in the points race. Gerry is
planning to retaliate by entering the competitions in Phoenix, stating
that "Even ‘The Unsers’ won’t be able to put enough snow down to beat
me in Phoenix".
(Linda Graff, Alternate for Lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds),
> Linda
is backing Gerry’s play by getting on the board of directors of the
QMTPA so she can oversee the rules making committee and assure that
snow cannot be used atop the mud bogs used in the tractor pulls.
(Ron Gilman),
> Few
of you would recognize that the notorious "Dr. Ron Gilman" was one of
my next-door neighbors back almost fifteen years ago. "Ron" used
to get us all to go and "lift weights" each evening, and then he "made
us" go out and eat tempura...
Nobody
ever actually believed that he could find any lady who would live up to
the affection shown him by Tina's, (or, for that matter, anyone's)
cats... Ron was, by his own admission, a "Cat Slut", or something
like that, I disremember how he used to pronounce that...
(John Gilmore),
> Lately,
John has been spending too much time testifying before Congress,
attempting to tell them that "People are entitled to Privacy; and to
encrypt their E-mail". Fortunately, the mushrooms all died before
the Senators had an excuse to visit "The Haight"; and no Congressman is
good enough with their computers to realize that "this John" is the
same "John" who is so famous on rec.drugs, alt.more-drugs, and alt.swedish.chef.bork-bork-bork.
(Harvey Packard),
> Harvey is responsible for the idea of huge "Chase
crews". Long ago, when he was paying to have a balloon hold a huge EMP generator over
"The Trestle" down at the end of the airport runways in Albuquerque, Harvey
had to cut the ropes holding the balloon down so that an airliner with an emergency could land. Fortunately, the balloon pilot was pulling the "Red Line" at the same
time, and the balloon landed close to the Trestle. It became clear that it took a large crew in
an emergency. Harvey is looking forward to meeting "Big John" the inventor
of the "Balloon Bubba", the natural extension of the concept. The rumor
is that "Big John" will make an exception for Harvey’s height "because of his history in
this concept".
(James Gosling),
> The
first time you sit and talk with James, that should be as good a time
as I had. Sitting there and listening to Josh and James and these
other "Hackers" discuss whether to put NeWS into the "public domain"
immediately in order to drive the GUIs toward postscript and away from
"X"; and staring across the table to the '53 Vett parked next to the
table; inside the restaurant... Important decisions made around
that discussion, important friendships initiated. James is also
well known as the backup harmonica player for Elvis’s ill-fated movie
band on "Love Me Tender". Although there was not a single
harmonica note played during the movie, James had a "good time" and has
said that he would be happy to play backup harmonica for some "more
modern" band…
(Jim Lujan),
> Jim gave up his promising modeling career in
order to become a father and sit home in his Barcalounger. His credits include being the
inspiration for Jennifer Warnes as she sang Leonard Cohen’s "Famous Blue Raincoat",
and he it was who was actually "Stuck in Lodi, Again".
(Tiny Jim, a.k.a. Jim
Frost),
> The really detailed stuff is at http://world.std.com/~jimf.
The shorter form is that I'm a Java propeller-head by day (real work,
not that marketing induced frenzy fluff most people mean when they say
"Java"), sometimes by night, and on off days I try to get out on my
mountain bike. My favorite food is beer. My wife Thea is
O.K. with the beer, but the propeller-headed-ness and mountain bike get
on her nerves occasionally.
(Josephine Rael),
> This is "Jo". She dances like a deer running
through the forest. Close your eyes and imagine the dance... Hair so black and so long that she
can sit on it - streaming out behind her as you swing her through the
circle that usually "only a Sara" can do...
(Kathy
Nobile),
> Kathy has moved to California and now lives in
"The perfect subdivision". She works for some nameless computer software company selling
hardware. It’s not yet clear whether anyone has told her the difference.
Fortunately for her, she sells clean rooms and it is possible that for her
there is no difference. But I remember the old Kathy. Back
before she became so successful. When she was still trying to
become a Hollywood movie producer. Unfortunately, back then, she
didn't have the "rights" for any movies, so she wasn't able to convince
anyone to "front the money" for her to produce with. Now, of
course, there are any number of people running around trying to locate
her to get her "rights".
(Laura Creighton
),
> This particular Laura has some relationship with
"Mr. Toad's Wild Ride". Laura is slightly older than the twins; She is from Canada; she left
home at 14 or so, hitchhiked everywhere, did everything, she’s five feet, or
so, 98 pounds, or so; only touches the ground to prepare for her next
jump...
She is the most honestly female mind I've ever written to, probably
the most sane female I've conversed with but she keeps jumping up and down
all the time... She never stands still... Clearly a person who spends
that much time in the air, needs to do some of it in a balloon...
(Ann Mauzy),
> "The dancer, and all that it implies."
(Mary DeLuca, The Merry
Light...),
> Mary was caught by the California Highway Patrol
as she attempted to ride her Harley-Davidson motorcycle to this year’s gathering at Sturgis, in
the Dakotas. The CHP felt that she was only going to paint a red slash
mark across all those T-shirts, (thus negating their message). The CHP,
famous for their motorcycles didn't want anyone to negate anything having to
do with motorcycles. They escorted Mary home and gave her a "time out",
and took away all her red spray paint cans.
(Donald Milligan),
> Don
is the backup driver for whichever Winston Cup Driver is injured for
any particular race. When he and Sally get the Corvette out and
drive it through the Jemez Mountains everybody pulls off to let him
drive through. Unfortunately, Don has a tendency to "drive the
loop" through the Jemez, down to Albuquerque, over to Santa Fe, and
back into Los Alamos, with the top down. As everyone knows, the
weather in New Mexico isn't constant for that long. So, if you
should ever be up in the mountains and see a gorgeous old '60s Corvette
with the top down, and Sally and Don waving "pope like" to the people
pulled off to watch, with Don, soaked to his boxers, and Sally laughing
uproariously, and the Corvette rumbling unmercifully homeward; That was
Don and Sally...
(Mike Miller, pilote' of "Class
Act"),
> Mike is looking around for a new name for his
next balloon, and a new part in a play. Unfortunately, the Albuquerque press discovered that
he had checked "hair" out of the video store and they threatened him with
that old "You'll never work in this town again, Bub" stuff. Since Mike
only gets to fly enough to keep his license current, he has been
Hug-Deprived over the last few years and has just shriveled up. He is now in a
position to attend more than two hours of the festivities at this upcoming
Balloon Fiesta however, and may be able to attend several fifty-soul
hugs.
(Just another
Michele),
> Michele
plans to attend the festivities this year also, (since she has to be in
Albuquerque at Sun, anyway,) But it isn't clear whether we'll be
able to get her to get into the truck. She tells me that she is a
vegetarian and being in a truck with "all that beefcake" (I am assuming
she means the Balloon Bubbas by that) is a problem for her. She’s
not sure she can stand the "high". Besides, since
she’s been selected Sun Microsystems "SE Goddess" for the last three years, nothing is beneath
her, and she has to "stay grounded".
(Billy "the kid"),
> Billy
"the kid" has been moving back and forth across the oceans so often
that we are not sure that he can be trusted off the ground in something
as frail as a balloon. Bill has so many frequent flyer miles that
several airlines have a price on his head. They feel that they
can "turn a profitable year" if his coupons expire, unused. Since
Bill doesn't like small towns like Albuquerque, it’s not clear whether
he can be expected to attend. But, "if you want to launch over on
15th Avenue and 57th street, I'll be there!"
(Tish Miller, Alternate for
"Class Act"),
> Tish
is Mom. And, she’s proud of that. She is a little concerned
that Mike checked out "hair" from the video store so she notified "The
Press". Then she went out and special ordered "The Clockwork
Orange" and "The Commitments". She knows "He won’t, and He can't
sing, but he recognizes genius" and she thinks that will keep him busy
trying to "stretch his mind" around portraying an Irish/English "Mod"
gangster Rock and Roll band… And it will mean that the
Albuquerque Police won’t raid the show, this time.
(Randall Smith, soon to be
pilot/owner of "Moon Over Albuquerque"),
> Randy
wrote some of the software which is flying on the shuttle, and he rode
his motorcycle to Sturgis to aid Mary in crossing out all those
T-shirts. During his free time he builds "fat boys" and "bob
tails", and I know what that means; but, you must ask Randy.
(Richard Stallman),
> I spend most of my time encouraging people to
share software.
For my other aspects, here's what my pleasure
card says:
Sharing good books, good food, and exotic music
and dance
Tender embraces
Unusual sense of
humor
(Sara Bruno),
> I am the 'gypsy' child of Dave, you know the one
who would gut an elk. The one who loves the Ocean!
And I would, if I had to, but it is not a hobby
that I pursue. Dissection was my favorite part of High School!!
(Shelli Meyers,
"The Turtle Goddess"),
> SamIam
is the leader of The Force Turtle. When her story was recently
made into a series of movies, she retained "Total Control" of the
production. Even the famous actors who played Leonardo and
Donatello acquiesced to her desires. When the "money men" tried
to introduce Kermit the Frog into the production (as a stumblebum ‘sidekick’) she managed
to keep this artistic intervention from happening. She is a self
contained, forceful, role model for the entire turtle exploitation industry, and
she remains true to her "vision".
(Susan
Coghlan),
> Susan was attempting to raise money to become the
first woman to single-handedly sail a Hobey-Cat around the world until she
discovered that, whenever anyone saw someone fall overboard, the witness was
supposed to shout "Man Overboard!" Susan felt that if she ever needed help at
sea, everybody would be looking for that man, and nobody would pay any
attention to her. She said she didn't need that, too. "I'm planning on being
down for at least a couple of days at the fiesta ... It's amazing how much
I'm looking forward to letting my hair down and being unlike I normally am  "
(Sara
Harshman),
> Sara is way too dignified to be described here,
but whenever she gets a dart in her hand she is deadly. She taught me the rules for the game,
but she always won. That’s O.K., because I know that if she ever wanted
to play pinochle I'd win. And when Kevin and I get her down to Madame
Wu’s we'll have to keep her from discovering all the secrets.
(Josh
Siegel),
> Josh could never get his GSXR to go fast enough,
so he began to jump out of airplanes to prepare himself for his attempt at the Snake River
Canyon jump. The Snake River Canyon jump has only previously been attempted by
Evil Kneivel, and he couldn't make it, even though he used rockets to get his motorcycle up
to speed. Josh, being a purist, decided that he felt it could be done
without the added weight of those "dumb" rockets. He felt that all that
thrust applied to the back was what made the bike spin, throwing the driver
off and causing the motorcycle to go down, instead of continuing up as he
had heard that Newton had proved... with his "laws".
(Spike,
a.k.a. Joe Ilaqua),
> "Spike" was nicknamed after an incident in a
famous photograph involving two huge Steam Engines and a "Golden Spike". The person who nicknamed
him "Spike" couldn't be interviewed, but it was rumored that he was
someone from MIT's famous computer controlled model railroad crowd; and that
the appellation was a warning, not an endearing nickname.
(Steve Singhose),
> Steve is the quiet, withdrawn husband of a World
Famous Photographer/Curbgirl. Fortunately he managed to become the father of the first
Internet Baby, and although he is stuck up in the northwest woods, he is
protected by the Pooh-Bear of his first child. Everybody who has been through
this knows that Pooh-Bear protection only lasts as long as the baby can't
stick a butter knife across the tines of an electric outlet plug. Isn't
that right, Eric&Alex?
(Stephen Legate),
> Stephen
began his career as an unknown writer, and in his off time became the
High Altitude Ultimate Frisbee champion. When he decided that the
air was too thin up in Los Alamos, he moved to the Portland, Oregon
area where the air is always thick. In order to support his dog
and his Renault Dauphin he continued to write things that he couldn't
sign his own name to. But on the side, he began his career as an
actor and musician. Now he is the lead tambourine shaker in a
Portland/Grunge Jug Band. His particular version of "Twisted
Spoons" has almost gotten him recognized, in the alley, after the
show. He did manage to escape, however.
(Tom Szydlowski, pilote "The
Tainted Rose" ),
> Tom
is a world class Chemist who still hasn’t admitted that "The Physicists
have it all figured out". So, he still works, some…
Recently he had to leave the beautiful White Sands Desert area, (where
everything is clean, and pure,) because he was caught. In a last
ditch effort at normalcy he moved to Southern Colorado. Nobody in
Colorado has discovered that he is there yet.
(Thomas E Smith),
> Tom is our "foreign" correspondent and resident
deadhead. He’s gone to more Grateful Dead concerts than all the rest of us combined; except
maybe John Gilmore who lived "right up the street" from the Dead and went up
that street to borrow sugar-cubes every weekend. Tom and John have
another thing in common, Tom’s wife constantly talks about her "old gnu".
(Burton G. Vose, "beegee"),
> Burt
has managed to connect the entire town of Hurley, NM with the twentieth
century without his ever having to leave the nineteenth.
Single-handedly he collected enough old computers to populate the
Hurley Ancient Computer Keepers Emporium and Restingplace Museum ( i.E.
HACKER Museum) and keep those computers from an ignominious fate worse
than death in the Hurley land fill. Since Hurley is so flat, this
avoided putting a bump at the western outskirts of town, and allowed
the continued use of the U.S. standard table of Sunset times.
(Matt R Wade),
> Matt is still too young to have made much of a
mark on the world; and, because he has spent so much time around balloonists, he might not. But
he does seem to have good instincts. Recently, when asked whether he
would rather have the ailing and ancient Triumph GT-6 or the relatively
benign one ton Dodge four wheel drive Power Wagon insured, (so he could drive
it around town), He chose the Dodge. Then he installed a baby mattress in
the bed and went in search of the nearest Drive-in theater. Unfortunately
he didn't have enough gas money to get there. This may be a direct result
of "thinking like a balloonist". (Balloonists seem to be people who "have
to fly", and don't particularly care where…).
(Allen Williams),
> Allen
is a famous Physicist and x-ray Artiste. He has managed to create
the world’s smallest x-ray laser. Unfortunately, it only works in
the triple-X band and you must pay eXtra to use it. And, if you
use it in Oklahoma, you will be arrested and deported to Utah.
Allen’s new wife doesn't want to go to Utah, so Allen’s career may be
over soon. He is eXcited, and Upset at the same time. This
makes him a perfect candidate for ballooning, and he meets all the size
requirements for instant admission into Balloon Bubba Hood. His
Texan Heritage and burgeoning Eastern accent are the only things
holding him back…
(You gotta be kidding...),
> Dad, I'm a weird one, please take my real name
off. I can be called anything else, but I am not sure yet what I want to have traceable to
me, I'm sure you'll understand. Call me something like... "X The Lunatic" or whatever you think up that's special. We have
recently seen the influx of eavesdroppers, and I don't know them, and I'm paranoid, and
I don't want any undue notoriety...
(John
DeVries)
> "Formerly
considering himself a god in his own mind, the drugs he's been given
really seem to be making an improvement. He survives as one of
"Dr."John's kids (4 years?) and as such finds himself occasionally
pining for Snake Oil. He is almost always ready to make a button
for you on any theme. He likes playing with computers and is
amazed that people have paid him for 21 years to follow his avocation."
(Tina
Sullivan)
>Tina is a winsome wench who has at least two sides. One
side regrets that nobody except a few of us remember when she used to
"jump over the fence" in the back yard to come and party... The
other side dresses up in a neon RED feathery leather sheepskin jacket
and stiff back and MBA and is sometimes sad inside. I, of course,
remember that evening when she came to force us all to go to The TOGA
Party... and I reached down and picked her off the floor and "flipped"
her. I believe that she has also achieved honorary Bubbadom due
to her heartfelt presence in several Bubba-hugs...
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