Welcome to Omnibits for Wednesday, 5 September (Day 1) 0615 The
wx forecast is looking much better than it was 12 hours ago. VFS
competitors are gearing up and our humble team photographer and Omni
Assistant, Carlos Felix Ortiz, is headed to the boarding area to take
... team photos. It will take a couple of rounds to gather those all
up, so plz be patient. Send all compliments to my gmail address at tedcwagner; send all complaints to your local congressman.
0800 Arizona X-Force that is one beautiful video. Good VFS and good videographer work are a beautiful combination..
1045 We
are rolling along here! The weather is cooperating (fingers crossed).
Two rounds of Advanced and Open VFS already done, and one of
Intermediate.
Big time thanks and kudos to Carlos for the
tremendous job he's doing taking team photographs, getting them
ingested into the bowels of OSHD, and putting out other fires all at
the same time. REMINDER: If you share a team photo on social media,
please don't forget the photographer credit!
Big time
sarcastic thanks to Microsoft for making my life so easy (cough cough)
with Windows 10 updates. Their most recent gift is the introduction of
"Domain Firewall" which turns on every time a PC is connected to a new
network. Unfortunately it's a notwork until that "Domain Firewall" is
turned off. Just one year, Microsoft? Please? Just one year without one
of your updates breaking my setup. That would be nice.
1700 Who
isn't familiar with Chicagoland Skydiving Center? This is my first time
here and I'm very impressed. Here's some snapshots from an afternoon
leg stretch. My
office. Clockwise from bottom: 4 copy stations; my workstation;
Internet support (.mp4 file creation and HTML files); database server;
two video transcode servers; and three DZTV servers. A total of 20
computers in the LAN for this meet. (Not seen: three JukeBoxes and
three OSHD scoring systems.) | The Pro Shop. I had to snip the unawares salesperson since she was clearly talking to an IRS auditor on the phone. | The
Flight Deck Restaurant. The menu is not big but the food and service
are both VERY good. I love the model P-51 hanging from the
ceiling. | I don't know how they play basketball on that court. It looks kinda soft to me. | The
Meat Director, Sir James of Hayhurst (in the red shirt), surveys the
battlefield. The Flight Deck Restaurant is in the background. | The main hangar. (Actually, the only one.) | View
from just outside the judging rooms. Two JukeBoxes are on the far wall
and one more around the corner from the bottom of the stairs. So now
all you Texans know in advance. | The VFS judges at work on Round 4. |
wx hold again ...
Here's
a note that interesting, at least to me: this is the first meet I've
ever supported where I did not set up the judging room. FS Chief Judge
Jim Rees did every bit of it. A strategic error on his part, but that
will hit him later ...
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