:pseudo-element{} » awesomeness http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:34:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 I know what you are all thinking http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog/2010/01/03/i-know-what-you-are-all-thinking/ http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog/2010/01/03/i-know-what-you-are-all-thinking/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:34:09 +0000 Laurence http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog/?p=172 You are all going “Dear God, she updated after so many months of silence, something of the utmost importance must have happened!” and indeed you would all be right to be thinking it, because it is true. Something beyond all expectations has changed today, sunday January 3rd into a day I will not forget for years to come.

I got the VCR to work.

I feel uncannily clever and beyond a doubt the smartest woman on the planet at this instant. I have battled the wires, the sound-but-no-video input, the tracking and the lack of remote. Now I have beat my opponent into submission. Tonight I shall watch my whole collection of Disney movies. HALLELUJAH!

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Everything is already pretty good for the party on Saturday.

]]> http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog/2009/07/09/home-sweet-home/feed/ 5 Return from 4 200 metres at 200km/h… http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog/2009/06/13/4-200-metres-at-200kmh/ http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog/2009/06/13/4-200-metres-at-200kmh/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:57:12 +0000 Laurence http://pseudo-element.thegeekcartel.com/blog/?p=124 Today was the big day that I had been waiting for a couple of weeks now. I had signed up for a parachute jump at work that a corworker was organizing. I had been thinking about it, a little obsessively at times, and looking forward to the moment when I would look down and jump into, well, nothing! It finally happened and I am totally thrilled. When I landed, if it had been just a question of going back in a queue like at an amusement park, I would have jumped minutes after!

My fancy suit even had puffy sleeves! Lorien landing on his ass (ok so everyone did) a lone parachute in the cloudy sky

I stressed all week long, and had some fleeting moments of sheer utter abject terror and panic throughout the day, but when I got my suit and followed the mini formation I became surprisingly serene. I thought it was the trance-like feeling someone had told me about, but it just kept with me even in the plane. The only moment I got scared was when I had to kneel in front of the door of the plane, tilt my head completly back (into the banana position!) and just lean forward. I knew the tip of my knees were floating in the air but I couldn’t see anything!

So yes, I screamed during the free fall at the start, but it was so exhilarating to see the world under me, and the sky, and to hear the noise of the air. I could also feel my face flapping around with the speed. It was so cold too. Eventually the instructor opened the parachute and I barely felt it. There was no big tug or shake, we just stopped falling so fast. I that point I realized how warm the air was and how beautiful the countryside looked when you have more than a tiny plane window to look at it.

Eventually I got to drive a little and I think turning is the BEST THING EVER. It goes woooosh by and I felt like squeeing :D

So yeah, I will definitly jump again. It was so much easier and smooth than I thought the laws of physics could warrant. The free fall part is just so intense and yet so soothing. Best Sport Ever. It just made my day when I got home and saw that former President Bush had jumped for his 85th birthday. I hope I can jump like him when I get old too.

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