FlyingRhenquest

From what I hear, Chat Roulette is mostly full of penises. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Speaking of Chat Roulette, the Penny Arcade Chat Roulette Game is pretty funny if you haven't stumbled across it yet. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

All right, that WAS pretty funny. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah... I'm not clicking that... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

My tunnel instructor was fine with it so I wore 'em in today's session. There's pretty much no point I ever have to take those things off now. I'm planning to wear 'em to my next job interview, too! Believe it! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

http://xkcd.com/369/ Now if I search for skydiving I get about 65400 results. But about 260K hits for scuba diving. Not a very good methodology, of course, though it is mildly interesting to substitute some other terms. I don't get any results for "lion taming" or "lion-taming" accident, so if I'm ever looking for a safer hobby I know where to go! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

/me adjusts his monocle disapprovingly. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

It used to be my sister until she posted the videos of the tandems I took her and her daughter on to Facebook. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

See, now that's funny! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Packing someone's canopy full of spiders! Then when they open, they get covered... IN SPIDERS! I have some right over here... now where'd those damned things get off to? OMG SPIDERS! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

They all suck. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

No skydiving on Mars. I'm not going to trade the bottom of one gravity well for the bottom of another, slightly crappier gravity well. Set up a space station with a few thousand people on it, I might consider that... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I might be able to swing a home cooked beef and mushroom stew and a bottle of a decent Romanian or Australian wine at the picnic bench just past the fence at the end of the runway. You get an amazing view of the sunset. For $20, that's all the romance you're getting in a night! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Is that a problem? I've already done three. I'd be as much of a night jump whore as I am a high pull whore, if my home DZ would do them more than a couple times a summer. During the summer I seem to average one 12K hop and pop a week. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I hear people say this a lot but under pressure muscle memory wins and they almost always go for their main handle. That wouldn't be terribly surprising. I'm going to do my best to avoid finding out. Not hitting 2000 feet while still in freefall and not ever having an AAD fire on any jump I was conscious on are two of my long term goals in the sport. Others include never causing harm to others because I was being a dumbass and not dying of anything would be embarrassing to have on my grave. First time I flipped a step-through back through the lines, the canopy went over my head and I suddenly realized that "ZP" means "ZP." I thought "It'd be funny if this is how I died in the sport of skydiving..." Now that would be an embarrassing thing to have on a tombstone! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Hmm Tuesday: Wind tunnel session in Denver Wednesday: Pick up fresh turkey, put it in its brine. Thursday: Cook turkey, gravy, potatoes. Friday: Tryptophane coma Saturday: Maybe skydiving Sunday: Maybe skydiving. If I'm not skydiving, I'll probably be working on some project or other. I have a "laser" I've wanted to get knocked out for a while. If I can get that done, I'll have to find a freaking shark to put it on. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Opening altitude takes license level, the skydiver's own feelings on the subject and other variables into consideration. This is not specific to the canopy they're flying. Also we measure altitude in AGL (Above Ground Level,) not MSL. So where I live I always say we're starting around 12000 even though it's actually 17000 MSL. When I was a student I felt uncomfortable deploying below 5500 because that's what they had me at in AFF. It got moved down during my coaching and got moved down a bit more as my jump numbers went up and I got my B license. These days I pull at 3500 and that's pretty comfortable for me. I'm not afraid to go lower if the need arises -- I know there's a guy above me, for example, and don't want to give him a face full of parachute. If that ever actually happened, I would yell at the guy when we got to the ground, for being directly over me 2000 feet below our agreed-upon break altitude. Someone would have to actively be TRYING to do that, though. It's not like I can't take steps to prevent it from happening. If I hit 2000 for any reason and still haven't deployed, I'm going directly for my reserve parachute. The reason for that is I have actually had my parachute snivel for over 1000 feet. Actually I've never seen the one I'm currently on go more than about 700, but I have seen at least one 1200 foot snivel on a rental chute. If I deploy my main below 2000 feet, I'm risking a 2-out malfunction (AAD Fire.) If I ignore that and deploy my main anyway and there turns out to be something wrong with it, I have no room to cut it away. Average person's going 120 mph on deployment. I weigh 210 and usually average about 130. Before I lost weight, got a baggier jumpsuit and learned the body position to fall more slowly, they clocked me at 170 a couple of times. My coaching jumps were full of jumps where I'd tell the coach "I fall like a bat out of hell!" They'd say "Don't worry, I can keep up!" (Spoiler alert, they couldn't.) So there was a lot of fall speed work with my coaches and in the tunnel. My D license buddy was allowed by his license level to pull as low as 2000 when I asked him about his deployment altitude. It's been moved to 2500 now, but it was 2000 when I asked him. He said no way he'd every pull that low. He told me he wanted lots of room to deal with it in the event of a malfunction. So he usually pulls where I do. But he's on the ground a couple minutes before I am, after he does that. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Mine likes to come up and stick his nose in my eye. And I'm always like "Aaaaah! Leave me alone!" It's awfully hard to get out of bed on a cold winter day when you've got a cat on you. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ouchies! Wasn't expecting that! No one ever is! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Go forth and jump! Heh, if it's cold where you are, maybe buy yourself some tunnel minutes for Christmas! Then you'll have TWO awesome things for Christmas! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Nope. That was always the point. Whichever party was in the majority always knew that the minority party would come back into power eventually and stick it to them as badly as they stuck it to the other party. They could have made some adjustments without going full-on nuclear. I liked the idea of preserving the filibuster but requiring the people doing it to actually keep talking the entire time. Make 'em put their... mouth... where their mouth is. It being enough to just SAY you were going to filibuster made it far to easy to grind things to a halt. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ooh! Finally I can construct a murderous minotaur maze! Muahahahaha! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Be killed at the first intersection. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah. I don't like people touching my shit, but I've seen a skydiver nearly take a swing at another skydiver who'd grabbed ahold of his rig to move him out of the way so someone later in the exit order could get in the correct place in the line. Me, I might not punch you when I landed, but I'd certainly never jump with you again. The skydiver I witnessed that day... he'd at a minimum administer a severe beating. And God knows I'm not getting in the way of THAT fight. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

1. Yeah, it's loud. see for yourself. With that wind going by I could be screaming and you'd never know it (I wasn't, but I could have been!) 2. The temperature goes down about 3 to 5 degrees (farenheit) per 1000 feet. In the summer we'll open the jump door at 2000 feet to cool the plane down, and leave it open potentially as high as 8 or 9 grand depending on who's sitting by the door. 12000 feet on a hot day is really pretty comfortable. I mostly wear a jumpsuit for the added wind resistance and because I have a tendency to get scraped up and an extra layer of cloth prevents the worst of that. 3. Don't really know honestly. I've heard on hard ground we tend to bounce surprisingly high. You'd be dead instantly, of course, from the G forces involved. Probably wouldn't even feel it. Terminal velocity changes with the weight of the subject and his body position. I hit 170 mph a couple of times during my AFF training (Yes, with stable belly position!) I've lost about 30 pounds since then can vary my fall rate from mid 120s to mid 170s by changing my body position. I've crossed 170 in dives a couple of times - my altimeter logs my speed at various altitudes. Sticky McFloatypants over there could easy fall in the mid 90's. He actually presents more of a problem to instructors than I did -- it's easy enough to add weight to fall faster. Not so easy to fall slower... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?