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Terrorist! Please report yourself immediately to the Department of Homeland Security for processing. I hope you like warm weather.

Oral or rectal? I'm pretty sure it is a calculated value based on the intensity of the x-rays given off.

You will no longer have to pay $5 to park at State Parks. Today the Washington State Legislature repealed the fee. This affects such places as the Mt. Washington Parking area at Exit 38, popular with climbers.

The article said the machine was releasing more energy than was put in, suggesting fusion was taking place. However it is my understanding that iron is the highest atomic number element whose formation from fusion of lighter isotopes results in a net release of energy. To fuse iron nuclei requires a net input of energy. This explains why heavier elements than iron are relatively rare. All were formed when stars exploded in the distant past as supernovae.

The latter is decidedly less sanitary, especially for females.

What was wrong with Longpause? I know it's been a long time since you posted last. I guess it was such a long pause you forgot your password? Seriously, though, that sounds fun, but I have this horrible thing I am stuck doing called work.

All the good players are in spring training now in Florida and Arizona.

OMFG, that's the grossest picture I've seen this year.

Brilliant analysis! This guy is sharp.

Let's do a citizen's inititive to repeal that ordnance! If Tim Eyman can do it, why not a Squid?

Here's the 2000 Census Data. The population is getting older. Age Percent Under 5 years 6.7 5 to 9 years 7.2 10 to 14 years 7.4 15 to 19 years 7.3 20 to 24 years 6.6 25 to 34 years 14.3 35 to 44 years 16.5 45 to 54 years 14.4 55 to 59 years 4.8 60 to 64 years 3.6 65 to 74 years 5.7 75 to 84 years 4.1 85 years and over 1.4

The falling numbers are being reflected in declining enrollment in climbing courses. Mountaineers Basic Climbing numbers are off. Interestingly, Intermediate level climbing enrollment is holding steady.

You sound like Iain.

Modification to flukes. Use a swaging tool to add a ring of 3/64" stainless wire through an existing hole so there is something to which you can clip a carabiner to more easily carry the fluke.

Let's see, if I leave work in Seattle at 2 pm and allowing for traffic, windage, I could be in Portland by...

Michael, which jingle were you referring to? What it this one? Sleep Country, USA Why buy a mattress anywhere else?

You got to give them credit for their enthusiasm, though.

... that such a short time after Joseph Alito was confirmed to the Supreme Court, South Dakota would pass a law banning all abortions.

That doesn't look like a safe place to practice ice axe arrest- no safe run out.

I would call a yield of 1 volume of gasoline per 100 volumes of dung to be pretty shitty.

For the time being, I think I am highly motivated to use this hangboard, because I am tired of sucking hind teat. I want to get stronger, dammit! Anyway, it's not like a gym membership where you keep paying even when you don't use it. I figure that if I use the thing a few dozen times, it would not have been a wasted investment.

Can you put a price on your own sanity?

I just took the plunge and bought a Metolius simulator. I plan to give it ten minutes on the days I don't have time to get into the gym. We'll see what happens.

Right on. Thanks for chiming in.

Don't let a stupid bet be the death of you. Go only if the conditions are right. Otherwise, wait until they improve. Hopefully you will get a weather window. We're due for one.