Saturday, October 27, 2012

New Hipster's Urban Dictionary


Latest work...  calling it 'The Essential New Hipster's Urban Dictionary."

Enjoy!

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Antidope – Reversing the negative effects of a socially lacking person.  Such as an inebriated friend. 

Barackuda – A predatory species whose favorite meals are conservative in nature.

Conifer – A large manly tree.

Coniferous – Explaining your vegetarianism while retaining a chance of getting laid. 

Conviction – Set of fervent beliefs which may result in status as a convict.  Who has an eviction.

Express – That awkward interrogation in the frozen food section by a former girlfriend who demands details on your recent dating history. 

iPhun – Shenanigans made possible when your buddy leaves his iPhone unattended.

iPissed – When iPhun goes too far. 

Joggernot – A man emphasizing his strength conditioning over aerobic performance.  As muted silence follows, the mention of a coniferous lifestyle is ill-advised.

Mailstrom – Pulp cloud resulting from high winds and those bleeping Pennysaver! coupon books.

Malady – To express dissatisfaction with a female who has expressed you.  Often accompanied with a shake of head and dry clucking noise.

Mousetache – Entreating your rodent, Mr. Jeffers, to lie prone on your upper lip. 
(See also: conviction)

Plantinum – Doesn’t matter how cool it looks at the store, fake plants are death for libido. 

Sinthetic – Evil deeds done dirt cheap. 

Torture – Painful, exhausting process at the hands of a legal motion.  

VINdictive - Typical: damage resulting from thief who, upon breaking into your car and discovering a miserable loot of lint-covered pennies and mixed tapes, wrathfully damages the vehicle's interior.  

Whimsicull – A light-hearted action whose intended results are catastrophic, such as sprinkling coke into the apartment’s central air and offing the old lady in 9B. 
(See also: conviction)

Monday, April 9, 2012

C-17 Tactical Arrival...




Ever wonder what it'd be like to be in the cockpit of an Air Force jet?  Here's your chance to see it firsthand. 

This was a trip I took into Key West, Florida.  We landed at Key West Naval Air Station, and flew a visual approach called an overhead break.  This maneuver has you fly about 2000' feet above the field, over the final approach ground track, then make a hard turn (45-60 degrees of bank, left turn in the video) that is nearly continuous to final. 

As soon as the plane starts its initial turn, you typically will reduce power in order to slow to approach speed, and configure to an intermediary flap setting--for us that's Slats--Extended, Flaps--1/2, Landing Gear--Down.  Once turning final is when we configure the rest of the way, in this case to a Flaps--Full setting. 




Here's a graphic:



And....here's the video: