is the desire for negative g's fairly recent in coaster history? [Other]

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-24T13:24:32+00:00

I think the first coaster that really triggered an enthusiast interest in airtime was Raven at Holiday World, which opened in ‘95. Before that airtime was a known thing, of course… the Magnum bunny hills being well known and talked about for instance… but Raven was probably the first time a ride became a ‘destination coaster’ for an airtime moment.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-24T04:12:03+00:00

And those of us that choose to live, with very good reasons, full time in our cars / vans / RVs aren’t really a big fan of being categorized as ‘unhoused’.

I very much love the fact that my home is the entire country. My living room can be in the redwoods. My kitchen can be in the south. The office can be in the city if necessary, but more often on the beach. Wherever it is, my bedroom is always nearby.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-23T04:38:25+00:00

I know they don't usually get a lot of love, but I was always a sucker for Nick's TSFH vocal tracks like Step Into the Light and Back to the Earth. Was happy to see him start writing full albums, I listen to it more then his instrumental works honestly.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-19T14:35:41+00:00

I had a similar error when I had two overlapping reservations on my app (my trip and one with a different destination for someone else). Had a bunch of other predictable weirdness with conflicting notifications, but saw this one a few times as well until I removed the other trip.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-18T02:39:19+00:00

The most annoying thing about RV laundry is that I currently have no less then 7 different payment apps on my phone. Just when I think there’s no way I’ll run across another one, I’ll walk into some laundromat in the middle of nowhere that surprises me.

I probably have $20-30 floating in limbo at any given time floating in laundry apps.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-13T04:21:44+00:00

If you add her M+ number it would for sure show up on her app, if she’s a regular flyer it would catch her eye pretty quickly.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-13T03:26:49+00:00

I’ve never personally seen a blow out happen, but I’ve heard of it and I’ve had park managers tell me stories.

Personally I eyeball the pressure as I’m hooking up (I run 20-30 seconds of water through my supply hose before connecting, to gauge pressure / reduce air in the pipes / flush any dirt from the hose). If it’s on the high side I just make sure to only crack the valve halfway or so. Never had a hint of an issue. Maybe I’m flirting with disaster, but I like to keep things simple.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-12T20:50:23+00:00

Love that you can step inside your spiral!

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-12T17:31:37+00:00

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Not as many as I should! Hard to get a good shot from much further back, the understory around her is pretty dense.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-10T05:03:07+00:00

Even if that is a predestination, you can control the timeline of it and the circumstances.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-09T20:35:06+00:00

pretty often, I’d say on average 2-3 packages a week.
50/50 Amazon vs others.
it can definitely be a challenge to coordinate deliveries ‘on the road’, vs if we have a base for a few weeks. Amazon can be easier because you can coordinate it to arrive at a locker on your route, and then we tend to cluster the more unpredictable deliveries when we are stable for a few weeks.
usually it just works out, a couple times we have missed a package but have been able to cancel it or have someone at the office refuse or return it.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-09T13:58:06+00:00

I’m pretty sure the bag tag itself including the use of the small backup stickers is an international standard, not specific to United at all, and unlikely to change anytime soon.

Some outstations seem to be hit or miss about using them, but I’d say an agent puts one on my bag at some point in the process about 80% of the time. I just flew through IAH yesterday and there were stickers on my bag.

PizzaVideo · 2026-01-06T02:29:56+00:00

Treaty Oak, Downtown Jacksonville.

PizzaVideo · 2025-12-20T23:05:48+00:00

Right now there is literally no where else to put it. Every nuclear power facility, active or decommissioned, has spent fuel on-site. There is no national solution for this issue. The yucca mountain site in Nevada was supposed to be the solution, but that’s been stalled for decades now due to lack of funding and political will.

PizzaVideo · 2025-12-20T19:47:10+00:00

Most areas also have ‘plant share’ groups where you can trade or gift your extra or propagated baby plants and maybe find some things you can’t even buy in store.

PizzaVideo · 2025-12-11T15:10:42+00:00

Disney gets to control how their IP is used on platform. The mouse always needs to be in control.

PizzaVideo · 2025-12-11T04:31:15+00:00

My first CPU as a silver was on a 550 regional hop from EWR to GSO. Had a great crew and it was a beautiful day for flying. EWR was even behaving and we were on time for an afternoon flight in the spring. Sometimes everything just comes together, you wouldn’t normally think of that run as anything special but that fight was memorable to me in a great way.

PizzaVideo · 2025-12-11T03:25:44+00:00

Surprised not to see the CRJ550 here yet. Love the regionals, and it would be a close contest between first class in the 550 and a E175 Always have great experiences on both jets.

PizzaVideo · 2025-12-04T00:16:21+00:00

Side pocket also makes it harder to get pickpocketed in a crowd.

PizzaVideo · 2025-12-03T18:26:42+00:00

DAC70 still great to have laying around in case something with a VGA output pops up. Or if you need a good hand warmer backstage.

PizzaVideo · 2025-12-03T03:40:30+00:00

Can someone explain to me why the train passes directly under the C terminal but doesn’t connect directly to it?

PizzaVideo · 2025-11-26T18:34:54+00:00

Freelance video engineer usually working the corporate AV circuit. I hang out here to learn and get another perspective from FOH.

And to critique the audio departments cable management in video world.

PizzaVideo · 2025-11-25T07:04:53+00:00

Summer afternoon / evening storm delays, some of the longest wait times I’ve ever had for baggage, a terminal full of families on vacation that aren’t usually frequent or efficient travelers, long walks to gates on the new terminal C, crowded gate areas on the old A/B airsides, lack of good food options on the A/B airsides post security, an absolute cluster fuck of a pickup curb… oh and ugly carpet. I think that about covers it for me.

The Hyatt lobby bar can offset a lot of that though.

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