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Figger_Eight

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  1. Androids are pimp. They make all other leashes feel clumsy.
  2. My parents' house overlooks the Orting valley. They're gonna have quite the show
  3. rowing or an arm ergometer. you can find one at a pt / rehab center.
  4. I don't know the exact details, but there is a certain amount of pressure required within the lungs to assure that the oxygen exchange is happening in the alveoli through the thin capillaries. It is in these structures that blood and oxygen meet. If there isn't enough "back pressure" (like at altitude) blood and fluid can flow back into the lungs, which is probably how pulmonary edema happens. Our bodies were designed to operate most efficiently at sea level, give or take a few thousand feet elevation gain. A similar but opposite effect happens in divers, who breathe air at great depths. Under the great pressures exerted by water, more gases can enter and dissolve in the bloodstream. Rising too fast (rapid depressurization)will cause the blood gases to rapidly liberate, (like popping the top off a can of beer liberates CO2) causing a potentially fatal case of "the bends". The PO2 of blood entering alveolar capillaries is around 40 mm Hg. The PO2 in the lungs is around 104 mm Hg. It's this pressure gradiant that drives oxygen from the atmosphere into the circulatory system. Pulmonary edema has more to do with elevated pulmonary arterial pressure. A couple of different factors cause this, but the result is an imbalance in how the surface area of the lungs are ventilated (some more than others) and an overperfusion of some parts of the lung causing the localized edema.
  5. there's a couple of good places to pitch a tent on the false summit of Adams. That might be a cool place to spend the night.
  6. Actually, to my mind, it's more like buying the book, reading it, then returning it. (I know a guy who does that.) What a local retailer offers is the ability to look at the merchandise, try it out, see if it works for you, plus the advice on whether it's right for what you want to use it for. The retailer bundles that service into the (higher) price for the product than you'd pay from some e-tailer. For you to deliberately take that service without the intention to pay for it is, in fact, theft. Perhaps theft of a service (or an implied service) isn't technically shoplifting (my attorney wife is out of town, and these sorts of discussions annoy her anyhow) and couldn't (and shouldn't) be prosecuted, but it certainly is morally wrong. To me it's like having a book store employee read you the book, recommend others like it, then you walk out.
  7. Figger_Eight

    I almost.....

    I've thought of doing that so many times to those fuckers who use the Burke Gilman as their personal time trial course.
  8. Shit....what a mess.
  9. What Ehmmic said.
  10. can you post a picture?
  11. A well written article
  12. TONS of riding down there. Check out the local bike shops in town and get the maps/beta there.
  13. supposedly. i think garmont makes them? yup
  14. jersey boys unite I'm down with a road ride...but a mountain bike ride would be cool too.
  15. White River CG.
  16. I like the Garmonts.
  17. spoken like the perennial towel boy who kept missing the jv squad cut
  18. Muffy...you're cracking my shit up
  19. Watching pro sports is like watching the circus: a bunch of trained monkeys doing party tricks for an audience.
  20. I'm always up for a ride. I know Ehmmic hammers too. We should get a group together for sure.
  21. link here Man Trapped Under Boulder Braces For Possible Good Morning America Interview YOSEMITE VILLAGE, CA—Rock climber Scott Prichard, 31, who has spent the last 48 hours with his legs pinned under a boulder on Glacier Point, is reportedly bracing himself for a possible interview on Good Morning America. "God, Charles Gibson, that annoying weatherman with the wisecracks," a sweat- and urine-soaked Prichard said. "I pray Diane Sawyer doesn't ask me if I wanted to climb the Point 'because it was there.' I just would not be able to stomach that kind of inane chit-chat." Prichard then passed out from the intense pain.
  22. Don't forget avoiding a crash at 40 mph and having to ride 100 yards through a field on skinny tires.
  23. He makes a few good points, but he has skills confused with human performance. Ball players have great skills without a doubt, but their chosen sport has more to do with muscle memory, motor control and technique than with exploiting a given genetic advantage to it's fullest potential. You can train yourself to shoot ten freethrows in a row, but you can also train yourself to shoot 8 under par or bowl 280.
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