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did he deck or just bash his head against the wall? hard to imagine decking head first and not getting taken out in a bodybag...

wasn't it a classic george w debate in which he railed against "new math?"

it's a disservice to teach someone about a topic they find interesting? you can't take your woman's study ba and go onto law? start your own business? my education school was actually quite frank at the outset: dude, you ain't gonna make shit if you pursue this career! if anything, the problem may be that kids feel serious pressure to go to college when if fact they're pretty aimless and disinterested, and w/ the current expense of school, paying a much bigger price for their apathy then previous generations.

true, but doing a wall w/ a guy just as clueless as you also has its charms - there are many paths to mecca, and i liked mine: first wall w/ an experienced guy, next several walls w/ a novice like me, than from there on out a mixture of partners all over the map it's only a handful of skills that are critical, and after that its more an art of finding ways to save time/increase the fun - the basics: aiding itself (pretty damn easy, at least if its c1), following (especially super-steep or traversing pitches which require lowering out or re-aiding), building good, non-cluster-fucked anchors, hauling, and setting up camp

How the fuck do you figure we have the best institutions? People have to get off the treadmill of hype and bullshit and see what is happening in other parts of the world. Why is it that Japanese kick our asses in auto production and electronics? Constant hearing about how this is the greatest is like hearing addict saying that there is no addiction problem. What used to be great about this country is that if they were problems, they would get acknowledged, addressed and fixed. Saying something is not good doesn't make you un-patriotic, it makes you wise. One of the reasons this recession is lagging as it is, it's because of lack of skills. And this is because people choose to major in political science or sociology, and then they end up working as a barista with 100K in debt from student loans and fuck all worth of a degree. are you ever NOT angry? maybe you're just paying more attention... i'm no fan of sunshine constantly being shown up our national colon, and certainly it's hard to measure "great colleges," but the fact that very large #'s of folks come to this country specifically for our schools would suggest they're pretty damn good, no? also, the polisci-barrista doesn't mean his polisci education was crap, just that there was no work for him in the field, no? and, as inheritors of the western dream of the enlightenment, i'd hope you can agree that the value of an education shouldn't be entirely tied to the economic prospects it opens up - knowledge is, of itself, a virtue, right jefferson?

might find a tall dorm building you could use railings/pillars as anchors for? might want to back'em up a bit? you can sort out the basics of rigging a haul system in your living room, w/ a book in front of you, but most hauling locations on a big wall end up being a bit unique (and usually hanging), so pretty hard to reproduce on terra firma

never done it - dirty i imagine?

you musta been a huge andrew jackson fan - the original ron paul! nope, nary an economic catastrophe prior to the founding of the fed, it was sunshine n' buttercups before that bastard wilson had to step in...

i can't remember a debate where the candidates didn't bulldoze the moderator?

what's sundance?

i'm sure gus grissom n' whatzhisname woulda gotten a similar statue if they'd been left to rot in space

10/4 - 3 of 4 october days climbing so far 25 days at beacon since the opening - possible to get 50 solo laps between july and november (31 so far by my count)? 'bone n' mike in the lot - hustled to climb cruising 'fore them to avoid treating them to snuff porn - jim n' sal in the lot on the way down, fresh from washing the way to the south-west of the evil poison oak - to wolfrock 2morrow for the weekend!

beacon or broughtons can both work well - if beacon (best option), climb free 4 all or dod's jam p1 and set your top-rope for aiding on free for sum - right gull to 2nd anchor, then rap down and set up a tr on wrong gull works too - if broughton's, try classic crack (fuck all those free-styling bitches) or one of the steeper lines to the right

come out aroudn 4 today dave! let's do a simul solo or two?

i prefer to remember laika - poor little pooch...

overflowing shitters, needles in the poo-pile, tp blowing in the breeze, tweakers working up and down the road in beaters, chossy towers you could probably pull down on yerself if you really wanted to, what's not to love? worth a visit every now and again i reckon, and it's tough finding any cragging site in the northwest that isn't trolled by homo methneckus

tried to watch but got so bored i couldn't even summon the will to masturbate can't we just give these guys nerf armor and nerf bats and let them beat the shit out of each other? would be about as useful a way to pick your poison...

he looks like he's being interviewed w/ a 1970's era shag-dildo

well, at least he leaves room for improvement - he can climb something fierce, but his fucking friends can't even spell "climbing" properly

Is that a word? dictionary, get one dialect : not any : not one — nary a or nary an : not a single

10/3 - jesus, warm still outdoors but the Big Wind of Winter was on beacon today! roars n' lulls, catspaws and catastrophes playing out on the columbia - nary a soul to be seen, south side or north - a simple corner lap w/ cruising n' hidden treats n' the top of young warriors

my pop-up camper slides in damn near anywhere but luckily is nowhere near 6 feet long

we gotta look for intelligent life in the heavens 'cuz jesus-fuck, it's nowhere to be found 'roooooound here

snow in africa = 2 kewl!

maybe i'll see you?