4
September
2007

It scares the hell out of me

Saturday morning, I did a tandem sky dive out up north at Skydive Snohomish jumping out of a plane from 13,000 feet going nearly 125 miles per hour.
This was my second sky dive trailing the one I did last year in Italy by almost exactly 12 months. The free fall was 15 seconds shorter [...]

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2
October
2006

Watch my sky dive

Now that I’m finally back at home, I got around to encoding the DVD of my Sky dive in Italy and uploaded to YouTube.
For YouTube, I converted the MPEG2 to FLV and uploaded that, which was only 12MB.  I’m surprised at how decent the framerate and sound still is.

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17
September
2006

Ready, set, jump!

“Tilt your head back, push your pelvis out like you’re making love and hook your legs around like a banana. Capisca?”
There I was, sitting with my legs hanging out of an airplane, wondering how I ended up in Molinella, Italy, about to jump out on my first tandem skydive.
Rewind.
The first day we arrived in Florence, [...]

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