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Geez. Everyone's a joker. Steps to starting a pay-per-view website: Acquire the nudie pics (ongoing) Pick a domain name and acquire it. Contract with an adult-site-friendly ISP Design the open content pages Design the restricted content pages Design the commerce pages Engineer the content database Write the content-delivery CGI Acquire a merchant account Contract with a transaction service Write the commerce CGI Populate the content database Test the site Market the site Some of these steps might be optional if you can find opensource resources. If you find an adult-site specialist ISP, they might have many of these resources available for a fee. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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My boyfriend and I both jump and neither of us has a rainbow parachute. Mine does have pink though, so make of that what you will. To answer your question, as far as I can tell skydiving is a fairly gay friendly community. I've heard rumor of some quiet grumbling, but pretty much anyone who's opinionated about it keeps their mouths shut. Mostly the gay people keep quiet as well, and everyone else is open and welcoming. A minor detail: the rainbow used as a gay symbol has only six colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. 6-cell parachutes are rare. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Bet you knew that 33 pounds of weapons-grade uranium was seized in Turkey. Bet you didn't know they quietly announced it wasn't 33 pounds -- it was a 33 pound metal tube containing 5 ounces. And 5 ounces of what? Lots of loud yelling when it's scary. Very quiet hiding of the news reports when it's harmless. Bet the two guys arrested still have their lives ruined anyway. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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There are several AADs on the market. This one costs more than the others. If the others seem like a better value, buy them. There's no monopoly here -- just a popular product with a premium price. If you think you can create a better AAD for a better price, do it. If it's as easy as some people seem to think, quit your job and go make your fortune in the world. Otherwise buy what's available and smile. Or don't buy one. Personally I'm glad I've got mine even though I'm pretty sure I'll never need it. I like knowing it's there. Cypres is worth the extra $ to me and it's an honor to pay it, at least until a better AAD comes around. If the inventor of the Cypres is getting rich off of it, good for him!
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Was this in Eugene, Oregon? First Class Citizen Twice Over
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I'd buy you a beer if you updated it to check for bad apostrophes. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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My biggest pet peeve i's careles's u'se of apostrophe's. It seeme's like it's become standard for la'zy people to put them before every "s" that finishe's a word. Apostrophe's do not pluralize word's! There is a right time to u'se them and a lot of wrong time's. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Only for me. I don't mind it on other people's stuff. My bf and I swapped rigs yesterday so I got to see my canopy in flight. The teal top skin and fuschia bottom skin combine in the sunlight to make a beautiful deep, dark, rich eggplant sort of purple. I think even you might agree this is a good use of pink! :) First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Oh, you mean that sort of list price. The kind you don't even pretend to ask for. Yeah, I love my gear bag. I only wish I'd chosen fuschia instead of hot pink. It doesn't match the rest of my gear the way I wanted. Of course I gather you object to pink in any form. Oh well. I can't win. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Woah! I've paid list price for everything I bought from square1. You mean you would have haggled? Holy shit! Adding up a custom color Safire2, gear bag, two oxygns, mountains of accessories... First Class Citizen Twice Over
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I know a fellow with 60 skydives and 150 BASE jumps... First Class Citizen Twice Over
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I had one of those on an old Unit 1 in the mid 80s. It was called a spider slider. Great for crw. Not so good for the top skin of the canopy though. The retracting bridle burned dozens of little tiny holes all over. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Oh thank you. I was getting so sick of people complaining about their jobs. Look folk, if you don't like it, CHANGE IT! I love my job. 7 years ago I realized I hated my job and decided the only way I'd ever be happy is to own my own company. Three days later I was fired and figured, "now or never." So here I am, the owner (well, 1/2 owner with my lover) of a webdesign/webhosting business. We're small, which gives us huge flexibility and personality. We're profitable, which means we can do things we want to do outside of work. We make all the decisions and almost always agree. We choose who to work with (and who NOT to work with!) We pick our projects. We learn what we want to learn. I love my job. I wouldn't trade it for any other job. The only thing I'd trade for is to have enough money that I could be less professional and more experimental. We're working towards that :) First Class Citizen Twice Over
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My new Safire2 149 is loaded about 1.33. My first two jumps were stand-ups, so I don't know about all this whining about the landings of the Safire1. Perhaps the landing issues are gone with the new design. Personally I think the issues were just people wanting all canopies to act the same. So the Safire requires a full extension of the brakes. So what? 2 jumps isn't much to review on, but both openings were soft, on heading, and error-free. The ride was fun. The landings were safe and fun. Glad I bought it. Added several months later: After a season with it I'm still loving my Safire2. Turns are crisp and vigorous with light toggle pressure. Good penetration, easy to fly at my midrange experience level, and it looks damn good, too. One cutaway due to an out-of-control spinner that was probably due to me untwisting the lines the wrong direction while psychopacking. Can't blame Icarus for that one.
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Oh I am so jealous :( I've wanted to jump a DC-3 forever. That's true class! First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Think about that for a second... if you were being hacked 20 times per hour, don't you think you would have noticed? The interesting thing about these "anti-hacker" and "anti-virus" programs is they puff themselves up by announcing an attack at the slightest provocation. Anti-hacker software is glad to call everything it sees an attack to make itself look important. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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What, it's not possible in a large company? Why not? I know from experience that large companies are usually uptight assholes with too much beaurocracy and no imagination. Is that why? My (small) experience is that creative and generous rewards for good work begets more good work. It also makes us proud to be employers. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Hooked? I couldn't say. Time will tell. If he is, he's going to have to go pretty far to find a DZ we won't find out about. On the other hand, if he wants to call in sick to go jumping (OCCASIONALLY) we can hardly act all superior considering we do the same thing. All we require is that he's honest. None of this "I'm sick *cough* *cough* can't come in today" shit. If you're playing hooky, say so! First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Probably my favorite graffiti in a bathroom was a floor to ceiling intricate drawing of an HIV virus with individual molecules indicated. Someone had later added a sinister and dramatic shading to the whole drawing. Another biology drawing at my college was drawn on the UNDERSIDE of a spiral staircase. It was a detailed atomic bond-accurate drawing of a section of human DNA. Unfortunately several years later a newly hired janitor got halfway through removing it before students formed a human shield to make him stop. The outrage was so strong the administration hired the original artist (now graduated) to return and repair his work. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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My boyfriend and I own a small business with one employee. Our employee is coming up on his 6 month anniversary and we've been very happy with his work. He's seemed to need some cheering up lately, and he's been talking about wanting to make a first jump for at least as long as we've known him... ... so today when we both realized it was too nice a day to spend it all in the office, we headed out for some afternoon jumps. But instead of leaving Drew behind to handle the phones like we usually do, we invited him to the DZ for a tandem and video "on the business." I think he enjoyed himself. His smile when he landed was bigger than I've ever seen on him. Hopefully this was just what he needed. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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How interesting. I just got back from two jumps there myself. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Over a urinal: "Please do not throw your gum in the urinal. It ruins the flavor and makes it hard to blow bubbles." -- LJ First Class Citizen Twice Over
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That's funny First Class Citizen Twice Over
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I'm not sure California exactly counts as Pacific Northwest. :P First Class Citizen Twice Over