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William Murderface Bass Solo "But Bruce," I hear you cry, "That's just a cartoon! No one would ever..." Bip bip bip bip BIP! Enjoy having that in your head for the rest of your life. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That makes me want to find everyone involved and slap them. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ok, that's it! Jihad on Mother Nature! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

So who spray-painted in your kitchen? Was it you, or a boyfriend? The tone seems a little too passive-aggressive to be talking about something you did. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Saratoga in upstate NY, yep it'll be brisk to say the very least. Yikes! I think I'd treat myself to a trip to Florida and THEN a skydive. Orlando's supposedly has highs of 80 this week. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Where are you jumping? Looks like it's going to be colder than a witch's meat freezer over a good chunk of the country for the foreseeable future. Nice and warm in Orlando, though. If you're jumping in one of the cold parts, you can get some thermal underwear that should keep most of you plenty warm. I always have a problem with my hands. I can't find a pair of gloves thick enough to keep them warm but thin enough that I'm comfortable wearing them skydiving. Friend of mine found some hunter's gloves at Walmart that seemed pretty nice, so I'm probably going to give those a try when the temps get back up to double digits. I also have some neoprene socks that are pretty nice -- search for "Neosock" on amazon.com. I got them for skydiving but wear them to bed on the coldest nights, too. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Tell Siri you need to hide a body. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'd mention it to the packers/rigger first off -- they can't try to do anything that they might be able to do if they don't know there's a problem. Second I'd suggest always logging stuff like that about which rental gear you were on when it happened. That way if there's a pattern you might see it emerge when you're looking through your logs. There was a particular Sabre 2 that used to spank me whenever I rent it. I have several hard openings logged on that thing. At some point the rigger there changed the line trim for problems other people had reported and I stopped having any problems with the canopy after he did that. Logging it also lets you choose the rental rig that never gives you problems heh heh. It really shouldn't happen that often, though this depends on the canopy you're jumping. Friend of mine has a Sabre 1 and they're apparently known for teeth-jarring openings. He had our rigger sew a pocket into the slider, which seems to have solved the problem for him. I jump with a Safire 2 which are known for soft openings (And it's not as snivelly as I expected it to be,) but I've managed to pack myself a couple of pretty nasty openings. Oddly both times I've done that, I thought my pack job was looking pretty good. The ones I think I'll probably have to cut away always open great I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

But this seems like an awful lot of work to avoid having to repack your chute. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yes. That's what I'm saying. I would want to do it off one of those things was an option. What, do most people just decide to go base jumping and then jump off the first tall thing they find? You could like, go look over the edge and think "Hmmm. Can't track from that. Maybe I'll see if I can find something taller..." If I can't get to terminal it's not really that interesting to me, anyway. I enjoy the flying part. Less than a couple thousand feet and I'm like "Meh. Not enough flying." I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'd consider it, off a bridge or something I could track away from for a few seconds so I don't have to worry about an off heading opening slamming me into a cliff face. Also probably not for several hundred more jumps. I'll go out of a balloon from 5 or 6 grand sooner, though. That looks like fun. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I can just hear Homer screaming "OW! This is the worst pain EVER!" over that. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Just sit fly with belly jumpers! I have the opposite problem, and have gone belly jumping with sit flyers. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Well yeah, snake charmers remove the fangs on their snakes, which then eventually starve to death. Seems kind of boring to me. If I were to take up snake charming, I'd leave the fangs in. More interesting that way. But then that statistic might eventually go to "1"... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Did you pack it yourself or was it packing staff? And was it your own rig or a DZ rental? If you packed it yourself, my suspicion would be that the pilot chute wasn't seated properly or the bridle wasn't tucked into the rig correctly. Maybe go over that part of the packing process with a packer and make sure you're doing it correctly. If it was a DZ rig or DZ packer packed it (or both) maybe have a rigger check the rig over to make sure it's all good. Log and discuss malfunctions, especially with rental gear. Could just be it came lose somehow too. In general, always protect your handles and make sure everything's secure before leaving the plane. It's easy enough to get snagged on something on your way to the door. Pulling high's kind of fun when you intend to. I was doing at least one 12K hop and pop a week over the summer. I'm going to miss that until the spring, since it's really too cold to do them now. Just make sure to clear it with mainfest ahead of time, if you ever decide to give it a try. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

You're never going to acquire a petabyte of porn with THAT attitude! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Why would anyone even travel to that country? Then when they get detained they want us to rescue them? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Not to bad. My room mate had several guests lined up but only 1 actually showed up. I'd invited a couple of skydivers I know, but they had other plans already. Despite the fact that it was only 3 of us, we still managed to somehow use every plate in the house The turkey came out fantastic as always. I brine and prepare it with Alton Brown's "Good Eats Roast Turkey" recipe, which I've been using ever since I saw that episode back in the mid 00lies, and it has never, ever failed me. It looks like a reasonably nice day out today so I'm going to go out and get some coffee to counteract the last of the tryptophane in my system and then try to knock out 2 or 3 skydives. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Dude! What the... DUDE! Sounds like you should stick to nice, safe skydiving from now on! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Navs are typically student canopies but they'll get you on the ground same as anything else. If you decide you want something sportier you could always put something else (Second-hand Sabre 1 :-) in the rig. You could jump it until you get tired of the nav and probably down-size to a Sabre 210 in the same rig. A Nav 220 actually felt fairly sporty to me when I tried one at a wing loading of a hair over 1.1 to 1 (1.12 or something like that.) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I don't believe they have a use-by date, like the AADs do. AADs are only good for a decade or so. But if a rig (and canopy) from the 90's only has a couple hundred jumps on them and were reasonably well cared for, they'll be in practically new condition. Always get a rigger to inspect the gear before you buy it, though. If the person is unwilling to ship the gear to a rigger, that's a warning sign. Personally I wouldn't be inclined to do business with someone who wasn't willing to ship to a DZ's rigger for an inspection. I'd be too suspicious he was trying to pull some shit on me (If the deal is too good to be true it usually is.) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Sounds like what you're doing could benefit from parallelism, so I'd look for a fast multi-core processor or possibly even multi-processor multi-core machines. If you're running neural network type stuff you'll also want a good chunk of RAM in them. If you're using spike neural networks, you can distribute your processing across a network. I don't think you can even buy a machine with less than gigabit ethernet now, but make sure you're plugging into a similarly fast switch. If you buy Apple hardware, you'll be paying a premium on price. If you can afford that, it's not a big deal. If you plan to write code for your video card's graphics processor, I'd steer clear of Apple, though. You don't get a lot of choice about your video card with them, and I've always been underwhelmed by them. If you want to slap a massive nvidia (or even ATI) card in the machine for physics simulations, you'll need to go with PCs. I'd drop Linux on all of it, and go Linux/C++/Asm. It's incredibly easy to communicate between C++ and assembly functions on Linux, and if you're looking to wring every ounce of performance out of your hardware, this is how you do it. If you're doing anything with neural networks, you'll want every ounce of performance. Tablet choice would be more dictated by personal preference than anything else. Personally if I'm coding something I'd prefer objective C to Java, but I'm really not a huge fan of either. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

My first canopy is a new safire 2 and I love the thing. It opens very nicely for the most part, though you can still pack a nasty opening if you're not careful. It's not as twitchy as the rental sabre 2 I've flown, but it still handles very nicely. It took a while to get used to the glide on my new one. I'm not sure if that'd be an issue with a student canopy with a few hundred jumps on it. I overshot my target several times before I got used to it. It seems to want to glide forever. As someone else mentioned, have a rigger inspect it before committing to buy it. If they don't want to ship it to the rigger at your DZ, that's a warning sign. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Gave up on the Tampax sponsorship? They cooled down on the idea when I told them Otter noise made my vagina hurt. Nevermind that it's a proven medical fact that otter noise makes vaginas hurt, but they still didn't seem very interested after that. I'm trying to find a company that will help me devise some hearing protection for my vagina, but I may end up having to leave it at home in a sound-proofed room. For research purposes I'm going to have to set up a go-pro ninja-boot-cam to see if I can spot any problems during flight or landing. I'll have to figure out how to keep the ninja boots visible when the wingsuit's on. I might need two or three mounted in different places. The youtube video of me booting people in the forehead will also look pretty damn cool! I figure I could duct-tape two or three cameras to my leg and that should work great! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Didn't take enough abuse the last time you posted about your goofy shoe fetish? Look he likes it, he really really likes it. Come back and let us know how the surgery on your foot goes when you get it into a problem with the net and your goofy shoes. I'm just saying that there are some obvious benefits! They don't have laces and with my jumpsuit velcro over the hooks they're not coming off either. And they breathe well enough that you can actually feel the air running over your feet! Both the other flyers in there that day had to retie their shoes. With just a bit of bad luck, they could have sent a shoe up into the fan. I didn't even pop a hook out below the vecro, not even when I was back flying. I also made 5 exits from the tunnel with my feet on the net and did some walking on it and had no problems with snagging my toes. I've also made about 50 safe landings on them now. I'm going to E-Mail the company and see if they'll buy me a ninja boot canopy! Corloss can keep Red Bull! I'll be the ninja boot advertising guy! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?