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That's the darkest! (can't see shit right now; it's 8:00PM) I'll check back later.

I attempted to take scratchandbleed up on his request to find a serious trask post. I knew of one from about a month back in Spray where he made a well-thought out comment about politicians. I couldn't find the post (there are just too many Spray threads). What's funny and perhaps ironic is how often I got a good chuckle reading a lot of trask's posts. I have to admit he often made me laugh. That's not saying I think he should be unbanned. I'm neutral in that regard.

Blue ice: highly compressed ice like the type you see deep down in glacier crevasses. The blueness is due to the pressure squeezing out all the bubbles. Bubbles are what make ice "white." That's the only blue ice I know of. The ice in cracks in rocks you speak of would be more akin to black ice or verglas than blue ice.

1998 was the year I became a born again satanist.

I like Lawgoddess' response. I'm not sure if I exactly get your message, E-Rock. What kind of skiing am I doing in this video? (I'm the guy skiing, i.e., the guy in the yellow jacket)

You need to check if you have USB ports on both computers. If so, then you can do a number of things. You'll have to co-locate the computers, obviously, then connect both of them up through the USB port using a cord. It is probable (though not certain) that both computers will recognize each other through the port. You might have to initiate a USB driver. My friend and I did this recently when I was doing some music recording. I initially went to his house to do some of the recordings but his CD-R crapped out before we got started. How to proceed? I knew my CD-R worked, so we uploaded all the music files--about 10Mb/minute of song--to his mp3 player through the USB port. We then went to my house with the mp3 player and plugged it into the USB port. We had to download the mp3 player's free jukebox program from the web first. With the program, my computer immediately recognized the mp3 player as a 'new drive' (which is what an mp3 is to a computer: simply a disc drive) thereby allowing an easy transfer of files onto my computer's C: drive. Since mp3 players can hold a lot of data, it should be enough for you to do the transfer. You may have to make three trips to get it all, but it should work. Or at least that is my hope, since I'm not positive mp3 players can hold files other than music files (Word docs, etc.). I don't personally have an mp3 player, so don't know all they're capable of.

Bronco, I checked the Internet style manual and "no dice pole-smoker"is 6th-grade curriculum. Grow up!

Ah come on! You remember. You were bent over that log in the forest for hours on end. Your wrists were handcuffed to your ankles. Remember the blood?

:wazzumountaineerisadork: discuss.

Hey, Catbird, I got one of those frogs. Never used it. Always thought there might be an instance where I'd like to have it (where a clip is just beyond my reach). However, I don't usually take it with me; and when I do, my partners make fun of it. ------------------------------------- Backclipping is not as big a problem with long runners. This should be obvious but I thought I'd make the comment anyway. Also, as to Bird and Stricklands comments, I'm thinking when you clip at waist level, the less awkward action is to bring the rope up through the biner when clipping it through. This would lead to the correct result (i.e., no backclipping). The more awkward action is to bring the rope above the biner then clip it down through the biner. Not only would this feel odd but you'd probably see the folly in the end result. However, when clipping high above the head, the way you have to make sort of a curve of rope in your hand or over the back of your hand to clip it through the biner, there is a greater chance that you will put the bottom end of the rope (the belayer end) through the outside of the biner first (i.e., such that you are backclipping). It would depend on the technique employed and situation at hand. But think about it, when you clip above your head, it can be difficult sometimes to clip the right way (inside out) whereas the wrong way is a little easier to do exertion-wise (outside in). Plus, it's probably easier to control the flopping of the biner if you can push it into the rock while backclipping. So, in the act of trying to control the biner from flopping/twisting, you may unwittingly backclip. Z-clipping is more of a problem when clipping above your head because you may need to do something odd like descend or traverse whereupon you grab the rope from below your last piece. Clearly, if you clip at your waist and then move up from the clip, you can't z-clip. Usually, you see it when it's happening and stop, but not always. It's more of a problem leading in indoor gyms. The more common problem is when the second is climbing up and forgets to clean a piece and suddenly finds himself restrained from below. Doh!

Off, Thrill: I refer you to my previous statement... There is simply no moral argument for stealing (copying) someone else's intellectual property JUST BECAUSE the technology is there to do so. Moral judgement supercedes and is not beholden to technology, but technology ought to be beholden to moral judgement. In today's blame everyone else society, I'm not surprised by the things I see everyday. Albeit, I agree with Thrill on his second point that burning a CD of yours for someone else may get them into the music. I did this just this last week for a friend myself. This is the first time I've done it. I essentially boiled down 10 albums from this artist into 3 personal "Best Of" CDs for her to listen to. If she then embraces his music and wants to BUY it, then I am doing the artist a favor. But this is only true if she buys the music instead of pirating it, which is highly unlikely for the particular music I sent her, so I'm not worried. Madonna would be an example of a large record company, in that she can absorb the cost reductions and still carry on as she was (to the degree that multi-millionaires can do so). So she is not a good example toward your argument. It is the little bands. The ones that make great music but never strike it big that suffer from file sharing. It's easy to cite the one big kahuna like Madonna and try to justify the actions of stealing when really there are 50 times as many small bands that are the real losers here (it's like stealing from J.C. Pennies vs. some mom & pop store). All this works well for the Madonnas and Britneys of the industry, for it means the masses below them are in less danger of overtaking them.

Well, Herbert, you make a valid point. Music truly is overpriced. It was a precedent set long ago (over 12 years ago for CDs) that the consumer was never able to control (this $14 notwithstanding). But... Regardless of the low percentage of profits the record companies give to their artists, you, the music pirater (which is essentially what you are when you swap files with your chums for free) is doing the artist even worse. The artists must make a living. By pirating their music, you are ripping them off as much or more so than the record company. The record companies can absorb the loss in revenue more than the artists can. A musician is the same as a painter or sculptor. All three of these have been ripped off from their (copy)rights due to illegal copies. There is simply no moral argument for stealing (copying) someone else's intellectual property JUST BECAUSE the technology is there to do so. Moral judgement supercedes and is not beholden to technology, but technology ought to be beholden to moral judgement. In today's blame everyone else society, I'm not surprised by the things I see everyday. What musicians need to do is divorce themselves from record companies like Geffan, Atlantic, EMI, etc. and embrace (i.e., make the initial sacrifice of less exposure) companies like Discipline Global Mobile who give all the copyrights and power to the artists. DGM is really only a conduit for the artists. Geffan, etc. are not conduits, they are valves that stifle flow. ____________________________ Something sort of related that I read the other day: In America, the average CEO makes 500 times the yearly salary of the average worker in CEO's compay. This is up from 40 times in 1980. In Japan right now, the CEO salary multiplier is like 10 times (could be wrong on this value). The article further stated that there's no way to control this out-of-control situation. (It's a lot like the baseball salary sky rocket problem). It's a free country and boards of directors can pay their executives as they see fit. The problem (solution to it) lies with the boards. They currently lack the balls to fix the problem. I'm not surprised, for they are all cronies to that system. And you wonder why they have to ship jobs overseas, and cut workforce, and innovate as rapidly as they do to "keep up."

I signed up for that. Bonus! I remember clueing in a bunch of you yahoos over email concerning this. For those that took the time to fill out the online form, you've just bought a half-rack of (good) beer for yourselves. For those that didn't, well... Ha hu!

Let's all bake a cake for Timmay!

Funny story, Glacier. A little unbelievable but funny nonetheless. All heed the mighty ferocious squirrel.

Yes, Muffy can only be awarded a Perkins for doing an excellent, mistake-free job of spelling.

I hereby create a new award, The Muffy, for horribly misspelled sentences or words. One of my recent favorites was Schuldt's exsast for that stuff that comes out of automobile engines. If you make a Muffy muff of sufficient misspelling caliber, then you will be awarded a Muffy by me. Muffy: the moderators have the ability to change your spray status moniker. You don't think I'm really a peakbagger do you? OK, maybe I am but...

Funny story: Once while in college a bunch of us were playing football in an open space bordered on one end by ivy flooring in a landscaped section. Anyway, there was this squirrel we could hear rooting around under the ivy. Couldn't really see him most of the time. Maybe a bushy tail popped over the top of the ivy every now and then. After a kick off or missed pass or something, the ball bounded into the ivy apparently near where the squirrel was working. This guy Joe went to fish out the ball from the ivy and when he stooped to pick it up, the squirrel, who had apparently had enough of our ruckus, literally leapt out of the ivy maybe 30 inches high and onto the Joe's forehead. The little bugger left a small scratch on his forehead. Funniest thing I had seen in a long time. I don't think Joe thought it was funny though. Scared the shit out of him really. Maybe the squirrel wanted to play ball, just like this guy:

Don't you mean it was an ill-conceived program for its conception?

More on homonyms and homophones courtesy of Mr. Norman Schurr:

Blake, RE: your original message: it couldn't have been W.C. Fields in The Eiger Sanction because he died in 1946, 29 years before the movie was made. I haven't seen the movie in a long time, so can't say who played that assassination coordinator. Alan, RE: Herzog. Burden of Dreams is an excellent documentary as documentaries about moviemaking go. It's almost better than the movie it documents (Fitzcarraldo). Another surrealistic masterpiece from Herzog is Aguirre: The Wrath of God. Two other interesting Herzog movies worth a viewing: Woyzeck (1978) -- Kinski as a whacked out peon soldier Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1979) -- Comedy/Horror

Hmmm, I guess that means homophone itself is a homonym.

Technically speaking, Jay: homonym: spelled the same but different meanings (bill of a bird, bill of sale). This is also known as a homograph homophone: spelled differently but sound the same (a sewer grate, a great website) JayB and j_b belong to the latter. Now you know.

:highfives: You know, in all the years since its inception, I never bought a Trail Park Pass, though I got one for free once for doing trail work. That's a good $200+ saved. Let's hope this announcement is for real.

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