I had a flight with a 206B3 ride. Just over a bridge and right over Bosphorus. An amazing experience with adapting yourself to leaning heli and jump takeoff and landing like an elevator
- Acharad Sami vanJoulee
A broadcasting class where we had to learn to do reports from the sky.
- Admiral Anika
No, but as often as they're overhead here in Venice, they oughta give us rides :-/
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
A broadcasting class. Interesting. How'd you make out in the end?
- Christopher Harley
Yes. We took a helicopter ride over the volcanoes in Hawaii on our honeymoon
- Alan Simpson
I took the F in that class because it was too late to drop. I hadn't realized we really had to do 9 - 12 hours a week in the sky for the last half of the course. I had to do some fancy footwork to avoid that class as it was required for my degree, but I did it.
- Admiral Anika
Yes, a tourist helicopter when I was a kid, then a UH-1 Huey, a Ch-46 Sea Knight, an UH-60 Blackhawk and an CH-53 Stallion. I think that's about it.
- Andrew Leyden
We rented helicoptors for our wedding and flew up with a small party to a small mountain meadow. Had glass bubbles in the front: fun experience.
- Matt Mastracci
from iPhone
no but I so want to!!! I have skydived though so that beats helicopter I think :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Yes, to exit the Grand Canyon. A few short minutes. I didn't have vertigo or anything...
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Brent, It was 5 years ago, and I'm not sure that I'll fly in a helicopter again: I guess that all helicopter pilots are insane. When I asked why did he fly so close to the ground, he answered "if we have a problem, we don't have wings!" ;-)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from email
well, I was in an adrenaline-junkie environment... he had that bush-pilot gleam in his eye. then again, that was, oh, 15 years ago... I'm considerably more tame, myself. :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Only once, tagging along on an emergency transport that thankfully ended up being not so emergent.
- Victor Ganata
A couple of times. Recent experience was much better with noise-canceling headphones.
- LogEx
Yup. Over the Grand Canyon. It was awesome.
- Jason Huebel
yes! I was about 13 years old. went with a group. I was last in line to get in and the back was full. so I got to sit in the front with the pilot! it was awesome!! (in Yellowknife for a Student Exchange Trip)
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Yes, we had to fly to all of our roadless control sites in NE Alberta near the Athabasca River. Jumping out of a helicopter into waist-deep snow is an interesting experience. :-) Loved seeing all the wildlife from the chopper, though!
- Jenny R.
Yes. And hated it. Nothing has ever made me more motion sick. It was in Hawaii over Kauai, so it should have been wonderful.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Mmm. I enabled it. As long as people are not complaining about flooding it is nice to get responses back on all three platforms. It is a different audience on each platform. And trying to make up stuff for each will be too much.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Cute moments. This is why am one of those dorks that actually looks all those extras on dvd's. And buys 2-disc versions to have more of it. More of the same, most of the time.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
from Bookmarklet
"We have discovered that the warming in New Zealand over the past 156 years was indeed man-made, but it had nothing to do with emissions of CO2—it was created by man-made adjustments of the temperature. It's a disgrace."
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
from Bookmarklet
For now the best source if your client sends you the jpg from the website. And changes it's extension to .eps or .ai if you ask for that.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
from Bookmarklet
"Zij nodigde dus een jager uit op het kasteel en beloofde de arme man geld als ie Sneeuwwitje in het bos voor de kop zou willen schieten. "Ja, veel geld. En als de klus geklaard is, snij je haar hart uit haar vorte borstkas en je brengt het me als bewijs dat ze hartstikke dood is. Snap je dat allemaal, minkukel, oen, schapenkop die je bent? En als je mijn opdracht weigert, dan maak ik jou in hoogsteigen persoon zélf helemaal kapot; ik ben ertoe in staat, dat is me wel aan te zien, niet? Droplul!" De jager was overdonderd door de heftigheid waarmee dit alles werd uitgesproken en ging maar akkoord met het vuige plannetje."
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
from Bookmarklet
*turns up unrequited love-esque country and western song on the radio of his pickup and dreams of what might have been*..............
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
I normally never share personal stuff but this caught me so off guard I Tweeted it as a knee-jerk reaction. Stupid mistake I ever made. But now I know. And knowing is half the battle!
- Mona Nomura
so you're NOT getting married? damn, it would have been a fun wedding to go to :)
- Tudor Bosman
No I'm not, but when I *DO* get married, you bet your butt it'd be fun. And all my FF peeps are invited. Wedding favors would be like conference schwag: t-shirts and totes. Food would be like conference food: gummi bears and Swedish Fish. FTW.
- Mona Nomura
*lol* A conference themed wedding would be totally awesome! Would the groom be required to attend Mona 101 earlier in the day before the ceremony?
- Rachel Lea Fox
No, his only duty would be to make sure there are enough power strips and the WiFi is working ok LOL
- Mona Nomura
Oo. I want a badge.. and a title. We'll toss our business cards in fishbowls to see who gets the center piece.
- Rodfather
lol that's not nice, Mona. If you did marry Chris, you too could have two 30" monitors connected to a tricked out Mac Pro. Not a bad deal, there.
- Danny Minick
I would have an MsSurface for folks to exchange contact info. And quit bringing up Pirillo - seriously, I'd rather eat a tub of year old bacon grease (like I said up there) or even a garbage bag full of popcorn jelly beans (which I HATE with a passion) than marry him. Seriously. GROSS.
- Mona Nomura
Or drink an entire gallon of egg whites. With pickle juice. Mixed with Spam. Omg I just threw up in my mouth.
- Mona Nomura
Another word and the forces will abolish all forms of Cilantro on this planet called Earth, message received from Planet Janet
- Janet
Message to Planet Janet: you know you love it with cilantro, baby.
- Steven Perez
Now see this is the interesting thing: if anybody posts, then you have to. So if everybody keeps posting, you'll just have to keep up with us. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
- CAJ, somewhere else
I CAN ATTEST THAT PEA IS, IN FACT, ALL SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE. Argue that, and let's see how mean you really wanna be. In the meantime, my head hurts so discuss this amongst yourselves. You can summarize it for me later.
- pea
Debating tip: never try to get in the last word. Always give your opponent the opportunity to get in the last word. By some sort of mysterious karmic law, your persuasiveness will improve immeasurably. :)
- Sean McBride
Steven Perez isn't a Bunneh!!! As long as he doesn't respond.
- Jimminy
This is a point that can never be proved, nor disproved until all but one of us are dead.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
So... it's kind of like a "tontine" but with a pretty weak payoff?
- Mark Jepsen
Hmmm, actually, it only needs to continue until Steven Perez is dead (of very old age, i of course hope). Our victory is guaranteed. Of course, if friendfeed gets eaten by fb, it's just going to be a race to get the last comment in before the site goes down.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
It's okay, he's got a Catch-22 now. Steven Perez isn't a Bunneh, so long as he doesn't respond. And we all know he refutes his Bunneh status.
- Jimminy
It was real hawt in the town that night! IF I EDIT 18 hours later like now - is your last still last if comments are disabled? A hawt question.
- L Stephen Cleary
Steven is a Bunneh!!! He responded when I said he wasn't. Bunneh's can win if they want.
- Jimminy
Steven, I'm sure that not even you would resort to cheating to get the last word. I vote we just find the comment limit. It's gonna be a number ending in '0'
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
You did see where I said that I like my food scared and running, yeah? Mmmmm, ferret-ka-bobs ...
- Steven Perez
from IM
I do indeed see where this is headed, and no sir, I don't like it. *calls upon the forces of Voltron
- Tsali, The Native of FF
from IM
Sadly, the only Voltron to heed your call is the vehicle Voltron. And I disabled that yo-yo by pulling out the sparks plugs in the car feet.
- Steven Perez
from IM
And what is yo-yo code for in that last statement?
- pea
It's an old Navajo word for "punk-ass bitch".
- Steven Perez
from IM
very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy
- Steven Perez
from IM
VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY
- Steven Perez
from IM
I think friendfeed only put the extra "Add comment" link at the bottom of threads because of this specific thread. It took me a full 20 seconds to scroll from one end of it to the other.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
hmm... 800+ comments on this thread, and this is my first, and probably last comment on this thread. I wonder should I read all the comments, or just post?
- Mike Nencetti
Are you guys still trying to win?
- Steven Perez
from IM
23 years from now, Steven will still check his MSGoogle MyFriendFace feed every morning so he can respond to this post with 3,137,783 comments...
- joe is...
from iPod
After half a month there must have been moment you thought it would not be a real big deal if you eventually should NOT have the last word, I suppose?
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Now that you've nearly reached 1100 comments, I realized that I hadn't officially "liked" this yet! Error rectified, though you're clearly a comment whore, you show great panache while doing so!
- Mark Jepsen
Ohhh, you mean that place, which is totally faked by a #viciousbunneh who was in cahoots with the government in taking all the alfalfa plants into an underground hidden bunker.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
I will allow you to have the last word. But to take that last word you are surrendering your honor to a den of sightless whores.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Eventually, the whole thread will go backwards to the beginning.
- WorldofHiglet
That sounds like more fun than I imagine you wanted it to.
- Steven Perez
from IM
It was a test. Honor is pride. A den of sightless whores is merely an event that you will carry forever. You have attained the 7th level of enlightenment.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Considering that this thread has only been around since August, and has been shut down for the last two months, that's not too bad.
- Steven Perez
from IM
2012 is just the begining of the 13th Baktun, the long cont calendar doesn't actually run out until sometimes after 4772, that is of course if you stick with only Baktuns and don't use the other 4 higher counts, I just think FF will end in 4217 on planet Tersanzar :)
- Tsali, The Native of FF
Ah, right thread. In that thread, it's asked what you think you smell like. In this thread, I told you what I think you smell like.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I think this has lasted long enough. We already know what has to be the last word, it's already in the original quote. I will put it as the closing comment. I think we will all feel relieved we can now carry on to do greater things. For ourselves, our loved ones and the world.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden