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Eureka Zeus 2 Exo Tent Does anybody have one of these? It looks sort of like a poor man's Bibler.

only 1 big objective: to learn to tele well enough to not throughly humiliate myself.

HR, I gotta say that bringing up Hitler to further your argument is sinking really low.

I'd like to thank everybody I climbed with this year for their infinite patience and encouragement, and for ropegunning me up lots of cool routes. Thanks guys!!! (y'all know who you are)

Yeah, it means that he wore long gloves.

I use a Platypus hoser, with duct tape over high-stress areas (don't know if that actually helps or if it's just a psychological boost). The only time it ever leaked was when I didn't screw the hose on tight enough. Oops. Never had any punctures.

Ditto what lI1|1! said about herbal medicines. Dosage of the active ingredient is highly variable and often unknown. Many modern pharmaceuticals were originally isolated from natural sources. Just because something is natural doesn't mean it's safe. I've never heard of "color therapy", but it is well known that different colors have different effects on your mood. Never underestimate the mind-body connection.

I may be able to bail out of work early on Fri afternoon, like 2 or 3 pm.

Yup, geek and proud of it!

Looking to carpool and be good to the earth. I plan to head up there Fri after work and come back Sunday night. I have room for 1 or 2 more people in my car, depending on how much stuff they're packing.

I'm neither English nor German. It seems that you tend to confuse what people LIKE with what people ARE.

Now, why would those 2 things go together?

I like English weirdos.

Monster House kicks ass! What about Junkyard Wars? That's pretty cool. I love all those shows where weird people build weird shit.

Yeah, seeing all the really hideous projects is what makes it so entertaining! Trask, it's great to see that you're not too macho to admit that you watch it too.

Yup, Trading Spaces is really gay. See, like I said, great show!

Football sucks. "Trading Places" is great.

Just get the Mormons to do it! Seriously, I have a friend who has some neighbors across the street that often host teenage Mormon missionaries. These teenagers, in addition to proselytizing, also engage in some service projects. Apparently they thought that my friend’s unkempt yard was such an eyesore that they would be doing a public service by mowing his lawn and weeding and whatnot. He was a little embarrassed that his yard got so bad that random Mormons are knocking on his door volunteering to take care of it, but hey, free yard work, couldn’t say no to that.

That reminds me of a friend of mine... She'd go out with some guy, break up, decide she hates guys, go out with some girl, break up, decide she hates girls, go out with some other guy... etc. She cycled through this at least a dozen times by now. I'm sure she's legitimately bi, but the bottom line is that she just has bad taste in mates, regardless of what gender they happen to be.

He must have been pretty disappointed to not have been involved in the field testing.

Solo hike somewhere, haven't decided where yet.

OK, here's my take. I think that as soon as sex is treated as anything other than a rompin' good time (for example, as a commodity or as a political statement), all sorts of bad things happen. People's feelings get hurt and the relationship enters a downward spiral of passive-aggressive back and forth bullshit. I also think that everything is too damn complicated and people should just be honest. I have no desire to go back to the 50's but there is something to be said for a time when a guy could just go up to a girl and say "I think you're neat, want to go out for a chocolate malt?" And I do consider myself a feminist, BTW. And I also think that porn is fine, kink is cool, and Luna bars are yummy.

Speak for yourself, dude.

I know it's considered uncool to actually judge art, and go ahead and call me an elitist, but "Piss Christ" is a joke. To demonstrate what you think of something by dipping a photo of it in urine is just plain juvenile, something worthy of Beavis and Butthead. I don't think that a little bit of sophistication should be too much to ask in art. That piece of crap shouldn't be in a gallery not because it's controversial, but because it's simply BAD ART . In general, I think it's easy to make something that's beautiful, it's easy to make something that's controversial (or thought-provoking, or whatever), but it's really hard to do both. Guernica and the others mentioned above are both, which is what makes them great works. I think it's really unfortunate that in much of contemporary art, the ability to generate controversy has become a subtitute for quality.

Catbird, this IS though-provoking. You're thinking about it now, right? Scrambler, very true about judging art in context. Without context, the Mona Lisa would be just a picture of some chick with a weird smile. I respect the artist's intention here, but at the same time I think the artistic merit of this work is hampered by its complete lack of subtlety or complexity. The archetype of the lecherous priest dates back to medieval times, and this sculpture really isn't saying anything new. It seems designed mostly to inflame, rather than inspire legitimate discussion. Or maybe the artist intended to inspire legitimate discussion and failed. But hey, that's just my take. Bad art is still art.