BLiNC Magazine

Finding new friends to jump with...Part 2

The forum was running for almost a year and I started noticing that people where joining from all over the country. They where meeting here on BLiNC, contacting each other then would start traveling to jump in more and more locations. I thought this was a great use of BLiNC.

Then one week I got sent from SF to Indianapolis for a 2 week project. So i thought I would put my first post about travelling on BLiNC on the Tuesday after I flew in. I got a call about an hour after I posted this. I though HOLY-CRAP! that was fast.

'Some Guy' named Joe W. asked if I was ready to jump? I said, I don't have a rig with me. He ...

The question keeps coming up "How did BLiNC" start?

Well, this is quite a long story, so I will BBLoG this in phases....

A long, long time ago (1994)....

I had been trying to use my new found Internet programming knowledge on a real world application, not just a well formatted resume. Up to that point, there was very little in world of the Internet. And prior to that, I was a distributed control system developer (DCS) in refineries in Houston Texas, then in LA, and SF.

At this point I had been BASE Jumping for 2 years under the wing of Adam P. of Consolidated Rigging.

In the Spring of 1994, I kept hearing about "Bridge Day" and ...