colinl

This also fascinates me. With all the recent advances in technology and more and more people becoming centenarians. Personally, I do not wish to live past when I can function on my own. Lord, please take me before then!

What about this one ? :)

Rocketeer ?

I don't think I fear death, but I'd rather have it come the latest possible. I have planned to do many, many more things in my life and would like to do them. I'd be really pissed off if I could see it coming before having done what I want, in fact.

A good example is in the women only forum_male instructors_.What got me was jlmiracle's post#93 that inappropriate touching went on with tandem and Aff students more than what one would realize.When one thinks about it we are really at the mercy of our students. Blue Skies, Dave Maybe a solution would be to have a female TM to do 'unisex' tandems, then :-) Just giving out an idea, who am I to give advice...

Or that :)

Just an idiotic question, what happens if/when some passenger does invent non-existent "touching" under canopy (when there's no video anymore), or if/when the TM does it for real? "Your word versus mine"?

A few things I use on telemarketers: a) "Would you please hold on a minute?" Then put the phone on the desk and resume your activities. Forget about the phone, hang up 30 minutes later. b) When asked "would you like to pay less for [insert product or service]", just answer no and hang-up. (that one doesn't really feel specially good to do) c) When being marketed by people asking if you'd like new windows for your house, tell them you don't have any windows. same for other things everyone has. c') When being marketed for some new and shiny phone service, answer that you don't care because you don't have a phone. Enjoy the silence that usually follows

True for me at least. I once broke both legs (tried "BASE jumping" from 10 meters with no rig ... stupidly fell in reality), one got the ankle broken and the other tib + fib. It required surgery on both legs, but 10 years later I still have less mobility in the one that had the ankle broken.

Hi, Would be nice to have some sort of widget somewhere in the forum page to quickly convert from feet or lbs to meters or kilograms, for us metric people :)

Actually I think it's almost January in most places on the Earth

I can't seem to remember any of this kind of episodes. I'm sure there have been, though, perhaps it's some sort of self-protection. Just forget about them and they never existed...

I sure want to hook her up with a tandem. Then when she'll have a job we should be able to pursue on this. Right now I only should try to stop thinking about it because I'm completely broke :))

I'm a big fan of this technique too. It sometimes happens that some hothead in the other lane at a red light starts making engine noises, little moves ahead before the light turns green, funny looks to me and all. "Yeah, a pissing contest !" So I feel forced to do the same so the guy thinks he's got someone to race against, and when the light turns green, I just don't start I still can't figure out why anyone would want to try and race against my car. It's a '92 mazda 323 with 70HP. Hot car uh? The best that happened about two monthes ago, there was some punk trying to pull that stunt on the car right in front on me. Light turns green, punk starts speeding, only to get pulled over by cops about 100 meters later. Mwahaha (edit: to fix typos)

It's the answer to life, the Universe and Everything, according to Deep Thought, a super-computer found in the Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy by Douglas N. Adams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything The book is great and really enjoying, especially if you like British humour

Hu, that really does work like shit with Firefox on Linux. No way to fill out the "required data fields" about me (to see a video ! :-/). In the hope the RealXStream guys will read that: don't rely on flash being available to get to the contents. Use it all you want to enhance the experience, but leave it accessible. Don't require personal informations from visitors who may just don't care enough and close the page right there. Don't popup maximised windows, this is annoying. Rely on standards and you'll have much less problems on the long term. -- Colin, undercover geek

Really? sounds like a lot Looks like the photographer got a nice one on this one, 2 people out of four making strange faces

Yes, this paintwork seems emblematic at that DZ, some instructors have zebra-painted combis, and even the toilet seat is painted this way

It's the right one. bad luck :) Although I don't know if these are "real" dislocations: I can put it back in place without the other hand, just by using some muscles. It's just a bit painful. I never bothered to ask a doctor about it as it happens since I'm a child and it comes back in place by itself...

Thanks all for your answers. I guess I'll ask my doctor and DZO when I'll get around going on with that. I guess I should also try to exercise a bit more physically - spending 8 hours a day in front of the computers and not doing much sport involving arms (the only sport I do now is rollerblading) probably doesn't help.

Hi, I wondered whether jumping alone was hard on the arms (with the wind)? So far I only did a tandem so I had my arms on the harness until the TM told me I could ungrab it, and I'm wondering how much force you have to fight against when exiting the plane? I have a shoulder which is kind of easy to dislocate (and put back in place right after). When that happens (too fast movements usually, with something in the way of my hand), it hurts a bit, then I put it back in place, but I wouldn't want it to happen whenever I'd need to be concentrated -- like jumping planes. Any thoughts? Thanks, Colin

My stuff was titanium (it was about 10 years ago, maybe they found something better since, but I doubt it). It had the added benefit of *not* making ring at the security portals ;-)) Still, it can only be bent a certain amount :-)

I had a vertebrae (sp?) broken when I was 16 (nothing to do with skydiving though, just falling ;-)) and had to get some metal plates and screws via surgery, too. It was planned to remove the stuff two years after, but on the check-up one year later we found out one of the screws was already broken. The surgeon didn't seem very worried either but said that as it was now useless, it was better to remove it sooner than planned. I suppose these things break when the bones around it "resolder" and change enough to put too much mechanical constraints on it...

I did my first tandem on Saturday and the TM warned me about it: "maybe you'll have a hard time breathing, maybe not". In the end it was ok, I just kept my mouth almost closed and expired through the nose. The TM gave me a nice trick in case I'd get air "stuck" in my lungs: "Just scream

Happy to learn I'm not the only one :-) Well, it seems logical to keep an eye towards the destination :) But, I didn't scream!