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yes, definitely rid of the "holy crap I'm jumping out a plane" butterflies, but they left behind the "gee I hope I don't funnel the exit or crash into the base sending everyone to opposite ends of the sky" butterflies
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mine... indyz: i love abi.wmv on your desktop, that's one of my favorite video clips
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Pizza delivery guy came flying up... "Fourteen Dollars Please"
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if you could get smaller stitching on the reserve handle I'd also maybe get: EMERGENCY BRAKE NEVER USE
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Well, chamois cloths are just for superficial polishing anyway. Sometimes you just have to break out the angle grinder.
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Who's Jew..you gotta be shittin me, where's the moderater
champu replied to greybeard's topic in The Bonfire
I don't know why, but I started laughing when I read that. I picture a freeflier who can't bellyfly and a bellyflier who can't freefly, and if they so much as attempt to cross outside their discipline they spontaneously combust -
if and when I ever get sticthed handles I'm going to get Cutaway: D'oh! Reserve: WooHoo!
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I use a customized version of this as my start page: http://my.ece.uiuc.edu
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I just got a pair of neofleece hunting gloves made by seirus this weekend that work excellent. Was recommended them by a few people on the DZ. I also picked up a seirus "combo clava" yesterday which I haven't jumped yet, but it fits under my protec and doesn't get in my vision at all. This should help me out a lot (see avitar)
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the actual resemblance is almost scary
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day late and a doller short, didn't see this until now, but why not
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thirded
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ummm... oops? hey, good thing that guy was wearing a parachute eh? Lutz: to be unable to avoid powerlines under your reserve because they were everywhere.
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I drive people down to the dropzone from my school every Saturday at 7:45am, as I stand by my car waiting at the union for the students to meet me I will usually ask random people as they walk if they want to come skydiving, I figure it's worth a shot.* anyway, I get "why would you jump out of a perfectly good airplane" a decent bit (especially when I'm wearing that shirt that says "jumps from perfectly good airplanes") and I usually say "cause it has a pretty good door, and I had two pretty good parachutes" /edit to add: *it's probably -not- worth a shot as at 7:45am on Saturday on a college campus, most people walking around the union have some damn important business to be attending to.
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Did I ask you for a gear check?
champu replied to SkydiveNFlorida's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
you really just have to let people know that if they muck around with your flaps without saying something first, that it makes you uncomfortable. If you can tell the person directly, fantastic. If you tell someone at the manifest counter, fantastic. Maybe one of your flaps had come undone on your reserve and he just wanted to check the pin before fixing it. Sure he should say something first, but if you'd ask him what he was doing he could have told you. I guess we'll never know now. It's unfortunate that this (and some of the other threads you've had, think: line twists) have turned into heated arguements as they are often about really good points -
Spot on! Probably the human brain's most astounding feature is as a detector of patterns (or pattern interuptions) you can look at a grid of one inch squares sitting on a desk, and if so much as one of them has a crooked line in it, your eyes will snap to that spot faster than you could probably figure out why it did. Now, if half the lines were crooked, well, it wouldn't "bother" you as much.
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well... maybe the second most but otherwise I completely agree, using taxpayer dollars which come entirely from people who have never owned slaves (many of whose, at this point, predecessors never owned slaves) to give reparations entirely to people who have never been slaves (and again, at this point, many of whose predecessots never were either) will do nothing but make those recieving happy for a short while, and those giving angry forever.
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spam just crossed over the halfway point of all e-mail sent this summer, not sure where it's at now advertisers have three different rates that gear the success of e-mails they send, open%, click through%, and conversion% for "targeted e-mail marketing" (think: legitimate spam that has a working unsubscribe feature) an open% of 40%, a click through of around 5-10%, and a conversion of 1% are all pretty good. for all out spam where companies will harvest e-mail addresses from anywhere they can, hijack smtp servers to send e-mail, and forge headers to get past filters (think: "use the power of herbs by coming to africa and find out anything about anyone while increasing your penis size") the click-through and conversion rates are on the order of 1:1,000,000 ... and they can still do this profitably /edited to clarify a couple things
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sorry, what I meant was to suggest it's a lot easier to use the DV tape to record, dump the footage to your computer, and reuse the tape than it is to end up with a whole bunch of mini-dvds with bits of footage and errors all over the place The point of the dvd camera is for people to shoot a video, do transitions and things like that as they go along, and end up with a dvd they can watch in a dvd player without any post-production. For shooting video in chunks that will require quite a bit of editing to get a finished product, miniDV makes a lot more sense. Besides, battery-life and size alone should be enough to stay away from the dvd models
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it's a headache waiting to happen, and I see it as a novelty item that belongs in an issue of sharper image, not on the side of a helmet. you really don't want to deal with all those damn dvds, record to miniDV tape->dump to computer->repeat
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One mo' time bubsy!
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it's not the codec that's the problem I don't think, I tried opening it up in virtualDub, I can watch the first ten seconds of it, but there's a nasty error in the file at frame 303
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Mozilla anyone? that said, I still don't understand the obsession with using "www" all the time. Saying "w-w-w" is 9 syllobols, where as, for example "dropzone.com" (the useful part of the address) is only 4 ahem, cough
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Didn't we just get done discussing how loose vocabulary can cause problems?
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I know... the forcast around these parts tends to "drift forward" so what gets predicted to happen on the weekend monday or tuesday usually ends up getting here friday morning and finishing up saturday morning. I'm not really worried, que sara, sara or whatever, just the image of that forcast showing up like that makes me cringe