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Gee, can we stop comparing whose people suffered more? The genocide one-upsmanship is kind of sickening.

What's the deal with the piracy-detection scheme that MS Office for OS X uses? After my firewall started getting lots of hits on port 2222 while working in a hipster coffeeshop, I looked into it and found: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/techbull/CIACTech02-003.shtml Is this sort of thing really necessary? How many other Microsoft products do this? I'm sure there is some clause buried in the EULA that says a "licensee" agrees to have their product ID broadcasted everywhere, but who would read it, much less understand it? I guess this old news, and more of a security problem than a privacy problem, but one leads to another.

Looks like everyone's chiming in on this one I'd say Orbit's harder than Outer Space. There's a chimney on Orbit, which some folks aren't used to. Then the transition move between the two face cracks on p3(?) is pretty interesting. The face climbing on the next pitch is exposed and intimidating, too, with rusty quarter-inchers. You gotta climb that finger crack on OS! Cool exposure and easily protected with nuts at the start. I agree with chucK that the pedestal move is worth putting in two pieces for if you're at all concerned about it. It's a long runout before you get there...

You'll only be missing out on certain features of Microsoft's websites, or other non-standards-compliant websites. So basically nothing, in my experience. You won't be able to use windowsupdate.com to update your operating system, but that's no big deal, since Automatic Updates does it for you.

Anyone know when a second pitch was put in above Poultry in Motion at Clem's Holler in Leavenworth? It's pretty dirty (but good) slab climbing after a couple moves up a thin flake, ending at the Honky's Lament anchor with the huge rap rings. I'm curious because it's not in the new guidebook. I'm also curious if anyone's climbed Sweet Home on Condor Buttress... is it in this photo, left of or in the broken-up area? How about some of the other routes on the main slab, particularly Heads?

44.7 mi/gal for that 747 is pretty damn good. Assuming your truck (?) gets one-third that gas mileage, then Jim is still consuming less fuel than you if he drives a mere 2001 fewer miles per year than you using the same truck and still takes that 6000-mile trip to Italy. And assuming you don't fly down to California to pray at the Temple of Reagan.

You're just jealous that you can't muster up the narcissism to do it yourself.

You need one of these: http://bigshocker.com/ (My brother's college friends started the company.)

Blogger for text (free, blogger.com). Flickr for photos (free, flickr.com).

I'd rather live under laws created by a deliberative process than under the unfettered rule of powerful men.

Driving slower in the left lane is illegal: http://www.leg.wa.gov/RCW/index.cfm?section=46.61.100&fuseaction=section "(4) It is a traffic infraction to drive continuously in the left lane of a multilane roadway when it impedes the flow of other traffic."

I am the walrus.

Why is that? Because blood will be diverted to the digestive system?

Holy crap! Where were you climbing when this happened? I'm glad you're OK.

In Fremont, Qazis as a good lunch buffet. On Queen Anne, there's a restaurant at the top of the hill behind the Thriftway(?), name starts with an 'R'. Pricier than most Indian places, but damn tasty.

You don't have to repeat last night's conversation for everyone to read, Mr. Bareback USA 1987.

Sweet Jesus. You forgot Eric Clapton.

Every sperm is sacred, Fairweather. Less access to contraception == more unwanted children == more emotionally scarred, impressionable waifs yearning for the love of Jesus == more Republican voters. Get with the program.

Oh, and on the gay tip: I climbed a couple times with a guy who has a sheepskin-padded gear sling. G-A-Y.

9/16" webbing tied in a knot. I hate the way the loops on a fancy gear sling get in the way. With a piece of webbing, you just have to reach in one place. Of course, I get my webbing for less than retail, since I'm sponsored by 9/16" Webbing GmbH of Dresden. If anyone wants a bro deal, PM me with your climbing resume and I'll see if I can hook you up. PS - I left some of my pro-deal webbing on pretty much every hard route in the Cascades. PM me if you find it. TIA.

65 and sunny everywhere.

NWMJ is online only.

I heard on NPR that The Man is phasing in the passport requirement--first for travel home from the Caribbean, then Canada and Mexico. It will be a few years, I think, before you'll need a passport to travel to Canada.

I think you have to plug most treadmills in these days. It's the American way.

I am shocked. I thought Californians were keeping snuggly warm in all those homes built next to raging forest fires.