FlyingRhenquest

Haven't seen any un-costumed trick-or-treaters here and no one much over 9. We usually get about 50-60 people. Co-worker of mine lives on the far end of the neighborhood and says she hardly sees anyone, but I'm right next to a school so I think it's driving some of that traffic. Might put the wingsuit on and sit out for a couple hours tonight! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Pff. I was fermenting stuff in my closet at that age. I made a fermentation lock with some surgical tubing. Everything else you need could be had at the grocery store -- empty milk container, active dry baking yeast, welshes grape juice and about a pound of sugar! It tasted like crap but you don't give a damn when you're 15. Plus I've had "organic" wines that tasted worse. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

You are not a unique and beautiful snowflake! You should replace your facebook profile pic with a young Robert Redford. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Heh heh, well I was out at the grill on the runway at the airport listening in on a couple of Longmont city councilmen discussing their bid for reelection. I made sure to vote for the guy I recognized when I was doing my research on the candidates. Perhaps I should step up and run in the next cycle of elections. Work that's not programming doesn't ever really feel productive to me, but I suppose I can't ignore the country's political situation and continue to work on my orbital fortress of doom forever. I could dip my toe into politics and make a run for senate eventually. I'm not sure my platform of "IP reform and promising to call every Congressman I meet a goat fucker" would get very far, though. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

No, but I know a couple guys who do, and I went down the home-ownership road for the first time a couple years ago as well. Having to fix everything is a huge pain in the ass. My last landlord did everything himself because that's a lot cheaper than getting a plumber or electrician in. I only ever bugged him about broken stuff 3 or 4 times in 10 years, though. A couple of garbage disposals went bad, and a couple of leaky faucets. The outdoor one was a huge pain in the ass, but he still did it himself. Impressive bit of work that, but cost him a lot less than the $250 a plumber will charge just to come to the house, much less what they would have charged to fix that thing. Another friend of mine actually owns a small block of apartments. He was able to stay unemployed for over a year after EDS terminated our contract. I sent him several good leads and he was like "Whatever, there are 6 inches of new powder in Vail today!" He also does all his own work. The trend I notice with making a profit on rental properties is "Do your own work." And document the condition of the place when you sign the rental contract. I'd go through and take pictures of all the carpets, outdoor fixtures, rooms, etc. Then press a couple of DVDs for your files and one for the tenant. If they find something that's not in good condition, make sure to document that. Get all that in writing and file it in a folder labeled "Evidence." Do the same thing when they leave. You'll probably need to have a lawyer you can consult with, as well. I learned from my first boss you always get your lawyer early and factor his cost into the cost of business. Come to think of it, that guy had rental properties, too... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

There was a swooping competition a while back you can find on teh youtubes. Having a boogie 10 minutes from the house would be a lot of fun. It'd finally give me an excuse to get a kegerator and grill and have a bunch of skydivers over for a cook-out! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Please go take the time to educate yourself on how that works. And for those USPA leaders who read here, see how fucked up that shit is, that for yrs our members are not clearly educated on how that funding program works, O' yea that's right, too busy paying for that PR firm for it's work generating fluffy feel good bits crap reporting and VERY little if any $$$ on real advocacy. FYI, that fund is only for select cases and not just any old little legal issue that comes along. CQS attacked airport access first. That didn't work too well. I contributed to the airport access fund this year and plan to do the same next year. How about you? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That's their obvious intent. Hopefully Mile Hi has access to the USPA airport access fund. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I wonder if the DZ could counter-sue for Harassment? It sounds like a handful of people are behind the complaints, have misrepresented the facts to federal agencies and are basically stalking the DZ and its operations. Some of the information they come by could only be available if they're monitoring the tower frequencies at the airport. If you're stalking anyone at that level, there's something seriously wrong with you. It'd be nice if they could be stuck with a bill for the resources they've been wasting. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Land. I didn't even manage to stand one up until my mid 50s. Landing's still the hardest part for me and I still screw one up and eat dirt every so often. Usually when I'm wearing shiny new gear. Funnily I didn't have any trouble packing once I got my own gear. I brought it home unpacked one day and that gave me time to look at it and figure out where everything on the canopy was. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Because that's still technically "your country"? The folks had trouble finding work in Hawaii in the 70s but to be fair that could have been more them than Hawaii. Mom has a journalism degree and Dad has a degree in botany but apparently doesn't want to grow weed. Are there any turbine DZs in Hawaii? In a couple of years I might go back there to fly my wingsuit over the island for a week. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I could go near about anywhere really. Australia sounds kind of nice and is rated highly for quality of life. France might not be a bad choice either. I really liked Romania when I visited there. Japan could be nifty but it'd have to be out of the city. I think I'd do OK anywhere in eastern Europe. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

1) Fuck those guys. 2) Have another beer. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Oh, you can still do that. Problem is I'm using parts of the C++11 standard from GCC 4.7.2, which may or may not have been implemented windows yet. Other than that I use a couple of boost libraries and the Eigen math library, which are fairly portable. It would probably be fairly trivial to port it to Microsoft's C++ -- I'm not forking processes or threads and not using sockets, so the code should be pretty portable. The std::enable_if stuff might not work correctly with Microsoft's compiler, but it might if you replace it with boost::enable_if (Or just compile all the functions into the class -- it wouldn't make THAT much overhead.) So if you want a Linux executable, it's easy, just install GCC 4.7.2 for your distribution, grab the eigen math library, grab the boost libraries (You were going to anyway if you're using C++ at all) and compile the executable. If you want to do it under windows with visual C++ you might need to change some code around for it to work, but there's nothing terribly esoteric or nonportable in it, so it should be pretty easy. Boost is very portable and Eigen should be too. You might also be able to find find a cygwin gcc 4.7.2 if you're running cygwin under windows. That would also make it fairly easy to compile. It _should_ also compile with clang but I'm not 100% positive of the OS availability of that one outside of Linux. I'm working on the assumption that most people don't want to install Linux on their computer or fiddle with getting the code working on Windows. All it takes is one person to fiddle with getting the code working on Windows and it gets a lot easier. Funnily enough this should be very easy to get working on an Apple machine, since OSX is basically just UNIX and all the necessary tools should already be available (And may in fact already be installed on the system.) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I like to have conversations with people who are talking to people on cell phones. I'll ad-lib and hope that the next thing they say to the person they're talking to makes sense in that context. A lot of times they won't even notice what I'm doing immediately, and will realize it about halfway through when they subconsciously replay their buffer. I don't do that to people in the john though. I just try to have a more violent dump than I was having before. Or at least grunt louder. Nothing quite like a good HHHHhhhnnnnnnarrrrrrgh!*unf* to put a damper on the shareholder meeting! This works stupendously well if I had my 2 bean chili the night before and am already pooting at defcon 5 (That stuff also seems to have more fiber than a brillo pad.) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

My first boss used to make a point of that back in '89. He had one of the newfangled cell phones that looked like a brick and he'd tell you he was taking a leak while he was talking to you. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

They wouldn't have to run Linux or compile it themselves. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

A while back I wrote some C++ libraries for coordinates and coordinate interpolation. And also some C++ libraries that write KML files. At that point it was pretty easy to write a data factory that reads GPS data in lat/long/alt and output a KML file you can view in google earth. I have a flysight data factory that can read your flysight CSV file into a vector of coordinates, which is all the data factory needs to output the KML. It works pretty well with flysight files (No so much with data from my cell phone heh heh heh.) There are some down sides, not least of which is that I've only tested it on Linux and only with a very recent C++ compiler. The auto-canopy-deployment detection generally works reasonably well as long as you don't feed it a CSV that has multiple jumps or a long plane ride. You can just ignore that placemark if you don't like it. All my source code is available on Github with a free license (Modifications and any use of the code is allowed as long as I'm attributed as the original author.) You need to pull several of the libraries to build it: Coordinates, time, the data factories, my cheesy XML library, and the main program. If that doesn't do what you want directly, you could read the coordinates with the data factory, convert them to ECEF, which provides coordinates in meters and traverse the ECEF vector to calculate the delta between the current coordinate and the last one. Then you could output the current altitude and distance traveled since your last point into a file suitable for plotting with gnuplot. One of these days if I'm bored and want to learn Amazon cloud services, I might try to write a web-based front end that lets you upload a flysight CSV file and download the KML file. That'd be a fun little weekend project. Hmm... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I've thought about doing a sleeve of iridescent dragon scales on my right arm, going all the way down to the back of my hand. Might have to talk to an artist about it next year once I have all my gear and beater honda paid off. It might be kind of boring, but I think it'd also be pretty unique. If I did that though, I'd have to take my shirt off on the flimsiest of excuses... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Is that... is that Anthony Wiener? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Turns out they made this year's batch with rye. I guess now we know why we don't do that. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I've drunk a LOT of beer over the years. I've never had this reaction to it before. When I was in college I had a frat rat room mate so I had to learn to like dark beer. If I put Guiness or darker in the fridge, he wouldn't touch it and I'd have beer for the weekend. I and my friends started on Guiness and graduated to Young's "Old Nick" Barley Wine. This year's Fade to Black tastes like someone tried to cross a porter with an IPA and managed to get the worst attributes of both. Somewhere along the way I became partial to tonic water and the citrussy bitterness of quinine, but this stuff doesn't even have that going for it. I'm now regretting not buying the growler of Dead Guy Ale, instead. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I just tried this year's version of Left Hand's "Fade to Black" beer and find myself in the unusual position of wanting to discard the rest of the six pack. This has never happened to me before. Do you just empty the bottles and chuck them? I'm halfway tempted to just return the remainder of the six pack to the brewery, which is about a mile from my house. But if I did I think I'd be inclined to yell at someone, and I don't really have the energy for that. I'm not sure if they decided to go with a super-hoppy mix, quinine, possibly arsenic (I guess I'll know in a couple of hours, it would at least be living up to its name then) or just whatever crap was left on the brewery floor after the flooding. Whatever it was they did, they should never do that again. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

It's still good. I also like Kings Island Roaring. They had some limburger down there when my nephew was visiting and we both tried a little piece. Then we had to return home to brush our teeth. It smelled atrocious in the cold cheese room, but the aroma really bloomed when it warmed up in my mouth. And not in a good way. It wasn't quite as nasty as natto, though. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Hmm. Now I'm thinking of popping down to the cheese importer a couple blocks from my house and getting some Maytag Blue. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?