Hi, I'm GliderGuider

[GliderGuider]

I took the handle because I used to be passionate about flying sailplanes.
I'm Canadian. I don't make any secret of my real name which is Paul Chefurka, though I prefer the adopted name Bodhi.

This is a reasonable facsimile of the appearance of my body at the moment:



I hope you are enjoying yourself on DU, whoever you are!
Namaste

[Skinner]

1. Sailplanes? That sounds cool.

Do you fly a sailplane from inside the sailplane, or it a remote-controlled type-thing that is up in the air while you are safely on the ground?

[GliderGuider]

4. Up in the air, the junior bird-man.

My longest duration flight was 7 hours. Longest cross-country distance 300 km, all done in thermal lift near Ottawa.

One of my favourite planes was the Pilatus B4:



Even though it tried real hard to kill me once... That made me reconsider my hobby aspirations.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. namaste to you as well

[zeemike]

3. Well then hi Bodhi...(that rhymes)

And that is the approximate shape of my body too...

[RZM]

5. This may sound odd

But whenever I see your screen name I think of the Netherlands. I guess that's because their pre-Euro currency was called the 'guilder.' I always read your screen name as 'GliderGuilder.' I think I eventually noticed that it was 'guider' and not 'guilder' but I've never been able to shake the association with the Netherlands.

Anyway, good day

[GliderGuider]

6. A lot of people have that slightly dyslexic reaction to the handle.

I spent a year living in the Netherlands when I was a kid, so I totally get it

[maddezmom]

7. I always associated your name with Sugar Gliders for some reason

[GliderGuider]

12. That's very intuitive. I lived with a sugar glider for a year or so.

It was foisted on me by the daughter of my previous partner, who housed it in my home office without my consent. Smelly damn thing, as bad as a ferret. Word of advice about Sugar Gliders - don't ever get a nocturnal pet that really really needs human bonding...

Cute, though.

[maddezmom]

14. yeah, my daughter tried to get me to get one

told her no way as we didn't need another creature in the house in addition to our middle age lab, Cusco. I really meant it and yet:


Meet the sugar gliders replacement.

[hunter]

25. We have a chair just like that, complete with dog.

[maddezmom]

26. the funniest thing is my old lab was never allowed on the furniture before this one

got here. Now they both try to fit in and sometimes with my daughter. Not a great picture...but this what happens everytime my daughter sits in this chair.


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[RainDog]

10. I do too

glad to know I wasn't the only one.

I always read that as Guilder!

[SunsetDreams]

8. Hi Bodhi

Nice to meet you. My husband will be going back to Canada next month on Business. I've never been but would love to go! Maybe after our daughter is graduated from school, I can make the trip with him. She will graduate next year

[GliderGuider]

13. It's a nice country - our teabaggers are still decaffeinated...

My partner just moved up to Ottawa after spending 15 years in Los Angeles (yeah, she said WTF too) and says we're not nearly as cold and constricted a people as when she lived here 30 years ago. "Warm Canadian" still seems like an oxymoron to me, though I do what I can to dispel the stereotype.

[hifiguy]

9. I could swear we have run into each other on high-end audio

boards. Am I hallucinating again??

[GliderGuider]

11. Yes, probably. I was very active under the same handle for a while.

I was on both Audio Asylum and Audiogon. Lots of high-end gear went through my room for a bunch of years, especially uber-tweaky tube gear.

[ZombieHorde]

15. I always thought you were a minotaur.

I guess I was wrong. You're obviously a satyr.

[GliderGuider]

16. Ah, so you found all the hidden Youtube videos then?

[Odin2005]

17. Sailplanes? DAYUM!!!

[GliderGuider]

18. Or as I call it,

"Real flying."

[Odin2005]

19. Real flying is what those little tweeting dinos outside do!

[GliderGuider]

20. True, but unless I grow feathers this is as real as it's gonna get for me... nt

[secondwind]

21. You look so happy and friendly, hello there from Boston, MA!! :-D

[GliderGuider]

22. There's a good reason for that :-)

I re-united with my twin flame two years ago, after losing track of her for 30 years. My universe changed dimensions in a Facebook Instant, and ever since I can't seem to get this grin off my face. I'm glad it shows.

[AJTheMan]

23. Welcome to the forum. I am new here as well.

[GliderGuider]

24. Thanks. Though I've been around here for a while,

I love new opportunities to introduce myself to the community. It's a very big group of people, and we often stovepipe ourselves into particular groups or forums, so we don't always get a chance to meet people who might stay in the less-traveled groups.

I'm most often a denizen of Energy&Environment with occasional side-trips to the more spiritually-oriented groups, but my activity on the Big Boards is limited to drive-by comments As a Canadian progressive I don't have much comment on the American political scene aside from the occasional "Oh dear!"

It's good to meet you, and I hope this place is as good a home for you as it's been for me.