Gary_Yngve

Moore's obesity isn't killing US soldiers and innocent Iraqis.

A bad-weather weekend is a good chance to scout approaches/descents for routes that, as a weekend warrior, you wouldn't have time to spare for routefinding when doing the actual climb.

It's actually not so bad. About twice a year a nasty bug comes along that takes more than a week to figure out. I love doing research, but coding is the part I like the least. Coming up with ideas, reading literature, generating results, writing papers... that's the fun part to me. The only problem is I have to wait till I'm a prof for when I can ditch the coding to my army of grad student minions.

I had been stuck on a bug in my code (actually interfacing with some Fortran code) for the past three weeks. I found it and fixed it last night (experiencing a very similar feeling to taking a much needed dump), so now I get to go play in the mountains!!!

On a more serious note, Mark's comment about maybe having a park shuttle ferry people along the West Side Road sounds like a good idea to me.

i do cheese fondue and chocolate fondue the chocolate fondue is great when you spike it with some Gran Marnier

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What part of "breaking out of prison and going on a sorority killing spree" do you fail to understand? http://slate.msn.com/id/1007001/ The folks that break out of prison aren't usually the mass murderer type. Throw someone in 24-hour lockdown at Walla Walla and they ain't goin' nowhere.

Wouldn't that be Mike Tyson's Knockup the Waitress?

I don't even know who are the Olson twins.

In wintertime, I use an MSR Dragonfly. In between the Whisperlite and XKG in terms of robustness, but what's really cool is it has a simmer knob. That translates to fondue (as well as fuel conservation if you can spare the time). Summertime I prefer a canister stove. I have the Primus Alpine, which is very similar to the MSR Pocket Rocket. (And it also simmers!) The Primus Alpine cost me about $30 a few years ago. I have a small titanium pot that the fuel canister sits inside. It's a pretty good lightweight combo for summertime trips where most of your fuel needs will be for cooking.

How the hell did MSFT get the patent for it? MIT Media Lab has done this sort of stuff for many years.

If I had it my way, all Americans would have guaranteed healthcare and education. But I do think it's silly for folks in jails to get free HBO (is that true, or just an urban legend?) I think it would be cool for prisons to have some sort of work program to help people return to society and to help subsidize the expenses of the prisons. But there's a fine line between a work program and the gulag.

That's a bad example. Killing Saddam would make him a martyr. But even other people who "deserve" to be killed -- I think we should draw a line and establish the moral high ground and say that we're not going to kill people as punishment. The purpose of "punishment" is: 1) To keep dangerous people away from harming society 2) To correct the behavior of people so they will not harm society in the future I do not think the purpose of punishment should be so that the victims can feel revenge. It seems sick and twisted to me for the relatives of a murder victim to feel solace or get a boner by watching the murderer fry.

What I'm wondering is wouldn't the guy feel the pain and stop? I assume the trauma you're describing would have to result from multiple thrusts.

Right, Cracked, but if you are Christian, wouldn't you believe that God would punish the culprit in the Most severe manner available? So your only goal would be to keep the culprit from harming society any further, which is what life in prison will do.

Wow, surface temp is -325 F. Assuming you could keep yourself warm, I assume you'd have to specially engineer picks and crampons that would not get brittle at such cold temps?

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There might be such a situation. Honestly, many decisions might not be much more than a crapshoot because so many things could happen afterward that will dictate, in hindsight, whether the decision was right or not. But I bet that American troops would be more apt to trust their Commander in Chief's judgement if he served too.

Yeah, for financial reasons alone people should ditch the death penalty. What I don't understand is how so many Moral-Majority right-wingers are anti-abortion but pro-death penalty. The Pope's policy of anti-abortion and anti-death penalty makes a lot more sense.

We did a run down the backside to Hidden Lake. Nothing spectacular, but you do get some turns.

It's pronounced "Good-ee," right?

Jon, I am curious why you think this? Really. I've never understood this. Should presidents have a background in economics? Law? Foregin affairs? Why is millitary service so important? I am not saying it shouldn't be taken into account, but why a pre-requisite? Here is my answer, which may or may not be anything close to what Jon's answer is: Military operations put Americans in harm's way. No other part of government (IRS, EPA, etc.) is like that. If a president has to make a decision that could cost or save soldiers' lives, I'd feel more comfortable if he had previously been under enemy fire.

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