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That issue of Hustler was probably the most-difficult-to-obtain bit of free porn on the net. Effort required: several pitches of rock climbing, vs. a few keystrokes for the online version (huhhuh... "strokes"...). I betcha catbirdseat took it.

Tacos Guaymas has a few locations in Seattle. The best Mexican chain restaurant anywhere. Yumyumyum.

My Dad likes to tell the story of how he got passed by a cop going 100+ w/o his lights on, then pulled over at a gas station down the road to see the cop sitting there, drinking his morning coffee while filling the gas tank. Dad whips out his military ID, mumbles something authoritatively about being a commissioned officer of the United States and puts him under citizen's arrest or some shit. Man, I'd love to do that.

They pay me for that. Paul, your pagetop poaching is pathological.

I almost never have change on me... so I pull out my pockets like a penniless clown and give 'em an honest "don't have any".

E Ledges descent is not bad, as of last fall. Just inspect the last rappel station carefully. See this thread.

After how many miles do you usually replace your tires on a road bike? I'm pretty clueless about bike maintenance... which books would you recommend?

I'm hoping to do the same route soon and am planning on just descending the cleaver.

Very interesting. I'm sure the consolidation was a contingency plan that OP was prepared to implement as soon as the ruling was announced. Putting inmates to work has got to be better than letting them sit around bored all day. I'm curious whether inmates really are paid the same as regular employees, though... and how do their benefits measure up? I don't really buy Mr. Atwater's comment that it cost just as much to employ inmates as it would to employ non-incarcerated folks. I'm curious about the reasoning behind the ruling, too.

The smell of that stuff makes me want to , but if you can choke it down it's good for you.

Sugar will tax your liver the same way that fruity girly drinks make for a worse hangover. I just drink lots of water.

I like Martlet because he's got such a consistent message. Every time he posts, he says the same thing. He never wavers, never falters, despite the swarms of moonbats wheeling in the hellish liberal skies around him.

Oh, just wait until you sprain an ankle or something and ask for a bunch of Percocet. One prescription's worth is probably all you'll need for the lifetime of your first aid kit, unless you worry about expiration dates 'n stuff. My drugs are in a little vial with the names and descriptions of the pills ("Percocet - severe pain - white pills marked 54/543...") so that when I'm incoherent with pain and fear my partner knows what to give me.

Midway would probably freak her out because of the step-across move after the belay, with you all out of sight above and unable to soothe her fears. Do Saber instead, where the belay is a huge ledge with a massive bolt anchor. There's a lot of traversing to get there, so be sure to protect well on the way over.

Unless the road is open all the way to the Climbers' Bivouac TH, don't go that way. You'll have to walk almost three miles of road. Ugh. If it is open, it'll save you 1000' of vert and you'll go up the Monitor Ridge route.

If you read the actual text of the Patriot Act, it's almost impossible to tell what the hell it does. It's mostly a jumble of additions and deletions to existing legislation, with no context. This (deliberate) inscrutability, coupled with the breakneck pace with which the legislation was rammed through the Congress, did not contribute to a healthy debate of the potential consequences of passing such a blatantly fascist piece of legislation.

You would be in a better position to out-train Dan - for the Rainier speed record, since you'd be an hour closer. Taking a lap up the DC route would be that much easier! Closer to the Olympics and Smith, farther from the North Cascades and Lillooet. No worthy crags within an hour's drive that I can think of. Even sleepier than Seattle. Good luck finding any food late at night. Betsy and I stumbled into a pizza place one night after 10pm after much searching, and it sucked. Coffeeshops close early, too. The brewery that produces Fishtail Ale is there, though. Evergreen is out in the boonies, so you might find it more difficult to get housing right next to a college campus so that you can poach drunken co-eds as they stumble back to their dorms.

Where did I say that he didn't? I heard the testimony and Sec'y Rumsfeld apologized several times. Despite the well-scriptedness of the apologies, I was favorably impressed. I was referring to Sen. Lieberman's statement that Fairweather quoted at length. Why would Sen. Lieberman say such a thing? It reads like the kind of political masturbation that turns me off, a self-evident grandiose statement that everyone agrees with.

The bad guys never apologized, so we shouldn't either? Huh? What kind of reasoning is that? Why should we behave like unrepentant murderous criminals? If someone fucks up, they should apologize. Rumsfeld fucked up by not taking immediate steps to stop torture of prisoners as soon as he knew about it. I don't think he needs to resign, though.

Despite being all cool and squiggly, the tilde (~) is part of the Perl pattern-matching operator, so it usually precedes an unholy mess of slashes, letters, and assorted punctuation that often takes way too long to debug.

I'm a programmer, so I make use of every punctuation mark on a daily basis. I hate them all, but especially ` ~ and \ The ` (backtick) is used in UNIX shell scripting.

That's $6.00 by the time you graduate, spraywhore. Good money I could have spent on A5 Crimpit Cargo Shorts. " Hanging from a hold or just hanging out, these shorts have a great casual look with superb technical ability." Oh, how I pine for superb technical ability in a short.

There are a lot of students here. You must make a LOT of money to be able to pay them all 6.5k. Now you're back in form, cracked! Editing my words and glibly ignoring the obvious fallacy of your own! Why don't you just run down to REI and pick up a few $20 ziplock bags? Not available at Feathered Friends!

It's probably pretty easy to convince a bunch of bored, stressed, underpaid, uncomfortable, homesick, undereducated, nominally-disciplined (they're in the Reserves, not the Marines) kids that torturing the enemy would be a fun diversion. John McCain's questions to Rumsfeld today seem to imply that contractors are in charge of interrogations at military prisons in Iraq. That bothers me, since corporate employees aren't subject to Freedom of Information Act requests about their career backgrounds, are they? It seems like it'd be easier for some psycho to become a prison interrogator if they were a civilian rather than a soldier.

No, you're supposed to say, "You have no idea what it's like being an out-of-state student, you yuppie Sooby-driving sales-tax-paying tele-skiing imported Washingtonian. If you were in my freakishly large shoes, you wouldn't last a minute." According to this document (1998), my taxes help pay $6,710 per student per year, after tuition revenue and not including financial aid costs (a few hundred bucks). This thread is dumb. Someone call a to take it away.