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my email signature, from lionel terray: "Philistines may think that we were madmen indeed to go through such suffering and danger to arrive at this lonely spot. What did you hope to find there, they may ask. Glory? Nobody cares about young fools who waste their best years in meaningless combats far from the eyes of the world. Fortune? Our clothes were in rags and next day we would go back down to a life of slaving for the barest essentials. What we sought was the unbounded and essential joy that boils in the heart and penetrates every fibre of our being when, after long hours skirting the borders of death, we can again hug life to us with all our strength. Nietzsche defined it thus: `The secret of knowing the most fertile experiences and the greatest joys in life is to live dangerously.'"

sand creek massacre, my personal favorite

the "sorry i was so slow on outerspace" troll

i like quoting myself - to layton while leading pitch 5 on free lunch this past weekend as he was making some angry, grumpy noises: "dude - is this a freakout?"

yeah - but all that goes out the window when you lose your balls!

shotcreting x38

and, having googled on the subject, did you ask yourself the same question many a man might have asked? why in the fuck name yourself after a ball-less, brain-less bird? the wahoo, on the other hand, is a most admirable creature to emulate...

We'll forgive you. Cville produced some fine climbers as well and I spent many high school afternoons bouldering at Mormans; know of any other UVa / Cville people on CC.com? not a one - everyone looked at me like i was a lunatic when i told 'em i was heading for the left coast - guess they thought humpback rocks was The Edge!

favorite simpsons quote (from a robot): why?!? why was i made to feel pain?!?

i'm a cavalier, so i'll be very haughty to all ya'll beyotches now while conveniently overlooking the fact that we can't seem to beat ya'll at a damn thing

why doesn't my picture show? ah well, here's another!

i'm 230 lbs - under what conditions could i put 11 kN of force onto a piece of pro? (not a rhetorical question - just curious and havne't taken physics in awhile )

boring!

150 folks killed in iraq today - 5X worse then monday in the Old Dominion

excercise extreme caution (especially when drinking) if the pants feature a zipper :noway:

military brat - memories of my first home are a cluster-fuck of images from pennsylvania, texas, south carolina, germany and virginia

and do wonders for your grammar too!

JESUS CHRIST!!!

makes sense - might be less friction if the glacier's bare ice but then you should see the crevasse and if you did need to arrest, wailing the pick of a tool in might be better anyhow - at any rate, carrying a big old extra axe on a challenging alpine line might lead to getting ridiculed on teh interweb if a picture leaked out of it

titanium sporks

shouldn't 1 of the 10 essentials be used in this situation? turn the setting on the tauntaun to "aggressive"?

perhaps this young asian fellow hadn't had his soma yet?

The guy was an English major. If anything Homer made him do it. Or maybe it was Shakespeare. Then again Ovid is pretty obscene too. If Shakesperean or Homeric literature was the inspiration he would have stabbed or poisoned his victims. or thrown them to Scylla and Charybdis?

interesting column - percent of murders involving a gun from 1973-2005 - averages about 62% over the time span - would be fun to see the other implements of choice