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you first.

my post was a supposedly humorous exaggeration to illustrate the pitiful display of desperation from the pop culture porn hounds in this thread.

BUT how about that show on TLC documenting a shift in the ER? I SWEAR in this one scene where they are giving cpr to this fat guy and his wife is going all nuts and stuff...in the background, a little blurred but clear enough, you can see an old lady being treated for a fall in the kitchen... and for a brief second I do believe you can see her left jug. ohhh nelly

you best not feed me viagra - might get a dislocated shoulder or somethin'

They are quite adjustable; a screwdriver and some cranking time is all that is required. A power screwdriver is a nice thing to have for this, esp when going from at boots (shallow, din heel rand) to climbing boots (bigger heel rand)

I don't think you'll be disappointed with any of those choices provided you use it enough to be familar with it. It seems everyone's favorite beacon is most often the one they own (as they are most familar with its behavior)

climb approach: plastic boot/silvretta 500/175cm Atomic tourguides (or shorter) skiing in area and shorter tours, at your skill limit: Diamir Freeride/K2 AK Enemy Dynafits are so nice and light, tempting. Maybe I should drill some holes in my invernos!

I have it on Hi8 if you want a copy.

Those locals deserve a break. Many of them have been snowed in for days with 84 closed. We were trying to bust through the old highway by Ainsworth. When we decided to turn around, I of course plowed my Taco into the snow and promptly highcentered. As we sheepishly dig out, of course ODOT shows up and starts giving us the "can't you read" lines. He was probably pretty stressed out after the last few days.

yeah we were climbing by headlamp, we are desparate in oregon

Good to see you got out shred, I wound up heading out with some folks kinda last minute. We were confronted by ODOT on the old highway after we did a little road closure violation over by Ainsworth. We descided to beat a retreat when he called up the state police to lay down the law. We ended up at wakeena falls. That curtain thing to the right Smooth Operator

I wonder why that girl is holding a poker. A quote from a "film critic":

I would think any water would help, frozen or not. Surely just having it in your mouth melting would give some benefit to hydrating yourself. Esp. since hydration is so closely linked to hypothermia. I'm sure I would start sucking on snow in desperation (but he seemed to find some running water)

nope, sorry

what a story!

that's not his car.

from a friend: looks like fun

you finally get laid. BOOYAH! or maybe it's me. nevermind.

did you realize you are not actually sitting in your chair right now but hovering above on a cushion of magnetism?

am I mistaken or did you just out-pagetop yourself?

my other geek question for the day is how long can you hang out in the NMR room before the machine sucks the iron in your hemoglobin through your skin?

as far as I can tell, passenger trains moving over 5mph have been banned in the USA.

The main risk is if you use any of the established bolts as your top rope anchor because they are liable to be chopped as you climb. But don't worry, they might be back again by the time you top out.

I seem to remember an experiment at the usno where they put an atomic clock on a plane and did a bunch of air travel, then compared it to a clock that remained at the observatory and there was a measurable shift. As you go faster, time slows to compensate for the constant speed of light. This is the explanation for that famous paradox of looking into a mirror while riding a train. Since light has a fixed speed, it can't go faster than the speed of light plus the speed of the train, so you shouldn't be able to see yourself in the mirror. So, something has to compensate, and that is time. Or something like that.