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Low-blow tactic? You mean like spending 40 million USD trying to prove something and, being unable to do that, impeaching him for lying about getting a BJ, sans steak? Oh! For shame!

Personally, I was hoping for "It depends on what your definition of 'immediate thread' is'.......

Don't tempt me man. :-)

Ow, Muffy, that's harsh. The scary thing is, it sounds like something I would say. :-P

All your base are belong to us!

One should always engage the old brain whilst listening to the media, be it NPR or Fox "News"

I'll have to take a closer look at it later. Something similar happened to me in Yosemite, but only on a 5.9 :-P I was getting set to make the last critical move after a long corner crack, brought my foot up, and put it right down some quartz that had been deposited previously in a vein and later exposed by weathering. Suffice it to say, it was like putting your foot on a mirror.Out went the foot, big big whipper for me. It seems unlikely here since the rock seems like good sandstone.

Better than donkeys though....donkeys--bane of the Sierra Nevada....:-P

nice footwork

Drat. And here I was thinking it was going to be a group of climbers of like political mind. ;-)

Actually, I'm more impressed by the following: standing at nearly 12000', hiking a trail skirting the edges of Yosemite, I paused near a tarn to admire the view down into the Owens Valley. Some of the granite boulders there had these strange striations in them that we're definitely *not* the result of glacial working. I realized that these were the marks of settlers passing from east to west in covered wagons! Their iron-sheathed wheels had scratched the rock as they passed. This was *after* travelling across the Midwest, the Rockies, Nevada, and still looking forward to descending *down* out of the Sierra. :-P In a word, we suck.

too many doughnuts, not enough climbing?

As I recall during my Wilderness FA class (taken in Sydney Australia) was that even if you revive someone with CPR, unless they are within quick access of advanced cardiac care, then their chances of ultimately surviving are very very slim. They weren't saying that this so that you wouldn't try to save someone's life, more so that you wouldn't beat yourself up afterwords over whether or not you'd 'done enough, soon enough or done the right things'. That said, for those who say 'just read a book', I have to say that that is simply not sufficient. A well-run wilderness first aid class immerses you in this stuff for at least a week and includes running numerous scenarios. The course I took, they created accident scenes and basically dumped you into the middle of them. It took pretty much everyone at least two days of this to stop freaking out and freezing up when coming upon an accident scene. I don't think you learn such things from books. For example, our last scenario was for 3 people who'd fallen off a cliff. It was basically a night extraction scenario. They cut it short and we were still out there for 7 hours. Learn that from a book...:

The weird thing is that even largish molecules are showing qm behavior (e.g. wave-like rather than particle-like behavior). I can't remember the size of the molecules used. I think I read this in 'Physics Today' recently. Weird! Waiting for the explanation on *that* one. :-P

First off, I went to grad school so I know what you're going through. However, isn't complaining about med school work loads a bit like like signing up for the Army and then saying 'Gosh, this is really hard, and I didn't know we had to kill people!' Second, try being thankful that you have the means, ability, and opportunity to become a doctor rather than one of the thousand other shitty jobs in a hundred other shitty countries you *might* have ended up in. Nothing used to annoy me more in grad school than all these highly intelligent people complaining about how difficult their lives were. THink of it as karmic payback for having been a pre-med. Any of you who had to sit through chem lab with pre-meds know what I am talking about....;-)

gaiters, crampon pouch, modular mitts.

rbw...i've worn contacts. i hate contacts.

Ok, going home. Will pick this up later. Alpine would be once I get my jacket as I have new crampons (I vow...my last REI purchase...unless absolutely necessary).

Just a little rock climbing somewhere's. I'm still kind of new to the area. Peaks would be good but I just ordered a replacement for my down jacket and it won't be here for a bit. :-P

Wouldn't mind getting out on Sat if the weather's good. Dustin off the gear....making those bits of new gear look less new....anyone? anyone? Pitiful humans! (that's for Muffy)

This is why I'm still resoleing my Kaukulators....

Canon S400 or later.

Have you seen a chiropractor?

Correction, the stock ticker symbol is SNY

As my wife is European, I think she'd kill me before she let me wear fitovers. :-P