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Asparagine? So I should stop eating asparagus fries?

Well, if Bush hadn't promised a manned mission to Mars, the Martians wouldn't have gotten scared and started heating their atmosphere to an uncomfortable temperature to keep the humans away. Duh.

Katrina did shut down many refineries, which is why gas prices (and not oil prices) went up. There more than a little political opportunism in calling for price gouging investigations... though I'm sure that it's going on. I remember hearing about $6 gas in Atlanta. If we repeal the gas tax, then the hurricane (and the terrorists) have won.

That's not really fair, is it? I mean, I am just as outraged as you that Seattle can't build a F*&$! public transit system, but Americans know how to plan for the long term just fine. Those Americans just don't get elected. Not since the 1960s, at the latest. Europe also has much higher gas taxes! Raise the gas tax and build something useful, dammit.

I almost hit a tree laying across the road between Darrington and Hwy 20. Brakes work.

Fuck this fucking town.

Oh, enough of the semantics already. You are a beautiful and unique snowflake, OK?

Pink Floyd. Animals. I heard what sounded like a Neil Young song on KEXP the other night and it was so bad I had to change the station. I'm usually the model of tolerance and curiosity, but this was for me to poop on. How many of his songs sound exactly the same, anyway? And why are his lyrics so inane sometimes? Too much rhyming is for bad poetry. Tell me it was the drugs.

sa-wahss-in?

Rarely.

Yeah, but the electors are independent actors who are not required by law to cast their votes according to the popular vote in their state.

Because you're too poor to have disposable income to invest in securities? Oh wait, that's me. And why should any self-interested capitalist give you a stock tip, anyway?

Nothing to see here, move along now.

Do these have anything to do with each other? Judith Miller just refused to give up her sources... if the Patriot Act were in play here, the gov't would just have taken her notes forcefully or been monitoring her communications without her knowledge to find out the sources. I don't think any of that took place.

$400/month? Uh, yeeeaahhh. Sorry your ex-wife is being so obviously vindictive. Send me an email and I'll put in you in contact with some recruiters I know (r k b at speakeasy, dot net).

ING-vee. Like Yngvie Malmsteen. Apparently, the Louisville in CO, next to Boulder, is LOO-iss-vill.

Well, I've got pants made of the same material, and they are pretty abrasion-resistant, but suffer from (horrors!) pilling. I think it's silly to try to decide between clothes without trying them on. I mean, you have to wear the thing. Go to REI and feel all the softshells and make note of the fabric they use. You can tell intuitively which fabric will be more or less abrasion-resistant, so go from there. Anything stretch-woven will be more durable than a thin layer of nylon. I guess I don't know what your expectation of durability is. More/less durable than what? I hardly ever wear a softshell in the summer. Cragging, just wear a stylish, cheap sweatshirt if there's a breeze. It's not like you can't walk back to the car if it starts pouring. In the alpine, I'm moving too much to not overheat and sweat like a piggy with more than one layer on (poly or wool t-shirt, long- or short-sleeved), maybe a nylon windbreaker. At the belay and at camp, I put on an insulated layer that is warmer for its weight than a softshell. IMHO, softshell jackets are for cold temps when you will actually be wearing a jacket when moving and want it to breathe. I wear mine skiing and on snowy/cold days. Jeez, sorry for the dissertation... I'm pissed that I didn't go to Index when I saw the rain this morning on my window.

It's an overpriced thin softshell half-zip jacket. What else do you need to know?

Why do people expect help from the government? Well, they pay a bunch of taxes and are told they pay for things like FEMA. We have a long history of the government doing things for people, in case you missed that somehow, and a long history of people, rich and poor, expecting the powerful government to help them. You profit every day from the existence of the government. Perhaps (pure speculation, since none of us know anyone there, I'd guess) no one in Niger expects the government to help because they have no history of doing so. And no money. We have a hugely rich country. Of course we should help improve our lives with that money.

Illegal? Who says? You can't take off points for a paper turned in late?

Next to Goddess... Ooh, the offwidth! Dirty. The one around the corner is basically the left variation to a bolted 5.11 with a boulder problem crux. Up a few bolts to a ramp, then left. It is pretty short, like three moves. Vudu Guru definitely looks like it could go just on gear.

Hey there, people, I’m Michael Brown They say I’m the cutest boy in town My car is fast, my teeth is shiney I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie Here I am at a famous school I’m dressin’ sharp ’n’ i’m Actin’ cool I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper Let her do all the work ’n’ maybe later I’ll rape her Oh God I am the American Dream I do not think I’m too extreme An’ I’m a handsome sonofabitch I’m gonna get a good job ’n’ be real rich (Just doing my part to fill in for Dwayner...)

Waah. Use some initiative. You sound like Condoleeza Rice.

Enjoying sport climbing and wanting to put up sport routes yourself are entirely different things. I can climb something and be disgusted by the bolt job, and have. I might have enjoyed the moves, but shook my head at the bolts next to cracks. You've seen me skip bolts that I thought were unnecessary, Geek. I'm not going to get all snobbish and refuse to climb ze route zat is not ze perfect example of ze High Holy Ethical Bolting Standard. What's the point? If I had any say, which I never do, I would simply encourage others not to establish grid-bolted, crack-bolted, dumbed-down routes, and wouldn't put up such routes myself. The original poster's question was about establishing sport climbs, not climbing them. One action involves permanently changing the rock and surrounding area, the other is much less invasive and hardly establishes a precedent for anything.

Why? You can't possibly generate enough force with body tension to do anything to a carabiner. Even if you could, the daisy loop or fifi sling would break first, anyway. Adjustable daisies are probably more convenient for top-stepping, but there's no reason you can't use a regular daisy + fifi to do the same thing.