Gary_Yngve

Dec 10-12 at the Mounties HQ

I've been on a couple trips where I was the only guy. Mountaineers snow camping trip: myself and three women in a snowcave, paired up with four women in an adjacent snowcave. Prusik W Ridge with two women. Etc. As the only guy, I can feel weird/left-out at times when the rest of them are talking about girly stuff. I think it's far more common for a woman to be alone on a climb with guys, and of course guys talk about guys stuff. For this social reason, I can understand why women like to go climbing with each other.... maybe not strictly an all women's trip, but definitely have a few along. One of my partners lamented to me once while we were sport climbing, something to the effect of, "This is the reason why I like to climb with other women: That guy on that route over there has a really hot ass. I can tell it to you, but you won't appreciate it. With other women around, we can all relish it."

saddam must be jealous

I'm sure a cop could come up with something along the lines of reckless endangerment, public disturbance, etc. From one point of view, he's right... if you'r climbing right along the road, you're potentially creating a hazard because of all the dumbass drivers who will be looking at you instead of the road. So if a cop comes along and tells you to get down, you gotta do so... or else he can really fuck you over.

I've managed before with a screwdriver. The cork was barely in one piece when it came out though. Speaking of wine, I have a bottle on my desk, and a corkscrew...

I bought the guide a few days ago at Pro Mountain Sports. The guide looks sweet!

You used some software for rescaling that doesn't downsample properly. High frequencies (such as film grain and fine textures in the image) get aliased and look like crap. I recommend the free IrfanView. http://www.irfanview.de/

http://www.usgs-topographical-maps.com/index.mgi

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way at UW. They charge you to use the rooms, and they don't allow non-university folk without first having paperwork signed off by the dean. Oh yeah... and if you have food, you have to pay surcharges... and get a food permit if you are not going through UW Catering... But in the future, if you do want a really good digital projector for showing images, I can bring one of our pricy ones from the lab.

I'm guessing that would be expensive. Much easier the other way, slides to digital images, but that means you carry a slide camera, not a digital camera. I'm trying to figure out how to keep using my digital camera and be able to do quality presentations. Those images last night were so washed out. I'm kinda a perfectionist I guess. Slides vs digital: Slides have a much larger range of dark to light than digital. Imagine a scene with both highlights and shadows. Slides can capture the details in both, whereas a digital image may make the highlights white and the shadows black, losing all detail. Another way to put it is that digital slides are like modern rock music, where most everything is the same volume, while slides are like classical music, having a much larger dynamic range. High dynamic range is a hot topic in research now, so in a few years, expect cameras with greater bits of range, and expect HDR displays as well. Digital projectors: One big issue is how bright the bulb is. Generally, the brighter the better, and the pricier. Another issue is that projectors have controls for brightness and contrast, maybe even gamma (if not gamma, then your video card will likely have that). So if all the images are consistently off, you can tweak these settings to make the images look better.

100? That's a low estimate... wouldn't 1000 be more like it?

Beats using the money to pay for a gambling football coach and a drunk university president...

isn't the skecthy flake on pa right at the crux or just before. Someone got a red tcu stuck in the flake this summer. Unless there are two stechy flakes. I pull on the flake i'm talking about. Eric, the flake that fell was after the traverse right, where I normally pop in a green alien on a double before traversing back left again

I believe Fido - had a complaint or two.

Random climber walks up to you and asks, "Are you Trask from cc.com?"

How about Democratic senator Zel Miller saying he'll support President Bush in the next election because [/i]none[/i] of the current Democratic presidential hopefuls embrace American values? I had free tuition throughout college because of Zell Miller [combined with good grades]... he kicks ass! So do you agree with his stand? I disagree, but he still kicks ass. Does that make me a whore?

"What's that envelope on the windshield?"

How about Democratic senator Zel Miller saying he'll support President Bush in the next election because [/i]none[/i] of the current Democratic presidential hopefuls embrace American values? I had free tuition throughout college because of Zell Miller [combined with good grades]... he kicks ass!

When I've located a vicinity, I like hand-drawings. When I'm trying to figure out where the heck I am, I like photos. At a place such as Vantage or Tieton, photos are nice, because if you're missing a landmark, all the columns start to look alike.

Leading Air Guitar and hearing the sound of rocks being trundled from above you.

I normally sleep on my stomach/side and sometimes I end up sleeping on my arm, which causes it to go numb.

Weird.. do you sleep on your back or not? My arm numbs out on me after around an hour of solid cello playing... my humerus is basically parallel to the ground, and I imagine that nerves/vessels are getting pinched.

The other day while I was placing a piece most of the way up Cocaine Crack, a blue alien unclipped itself from my gear sling and fell. My belayer caught it in the air. Anyone else have any lucky catches like that?

The one at the bookstore that was on mining history and stuff? That was pretty boring... this one sounds more like what he did at the Mountaineers.

I had jury duty once. The lawyers settled that morning, so I went home with my check for a day's work after just two hours.