Jimbo

I guy in my office dressed up his pit bull, Sweet Pea, in a red raincoat complete with rain hat, before a walk one night. There used to be pictures on his desk, but they've mysteriously vanished. I'm waiting for the day that dog eats him in his sleep. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Less dumb stuff, more skydiving. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/959046.asp - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

B O R I N G - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Telling an inexperienced jumper to turn low to build up extra speed for landing is irresponsible and likely to get someone hurt or killed. He's got the rest of his life to learn high performance landing, and he likely can find a better coach than you over the internet. Back off on this one Rob, you're out of line. By the way, the "S" in S turn describes a pattern, not the degree of turn. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

I made 6 1/2-ish, because that filled up my primary. I racked later though into a 5 gallon carboy and used the extra gallon and a half to top off the two 5 gallon carboys in between rackings. Make sense? I used about 18 lbs of honey. The end product is semi-dry, or semi-sweet, depending on how you look at things. Use the nutrient. Ditch the acid blend. Aerate the HELL out of your must. Oh, it stinks when it's fermenting, stinks bad. I used one of the Lavlin yeasts, 1118 I think. I've heard bad things about the dedicated mead yeasts, maybe they'll work for you though. Gravity? I'm guessing that it was around 1.100 when it started, it fermented to about 1.008. It definitely needs a few more months, maybe years, in the bottle. I think I started this roughtly 5 months ago. It's a straight mead, I just couldn't taint it with fruit, or spice, or anything else for that matter. I like the way it tastes, though I've never had mead before so I don't really know what it should taste like. There's a competition up in Vermont sometime soon, I think I'll send the required 2 bottles their way just to get some feedback from those who know. I'll post more when I get the results. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Plenty, search the archives here and you can find a few. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

But, he was probably supporting someone who did. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Right on. I just talked to a friend who works in a winery and she told me that with the synthetic corks of today that one no longer needs to store wine on it's side. That's good news for me, means I don't need to buy a wine rack. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

I just bottled a bunch of wine (technically it's mead, but they're the same, right?), something I've never done before, and I have a question about storage. I used corks that a a mixture of synthetic cork and natural cork, do I need to store the bottles on their side to keep the corks moist? I've never had this much wine before, so storage has never been an issue. Do I owe beer for bottling wine? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Now stop that you! That's just crazy talk and we can't have that. Crazy talk, I tell ya. Crazy talk! - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Absolutely, this is a problem with unions today. They protect the lazy, and discourage hard work. That's wonderful. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

I think he's talking about stuffing the nose into the pack job, not stuffing the pack job into the nose. Make sense? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Probably like yours and mine, only bigger. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

You know what Rob? It's not, at least in my opinion, a good idea to tell newbies to do toggle turns at 50 feet to build up extra speed for landing. That's just me though, others may disagree. Yo, newbie, don't do that. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Exactly four dollars and ninety nine cents. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

No, it's not possible, simply because cashiers aren't worth $20.00/hour. A cashier is worth $20.00/hour when a cashier can walk into any grocery store and expect to be paid that wage from day one. I don't think that anyone is against a cost of living adjustment, but even that isn't going to bring a cashier to $20.00/hour. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

If you felt dizzy, it's your responsibility to tell your instructors. You owe it them, the sport, and yourself, to inform them of someting like this. Good luck. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Why? Does he perform a function that's worth $20 an hour? If he left Albertson's, could he find a similar job for a similar wage? What makes him worth $20 an hour to the company? Time in doesn't cut it. This "I'm entitled because I've put in my time" shit has got to stop. BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Huh. That's interesting. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

No way! Union officials betraying trust? Looking out for someone other than the workers? You're lying. Liar! Liar! Yeah, fuck 'em. Seems like today that the unions are more interesed in making sure a few workers can work for an inflated wage than they are ensuring work for everyone at a fair wage. Fuck 'em, I say. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

That's beautiful, absolutely beautiful. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

I disagree. The name of the game here is horizontal separation. Give it, and everyone is happy. Crowd the group below you and nasty shit starts to happen. Vertical separation is nice, but you can't count it. What happens when the guy in group in front of you has a premature? Are you going to land and bitch him out because you didn't give him the necessary horizontal separation? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Your wingloading is figured by your exit weight, not your naked on the scale at home weight. Adding 25 pounds for gear and clothing is not unusual, or unrealistic. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

You're correct, less drive equals less forward speed. But your canopy doesn't care about forward speed, only about air speed. I suspect that people think they lose altitude quicker on a windy day because they're not covering as much ground under canopy. The 'normal' picture for people is to cover 100 feet across the ground and lose 30 feet in altitude. On a windy day you'll cover 50 feet across the ground, but still lose 30 feet in altitude. I believe that this provides the illusion of faster than normal altitude loss. Make sense? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.