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OSAT Glacier Climbing Course

It's one hell of an approach, but at least there isn't any Devil's Club to worry about.

Did he have a presence on this board?

It would have been funny if the one on top had an extended middle finger.

Here is a team that loses before it takes the field. They need a psychologist, is what they need. They all need to read this book: Winning

When they put in sound walls in our neighborhood, the freeway noise got much, much louder at my house. The walls act like sounding boards. If you are right next to the freeway, it is quieter, but if you are a couple blocks away, much louder.

I guess it's standard practice to accuse those who hold different opinions than your own to be narrow minded. So I take it you are against the new bridge?

I've found that it is easy enough to hurt myself even when I am sober, so I generally avoid drunkeness these days. I know that doesn't help you in your present situation. You probably want to go to the ER and get it X-rayed, or at least looked at, just to make sure it isn't broken.

GEORGE: Do women know about shrinkage? ELAINE: What do you mean, like laundry? GEORGE: No. JERRY: Like when a man goes swimming... afterwards... ELAINE: It shrinks? JERRY: Like a frightened turtle! ELAINE: I don't know how you guys walk around with those things.

Just face it. You are addicted to crack. What was it you said to me about ten times at Mt. Erie about face climbing?

Jon, when you move your head in one direction, do your nuts move in the other direction?

I wish you could come up with a more aesthetic nickname for a digital projector. "Digiproc" conjures up images of a rectal exam.

I'll be at Stone Gardens at 3 pm today, if anyone wants to join me.

Voter

Brain Trust, by Colm A. Kelleher, Ph.D. You must read this book.

Just for kicks you should go and google [cattle mutilation prion] and see what you get. The UFO folks always liked to think that cattle mutilation was being performed by aliens. Well, guess again. The government was interested in prion diseases because of its possible utility in biowarfare. They infected a huge variety of different species at Patuxent, MA in the early 1960's and the prion disease escaped into wildlife becoming known as "chronic wasting disease". Apparently, the government has been financing a covert prion testing program for the past 40 years. What is amazing is that no one has ever shot down one of the helicopters used in the illegal testing. I'll bet they've been shot AT.

First thing you get when you google "Big Bodies":

Trask left a huge void when he was banned, but you're moving in the right direction.

Nifty trip report. Right on! Super pictures.

So you've no doubt heard that there was a cow that was "suspicious". They used a new "high sensitivity" test which caught the case. I presume this is a biochemical test for the actual variant prion protein. They sent it off for the "definitive" testing, which is the microscopic examination of the brain tissue for the characteristic holes in the neurons. This was done twice and in both cases was negative. Reassuring until you realize that infected individuals can be asymptomatic. This cow may have had very early stage disease. There have been documented cases of humans in whom the prion protein has been isolated from nasal surfaces. I'm reading a book called Brain Trust which suggests that tens to hundreds of thousands of people in the US may be dying of BSE which is misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's Disease. Why is it that the incidence of Alzheimer's disease has increased dramatically since 1979? I'll likely write more about this after I finish the book. Meanwhile, enjoy your beef.

Destined to become Jon's new avatar image.

Yeah, he tried to type "ass sexual" and didn't realize it was two words.

I have a serious problem. There are three desserts just sitting on the table, a cheese cake, a key lime pie, and a custard tart, all made by my wonderful daughter. The problem is I am too full to eat any more. Time spent spraying should produce a void in my stomach large enough to fit a sample of each.

I think that we have to do what the LAW allows, not what seems like a good idea a the time. My understanding is that if the difference is less than 150 votes, either side can request a hand recount. It would seem to me that hand counting would be even less accurate than machine counting, but who knows?

What's a matta, eh? Iz a compound word. Combination of the words "permanent" and "permeate". Compound words aren't too good for our fearless leader in Washington, DC. You tink dey is too good fo' youze?