FlyingRhenquest

Seems like this scam is making the rounds again. Someone claiming to be from Microsoft calls you and tries to convince you to give them remote access to your computer so they can remove viruses. No one from Microsoft is ever going to call you about that. If you have older relatives, you might want to warn them about it. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Hell with that. I'm going to put an adult diaper on outside my pants, go down there, and do a sexy pelvic thrusting dance on their table to the tune of Frank Zappa's "Tengo Namencia Tanta"! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

K-k-k-k-K-oh! Mmm actually the mandatory sentencing guidelines for crack are much worse than they are for cocaine. Some would say this is because your banker is more likely to have cocaine, while the brothers are more likely to have crack. They're probably right, too. Cocaine is pretty much just a slap on the wrist comparatively. In an event, the correct response is not "Yeah, it's crack. It's great. It gets you really high." For future reference. In case anyone ever asks you about that. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Drinking out of a hip flask when they're looking. You're on the plane for 15 minutes, get a drink beforehand! I was pretty thirsty on the plane the other day but couldn't tell if the pilot's bottle had a soft drink or pee in it. I wasn't going to ask for a sip either way. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Translation: We're gutting the company for its IP and will fire all of you the day before Christmas. It might be OK, but usually the exodus starts early, a round of layoffs occurs and the ones who remain behind are either the bad ones who can't find a job elsewhere, really believed in the company before and are now embittered husks of their former selves, or both. Been there a couple of times heh heh. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

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Tandem students don't usually seem to hang around for the last load. There's no reason you can't educate them on alcohol protocol if someone says something. My personal inclination would be to instruct them on the rules and FAA regulations regarding alcohol and pilots while offering them a beer. I prefer to adhere to the same rules (No alcohol for at least 8 hours before skydiving,) especially since we go to a higher altitude without oxygen here than most places do. I wouldn't mess with tandem students about that, but I am trying to recruit a couple of skydiving buddies to put on little plays on the way to altitude. I want to do this one when it gets warm enough to start opening the door at 2000 feet, or after a hop and pop leaves, before closing the door. Some time when we're on our way to altitude without opening the door, I want to have this conversation with another guy in my group. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Pretty much everyone who stumbles across one of Jeb's videos I'm sure greets the requirements with the same degree of consternation. 200 skydives sounds like a lot and with them standing in the way of your goal it also sounds like a chore. I started skydiving last year with the same goal, and found that it wasn't a chore at all. At some point along that way I realized that even if I never actually got to make a wingsuit jump, I'd found something I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I've done a couple of wingsuit jumps now and winter is starting to limit how many skydives I can do. It was freaking beautiful last weekend, but my home DZ didn't get a plane up due to the wind. They're only flying three days a week until the spring, and if this winter is anything like last winter all the nice days will fall on the days they're closed. Despite having achieved my goal, my first night jump last summer still stands out as the single most amazing thing I've done in my life. I was the first one out and we opened the door at 2000 feet to cool the plane down. Looking out over the city lights next several thousand feet, I felt a joy unlike anything I'd ever experienced. I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you really want it you'll find a way to get there. Just put one foot in front of the other along the path and there will be some pretty amazing sights to see along the way. Not to be discouraging, but I also spent about $20,000 at the dropzone last year, in gear, training and jumps. It's not a cheap hobby. So I'd suggest pursuing a line of study and a lifestyle that allows you to fund your habit (IE: Not an art degree.) You can find places to cut costs, but there's no way around the first year being expensive as hell. I could have done this when I was younger if I'd thought to. I'd just would have had to drive the cheapest car I could find and done as much of my own maintenance on it as possible, never eaten out (Cooking at home I can feed myself for no more than $40 a week,) and never become addicted to caffeine (I probably spend a couple hundred bucks a month at a local coffee joint.) I'd suggest having about $6000 saved up before you start skydiving. You should be able to comfortably get to your A license with that. You also should be in reasonably good shape, so if you're not, start eating right and exercising immediately. Every time you go to buy a soft drink or a coffee, put that money in your skydiving fund instead! Actually, think about every purchase you make and whether that money would be happier in your skydiving fund. Start a savings account and every time it runs over $120 or so buy a TIPS bond. That way you can accrue risk-free interest at a higher rate that any recent certificate of deposit I've seen. TIPS bonds are indexed on inflation, but you can't withdraw your assets for the term of ownership. Plan accordingly. You could buy stocks too, but those can lose value, just depends on how much risk you want to incur with your skydiving fund. Since you have a couple of years before you can do a skydive, I suggest you apply for a job, ANY job, at the nearest indoor skydiving facility. You can learn to fly in one now, of course, and if you can get severely discounted or free tunnel minutes as a term of your employment, you can get a head start on your freefall skills. Perhaps that could even lead to employment as an instructor there down the road. You'd have to develop some amazing freefly skills, but you've got time. You could also see if you could learn to pack parachutes now with an eye toward spending a summer packing at any nearby dropzone. That's hard work to be sure, but you'd be learning about the gear and hanging around planes, pilots and skydivers. And putting money in your skydiving fund, of course. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

The media's all up in arms about plastic 3d-printed guns! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

See, that's why I got a "C" in shop class when I was in high school! Band saws are fucking SCARY! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Spiders kind of creep me out. My tolerance for them has been going up lately. We had a fruit fly invasion this summer. Given a choice between spiders (which are creepy) and fruit flies, which are just fucking annoying, I'll take the spiders. Funnily enough I can handle snakes without fear. Maybe it's because where I grew up there were none. I have a hazy memory of collecting spiders from their webs when I was 3 or 4, in Okinawa. I figure either I got bitten or some adult freaked out at me about it. I'd guess the latter. Most of the adults in my life at the time probably wouldn't take kindly to being presented with a bag full of spiders by an enthusiastic 4-year-old... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I could actually see India and Pakistan pulling the trigger, though. Pakistan would be on the losing end of that war, inasmuch as there could be any winners. With a billion people, India can absorb the loss of a few tens of millions. It'd probably be the most horrific thing humanity's ever done by a good margin if that happens, so let's hope the guys in charge of the buttons over there are sane. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Prior to the 1940s, the only way something like this would have happened would have been due to some cataclysmic natural event (Asteroid hitting the earth or a volcano blowing its top.) It's an awesome display of power and one of the few things in this world that I still find terrifying. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Lat/long is measured in degrees, and the distance one degree represents changes along the spheroid (One degree is less distance at the poles than the equator.) So it's very hard to get a linear distance between two points using the lat/long coordinate system. Since points in ecef are measured in meters, converting to ECEF makes is very easy to measure the distance between two points. Once I do that, I can compute your velocity between any two points in your jump (The points also have a time stamp.) It's also a lot easier to interpolate points in a linear coordinate system like that. That lets me put five samples per second down in the data file, despite only getting one sample per second from my phone's GPS. The conversion doesn't seem to introduce any inaccuracy. One of my unit tests does the conversion from latlong to ECEF and back to latlong to confirm that the numbers I started with is the same as the numbers I got back from the two conversions. Funnily enough, I seem to recall that GPS hardware actually calculates coordinates in ECEF and converts them to latlongs for display. I imagine its a lot easier to triangulate your location in a linear coordinate system. Sadly there doesn't seem to be a way to tell the GPS unit to just give you the ECEF coordinates, since this would save me the initial conversion. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Really? 'cause I was looking at some of those teachers when I was 16... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That's what I use. If you've never cooked a turkey with a brine and a probe thermometer, you should give it a try. You pretty much just put the turkey in and walk away until the thermometer starts beeping at you. It's no effort at all and you don't have the touch the door to the oven until the turkey's done (No basting or anything.) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Where do you wear your N3 and how much do you trust it? I wear one (wrist) and really like it, but it can differ quite a bit from other devices. Last weekend, we had about an 8 mph delta. Of course in FS, that's only a big deal if you're the low guy. Aloha I trust my eyes more than my altimeter. Last year I was getting ground rush and my N3 said I was still at 6 grand. I pulled anyway. I believe I noticed an anomaly once I was under canopy, though it wasn't as big of one as I expected. It's the only time I've ever had that happen, but if my eyes and instruments disagree, I'm siding with my eyes. I've also had it claim a number of times that my 3K speed was 170-200. All I can think for those is it's taking the reading mid-deployment and something about that process is throwing off the reading. I wear mine between my wrist and index finger. This position usually works better for me than my wrist, since my jumpsuit is a little baggy and can obscure the altimeter if I wear it there. I've had people dock and obscure it where I wear it, but then I just check THEIR altimeter! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Google earth's points are in lat/long, so I have to convert back to that prior to generating the KML file. It's a lot easier to work in ECEF if you need to get distances or velocities since everything's in meters. Sadly the GPS altitudes are all in MSL. I still have a few features I want to add -- landing/ground detection, exit detection and a jump factory object so you can just leave your GPS running all day and then shovel all the points into the program and have it separate out your jumps. Once I add ground detection, it'll be easy to add an AGL notation to the points. I'll probably leave the MSL one in too, since 12 grand here is a mile higher than 12 grand at sea level. It's just depressing working with GPS data off my phone (GAAH! It didn't record anything all day! AGAIN!) so I'd kind of put the project on the shelf until I can afford a flysight. I'd had some troubles with "relativetoground" but I forget exactly what they were. I'll play with those tags again and see if I can get a good one. It's easy enough to alter the tags and I could even add a command line flag to allow the user to specify it. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ooh, that was pretty close to the end. According to my sources, the funk died July 2, 1979. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I saw this on the TV the other day. I can't watch the clip without thinking it was all just a dream -- the Iran hostage crisis, ET, Reganomics... all just a dream... just a dream... just a dream... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I never tried smoking one and that deep frying stuff is frightening. Muahahahahahahaahaa! Sorry. I can't watch that clip without doing that. Baking it's not that bad. Get it fresh -- just go down to the meat department of your supermarket a few days in advance and tell them you want to pick up a fresh one the night before thanksgiving. Brine it overnight (find a turkey brine recipe online,) and cook it with a probe thermometer in the thickest part of the breast, set to 161 degrees farenheit. Then you just walk away. Return when the thermometer starts beeping, take the turkey out and let it rest for 15 minutes before carving. I've been doing this every year since '99 and every year it's delivered an awesome turkey pretty much effortlessly. I even have my own turkey brining bucket -- it's an insulated gatoraide cooler that I use just for brining turkeys. Usually I do 2 or 3 more turkeys in the next two or three months after Thanksgiving because the Thanksgiving one was so easy and good. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

You're thinking, his gun is made of plastic! It's going to explode the moment he pulls the trigger! Well to be honest I'm not really sure myself. So you have to ask yourself... Do you feel lucky, punk? WELL, DO YA? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Why don't they just arrest the guy? They seem powerless to do anything about him. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Er, yes. They're mandating that they can't exclude pre-existing conditions or cut you off once you exceed a certain amount. They're also mandating a certain base level of coverage, which is why so many people are having their plans covered next year. Those plans could have continued unchanged for some period of time (possibly indefinitely, I didn't really look into it) but the insurance carriers opted to cut them off early. They are also going to make gay marriage mandatory next year. This is going to happen because no one ever reads the laws they're signing, and a printer virus is going to inject the text into the final draft of a law to be disclosed at a later date. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Brine, a bit of apple, orange, rosemary and cinnamon stick in the cavity while you cook it. Ohhh yeah! I add allspice, candied ginger, cracked whole peppercorns and bay leaves to my brining solution. I suppose I should pop over to the grocery store and call dibbs on a fresh turkey, to be retrieved the night before thanksgiving. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?