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vegetablebelay

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  1. Nope, don't work. Besides, Terminal Gravity said it best when he said: So quit polling and get to work designing the rope.
  2. This winter has indeed rocked. January was my best month at work in over two years. $$$
  3. Seems to me that if you're banned, you're login is banned from any computer. Maybe you've got some computer issues at your main computer.
  4. Next thing you know, they'll be searching our luggage too.
  5. A couple of years back I was up ice climbing in Lillooet with a ropegun/partner from this site. We'd climbed up the first mellow pitch of Shriek of the Sheep and were waiting off to the side for a party in front of us to complete the harder, second pitch. The second was climbing and midway up the pitch he starts yelling at us, ICE! ICE! ICE! and we were puzzled at why he'd be yelling when we were so far away. That's when we heard the incoming chunk and most of us sitting there dove out of the way, but my partner didn't and it hit him directly on the helmet with a huge noise. It had come out of nowhere away from the climb. He was pretty woozy and an inch or two shorter, but lucky it didn't hit him in the shoulder. I was lucky it didn't hit me.
  6. vegetablebelay

    Funny Link

    Like funny ha-ha or just funny like strange?
  7. I got a cellphone call from someone right in the next room.
  8. How 'bout copy and paste it for us Mr. Unsavvy.
  9. Yeah, it was long. I kept watching hoping the see the "fucking hilarious" part.
  10. vegetablebelay

    Funny Link

    The guide taking them to toprope 40 feet is funny.
  11. vegetablebelay

    Funny Link

    Ice Climbing near Pemberton, BC Stewart and I both wanted to get on some ice, and since we had limited experience and didn't know the area we hired a guide for a day. We got some good climbing in, but the pictures are mediocre because I only pulled the camera out a couple of times. We'd hoped to stick around for another day or two to climb some more on our own, but the weather turned decidedly foul and so we headed south for the Central Washington Cascades instead. Contains 31 pictures.
  12. From the old days... http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/90416/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1/vc/1
  13. vegetablebelay

    Messy.

    Not what you think it is.
  14. Baby Born With Second Head to Get Groundbreaking Surgery Thursday, February 05, 2004 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A Dominican infant born with a second head will undergo a risky operation Friday to remove the appendage, which has a partially formed brain, ears, eyes and lips The surgery is complicated because the two heads share arteries. Led by a Los Angles-based neurosurgeon who successfully separated Guatemalan twins (search), the medical team will spend about 13 hours removing Rebeca Martinez's (search) second head. The 18 surgeons, nurses and doctors will cut off the undeveloped tissue, clip the veins and arteries and close the skull of the 7-week-old baby using a bone graft from another part of her body. "We know this is a delicate operation," Rebeca's father, Franklyn Martinez, 28, told The Associated Press. "But we have a positive attitude." CURE International (search), a Lemoyne, Pa.-based charity that gives medical care to disabled children in developing countries, is paying for the surgery and follow-up care. Dr. Jorge Lazareff, director of pediatric neurosurgery at the University of California at Los Angeles' Mattel Children's Hospital (search), will lead the operation along with Dr. Benjamin Rivera, a neurosurgeon at the Medical Center of Santo Domingo. Lazareff led a team that successfully separated Guatemalan twin girls in 2002. Doctors say if the surgery goes well Rebeca won't need physical therapy and will develop as a normal child. Rebeca was born on Dec. 17 with the undeveloped head of her twin, a condition known as craniopagus parasiticus (search). Twins born conjoined at the head are extremely rare, accounting for one of every 2.5 million births. Parasitic twins like Rebeca are even rarer. Rebeca is the eighth documented case in the world of craniopagus parasiticus, said Dr. Santiago Hazim, medical director at CURE International's Center for Orthopedic Specialties in Santo Domingo, where the surgery will be performed. All the other documented infants died before birth, making it the first known surgery of its kind, Lazareff and Hazim said. Hazim said the surgery must be done now so the pressure of Rebeca's other brain doesn't prevent her from developing. Rebeca shares blood vessels and arteries with her second head. Although only partially developed, the mouth on her second head moves when Rebeca is being breast-fed. Tests indicate some activity in her second brain. Martinez and his 26-year-old wife, Maria Gisela Hiciano, say doctors told them before Rebeca was born that she would have a tumor on her head, but none of the prenatal tests showed a second head developing. Martinez works at a tailor's shop. Hiciano is a supermarket cashier. Together they make about $200 a month. They have two other children, ages 4 and 1. Lazareff says Rebeca's chances of survival are good. Still, he refuses to make a prognosis. "We'll do everything we can to make this successful," he said. Story with pics here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110503,00.html
  15. If you find one please let us know.
  16. Is it redundant to ask, "is everything all right?"
  17. "Like any emotion, hatred (in others) must be inferred from (their) behavior (including linguistic behavior). There are four signs of hatred: * Obsession. The hater returns again and again to the hated. Nothing looms larger in the hater's mind. The hated becomes a brooding omnipresence, a focus of suspicion, fear, and loathing. * Inability to see ‑- much less to acknowledge ‑- good in the hated. The hated becomes the very personification of evil, incapable of being, intending, or doing good. Nobody is perfectly bad, of course, but this is how the hated appears. * Cynicism. Nothing the hated says is taken at face value, however plausible it may be on its face and however sincerely it is expressed. Indeed, the hated's claim of good motivation is often taken as further evidence of his or her viciousness, duplicity, or perversity. * Malevolence. The hater is not merely indifferent to the welfare of the hated, as might be the case with a stranger, but wishes things to go poorly for him or her. The hater delights in the hated's misery or misfortune. The Germans have a special word for this: "schadenfreude."" http://www.techcentralstation.com/102103A.html
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