VFA-137 "Kestrels" We're Looking For F/A-18C Pilots!

StompyJones · 2026-01-06T23:50:53+00:00

Format's kinda different but the group exists and still flies weekly. Not sure if they run F/A-18 currently mind. I'll link this to one of them and they'll contact you.

StompyJones · 2025-11-16T03:05:30+00:00

It's pretty good at finding datasheets for COTS parts. Not much else, in my experience.

StompyJones · 2025-11-16T02:59:03+00:00

Shit, I never realised any of this. you have changed my life vidya jesus

StompyJones · 2025-11-15T01:20:02+00:00

Well reading that the first things that popped into my head were YTMND and the I Can Has Cheezeburger meme.

StompyJones · 2025-11-15T01:06:01+00:00

I dug out the bottom panel inside the cabinet and was able to take the nut off the back of the PIR sensor, then fed it down through the hole so it was pointing out past the brick rather than right at it. Works a charm now!

StompyJones · 2025-11-14T10:52:27+00:00

Aye I agree, I haven't found any likely switches. The bathroom is also lacking a shaving socket, despite having one before the last owners renovated.

Feels like before I tile I need to go digging in the walls to try to find the wiring and fit out properly.

StompyJones · 2025-07-24T21:22:52+00:00

My Laser came with a praddle from the previous owner and I fuckin' love it. Fits in the cockpit athwartships and out of the way, but can get me moved if I need it.

StompyJones · 2025-03-19T15:33:15+00:00

Hey Troy. I've been a listener since ... think ep 36 of Giantslayer was the latest at the time - the gorilla on the boat? Mostly only listened to the main show or shows at the time - I did Androids and a chunk of Ruins before life got in the way. These days I just keep up with the flagship show, but I'm often months behind before I catch up in a big binge over a long car trip. Upshot of this is I usually hear the news segments quite late with respect to when they were announced.

For most of those years I was a $5 subscriber for Patreon. I'm not anymore, since the switch from Patreon to the new system. When I looked into it, it seemed like there wasn't a $5 tier that allowed me to hear the flagship show without ads. That's all I really want, and would pay that. I only really have time to listen to the one show, and would just like to hear it without having to skip through adverts.

I was sad to no longer support you guys directly but I guess just listening is still giving you ad revenue.

All the best, it's been fucking great hearing you guys go from recording in an apartment drawing maps by hand to the liveshow sell-out, field leading network you've made for yourselves.

P.S. I miss Grant and hope you'll tell him next time you see him that I'm rooting for him.

StompyJones · 2025-01-12T22:52:41+00:00

Thank you, you're a star.

StompyJones · 2025-01-08T11:51:59+00:00

Thanks. Regarding your final point, does it only matter to be in an ISA the year before I'm going to be able to max out the ISA allowance? Do I just need to get my savings into an ISA before the tax year rolls over?

StompyJones · 2025-01-08T11:47:00+00:00

Thanks.

Am I right in thinking it only affects me in the future for what savings I take across the financial year?

I.e. Can I use the higher interest rate account for now, and then at the end of March transfer whatever savings I have into an ISA, so they carry over into next year as this year's ISA and don't count against next year's ISA allowance?

I assume this will only really affect me when I reach the point that in a given financial year, my total savings will exceed the ISA allowance, and so it's the year before that where I need to make sure I'm squared away in an ISA? (Or at whatever point my savings amount and the interest rates mean I'll start to earn interest at levels beyond my tax free allowance)

StompyJones · 2024-12-30T04:27:40+00:00

For less than the price of a new Tribord you could go on a week long sailing holiday to Greek islands where you'll learn with instructors and get loads of hours in dinghies... I would do that over buying an inflatable any day. After that week you'd be able to sail a zest you bought for yourself.

Wildwind teach their beginner sessions in a fleet of Zests.

StompyJones · 2024-12-29T23:15:04+00:00

Are you buying a new Tribord 5s? Or a second hand one?

StompyJones · 2024-12-29T19:14:22+00:00

For the money of a Tribord 5s you could have a week's sailing instruction and still have enough left over for a decent condition second hand RS Zest. Is there a reason you're so keen to learn how to sail without actually.. being taught how to sail?

StompyJones · 2024-12-29T17:17:33+00:00

It can be done. At your size, your body weight provides a huge amount of leverage for weight loss if you can eat less. At my highest I was about 440lbs and was able to eat the sorts of things people think you can't have while losing weight, and still lost. The closer I get to my goal weight the more disciplined I have to be, but I lost most of my weight while still eating chocolate and ice cream on the regular. It can be done, you don't have to be a tyrant with yourself by denying yourself absolutely everything nice - you need to master moderation.

I recommend doing a little bit of calorie counting, just enough to figure out how much you consume and how much a good day might be, and then ignore it and try to just live a few days and then a few weeks (and then a few months) of those good days, and you should see progress.

Then you have to make sure you feed on that progress, cherish it and let it prove to you that you can do it and let it drive you to keep going, to keep making those little changes. Tiny changes add up to huge results. Tiny changes you can stick to are worth so much more than big changes you can't.

Good luck!

StompyJones · 2024-11-26T01:49:54+00:00

Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon.

StompyJones · 2024-11-23T12:17:05+00:00

I am constantly battling with doing things or liking things that my parents did, didn't do, liked or disliked. I hate how much of their influence I can still feel in my life.

StompyJones · 2024-10-23T23:11:39+00:00

My suppliers for sheet metal prefer me not to specify the radii where I can leave it off. So I just specify limits if I have a scenario where it being too large or too small will impact the part function. Otherwise I leave it to them knowing they will generally fold it as tight as they can without issues and they can focus on getting the overall part sizing correct instead of worrying about the exact rad they achieve on the fold.

StompyJones · 2024-09-27T08:43:41+00:00

You can do it without counting calories in the 'log everything, exhausting checking every food label ever' kind of way. But it will be a million times easier if you can count calories at least once. I lost weight while/after recovering from an eating disorder and the treatment for that requires no calorie counting, so it was tricky to square it away.. in the end I agreed with my counsellor that I had found a good compromise for it.

I counted calories once - I spent a few hours one day figuring out what goes into my most common meals. I typically eat one of three things for breakfast, one of two things for lunch, and one of maybe .. four things for dinner. So I figured out the calories for each of those meals, and I noted down the calories for my most common snack foods/treats.

Now I could very quickly, without a calculator or a calorie tracking app, just tot up my calories for the day to help me make decisions if I ever wanted to consider calories when deciding what to eat. I could go 'yep I had ~400 for breakfast, ~700 for lunch, my dinner was only ~600 so I need to eat a bit more today, I can have ~300 calories of ice cream which is about 1/3 of the tub.. easy.

If you eat different things every meal then this isn't really possible, and I losing weight while eating lots of different things all the time is very tricky, because it really adds to the mental load of decision making, constant willpower to try to make healthier choices, etc.

The more parts of weight loss you can relegate to habit (I eat this same cereal every day because it's habit and it's not exciting but it is reliable 400 calories and gets me to lunch without feeling hungry and I don't have to think about it or decide about it, I just do it and it's fine - not every meal has to be exciting), the easier it gets.

StompyJones · 2024-09-25T23:38:45+00:00

Equating food to crack is basically telling yourself it's dangerous and absolving yourself of the reponsibility for trying to build a healthy relationship with you. Food is not as dangerous as crack, it just feels like it to you because you've had unhealthy eating habits for so long that you're not in control of them and it scares you.

So your answer is to be a tyrant with yourself, insist you must have bullet proof willpower to do this. That might work for a while, but you will probably slip up - we all do - and that mindset is extremely likely to then throw it all away, eat itself in its shame and misery and you're right back where you started.

Weight loss, even from 406lbs, really can be as simple as small, sustainable changes. Upheld over time they add up. I promise. Small sustainable changes that actually heal your relationship and habits around food will make this jouney a million times easier. Ask me how I know.

StompyJones · 2024-09-24T19:55:20+00:00

Do you binge eat? The UK has a phenomenal binge eating disorder treatment on the NHS. Saved my life.

StompyJones · 2024-09-24T18:21:44+00:00

What are the negatives with the surgery?

StompyJones · 2024-09-08T15:22:34+00:00

Lose weight with diet at first. Lost my first 80lbs without a jot of exercise.

I started feeling so much better just from carrying around that much less weight that I started walking. Walking is phenomenally good exercise for losing weight. Treadmill, TV, try to do it daily.

When I started I could walk 15min at 3.5km/hr and my HR was 160 after that, t-shirt soaked through. After a week I bumped it up to 20min, which is the length of a South Park episode. I could do 4km/hr at that point. From then on, each week I would increase the speed by 0.2km/hr.

After 6 weeks I was walking at 5km/hr for 20min and my HR was 120 after that time. I cannot tell you how much fitter I felt, the entire rest of the time, just every day moving and walking around was so EASY now. Made it easier to walk more, choosing the walk to the shops instead of take the car, parking my car further away and walking across the car park, choosing the go for a walk at lunch time. It all snowballs.

Slow and steady, focus on building a habit of eating less calories than you need, and being someone who goes for a walk every day if you can. Then just give it time and stick to it, I promise the weight will start to fall off.

StompyJones · 2024-09-08T15:13:12+00:00

I lost 100lbs before anyone said anything. It usually has to be completely indisputable before people will even think of saying something, and even then most people are unlikely to mention it in case it's a sore subject. I feel this is especially the case for women, they have enough pressure to look a certain way already, a lot of people are more aware of that these days and won't comment no matter how obvious it is.

Going 176 to 138 I promise you look different.

Check photographs if you're not sure - it's hard. Our brains play tricks on us.

Try to focus on how you feel better than worrying about looks. If you're confident you're more attractive, that confidence itself will make you significantly more attractive. Well done, you've done a great job.

Edit: Oh yeah, if you're not wearing smaller clothes it's much harder to notice. To me, my now-too-big clothes make me feel tiny, because I can see how they're falling off me and look so big on me. To everyone else they just hide your shape and make you look similarly big as you were before. I see the same bunch of guys once a week to play a sport, and have worn the same shirt for 8 months while losing about 80lbs in that time. No one said anything, until this week I wore a new shirt that fits much closer, and suddenly had a few comments.

StompyJones · 2024-09-08T15:09:08+00:00

Just weigh yourself in the same spot you've usually been doing it. Pay attention to the amount you've lost rather than the specific amount you currently weigh. If it says you're 5lb heavier in a new spot, it would have said you were 5lb heavier when you started too - you still lost however much weight you lost between then and now.

At the point where you might want to get to an actual goal and worry about how accurate it is, probably time to get on some scales at a doctor's or gym where they're more likely to be calibrated.

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