Gary_Yngve

You're playing their game too. Nursing home case: owners flee the place, leaving the patients alone and abandoned. Complete cowardice. Hospital case: nurses and doctors tough it out with their patients. Realizing that they are low on supplies, food, water, power, etc., some of them may have made the decision to ease the suffering of patients, who under all known scientific/medical fact, weren't expected to last more than a week or two. The two stories do not belong side-by-side at all.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/01/katrina.deaths.ap/index.html Discussion of the nursing home abandonment/negligence and the purported hospital euthanasia where the doctors and nurses stayed with their patients till the end are in the same article. The implication is that both incidents have some equivalent amount of wrong, a subliminal message squeaked in by the right-to-lifers. Or am I reading way too much into it?

Every sperm is sacred! Reminds me of a geek shirt I have: "Software is like sex; it's better when it's free."

When I was in undergrad and hitting the weights regularly, I'd occasionally find myself getting trashed at a party and doing pushups with a coed lying on my back.

Sounds like they need to up their standards and send City Park.

This thread reminds me of a week or two ago when some guy emailed the climbing club asking if we give free belays at the gym. I was nice and told him I'd work him into our rotation a few times, but he should really learn how to belay. I was darn tempted to say, "If you receive oral sex, it's only fair that you give it too."

What does that mean? Unprovoked terrorist attacks possible, provoked terrorist attacks probable? Remember, there are safe places to be no matter what the terrorism level!

It was Halloween weekend Fri-Mon. I need a rest tonight.

I think if you and your partner were both developing a route, cleaning it, bolting it, and you flipped a coin / took turns to see who would get the first redpoint (and the other follows with a redpoint), then you both deserve credit.

The Dems had better fight this one!

This evening I saw a news clip on King5 honoring Carl's life. It featured his photos and an interview with Lowell. I thought the piece was well-done.

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Not necessarily. The person with the car can have everyone else go to his house and then depart from there. Then the person with the car starts last and finishes first. The owner of the car also does not have to be the driver, as is often the case with long pushes that rotate drivers and dudes who keep the drivers awake.

This was in addition to wear&tear. I thought I was being generous with my gas plus some, and then he tacks on the insurance crap. It might have been even more like $20, something like he had to buy a full year, but he was only in the states for less time. It was enough for me to think wtf.

Tom, what I had issue with was that he was charging me for a week of insurance, not just a weekend of insurance, because of his argument that he only drove on the weekends. So I ended up having to pay at least an extra $10. I understand that cars cost more than just the gas. But costs like insurance are stuff you'll have to pay anyway, whether you drive on that trip or not. What are they going to charge me next? The amortized cost of increased insurance rates given the low probability of a wreck? The cost of their street parking at home? I pay my drivers generously because I want to keep my drivers. More often than not, I've been refused when I've offered money, or I've been told that's too much.

Well, I'll probably be about 15 minutes late... just stumbled across some free food. (and have a forest fire to put out with the turnin server...)

I'll probably be there around 8:00.

Kangaroo and Kiwi's something like Aurora and 75th. Eric, you need to get a bike! (Or Thurs, we'll stay in the UD)

I guess I could. I was pretty tired when I posted last night, and Pub Club has been pretty low on my priority queue for today. How 'bout Kangaroo and Kiwi?

Well, if folks want to pick a place and go there, someone make it so. Otherwise, I'll probably go home to the CCCP, have few beers, and engage in some casual Scrabble.

Well, he's a Euro, so I gave him some slack there.

A few weeks ago I was up on Vesper with an albinist alpinist. Because of his condition, he has few cones in his fovea, and as a result has poor depth perception. Going downhill across steep wet rocky rooty crap was challenging for him, but he persevered, without a single complaint. I was inspired/impressed.

It depends on the tone of your original query to him. Hopefully it was not accusatory. A responsible partner should be prompt in replying to a phone message / email asking if any gear got mixed up. I'd rather hear,"Sorry too busy to check my gear until next week" than to hear a nonresponse. The only gear issue I've had was when someone lost my new picket in the Pickets and replaced it with an old picket (both ends all hammered). Not a big deal. The biggest money issue I've had was when my driver asked for money to cover gas, maintenance, and insurance, and his insurance calculations were, I only drive on the weekends, so since this was a weekend trip, you're covering half of insurance for the full week (e.g. 1% of his annual bill). I decided to pay up and in the future either don't climb with him or tell him I'm not chipping in for insurance.

I'm drinking to me. Anyone else can drink to whatever they want.

If I make good progress writing up the next assignment, I'd be game for drinking to celebrate the successful writing, administering, and grading of my first exam (was aiming for an 80 median and got 77).