Gary_Yngve

A single 60m from the base of BoC will get you to a ledge where it's a short and easy scramble to the ground.

The Nisqually was pretty cool this past weekend. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gyngve/Ice2/ (url fixed)

The post is 959 8=======Ds long.

That's super-lame. The point of doing that type of weight-lifting is to exercise all the stabilizing muscles as well.

If I did what I did in highschool in this day and age, I surely would have been thrown in jail. Like the time I wrote a simple first-person shooter using the school as the map, teachers from the yearbook as the enemies, and banana-cream pies as the weapons. And then there was the pathetic security on the school computers...

Yes, so I considered it ethically okay to code up the calculator to take the test for me, but unethical for me to distribute the code to others. I remember one test in particular where we had a dozen equations for conic sections and for each one we had to say the type, the focus, the directrix, the center... in a specified order matching a pretest. I think that test took me five minutes to take. btw - Iain - I was one of those geeks who coded up Tetris on my TI. (as well as fractal generators and other silly stuff)

I'm curious what graphing calculators are like these days. I have a TI-85 dating back to 1993 that's still running strong. I still think it's a great tool.

I was walking to the lab today and behind the library was a twelve-foot-wide walkway. A large downed branch lay across the whole walkway. I watched multiple pedestrians step over the limbs and two bicyclists dismount their bikes and walk around. I walked up to the branch and shoved it to the side, removing the obstacle from the walkway.

Interesting that the foreign fighters were Chechnyans. Just the other day Putin was bashing Bush because he felt that Bush was undermining Putin's "War on Terror."

Can anyone here characterize what the weather there is like at this time of year? What influences the weather there? Stuff from the Pacific? Stuff from the Arctic? Are there any general insights, like sucky weather here means sucky weather there two days later?

Cracked, add demdates.com to your list and then you'll have all your bases covered.

Doh, I was there all day with a group of friends (and hence away from the computer). Harvey Danger kicked ass! I managed to randomly bump into Pax. (He was only five feet away from me and yelling my name, but because of the background noise hitting me from all directions, I'm spinning my head like an idiot trying to figure out from where the voice originated. I wasn't too impressed with the Pixies, but that's probably partly because the acoustics on the Mainstage sucked. Sorry, gotta plug the sponsor: the acoustics on the AlaskaAir Mainstage sucked.

When I was living in Florida, I enjoyed having Sept and Oct hurricanse roll in. Meant no school.

But then rolls in subsidized social services and health services. If your head injury will cost the taxpapers bigtime, why not enforce (or at least strongly encourage) something as nonimposing as wearing a seatbelt? (I'm playing Devil's advocate)

Sweet, I might just do that. I can check out maps free from the UW Library and use the on-campus large-format scanner, but it's probably better to plop down the money. My only hope would be that their data format isn't proprietary, i.e. I could convert and use the data for my own software.

whew, my aeronautical texts are at the lab, but luckily, I had the numbers entered into some old code: typedef struct { float f; float pres; float dens; } weather; weather atmo[]={ {0,101.32,1.2250}, {500,95.46,1.1673}, {1000,89.88,1.1117}, {1500,84.56,1.0581}, {2000,79.50,1.0066}, {2500,74.69,0.9569}, {3000,70.12,0.9092}, {3500,65.78,0.8634}, {4000,61.66,0.8194}, {4500,57.75,0.7770}, {5000,54.05,0.7364}, {5500,50.54,0.6975}, {6000,47.22,0.6601}, {6500,44.08,0.6243}, {7000,41.10,0.5900}, {7500,38.30,0.5572}, {8000,35.95,0.5258}, {8500,33.15,0.4958}, {9000,30.80,0.4671}, {9500,28.58,0.4397}, {10000,26.50,0.4140}, {15000,12.11,0.1948}, {20000,5.53,0.0889}, {30000,1.20,0.0184}, {40000,0.29,0.0040} first column is altitude in meters second column is pressure in Pascals (N/m) third column is density in 1/meters^2 You can interpolate in between. If you want to convert Pascals to inches of Mercury, 1 Pascal is .0002953 inches of Mercury. As a sidenote, you can use P=\rho R T to calculate temperatures*... temperatures decrease in the troposphere, but increase higher up (in the ionosphere, if my memory is correct?) * assuming atmospheric gases remain in proportion... you can find specific temperature data, I just don't have it on me

Since when do people censor bastard? Do those same lamers censor bastardize?

yeah, that sounds like it. the dude was leading climbs for the Mounties two seasons ago, not sure if he still is anymore. i'll keep the name of the dude to myself.

Too bad the maps don't look as nice as the printed topo maps. I may go through with my evil plans to scan in a bunch of topos and stitch them together.

I'm pretty sure there's a WA local who's an ANAM alum from a few years ago. Something like they were cragging, he's belaying and not wearing a helmet. Miscommunication between climber and belayer, climber expects to get lowered, leans back. Belayer gets surprised and thrown off-balance, bangs head, drops partner. Anyone know the year or can supply correct details? (I only have ANAM back to 2000.)

Good one -- I hear that all the time!

Glad to know I'm not the only dimwitted nincompoop who bangs his helmetted head into things on a climb. On an unrelated note, the head injury I've had from a climb was when I had just gotten back from a climb and was using the bathroom in my apt. I decided to do a pullup off of the door frame, expecting high ceilings. But no, about 8 inches above the doorframe was a box of drywall encasing some pipes. My forehead smacked hard into the edge, and I instantly fell, somehow avoiding further injury as my body crumpled between the sink and the toilet. It was a bloody mess and I had a good solid lump there for a few weeks.

anyone know if Alberta has something similar?

Cunning Stunt.