Bug

My wife says to put a plastic bag inside your boots, fill it with water, tie it off so it cant leak. Put the boot inside another plastic bag. Put the whole thing in the freezer and freeze it solid as a rock.

Nice pics! Thanks for getting out and posting about it.

Nature. Swaying in the wind, Singing their songs, Nature has it's way to live where it belongs. Happy as ever Watching people pass, I would love to be sitting there, Dancing with the swaying grass. The water follows the pattern, Drizzling this way and that. The wind blows each direction So hold onto your hat! All in all I wonder What it would be like, To live as something other, From day to starry night. Meredith, age 11.

My 11 year old daughter asked me what I was laughing at. I told her about our debate. Then I showed her your post. "Dad. Do you like, have any friends on there?"

Thank you. I shared that with my wife.

I didn't know Bug was a boulderer. Bug only exists on this site. Mostly in spray. It seemed like the tallest pile.

Thanks. I heard it was good. I will have to see if the library has it.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that money is evenly dispersed.

True. But the longer we stay, the more money we pour in. This will have the effect of creating an "artificial economy". The more entrenched that artificial economy is, the greater the impact when we leave. And it does not take much money by our standards to impact a few hundred Afgan villages.

Correct, Grasshopper. No. I am a dung beetle. Thus the dung beetle in my avatar pic. Sorry I didn't make that connection for you sooner.

I supported going after bin Laden and smacking the Taliban upside the head. It would still be nice to nail Bin Laden. But a prolonged stay will probably not play well at the end. The vacume created when we leave will be too huge. We should wrap it up in a year or so and get out while there is still some semblance of balance between war lords.

I smell "Diversity Training In the Workplace".

Damn. I kind of agree with you. Are you embarassed too?

Real stoopid. Your avatar pic is a Buhddist Mandala and your Thoreau sig is a New Testament remake from the Utopian period. But you have no respect for religion. Now that's stoopid.

Yeah KKKK. When are you going to call up Tvash and invite him out for a climb? Post a pic of you two with an arm around each other's shoulders and an ice ax raised by the other hand on a significant peak, Stuart, even Sherpa, or some such peak that clearly demonstrates time spent working together and I will get a pic of me in a tutu on the same spot.

IRONY ALERT KKKK, are you trying to say that your anger is subtle and a person needs to know you well to detect it? REREAD 100 of your posts at random.

Actually, the difference between you and me is that I respond to you what you actually write, and you pretend to actually know me. To be comfortable with the fact that some things remain unexplained is not to be incurious about them, BTW. Anyone who knows me would have a good laugh at that characterization. I will admit that I'm not very curious about crowd pleasing magic tricks, like 'lifting fog'. In other words, I'm not that gullible. Even most Northern Californians wouldn't fall for that crap. And I said you are dissatisfied with the universe the way it is, not bored with it. If you were not, you would not be looking to charlatans like Master Chuan and his Linebackers for answers. Well, surprise, surprise, I've already gone through the requisite early-20s study of buhddism, taoism, the philosophers, and incorporated what resonated into my life. You see, a lack of belief in Master Chuan does not constitute a lack of appreciation for these Eastern philosophies which, sadly, you seem to think are something novel to the rest of us here. I do have a little credibility test I employ before I waste my time reading some clown's drivel. You should try it sometime. Christianity, in any form, fails the test across the board. I can get "Love thy neighbor", the only useful takeaway I've been able to glean from Christianity, from a number of other sources with much more robust teachings. You are too quick to categorize that which you do not readily beleive. That is the fundamentalism I am talking about seeing in what you post. So you have studied Buhddism. Yet you do not respect an emmissary of the Tibetan council of Masters. Have you actually met him? Have you looked at what he can do and studied what he has to teach? It does not seem likely. You "would not fall for that crap." That is a lack of curiousity in my book. Your reasons are your own and you are welcome to them as I am welcome to mine. As I post here I try to meet people at their level of civility. You do not "seem" to like being treated with the same disrespect with which you treat me. The "requisite early-20s study of buhddism, taoism, the philosophers" does not scratch the surface of these subjects. It would be like expecting to converse at Hawkings level after the same cursory sniff. But you will not beleive that it is possible for these subjects to be in the same ballpark will you? You read a few sentences on the internet and are ready to discount a tradition that has taken thousands of years to develope. Just as you discounted the Vedic traditions, which have been around even longer, because of a few hacks in Northern California. I would say you are lucky they didn't pick science to hack. We would be doing Yoga together. Peace out on your photography and climbing brother. You ARE good at that.

Actually, the difference between you and me is that you lack curiosity about the things that science does not explain. You lash out at concepts that are not based on science as though they are patently false in the same ignorant way that religious fundamentalists lash out at science. Why is there no room for exploration? Einstein said that he would never have come up with the theory of realativity without having studied Taoism. Bored with this world as it is? You sell yourself short with stupid comments like that. You do not know me at all and yet you are arrogant enough to say that you know how I feel? What I am thinking? You are getting very boring. Go back to your little world where everything is defined and categorized and be amazed. Be comfortable that something is unexplained. Go ahead and leave it that way. Weld something. I see no point in trying to discuss this with you further as you are too emotional and unable to reason logically. Even I, beleiving in things we cannot see, do not beleive I can read minds.

My sources in Chicogo, (family members who only hear rumours), say he is a Daly style hack who muscled his way to the top with no agenda except to get rich and have power.

Where are the negatives?

Peace out. Wake me up when it gets really cool.

Ah. In your first post I thought you meant that your friends were talkin smack about your gf and then went out with her after you split up. Sorry. Too much day time tv lately.

It's smelling more and more like northern California in here.

Yes. My boobs are still perky.

Careful. You may end up being accused of using pechuli oil.