GrumpySmurf
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Yahhh, yoou betcha.
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3 hours? Oh how I wish. We had 2 weeks of training (as in 80 hours kind of 2 weeks) - said training, followed by Green Belt certification, is manditory for all salaried employees at our company. I wouldn't be surprised if our team leads and program mangers will need Black Belt in the not too distant future. I was thinking of my Green Belt project being weighing the cost vs. benefit of Six Sigma in terms of dollar savings vs employee productivity lost - they didn't like that idea much
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My mothers cousin was heading to a movie, and she (my mother) thought it would be nice for him to take 5 year old me along. The movie turned out to be 'Alien'. 'Nuff said.
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*kick* Stay dead you damn horse. *kick* *kick* It's always this time of year I get a sense of deja vu.
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Jumping out of Planes other than 182s
GrumpySmurf replied to somethinelse's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Could take a step down in size - the -172. Like a -182 - except one less jumper. The best plane to be in if you like enjoying the view and the feel of the wind (no one can tell ya to close the door, cuz there ain't none) - a little unnerving though if it catches thermals at 100 feet after takeoff. -
Funny how when they make you learn PLFs, your brain goes, 'ushiro ukemi' - piece of cake An entire childhood of Shotokan. 3 years of Aikikai variant aikido, almost a year of ASU variant now. Also now mixed in Toyama Ryu Batto Jutsu and a TSKSR variant with iai/ken-jutsu - I don't care who says the naginata is a chick weapon - they still kick ass
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Aye, We are flying non-rigid gliders - introduce unsettled airflow and our non-rigid glider simply becomes a non-rigid collection of fabric. That being said, I've put in close to 250 jumps on the S2 (190, 170 and 150) - jumped in winds I should not have and landed fine. I don't attribute it to the design or lack there of - simply luck manged to overcome poor judgement on my part. I think it's a great canopy and will continue to hold onto it for camera work, but I don't think it or any other canopy I may buy will make up for my decision to jump in less than ideal wind conditions. *shrug*
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Took a deer out just over a month ago. $15 of damage. Porsche seems to know how to build thier cars. 6K though? Yikes! 'Deer Hunter' indeed - just don't going playing russian roulette games in Vietnam, eh?
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Man, when programmers pull stunts like this - the code review for them is going to be a case of the Spanish Inquisition. Because people are prone to getting this wrong on reading it is exactly why one does not use constructs like this without a very good reason - and 99% of the time, the reason is the wrong one anyways. I remember one of the old-timer ('hack n'slash') S/E's would comment 'I don't trust the compiler so I unit test all of my modules by embedding test code in the release software'. The reply was, "If I used 5 layers of nested #ifdef macros to build union data structures like you do, I wouldn't trust the compiler either - I'd be surprised if build didn't crash outright'. Just because the language supports funky hard for humans to read operations does not mean we should use them - post-fix and pre-fix operations can become a can of worms quickly for maintence. As they say KISS. Simplicity is far harder to achieve than complexity.
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Damn straight - and to think I learned how to drive in Cheesehead land - it was just that I got all my practice on I-90/94 around Chicago.
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That is like my raison d'etre - to pass people on the right. If I can still see the bottom of your tires on the freeway, I ain't tailgating. And, if I ain't getting 4 wheel drift through a turn, I ain't going fast enough. I AM one of those assholes everyone complains about :) I was told I drive like a combination of an angry F.I.B. and a European F1 driver wanna-be.
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alot:1:0 1 jump, still having trouble finding the DZ which looks like every other farm around it. Winds were squirly, day ended at that - though I am enjoying playing with Cessnas - a nice change of pace from Otters. Alot (dollars): friends planted the idea, "You need a bike." Being one of them Euro-snobs, I asked, "You mean buy a Beamer?" - they replied, "Nah, get a Ducati."..."A what?" ..."Ducati. Look it up. You will understand." I understand. I am going to be very poor before the end of this summer. I will probably end up dead as well
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Evangilism: Someone who will go to every length to tell you what they believe and how great it is - but has no desire to hear likewise from you.
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Ohh pllluuueeeez! Like that's even a question. Given my history with feisty asian ladies, that's, like, a no brainer
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Affordable, good gas mileage, reliable? - Rice cooker all the way. The stories I could tell about dealing with the American and Asian car manufacturers...the Americans might have invented mass production of the automobile, but the Asians have perfected it.
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"Oh well, I still pay less tax here in the USA than I did in Canada. " I call that 'hazard pay'
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Bullets don't care who they occupy. If you willingly put yourself in a situation where a bullet might occupy you - well, accept that one might want to take up residency - regardless who you are or what you do. If journalists want immunity from getting killed in a warzone - they should avoid said war zone.
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Facts on why this drug issue started
GrumpySmurf replied to FAC's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Ditto from here too. It's part of the job where I work too, DOT regulation. Got no problem with it - in some strange sort of way - what I design can make the difference between a person living through an accident and becoming an obituary. In the case of a pilot (or tandem instructor), even more so. I feel if another persons life depends directly on your ability to do your job at 100% in a high stress situation, drug testing is fair game. Employment is a privledge, not a right - if one does not agree with the legal hiring practices of an employer (or industry) - they are free to look elsewhere. -
1/0:0:0 1 - score for Mark's Car vs. 0 - score for the deer that decided to run in front of it, at 2AM after a Def Leppard concert. Result: $15 in damage and a scuffed up wax job, and I am guessing a deer that will make a good meal for the wolves.
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Lord T'underin' Jezez! No slammin' me home province, b'ye? Take a bunch of displaced Irish folk, drop 'em on an island with a the most gawd forsaken dreary climate you could get - what else could ya expect them to have thier minds? Booze and boinkin' - of course.
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Tell me about it - pretty much the same scenario - trapped in a 2004 model SUV for field trials going back and forth between Miami and Naples, Fl. along 75 and 41. I was just hoping a gator would sneak out on the road so I could get me some gatorskin boots. The most exciting part of this week was the tornado that passed by us 2 miles away on Thursday, oh and almost getting arrested for driving in a 'suspicious vehicle'.
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Rig: Blue/Silver Jumpsuit(s): Blue/Silver Cutaway: Red Reserve: Yellow. My gear, my life, my choice.
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Exactly, do what any red-blooded American would do when travelling overseas - sew a Canadian Flag onto your backpack.
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ukemi -> Japanese PLF PLF is result of one trying to land a canopy half the size and twice the speed of thier normal canopy. Ukemi is the result of one being tossed by someone half thier size and twice thier age. Both allow one to repeat the experience without the intermediate step of visiting the ER.
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Sorry to hear that Perhaps ukemi needs work?