ivan

the key difference being though that cheswick was a doily-little fruit-fuck and i'm a big bull goddamn loon ken kesey

tits!!!

it was more enjoyable today than y-day w/o the threat of imminent darkness...much better too after the moss was cleared out. dry all day too, but nothing tripier than standing in the drip line of the e face watching a billion phat raindrops coming down from 80 stories up...

god hunt us all, if we do not hunt moby dick to his death! thou hast no need to fear starbuck, let ahab beware ahab! call me ishmael motherfucker!

I never read Moby Dick in high school or college, and remember all my class mates who read it, hated it, and bitched about it, so I never tried it. I finally picked it up two years ago, and absolutely LOVED it. Melville is a genius, and packs that novel with so much dense symbolism and references it is unbelievable. I especially enjoyed his sense of humor. It's probably my favorite classic - right up there with the Iliad and Heart of Darkness. my favorite chapter was "cetology", mostly b/c when i was sophmore and had to read it, i felt pretty sure i could skip it w/o penalty a fine story for sure - the movie w/ gregory peck was tits!

The $250 fee isn't really excessive - it was simply the judge factoring in his time, his bailiffs time, his clerks time and his court reporters time. All together this easily adds up to more than $250. If you plead guilty just pay the fine; the judge has better things to do then listen to climbers explain why they shouldn't have to get permits. If you feel strongly about it, try and get the law changed on the legislative level - don't try and argue with a judge. You know what - no one is guilty until proven innocent. You have a right to have your case heard. The judge does not have "better things to do". The judge is there because hearing cases is what he is supposed to do. Penalizing someone for exercising their right to see a judge and plead their case is directly counter to the intent of the law. wacky canadian - we have no use for you due process law'n'order thang here!

not all rangers are tools - those that are dogmatic in enforcing the law are though - for example, the fire you built and cited for: a good ranger would write you up if it was october and there was a foot of dry leaves on the ground, a tool would write you up if it was january, snowing and 20 degrees below zero.

especially if there were tauntaun tracks found in the vicinity!

to convince me my hatred of Da Tool is worth discarding all the benefits of law'n'order for the joys of senseless nihilism

well then, all the more reason not to assess them, eh?

nope, pm'ed you though...

OK, I'm really intrigued by this anecdote. I did a 4-year search back through the archives with "i-pod" in subject and body, and "ivan" as the username, and only came up with this thread that we're all reading right now. So spill, ivan. Enquiring minds wanna know what was on that 'pod. edit: nevermind. spell it without the "-" and it comes up. the highlight of my day fun addendum - i later meet the woman pictured on the ipod who was mortified about the whole thing - the coke snorting photos were apparently staged for a class project (yeah right!)

i guess my take was that the ranger could issue a warning instead of a citation in the sense that i frequently give warnings, not discipline referals - i wasn't there though, and maybe blake was being an asshole? the ipod was on and being looked at when i went to confiscate it, adn the girl initially refused and was very adamant about turning it off, which is why i pursued it

Are you a tool when you enforce the rules of your school? good question - you've had plenty of teachers in your life - did the good ones enforce every rule the school had, or the ones that are clearly important? did they enforce the rules in a manner that was human and benevolent, or cruel and capricious? i have bad days of course, and no doubt am occasionally malevolent - in retrospect i gotta be able to admit when i'm being a tool too - but when a kid comes into my room wearing a hat or their i-pod falls on the floor, i rarely write them up for it (the ipod case mentioned above was one where, in looking at the contents, i saw evidence of really bad stuff going on which was out of my league to deal with) the penalty exacted seems imho excessive and, in similar situations in my class, i'd have just given 8-ball a warning - we all call things as we see'em, and i'm probably just a soft-on-crime-bleeding-heart-liberal

regardless, the initial ticket-writing tool wins the dick of the day award and i can't see how my mind would ever be changed on that count

that's fucking awesome! the admitting to The Tool of a transgression in the first place was a mistake (obviously) - you shoulda told 'em you were just pushign the meth the whole trip and didn't stop the whole time to do anything more than satisfy your crazed sexual urges on the invasive mtn goats w/o your confession they had no evidence at all, right? christ, i hate authority figures - but what can you do? go climbing in somalia?

that and, having met blake, he's an incredibly down to earth and friendly guy completly unlike the foul-mouthed, close-minded, stuborn jackass that i typify - i can't imagine him being anything other than penitent before a judge out of curiosity, so am i supposed to have a permit for any overnighter anywhere in the park, including the oh-so-popular wa pass area?

i remember the only reason i could finish w&p was my absolute and complete hatred of every single character and my desire to see all of them come to the worst possible end... i did really dig tolstoy's "how much land does a man need?" short-story though

"the american plague" - interesting non-fiction detailing the mephis yellow fever outbreak of 1878 which killed a whole fuck-load of white-folk (interestingly, an evolved resistance to the virus spared most african-americans) and then the story of walter reed's campaign to discover the cause and cure for the disease, which had a fascinating tendency to kill the very scientists studying it

they can clean up the mess, then be the object of round 2

very innovative - at least you didn't have to take your shoes off and try to use the laces!

so it'd be 4:20 or so when you arrived>?

non-smokers will be the first put against the wall when The Revolution comes.

whoa, i was like, almost in on the ground-floor n' everythign...so how come i have so few posts?!?