Gary_Yngve

Let me guess... a Mark Twight route?

Allison, Many of my complaints regarding bureaucracy and incompetence at the U are because I've seen things done better, either at other schools, or in my own dept as compared to the U as a whole. For example, I get $1200 in travel reimbursements signed and approved by our dept accountants, but it takes the University five months to get me my money. I don't have a corporate card; I need to pay for travel out of my own pocket. The U doesn't seem to know much about event planning either; thanks to them, we didn't have a projector for Timmy's show until about 15 minutes before, when I quickly pulled some favors in my dept (or we could have paid the U about $50 to rent one, plus a late fee). Had these morons been working for a company, they would have been fired. Had they been a company, they'd be out of business by now for their reputation of a shitty job. The Climbing Club's snowshoes are sitting in a bitch's office right now, unable to be checked out, just because the bitch is too fucking lazy to fill out two separate purchase orders. We bought the snowshoes two weeks ago. With luck, the bitch will make them available tomorrow. I apologize to all bitches out there for the fact that I have associated bitches with Sandi. I'm sure much of this shit could be present in the real world... some companies treat employees well; others don't. Bureaucracy at the U could even be compared to union jobs in the real world. "Sorry, you cannot fix that. Someone from the union needs to." As for my "misdirected" passion towards the UWCC... The UWCC used to have hundreds of members and teach courses. The UW Rock was built to keep UWCC members from climbing buildings. The UWCC played an active part in designing it. Since then, the club nearly died. We're trying to bring it back. What's wrong with that? Many of my friends and climbing partners I've met through the club. I'd like to provide students at the U with a chance to get to know the mountains and want to come back for more -- is that charitable enough for you? Maybe big shows are better left for the Mountaineers, FF, 2nd Ascent, etc., to pull off. But what's wrong with trying? The only way to figure out the best way for the UWCC to succeed is to try stuff and see what works.

I'm curious of the exact details of how we actually got him.... which I assume we may never hear. Was he asleep? Did we gas him? Did he have even half a chance to reach for a weapon? Did he have any warning of capture (i.e. noise from outside)? I am truly amazed that he was captured without any shots fired from either side.

Son, my minor at Georgia Tech was economics. That's GT, one of the best schools in the nation, consistently ranked in the top 25-30 schools overall, top 10 engineering schools, top values in education, and top graduate programs ...and top 25 in football and basketball, after recently crushing the #1 ranked UConn in hoops and bowl bound with a true freshman quarterback Now get back to your books little man and when you get out of sophomore year and beyond Keynes and aggregate demand equations, come back and talk to us. Ah, you mean the Economics certificate. I remember the days of GT... the sophomore-level weeder courses... zero partial credit on exam problems... TBS...

It was supposed to end up in General. I have no idea how it came here.

There was plenty of it tonight at Timmy's show! Be sure to stop by tomorrow for Timmy's show at the tavern!

Go to it! It's gonna rock!

So how does the system go wrong? Is it that juries are composed of 90% stupid motherfuckers, and therefore frivolous lawsuits work out? (which encourages more of them...)

There's a mention of it in Extreme Alpinism... that's the one where they came across the packs of some dead dudes from a few years earlier and hit the jackpot with some ropes and pins?

The red part the cam exists so that there is some margin of error should placements using the yellow/green walk. The cam should be made as large as possible until the tips of the cam touch the opposite side when overcammed. If the cam is made any larger, then real-estate on the cam is wasted.

My dad hurt his last year from stomping his foot on a shovel blade. He rested his foot, stretched it out, was very careful with it first thing in the morning, etc. He ran on it, but he was very careful not to do anything to apply any weird pressure on it (he had to be very careful on rocky or rooty trails). What helped him the most a few months after the injury (it never seemed to quite go away) was a cortisone shot or two.

The magic question of the day is can I make it all the way through Pub Club tonight without a nap? Been up coding since yesterday morning. My mix of Mark Twight punk has been keeping me going.

Pub Club at the College Inn after the show!

I just looked at the name at the dude at CAC who helped me... he was one of my students last year!

What's the deal with these caffeine drinks? I have never drunk one of them so-called energy drinks. (Though in undergrad, for one really big deadline, I had a small plastic bag -- I believe from a cig carton -- sealed shut with a lighter. It contained pure anhydrous caffeine, and I'd mix a drink to the desired potency so I could keep on working... gotta love the local dealer.)

That doesn't bother me one bit -- it's happened to me my entire life. Even the Selective Service screwed it up one time... got this nasty letter threatening arrest because they claimed I wasn't registered.

On another note, they wrote our email addr as climbing@u, not climb@u. I called The Daily this morning and demanded that they fix it immediately. They told me that I need to email Features, and they'll fix it at their discretion. At the same time, I emailed CAC, explaining to them The Daily's incompetence. Within an hour, we had set up climbing@u to go to climb@u. Computing services at UW (CAC) rocks!!! The Daily can learn a thing or two from them.

Who thinks that the author (she) of the article was getting just a little wet thinking about Colin? "When he spoke, the brown curls that frame a high cheek-boned face bounced back and forth, emphasizing widespread hazel eyes. A cobalt blue bandana dotted with little white flowers was wrapped around his head warrior style. In a loose blue T-shirt and well-worn baggy jeans, the pre-mechanical-engineering major looks like a regular easy-going guy."

They wrote an article on the Climbing Club. Well, it turned into an article mostly on Colin. They wouldn't let me do them the service of proofreading their drivel, so I sent them an email: > Be especially careful that there are no typos in our email, > website, forum. > climb@u.washington.edu > http://students.washington.edu/climb/ > http://uw.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ They only listed one of the three, and they SCREWED it up. GRRRRR! They totally slighted the club. No mention of our big shows. Only the briefest mention of meetings and gear. They listed my first name as Gary in one point of the article and Greg at another... INCOMPETENCE!!! GRRRR!!! Klenke, you're right... these folks are destined for UW admin.

"Grivel Mont-Blanc" is the whole name of the company. The model is something else, perhaps "Pamir."

I think you should be able to punch the dude in the face, take his phone, and turn it off, all in the name of self defense.

That Ralph Regula guy needs to fuck off and quit meddling in the affairs of the PNW.

I'm meeting tomorrow or Monday with the assistant director of UW's Office of Risk Management. I wonder how that will go...

The Climbing Club has to pay the university for facilities, equipment, staff to watch over us, staff to collect tickets, etc. It's pretty lame. I assume your college is a little more helpful. For that matter, I had to: fill out the Reservation form fill out the UUF form, get it signed by a big dood, and then turn it in to someone else fill out the Fundraising form fill out the SAUF form fill out the Ticket Sales form, get it signed by a big dood, and then turn it in to someone else toss in two or three meetings with bureaucrats, a 50% advance deposit on our expenses and multiply that by 2 for the two shows we're having, and all of a sudden, the workload from these two shows is basically a part-time job. There is often incompetence along the way. "Here is my reservation form. Do I have the room reserved?" "It's not reserved by anyone else right now, but earlier today, someone else could have reserved it for that time. We'll get back to you in two weeks." There are a few nice folks who are helpful; you know who you are. Oh yeah, with some luck, tomorrow I'll be receiving a $1000+ travel reimbursement from the U... for travel in July. I don't even want to go into the incompetence on that one. Sometimes I feel that the Climbing Club is succeeding in spite of the university, not because of the university.