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I went to see Charlie Wilson's War and thought it was first rate! I'd give it three and a half stars. The acting was great and the script was clever. Special effects were so-so but that wasn't so important anyway. It's a movie that everyone in my family enjoyed. Don't bring young children though. Seriously.

I think I would only be interested in the step in bindings. The hybrid don't give a very solid attachment for steep ice, in my opinion.

The program How It Is Made on the Discovery Channel had a feature on how ice tools are made. These were DMM axes made forged, starting with aluminum rod ( the Rebel ). Naturally, there must be several different processes used, depending on whether the axe is metal or composite or whether it is tubular metal or flat metal. Hopefully they'll show this segment again.

My crystal ball tells me there are offwidths in your future.

The Cyborg's have toothed edges on some of the spikes compared to the smooth spikes of the G14. Do these teeth do anything? The idea would appear be to prevent the point from pulling out as on an ice tool pick, but this could also be a bad thing.

Who? You? Care to elaborate?

The Cyborgs appear to be very similar to the G14. Would anyone care to compare and contrast the two designs?

Dru, that isn't the only reason. A horizontal pick would break because it would not be strong enough to stand the forces on it.

Well he is fond of his knee pads.

The newspaper article is not in the Seattle Times. Rather, it's in the PI.

I believe the boat is designed to be self-righting. Some times a boat will be meta-stable upside down, but wave action allows the ballast to right the boat.

Unfortunately, the Wenatchee Branch has gone belly up.

The Mountaineers tends to be oriented towards mountaineering, not surprisingly, and not so much towards rock climbing and ice climbing, but that is gradually changing. Most Mountaineers members do not climb at a very high level, but there are some that climb at a solid intermediate level. If you are just starting out, the Basic (Alpine) Climbing Course might be a good choice for you. If covers clothing and equipment, rudimentary rock climbing, wilderness travel, navigation, glacier travel, rudimentary crevasse rescue, handling emergencies, etc. Party sizes of Mountaineers trips have been shrinking these days, and there is continued pressure to reduce group size. Trips I lead are typically 4-6 persons, which is still large compared to the typical 2-3 that would comprise a private climbing team.

Years ago, I took a ride with a fellow who'd recently moved here from New Jersey. His method of lane-changing was to steer into the adjacent lane and then hit the turn signal about half-way into the lane change. It was a sort of afterthought, just to make it legal. I asked him why he did it that way and he said that in New Jersey if you signaled first, the driver next to you would see it as his cue to accelerate into your intended slot. He said PNW drivers would never be able to change lanes in Jersey.

Dude, it's marketing, not salesmanship. But I agree, it's pretty clever.

Few of these new words stand much chance of widespread adoption, but I suspect some will, for example: e-mail bankruptcy n. What you’re declaring when you choose to delete or ignore a very large number of e-mail messages after falling behind in reading and responding to them. This often includes sending a boilerplate message explaining that old messages will never receive a personal, specific response. Although the Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig is often credited with coining this term, at best he can be said to have popularized it. Its first use was in 2002, two years before Mr. Lessig publicly declared his own e-mail bankruptcy. earmarxist n. A member of Congress who adds earmarks — money designated for pet projects — to legislation. exploding ARM n. An adjustable rate mortgage with rates that soon rise beyond a borrower’s ability to pay. forever stamp n. A United States postage stamp that will cover a first-class letter regardless of future price increases.

Sprayer: "Honey, we should go see Charlie Wilson". Wife: "Why, Sweety? Did one of your climbing friends recommend it?" Sprayer: "Yeah, TREETOAD, said it was good". Wife: "Who? Three-Toed? What?" Sprayer: "Just some person on a Internet Bulletin Board". Wife: "You're going to have to do better than that!"

nice post, and agreed. I'd add that for some, religion can be understood in the same way: So for some people, religion is something to believe in, but for others, it is something to be understood, and tested. How do you test religion? You can test faith. People like to take pride in their unshakeable faith. Looked at from another angle you can call it stubborness.

Will the Man of Honor himself be there?

Selection is part of the theory, but only part of it. Your just mad because you've been selected against by attractive females. Fear not, you still have an excellent chance to breed. Breeding

Cocoa's got a point here. Most people don't have more than a rudimentary knowledge of evolution theory. If you asked the average person to explain how aspects of the theory can be tested through experiment, they'd be at a loss. And there isn't a single experiment that would convince anyone of the primacy of the theory over other theories. It's taken many generations of scientists their entire lives to buttress the theory first proposed by Darwin and Wallace. So for some people, evolution is something to believe in, but for others, it is something to be understood, and tested. The fact that many have a primitive understanding of a subject shouldn't cast aspersions on the validity of a theory.

In all this bullshit the one most pressing question comes to the front. Don't forget. Trask wasn't a climber either, and that didn't matter as far as Spray was concerned.

But they are different than the Lowe version, as Joseph will tell you.