ScottP

FOUL! You lose points for even knowing what "window treatments" are. Of course I know what window treatments are. I'm married. It's part of the 'reeducation' process you go through that's designed to suck any remaining 'batchelorness' out of you. I can also discuss such topics as 'mixing' vs 'folding', which way to iron down the seams when laying out a quilt, and why Trask is wrong about Martha Stewart being a skank.

What is up with those window treatments?

Jimi Hendrix "Birth Of Success" A 1972 compilation of live club recordings out of Belgium when Jimi went to Europe in the mid-sixties. The Temptations' "Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch", The Stones'"Satisfaction", Marvin Gaye's "Ain't That Peculiar" and Lee Dorsey's "Get Out of My Life Women" are some of the classics he covered.

One creepy dude comin' up..

Me and Earl.

Is it the butt crack on the Cheeks?

The resemblance is quite striking... ...but it's those maboul pansies featured about 5 posts up.

Shoulder Dislocation

Speaking of Nancy Boys...

Unban trask right now! So he's a jerk, so what? Ahem... "CC.Com is here for your enjoyment and enrichment, but what might be funny to you or your friends might not be funny to others or even offensive. This is something that you will have to take into consideration from now on if you aren't already. Unfortunately life is all about compromises and in this case your being here is more of a privilege then a right. I think there is this common misconception here that the moderators are here to babysit some of you folks, giving you a spanking when you step out of line, and then allow you back into the room with the rest of the kids with a sore butt and mouth still tasting like soap. That simply isn't the case. The moderators are here to move topics in the right forum and help keep topics on track. The are spending entirely too much time editing people's mindless garbagelet alone talking about how to deal with it. They put more thought about dealing with it then the people generating it. They are NOT here to keep deleting your insensitive and stupid posts and ban and unban , and ban and unbad."

That's why the "in retrospect" qualifier... The point is arguably a good one for the time, but he really fucked up along the way. In light of where it all went, let's just say it shouldn't be required reading.

In retrospect, perhaps some books ought to be pulled and tossed; those that are particularly vile.

I don't recall for sure, but there may be some old written descriptions in the dark green Sierra Club Publications Yosemite Guide written by Steve Roper. If so, it would be vague, rudimentary, and very old. I've seen some stuff in old AAJ's, same adjectives as above.

There are before and after photos here.

Ray, a teacher's greatest enemy is his fellow teachers. They can be some of the most conceited, self-serving, tunnel-visioned people that I know. They think nothing of playing politics with the kids, which is just plain wrong. If the teacher's unions were to clean house, institute some self policing, lobby for some meaningful education laws such as changing legislation so that you can weed out the deadwood, or actually repealing some of them and start to demonstrate as a whole that they really are in it for the kids and not just a paycheck, then teacher's would stand a much better chance. There are some excellent teachers out there, but when the occupation as a whole is characterized by the most outspoken of those who happen to be in a position of union leadership and come off with the characteristics I mentioned above, then it hurts all teachers. We need competition in this field, not government protection from competition. When that happens and it's truly free competition, then the cream of the crop will rise and the deadwood and problems in this occupational field will be weeded out and education will succeed. to that Trask Erik, To speak to the union issue, I've got to say that for the most part, I pay a shitload of union dues for little more than some nebulous protection against a possible lawsuit. I certainly can't point to anything the NEA, or even the WEA, has done to improve my lot. My local association on the other hand has done a damn fine job of bargaining for contracts that serve the interests of the teachers who sign them. We would be getting a royal screwing by the district if they didn't. I work with a guy who has been teaching for something like 35 years. He touts himself, with pride, as the district's highest paid video projectionist. He is a self-serving jerk and the protectionist climate in the unions keeps him in his job until he feels like leaving. That said, "Better include in the comparisons: percentage of ESL (english as a Second Language) students. percentage of LAP (Learning Assistance Program) kids. percentage of IEP (Individualized Education Plan)students (both academic and behavior.) percentage of low income families with students enrolled. ratios of student to teacher. ratios of dollars to full time enrollment." aren't excuses. They are legitimate factors that influence the ability of a public school educator to effectively do their job. They are also factors largely absent from a private school educators position as well as from the vitriol spewed by the writer in Ray's link.

"Yet, every objective testing measure on student performance indicates that private school teachers do a better job than public school teachers" Better include in the comparisons: percentage of ESL (english as a Second Language) students. percentage of LAP (Learning Assistance Program) kids. percentage of IEP (Individualized Education Plan)students (both academic and behavior.) percentage of low income families with students enrolled. ratios of student to teacher. ratios of dollars to full time enrollment. It seems that Mr. Moore is missing some objectivity in his column.

I have to disagree with this part of your otherwise sage observation: Included in the infinite bag of tricks that constitutes aid climbing comes the tipped out cam as a body weight placement. In the aid realm, red would not mean "stop", rather "tread lightly."

Always one of my favorite political cartoons from the Ray Gun era...

we're you the 9 o'clock?? i thought i saw your van outback when i showed up! and doesn't trask have a nice house? A real gem...

You need to use the little winky thingy

A used pair here.

Yeah, fecal matter and someone elses vomitus... ...which reminds me of the time I saw some crows picking the bits out of a fairly fresh pool of vomit. Lost a little respect for the murderous lot after that.

"Lord of the Flies" This site is the island, a microcosm representing the world. You've got the Ralph and Simon-types who are basically good and the Jack and Roger-types who are basically evil. There are the Piggy-types who are both intellectual and victim and all of the others who gravitate back and forth, following whatver entity best suits them at the time. Society holds everyone together, and without the conditions of society (which include the ultimately important visual cues that come with normal interaction), our ideals, values, and the basics of right and wrong are lost. Without society's rigid rules, anarchy and savagery can, and do surface.