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'91 is worth $3211 US. Salvage value is only $250. I know this why? Because mine was totalled last week. Sorry about your ordeal ML. Sucks to walk outside in the a.m. and go..."Dude, where's my car?"

Got my fingers taped tight and my beanie pulled low I'm decked out in Prana from head to toe I brush off the holds with my old toothbrush and eat five twinkies for the white sugar rush My bros will be spotting, yelling C'MON!!! We just finished watching some Chris Sharma pron I sit in the dirt on pads six deep and stare up at the problem, damn it's sooo steep I'm amped, I'm psyched, I prep for the send Looking for focus, I'm trying for Zen I crank and I slap and I gaston too "Go for it man! DO THE DEW!!!" So I drop knee, crimp, set-up, and huck here comes the sloper, now stick it, IT'S STUCK! I grunt and roar, I scream and shout Hey, I wonder when the new mags come out? I flounder the mantle and wallow on top My crew goes off, yellin’ their props These little rocks make me sick strong Hey kind brah, don’t bogart the bong From wrestling the pebbles I got mad skillz Wonder if I’ll ever take ‘em to da hillz? “Bouldering and sport climbing are valuable, but they are not legitimate forms of climbing” – Yvon Chouinard

I think you misjudge me, I don't consider myself an aetheist by any means. I believe in a higher power, I just have a different view of that higher power. Sure I can and do concede that I may be wrong, that's one of my strongest beliefs re:religion...basically that nobody knows until your day comes. I don't label my beliefs, they encompass elements of many philosophies. You might find Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh an interesting read.

Scott, you're starting to sound like a whack-job fundamentalist. Strong beliefs are a good thing, a closed mind is not. You "defy me", gimme a break. There are volumes written on problems within the Christian philosophy/belief system. What system does not break down? Zen might meet that criteria since it has no dogma, excludes no beliefs, and makes no attempt to explain the unknowable. I'm sure you could find "problems" within Zen too, but without dogma or a rigid belief structure it would be hard to make a case. BTW, how's the fishin down there?

So the original topic of this thread was the Georgia education system and evolution. NPR's All things considered has a feature story on this today for those interested. Eight pages of "your religious views don't make sense"...hello! none of them do. Any philosphy cosmological or otherwise eventually reaches a point where it breaks down or fails to account for or explain certain things. This is an inherent flaw of logic and reason. Turn off the sixth sense (i.e. discursive thought) and just be, you may find all you need in those moments of one mind/no mind. A good read is Abraham Maslow's (the hierarchy of needs guy)Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences. As for Nietzsche, a better comprehensive read than A.S.Z. is probably Beyond Good and Evil. It's essentially a summation of his philosophy much like A.S.Z. but without all the literary devices.

Feb 6 on Layton's birthday...read the thread smart guy

Half a kielbasa or burger stuffed with a massive dose of rat poison and thrown to the offensive cur. Worked for my threatening/psychotic doberman problem

ROWYCO

Go to the photo in your gallery. right click on the photo, choose properties, copy the source link, paste it as a Url in your message. I'm assuming your using windows.

Canon 1Ds has a 11MP CMOS capture. Kodak DCS 14N has 14MP.

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I've got one VERY sensible reason to choose the Rebel...I've got about $2000 in Canon EOS glass already. I'm staying with film for now though, because in 3 years a full frame 11mp SLR will be about $500. And besides, I can get 7 fps on film with what I have.

That's like every morning for the last 3 months for me...I must be having a GREAT winter! Except I have no back window in my car, which gets a little nippy when the mercury hits -50.

No, but once you said that I could see why you might think so. It's on the other side of the country, on gneiss, and about half the grade. Lost Cove Cranks - V4, Lost Cove near Boone, NC. This place has one of the best concentration of problems I've seen for a small area, all on excellent rock. It's probably the best rock I've ever climbed on.

THIS IS NOT MY PHOTO! THIS IS MVS's PHOTO. I'm posting it because it's one of the best photos I've ever seen on this site ('cept maybe the naked chick in the meadow)and it deserves recognition.

Just a thought or two: I think good bouldering pics can be good pics, but the enphasis is on GOOD PIC. A hard problem doesn't necessarily mean a good picture. When I'm looking at photos, particularly to judge them, I notice several things: 1. Is it an interesting composition? 2. Are the technical aspects there? i.e. is it sharp and shot with a suitable depth of field? Is the exposure right on? 3. If there are people, can I see a face and expression? 4. Are there "problems" or "distracting elements? I.e. cut off body parts, white skies, other random people in the background (can help with this by using a shallow DOF), blown out highlights in one spot, etc. Distel, a couple of those pics have good potential, but would be much better with a simple crop. The upper left on the Jason pic is totally blown out and light elements draw the eye. The one of Wes could work as a silouette, but not with a properly exposed random person in the background. The white arete pic could be good, but the horizon is way tilted...try a rotate and crop to level it. The Zen Flute one is great, but crop out the random spotter hands. The best two pics I see so far are the Bronco in the tunnel, and Dru's alpine bouldering pic.

I agree with this more or less. I will only tie into a piece other than the anchor (with a clove) if it's a bomber multi-directional piece...basically a bolt or fixed pin. And usually if I've already done that somewhere on the pitch, or the anchor was bolts or pins, I won't do it again. The exception might be where the rope is running over a sharp edge. In that case, after getting a solid multi-directional above that sharp section, I'd tie it off with slack so as to not load the lower section of the rope over the edge. Another exception is when self-belaying with a self-feeding device like the Silent Partner. If you don't tie off the rope to an intermidiate piece or two on a long pitch, the weight of the rope hanging down can cause the device to self-feed rope, giving you a shit-load of unwanted slack. You might not even notice this is happening.

He means the bottom piece pulling since it will be an upward pull.

Never tried the clove for self-belayed free climbing, except occasional short sections of an aid climb. Can't imagine it would be much fun...but that's why I have a Silent Partner...which is a bit of a pain in it's own way.

I've taken 15 footers on a clove hitch a couple of times. A munter would not be a good idea, unless you want to die. Always tie in with a backup knot if you're gonna rope-solo aid. Look in the Alpinist 5 in the article on Fitz Roy, there's a picture of Casaratto's "rack" that some other dudes found in '93 (Topher Donahue and Kennan Harvey). It was like a bunch of wooden blocks slung with cord. Wild. How hard is it to feed the clove? It's a pain in the ass, but you can get it done with one hand if you have to. You end up feeding out a bunch of slack at once after a while because you're tired of messing with it after every aid placement.

Agggrrr! I wrote a lengthy reply and the site served up an sql error so I lost it before I finished. Basically I said: The climbing pics need captions. change the font on the category bars or get rid of the ampersand (use "and" instead). font is cool, but the ampersand kills it. Intro/background pic for color scenics section is very nice, but might benefit from some unsharp mask in PS (try around 100-150%, 1-1.5 pixel, 1 threshhold). Too many sunsets, cut down to very best. Half Dome is trite, been done to death. The Flash is cool. Make the "more pics" button in the thumbnail bar more prominent. Make it disappear or become inactive if there are no further sets of thumbs (i.e. the second page of thumbs on color scenics the button lights on rollover implying there is more, when there are not more). There seems to be no way to nav back to the previous set of thumbs. I.e. on 2nd set of color scenic thumbs, don't see a way to go back to first set from there. I had comments on several images, but maybe another time, don't have the time to re-type them. Nice pics, slick presentation.

I believe the implication here is that he's already in custody. And that BushCo will arrange a "Bin-Laden captured!" event when it's most beneficial in light of the politcal climate.