FlyingRhenquest

Never click any links in E-Mail. If you get a thing you think is from your bank, close your web browser, open a new one and navigate to your bank's web site. I have a link to them on my toolbar so I don't accidentally mistype it. I didn't get hit by it due to two policies; I don't shop at Target, and I don't shop on black friday I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

So how did you do? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Buy whatever you want to buy, man. If you can afford new gear it'll likely fit better and be more comfortable. If you can afford to buy new gear each time you want to downsize, knock yourself out. It's not like that doesn't happen in a vacuum -- you'll get something for your last gear when you sell it anyway. Just make sure to pick vendors with reasonably quick turn-around times if you plan to sell your old gear before buying new. I reckon no matter what you do it'll always be better than renting. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

There needs to be a raised eyebrow emoticon... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

No that's just name calling. Trolling would be more like "Now that gay marriage is legal, can you gay marry your same-sex cousin in Kentucky?" or "Otter noise is clinically proven to cause vaginal pain! Whenever the plane flies over, my vagina starts to hurt! And I don't even HAVE a vagina!" If you know where to drop these, you can start a 3000 message shitfest that ends with an admin shutting down the server. That's the mark of an exquisitely crafted troll! If you really want to hone your trolling skills, you should review the Trolls News youtube channel. That should get you on your way! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I think I'd have a harder time now. I'm far less inclined to kiss some English professor's ass on their darling books. I'd be all like "Herman Melville was a pratt who only wrote that book because he liked to hear himself talk." I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

If I owe you beer you owe me Boobies I usually tell the pilot that if he gives us another thousand feet, I won't show my my boobies. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

True. I was just surprised more than anything, to recognize someone from here. Mike and I were pretty worn out by Monday even though we were trying to pace ourselves with the skydiving. I'm going back to work today, sadly. We'll see how long it takes them to harsh that mellow I got going down there. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Down in Eloy this weekend.

About half the story is anecdote. I would agree, though, that a lot of small businesses really don't put a lot of thought into their operations. It doesn't take much to go from "This guy knows what he's doing," to "Wow, this is... REALLY... sketchy." I've worked with a number of freelance artists over the years and most of them have been extremely unreliable. Being organized and reliable is a big part of putting your best foot forward and the local DZ and wind tunnel seem to do a pretty good job of that. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Probably. I don't know who was vetting him for a run for president, but that certainly didn't take long. I'm guessing it wasn't the Democrats -- you don't drop that shit before the Republican primary's done. There are no end of people who don't like Cristie and would benefit from preventing him from making a run for it at all. My top two suspects would be Karl Rove or Paul Ryan. Or maybe the Koch brothers had a hand in this; Cristie's proven he won't toe the party line and will compromise to get shit done. I'm sure the Koch Brothers would prefer a more upstanding example of Republican values to be the next presidential candidate. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I saw one in a story in the Montgomery Advertiser some years back about a prisoner who'd stashed a gun(!) and a few other things up there. Just like a squirrel, keeping his stash between his cheeks! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I've tried running a GPS tracker on my phone and run the points through some software I wrote. It's extremely unreliable -- every jump has some "artifacts" where the altitude will randomly plunge or shoot up several hundred or several thousand feet. Several jumps show my landing spot several hundred feet higher and have me descending as I walk back to the trailer. In about half (or maybe a bit more) of my jumps, it just loses some chunk of (or all) the data on the jump -- it'll eat all the points above 5000 feet, all the points below 2000 feet, just not record the jump at all, etc. Very very unreliable. It appears that the configuration of the flysight is much more reliable -- I've looked at dozens of data files for one of those and haven't seen any anomalies. It samples multiple times per second and seems to have much more accurate GPS hardware. If you could find a phone with super-accurate, fast-sampling GPS, you might be able to pull it off, but I wouldn't trust any given one without testing. Even if you find a phone with hardware that's reliable, you'd probably need to get some custom software written. I doubt you'd be able to find an altimeter out there that has the smarts of a N3. But you have more hardware to work with than the N3 does too, so you could provide an interface to zero out the altitude. You'd definitely want to be able to lock in the interface so that nothing can switch you off the altitude screen when you're on a jump. Altimeter software is difficult to get right. Just look at how atrocious the first try with that FlightHud Jeb was pushing here a while back was. You couldn't even zero the starting altitude without a major effort. It took all of about 15 minutes of playing with it to decide that it was a nifty concept but not anything I'd ever want to wear on a skydive. When someone's betting their lives on the accuracy of your hardware and software, you want to do a better job than that. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yuh huh, and when my sister was wee, she found a jug in the fridge she thought was kool-aid. About 20 minutes later she comes staggering into the living room after having a glass of the folks' sangria. Good thing she didn't have more than 1; at the body weight of a toddler and the speed with which one can put down candy-flavored sugar water, it'd be easy to OD on alcohol long before the body's defense mechanism of vomiting kicks in. There are a lot more dangerous drugs that are legal and in households right now, and most of those are accompanied by very aggressive advertising. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Don't do it to rush your training along. Do it because it's fun! You didn't need those large briefcases full of cash anyway! Otherwise you wouldn't have taken up skydiving! Heh heh heh. Thing I like about my tunnel time is I can see a pretty reasonable progression in my ability from the videos. Almost none of my skydives are on video, but every minute of my tunnel time is! If I go back and watch them, it's very easy to see that I'm improving. That feedback was very useful to keep me motivated as a student. It's also nice to see how far I've come. I did my first session between AFF 2 and 3 and credit it with being able to hold a heading. AFF 3 is where they potentially will let you go for the first time. If I had a do-over I'd probably want to do half an hour in the tunnel prior to my first skydive. Going into the program knowing how to fly my body probably would have been helpful to me, personally. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

As soon as you can't pay your obamacare-mandated insurance premium you should be "harvested" for "organs". I think that's something both the Republicans AND the Democrats can agree upon! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Man, one of the ski junkies here was talking to a newbie in my office about it and that shit sounded severely dangerous. And this is coming from a guy who jumps out of airplanes for fun. He was talking about the possibility of dislodging an avalanche and saying that you could ski reasonably safely with a 2-3 foot avalanche as long as you didn't fall. Nonetheless he recommended carrying a beacon in case your buddies had to locate and dig you out. Think I'll stick to nice safe wingsuiting, thanks... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'd have an HVAC guy look at your system. See if your friends and neighbors can recommend a reputable one (not some jackhole who comes out, takes one look at it and suggests you replace thole thing.) If you go ahead with your plan you might want to consider one of those electric radiant heaters. Less chance for carbon monoxide and fires. Perhaps you could figure out a way to only power it on when the system is running, or below a certain temperature. We had a cast iron stove in our house when I was living in Upstate New York. That was a heaping helping of awesome sauce. You could heat the house with that thing alone if you had to. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I think that's just called flying I used to have a lot of flying dreams when I was younger. I taught myself to lucid dream as a defense against nightmares and if a dream pissed me off enough I'd consciously take it over and do stuff like that. These days my dreams mostly don't piss me off so ironically I have fewer dreams where I do stuff like that. As someone else mentioned, tunnel time is also cheaper than crack. If I could get in at the local one at $10 a minute, I'd be down there constantly. At nearly twice that, I can't bring myself to go down there more than once every couple of months. I can do a 6K hop and pop at the DZ 10 minutes from my house for not much more, and get in 20-25 seconds of freefall, depending on how large a value of 6K we were talking about. I always feel very odd going into the tunnel with all my gear and no rig on. I think that's why I get as amped up as I do in there before they turn the fan on. Once they turn the fan on, I'm fine. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah somehow our nice days always manage to come during the week when the DZ's closed. Right around 11pm Thursday the temperatures start to plummet and the snow settles in for the weekend. Welcome to skydiving! Book an hour-long block at the closest wind tunnel and burn those minutes to stay sane! Or flee down to Phoenix. One of my jump buddies found round-trip tickets next week for $119! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

http://www.timescall.com/business/local-business/ci_24836436/longmonts-pumphouse-red-zone-loses-liquor-license A costly mistake. I don't expect they'll be seeing skydivers down there for a couple of months. Just as Oscar Blues opens a new location a couple blocks from the DZ, too... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ok so what do you all think? Grape flavored apple: Miracle of Science or ABOMINATION? Your calls, after this! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I did some tandem hang glider flight training in the 90's. That was about as easy as AFF was. If you're not too picky about about what you're gliding on, that might be an option. Seems like a lot of the hang gliders guys went over to paragliding, though. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

The big-ass canopy I started on wouldn't really flare even if I punched it all the way down. It wasn't until I downsized two levels that I even realized the canopy was supposed to do something when you did that So there we run into a problem; the advice in my case was kind of appropriate if I wanted to get any sort of flare out of the canopy, but it's one of those "You can't just do that without knowing what you're doing" kinds of things. Once I downsized a better sized canopy for me, that advice was no longer appropriate. Fortunately I got in a beginner-level canopy class before I got my A license and started to realize that about the time I needed to start to realize that. Better advice, for me anyway, would have been "Commit to doing a PLF on every landing." Unfortunately hindsight is 20/20. You can't really tell which students are going to to be terrible at landing until they're out of the program and no one's paying attention to them anymore. But I got my feet on the ground every time without too many explosions. Except that ONE time when I forgot to flare until after my feet hit the ground. Dunno what I was thinking there. I'm kind of surprised I walked... well... limped... away from that one. You know I never did THAT again, though! That was those big-ass canopies, though, I guess flaring them actually DID do a little something! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

If you notice you're doing something, log it. Then review your logs periodically. The DZ here gives you a tiny logbook which does not give you enough room for a proper log. I'm currently using a large notebook like you'd use in school. I can get between 1 and 3 log entries on a page depending on how routine the jump was. I just write the usual fields in. I've been using it since jump 26, and will need to get another one soon. Log everything! Hard openings, malfunctions, things you think you could do better, who you jumped with. I even have the tail numbers for the planes I jump from on the first page of the book. If you review your logs regularly you may notice patterns that weren't evident at the time. When I was starting out I had a list of things I wasn't very good at. Which, starting out, was pretty much everything. At various points I've wanted to improve my landings, tracking and exits in particular. I didn't have a plan, really, but often did have goals I wanted to work on that day. After I got my A license, I'd go to the DZ with those goals in mind and manage to work on them about half the time (The other half I usually ended up on group jumps, which were also fun!) I don't know of any software to manage this. I could transcribe my log to an electronic format, but am not sure it'd be useful to do so. It would take more organization than I have to go back through every jump and develop a clear set of goals. The EMACS diary/todo tools along with the MIT remembrance agent would probably work best for that, but that's a little... TOO... free-form. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?