allison

You guys can be pretty annoying, but this I like.hahahaha. I can't believe the gin and platonic/scotch and sofa line does not work. Try that one again on another girl! [ 02-12-2002: Message edited by: allison ]

Well, Icegirl and I are going to the Park Pub. Trask and Erik are going to Hooters to find some classy chicks, and Dwayner, well, poor guy, he's going to Kirkland....some fellows can't be helped.

Every time the Olympics are on I am re-reminded of something annoying: The boys and girls run on 2 different DH courses. The boys get the "Grizzly" this time and the girls get the "Wildflower". WTF? Picabo...wildflower...riiiight. I have a theory as to why there are 2 courses but I'd like a bonafide real reason from someone who might be able to shed some light. I also continue to wonder why there is no high-performance ski gear for women, the only thing I can think of is that the manufacturers don't think they'd sell enough of it to make money. Still pisses me off. Men's gear doesn't fit (I'm mostly talking about boots) and women't gear..well, it's mostly just too mediocre. Anyone in the industry care to explain? And Sprayboys....if you're tempted...move along to the next one. I'm serious!

I haven't tried it myself but I've heard of this workinf from several people.

Just so Tricky doesn't confuse anyone, there is a place called the Woodland Park Inn at about 59th and Phinney on the W side of the street. That is NOT the place. Another block or 2 N on the E side of the street is the Park Pub....and that IS the place. Bet. 61st and 62nd. And Uncle Tricky, you know we can't have our Blind Wedding if you show up. OK, got to so I can later.

Hey, Will, leave me out of this crap, willya? You do a lot better talking about tensile strength than "pool", 'K?

Thanks Will, that's sort of what I thought....and I haven't had the materials claases. Just a ton of field experience. The fact that dynamic loading and stresses gets so complicated, well that's what I said in answer to the original question. Dynamic loads are really the part of rigging that is impossible to explain. As far as the wear issue, in my work everything is steel and our best method is visual inspection. Thank god we don't use aluminium!

Good. 8:00 I'll be there. Hope someone will play pool!

What is mean tensile failure point? Is that the amount of stretching the chain will take before failure? Could chain be only tested that way? Chain hoists take dynamic load all of the time, though the rating of the motor is way lower than the rating of the chain. Here I was worried about getting too technical and a civ engr comes along! Touche!!

nononono, READ the post....boys ARE allowed!!!

Good girl. I'll come down too. Alex? Dave? LADIES?

Tuesdays. $2.50 pints, Park Pub, 62 and Phinney, E side of Phinney. Smoking= yes but almost no one does. Beer selection= over 20 micros. Good grub. Sound good?

You seemed pretty miserable on Friday.

I went to Red Rocks one March. The weather was SCRUMPTIOUS!

What the hell is a hoochie mama? And please, don't give me this beta. For a good while at Friday Pub we had more girls than boys there. Hope that's OK.

Did someone say Latona? Say it again and I'm there.

The info I found was over in the section on Enchantment et al permits. Just too lazy to dig it up @ the moment

FYI that TH is going to be closed next summer starting around 7/15. Details on the Leavenworth WNF web page. Now.."how" closed it actually is, and if we'll be able to sneak in there, well that remains to be seen.

Beck, your analogies are killing me. Are you stoned?

Thanks, boys.

Oh, MN, you won't catch me dead doing any of that sissy mountain biking stuff. That's SCARY! BTW it was so great to get together at the end of each day w/my dad and swap stories of our death-defying adventues. We both tried really hard to get the other to try out our respective sports but we were both too chicken. THAT's what I seek in a good parent/child relationship. Plus he did all the driving.

Ok, I gots'ta know what this means. What's a 'freshie'? I sort of think to me it is a male climber under 25, but I suspect a male climber under 25 is going to school me on this...

Well, yeah, silly, what's your point?

You've got to look past the packaging here. These athletes are at their absolute primes. Awesome! Beck, everything I know about the Skeleton would lead me to believe that it makes the luge look like preschool recess. I love the fact that it's legitimized by its history rather than being some XGames freakshow they made up just to get the big TV ratings. Going down a really steep ski hill has nothing to do with jumping out of a helicopter. Especially since their little graphic cartoon skier was wearing a parachute. Thanks for the link to the nice balanced article in Testosterone Magazine. Of course I would have read it sooner but somehow I let my....subscription....lapse. Silly me! My favorite part of the article was where they were talking about how much women enjoy the athlete profile dealamajiggers. I say forget the sports, let's see more of those scintillating profiles! Of course that's the best part but I also enjoyed the opening ceremonies and all of the insightful commentary from that brill Bob Costas. NOT!

Like I said, I didn't think through it very well.