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Who doesn't make DDT? It's made all over the world.

I know bonsai well enough to say you know what you are doing. Nice work!

What I mean is this. Pain as humans understand it, is quite complex. We remember pain. We associate it with many different things. We contemplate it. We make it less or worse depending on our thought processes. Pain is undoubtedly different in lobsters, but is it any less than it is in humans? I don't know. All that matters is how much empathy we happen to feel for them, which isn't much.

Heard this on the radio this morning. Supposedly these jackets cost $500. "In years past, it was the Air Jordan sneakers, the Starter jackets, the Eddie Bauer parkas. This year, the fashion accessory most likely to get a teenager beaten up at the bus stop is the North Face jacket. " Unfortunately, I couldn't get the article from the Washington Times.

What it all comes down to is how you define "pain".

Yep, they look like those fat Metolius rap hangers.

I don't know specifically where that is. Only that there are places with severe erosion problems. As for your second point, a sling birth hitched around a tree doesn't do much (if any) damage. I am aware of that. My point is that some of the newbies who go there don't. Besides, those rappel anchors look a lot less obtrustive than a bunch of multihued slings on a tree.

Perhaps unnecessary, but they might, after all is said and done, reduce erosion on trails and reduce damage to the trees.

The B-52 was on sale at REI for $8, so I bought one just to try it out. So far I've only used it for belaying and lowering. I've not tried it yet for rappelling or belaying the second. What I can say is that it does not lock off as positively as the ATC. You have to bring the tail down more to lock off, so you can't be careless. It does lower very smoothly. So what would happen if you tried to belay the second with only one carabiner on the anchor? If it was one second and the biner was on the same side as the rope, it looks like it would work. If you were belaying two seconds it appears that it would cocks sideways and perhaps jam, hence the two biners. So supposing you used two biners, only one would have to be locking, right? Trango B-52 Instruction Sheet They only show one locking biner on the anchor regardless of whether one or two seconds are being belayed.

Oh yeah! My Acura gets 33 mpg... Doh!, it's not an American car.

I had a dream that I was at the Home Depot. I was putting a piece of lumber back on a stack when suddenly the ground began to shake. It was an earthquake and all those stacks of materials were swaying back and forth. Home Depot is the last place on earth I'd want to be in an earthquake. I awoke with a start and felt myself shaking. "Maybe this really is an earthquake!", I thought. I looked at the lamps and other objects and they weren't moving. It was me. My heart was trying to beat itself out of my chest. I was having heart palpitations. "Oh, my god! What should I do? I feel okay. I feel lucid. Maybe it will go away on its own?" After about 5 minutes it did. It was now 3 am. I've been taking Avelox for a sinus infection. I looked on the side-effects list and there it was, Heart Palpitations, and a warning against taking the medicine if you have heart arrhythmias. Crikey, I was rock climbing yesterday, what if it had happened then? I heard that one of the Sonics players who has been sidelined with a sinus infection had heart palpitations. I bet I know what medication he was taking...

Lugged my new 4.5 to Vantage thinking I might try Blue Autumn. It was so windy and cold we just clipped bolts in stead. I am so suck.

You win.

Good on yer mate!

I detect the barest hint of disillusionment.

Can anyone tell me what is the earliest in the season they have been able to climb at Static Point?

My dad used to play the Brass when I was a kid and actually thought it was a band, rather than one guy. More recently my neighbor went on a TJB kick and was playing it incessantly along with Gordon Lightfoot to the point where I got sick of them both.

My response is what is the alternative? Judges, that what. Judges are becoming the object of political pressure like never before. Lots of money is being spent on them now at election time. I still believe in the jury system because of a distrust in government. How about that, a liberal who distrusts government?

There is a good reason why a large percentage of these swindles appeal to the most devout. It works.

UV resistence will depend on the type of plastic. I believe that the older Ecrin Roc were made of ABS which is quite resistent to UV. The newer models are made of polycarbonate which is not.

I got the last one at Redmond. The online catalog is sold out too. Try Lynnwood.

Score! REI Half-Price Sale. Regular price, $97.50. Sale price, reflecting introduction of new C4, $59.83. Half price sale on items ending in ".83", $29.92. I am the proud new owner of a boat anchor.

This professor is not a scholar and certainly not a gentleman. It is never right to commit an injustice to correct an injustice.

There must be some reason why guys stay with psycho bitches.

They aren't going to do that, even if it is true.