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Speaking of which, anyone know when this video was made? Jeff Sands died in 2003, so it had to have been before that. If you look at the shots of them flying over Longmont, there's a LOT less there than there is now. For one thing, an entire housing development south of the airport is nowhere to be seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOwBsMtAxrw Not, I suppose, that pointing out that they were here first would have much effect, it sounds like a few people just like being bent out of shape and the airport is a convenient target. Down in Florida we had a name for those people; "Condo Crabs." Living in their condo on the beach and getting pissed off about things that no reasonable human being could possibly get pissed off about. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

If I'm walking to lunch with co-workers, they won't even notice the plane noise until I point the plane out. Most of the time I don't even notice them over the road noise from the street, and they're much less loud than the trains that come through here every half hour or so, blowing their horns day and night. Unless you're specifically listening for the plane, you probably won't notice it most of the time, and if you're the kind of person who listens for them so you can specifically be annoyed by them, there's really not going to be any pleasing you anyway, until the airport is completely gone. Which isn't likely to happen now that they're lengthening the runway. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

All the exposure I had to Flash Gordon was that movie with the Queen sound track that Turner's channel butchers every so often. It had SOME sort of continuity before Turner got his hands on it! I really should add it to my collection, if only for the sound track. I think there was a comic book from before my time. Did he have a cartoon, too? Speaking of schlock sci-fi, check out the IMDB on Zardoz. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

The Thundercats. I have a thing for Cheetara. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

True! But it seems like an entirely unreasonable suggestion on your first few jumps! Everyone's all like "Ooh I never really felt the air until I relaxed!" or "It got a lot better for me when I relaxed!" and you're like "No! F that! I'm about to jump out of a F'n airplane and I am NOT GOING TO RELAX!" Then you do it a few times, get used to it, relax, and then you're all like "Oh... so that's what they were talking about!" Heh heh heh I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Gary the Instructor pulled me aside very early on in my AFF training. I forget if it was my 2 or 3. He's was like "Dude relax! Here, put your hand up like you're holding a beer. Now put your other hand up like you're holding a beer. Now pretend you're about to pee." I don't know if that helps, but it was pretty funny. Now I'm told I have a beautiful arch, and that I don't really need to arch at all. *sigh*... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

It's amazing that a guy is so proud over this when women have been waxing for years!!! Now, when they start getting laser done then they can start bragging Yeah but you're already starting from nice and smooth! You know it's much worse when you start out looking like you were sitting on a brillo pad. Or two tribbles. 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?

Was kind of planning to curl up with some Robetussin with codeine and the season 1 DVD of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Everyone's going to hate me for this, but I check the weather at my drop zone by looking out the window. And I know they're flying, when the otter flies over my house. To be fair though, it IS a 10 minute drive from here to there. If I'd taken up the sport before I went house shopping I could have got one across the street from the airport (No HOA where I live, though.) Also, it's really hard to stay at work on Friday afternoon when I look out the break room window and see parachutes coming down I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

As soon as crabs become a federally recognized endangered species, you're going to get dinged by the EPA for habitat destruction! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yes. My favorite ones are Ben Hur and Caligula. Not enough sex and violence, though... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

How hard was it to not pass out from the Gs you had to have been pulling? And if you had, would your AAD have saved your life? Do you know what caused that malfunction that day? Or is it just one of those "Yeah sometimes that just happens" kind of things? I'm sure that at 15000 jumps, you have a slightly different perspective on "safe" than I do with under 100 heh heh heh. That's definitely on my "not-to-do" list. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ooo Amaretto. There's a local place that makes a variety of truffles. Now I'm going to have to demand that she make a batch! I'd like her to make some ghost pepper cashew brittle, too... If you google on "Robin Chocolates" you can see what she makes. Of all the stuff she makes, I absolutely can not resist her salted caramels. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

A couple companies back they provided Starbucks coffee. Their drip coffee is actually pretty good. My comment to a co-worker one day was "Mmm. This is so good you can hardly taste the urine!" Then the VCs took over and replaced it with "Seattle's Best Coffee," which was atrocious. I'm pretty sure they got the whole load pre-staled for a $10 gift certificate to Hot Topic. My comment to the same co-worker after that was "Ugh. This coffee is so bad the urine is an improvement!" I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I've found if I have caffeine after 2 pm, I have a much harder time getting to sleep that night. For whatever that's worth. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Digital records require reliable backup. Your computer is not reliable. Synching them out to Google might seem reasonable reliable, but I've heard horror stories about people having their accounts canceled by the company. Paper records also require reliable backup. It's all fun and games until your logbook gets lost, stolen or destroyed. This is a more insidious problem because you don't often think about backup for your paper records. Sadly I don't have a good solution for either problem. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

The kids in my neighborhood in Hawaii called it Jankan. The chant that went with it was something like "Jankan po, itchy itchy toe". You won't hear that while falling at 200 feet per second, though. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Coffee doesn't do it for me anymore. I need to find some way to arrange every day so I can do a skydive to wake up. I still need the coffee to wake up enough to do the skydive. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Forgot to buy beer yesterday after a few games of scissors-paper-stone on a jump. I'll have to bring a case with me next week... Scissors-paper-stone is hard when you're falling at 200 feet per second. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

If all that is required to make something right and acceptable is the consent of the "adults" involved, where do you draw the line? There is all kinds of weird and perverse situations that adults will consent to. And if it's between two (or three or four) consenting adults and a 55 gallon drum of water based lube, why would that be any of our concern either? This isn't about a guy wanting to marry a chicken, this is about two people who love each other being able to visit their partner in the hospital. This is about being able to leave your partner of decades stuff in your will without having to worry about other family members denying your wishes in court. This is about equal protection under the law for people who are different than everyone else. If that's going to unravel the fabric of society, then maybe the fabric of society needs unravelling anyway. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Personally I don't give two shits who you want to marry. I think a lot of us are sick if the government sticking their noses into personal business. If I want to have a beer, smoke a cigarette, own an object that might look like a gun for the purposes of this conversation but not to get it ejected into the SC again, explore sexual positions listed (or not) in the Kama Sutra, have some marijuana, or get married to someone of a different race, the government really has no business telling me I can't. I can't want the government out of my business while wanting them to be in the business of what two consenting dudes decide to do without being a hypocrite. It wasn't that long ago that I would not have been able to marry a woman of another race in about half the states in the union. Specifically to that point; the marriage between President Obama's parents would have been illegal anywhere in the south at the time he was born. We like to think of ourselves as above such petty bigotry, but we quickly demonstrate that we're not. If not for nine slightly-more-enlightened-than-the-rest-of-us souls sitting on the Supreme Court in the 60s, we'd probably not pulled ourselves over our previous bigotry, despite the fact that it seems ridiculous now. Hopefully the nine souls sitting there now are similarly enlightened. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Try dropping support@reconinstruments.com a note. They're actually reasonably responsive. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Dude seriously, Pizza Delivery Drone. Think about it. It could deliver a pizza to you in the middle of your skydive... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I never really hung out in rec. Was there an alt.sex.skydiving? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ooh! And if you can get someone on the ground to video your landing, that's really nice too! If you an instructor can sit down and watch what you did, he can tell you what you did correctly and if there's anything you should avoid doing. It also gives you a way to see how how you were actually off the ground versus how high it felt when you were landing. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?