willstrickland

Harsh man, those babies are pricey. I'm biased toward film, but it sure is nice to have no processing, blast away at will, and not have to scan the slides for photoshop manipulations. Really depends on your intended end result. For stuff on the web or 3x5 or 4x6, digi is the way to go, but if you have any desire to print 8x10 or larger, I think film is still the ticket. Personally, I'm waiting for Canon to put out an SLR body that has a 1:1 mag ratio and pixel range like the D1, but with a price around what the Rebel Dig costs. D1 is like $8000, Rebel Dig is around $1000 I think.

This ain't suburbia G. An thas fo shizzle ma nizzle.

Hogwash! A couple of P&S in particular take excellent photos. The Ricoh GR1 w/ a 28mm, the Ricoh GR21 w/ a 21mm, the Yashica T4 & T5, and the Nikon 28Ti are really good small cameras. The GR21 is a phenomenal camera for it's size, especially if you enjoy superwide lenses. GR21 also has auto bracketing capability. The Richos lenses are not quite as fast as the Yashicas (f3.5 vs f2.8) The Yashicas have great lenses, but lack any manual exposure compensation...a major problem if you're shooting slides on snow. The Richos have manual EV comp (+/- 2 EV), dial-in +1 to +1.5 for snow scenes and you'll be on the money. I find that I use a 20mm on my SLR alot while shooting both climbing and landscapes...which is typically what you're shooting on climbing trips. I've got probably 2-3k invested in SLR gear, but it's a no-brainer to throw the P&S in anytime you go anywhere.

LowePro makes a camera case/backpack called the Orion AW. It's basically a sizeable padded waistpack for an SLR that has a detachable daypack/shoulderstrap component. The waistpack section of the thing can be moved to the front of your body without removing the packstraps. For carrying a full-on SLR rig on a dayclimb or on summit day, this thing rocks your dome. The camera compartment has enough space for an SLR with a small zoom, an larger zoom, and extra film/batts/etc. It's very well padded and laid out specifically for camera gear. The daypack section has enough space for raingear,lunch, water...not much else only about 800 Cubic inches in the daypack. http://www.lowepro.com/pages/series/trekking/orionaw.htm I got one barely used for $80 at keh.com

Yeah, a salad tosser. Didn't know you'd done time snoboy

Start with this: Then try this: Next: And: Then: Then: Then: And: That should start your education anyway.

I don't know, but since you missed with the right cross, she's about to tattoo your ass with the counter punch. Look at her eyes: Zeroed in on your unguarded, exposed right temple.

Trent Lott from Jackson, Mississippi just took the poll and he favored legalization

Hey, I opened that at work and went "oh shit, close it, close it!" but he does have a point: Special's avatar pic has Wilma blowing Barney, not much different and it appears everytime he posts. Not that I think Special's pic should be stricken either, I think it's pretty funny. Anything Pron or not kosher for work should at least have a "not safe for work" warning. But, I'm just a guest here and whatever happens, happens. Ain't my website to institute policy and I'll work with whatever policy is in place. No big deal, keep on keepin on.

Fairweather, I think you're missing my point. I don't give two shits about Clark and I'm not attempting to defend him. But to post that picture in the manner you did suggests that he was cavorting with Ratko AFTER he had overseen the slaughter. That, is a craven propagandist move. At the time of the Rumsfeld / Saddam meeting Iraq was a known sponsor of terroism (palestinian nationalists). Further, as Rumsfeld was IN BAGHDAD in March '84 the US had both internal intelligence and UN evidence that Iraq was using chemical weapons against Iran. In Nov '84, despite this, the Regan administration re-established regular diplomatic relations with Iraq. There's no shortage of info and declassified documents out there that support this. I don't know what Clark was thinking, and the fact that war criminals were freely circulating over there was an embaressment that made NATO look like a joke. Nevertheless, it's the sneaky, spin-laden aspect of your presentation that makes me sick. You're no better than O'Reilly and his "no spin" bs.

Don't make ma nizzle start bustin caps, Straight 1-8-7 on a mod-a-ray-tah ass. Bichez.

Fairweather, you craven jackass. Look at the date on the picture: 8/27/94...the slaughter occured in July 1995. Maybe you'd like to post some pictures of Rumsfeld hobnobbing with Saddam? Dec 20 1983 I believe it was? Oh, let me help you, you poor thing. Here ya go...

I've seen it to the degree Smokeshow describes, both in the office...I could not hang a shelf in my own cubicle and waited 4 days for someone to show up and hang it. After 4 days I said fuck it, hung the shelf and got bitched at "you're not allowed to do that". "Oh yeah? That's funny, because I just did" I did project mgmt on road improvement projects as well, and the situation he describes pretty much mirrors my experience. I've got no opinion on unions other than the UAW. And I'll keep that opinion to myself. I will say I'd prefer to buy American made, but 4 of my last 5 cars have been from the land of the rising sun.

I just got answers to five gear decision questions in about five minutes browsing the Gear Critic I'm a gear whore, uh huh uh huh, and that's the way I like it, uh huh uh huh. New belay coat, new bindings, new headlamp, new liners, and new gloves on the way

As of Dec 4th, the first pitch was gone. Might check with someone local before you make the trip.

Bush actually said that? Source please?

I'm 30. I agree that most people, especially in their 20s tend toward overtraining. I certainly do/did. I already monitor my waking pulse and chart it as well as my hours of sleep, quality of sleep, appetite, training willingness, and competitive drive. I adjust my training/rest days accordingly. My biggest factor these days is getting enough sleep. I've found I need about 8 1/2 for optimal recovery, but I tend to only get around 7 during the week. My perspective with the tendons/muscles is that periodization already incorporates light phases as well as tapering at the end of a cycle and complete rest after the peak phase. That is when the tendons can "catch up" in development. Additionally, the long easy cardio days are "built in" easy leg days. My 3 rep phases usually only last for 12 workouts or so. That ends up being about a month. However, I've also read plenty of running coaches who advocate easy/hard alternating days. I've read 4 of the 5 books you recommend and others, including quite a few triathlon books. I think Horst is mostly full of shit. His newest "innovation" is nothing more than putting on a weight belt and doing laps on a systems board alternating grips for each set. Add a catchy acronym, and market the shit out of it...hold sets, books, personal coaching. Twight has good info, but in his cardio training recommendations he ignores one VERY important factor. The HR Max for each exercise is different! You cannot get your HR to the same level on the bike as you can running, swimming won't even go as high as biking. Muscle size involved and incidental muscle use has alot to do with it. I can get mine to about 190 running, 185 biking. Using the same max HR to calculate the training load (i.e. target HR) for different exercises will put you into different training zones. Also, there is a phenomena called cardiac drift where your HR will increase during a workout at the same workload. Scientists believe it's due mainly to dehydration setting in. So maintaing the same HR over a long-ish cardio workout (anything over 30-40 minutes) will require a decreasing workload and will not supply the ideal training stimulus. Personally, I think this effect is small enough to ignore. I've done enough constant workload sessions on the rower, stairmaster, and bike with a HR monitor to know that the cardiac drift doesn't affect me too much...at least not up to the first hour. Unfortunately, I've torn up finger tendons five times. The primary factor was a relentless bouldering regimen without adequate time for the tendons to repair and catch up. I could blame it on the actual incident when the tears occured, but that would be blaming the symptoms instead of the cause. I should have spent more time running laps on routes than bouldering to failure. Live and learn. The last one was about 20 months ago and it's still not right...may never be right again. I'm very leery of overtraining these days. Especially since I rarely get shut down by a hard crux move, it's always PE or plain endurance that gets me. Sounds like your recommendation is one power workout every 10th day with the normal cardio leg stuff in between, and adjusting the schedule for HR and climbing/skiiing days where you get a workout anyway.

Huck for tha sloper!!!! Mantle it out brah!!! C'MON!!!! SEND IT!!!

ain't paranoid. Nothin like thread drift. I gave $25 to the local food bank/shelter last week. Supposed to provide 14 meals. I figure I can drink OE-HG for a week and never miss the money, bros on the street gotsta eat too. Fairweather, get your head out of your ass and YOU read it pal. Paranoia? DBT ADMITTED IT sizzlechest!

Don't think any charges have been or will be brought...Jeb's still the Guv ya know. My best friend from college was one of Cynthia McKinney's chiefs of staff during all this. I will say that there was more to Cynthia's defeat than the propaganda that the right put out after she led the commission. McKinney had voiced some very strange opinions that her district definitely was not down with prior to her defeat.

Chew on this Roark (from gregpalast.com): What really happened in Florida? Five months before the election, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered the removal of 57,700 names from Florida’s voter rolls on grounds that they were felons. Voter rolls contain the names of all eligible, registered voters. If you’re not on the list, you don’t get to vote. My office carefully went through the scrub list and discovered that at a minimum, 90.2 percent of the people were completely innocent of any crime – except for being African American. We didn’t have to guess about that, because next to each voter’s name was their race. When I questioned Harris’ office about the high percentage of African Americans on the scrub list, they responded, “Well, you know how many black people commit crimes.” But these people weren’t felons, so why were they scrubbed? The Florida Republicans wanted to block African Americans, who largely vote as Democrats, from voting. In 1999 they fired the company they were paying $5,700 to compile their felony “scrub” lists and replaced them with Database Technologies [DBT], who they paid $2.3 million to do the same job. [DBT is the Florida division of Choicepoint, a massive database company that does extensive work for the FBI.] There are a lot of Joe Smiths in the Florida phonebook. DBT was hired to verify which Joe Smith was a felon and which was not. They were supposed to use their extensive databases to check credit cards, bank information, addresses and phone numbers, in addition to names, ages, and social security numbers. But they didn’t. They didn’t use one of their 1,200 databases to verify personal information, nor did they make a single phone call to verify the identity of scrubbed names. So where did DBT get their data? From the Internet. They went to 11 other states’ Internet sites and took names off dirt-cheap. They scrubbed Florida voters whose names were similar to out-of-state felons. An Illinois felon named John Michaels could knock off Florida voter John, Johnny, Jonathan or Jon R. Michaels, or even J.R. Michaelson. DBT matched for race and gender, but names only had to be similar to a certain degree. Names could be reversed, and suffixes (Jr., Sr.) were ignored, but aliases were included. So the felon John “Buddy” Michaels could knock non-felon Michael Johns or Bud Johnson Jr. off the voter rolls. This happened again and again. Although DBT didn’t get names, birthdays or social security numbers right, they were very careful to match for race. A black felon named Mr. Green would only knock off a black Mr. Green, but not a single white Mr. Green. That’s how DBT earned its $2.3 million. Why didn’t DBT use their own databases? They didn’t, because the state told them not to. Choicepoint vice-president James Lee was grilled by a Congressional committee, headed by Cynthia McKinney, and he admitted everything, but said DBT was following state directives. Florida state officials told DBT to knock off voters by incorrectly matching them with felons. Congresswoman McKinney led this commission to her own peril. Choicepoint is in her Atlanta district. She was destroyed in the last election by fabricated quotes and a vicious propaganda campaign. Is this the only way votes were stolen? No. There were 8,000 Floridians who had committed misdemeanors, but were counted as felons. Their votes were scrubbed. Katherine Harris’ office illegally scrubbed people who’d served time in other states, then moved to Florida, and Jeb Bush’s office illegally barred these people from registering to vote at all.

Alright, I'm about to transition from a high rep base periodization phase to a low rep strength/power phase. I've got a question about how to incorporate leg power training while keeping my cardio workouts. Here's the deal: In the base I was doing cardio workouts 3 times per week, staying strictly aerobic, at a fairly low intensity (70-75% HR Max) and the only additional leg work being high set/high reps on the hip adduction/abduction. Upper body work was high sets and reps. Typically 5-6 sets of 12 reps in each exercise. In the next phase, I'll be doing upper body sets in the 3-4 rep range. I want to keep 3 cardio workouts, with one being a long/easy "overdistance" type day, usually Sundays. But, I want to add leg work such as leg press, squat, heavy calf raises, etc. My cardio training typically relies heavily on the legs to generate the workload (bikes, stairsmaster, etc). I need some suggestions on how to add the leg strength exercises without overloading the legs from the cardio/strength combo. Keep in mind that I'll be altering my cardio workouts to include add some interval type workouts on at least one of the 3 cardio workouts, using sustained anaerobic threshold work, V02 interval work, etc. who's got the knowledge?