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A picture would be most valuable here. Please someone, offer to resize it for him.

Eventually the solution to suicide bombings will become apparent. Assuming you can identify the bomber, you kill his or her entire extended family. It would make recruitment quite difficult. They've been doing this in Syria for years, or so I've been told.

Something just like that happened to me, but then I woke up in a sweat. I had dreamt the whole thing.

This is somewhat tangential to the topic, but what amazed me was the extent to which Tenet was willing to embarrass the Bush Administration. He doesn't seem worried about losing his job does he? He probably figures that if Bush fired him it would look really bad before the election, so he won't. Bush would probably fire him after he was reelected, but Tenet apparently figures the Bush will not be reelected.

I've always thought it was generally considered safer after climbing Gib Ledges to descend either the DC or Ingraham Direct. If taking the Ingraham, you can then take Cadaver Gap for a fairly direct descent to Muir. I've heard several people say they just go back via the Ledges. Why would you do this? Later in the day, Gibraltar Rock can drop lots of rocks on your head, for one thing, and going down the ledges exit gully can be dangerous too.

Uncle Miltie the Monetarist used to be my hero, until I took college economics. Now I realize you can't let any of the ideologues have complete sway with the economic system.

No that's not right. The biner is goes through both the waist and seat in addition to the figure eight loop. Yes it's a lot of stuff, but I use a large parabiner. It would be wrong to use a figure eight as a surrogate for a belay device, because the knot isn't suited to take loads across the loop like that.

The reason you would do this is because if you don't the following will happen. Assuming you are belaying and tied in with the rope, if the leader takes a whipper, the biner could get pulled one way, while the tie in goes the other way on your harness. Conceivably, the leg loops could get torn off, or you might get squashed by the compression. The idea is to transmit the load of the fallen leader directly from your belay device to the anchor. The Alpine Bod harness is the only one for which this is necessary. If you have a belay loop, as the vast majority of harnesses to, you don't have to worry about this.

Rainier is on my mind. Weighing snow settlement time versus possible collapse of weather window. Decisions, decisions.

Let it not be said that Oregon drivers lack creativity.

I once met a young man working at the lumber yard who had almost the same accident as you. He was riding his motorcycle down Bayview Drive in Corona del Mar. A car pulled out of the parking lot at the Balboa Yacht Club. He hit the car and launched. His helmet, which was a full wrap around model, hit something hard. The edge of it gouged into his neck. The torque pulled the nerves right out of the spine in such a way that they never grew back. The fellow was thus left with a completely useless arm for the rest of his life.

cbs- i don't think it's a club. i think mr. roark just has a very limited vocabulary. this suggests a limited intellect or education (perhaps both) thus i think we can disregard nearly all of what he has to say (not that we weren't already) Regardless of education, Mr. Roark has at his disposal the resources to be better informed. The only thing holding him back is the initiative required to do the reading. One thing that education does do is to force you to read points of view you might not choose to read on your own.

Well, I guess I'm doomed. I love all of the following cited in the article. "Vegetables such as cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, onions, artichokes, and asparagus Beans Fruits such as apples, pears, and peaches Whole grains, such as whole wheat and bran "

I'm sick and tired of having to get onto the freeway stuck behind drivers who think 40 mph is an okay speed to merge into traffic going 60 mph.

Join the Fucktard Club: CBS, Jim and AlpineK. Who else wants to join?

I really got a virus- a rhinovirus. My throat is very sore right now. I picked up some of those zinc lozenges. Hopefully they's do the trick.

The Alpine Bod harness doesn't even have a belay loop and no one worries about triaxial loading with that one.

Both ways are safe. I like having the biner vertical so that the ATC is horizontal. The rope gets twisted less if it is going straight across the ATC.

He wouldn't have gotten out of the crevasse without that rope.

I'm at work. These computers have every antivirus/ antihack/ firewall software known to man. Besides, if I get a virus, I'll just call IT.

It happens all the time that my daughter will be talking on the phone to her boyfriend. There will be a knock on the door, she'll answer it and there he is cell phone to his ear.

When you read Ms. Tauber's quote, think of a high pitch valley girl voice. The article didn't get into it too much about why people behave the way they do. That is, why they just "decide" that they aren't going to bother to learn anything- because it's just "hopeless". Is it that there have always been a ready source of geek help around so that they don't need to learn? So is it coming to a head now that the geeks are being spread ever thinner in the workplace?

Not so easy to cut and paste. You get a lot of crappola you have to delete.

I thought this article was pretty amusing. You have to have a New York Times account to read it. Geeks Put the Unsavvy on Alert: Learn or Logoff