hyperpilot.substack.com The Future of Paragliding Harness Back Protectors
You might have heard the news about the recent development of paragliding race harness protectors.
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*cries in American Healthcare...
I think it’s this:
“I just hired the best person to do something”
Scenario A: this person did a bigly good job at it. Something was my idea and I get all the credit.
Scenario B: this person did a massively horrible job at the something. Something failed because of this person and I’m awesome so I’m asking them to leave.
In both cases, the something usually turns out to be a massively stupid idea to begin with, but Trump gets to claim a win either way. This is how one fails upwardly their entire life.
That was a beautiful, poetic sentence.
No, it’s clearly Biden’s fault…. again. Boy, the week he’s been having.
Correct - not direct drive, but seems like that’s not really a necessary goal for most of us. If you really need to be able to just drive non stop all day while the sun is out, I don’t think that’s been solved yet (would still have to stop for gas even).
Your next Halloween candy purchase:
Just gonna leave this here:
Exactly - in-house (the companies your agency used to do projects for). I think I got an immediate 40k bump going from advertising (an interactive agency) to healthcare.
Sorry - totally understand and didn’t mean to be dismissive of your situation.
Don’t lose hope because of the rantings of a lunatic. There are lots of us here that support you for who you are (provided you’re not an asshole or bigot) and don’t forget to be who you’re supposed to be. I’ve had some very unpleasant interactions with people that I had to realize just weren’t worth me thinking about. No need to let those assholes live rent free in your head.
I can speak from experience: working on the agency side the pay is insanely low. Switch to the client side and while the work isn’t as interesting or fun, you’ll get a huge pay increase.
You have forgotten the greatest: chili Mac.
Chicago corn (cheddar popcorn mixed with caramel corn). Sounds weird - is awesome.
I’m glad to see “Americans” getting used less for obvious reasons, but every time I see that written I read it as “us asians”.
Recently got a new car that has a Sirius trial subscription. After everything I’ve heard about it, actually using it is shockingly disappointing. There is so little content on it, and what’s there isn’t any good. I guess maybe their target customer is someone who wants Fox News and right wing pod casts in their car. I won’t be signing up, especially with what a pain I’ve heard it is to cancel once they have your payment info.
MTG would fit in very well in that pic
Electing that shit ain't goin' so well for us down south here. Canada, don't let us down and make the same dumbass mistake.
Em Spaint is the only tool I use for editing jiffs. It’s top notch.
Black lung programs are woke, duh.
Vol biv in India (Bir)
Another awesome vol biv video from Ben Kellet
Harness protector assessments
Good write up on the ongoing debate over harness protectors (especially about the effectiveness of newer materials like koroyd).
Hike and fly series by FlyBubble
Been enjoying these hike and fly videos in the UK by one of the FlyBubble gang. He’s done Scottish highlands and North Wales - very chill and well produced and good mix of hiking, nature, light alpinism, and PG with light gear.
Are presidential elections even the responsibility of the executive branch?
Is “maintaining the integrity of the presidential election” even fall under the responsibilities of POTUS? Wouldn’t that be more of the judicial’s or legislative’s wheelhouse? If it’s not, doesn’t that completely invalidate Trump’s argument that he was acting under his presidential duties?
Antoine Girard on Diran at 7k meters
Antoine does it again. Guy is a beast.
Speedflying the Death Star
Think this qualifies as the scariest speedflying video I've seen yet.
Zipper repair
Great video on how to fix a bunch of zipper issues. Handy to have on hand for harness, rucksack, and concertina bag zipper problems. Implemented one of the fixes in the video (took less than a minute) and that fix is still going strong after a year.
Red Rocks Wide Open 2023 Results
Final results in for the red rocks wide open.
What registrars do people like nowadays?
For personal projects, I've favored gandi.net for many years, but I'm trying to get a few candidates together for the organization I work for. Not a fan of GoDaddy, NetworkSolutions, or many of the all-in-one web host / registrar / app hosting / whateverelse sites.
Hoping there are a few modern alternatives out there that I haven't seen yet. We had all of our domains on Google Domains, but since they got bought by Squarespace, I'm surveying our options.
New Bodganfly pod made for volbiv
Looks like super lightweight, loads of pockets, and 70L total storage volume. Might be a good rival to the BV1.
Sailplane bug wipers - how they work
Not a sailplane pilot, but thought this was pretty neat. Uses the airflow to push the wiper out to the end of the wing and then either a simple electric motor or a hand crank to bring it back towards the fuselage.
Stopper knot
Have been fiddling with removing the brummels from my speed system and wanted a nice stopper knot for the larkshead to grab onto. Hope this benefits someone else.
Security camera with web embed
Looks like none of the consumer-grade security cameras (Nest, Arvo, Ring, etc) support being able to embed the feed on a web page anymore. I think many of them never supported it, but looks like since Google bought Nest, they are slowly stripping features out of that one.
I'm looking to set up a security camera or two in a park-like area (it's a parking lot and landing area for a freeflight club), and am looking for something that checks the following boxes:
- Ideally, a solution that doesn't need an external computer (a full blown machine that's running software that might have to be restarted by a human on-site; a self-contained hardware device or rack mounted solution that would start all necessary services up after a power outage or other failure would be fine).
- Video would be ideal, but if there's something that would take snapshots every few seconds, that's acceptable.
- Stream (or photos) would need to be publicly-accessible. A webpage embed would be ideal, but not somethin