FlyingRhenquest

I've tested the samsung galaxy S3 and S5. The S5 is starting to get pretty good -- I get a few anomalous points with the S5, but it seems to get most of my jump pretty accurately. The S3 was terrible for not tracking half my jumps at all and losing a lot of points in the rest. I don't run any custom software on the phone, though. I just run mytracks to collect data points and then process it with my C++ code later on. I kick out KML, which you can then plot in Google Earth or Openlayers. Mytracks can output KML directly, but it doesn't handle altitude very well. For some reason, the original designers didn't seem to take into account someone being 2 miles above ground level... I've thought it'd be neat to write a server that could replay the jumps of a full load of skydivers at a later date (Or possibly in real time.) Google earth doesn't give you a lot of room to develop applications, though their javascript API does provide a little more flexibility through the browser plugin. Openlayers seems to provide a bit more flexibility and is open source, but isn't as pretty overall as Google Earth is. You can do network links with Google Earth (And I'm pretty sure Openlayers as well,) so I've found you can display the location of a moving object from second to second by running a network link with a 1 second refresh. Then you can run a server on the other side and have it emit the point data back to Google Earth. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah, looking out the door of the plane at 10000 feet my brain doesn't even seem to recognize it as heights. The scale is just too immense. For me, at least, Skydiving has helped me recognize how much fear could cloud my judgment. A few months after I started skydiving, I had a dream where I had to jump from a platform 200 feet in the air to some rope rigging on a hot air balloon 4 or 5 feet away. I thought "If I were on the ground, I would have no problem making this jump" and then just did it. I like to give that little lecture on fear while driving around in the mountains with that huge drop on one side or other of the car. I tell my passengers "If you were driving this out on the plains, you'd have no problems staying on this road." Yet you see flatlanders all the time with their cars halfway across the yellow line. Their fear is actually making their situation more dangerous. Of course, if I'm not a complete hypocrite, I should be completely OK with the idea of climbing out the door of the plane at 10000 feet without a rig on and then climbing back in and riding down. I'm not sure I'd be OK with that, though I can easily do that with my rig on. I don't really have to cop to that, since the DZ wouldn't allow it in any case and it might actually be against FAA regulations, but I think it is interesting to see where the limits are. At the same time, if someone were pointing a gun at me and told me to do that or they'd shoot me, I wouldn't hesitate. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I don't remember it, but you can get it on the internets! Oh internets... how did we ever survive without you? Heh heh heh I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'm pretty sure you can get pixie sticks in the grocery store. I'm also pretty sure I've seen a giant-sized pixie stick. I'm actually gonna google in a second. I haven't seen those wax bottles in a while, though. Yep, you can get giant pixie sticks on amazon. Also fun dip, which I also hadn't seen in a while. And you can also get those wax bottles if you search for "Wax bottle candy." 5 pounds for 23 bucks heh. The candy cigarettes we used to get in the 70's usually had bubblegum in the center, and a paper wrapping. They'd put powdered sugar between the gum and the paper, which you could blow out to make a cloud of "smoke". I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Candy Cigarettes! Now you can pretend to be smoking, just like mommy! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Practice makes perfect. I never had a sense of falling at any point on a regular skydive. On dead-air exits out of a hot air balloon or something, you'll get it for a couple of seconds until you start to build up some speed. On a normal skydive, it should feel kind of like getting into a wind tunnel, which and that should never feel like falling. A number of skydivers I've talked to claim to be afraid of heights, and some of them have had trouble with it when trying to get into BASE, but it's so abstract at 2 miles in the air, your brain can't really seem to comprehend it. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

My experience trying to use a GPS tracker on android is that it's a pretty low-quality data source, very prone to losing points on my skydive. I might be willing to trust my life to something like a flysight (Which seems to be an extremely high quality data source.) I'm not going to do so for a GPS chip in a general purpose phone-type device. I do have some C++ libraries available if you're interested in messing about with such a thing, though. See https://github.com/FlyingRhenquest/gpx2kml and https://github.com/FlyingRhenquest/coordinates for a good start. Potentially you could run a state machine and throw out anomalous points from second to second. Getting anywhere close to the accuracy of a Neptune in real time would take a fair bit of work. I've kind of put everything on a shelf until I can afford a Flysight (Read: Want to afford a Flysight more than anything else that costs $400 that month) but am eventually planning to have some code capable of reading my day's worth of GPS points after the fact, breaking out my jumps and plotting them on Google Earth. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That next cigarette or cheeseburger you might be considering would be way more deadly to most Americans than Ebola. At least, at this juncture in the narrative. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Buckethead Style! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah man, that shit killed Gooseman! That's all up in the danger zone! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Did the pilot bring beer? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Breaking Bad Crystal Meth Action Figure! And Breaking Bad LEGO(tm) Meth Lab! I'd link to one, but I'm having a hard time finding a local retailer in between all the outraged news stories. Nevertheless, once more Humanity justifies my faith in it! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ooh good idea! I'll just bust out the wok to warm it back up. This is the first time I've worked with the stuff. Usually I go for shoulder. Seems like it's pretty decent for a long braise. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I can help you with that problem. Where do you live? I bookmarked that recipe. I just might try that some time. Looks gooooooood! Heh I haven't seen how it reheats yet. Usually this sort of thing doesn't reheat well. I'm actually seriously considering using the other 2 pounds of pork belly I have (dude only had 4 pound blocks) to make some green chili later on this week. I can take it down to the DZ so I don't try to eat 4 pounds of pork in 1 week and give myself a heart attack. There's always a starving AFF instructor or two on site there. It's definitely a good recipe! A fair bit more work than my usual one, but it wasn't really a huge effort. Most of the time that goes into it is waiting for the pre-cook to finish. It did take about 2 hours to pre-cook the pork in the wok. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

If you didn't stumble across SexualLobster's calcium wrath video, you can count yourself lucky. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I decided to try my hand at hongshao roe yesterday. I don't really have the burners or the wok to get the pork as crispy as it should be, but it still turned out pretty well. You can get the soy sauce you need on amazon.com (look for "Pearl River Bridge" dark and light soy sauce.) I found the cooking wine down at a local Asian market for about 1/10th the price they want for it on Amazon. You might be able to find the soy sauces locally as well and save yourself a few bucks. It actually took a bit of doing to find the pork belly. Ended up finding it at the local Mexican grocery store, which is about 3 blocks from my house and always has awesome produce and a much more decent meat section than the local super markets or the local butcher. The flavor is surprisingly mild. This isn't punch-you-in-the-face Americanized Chinese food, but the recipe does manage to coax a lot of flavor out of what are some of the least expensive cuts of pork. You need a carbon steel wok and a burner that resembles a jet engine to pull this off correctly, but it's worth a try if you're into that sort of thing. If I were going to try to bam it up a notch I'd use pork short ribs, 5 spice, garlic and honey. I had about a quarter of it for dinner and that was WAY TOO MUCH pork! It sent me into a pork coma from which I am only just recovering from. Heh heh heh. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHIhsq9qHPk Yes. We ARE moving too slow. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Maybe THE basin... Meh. Winter is fucking up my skydiving. No me gusta I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I like the tunnel and personally if I had a do-over, I'd probably go put some time in there before starting AFF. I'm still on the fence about whether it helps at all with sensory overload or anything, but I feel like if you know how to fly, that's one less thing you have to know how to worry about. I also kind of feel like I may have learned more on my AFF jumps that I had to do over than the ones where I passed without trouble, but I suppose your mileage will vary. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

One of the guys who does the canopy courses at my home DZ also teaches a tracking and advanced tracking course on a regular basis. Maybe check and see if something similar is offered where you're jumping? I haven't taken it yet, but it's on my to-do list. I'll probably do it next spring sometime. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Well I can't speak to CA, but a traffic ticket will usually drive your insurance up. Assuming you can weasel out of it, a traffic lawyer will cost you a lot less than the ticket plus the subsequent hike to your insurance rates. Definitely do what you can to negate it off your license either way. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Looks like it requires the use of an aircraft the entire time. Can you bring in more profit in the same amount of time as a Cessna load of tandem students. That's probably what this is eventually going to boil down to. Other questions; why not just skyboard or wingsuit? The skyboard looks like it'd provide a similar experience and you can fit several of them on the plane. It really kind of looks like this thing is trying to fill the hole the skyboard already filled. How does one land one of these things? I'm guessing with the parachute? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I have 3 in my Z, but only one of them is really accessible. How many do you get in the Miata? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I still believe Jack Daniels is at least 50% turpentine. I had a Croatian co-worker bring some Croatian moonshine into the office once. I'm pretty sure it was MOSTLY turpentine. But that's OK because the turpentine improved the flavor I didn't actually swallow any of it. That would have required WAAAY too much faith on my part. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

The Miata has always reminded me of one of those little LEGO cars I used to play with in the waiting room at the Doctor's office. Every doctor's office seemed to have one. The Miata comes complete with a little LEGO bald guy to sit behind the steering wheel. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?