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I want to say 7 in one day is my best so far. If you get to the dropzone reasonably early it's not hard to do 7-10 jumps in a day, even if you're not the fastest/least concerned packer.
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Hey boss, sorry I wasn't here this morning I fell down three times. Oh my, are you okay? Oh I'm fine, I've just been pretty excitable since. Do you want to take the afternoon off too? Oh no, I couldn- okay.
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At work I have my paychecks direct deposited, all my bills go on my credit card, and pretty much any purchase besides getting some food or a beer or something goes on the card as well. Once I month I look over my summary online to make sure it seems in order and click "pay" That's pretty much the extent to which I deal with money, it belongs in the background of life.
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I saw a McDonalds bag that had a military jumper on the front of it for no apparent reason. Decked out with Capewells and B-12s on the legs and chest strap.
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I just crossed off the 15th and final project / project component from my list this semester (lab demos, formal presenations, and written papers for five seperate classes in the same semester) And it is still the best feeling in the world even after all these years, to come out successfully on the other side of that kind of challenge. Two weeks ago I wanted to crawl in a hole and die. But now, even though I've slept a total of about 5 hours since Sunday morning, I can't fall asleep because I'm so wired.
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how ever much I'm able to make doing honest work is enough for me. I'm sure that'll go up and down as time goes on, but so do frills in life. /edited to add: last time I checked, money was just a number. There's nothing evil about numbers. If people didn't have money to step over others to get to they'd find something else.
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Usually when I'm heading home I take 57N->80W->Tristate->Eisnhauer but on one occasion I gave a roommate a ride home to Skokie and took 57N to the Dan Ryan. Never. Again.
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Linear algebra and vector calculus? No problem. Differential equations, fourier analysis, and signal processing? Complete cakewalk. Two plus two? Negative five. I also suck when there's more than one way to do something, and the person I'm working with thinks it should be done The Other Way(tm) The resulting discussions are usually less than constructive. I have a pretty good command of the language as well, but it is often marred by ghastly spelling errors.
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2 weeks until I graduate:5:1 first landing in a jump plane (doh! stupid fucking rain!)
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I actually have that photo... strange.... mine's uh... me.
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sorry, wasn't directed at your comment, just answering pilot dave's question regarding what the thread was about. the reply link on your post was closest when I was at the end of the thread.
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someone posted about starting AFF and asked if anyone jumped. Comments were pretty tame, mostly tandem stories. one guy posted this...
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I was always fond of the "5 RIGHT" license plate on the wall at our dropzone. It's a MO plate if I'm not mistaken.
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why dont you post your jump numbers?
champu replied to tattoojeff's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Ron should come with popcorn. also, public service announcement! posting "You're probably just going to rip this post apart line by line, but that's fine cause I'm ignoring this thread forever and ever cause there's no point in arguing with someone like you" makes the children of the world cry, kills countless cute fuzzy koalas, and depletes the ozone layer. -
to calculate forward speed you either have to do estimate calculations based on exit and deployment locations. or use some kinda of gps data logger (reviever mounted on leg perhaps?) altimeters like the protrack, neptune, and skytronic do not have enough information available to them to give any kind of forward speed measurement. you might do a search in the wingsuit forum to see some of the methods they employ to get forward speed readings.
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I can think of several tests I've studied hours for and finished in a third of the time alloted, and I can think of tests I've spend maybe an hour or two reviewing and left the test wondering if I had been in the right room. The former usually occurs in classes I enjoy so I don't mind. The latter happens in classes I can't stand so I don't care.
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http://rhinoliner.com/
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why dont you post your jump numbers?
champu replied to tattoojeff's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
A rather large peeve of the experienced crowd are people that ask a question in 20 different venues "out of curiousity" looking (subconciously?) for someone willing to say "well, I knew a guy way back when who started jumping camera with 100 jumps and now he flies for some team somewhere and is great." which is really the last thing someone with our jump numbers needs to hear if they're thinking about doing something stupid. -
The 45º "rule" most likely came from people that could quite accurately watch the group before them to judge distance and gauge proper seperation but had poor understanding of geometry and thus pulled 45º out of their ass. Then people with a slightly better grasp of geometry but a poorer sense of proper exit seperation took 45º to be some magic angle they should look for when timing their exit. This 45º idea has led to many discussions and has been pretty thouroughly debunked. I'd hope most dropzones understand that the best way to gauge exit separation is by ground speed of the aircraft on jump run, and other general wind conditions.
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I agree with billvon on this one. You can't track digital phones effectively. In most urban areas you're going to have hundreds or thousands of phones all operating on essentially the same frequency, talking to the same tower, and all adjusting their power anywhere from 10 to 600mW at a very high rate to optimize signal quality/battery life (when your phone has one bar on the signal meter, it's most likely chewing up its battery pretty bad) Part of my senior design project involves interfacing with a GSM phone to contact police and notify them of an emergency via a recorded message. I had a nice long talk with the local police department about tracking down cellphones. Currenlty all but impossible, the next revision of GSM phones will have special provisions made to allow police to locate a given phone to around 50m without the use of GPS, but even this will require access to the backend of the infrastructure.
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which of "those movies" was it where they tandemed in the computer hacker to land on top of the building? was that Dropzone? anyway, that's what this reminds me of... and that's not a good thing...
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Alright, enough of the sweeping statements. We all know listening to pop or country music is like stepping on a rake (only without all the immediate benefits) What we're in search of here is the (comic book guy) Worst. Song. Ever. (/comic book guy) While it doesn't contain the terrible vocals some of the songs mentioned do, Squarepusher - Greenways Trajectory has been found to cause cancer in lab rats. /edited to add: it reminds me of this image from some time ago
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1st tandem after 100+ jumps? AggieDave???
champu replied to ifics's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
someday I might do a tandem. /eta: oh oops I'm in GSD... I'm not terribly keen on the idea (I wouldn't pay for it just to see what it's like) but if it were a free jump... well... -
If the trolldom or idiocy or whatever is as obvious as your example, I don't think anyone really needs to come out and call that person a troll or an idiot. As much fun as it is to read the writing on the wall aloud to everyone else in the room, it usually doesn't accomplish much.
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This is my Masters thesis.