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If you were at Shilshole you'd have a convenient nearby hill to clamber up. In parts of Indonesia it was a long flat distance to the nearest hill.

You are right. They had no where to run to. I probably would have done the same thing. Reminds me of the guy who filmed the explosion of Mt. St. Helens. RIP.

I read the citizens advisory committee document. There are very few assertions that are supported by reasoned arguments or facts. Paranoia runs throughout the document.

From Waves. Amazing pictures.

The story isn't so much about Spam as it is about AIDS. One of the reasons why we still have Spam and we still don't have an AIDS vaccine is that both mutate faster than anti-spam software and the immune system can adapt. The key is learning how to detect the "message" within the garbage. Our brains are very good at it and that is the one think Spammers rely on. There was a story just today about how the three dimensional shape of the GP120 protein in the unbound state has just be elucidated. GP120 is the protein the HIV uses to bind to and enter the T-cell. Apparently, it changes shape drastically upon binding. The shape of the bound protein was known. GP-120 has been the target of numerous vaccines, but none have worked. It may well be that although the genetic sequence of GP-120 is variable, the shape may be conserved. This may be useful eventually.

The leader must not fall. That prickly pear landing zone looks murderous.

If thou attach long planks to thy feet, it maywell nigh be possible.

It is a secret passage way known only to myself and JHamaker as well as the one known by two names (one a state and the other Steve). It is a way of perilous switchbacks, gloomy forests and precipitous ridges.

I've had tendonitis in both arms for months from computer use. I started taking ibuprofen and that helped, but what really helped was taking a cod liver oil supplement. CLO has Omega-3 fatty acids in it. Some people, in fact many people, have diets that are deficient in this essential fatty acid. I've read that many inflammatory conditions will respond to Omega-3. Maybe it was coincidence and maybe it is in my head, but I'm going to keep taking the stuff.

Add another name to the Tommy Caldwell Thread.

Okay, I get it now. After a day and an evening at Pub Club.

It is less than a mile up the Middlefork Trail from the bridge at Taylor River. There is a big parking lot there with two pit toilets. You can't miss it. If you were to continue on up the Middlefork Trail you would come to first Dingford Creek where there is another bridge and eventually Goldmyer Hot Springs after about 12 miles. I've done the hike. It is pleasant, if not awe inspiring.

Most interesting news story of the day. Microsoft is going to adapt AntiSpam technologies to help develop an effective vaccine for AIDS. Apparently, the virus mutates rapidly so as to disguise itself from the immune system, much in the same way that Spam messages do. Spam Filter Story

Great turnout. I saw a lot of familiar faces as well as some new ones. Martin (MCash) has moved out to Auburn from Spokane. There was Elaine Maxwell and Peggy Goldman.

Jim Nelson was telling me the other day that Munter Hitches and Figure Eights don't necessarily twist the rope. He says that proper handling of the rope prevents twisting. I think this needs to be demonstrated to me before I'll believe it.

I presume you are talking about Hatchery Creek Road off of Hwy 2 in Tumwater Canyon?

How could anyone get bored in the presence of the lovely dryad?

OK, I'll concede that point. I've always wondered why this is so and whether it is a necessary condition to that level of creativity. I believe that many if not most of us have the creativity within ourselves. We just lack sufficient motivation to produce. People like Hunter Thompson wrote not because they knew they would be rewarded in the end. They wrote because they had to. For them it was a compulsion and it provided an outlet for all the emotion they had bottled up within.

They have some rocker, but not as much as the Scarpa. The problem with the AFS "Expendition" is they are very high AND the tops are rather stiff. At first glance, the Scarpa Inverno and the Asolo AFS are similar, but having both, I can say the Scarpa are easier to walk in on hard surfaces.

Well said.

Nickerson is fine with me. Plenty of room for the folks and lots of parking.

Wish I had some beer. The refrigerator is bare. Did someone say chat?

Can you imagine? An insulting post on cc.com? It couldn't possibly happen.

Hey, everybody, he's alive. Harry's alive!

If Iraq pays out a billion dollars it basically comes from the US anyway. It's a billion more we'd have to spend to rebuild that country. Still I feel for the pilots. They deserve some compensation, but a billion dollars? Every pilot would become a multimillionaire. Senator John McCain didn't complain about not being compensated for his torture in Viet Nam. He was just doing his duty.